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16th century flower illustration PNGs.

(source: Book of Flower Studies, ca. 1510–1515)

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Laios, devourer of all things horrible.

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Senshi Dunmeshi 🤝 Samwise LOTR Cooking meals for loved ones

I recently started watching Dungeon Meshi and somehow came up with this crossover and I just had to draw it haha

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The vesperia light novel translations are giving me life because we are seeing SOOOOO much of Flynn's little baby personality and I have so many feelings, I am going to cut this post so all the folks who followed me for frogs and flowers don't have to hear how normal I am about flynn scifo

anyway hi welcome to the normal about flynn space where we're all very normal about Flynn. spoilers for the light novels if you aren't caught up yet.

THE THING IS: in the latest chapter, where we see Flynn getting his ass sort-of-but-not-really lost in a scary section of the Lower Quarter, is so illuminating. Obviously we're getting only hints of Flynn because this is all coming through Yuri and Yuri's narration (just like the game!!) but the picture being painted is such a fascinating one when you look at who Flynn becomes.

Because like— okay, yes, Flynn is very proper and upright, follows the rules, etc etc. This take is fine. It's very face-value. It's the Flynn that Sodia sees, basically! The perfect knight, polite to a fault and brave and strong in the face of danger. This is the Flynn who makes inspiring speeches to his knights and eventually stands up to Alexei and gathers world leaders to avert a crisis with grace. This is also who we think Flynn is, or who we're led to think he is, for the first bit of the game.

If you peel away the armor, you get layer 2: a very sweet, charming-but-awkward young man doing his best to do his best. This is the Flynn we see trying frantically to process aloud in Baction, and the Flynn who's gonna fight that mold in the hot springs and win, and the Flynn who stammers under attention in Dahngrest while drinking juice. Flynn-the-person, who is honestly just... sweet! He's a very kind person with a lot of worries about how he's coming off, trying to mold himself into this ideal knight because he thinks he has to be for many reasons. He's very sincere and earnest, he's willing to tease Yuri and get into stupid flirty fights with him.

AND THEN

if you peel away even that layer, I think, you get to child-Flynn. First Strike is, ehhhhhh, nominally canon in my eyes, the inconsistencies in terms of plot and worldbuilding and fluri's relationship are. mm. that is a different post!! But we are introduced to a very sincere and very angry Flynn in First Strike, and I can see echoes of that Flynn in the light novel so far. Child-Flynn, who has just had his dad and his life ripped away from him and who, I AM PRETTY SURE, we are going to find out either implicitly or explicitly feels that he's responsible for taking care of his mother, is weird. He's intense and kind of off-putting, he has this already clearly-burning sense of wrong and right, and he hasn't put on any of the sweet layers that characterize Flynn when he's older.

That isn't to say that sweet-Flynn is another mask! I think that sincere kindness is a very fundamental part of Flynn (see: him saving the boy who stole his Important Mom Hat), but where we are in the novels right now, it's not really at the forefront. Instead we get this closed-off angry little kid who's trying to find his footing in a new world with absolutely no support. He's not getting it from his mom. It's the other way around, pretty clearly: he's putting on an act already so he doesn't worry her, pretending everything's fine. We aren't seeing what he's doing all day every day (god I want to see that so badly though) so we get these snippets where he's also being rejected by the kids his age in the Lower Quarter, which brings me to the thing I can't stop thinking about: that we are seeing soooo clearly how uncomfortable Flynn is when he doesn't understand the social norms he's supposed to fit into.

I don't wanna get all symbolic but it's hard to see him memorizing the exact path into and out of that maze of alleyways and NOT compare it to him memorizing and observing every single code of conduct and behavior he thinks people are expecting of him and then holding himself to that standard. By the time he's an adult, Flynn's become really good and twisting and molding himself to fit the expectations he thinks the people around him have. I think what we're seeing in kid-Flynn is the fact that this is a fundamental part of his personality, that he feels unsafe enough in the world to have to do this, and that it's definitely a skill that he learns as he ages. I can't WAIT to see how they characterize him as he gets closer to Yuri. I have a feeling a lot of this closed-off Flynn is because he's having a really hard time but also because he thinks he has to be Tough and Brave and Strong because his dad told him that he had to be!!! Because Flynn's story is ultimately one about a lot of things but it's very much about masculinity and the expectations of masculinity that he places on himself, gleaned from other people and from stories! It's what's so compelling about him. He's got sweetness and he's got anger, and I think at CORE he is a sweet and soft boy who is constantly trying to fit into the boundaries of masculinity that does not suit him

and that's why Flynn is so inherently queer the end I guess, god that got long. rant just for me!!! about my boy!!!!! very normal about him!!!

