#sprout thinks (for once)

[kittykatninja321]

My less popular opinion (and what I believe to be implied by the art in Lost Days) is that rather than waking up in a fully grown body Jason didn’t actually complete his puberty until after his Lazarus pit dip while he was on his murder tour. Imagine you’re tied up in a basement in Berlin getting interrogated by a teenager and his voice is cracking the entire time and if you laugh he’s going to shoot you

[anneapocalypse]

"I get annoyed having to explain obvious mechanics"

"you're either playing your job or sabotaging"

Some of you really need to learn to accept the fact that there will always be new players who don't know things and that this is not only okay but necessary for the game's survival.

[vespertine-legacy]

The way that apparently some twerps have been giving Princess and Suffren shit for rUiNiNg ThE eCoNoMy by farming NiM Dread Fortress until Severed Hand has multiple teams capable of completing the raid, and then taking guild members, friends, family members, anyone who asked nicely really… to get their Wings—without making them pay for it! They even taught some people the raid and took them back through for their Gate Crasher, again—without making them pay for it! Gasp! Shock! How could they possibly do this! How will the swtor nim raiding community possibly survive someone… being fucking nice???

Isn’t the goddamn point of a raiding “community” that you teach the raids to other people? Idk about you but I learn better when I have a chance to actually do and see what the end goal is, rather than just be told that everything is my fault and be called whatever new exciting slur the chat’s collective hivemind has decided is most hurtful this week.

Edit to add: this is more than likely the same people who in endgame chat make endless jokes about the sale runs and about what a joke the sales runs are. I’m sorry that you are now not enjoying having it both ways my good motherfuckers. Other people are going to play the game how they want, and if a guild that you’re not in teaching other people how to beat a difficult but fun fight so that they can get a coveted mount on any toon they want as long as they ask nicely “ruins the game” for you? That is a you problem.

[spotaus]

HEY!

It is me!

I had a thought concerning New Age AU :D

I spend some time thinking about waht you said.

That the castle Nightmare (and dream and their family) lived in. The royal castle.

Is the tree of emotions.

So. So hear me out.

I wonder that. if the castle is the tree. does that mean it may be a bit sentient.

You said that nightmare can easily change it because he is conencted to it (the apple ritual) but i wonder if the castle itself is kinda sentient.

And VERY mad about how its powers got used.

Maybe the story of the twins. OG story. is connected to the prophecy. But it was a warning.

It was a warning to remain united. To trust your family and to listen to them when they ask for help. To believe them when they notice things about people youdon't notice.

To warn away from going out on your own. warnign away from searching for power that you shouldnt take. (the apples were never suposed to be eaten after all.)

And of those twins the one who ate the apple actually succeed in killing their twin. that the grieve of that moment intensified the emotions based power source into overdrive which caused the one who ate the apple to even gain godlike abilities.

the whole prophecy was a warning.

The royal family that settled in this place. found the story. found the tree (having recovered after the twin who ate the apple died) and instead of seeing a warnign. saw a to do list.

The lessons they took:

power makes you undefeatable

the power makes you stay in control

the best way to gain this power? eat an apple and kill someone important to you.

attachment is a weakness waiting to be used to grow more powerful.

sadly after they grabbed and misused one apple? they got paranoid. if they can use the tree to gain power others can too! so they cut the tree down. and to make sure it could never grow back. build the castle on top of it.

Meaning there is only ONE apple. the one consumed by the one true ruler. and the ruler neeeds to willingly summon their apple/soul to give to eat to the new ruler. to pass on the forbidden knowedge and power through lessons and traditions.

over time the trees influence took over the castle. but because the ruler ate the apple and has a direct connection they can still control the castle.

the tree/castle watches as nightmare broke the cycle. as nightmare refused to hurt ccino (adn so his brother) nightmare, even through fear chose love and trust.

the castle willingly helps and protects nightmare.

and when nightmare lost the apple's power? officially breaking that godforsaken cycle? the castle is just more protective. thorn now protect the castle and the trees around it hide it.

this is of course. lost knowledge. the royal family made sure to destroy the knowledge in fear of someone standing against them.

but nightmare managed to break it still.

and maybe... just maybe... now somewhere deep in the castle. deep underground as a forgotten meadow deep underground. in a beautiful little cave. a new tree starts to grow to truly help heal the land.

haha sorry this got long again lmao.

but yeah! If you have the tree/castle kinda sentient you can have that the very land was trying to sabotage the old rulers but couldn't do a lot because of the one apple's power and so having to listen.

it would be the source of all that powerful magic.

Ough. It SO is slightly sentient.

Ancha once again you have obliterated me w/ ur storytelling istg-

Okay. I love that this info has been lost completely to time. Like. The only one that's aware is the tree/castle itself.

