#timber cutting

[johnosullivanplant]

Finding a Husqvarna battery-powered hedge trimmer in Ireland is not easy, especially if you consider all the options available on the market. Nowadays, many companies claim to sell Husqvarna products.

[dr-spectre]

OH.... Splatoon JP Twitter updated....

WE'RE GONNA GET UPDATES FROM THE GOATS THEMSELVES ABOUT THE GRAND FEST!!!!!!!!

HOW BIG IS THIS HUB GONNA BE!? WILL THE SWITCH BE OKAY!?

I don't think the Switch's 2015 mobile chip set is ready for this....

Also.

Shiver looking cunty as always, we love to see it.

Frye with glasses is something that i didn't know that i needed. She looks like a nerd, but in a good way, like a really nice office lady that'll help you out in any way kind of vibe. She would pair so well with Callie's news outfit... It's almost as if those two should be together romatica- UH! NEVERMIND! ANYWAYS!

He looks like a nerd. In a bad way.... /j.

I'm joking. I need that tie tho... GIVE IT TO ME BIG MAN!

[colbycheeseslice]

My Bernard day contribution is a panel redraw from Robin #121

[robingivesmemagic]

[introspectivememories]

tim and bernard who break up and it's nothing big, no one cheated or anything. it's just their lifestyles didn't work out well together. tim cannot give up vigilantism currently and bear cannot handle the level of danger tim puts himself in. and on the other hand, tim cannot handle the fact that bear chooses to run into danger as an emt bc he already worries about everything but now he has to worry if he'll find his boyfriend convulsing from fear gas in a random alley but also bear who felt the life drain out of darla cannot stand the thought of not helping people and runs headfirst into dangerous situation after dangerous situation hoping that every person he saves can somehow make up for the fact that he could not save darla.

(he very pointedly does not think about the fact that there was nothing he could do because if he thinks about that, he'll spiral until they have to lock him in arkham too)

and so they break up but they were tim & bernard in high school and when they started dating they balanced out the worst of each other and they became tim&bernard. and everyone who knows them, knows that they're better together but they cant be together, they refuse actually because they cannot lose another person to the violence of gotham and by the time they figure out that they cant work together as long as the other is an emt or vigilante, it's too late for both them. they've already left too many pieces of themselves in each other.

tim still knows what bear means when he says "tim" in that exasperated voice. tim still goes boneless when he hears bear say "baby" in that firm tone. bear can still read tim like a book. he still knows the right way to massage tim's neck so that tim can go to sleep. everyone at the first responders gala knows not to bother ceo drake-wayne and senior emt dowd when they're talking.

(and if they're standing a little too close to each other than what is normal, who are they to judge? everyone knows that dowd and drake-wayne have history)

and if everyone on the night shift has caught red robin with his head tucked into the crook of emt dowd's neck as emt dowd runs a soothing hand up and down the vigilante's back, well then, they just quietly back away.

(after all, dowd's one of like, five, emts that can get the bats to receive medical treatment so if turning a blind eye to whatever the fuck they have going on is what allows them to give back to their heroes, then the night shift will do it every time)

and of course, tim and bear are practical people. they loved (love) each other sure, but when your lives are fundamentally incompatible, well, you cant get too stuck on the what-ifs, that's for sure. and so they do find love with other people and yeah, maybe it's not what they expected love to be when they first fell in love with each other. it's not the bubbly, stomach-swoopy, cant stop grinning, feeling that permeated tim&bernard's early days or the i Know you/you Know me that was their middle or the quiet despair that was their end but it is contentment. and in a life with as many losses as theirs, contentment is something they hold dearly

and they're happy! truly! but sometimes, at galas when they're making each other snort champagne out their noses or in darkened alleyways when their clothes are both stained with blood or at rallies for stricter gun regulations in gotham where they both sit too close to each other, fingers enclosed around each other in a death grip, when the presenters inevitably bring up grieves

(worst school shooting in gotham in decades, there's blood on their hands and blood in their mouths and darla is dead in between both of them and there is a chasm so wide that they are screaming to get their voices across and she will always be dead and maybe this had always been the problem that she is dead and there is no coming back from that and that there is blood on their hands and blood in their mouth and blood on their han-)

but sometimes, most especially on opposite sides of the street, as life pulls them in different directions, just sometimes, they see each other and just for a second, nothing too long, the flap of a hummingbird's wings, the time it takes to blink, an electron's orbital, they look at each other and for the briefest moment, blue on brown, a barely noticeable stutter in their steps, the space between heartbeats, because this is all they will give themselves because they do not dwell on what-ifs or what-could-have-beens, or what-should-have-beens, or delusions of a softer world, their eyes meet and they think to themselves, god, in another life, i would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with him.

