#fire and flowers

[thelemonzone42]

Fire/Plant Duo vs Fire/Ice Duo

[ewanmitchellcrumbs]

Aemond during his bedding ceremony to Melessa: You are performing your duty adequately, lady wife. I can feel that I am about to arrive.

(No hate to Aemond)

This made me cackle!

There will be no bedding ceremony if Daemon gets his way lol

Thank for sending an ask about one of my fics, I appreciate it AND you <3

I'm starting work on chapter two this weekend, stay tuned!

[fall3nangel333]

Sansa Stark you deserve the world

[shyblacksheep]

Short comic, Something little more movie based; Mario takes Luigi to the Fire Flower field for the first time!

[t0bey]

been in my fire emblem three houses feelings lately

[reasonsforhope]

In the Willamette Valley of Oregon, the long study of a butterfly once thought extinct has led to a chain reaction of conservation in a long-cultivated region.

The conservation work, along with helping other species, has been so successful that the Fender’s blue butterfly is slated to be downlisted from Endangered to Threatened on the Endangered Species List—only the second time an insect has made such a recovery.

[Note: "the second time" is as of the article publication in November 2022.]

To live out its nectar-drinking existence in the upland prairie ecosystem in northwest Oregon, Fender’s blue relies on the help of other species, including humans, but also ants, and a particular species of lupine.

After Fender’s blue was rediscovered in the 1980s, 50 years after being declared extinct, scientists realized that the net had to be cast wide to ensure its continued survival; work which is now restoring these upland ecosystems to their pre-colonial state, welcoming indigenous knowledge back onto the land, and spreading the Kincaid lupine around the Willamette Valley.

First collected in 1929 [more like "first formally documented by Western scientists"], Fender’s blue disappeared for decades. By the time it was rediscovered only 3,400 or so were estimated to exist, while much of the Willamette Valley that was its home had been turned over to farming on the lowland prairie, and grazing on the slopes and buttes.

Pictured: Female and male Fender’s blue butterflies.

Now its numbers have quadrupled, largely due to a recovery plan enacted by the Fish and Wildlife Service that targeted the revival at scale of Kincaid’s lupine, a perennial flower of equal rarity. Grown en-masse by inmates of correctional facility programs that teach green-thumb skills for when they rejoin society, these finicky flowers have also exploded in numbers.

[Note: Okay, I looked it up, and this is NOT a new kind of shitty greenwashing prison labor. This is in partnership with the Sustainability in Prisons Project, which honestly sounds like pretty good/genuine organization/program to me. These programs specifically offer incarcerated people college credits and professional training/certifications, and many of the courses are written and/or taught by incarcerated individuals, in addition to the substantial mental health benefits (see x, x, x) associated with contact with nature.]

The lupines needed the kind of upland prairie that’s now hard to find in the valley where they once flourished because of the native Kalapuya people’s regular cultural burning of the meadows.

While it sounds counterintuitive to burn a meadow to increase numbers of flowers and butterflies, grasses and forbs [a.k.a. herbs] become too dense in the absence of such disturbances, while their fine soil building eventually creates ideal terrain for woody shrubs, trees, and thus the end of the grassland altogether.

Fender’s blue caterpillars produce a little bit of nectar, which nearby ants eat. This has led over evolutionary time to a co-dependent relationship, where the ants actively protect the caterpillars. High grasses and woody shrubs however prevent the ants from finding the caterpillars, who are then preyed on by other insects.

Now the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde are being welcomed back onto these prairie landscapes to apply their [traditional burning practices], after the FWS discovered that actively managing the grasslands by removing invasive species and keeping the grass short allowed the lupines to flourish.

By restoring the lupines with sweat and fire, the butterflies have returned. There are now more than 10,000 found on the buttes of the Willamette Valley."

-via Good News Network, November 28, 2022

[flowersforthemachines]

Companions: 0, Gate: 1

Voicelines from Blood of Arlathan featuring moments from the battle with the Veilguard's greatest oponent: a random gate.

Rook: How's it looking? Bellara: Complicated. Ancient elven locks are, well… Going to take some time. Davrin: We'll need a minute to figure out how it releases! Emmrich: Needlessly intricate! Give us just a moment! Harding: There's a lot of small… gears and things. Just… hang on! Lucanis: It looks like over-complicated nonsense! We'll need a moment! Taash: It's fine! Go kill some Venatori!

Rook: Tell me we're close to getting this thing open. Bellara: Almost there, I think! Maybe! Davrin: Still working on it! Emmrich: Patience is a virtue! Harding: We're getting there! Lucanis: Closer than we were! Taash: We're on it!