I think the interpretation I like here is that, the stump is somewhere within the grounds, maybe even in the treasury or armory, but the *roots* make up the building kinda cypress tree style, so as they cut down the tree, the once vibrant life in the old roots turned to stone and was left almost completely powerless. (I am, unfortunately, a sucker for the idea that there was a time that *someone* treated the tree with respect 😔) (Also hense the new young tree sprout growing out of the ground deep in a hidden cavern, because the roots relocated the power to a safer location.)

The castle, desperately grasping for that power back, so no one might mis-use it ever again. And then seeing Nightmare resist its twisted urges (like u said) in the name of love and care? It rips that power away the moment it loses its hold on Nightmare, and takes the seeds of magic away from harm's reach. But... Nightmare isn't upset by the loss. He doesn't go digging to get the power back. He... doesn't dig for *any* power.

Less blood is shed in vain on its land, more plants and ecosystems are allowed to thrive.

And gods, just the idea that the castle grows up plants and trees to better defend itself abd the people inside? This reaction is spontanious and Night assumes it connects to the state of the magic leaving him, but it doesn't harm anyone so ehhh. But the tree is trying to encourage and protect those who helped it without knowing...

And dude the whole story of the og story and both twins dying and then a family misconstrued that entire story into one of power and consumption and betrayal??? Waughhh it's beautiful....

I'm losing my mind here at the storybook level magical healing and forgiveness and learning lessons, I love it so so dearly <3

[katyspersonal]

Every grudge that wasn't resolved is hurting at once like scars reacting to a bad weather no matter how much I try to just get distracted with irl activities or something positive, and I don't have anyone to talk about it because people I trust with it are only available when I need to sleep or am at work. I wonder how much longer I can hold it inside before I erupt like a volcano and severity of my negativity leaves everyone within reach with permanent fear of approaching me with ten yards distance 🤔

[antidotesprout]

[timiddot]

i think i may have a very distinct typing style

[theheadlessgroom]

@beatingheart-bride

The first thing Susannah wanted to say in response to this was, "You're putting me on!"

Actually, the first thing she wanted to say was "bull", but she resisted the urge to swear (for one thing, this was a man of the upper class, and she wasn't about to be an uncouth lout in his presence; for another, her father would've had a soap bar between her teeth if she spoke like that), instead looking at him, hoping her expression didn't seem sour.

It wasn't like she objected to the company; far from it! She hadn't given much thought to her assailant last night, figuring he was nursing a nasty hangover (among other aches and pains) and she would be safe to walk home this evening, but she did feel safer just knowing Philippe was there, offering to walk by her side. It was also a bit thrilling; here she'd expected they would never see each other again once she completed his hat, and now, here he was, happy to chase away her loneliness...

...but still, she couldn't help but feel hung up on the whole situation, to feel...suspicious of him. She liked to believe that this wasn't all just an overly-elaborate ruse to humiliate her, that just didn't add up, but even so, she was confused. She sincerely doubted he just happened to be walking in the same direction of her home and just decided on a whim to swing by and walk with her (though she wasn't about to say so), but even so...why?

Confusion be damned, however, she relented and allowed him to walk with her: If nothing else, it allowed her to check in, to ask him, "H-How are you feeling? I-I hope you're not too sore after what happened last night..."

[eorzeashan]

in my mind joining the force is much more chaotic and monstrous than simply turning one wizened or into a spirit. the closer one gets to the force, the more they change-- their body melts away, they change shape, they take flight, they slip through the fingers of the people trying to re-anchor them to the living. they breach the border of the natural state and become something else.

[sproutmole-supremacy]

I want to draw Basil in a big fluffy cardigan.

[mildmayfoxe]

what the hell am i supposed to do with this thing tbh. i can’t keep training it upwards bc it’s already as tall as me if i took it off the crate. the four foot stakes i put in there when i repotted it last summer aren’t doing shit anymore. all the new growth is shoved in this corner by the plant light. can’t you just be beautiful without me doing anything to you

[thinkingnot]

beans

they sure are good *eats a raw bean and writhe on the ground like a fish out of water* <- (btw lost a tooth)

[humanoidtyphoons]

honestly it’s hysterically funny to have a character you love and adore and then in an instant, despise them and wish them dead because they make you so angry and the turn blindsided you

[heinrix]

im really really wondering how heinrix’s romance is gonna go with sam going full heretic

[lovevalley45]

no but like where is jax this whole ep. everyone's doin shit to stop the incoming alien invasion n he's like. sorry gang my mom asked me to do lunch when i was in town

[corpsoir]

i dont care for football or sports in the slightest (well except for sweden rally. and sailing but i havent even seen the volvo ocean race yet so im a fake fan. next year!!!) but tonight im going to the pub to see england vs france with my friends and im actually so excited for the chaos of that lol

beers and football what could go wrong 😔😔😔