#team dandelion

[greatgreenwelshadventures]

There is an unwritten rule in our family that you don't mess with Mum's cheese scone recipe.

Always was a rebel...

Dandelion and nettle seed 😆

**Edited for recipe as requested**:

8oz (225g) self raising flour (or all purpose with 1tsp baking powder)

1.5oz (43g) butter

1tsp mustard powder

6oz (453g) mature cheddar cheese

1/4 pint (142mls) milk

Rub butter into flour. Add mustard and cheese. Stir in enough milk to make a dough. Roll out to 3/4 inch thick and cut into rounds. Brush tops with a little beaten egg.

Bake at 200c (390f) for 10-15 minutes.

Makes 8 large cheese scones plus an ugly one 😆

This is my late Mum's book which has obviously been adjusted over the years to reach perfection...

For the rebels;

At the flour and butter stage throw in herbs of your choice. In this case I used about 3 heaped tablespoons of nettle seed and the petals of around 12 dandelions.

Can also recommend branston pickle which you can add around 4 tablespoons and use a little less milk.

Best eaten warm or toasted and they freeze well so I made a double batch 🫶

[bugenjoyer]

is making these becoming a new daily enrichment for me? maybe.

[gophergal]

Medic sharing a dessert with heavy 🥺

Apfelkuchen and coffee sounds great rn actually

[maadilin]

we became team peeta and anti team gale when peeta said "it's not fair to hold you for the things you said in the games. you said them to survive. you saved us."

that is the difference between peeta and gale. peeta went through them with her, and understands it was to keep them both alive. gale may not have seen it, but he basically refused that katniss said it was an act.

you picked the right man, good job katniss.

[artseniccatnip]

happy 4th anniversary bug fables :]!

character in the first panel belongs to @elusivetranscendent

[o-dandelion-o]

From the Art Fight: @monstrousturtles OC, Malicia Macawber ✨

[everdeenxmellark]

“That what I need to survive is not Gale's fire,

kindled with rage and hatred.

I have plenty of fire myself.

What I need is the dandelion in the spring.

The bright yellow that means rebirth,

instead of destruction.

The promise that life can go on,

no matter how bad our losses.

That it can be good again.

And only Peeta can give me that.”

[luqlustra]

I finished my first attack against my dnd party for artfight!!

This was a very silly joke that I ended up running all the way to hell with, that as well as I really wanted to draw some good old 90’s anime haha

The characters belong to:

EeveeVsHo-Oh Aldigond EthirePyrus Tsurakeru !!!

[hanzajesthanza]

my attempts to avoid thoughts of geralt's hanza continue to fail, as sapkowski talks about them in front of my face.

(from manuscript, on the subject of the hero and the quest):

On this expedition, the Hero (Simple or King) is accompanied by others who are stereotypical-canonical fantasy characters, in other words - clichés:

Wizard-Mentor (the aforementioned MERLIN, Obi-wan Kenobi, Gandalf, Allanon, Belgarath, Sephrenia or Moiraine, who supports the hero with advice and help); Faithful Servant (in the case of the King, literally, in the case of the Simple, rather a childhood friend, Sam Gamgee. He serves the plot to recite wise folk maxims and prove that the simple people are the most morally healthy; or to save the ass of his master/friend where magic and a sharp sword will not help, and common sense and a strong, faithful arm will suffice). Good Knight (charismatic LANCELOT, always loyal and ready to fight, sometimes with some dark secret in his life); Worse Knight (always with some dark secret in his life, ambitious like Boromir, in the clutches of Evil, secretly collaborates with Evil, regrets betrayal, undergoes catharsis, perishes); Trickster - Conniver (see LOKI in "Materia Magiczna"**), cheerful, but can cause trouble, which attracts like a magnet; Damsel in Distress, who is saved from danger on the way and included in the team. Usually a princess in disguise. For several volumes of the cycle she does not like the Hero, in the last she becomes his wife.

* Type A = Percival, a hero who does not have power and is searching it, and Type B = King Arthur, a hero who has lost his power and wants to regain it. in other words, Type A = Reynevan and Type B = Geralt :)

** another chapter of the book, "Materia magica, or the Little Magical Alphabetical Lexicon," it's a glossary of various myth and legend. in loki's entry, he recounts some myths of loki and equivalates him with other figures across various traditions: Odysseus, Pryderi, Bricriu, Mordred, Alyosha Popovich, Coyote, Anansi, Maui). then he lists a few fantasy/spec fic characters he categorizes as trickers: Cugel (Dying Earth), Kickaha (World of Tiers), Coyote (Coyote Blue), Peter Lake (Winter's Tale), Moonglum (Elric of Melniboné), Nifft and Haldar (Nifft the Lean), Random (Chronicles of Amber), Saruman (Lord of the Rings), Shimrod (Lyonesse), Silk (The Belgariad and The Malloreon), Gray Mouser (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser), Talen (The Elenium).

