#i admit that i like these flowers

[c-schroed]

My local branch of the Interflora flower delivery network sent me a newsletter yesterday, reminding me that now is just the time to buy allium bouquets. And, I mean, the Demeter is amidst her doomed way to bring Dracula to Whitby, so I guess Interflora has a point here.

I just hope they'll have some garlic flowers for me in three weeks.

[sapphoshands]

i am genuinely emotional that marvel is using this line as promo. this is part of their brand strategy now. arguably the most conservative force in the mainstream entertainment industry, which let me tell you is real conservative at the best of times and doing its best to go backwards. it shouldn't be this fucking rare to get the most bare minimum of recognition in media but it still fucking is and yet people are changing that.

[swiggity-swexual-i-am-asexual]

I love seeing Danny Phantom showing up and being like ‘don’t ask too many questions but John Constantine I own your soul. All of it. Lmao sucks to suck bitch’, and he’s usually all Ghost King Full Regalia as he does it, at least in front of the Justice League, but consider—

He just shows up as Danny Fenton.

“yeah I got bored and collected the pieces like Pokémon. Gotta catch ‘em all” says the 5’2 teen who looks like a stiff breeze could trip him. He denies being a sorcerer, or a magician, concedes he’s maybe psychic but mostly he’s just…. The kid of two mad scientists—who have a basement lab where they opened a portal to what he SAYS is not hell but no one is frankly CONVINCED, by the way—and he hasn’t decided what to do with Constantine yet besides getting Danny into some r rated horror movies, but figures he should tell the dude probably.

“What’d you even trade for some of his soul contracts?”

“Don’t worry about it”

They worry about it

[piningpercussionist]

As densely packed as I could tolerate making it- Roxie doodles! (Vast majority of these are from several weeks ago I'm not gonna lie,,)

[oneluckydragon]

✨🌸 Sunshine on your skin, flowers in my soul 🌸✨

🌊🫧Summary → In the midst of his reconciliation with Team Wish, Dusknoir begins coughing up flowers. This unfortunate brand of bad luck should be a cosmic joke. A spiteful punishment that the world has brought down on him out of malice, out of vengeance for his past deeds. A cruel, agonizing curse manifested with the single unjustified purpose of preventing him from realizing happiness, ever seeking redemption, ever righting his multitudes of wrongs and moving on with his life. But that's not true, and he knows it deep down. Knows it in the very core of his soul like the flood of petals building in this throat.

This is his fault because he is a coward, and that's all he has ever been. A backstabbing, lonely coward.

And now he is going to die because of it.

[AO3]

[CH. I -- Word Count -- 13,290]

🌒💫 Return → the act of going back to a place, person, or memory

[CH. II -- TBA]

[taffingspy]

tfw I have been so utterly bewitched by a kind and gentle necromancer that he's showing up in my dreams 😔

[bonefall]

So, your Clear Sky post is absolutely horrifying, but it was very needed, so thank you. What are your general thoughts on tackling his abuse for the AU? Like you've said, pretending he's a good guy is not the way to go, but are you planning on toning down *some* of the situations, just to give some of the cats a break? Clear Sky is a very realistic depiction of abusers, but that seems to come across even without victim number 25, yknow? I'm very curious about how you'd like to go about this.

My most recent big change was bringing Slash back into the fold, because I realized that it was actually a disservice to not address where DOTC's themes dip into Colonialism. It's a hard topic, and I'm still trying to work out the details, but I realized it was important.

With how BB!DOTC is such a MASSIVE overhaul, to properly address abuse and the ways it impacts you, ableism and its violence, and xenophobia broadly, a huge reworking of Slash belonged here too. He's one of the greatest examples of how badly WC demonizes non-Clanborn cats. I shouldn't dance around it.

That's what I need to do with Skystar.

MANY of his victims have happier endings than canon, though. Bumble is one of the most famous, bumped up into a major character and directly responsible for the formation of ThunderClan. Bright Storm is taking most of Gray Wing's roles. Birch and Alder are getting examined, with either a father who wants his kids back or Milkweed as the mate of Misty.

A lot of people will die because of him, even more will be hurt, but I see BB!DOTC as a story about victims and survivors.

Others might grab POVs here and there, but as a response to canon which I feel is Clear Sky's story told in many parts, I center this rewrite around Thunder Storm. The path of kindness he marches down, with love and with anger, and the people he helps.

So BB!Star Flower...

