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[marinerainbow]

Mr. Scroops villain backstory

The shade of it all people.

For who's asking. Yes, Mr. Arrow has geodes as zucchinis on his eyes.

[athenaqdesigns]

[asimperingswannsong]

Arte’s Intruder

Part 2

Summary/Warnings/Notes: 😮‍💨 I don’t know; Tried to make a cottagecore moment for a walking red flag because said flag is Gwen shaped; lost the plot somewhere in the thicket; brain rotting fluff; mention of hunting for food; content still not designed for minors 18+ only; I was struggling with the thought of Jane wandering the wilderness forever; fixed it??? Do I hate it? Maybe I hate it.

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Jane was lifted gently from her slumber by the patter of rain on the tin roof of the cabin and the melodic humming and singing of the cabin's only other occupant. She stood in the adjoining kitchen at the sink doing the washing up. The softness of her voice was giving Jane a tingly sensation at the base of her skull and down the back of her neck.

She smelled the stew simmering on the stove and her stomach growled but she was too comfortable to care. She lay in a hand-hewn bed beneath handmade quilts and enjoyed the warm dance of the firelight on the pine board walls.

Turning her head, she took in the coziness of the cabin more fully. Flowers, herbs, and other potted plants dotted every shelf, every windowsill, and hung from the ceiling in pots. A profusion of geodes and crystals, some polished and some natural, complimented the lush greenery. Dozens of half melted candles adorned every surface and Jane wondered if they were homemade.

She noticed a few of the windowpanes had been replaced with stained glass featuring floral designs. The girl's daypack was sitting on the floor nearby in front of one of the dining chairs. Her sketchbook lay open on the seat of the chair with beautifully detailed pencil drawings of flowers, birds, and other wildlife she'd encountered in the forest.

Jane was amazed by the Waldenesque tranquility the girl had created around herself while she and the rest of the world had been busy engaging in a guerilla style warfare for the past several years. She'd been so hell bent on clawing out an existence for herself within the confines of the new order of things she'd never actually stopped to consider if any alternatives may exist.

Now she was laying here wrapped in warmth and comfort without any immediate need to fight tooth and nail to maintain her position and she felt content. She sighed apparently a little too loudly. The girl's singing stopped, and she turned throwing the dish towel over her shoulder and walking over to the bed.

"You're awake?" Jane blinked sleepily up at her. "I was enjoying your singing." The girl smiled down at her. "Well, that's probably for the best. I've developed a habit of doing it a lot when I'm at home." "You'll hear no complaints from me." "Are you in pain?" Jane remembered her injured knee and realized the girl had propped it up on a stack of pillows beneath the quilts.

She made an attempt to wiggle it slightly and a sharp pain shot up into her hip. She winced. "Not as long as I don't move it." "You need more pain medicine, but you should eat first. Let me help you."

She climbed onto the bed on her knees and the top of her dress draped down revealing her cleavage. Jane looked away quickly as the girl helped her sit up and placed pillows behind her back. "So, you're not under eighteen anymore, are you?" she asked while studiously observing an Amythest geode on the dresser at the foot of the bed.

The girl stopped and looked at her. "I mean you have orange abilities buy you don't look like a child, and it was just children." "It was when this started. Children don't stay children forever though." Jane nodded. "Not under eighteen then." "Definitely not." "Definitely not?" "I was seventeen when it began." "Definitely not then." "And you?" "Also, not a child." The girl laughed. "Yeah, no shit." "Hey!"

"Well how old are you?" "How old do you think I am?" "I don't know like forty?" Jane made a false noise of outrage. "That's rude. Close to accurate, but still rude." She laughed again, "All I mean is, I wasn't going to confuse you for being a child...not by a long shot." Jane glared at her. "The last part wasn't fully necessary...is it just you?"

The girl gave her a suspicious look. "I'm not gathering intel, I promise. I'm just making conversation," she reached out and placed her hand over hers. The girl blushed and pulled her hand away. "It's just me now," she said standing.

With Jane propped up in the bed, she returned to the kitchen and dished a bowl of stew bringing it back to her on a tray. When she smelled it sitting in front of her she realized how hungry she actually was and started to devour it. "Mm, it's really good," she said with a mouthful.

The girl stood watching her with a slight smile on her face. "Thank you." "What kind?" "It's rabbit. I snared it." "Really good." The girl brought her a glass of water and two pain pills. "Thank you."

She dished herself a bowl and returned sitting on the edge of the bed next to her instead of at the table. "My name's Jane by the way." "Artemis. Or just Arte." "Are cotton dresses the best attire for rustic homesteading alone in a forest?" "I have bolts of fabric and patterns for my dresses. It reduces the number of high-risk trips I need to take into shopping malls or city centers for resources. With my muck boots, they serve my purposes fine. In the cold months, I add leggings and a coat."

