#varina

[fiasco-of-freyglen]

Does Fiasco have any plans to work on more magic with Varina?

I really want to, but I’ve had trouble connecting with Varina in character recently. She’s kind of been very to herself or the greatsword girlies. Fiasco doesn’t really exist to her rn. :(

[kits-ships]

wren has brown eyes??

i thought they were green

my two different versions of this picrew makes so much more sense now. but im still confused hkfdg x

[therealnostalgialover808]

@mexicanvarianz I can't believe I didn't know about this before.

My two favorite alchemist

I THINK ZARINA AND VARIAN WOULD GET ALONG!

[raintailed]

A bunch of new goobers :]

Nine Mushrooms (any pronouns), an iterator who mysteriously went offline. The Rogue was recruited by NM's senior to go and check on them, and find a way to revive them if necessary.

Color concepts for Lewy / The Rogue (any pronouns). I'm going with the third option.

Color concept for Varina / The Fluvial (she/her), the slugcat who found the Rogue when they were a slugpup.

[creativegenius22]

Family portrait commission for @jokerislandgirl32 of Violet, Zach, and their lovely children!

This piece was definitely a challenge because I’ve never drawn Wild Kratts kids before! I hope I did your little ones justice! The Violet Varm family is so sweet and gorgeous! I had a blast bringing them to life! I hope you love the piece as much as I loved making it for you!

[jokerislandgirl32]

Happy Birthday 2nd Birthday to Victor and Vallen Varmitech!!!

It’s our twins second birthday! Victor and Vallen are our little miracle twins! They were born over a month early, and they were subjected to a short hospital stay, but they pulled through, and we could not be more grateful and thankful for them.

Victor was the only child we ever planned to have…Zach wanted a son just like him, but the joke was on us because we got TWO sons just like him….In attitude and appearance 😆. It’s challenging to have 3 Varmitech men that are so much alike, but it’s unbelievably beautiful all at the same time. Zach and I love our boys, and Varina and Vera adore their little brothers.

Victor Bennett Varmitech and Vallen Zebulon Varmitech

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[postcards-from-richard-nixon]

The ladies are having a lovely time in each others company while their fuck ass ugly husbands destroy the country

[caityrayeraye]

Alright guys, the secret’s out. @jokerislandgirl32 @bejeweled-wahlberg and I are working on a lil something and we need your help.

Also, enjoy the lil sneak peek down below the options😄

May potentially go through and edit the final choice, so keep a look out hehe.

[bejeweled-wahlberg]

Varina: That’s Varmi-Shamming

Molly-Ruth: That’s not even a thing

Varina: It Is Now, Bitch!

Molly-Ruth: VARINA!

Varina belongs to @jokerislandgirl32

[partypot99]

@jokerislandgirl32 , I got bored and draw Varina (hope I spelt that right lol) and zach, just a funny poses a seen and went that is them

I don’t know what they are doing but it is something lol ?

WAIT DID I MAKE ZACH EMO. Oh god I did. I DID NOT MEAN THAT lol that is so funny to me I can’t un see it oh noooo ok of topic lol

And I did draw Zack and varina cuddling but it looks weird to so sooooo it is not seeing the light of day 🌌

Ok hope you like it

Have a good day or night

[oldnorthcarolina]

"Children of Dalton MC Leod. Fuquay Springs, North Carolina. Sept. 17, 1935. Three African American sharecropper's children—one playing the harmonica and the other two listening—sitting on porch." Photo by Arthur Rothstein. From The New York Public Library.

[conkevi]

more art dump

[octoqueen10]

Daphne goes on vacation

(Violet, Vera, Varina, Vallen, Victor and Vallen belong to @jokerislandgirl32 )

Under cut due to length

Daphne was excited to finally go somewhere. She hadn’t been on a large family vacation like this since she was a little baby, but after weeks of convincing, she was finally going to the beach with the Varmitech family. Her mom had to work, so she wouldn’t come. Daphne was excited to go somewhere completely alone for the first time, even if it was with a family friend. They were going to the beach, a place Daphne loved but went to less often than she’d like. Once she had double checked her packing and spoke to her mom about what to do, she left to go to the beach with the rest of the Varmitechs.

