#nettle speaks

[pricklenettle]

[pricklenettle]

I would like a cup of tea soooo big I could drown in it, please (⚉ˆ ⚉✿) Yes, dive all the way to the bottom and sink into the tea dust sediment

@jackson-imbecille @neurotraum @worthlessprotoplasam

what do the 4 people who always like my posts want for christmas

[chalkrub]

pwyw com from last month ! these are closed now but i will open again at the end of feb maybe

[lefunnymoncey]

OKAY. GUYS...

the adults only obviously, characters im thinking of making dateable are:

Cedric

Miss Nettle

Princess Ivy

Prisma

Baileywick

Greylock maybe??

anyone else, if you have a request you can comment or reblog

if its just a few like 3 or 4, ill probably make all of them really long. unless you guys just want cedric, then ill make it all focused on cedric romancing

update: go follow @stfdatingsimupdates for updates and polls to vote on things for the final game :3

[libraryleopard]

I think I don’t understand what people consider “cozy fantasy” because I just saw someone describe Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher as that and it’s literally a fantasy novel with a dark fairytale feel, a strong core of anger about the mistreatment and abuse of women under the patriarchy, and elements of horror. What.

[ayrennaranaaldmeri]

ok ok its my fault for being on reddit but r/houseofthedragon rn full of people arguing that demon and his 99% neck lizard have a stronger bond than aegon and sunfyre and it's so fucking frustrating that its entirely condolt's fucking fault that this is even a fucking argument because he thinks the greatest bond between a dragon and his rider to ever go that fucking hard in this universe is pRopaganda and gives dae mon and car ax es more screentime. i'm just so fucking done man. never showed us sunfyre TRULY until it was time for demon jr the anime edgelord to attack him and aegon, never get the fact that sunfyre is literally on aegon's arms, never got the coronation flying, DIDN'T GET ANYTHING UNTIL IT WAS TIME TO FUCK HIM UP FOR THE PLOT.

i wish this mf would get fucking fired before he has a chance to touch these two anymore because I don't think i can handle how he will underplay and butcher the fact that this dragon literally fought tooth and claw with a broken wing to find his way back to his rider.

[killpilled]

i don't want to be a hater because i think they are dividing nettles' plot between addam (connection with the commoners, dragonrider without targaryen blood, battle of the gullet) and mysaria (connection with the commoners, relationship with daemon) but BOY i do think it sucks what they're doing with rhaena. why would rhaena of all people get sheepstealer?? scrappiest dragon on earth? she's a full noblewoman?? what is she doing wandering around, is no one looking for her?? will she also soil herself with blood like everyone else, loosing what made her unique in f&b? what makes her different from baela now??

maybe there could be some potential in her relationship with daemon, maybe she takes nettles' place in some way, but so far her plotline is not compelling and being written at the cost of a much more interesting, original character

[shinelikedew]

best thing about the 2018 miniseries was nettle, I think about her at least once a day

[seaworthee]

like not to be That Guy but it wouldve been nice if one of the textually black characters couldve made it to the show

[pricklenettle]

What’s your art process like?

I’m sorry I’ve been sitting on this one for so long, because honestly I feel like I have a pretty typical process. But I’ll do my best to explain what I do with a few pictures!

Thumb-nailing is always a good idea and will help you know what the heck you’re doing. It really helps with value and composition! Here’s my thumbnailing for the christmas truce comic I did (you can see a random warm up doodle I did before starting something else XD

You can see how loose it is, and also the dialogue is just off to the side XD

for comic making this is maybe the hardest part, but once you have it, it’s pretty smooth sailing to sketch it out and make it bigger. I don’t have a photo of that part unfortunately because it’s quick. (I usually just loosely pencil in where the people are with more attention to the structures and panels around them, and maybe what they’re expressions are) Then I make it pretty:

The actual pages are fairly small because most people are going to be reading it on their phone. Then I line it with pen which always goes really fast.

For colored things, I am still often figuring things out. I usually put a base color down first and then layer on top of it. Also, I try to keep my color pallets fairly limited, sometimes by picking out before hand the colors at my disposal. Once you have those colors if you mix them the whole piece will look more interesting and cohesive as long as your initial colors play well together (don’t have to worry so much about this with colored pencil, but watercolors play best with others the fewer pigments they have already mixed inside.)