my thoughts:

pretty obvious assignments here, for the most part.

regis is the Wizard-Mentor, but, as he soon loses his mystique, his intellectual, philosophizing manner becomes mundane and irritating than providing magical provenance. he advises incessantly, answering questions before they're asked, giving guidance when no one asked. he only appears to be omniscient, and the others may think he's so smart because he's hundreds of years older than them, but is really just a guy, a middle aged man with a troubled youth which he learned from. his advice is not magically guided and for this reason is fallable, mortal, human. maybe the cliché is also played with in that he's a vampire, not a wizard, sorcerer, or priest, "‘I see.’ The poet sighed. ‘Is Regis a sorcerer?’ ‘No. No, not a sorcerer.’" ... as vampires are typically evil and regis is decidedly a force of good. (on this topic, @wampirzielarz once compared-contrasted gandalf and regis and it was super interesting :))

dandelion is a combination of the Faithful Servant and the Trickster. he's geralt's best friend, and doesn't fight alongside him with sword but his presence is necessary to our hero for moral support, that all makes the first part an obvious assignment... and... sapkowski lists a wide variety of tricksters of various moral alignments, but amongst them are some heroes and some best friends of heroes (and anti-heroes). and asides from being geralt's closest friend, dandelion is, after all, a rascal, who uses words and good looks to get what he wants from people. "a cynic, a lecher, a womanizer and a liar." (also, because i think szarlej also fits this double-definition as well, i won't hesitate to give them to dandelion, as they serve pretty similar functions alongside their respective heroes).

milva is the Good Knight, "always loyal and ready to fight" describes her perfectly, and her 'dark secret' was her pregnancy and plans for abortion. (though, the attribution of lancelot... well, maybe this is why some keen eyes saw a potential in yenva). anyhow, the playfulness with the cliché comes from the fact that she's a woman, which is supposed to be surprising that the hero's strongest ally is a woman. i think the "charismatic" attribute is also supposed to be played with here, as milva is simple and not too well-spoken, only so in her cursing. in other words, she's a peasant woman, and not a born-and-bred nobleman. also, for her gender, she is a play on another trope sapkowski mentions a couple of pages later, but i can't go into it now because it's too funny.

cahir is the Worse Knight, though perhaps in reverse, for all of his associations with Evil was in the past and shed like sports colors when he changed teams. he has no betrayal, "I will never betray you, witcher," all of his ‘betrayal’ was before he was even allied with the hero. but of course, for these sins, he "undergoes catharsis, perishes".

the Damsel in Distress is evidentially angouleme, being "saved from danger on the way and included in the team." the rebuking of the cliché, of course, is that geralt is "genuinely angry, genuinely confused, genuinely embarrassed" when she offers her "gratitude" to him. also, that she is no princess in disguise, just an ordinary girl, though she is confused for the princess they're after (who also happens to be another play on the damsel in distress cliché). and again, like milva, i think angouleme is related to another specifically female character cliché sapkowski calls out; but i'll save it for another post.

[team-hot-wheels-imaginators]

A Chance Encounter

Usually, at school, Brandon is never too far from Wyatt's side.

This is an intentional decision on Brandon's part.

The boy has gone so far as to hack into multiple schools record systems and change Wyatt's grades to ensure that they the two end up in ALL the same classes.

Why, you ask?

...because despite all of his genius, Brandon Skye is hopelessly terrible in public spaces. ...ESPECIALLY when he's alone.

On days when Wyatt can't come to school (like when he caught a cold from trying to swim all the way from one side of Los Miami Beach to the other in only his underwear because Gage dared him to), Brandon tries his best to stick to the shadows and not be noticed...

Unfortunately for him, on one particular occasion, the shadows weren't enough...

[tannukii]

I'm really really happy with how this artfight attack turned out!

characters by: @tasminrat @onebug

[greatgreenwelshadventures]

Dandelions are such cool kids.

They only bother to open up their blooms on sunny days and stay shut if it's gloomy. They close for the night to conserve energy absorbed from the sun during the day.

If you accidentally mow or strim one, it sends a message to the surrounding flowers and they lay flat... how mad is that!

[bugenjoyer]

okay. season 4 edition. ok. lets go gays

[moonsavior]

from behind, against the glass, in front of the plants, beneath the cosmos, no lube, no protection, all night all day, from the kitchen floor to bathroom counter, from dining table to church, while i gasp for air and scream the lord’s prayer, he can top me.

[holyghostflo]

Had a bit too much fun making a particular piece of art for the Hot Wheels blog I'm a part of...

-to the point where I ended up making two versions of it.

...I love my job.

[o-dandelion-o]

From the Art Fight: @tealottie OC, Prissy McQuill ✨