#imperial green

[tagong-boy]

Repotting : Phirodendron "Imperial Green"

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Queer Adult SFF Books Bracket: Round 2

Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children series)

Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children No Solicitations No Visitors No Guests

Children have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere... else.

But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children.

Nancy tumbled once, but now she’s back. The things she’s experienced... they change a person. The children under Miss West’s care understand all too well. And each of them is seeking a way back to their own fantasy world.

But Nancy’s arrival marks a change at the Home. There’s a darkness just around each corner, and when tragedy strikes, it’s up to Nancy and her new-found schoolmates to get to the heart of the matter.

No matter the cost.

Fantasy, portal fantasy, mystery, magical realism, boarding school, novella, series, adult

Imperial Radch series (Ancillary Justice, Ancillary Sword, Ancillary Mercy, Provenance, Translation State, and other stories) by Ann Leckie

Endorsement from submitter: "Breq/Justice of Toren is a ship AI and doesn't have a gender. The Radchaai language only has one pronoun for people, so (almost) everyone in the empire is she/her, to the point that they're infamous for failing to correctly guess which pronoun to use with outsiders."

On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest.

Once, she was the Justice of Toren - a colossal starship with an artificial intelligence linking thousands of soldiers in the service of the Radch, the empire that conquered the galaxy.

Now, an act of treachery has ripped it all away, leaving her with one fragile human body, unanswered questions, and a burning desire for vengeance.

Science fiction, space opera, far future, series, adult

[didoofcarthage]

Mold-blown glass flask with janiform decoration

Roman, 1st century A.D.

J. Paul Getty Museum

[progressivemillennial]

[sennamaticart]

Painted another one of my Flight Rising Dragons. This is Absinthe!

[birdstudies]

September 21, 2024 - Green Imperial Pigeon (Ducula aenea) These pigeons are found in forests, coastal scrub, gardens, savannas, and swamps in parts of South and Southeast Asia, as well as some parts of southern China. Foraging in pairs or small groups, they feed on fruits, berries, and other vegetation, such as mangrove buds. Pairs build loose platform nests from twigs in leafy saplings or trees. Both parents incubate the eggs. They are classified as Near Threatened by the IUCN due to hunting and habitat loss.

[forsooth-verily]

Oh TREE

where's my ASSSSS

[carvaiine]

traveling dragon landed in my lair a while back. I think he might stay.

taupe skink / forest current / shamrock koi

[la-madame-x]

Green & Black.

All images are sourced from Pinterest.

[columbidaecontest]

[ID: two images of imperial pigeons in trees. both are grey with green wings. the Mindoro imperial pigeon is a bit more blue, while the Green imperial pigeon is darker in shade.]

[tagong-boy]

Philodendron “Imperial Green”

フィロデンドロン「インペリアル・グリーン」

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Just thinking about Greta Thunberg's statement

[ravenymph]

why it’s not a real book

[zephhhhh]

redraw but with more greeble less effort and a completely different color scheme

[odinsblog]

For clarity: Giving Ukrainians the ability to defend themselves against a hostile foreign invasion is not what is killing Ukrainians. IT’S THE RUSSIAN MILITARY AND THEIR INVASION OF UKRAINE THAT IS KILLING UKRAINIANS.

Sorry, but you can’t just delete the agency of the country that instigated war by committing an illegal invasion, and magically shift blame away from Russia.

And what happens to Ukrainians is very well documented—you need look no farther than Bucha and Mariupol to see what the Russian army does to Ukrainian civilians once they have seized their land.

This is a nonsensical Russian propaganda talking point, and unsurprisingly, Republicans + Libertarians + ignorant ass tankies who think they’re somehow defending “communist Russia” have been regurgitating the same idiotic rhetoric ever since Russia invaded Ukraine.

Hopefully hearing Marjorie Taylor Greene speak the rhetoric exposes just how incredibly stupid it sounds. Because it IS stupid.

Until Trump, there was was no other time in modern American history that Republicans would have argued against defending a country from a Russian invasion. Russia is the aggressor here, and as Marjorie Traitor Greene admitted herself, Ukraine is not in NATO, and Ukraine was not even seeking NATO membership when Russia invaded their sovereign state.

“… if you can take the mere existence of NATO as something so intolerable that Russia simply had no choice but to invade a country that wasn't in NATO then I guess you can believe anything.”

Russia could end the war instantly, just by turning its army around and going back home to Russia.

SN: To be sure, the United States has done and is still doing A LOT wrong; the U.S. has committed its own share of war crimes and has supported war criminals in other countries in exchange for oil and other natural resources—so yes, we can and we should be doing everything in our power to demand that America does everything it can possibly do to prevent Israel from committing any further war crimes and illegal land grabs in Palestine, but this one specific issue is about Ukraine, not Palestine.

Borrowing from another post, but it’s very apropos here:

“Tankies are not leftists. They think they are, which is both funny and sad. If they were, they wouldn't support Vladimir Putin, a far-right leader engaged in ethno-nationalist imperialism. It's your ideas and values that make you a leftist, not how much you hate the US.”

We can agree with one thing without having to agree with everything that America does.

Every enemy of America isn’t “good” just because they oppose America; and Russia has a very long history of its own war crimes and extensive human rights abuses.

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Colors: Jade Green

Color is the greatest luxury of all...it's a special day when you buy pink or jade green.

Requested by: @eltingvilleocxcanon