Daphne was pleased to discover she had her own room, close to the Varmitech’s suite, where everyone else would be staying. She was happy to have her own room but still be close to everyone else. She plopped onto her bed and then began to unpack. After she had changed into her swimsuit, a yellow and purple bikini, she joined Zach, Vera, Varina, Vallen, and Victor to go down to the beach. Violet and Victoria opted to stay in the hotel and meet them for dinner in a couple hours.

Daphne had fun running in the ocean with the other kids and playing, but she wasn’t used to the chaos that came with them. She was an only child so she wasn’t used to the craziness that came with siblings. But, Daphne had a ton of fun in the sun with everyone. She managed to convince Zach to be ‘buried’ in the sand, which she enjoyed doing. After he got out of the sand, they all walked to meet Violet and Victoria for dinner. Daphne was worried about dinner, she was a picky eater in general and had a shellfish allergy. She managed to figure it out though, and had a nice dinner with the Varmitechs. They insisted on paying for her meal, even though she brought money from her mom, because she was the guest.

When everybody got back, they discovered that they forgot to put on sunscreen, much to everyone’s horror. Daphne was significantly tanner, and everybody else was red as a tomato. Zach got it the worst, he looked more like a lobster than a human. He was whining to Violet, and Daphne went to her room as Violet began to apply aloe vera to everyone’s burns. In that moment, she felt grateful to not really burn as easily.

The vacation was overall great, and Daphne felt grateful to temporarily be a member of the Varmitech crew.

[rosey100]

It's definitely going through my whole day

Varina Varmitech belongs to @jokerislandgirl32

[esperchallenge]

Deck 10 - Ain't No Party Like a Zombie Party Cuz a Zombie Party Includes Up to One of Each of Cleric, Rogue, Warrior, and Wizard

The Commander

Varina, Lich Queen was first printed as an alternate commander in the Subjective Reality precon released as part of Commander 2018. Up until very recently, Varina was one of your only on-theme choices if you wanted to combine the traditional Innistrad UB zombies with their WB Amonket cousins.

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The Decklist

I decided that simply building a generic zombie typal deck didn't interest me. Instead, I took it in a goofier direction - what if all the zombies in the deck could be part of a party? That is, what if we limit ourselves to only wizards, clerics, warriors, and rogues?

Zombie wizards are by far the most abundant, with clerics in second, warriors in third, and rogues trailing far behind. Thankfully, OTJ introduced the zombie rogue token and several methods of creating them, so we can supplement our rogue count that way. In addition, we have honorary zombie-to-be and party payoff Nalia de'Arnise to help increase that count a bit more.

The Standout Cards

Coveted Prize is probably the strongest party payoff card ( it's between this and Nalia). If you have a full party, you have a tutor for any card for a single black mana that then also lets you cast a four drop for free.

I love Havengul Lich. It lets you cast creatures from any graveyard, and gains their abilities for the turn. Snipe your opponents' reanimate targets, steal their dead utility creatures, recast your own stuff, and have a blast doing it.

The Win Conditions

The main win condition is zombie beats, supplemented with lord effects and Calculating Lich. But in case of a board stall, we have Lich Lord of Unx and Shepherd of Rot to help seal the deal.

Final Thoughts

Zombies are a fun creature type. They have so much resiliency, and their card pool can apparently even support a less than ideal build like this. Thanks, Zombies!

[jokerislandgirl32]

Henry Here I wanted to say how the heck did Varina Get her name and also is there any Embarrassing baby pictures of Vari so that I can show it to Marissa?

Hey, Henry, Zach Varmitech here. Since I’m one of the people responsible for naming Varina, I’ll be answering this ask.

See below cut for full explanation ⬇️

Wellll, for starters it’s a bit of a complicated story. We knew Varina was going to be a girl early on, and this was hard for us since we had just lost Alexandria within the same year that we got pregnant with Varina.

Because of this Violet and I were very hesitant about picking out a name for Varina. Violet and I were both afraid of getting attached and losing her too if we named her, so we put it off until Mother’s Day of 2015, exactly 3 weeks before Varina was born, since she arrived early.