[barstoolblues]

scenes from the last week of summer, 2023

[pellinni-photo]

chopped firewood. sustainable energy concept. wood texture. outdoor scene of everyday rural life. ecological fuel background

[dasmores237]

She uhh She She uhhh She Splat on my Toon till I Booyah?

[mass-convergence]

Playing Valheim with a group of friends. I was in the Black Forest with one of them and we were mining copper. I had just finished killing some harassing Greydwarves and my pick was broken so I couldn’t mine.

I still wanted to be helpful.

Saw a tree in the middle of the copper deposit and thought, “Well that’ll just get in the way of my friend trying to mine!”

Nearly committed arboreal manslaughter.

[roseelings-blog]

Shiwser 😍

[dr-spectre]

Guys, i wanna preach something to y'all.

If you really love a character and if they are really important to you, but you feel like a large majority of fans treat them poorly and they mischaracterise them. Don't be scared to talk about it.

PLEASE!

This is not even focused on Splatoon, no, this is just in general. If you genuinely love a character so much and they are treated in a way where you feel like it doesn't represent the character's true personality, events, arcs, etc, then speak up about it. Make a post on any social media platform or forum. Speak your peace, share your evidence, do what you can to say "hey guys. I think you should all take a second look at this character i really like! They have some cool stuff about them that not a lot of people talk about!"

I think a really great example of a character who's been really mischaracterised is Deadpool. In the comics he's a sad clown sort of guy where he hides his pain, suicidality and depression behind jokes and 4th wall breaks. He's a bad dude who tries his hardest to be a good person, but he fails over and over again and he doesn't believe he can ever be loved or respected. He's funny but he also has depth and layers which is so important to create an everlasting character. Or at least that's what I've heard he's like from comic fans. I haven't read the comics but i plan on to some day because I'm fascinated by his depth and i wanna experience that.

However in his first major solo appearance, which was the game, he was treated as only a loud mouth jokester who sees every woman he comes across as "awooga! boobies and ass!!!!" and all the depth and nuance is gone. Even though they had a comic writer who worked on Deadpool comics for years, he didn't fucking ATTEMPT to give the character any form of intrigue. Just... nothing. Only memes and pop culture references that'll become dated in 5 years.

And a lot of people think that's just who Deadpool is... That's how so many people got introduced to this character which caused misinformation to spread about him for so long... And that fucking sucks dude.

Thankfully the movies have some form of an emotional center with Wade and Vanessa's relationship and they give the character... SOMETHING!!!!! At least the comic fans seem to be pretty okay with movie Deadpool from my knowledge, which is good.

ANYWAYS! BACK TO SPLATOON!

Do you guys remember when Pearl and Marina used to be treated like this? Pearl as some big forehead joke of a character, while Marina was some bimbo with huge honkers and a giant waist.

Oh yeah, this was how they were treated for years. I remember it man, i fucking remember it all. I was there. Sorry to tell the new fans who joined from Splatoon 3. Even after Octo Expansion gave them detailed backstories and further explored their personalities, they were still mischaracterised as flanderised jokes and nothing more in the community.

But after people took the time to get to know these two, after people spent 7 years with them and discussed the interesting things about them online, they are now portrayed significantly better than how they used to be treated in the community and are celebrated as some of the best characters in the franchise. As they fucking deserve to be treated. Fans don't treat them as jokes anymore, casuals don't make tired old jokes anymore. Everyone loves these two now and for the right reasons.

And all it took was a small section of people to praise their best attributes and eventually overshadow the misinformation about them. Pearl is celebrated because she is genuinely a great character with a heart of gold and a want to care for the people around her. To make every day chaotic and to have fun with her CANONICAL GIRLFRIEND!