"I suppose you have a point. It does seem to be working fine for you." "Do you want me to make you one?" "Uh, no. Thank you." Arte laughed. "I still have my dad's old things. I may be able to find you a pair of jeans. They might be a little baggy." "Baggy I can deal with. Jeans sound nice."

"So." "Hm?" "Why were you skip tracing? I can't ever imagine doing that." Jane sighed, "Well, everything went to shit, and the military took over. Suddenly all of the manufacturing and truck driving jobs I'd worked in the past were taken over too. I could sign up with the military and maybe luck out with a transport job but more than likely I'd end up on guard duty in a compound. So, I opted for...independent contracting. It let me work on my own without a military man breathing down my neck all the time. And it paid well."

"It seemed like the best option at the time." "Do you ever regret it?" "What do you mean?" "All the kids you captured. Do you not ever feel any...empathy or remorse?" "I hate to break this to you but outside of your little forest retreat there's not a lot of empathy to be found in the post apocalypse." "That's sad." "It's reality."

They finished their meal in silence. Arte gathered their dishes and washed them in the sink. She returned and sat back down on the bed. "The rain has stopped. Do you want me to draw you a bath outside? I have a wood heated tub." "That sounds nice. Yeah."

Arte took Jane by the waist, wrapping her arm around her shoulder and helping her hobble outside onto the back deck of the cabin. There was a corrugated metal livestock tub filled with steaming water behind wood and metal privacy panels.

She averted her gaze as Jane lifted her shirt up and off. As she unclasped and removed her bra, she realized how exhausted she was. Her whole body ached, and she couldn't remember feeling this tired before. She stood with all her weight on her good leg, but her bad knee was still sending shooting pain up and down her other leg. She was moving slowly and becoming frustrated. She sat on the edge of the tub unable to continue.

Arte noticed her running out of steam mid-way through undressing. "Do you need help?" she asked hesitantly. "Please? I'm so tired." Arte walked over to her, coaxing her to stand and put her hands on her shoulders for support.

Arte was trying not to stare at her milky white breasts or the soft pink nipples adorning them. She was definitely not feeling a warmth in her belly from the proximity to them and she certainly wasn't admiring the curve of her hips and she moved to try and help the woman finish undressing. That would be inappropriate.

She undid the button and the zipper of Jane's jeans and pulled them down a little off of her hips. She tried very very hard not to study the expanse of her ass or the lace panties she revealed. She urged her to sit back down on the tub and she knelt working the jeans down and off of her legs while trying not to hurt her injured knee.

She stood and helped Jane back up. Jane wrapped her arms around her neck, and they stood close to one another. It felt incredibly intimate, and Arte felt the moment lengthening before she remembered she'd meant to remove her panties. She reached out placing her palms gently on either hip.

She noticed Jane's lips part at the contact as she slowly moved her hands down rolling the lace panties down until they fell loose to the ground. Jane was now fully nude as they stood inches apart from one another.

Arte had never experienced this level of contact with a person, and she realized she found the woman attractive, very attractive. After a long moment of regarding one another, Arte seemed to snap out of the haze she was in, and she wrapped an arm around Jane's back moving her back and into the tub. She held onto her as she lowered herself into the water.

She left her to soak and to bath. When she returned, she found the woman applying shampoo to her hair. "Do you want help?" Jane turned to look at her. "That would be nice. Thanks." Arte knelt behind her and massaged the shampoo into her hair. She kneaded her scalp gently and Jane leaned into the contact with her eyes closed.

Arte used the cup she kept nearby to pour water over her hair washing it out. She ran her hands through it as she continued to rinse it to make sure she removed all of the soap. When she finished, she asked, "Do you want me to do your back?" She squeezed the sponge.

"Mm, please." Art wetted her hands and applied soap before rubbing it along Jane's back. Jane leaned forward and rested her cheek on her uninjured knee as Arte used the sponge to gently exfoliate her skin. Eventually she used the cup again to rinse the soap from her body.

"Finished?" Arte noticed the water had begun to cool. "Mmhmm." She stood to the side of the tub and held open a towel as she helped Jane up and out of the tub into it. She wrapped her up and used a second towel to pat her dry before wrapping it around her hair. She led her inside where she exchanged the towel for a robe and helped Jane back into bed.

"Feeling better?" she asked as she laid down next to her on the bed. "Much better. Thank you for helping me." The girl turned and smiled at her. Jane reached out and ran her thumb along her lower lip. "I would have died without you," she whispered. They stared at one another for a long time before Jane moved closer and kissed her gently.