That morning Violet finally found the courage to go into the nursery the Zachbots and I had put together for Alexandria. Violet had not been in there since shortly after we lost Alexandria, so going in there was a big step for Violet in the mourning and healing process of losing our first child.

I found Violet asleep in a rocker with her mother’s Bible spread out on her lap. She had been reading it, taking solace in the following passage her mother had highlighted:

In the margins of the Bible her mother, Virginia “Dawn” Tyler, had written the names of Violet and all the babies she’d lost prior to and after having Violet. I knew then, kind of in the back of my mind, that Virginia should be part of Varina’s name.

For Violet’s mother, and for Violet herself, because Varina was the descendant of these two beautiful, strong, stubborn, loving, and unbelievably kind women, and she deserved to share a name with them.

After Violet and I spoke that morning; it was quite a long and heartfelt conversation about Varina, Alexandria, our relationship, Violet’s mother and father, and their similar struggles with having children; I hesitantly brought up the fact that we hadn’t picked out a name for Varina:

“I don’t wanna force you…it’s your choice, but we haven’t thought of a name for Baby Varmitech yet…last time we waited too, and then I ended up naming Alexandria after…after we lost her…that was hard. I just…I’d like to give Baby V a name now..but it’s up to you, we can wait…” I explained, tripping over my words, looking at Violet anxiously, hoping I had not upset her. Violet stared at her belly, rubbing a hand over the bump, she looked up at me with watery eyes, her lip trembling, “you’re right…she does need a name…I’m not sure if I am ready to name her, but maybe you can? You gave Alexandria a beautiful name, I trust your judgment.”

I felt myself relax, but I began to panic at the same time, “I-I don’t even know where to start…should I just look through the phone book and pick out a name or something?”

Violet laughed and pulled herself out of the rocker to go to a bookshelf in the nursery, “well, that’s an idea, but maybe a baby name book will be easier? The names are listed alphabetically with meaning, origin, and everything. This was the book my dad got for him and my mom when she was pregnant for the first time with Sterling. My mom ended up picking most of the names for my siblings and me, but they used this book a lot, it helped in their quest to find nature inspired names for all of us.”

I took the baby name book and started leafing through it. Me being me, I automatically went for the Z and V names. With Alexandria, I’d named her after my mom (my mom’s middle name is Alexandria) because she looked like my mom, and I used Rinella as her middle name because of the teacher who had helped keep Violet safe from her ex Travis on many occasions.

So, I didn’t get to use Z or V names the first go-around, but I wanted to…and with all our children after Alexandria they ended up getting Z or V names, but I digress, back to Varina…

As I was looking through the names my attention was drawn to two names in particular: Vera and Varina. These two names had been circled by Violet’s father with notes written in the margins expressing his interest in them.

Initially, Violet and I were hooked not on Varina, but Vera. Varina’s name was supposed to be Vera Vanica. We loved the meaning of Vera, which was: True. And the name Vanica means “gift of God.” So the name would have meant True gift of God. And since she was our rainbow baby after Alexandria, this would have been perfect.

But…this was not the name we used for her…we used it one child later…for Vera…for Varina we decided to go with her name for a few reasons: the meaning, the fact that as I mentioned before Varina would be partially named after her mother and grandmother, and the fact that Violet’s father had written this exact name in the margin of the baby book: Varina Virginia.

When we saw this name we read the meaning Violet’s father had come up with for the name, having scribbled it in the margins of the book: Varina - Strange, yet to be discovered; Virginia - Pure. The child, then, would have been named for the fact that she was a pure, unexpected gift. And our Varina was just that. She was our rainbow, a pure, unexpected gift after the storm of losing Alexandria and nearly our marriage.

And…because that all got a little heavy and depressing, here are some embarrassing baby photos…oh our child, our child…how we love thee…even when she’s too much like me…and her mommy.

(JIG Note: All images came from Pinterest, I tried to add the links to them but I, I mean the Zachbots, messed up. Btw I legitimately have a picture identical to the third image of me as a baby doing that, like mother like daughter).

Hope you enjoy, Henry, Marissa, and @bejeweled-wahlberg

-Zach V-