Marina is celebrated as a character who autistic people can look up to and find comfort in. AND THAT IS FUCKING AWESOME!!! AND IT ALMOST NEVER HAPPENED! If no one bothered to look deeper at her character then maybe many peoples lives could have never been changed for the better... Isn't that crazy to think about?

If you can change one person's perspective on a character you love, and they feel that energy and they wanna help you share that energy with more people, then i think you've done something truly amazing. Eventually that shit is gonna spread further and further AND FURTHER!!!!!!

Remember when Shiver and Frye were treated as jokes similar to Pearl and Marina at the start of Splatoon 3? Frye with her big forehead jokes and people calling her ugly due to... well... i'm gonna make some wild accusations here but... there might be an undertone of racism when people call Frye ugly... like... i'm just saying... I'm scared of what these people think about Indian women in the real world... What views they share about them... Frye is inspired by Indian culture and by proxy, Indian women. I'm just saying...

And, of course, fans gooning over Shiver because god forbid a woman exposes her midriff and has curvy hips... ugh...

BUT THANKFULLY IT'S CHANGED NOW! Lots of people see Shiver as a silly yet fun character who has the potential for depth down the line, which people are excited to see. People adore Frye and love her personality and her family.

There are people out there who say that Frye is actually cute and beautiful, AND YOU KNOW WHAT!?? I FUCKING AGREE! If people didn't share their love and takes on Frye then maybe she wouldn't become my favourite Deep Cut member.

Now... To tie it all back to me, I'm seeing this change in perspective for a character.... with Callie Cuttlefish.

During the years 2017 to 2022, Callie was always mischaracterised as some airheaded idiot who ended up getting herself "kidnapped" and "brainwashed" and had to be saved as she was some stupid helpless victim. This was seen in official material and fan comics too. I remember it man, i really do. Hell it STILL happens till this day. That fucking summer 2024 Nintendo magazine? Jesus christ dude...

But now? That perspective is changing... Sure not everyone is gonna fully agree and there probably isn't gonna be massive change in official media, social media such as YouTube and twitter, and of course wikis. Not everyone is gonna know about what Callie is truly like and what she has truly gone through. But....

That's okay.

I really don't wanna come across as some sort of gatekeeping fan, i really hate those kinds of """fans""" so much. I just wanna educate and share my love for a comfort character of mine. Eventually the perspective shared by me and others will be spread to other social media platforms and many more people. Because that's how the internet works baby!!!!

The perspective that Callie was just a girl suffering from fame and loneliness, a girl who wanted an escape from it all, a girl who went under hypnosis to numb her pain and stay in the corruptive darkness she built up for so long, a girl who wanted to help her enemies rather than stay in her current life with a cousin who isn't there for her anymore... A girl who didn't need to be saved, but a girl who needed to be reminded of the good memories she had with her cousin, to remember what she truly stood for and the love she wants to share with everyone via music... A girl who just needed... a fresh start....

She was never kidnapped despite what official sources say... She was never brainwashed despite what they tell you... Callie had agency... Callie was suffering... Just in a more nuanced and fascinating way.

that perspective... is spreading and... I'm so happy about it...

Anyways, that's all i have for you guys. Please share your love for a character with others, share your unique perspectives to the world, you have a voice, USE IT! I DON'T CARE IF IT'LL REACH TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE! ONE THOUSAND! A HUNDRED! ONE PERSON! DON'T FUCKING MATTER!

USE YOUR VOICE! PLEASEEEE!!!!!!!!

[the-starry-seas]

I've made more OCs

this is Nihaan, formerly Commander Timber, and Chen Xunielah

Nihaan was assigned head of a protection detail for Ms Chen when she was the Togruta representative to the Senate on Coruscant. It was her first experience with clones and she was very intrigued with them and polite. Timber came to like her more and more as a result, but was always well aware that nothing could come of it. She was, after all, a rather important natborn.

("Timber, how many times must I ask you to call me Xunielah?" "At least once more, Ms Chen. As always.")