Here’s one that I’ve only put a base color down, usually I don’t leave blank spaces unless value or glow is really important

The wirt and greg pictures have a hot pink wash behind them

You can see the layering easier in this gauche painting

I think most traditional artists would describe something similar. In my opinion, the most important part is practicing and doing so on a regular basis. For me, even if I do nothing else, once a week I go to church, sit down in a pew and get out my sketch book. If you can find a time like that for yourself it really is valuable! I won’t say anymore because there are so many more awesome tutorials and explanations elsewhere on the internet! If nothing else, I hope to leave you with the impression of how doable this is, even with something simple like a ball point pen or crayola pencils

here’s some bonus doodles for reading to the end ✨⭐️🌌

[navree]

i hate twitter i did NOT just see someone comparing jace and baela and rhaena to the conquerors, the disrespect

[theflintwarlock]

So I looked at a few different tumblr posts and websites about stinging Nettles' uses in Witchcraft and I haven't seen much mentioned about the historical context of the plant.

Yes, in medieval times it was used for various medicinal purposes, but there is one context in Irish history I haven't seen spoken of in Witchcraft circles:

It's uses during the great famine.

Stinging Nettles are really common in Ireland, and during the great famine they were eaten when there was no, and I mean no, food available by poor Irish people. There are a few other foods know as famine foods that grow wild in ireland that were eaten to prevent starvation for the lucky ones who could find them and have enough to survive. Nettle soup is literally just stinging Nettles and water, so it was very much a meal when you had nothing else. It is a dark part of history, no doubt, but to me the plant is heavily assosiated with the famine and the people that lived and died through it. You might wonder why, then, would a celtic practitioner want to work with it? Because the fact that that plant helped to sustain those people through such hard times, to keep you alive when nothing else was growing, is a great strength of the plant. Because of this history it has great heritage of survival through hard times, of strength that runs throughout Irish culture.

One of my favourite Irish rebel songs is Down by the Glenside (the bold fenian men), written by Peadar Kearney, who was a member of the Irish republican brotherhood and co-founded the Irish volunteers in 1913. The song is about the fenian rising of 1867, so it took place just over 10 years after the great famine/the great hunger (1845-52). But the reason I mention it is because it references Nettles explicitly in the lyrics

"Twas down by the glenside, I met an old woman

A-plucking young Nettles, she ne'er saw I was coming"

The song is really worth a listen.

Anyway, I say all this to say that the history of this plant goes way beyond medicinal uses. This is just what I've picked up knowing the little that I do about Irish history. It was used by poor people to supplement a proper diet for hundreds if not thousands of years. Not just protection, but survival and renewal, given how the plant can spread over any fertile ground, producing strong roots year after year even in harsh winters. Just like our celtic peoples have, though our languages have been beaten out of many, our people have been killed and our traditions lost to us, we still re-learn those languages, those traditions, and survive.

[maidragoste]

I thought of a dialogue about Sea Dragon talking about Nettles with Rhaenyra BUT I'M DUMB AND I DIDN'T WRITE IT AND I WENT TO SLEEP AND NOW I DON'T REMEMBER IT 😭😭😭

This was in my drafts months ago because I was hoping to remember it but I don't 😭😭

[lefunnymoncey]

help HELP ME IM FERAL OVER THE MAGIC OLD PEOPLE AGAIN THIS IS JUST FRESHMAN YEAR OF HIGHSCHOOL ALL OVER AGAIN

[libraryleopard]

Adult fantasy novel

Dark fairytale about a princess-turned-nun/midwife who sets out on a quest to kill her sister's abusive husband with the help of a necromancer, a disgraced knight, a fairy godmother, an undead dog made of bones, and a demonic chicken

Feminist rage and sinister magic alongside a motley crew of characters and an understated romance

Main character of color

[nonbinary-ghost]

Ya know, one thing i dont often see talked about with regards to being low/no empathy is the overcompensation that can come with it

Like. I spent so much of my youth othered and demonized for not being empathetic and behaving insensitively. So i learned. I learned how to look at someone or something and over analyze everything about them - how they might be feeling, how they might react to something, why they might do something or act a certain way, how an action i take could impact them etc. I dont feel empathy, but i can understand how something might make someone feel or how feelings can drive someone to behave a certain way.

And it has been driven into me again and again that making something more difficult for someone is wrong. Hurting someone's feelings is wrong. Being selfish is wrong. So when i do something, i have to analyze it to make sure it could never feasibly hurt or inconvenience someone else, even if that means taking on extra work. I have no way of knowing when it is appropriate to prioritize myself or inconvenience someone else because i was taught that it is ALWAYS necessary to prioritize others.

And then people who DO feel empathy go around doing and saying shit that does hurt or inconvenience people, seemingly with no sense of irony or self awareness. It baffles me to no end. Is there a script here im missing?