Previously I was playing her as ENTIRELY just manipulating Clear Sky. She was loyal to One Eye and trying to get at Skystar to bleed him dry for 8 lives to sacrifice; but connected to Thunderstar over recognizing him as a victim who deserves her idea of justice. So, she offers Thunderstar the final kill, so her father will be grateful to him and he'll get power AND the death of his abuser.

(When Thunderstar looks upon Skystar, pathetic and neutralized down to one life, he thinks about the collateral damage that will descend upon the forest if he accepts the deal. He decides that he has found the line between Justice and Justification. Of course he wants the power to make his enemies cower, protect his people, and eliminate Clear Sky so he never threatens them again; that's not the problem.

He can still do these things. He wouldn't NEED the power of a war god to do so.

But if One Eye returns, he will be endlessly hungry, ruthlessly dedicated to revenge, and set out to devour the whole forest. Everything would get worse, and even more people he loves would die. It's where his desire to destroy a monster would lead to him BECOMING one.)

Even on its face, it was previously missing an element. There's a step between "Starf decides to bring One Eye back" and "Starf offers Thunderstar the final kill" that was bare. This is the piece that was missing-- That she, herself, is trying to reach out to the only person who's ever really understood her.

But more importantly... I do feel this topic belongs here, in BB!DOTC. Abuse is a MAJOR theme. SKYSTAR is a monster already. He's harmed two wives in BB (Bright Storm and Falling Cry) and played toxic games with all three kits (Thunder Storm, Pale Sky, Tiger Sky).

And I'd avoid Star Flower being abused... why? Because it's uncomfortable to confront the pattern that Clear Sky displays? That in-canon, he tries to cut all his victims into the same ideal shape, from Storm to Thunder to Star Flower? ...it should be uncomfortable. Everything that I described in Clear Sky Is A Monster is rooted in the same desire for control, power, and punishment most abusive people share, he just happens to be a severe example.

Yes. That includes how he treats his child and romantic partners. The parallels that are drawn between Starf and Thunder are there because he wants power in the form of obedience. Starf replaces the son as a narrative award for his "growth" of not killing random people anymore for a while.

A cookie cutter is an effective tool because IT ONLY MAKES ONE SHAPE.

You know what's more uncomfortable? Reading canon!DOTC and seeing someone who hurt you reflected almost perfectly in the character the writers think did nothing wrong. Because of "good intentions" that were not there.

I will say though, just to be clear; I don't see a purpose in being more than PG-13 about serious topics for this project. I promise none of my intentions have changed. Nothing will be more graphic or gorey than canon WC-- just more intentional.

I'm keeping the sacrifice because it's dope. No one is taking this from me. Girl Moment: Killed her awful husband 8 times to count as 8 sacrifices and offered the last life to her buddy as a show of good will. How else do you make friends outside of high school

But I know now that Star Flower NEEDS to keep the canon fact she has very little agency, UNTIL that moment she snaps.

She's sacrificing one abuser to try and bring back a bigger, badder one, because in spite of everything, her father One Eye always made her feel safe. Even though he promised her off to Skystar, and expected her to be willing to die for him. She's followed every command, every order, past the death of his mortal vessel.

The first, and only, selfish choice she's ever made was in reaching out to Thunderstar to offer him the power of her father.

Thunderstar's Justice is a story about a Thunder Storm at the pinnacle of his arc, how the survivors of his Clan are settling into the new normal after the carnage of The First Battle, how Skystar's arrogance brings a violent god to the Forest... and the connection Thunderstar makes with the daughter of a monster.

[coconut530]

DIVORCE BEGIN *STARTS CRYING*

[akemiiya]

are you really a flowey fan if you can type u in your browser's search bar and the first thing that shows up isn't undertale.com/alarmclock/flowey

[hollowedhusk]

I NEVER POSTED THIS!?!?!?!

Well that must be fixed

Found out how to edit pictures and crop 'em so there ain't too much empty space... you'd think I'd remember to look for features like that considering I like to fix up tech and see what they can do... but here we are.

[moldy-flowers]

The interesting experience of being pro Sasuke, anti konoha, pro tobirama, anti Naruto ending, pro Sasusaku, anti Itachi, pro Sakura, anti SasuNaru, pro Tobirama×Izuna, anti Madara, pro karin, anti Orochimaru, pro Uchiha and anti Hashirama. And also as much as I hate the guy danzo was kind of hot when he was younger...

[galfromearth-22191]

Maybe I don’t come round here often, but if we’re still debating about which songs on the album are underrated..

Why hasn’t Nonviolent Communication been brought up? Where are my Nonviolent Communication truthers at?!