Rook: There's an entire Venatori army coming for us! Bellara: We know! Don't die! Davrin: You can handle them! Emmrich: We're going as quickly as possible! Hold fast! Harding: We'll get you out! Don't worry! Lucanis: Then kill them! Ugh, blasted elven machinery. Taash: You beat Venatori all the time!

Rook: Still no luck? Bellara: Sorry! Davrin: Getting there! Emmrich: Just a moment longer! Harding: We're getting closer! Lucanis: We're trying! Mierda! Taash: (Frustrated growl)

Rook: Really, are you sure you can open this? Bellara: Yes! We can do it! Davrin: We said we would! Emmrich: If everyone would remain calm, this would go much more quickly! Harding: Everyone breathe! Just breathe! Deep breaths! Lucanis: Who made this gate? Why is it like this? Taash: Ugh. Hang on!

Check out my DAVG Extracted Audio Masterlist

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Flower Empowered.

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[swiggity-swexual-i-am-asexual]

Danny Fenton, aka Phantom, has been given a new task!

In short, literally no one in the Ghost Zone/Infinite Realms wants their mostly peaceful afterlife to be rocked by a certain Gotham rogue named Joker. Which, when he dies, is almost sure to happen because of whatever the hell was in that vat he dropped in included ectoplasm. So, yay, he’s also a little ghostly too, meaning he *is* pretty hard to kill. Unfortunately, there’s also a certain vigilante that is quite keen to murder him in recent years.

So now Danny has to keep the mass murderer trauma clown alive for as long as he possibly can while attempting to keep the Joker from. Well. Being the Joker.

Oh, and naturally, Danny got this assignment AFTER Joker got out of Arkham. Again. And entirely blew up the asylum. Time to join the Goonion, he is NOT doing this without getting PAID, thank you.

[averageestrogenenjoyer]

I love the wiki page for the melee at bitterbridge, BRIENNE SWEEP

(I know the point is she literally wins the melee. Just the fact that Brienne of Tarth defeats so-and-so takes up almost the entire list!! Except "Loras Tyrell defeats a man" lol but then brienne defeats Two men sooo...)

[spookys1fan]

Here’s some more nana Banana and her grandson content! I love them soo much aaaaaahh

I loved experimenting with the colors for these two and trying to show their feelings through colors! I had a blast! ^^ I loved doing their poses, though it was a LOT of work ^^* and the expressions were so fun! Hope you like it yall

If yall wanna hear more abt nana banana and her grandson, feel free to let me know! ^^

(And if yall have any suggestions, I still don’t have a good name for her grandson ^^*, he loves bugs tho! ^^)

[ewanmitchellcrumbs]

A huge thank you to @ruby-dragon, who made this gorgeous moodboard for my Perzys se Rūkla series.

I am so touched! It's absolutely beautiful and perfectly encapsulates the vibe of the story. Totally in love with it! Such a sweet gesture.

[superm4ks]

Qatar, 2024. By Sam Bloxham.

[hyun3hk3y]

“Portrait of Lady Edelgard Von Hresvelg”. Oil on wood panel. 28” x 24” 

Finally, my portrait of Edelgard from Fire Emblem: Three Houses is finished.  This has been my major project over the last year or so, although its roots go back to about 2020.  I had this massive preamble in mind about how much FE3H has influenced myself and @misslovelyillustration ’s lives since she made me start playing it five years ago, but for now I’ll just say that I haven’t been this captivated by a video game since either Jet Set Radio Future or Metroid Prime.  In fact, I figured I was well past the age to ever be enamored by a video game ever again.  Three Houses just seemed to be the right thing at the right time.

I’d like to thank my sister Liz for being the model for Edelgard and @misslovelyillustration for twisting my arm into playing the damn game…as well as for her continued love and support.

Finally, I would also like to thank my friend/Mentor Merrily for lending her tailoring skills in putting the costume together.  Without her, I doubt I could have brought this painting together, at least not to the level I had envisioned for it.

[the-silver-peahen-residence]

It was dark winters night . Drake sat up in his mansion thinking of misako . He sighed looking at their high-school pictures. He wished he never cheated. He wipes tears away looking at her old house

Even past that old house, it seems like the home was still up. Even after the harsh argument; it still remains there. Standing tall after the years where Misako was living there before she moved. Her parents were still there but they would still be talkative with the neighbors.

[momochanners]

This goth couple wants your spot at the beach, wyd? 🤔