Arte returned the kiss and when they parted Jane asked, "Was that okay?" Arte nodded before turning and moving in close to her. Jane rolled over on her back and Arte moved up and over her, dipping down to kiss her a second time.

Jane wrapped her up in her arms and they lay together making out in the candlelight.

[capn-twitchery]

@viric-dreams you somehow managed to absolutely nail what i've been thinking about all week, incredible

i wish i had a Solid Idea but i do know he doesn't see their face properly til after he's back from the geode--it takes Years bc twitch is stubborn & very opposed to anyone seeing their face. they don't want it to come with 100 questions about what happened, bc that's a Whole Thing!

leading up to it tho i think he at least sees More of their face than most people would, slowly. twitch must have some kind of alternative to the shades for sleeping, a veil material/lace type ""blindfold"" or something that lets them see if they need to, but mostly obscures the eyes. twitch would use it to kind of test the waters, see if he tries to peek at their eyes or pry with questions about why they keep it covered

he never does, though, even when they go to him for comfort when the red honey pain kicks in. they have to cover their face with their hands til they can ask him to stand behind them to help them tie the blindfold on. he never asks why-the surgeon told him the captain gets headaches sometimes, they don't like to talk about it, that's fine. he won't push them. he just wants to help.

that passes some kind of test for twitch & they trust him a lot more from then!! then he goes to the geode BUT WHEN HE COMES BACK, i imagine twitch just Isn't wearing them at some point. no warning, they do Not want to make a thing about it, so neither would grace. a silent look of "thank you for trusting me" over whatever else they're doing and that's all.

twitch would at least thank him for not making an ordeal out of it, but a talk about it can wait for another time. it's a lot for them to handle at once. but they Would be comfier showing their face around him from then on, at least

(on a less serious note, this art is the first time he got slightly closer to seeing their face >:3)

[charmwasjess]

Yooooo! What if George had the plans for the Prequels down back in the 90s and Joruus C'Baoth was secretly a Count Dooku clone?

GEODE MY MAN! What's up??! I love this ask so much because it made me do the thing I like best: run down a rabbit hole that ends with me dragging out Lord of Misrule and re-reading Christopher Lee’s delightful, if vaguely bemused chapter on filming AotC.

So, Dooku’s origins: while I think Lucas had profound, interesting thoughts on Dooku’s character outside of his obvious tropism, I always thought he created the character predominantly FOR Christopher Lee and classic film villain homage. You know: Count Dooku/Count Dracula, the cape, the tastiness of having Sir Alec Guinness and Peter Cushing in his original trilogy and needing a fitting cultural icon from that same golden generation for his new one... 

But in the memoir, Christopher Lee’s own account of getting the role kind of contradicts that? His agent - unsolicited by Lucas - suggested a meeting with the Star Wars casting director might be a good career move. Christopher Lee, agent, and casting person all had a very nice lunch and didn’t talk about Star Wars or Dooku at all. (AotC was already entirely scripted at this point.) That was it. A couple weeks later, Christopher Lee got a call saying he was Dooku, if he wanted to be. 

This is very, very funny to me because it implies that Christopher Lee’s Dooku audition was “having a nice lunch” and he nailed it so hard he got the job with absolutely no other follow up. It also seems to imply that Dooku was already written well before any association with Christopher Lee and any references were belatedly tacked on.

—This rambling is all probably missing the INTERESTING point you’re actually making: that Joruus C'Baoth predates Dooku’s invention and that he and Dooku share significant parallels. Star Wars is all too happy to cannibalize EU storylines, reiterate, and repeat. I’m sorry to say that I don’t know Joruus C'Baoth well enough to talk very articulately on the minute differences, aside from the wiki-level obvious similarities of them both being disillusioned white haired older human Jedi of similar generations and interests, who both were personal friends of Palpatine prior to their fall. Sidious seems to have been very interested in the flower of that Jedi generation and badly wanted one. Dooku’s Jedi friendgroup and peers seemed very attractive to him as a potential influences/points of attack in both Legends and Canon - Joruus C'Baoth, Dooku, Jocasta, Sifo-Dyas, and now even Rael all seemed to have some levels of exposure to him and potential influence, unwitting or not.

Is Joruus C'Baoth a proto-Dooku? To return to meta for a minute, this is something that came up a lot in the fandom between Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones because when Dooku was premiered ahead of Attack of the Clones, everyone was pretty pissed off about the character, for a number of reasons including

Great, after all the athletic glamor of the duel of the fates we’re going back to old man battles??!