[njamil21]

A watercolor painting I did for a friend.

This was a commission piece I techinically did for the mother of a friend and it was my first time making anything for her so I was quite nervous when making this for her. I got doubly nervous when she wanted the original piece to frame but I was honored that she would want a physical piece of art from me. Her only requirements for the piece were "an angel that was neither black or white", as she mostly saw angels that were black or white, and for the picture to be 8"x10" to frame.

With the size being what it was, I had to forego colored pencils and go for watercolors as it would cover more space in less time and give a very dreamy and delicate look to the piece. Since my client wanted a more unique angel, I thought it would be fun to give her a Desi angel, as her dark features would contrast beautifully against her more paler clothes. 

She never requested a background, probably because this was her first time commissioning from me or from any artist, so I figured it would be nice to just give her one instead of having her float in a void. I figured lotuses on a pond would be a good way to go if I want to add more details and color to the picture. Painting the lotuses, lily pads, and the design on the salwaar kameez were so therapeutic to me so this paunting was such a joy. It's been a while since I made anything larger than 4 inches so I'm quite proud of myself for getting this done so I could have this sent to her!

Please do not edit or repost without permission. (I edited my commission prices!)

[orangesyellow]

"Oh, why did I gift you this silk dress? You see, you are... from the moment I first saw you... Nevermind."

[entering--hyperspace]

Cannot imagine whatever is going on through Mr Leonard Echowatcher's head. You spend your life yearning for a world where you lived differently, where the day wasnt soaked in war, blood, and battle. Where you could envision a future where you have a partner and a family with friends to live gracefully with. But then you are given such opportunities only to find you were never taught to be gentle, you have a gentle, empathetic nature and yet the physicality of it is a stranger to you. You are expected to raise a child with gentle hands so that she saves the world, What does that even mean? How can you accept your growing love for your friend when you were never taught how to love, that intimate love is a luxury best left forgotten, there are no need for such things in war. He has to learn to become the things he wanted bc he grew too old to develop it naturally. He becomes a father to taimi fumbling his way into learning how to care and parent, he is defensive of Aurene bc he is from a culture where they arent expected to raise their own young and yet has to do so with a dragon. It feels like a test, He has to prove both to others and to himself he is capable of being a father, of nuturing, that calloused, stained hands can still be gentle. He has to accept that love is a terrifying leap of faith in vulnerability in order to gain a partnership that is considered a rarity. I love the idea that he spent 30 years yearning for things he thought he would never have and when he is actually given those opportunities (albeit admittedly through unusual circumstances) he has to learn how to actually live in them, becuase they were always just Concepts until now. Ohhhh my god Mr. Leo you are my everything

[moonshynecybin]

yesssss re my post about marc's vulnerability etc marc WANTS people to participate in his myth-making in an environment he controls (he dictates the narrative but in typical marc fashion stays authentic, subverting casual sports machismo where an athlete admitting it could never happen in a million billion years) but also he doesn't want anyone to know IN THE MOMENT but ALSO wants everyone to know how much he overcame and he WANTS all the suffering to mean SOMETHING SO TRUEEEEE ALL OF IT

i am thinking. of when i was at cota and these two (stupid) guys behind me were talking about marc’s documentary and their initial impression of both marc and his authorial voice was. that he was a crybaby. which i suppose i should have realized might be a take that a fan of a sport considered as macho and “traditionally masculine” (stupid assumption but i think it DOES attract some of those people because of the perception) as motogp. but still i was like. hm. okay so that’s how a casual fan of the sport might interact with all in. okay. marc was actually being very brave here.

like it’s HARD to be as vulnerable as marc has been concerning these major (and traumatic! this doc was about marc and his trauma!) life events. as a public figure (esp one with as many haters as marc) it opens you up to judgement and a lack of empathy— it’s a risk! but i also think he neeeeeeeeeeds people to know about how much he suffered to make it WORTH something. to solidify the belief that marc marquez went through all of this and came back and could still ride. and i think it’s as much for HIMSELF to buy into as it is for his fans. he is (to me) a man who really takes stock of narratives, and really wants people to have an ACCURATE picture of him as a person with feelings and struggles, even if hes also attempting to manage his image to keep a competitive edge or keep the press/haters off of his back in the moment. he keeps his cards close to his chest and then lays every single one of them on the table, time after time! once it can’t be used to hurt him, he wantsssss (NEEDS.) people to KNOW him. and frankly i think so much of that has to do with sepang.