Xunielah had no such reservations about a relationship with him, which is quite frankly for the best. When her time on Coruscant ended, she asked Timber and his squad to come home with her. They were honest with her that they would never be allowed to leave the GAR but they would otherwise like that very much. They assured her that they would remember her fondly, and Timber gifted her the only thing he had - a spare set of gloves that came with his armour.

She decided that she wasn't going to just leave them there. They were unfailingly kind to her, and she didn't want them to get shipped off to die at some battlefront because she no longer needed their protection. So she arranged things with the Senate to have the squad transferred to her possession and took them home to Shili, where they were recognised as both sentient beings and free citizens.

There was a bit of doubt that Timber might not really love her once he had a whole new world in front of him, but he'd been simply wild about her from the moment he saw her, and that only deepened when she gave his entire squad their freedom. He changed his name to Nihaan - a Togruta word for beloved - and did his best to put the GAR behind him.

Nihaan gets deeply invested in some of the best and most dramatic holovids that Shili has to offer, and is deeply surprised to find out that his beloved Xunielah is not just an ambassador but a sort of duchess. She takes him to her estate in the Celestial Mountains and is very charmed with how he's charmed by the scenery.

Nihaan was reluctant to have kids for a while. He had complicated feelings on clone aging and passing that on to his kids. Xunielah loves him unconditionally, he knows, but he also knows that a lot of other natborns aren't the same. Eventually when the clone aging cure is synthesised, Nihaan's able to get his hands on it, and finally gets the family he always wanted but worried about having. They end up with three kids - a girl named Nukoi, and two boys named Hiyet and Tanul.

And bonus Nihaan pic to show off his facial tattoos!

[basingstokemercury]

I still can't stop thinking about the way Adam drops the pickaxe in The Philip Diedesheimer Story... He did not have to portray it that way and it's... Creepy isn't quite the word. Very unsettling.

He's pinned under a fallen beam (which should have killed him but that's another matter), banging a pickaxe against the rock in response to the rescue team's similar signal - to show that someone's still alive behind the cave-in.

After keeping this up for who knows how long (there are almost certainly multiple timeskips), it'd make sense if the pick slipped from his hand out of sheer exhaustion, or if he just couldn't find the strength to lift it anymore.

But that's not what we see.

Adam raises his arm to answer the signal yet again.

Then he stops, sighs exhaustedly, and lets it rest on the beam trapping him. Okay, maybe the pick will fall accidentally as he takes that moment of rest?

Maybe it's not how this was meant to look, but it doesn't seem accidental to me. He lets the pick slip from his hand, arm falling to his side as it slides out of reach - taking what seems like all hope of rescue with it.

And he doesn't react to this with horror or even seem to realise what's happened, lying still and silent except for laboured breathing as the signal repeats multiple times to no answer, right up to the moment Hoss finally breaks through.

When he smiles, jokes, and speaks with perfect lucidity and concern for someone else.

And clambers out easily when the beam is lifted, showing no signs of pain and immediately turning to help the other man trapped with him. So, notwithstanding the usual effect of having a thick timber fall on your chest and legs, he can't be that badly hurt.

And we're left with a pretty disturbing moment.

Adam, knowing help is on its way and that he's not the only one whose life depends on its coming, seems to knowingly, intentionally, give up hope.

I still don't know what to make of that.

[introspectivememories]

oh my god bernard gets batman and dick to help save tim in the last issue and everyone in the family takes that to mean that bear knows about their night jobs. except tim still thinks bear doesn't know. that bear being there was just a coincidence. he just tagged along to save him cause bear is such a standup guy! cue tim doing everything to hide his identity and the family looking at him like he's lost his mind because obviously bernard know tim?? he literally patches you up every night???? why would he not know??????

[zorilleerrant]

“So help me, Tim, Bernard deserves,” Pie begins, and then, as Bernard opens the door, breaks off. “Um,” they continue, with a considering look to Bernard, and then to not only Robin, but several of the other familiar Gotham faces, “why are there vigilantes in the boathouse?”

“I can explain,” Bernard says, confidently, but doesn’t continue, just beaming his disarming smile at Pie, who carefully raises an eyebrow and points it at the group of teenagers, and pointedly doesn’t say anything.