Asajj Ventress’s concept art was floating around and people theorized the new Sith/villain would be a badass woman

We all thought Yoda was Qui-Gon’s Master for some reason that I can’t remember and we were mad about it being this new guy with a stupid name

But most importantly, because the central narrative thing in Dooku’s story is a Jedi who is corrupted and becomes a Sith, and we’re already doing that with Anakin. And, apparently, Joruus C'Baoth.

I'm not sure that accurately answers your question, but I sure did blow off an hour of boring work on it, so truly, thank you, friend. :D <3

[calpatine]

Hello, friends! Please join me for another episode of “cool tricks in Blender make awesome dice,” featuring excessive amounts of both sparkle and math!

As previously mentioned, my particular dicemaking niche is Stuff In Dice because I have a very fancy printer and absolutely no restraint, and some time back I was looking at gemstone dice and I thought “you know, geodes would be SUPER COOL.” And because no restraint, I immediately set about figuring out how exactly to do that.

The first step was my trusty Blender, where I used a geometric plugin to procedurally generate a field of fractal quartz crystals with a random number seed, which looked a little like this:

Then I imported my blank masters, which are my dice except without numbers and 1mm smaller, and used a boolean intersect on that fractal quartz field to create this:

Dice on the bottom, crystals on top!

Sending these things to the printer is always interesting because supports are VERY EXCITING, but these inserts turned out AWESOME. My intention was to print several sets to use, rather than prep and mold a set for casting masters, because the sharp points and indents of the generated quartz will be a MESS in silicone.

The awesome thing about printing as needed is that I could use some really cool painting techniques that wouldn’t work in a cast. For this test set, I painted the geode shapes matte black, and then used a nail art technique to polish the crystal tops with a shimmery metallic multichrome greeny-gold dry pigment, for extra sparkle and a cool color-shifting look on the crystals.

SO. SPARKLY.

In order to cast these in dice, I soaked them in resin first and made sure to toothpick all the little crevices to avoid air pockets. Then I filled the molds halfway like I would with any insert, slipped in the geode shapes (the 8 and the 10s are always the worst to fit), and voila:

CRYSTAL MAGIC.

I plan to ink these in a bright spring green, which, with how crystal-clear the top halves are, will make the quartz inside look like soft fuzzy sparkly moss.

[ginevralinton]

Tagged for heads up seven up by @breitzbachbea

(sorry for how long this took)

The last seven(ish) lines of a thing I'm writing:

 She remembered when Lio left her to go went to the bathroom while they waited for dessert to arrive. She had been looking at her glass of Coke, at the condensation on the outside, at the drips halted, rounded, half-way down, at the bubbles against the inside, at the way it looked how it tasted – spiky but smooth, the same way she thought a geode would taste, and then she thought about that geode nail art she’d wanted to do but had never got round to, which reminded her of Atticus re-arranging her nail varnish, which made her think, Atticus, Mum, Dad, phone, messages, trouble, stupid, unobservant, forgetful idiot, Tamar, trouble, tears, anger, silence, death, kidnap, guilt, Atticus, phone, messages!              

Tagging @sonnet-of-anarchy @its-a-hare-pom-pom @thelastplantagenet @ailendolin if you feel like it

[glowalleysblog]

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[fractallogic]

I have to say, I am VERY excited for my manicure tomorrow

I remembered to ask for gel. I remembered to ask for nail art. I just will have to decide whether I want maximally holographic-glittery nails or if I want maximally marbled-geode-y nails. And I guess that will also have to depend on the nail tech’s equipment and ability level, but I mean, I feel like if I can vaguely understand the principle of how the nail art is achieved, then surely they as the experts will DEFINITELY be able to (her instagram hasn’t been updated in over a year, and is basically 15-20 posts, half of which are lashes, so it’s not a great portfolio to see what she can do)

I am just real excited to have fancy nails, especially fancy nails that are fancier than any I’ve ever had before

…and NOT just because I want to treat myself because my mom just died (I already cried about death today because of how Babel ends. NO MORE CRY. NO MORE DEATH.)

Treat myself for FUN things like FRIENDS GETTING MARRIED and BEAUTIFUL VACATION and SEEING FRIENDS I LOVE and maybe even MAKING NEW FRIENDS because if they’re friends with my friend then probably they could be my friends too

[lacquerlit]

31DC2019 Honor Nails You Love – Gold Foil Geode Nails

Inspired by @supernovarrh geode nails!

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[miniaturemasterpieces]

Geode Nails! :)

Tutorial here

[derpinathebrave]

Hi this took 3 days and a literal dremel and I wanted to share it with you

[too-hot-to-hoot]

Blue-green stimboard (my favorite color!)

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