#flynn scifo #tales of vesperia #long post #not art #very normal about him

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LESS THAN TWO HOURS AGO: four cornell students have been suspended (and at least the one reporting was evicted, unknown about the others) for their involvement with their campus's gaza solidarity encampment. during a school year centering freedom of expression no less!

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Costume of a Harlequin (costume of Harlequin, jacket). Germanischen Nationalmuseum Nürnberg

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Hey guys, I have a priority fundraiser rotation for you:

Fadi & Shahed: 2,044 USD out of 62.5k

Sana'a & Sujood: 12,016 £ out of 50k

Mahmoud Qassas: 9,994$ out of 200k

Ezzideen Shehab: 10,296€ out of 32.5k.

Hussam Aburamadan: 16,374€ out of 148k.

Hamdi Hijazi: 1,511$ out of 25k.

Suheir Hojok: 16,897 AUD out of 70k.

Madleen Abu Jayyab: 29,005$ out of 70k.

I have personally verified every one of these campaigns listed here.

As Mona's campaign nears completion I'm preparing for you this list so we can show these families the same amazing and unbelievable support we showed Mona and her family. The invasion of Rafah grows nearer everyday. Please understand the urgency of this campaign.

Version date: April 25th 2024.

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lover boy

ig / twt

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What I was taught growing up: Wild edible plants and animals were just so naturally abundant that the indigenous people of my area, namely western Washington state, didn't have to develop agriculture and could just easily forage/hunt for all their needs.

The first pebble in what would become a landslide: Native peoples practiced intentional fire, which kept the trees from growing over the camas praire.

The next: PNW native peoples intentionally planted and cultivated forest gardens, and we can still see the increase in biodiversity where these gardens were today.

The next: We have an oak prairie savanna ecosystem that was intentionally maintained via intentional fire (which they were banned from doing for like, 100 years and we're just now starting to do again), and this ecosystem is disappearing as Douglas firs spread, invasive species take over, and land is turned into European-style agricultural systems.

The Land Slide: Actually, the native peoples had a complex agricultural and food processing system that allowed them to meet all their needs throughout the year, including storing food for the long, wet, dark winter. They collected a wide variety of plant foods (along with the salmon, deer, and other animals they hunted), from seaweeds to roots to berries, and they also managed these food systems via not only burning, but pruning, weeding, planting, digging/tilling, selectively harvesting root crops so that smaller ones were left behind to grow and the biggest were left to reseed, and careful harvesting at particular times for each species that both ensured their perennial (!) crops would continue thriving and that harvest occurred at the best time for the best quality food. American settlers were willfully ignorant of the complex agricultural system, because being thus allowed them to claim the land wasn't being used. Native peoples were actively managing the ecosystem to produce their food, in a sustainable manner that increased biodiversity, thus benefiting not only themselves but other species as well.

So that's cool. If you want to read more, I suggest "Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America" by Nancy J. Turner

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It's always sunny in my love for yellow

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This is different from Al-Shifa:

There are images of decomposed bodies wearing what appear to be scrubs... with their hands tied. Meaning they were executed while bound. I will not be sharing them because I'm tired of showing our martyrs' bodies to people.

#palestine #genocide

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• “La liberté guidant le peuple” by Eugène Delacroix

and

• “13th attempt to break the Gaza blockade by sea”. Photo by Mustafa Hassouna (Andalou Agency for Getty)

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i figure i should post this here too!

i’ve always been open to accepting custom work, but now i have a cute little graphic for it.

hit me up if you want custom work from me, and we’ll go over all the nuts and bolts!

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Creature party

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🪺🪻🌿✨ // bring on spring prompt 1: egg & violet // gouache on hot press paper

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Please observe the perfect cake I was given for top surgery

#thanks batman #real trans ally

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Crops of some personal pieces for April, posted onto my Patreon

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