“We’re, um. Planning?” Robin says, with the sort of confidence that makes Pie wince, because a vigilante should at least sound like they know what they’re doing, even if it is daytime. And they don’t want to know what the Bats are planning – nothing good ever comes of knowing what the Bats are up to – but they would at least like the kids to be sure of themselves.

“We’re planning a heist,” says the purple one, who Pie is pretty sure changed her name to Batgirl recently, except they can’t be entirely sure, because they thought the other one was Batgirl. It’s possible that they’re both Batgirl, except they work closely enough Pie thinks that would probably get real confusing real quick. Not that other people don’t share names and work together fine. (Pie wouldn’t know.) “Not a heist,” she adds, at an elbow from the other Batgirl.

“We’re collecting evidence,” Robin says, slightly more confidently than the last time he spoke, but not in a way that Pie finds particularly inspiring. Also, they’d like to know where Tim is in all this, because they definitely saw him walk into the boathouse a while ago, before they made tea, and then changed their mind and decided to give Tim a piece of it.

“They’re heisting evidence,” Bernard says, slightly conspiratorially, and Pie’s not completely sure what’s going on, but it can’t be all that bad if Bernard thinks it’s that funny. Well, the vigilantes don’t seem to like his attitude towards it, but he’s not afraid of them, or of the situation, and that’s all you can really ask for once Bats get involved.

“Do I want to know evidence of what?” Pie asks, even though they’re pretty sure they don’t. Oh, they’d help Robin if he asked, he’s the one on the Marina rounds most nights, he’s their Bat. And Bernard’s theirs, too, of course, almost as much as Tim is, and just as much given how young these idiots are, and how much of a helping hand they need, separately and together. So there’s always the impulse to help, even though, well, Pie knows they don’t want to know. But if they have to, they will.

“It’s really not a heist,” Robin rushes to reassure them, even though the heist part was the least of Pie’s worries. “It’s more of, you know, reconnaissance. We’re just. Information gathering. Collecting… well, yeah, collecting evidence. Nothing like a heist, Bernard.” Robin gives Bernard the kind of look that has Pie second guessing the whole thing with Tim, wondering whether they of all people assumed monogamy was going on when no one had ever used that word. Clearly, the two get along and trust each other, at any rate.

“It’s not a – Robin, we’re planning how to rappel down from the roof, disable the security on the windows, and then hack into the computer,” Bernard says, looking to Pie, who nods vaguely, because that sure sounds like a heist to them, also. “In what way is that not a heist? That is like textbook heist.”

“For information,” Batgirl (the one in black) says, also looking to Pie for confirmation, it’s just that Pie doesn’t even know her, and they aren’t entirely sure they agree with her anyway. “It’s not a heist if we only want information. Heists are for jewels.”

“Or art,” Robin says, thoughtfully, as they all continue listing things that one could conceivably heist, seemingly coming to the agreement that it isn’t a heist after all, since they won’t be removing any physical goods from the premises, only data. And then some long aside about piracy, and how copying data isn’t the same thing as stealing it, and then a second aside about how digital media really made it a lot harder to curate private collections of films.

So by the time they finish arguing about that – Robin and Bernard getting into their own argument about the best distribution methodology for TV shows – and the purple Batgirl turns to Pie to say, “so you see, it’s only sort of a heist, but it’s for a good cause and you don’t have to worry,” Pie doesn’t care because they’ve already figured out what’s going on.

The kids in the boathouse, where it’s dark and not many people come out here, being secretive with their silly elaborate plan, easily distracted and not staying on task? Vigilantes in the daytime? Tim being gone ‘somewhere’ and ‘will totally be back later’? Obviously these kids are here to get high, and who is Pie to stand in the way of that? That’s a normal rite of passage for teenagers, and the boathouse maybe the most obviously place to do it.

“Alright,” says Pie, eventually, as the crosstalk has devolved into five separate conversations, “well, you have my number, Bernard? Yeah. You just call if anything goes wrong, okay? I don’t care how small it is. If you get worried, you call me.” And they wait long enough for everyone to give them grudging affirmatives before they add, “you stay safe, kids.” And then leave, before they have to find out what exactly Tim came back with.