Monovalent cations such as the potassium ion can form electrostatic bonds with the carboxylic groups of many organic acids (Figure 13.17A). (...) Divalent ions such as the calcium ion form electrostatic bonds with pectates (Figure 13.17B) and the carboxylic groups of polygalacturonic acid.
"Plant Physiology and Development" int'l 6e - Taiz, L., Zeiger, E., Møller, I.M., Murphy, A.
Found some sketches with these two made back in july, I like to imagine Crewel getting all hmph and tsun when receiving attention
(...And getting short circuit when given headpats and being called good boy)
Me and my friend are doing an art trade so first to go is @ask-divaler, @butterscorner Onceler OC!
Thank you so much for doing an art trade. I painted this differently than I usually do, but I hope that will time I'll get more used to different techniques in digital (and will get more comfortable with digital in general)
Keeping up a time honoured tradition of sliding across the finish line at the very last moment, here’s this winter’s Thneedmas Exchange drawing! Namely, @choccysnow ‘s Diva-ler, who’s got some great looks to play around with.
It was a really nice thriller tv-show, but come one Nicole Kidman is just horrible since her last chirurgical facial operation (as well as Isabel Adjani). Nothing moves any more.
But I knew from episode 1 that the pregnant lady was the murder, but still I don't understand why.
Is it me or Gosia's character is so inspired by Dorotha's character in Gossip Girl.
I didn't understand Isabel Galley's role at all.
I like Tan Winbury's character, even if I don't understand why he is cheating on the woman he loves so much.
And Shooter Dival was really hot. I thought that something would end up as a throuple.
Basically this is part of the Crowley family drama with @marrondrawsalot and her oc brother for Dire, Dival Crowley.
Well over a century and a half ago, Dire Crowley met a human woman named Viella. She was a skilled apothecary and healer in her town. She found out about his previous work for the fairest queen and hired him out for help to find special herbs to use in her practice. The two fell in love and soon had a daughter named Evillina.
Evillina grew into a lovely and sweet girl. She had a healers heart and wanted to be like her mother and run their family's apothecary shop. The girl loved plants and nature and learning all it had to offer. Including a darker fascination in poisons and carnivorous plants. But even so, she was beloved by her parents and the townsfolk for her kind and gentle nature.
One day Dire returned home to find Viella distraught, the sun had gone down and their then twelve year old daughter had not returned home from playing in the forest. Dire and the villagers combed the woods for his child, but she was never found. He searched high and low for her, but there was no sign of Evillina or any remains. He and Viella never had any other children. Dire stayed with her until she passed many years later. He took all the keepsakes from his wife and daughter and moved on from that town.
Meanwhile in Briar Valley, Dires brother, Dival, returned from his travels abroad with a young girl in tow. When asked, Dival explained that this was his illegitimate daughter, Daphne. Her human mother had recently passed. Daphne had supposedly suffered a head injury in the incident that killed her mother, and the whole ordeal was too painful to talk about, so please refrain from asking her too many questions so as not to upset her. The queen and other nobles accepted this explanation and now Lord Crowley finally had an heir after many years.
Lilia did not trust Dival and made it a point to talk to the girl whenever he could. He noted that she was clever and seemed to know much about plants and seemd fascinated with the royal gardens. On the outside and to all the court, Dival was a doting father that spared no expense for his only daughter. But behind closed doors he could not be more disinterested in being a father. He either ignored her or scorned her for her human heritage. Often telling Daphne to make herself useful by doing housework and seldom letting her out, not wanting her to dine with him unless there was guests, otherwise she would eat alone or with the servants.
The main thing Dival cared about when it came to Daphne though is her prodigy levels of knowledge of potions and poisons. Dival saw a tool to use. So Daphne became the Court Poisoner of Briar Valley. Any threats Dival saw to the crown or his position he would set his daughter upon. Besides Lilia and the rest of Diasomnia, most of the court learned to fear the name of Daphne Crowley.
Dire over the years had heard from one of his aunts that he had a niece. Dire was long since estranged from his twin, he had not seen him in many years. Let alone lay eyes on his daughter. All he heard was that she was half human, and would have been the age his own daughter, Evillina, would have been had she lived to be a young woman. Knowing his brother, he felt only pity for the poor girl that had the misfortune of having him for a father.