#farm lady times

[farmer-queen-pearl]

Hello everyone,

This is an rp blog for empires season one Pearl!

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Tag stuff:

Farm lady times: For general posts

Wheat whispers: For Asks

Lady Lore: for lore stuff

And of course ooc: For anything ooc

Pearl is a bisexual cis lady. Keep it not weird and ask any questions you may have!

[qalrey]

this was supposed to be a small doodle!

flats+sketch below!!

[bearskvlls]

if you've never watched the 1965 thunderbirds, this is me begging you to watch the 1965 thunderbirds

[mellzy]

CALLING ALL ADVENTURE TIME + FIONNA AND CAKE FANS

i need new friends. adventure time is my hyper fixation. i need to talk about it with people. hallelujia.

[fictionadventurer]

By the Shores of Silver Lake was my least favorite Little House book as a kid, and upon starting the reread, I could see why. Earlier books had Laura as a child observer--not engaging in or totally understanding the wider world of the adults, but still engrossed in the simple joys of childhood. In this book, Laura is neither child nor adult--she's too old to play like a child, but she's too young to take an active part in adult life, so she's stuck in this awkward middle ground.

Yet as the book went on, I started to see that that was the point. This book is about growing up, about being on the brink of adulthood and trying to hold onto childhood while also becoming someone new. Laura's growing-up is paralleled with the "growing up" of the country around her. Both the old and the new ways of life have their benefits and their downsides, and Laura has to figure out how to hold onto the best of both.

The prairie is beautiful, wondrous, free. Laura would love to just roam forever, always traveling west, always seeing new places. She doesn't want to marry, doesn't want to teach school, doesn't want anything to change about her way of life. But one can't stay a child forever. Eventually, the infinite possibility of childhood has to turn into the definite identity of adulthood. She has to take responsibility and settle down. The arrival of the town brings that adult life to the prairie, and in doing so, it destroys the innocent wonders of nature--the majestic wolves lose their home, the buffalo are gone, and the ducks no longer land at Silver Lake. Laura has to wrestle with this--is childhood, for herself and the prairie, gone forever? Does she have to let go of childlike wonder and embrace the mundane responsibility of adult life?

This theme is resolved when Laura finds Grace in the buffalo wallow. It's a place of impossible magic and beauty, a carpet of fragrant violets hidden away from the world with butterflies flying overhead, so perfect it seems like a fairyland. Of course Grace, the innocent child, is the one who was able to find it. When Laura asks Pa about it later, he explains that the "fairies" that made this magical ring were buffalo. There's a mundane explanation for the phenomenon, but that doesn't destroy the wonder and beauty of the place--adult knowledge enhances, rather than destroys childlike wonder. The buffalo might be gone, but there's still beauty left behind. Laura can move forward into the future and know that there are still wonders to find. She can be an adult and still maintain a childlike wonder, can take responsibility and still find comfort in the safety of home and family.

This thematic resonance made so much about the book so much deeper. It's the message of the entire series distilled into story form. Remember the past, children, but go forth boldly into the future. It's a message much easier to see with an adult's eyes, so I'm so glad I gave this book another chance.

[thesoulsofthedarned]

Guys I got A Knight

Sadly no Shamane, but it’s ok because A Knight is also one of my most anticipated characters. Very cool conceptually and seems to do pretty good damage from what I’ve seen on YouTube so I’ll definitely build him. Problem is I don’t have a lot of stuff prepared for him, so it’ll take a while for A Knight to reach his full potential. For now though, I’m happy :)

[orchideae]

You know you're an adult when every once in a while, when you inevitably need to go out to the store for just one thing, because no matter how old you get, you'll always forget something you can't be without (toiler paper). And you go through your wallet in the most dedicated hunt of your life (ever) for all of your coins to see if this is the moment, where you become the old lady and/or man at the cash register that we all complained about to our mothers when we were little.

[gargelyfloof118]

Kitties did fine for their final round of shots. They are on watch for reactions from the rabies vaccine. Next step is spay and neuter. I'll get a quote for that on Tuesday.

[darabeatha]

[potatotrash0]

THATS THE FORKING SPIRIT………….

[jupiter-reimagined]

messed around on picrew to design the respective families cuz i ran outta energy to draw lol

[picrew link here]

the Jamesons:

left to right there's: andrew (father), amelia (mother), elias (their kid)

and the DeAngelos:

left to right there's: marcus (eldest son), dominic (middle son), elizabeth (youngest daughter)

i came up w the names n designs on the spot, so they may change but like. yeah. its them i guess. also like... dont ask what happened to dominics parents i dont wanna talk about it

also obv, very very rough appearances due to the limitations of picrew, but still!! its all roughly as i want it to be style vise. i am gonna actually draw everyone later, so, consider this a rough draft for the characters

[iguanastevens]

so it turns out that if a farmers market visitor throws an absolute wobbler and threatens to call the police because you didn’t let her grandchild break your stuff and possibly his fingers, she really won’t like it when you tell her to go ahead and call and see how that goes for her.

[theempireofjiaal]

A special amenity of the inn; an Eguri shrine with charms hung for each earthly goddess, and sconces for oil or scented wax to burn. The marks of their great mother and father were painted onto the stone foundation, beneath a roof that provided shelter from the dripping spring rain.

[primoredial-jade]

i haven’t been playing or keeping up with genshin for over 9+ months now, but with the recent lore drops pertaining to childe and his vision, i’m suddenly interested in playing again 🤔 or at the very least, just reading into his role in the fontaine story quest 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[frances-kafka]

If you like cottagecore, you'll love pastoral romanticism! What's old is new again, and so it goes.

The thing about Cottagecore is that is a fetishized aesthetic of country life, divorced from labor and idealized by a primarily urban audience with a backward looking ethos of tradition. They are not prepared for the stresses of a rural life: farming; harvesting; tapping pumpkins to ensure none of them have been replaced with flesh; losing out on income by having to use one of your pigs in a blood sacrifice to paint protective sigils over your doors and windows; checking cracks and chimneys for the flesh-vines of the Pumpkin Lord; having to decide, before the Growth is complete, whether that's really your tradwife or an amassment of vines, leaves, and blood in the shape of your tradwife; ignoring their desperate pleas that "I'm me! No! No!" as you burn them alive, realizing too late you picked wrong; and the exploitative corporate nature of commercial farming in 2024. All seen through a deeply colonial lens, of course

[darabeatha]

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