#ephemerals

[oliviarosaline]

Bloodroot

Sanguinaria canadensis

March 31st, 2023

Jefferson County, Missouri, USA

Olivia R. Myers

@oliviarosaline

#nature #botany #forest #forest floor #woods #spring #ephemeral #ephemerals #spring ephemerals #native plants #native flowers #Ozarks #the ozarks #white flower #white flowers #bloodroot #Sanguinaria canadensis #fairycore #fairy core #cottage core #naturecore #flowers #spring flowers #Missouri #nature lovers #exploring the woods #papaveraceae #Missouri nature

[huariqueje]

Ephemerals    -   Kerry Simmons

American , b. 1976 -

Oil and wax pastel on paper , 40 x 40 in.

#Kerry Simmons #american artist #ephemerals

[sophieinwonderland]

pretty sure my girl is an ephemeral? i have adhd memory problems so that may be the issue but she doesn't seem to have separate memories from me at all. she remembers things that happened to me as if they happened to her, and when she tries to remember our conversations she remembers them from my side. basically we share a memory. is there any way to fix this? she insists it's the same her every time but she doesn't have memories of her own so i can't tell.

Huh. That's interesting.

The original idea behind ephemerals is that it's NOT them every time. That every single interaction is a completely new iteration. If she's insisting she's the same every time, then I wouldn't think of it as an ephemeral.

Her remembering things happening to you as if they happened to her is particularly strange.

Do you mean like, if you hit your head, she would later recall it as: "I hit my head?"

Perhaps this is indicative of some sort of median system? I do think plenty of systems have similar experiences.

Also, I will note that headmates often don't like, see out of their eyes or anything like that in the mindform. Or at least, only one headmate can at once in many systems. If I'm imposed, I'll remember the feeling from my perspective, but what is seen is going to naturally be thorugh the host's eyes.

#plural #plurality #multiplicity #systems #sysblr #system things #plural system #endogenic #pro endo #pro endogenic #ephemeral #ephemerals

[rjzimmerman]

This tiny flower teaches us all we need to know about growing old. (Washington Post Opinion)

For most of my life, I marked the progress of spring by its blooms. First came the crocuses of February and the daffodils of March, followed, in quick succession, by the tulips and hyacinth, the lilac and flowering cherry and the saucer magnolias. Later, the azaleas would explode in a pink and red riot — and, before long, the peonies would unfurl to proclaim the approach of summer. Each arrival announced itself with a spectacular burst of color and, often, a sweet perfume that filled the yard.

But lately I’ve come to share the view of Wendy Cass, the head botanist at Shenandoah National Park, when she sees a waving clump of daffodils.

“Boring,” she says.

What I had been watching all those years was spring as humans made it. This year, I’m experiencing spring as God made it.

Those tulips, lilacs and all the rest were imported from Europe and Asia, curated and genetically manipulated by humans so they would grow with no effort and display improbably sweet and showy blooms. They are beautiful, no question, and I will always smile when I see a host of golden daffodils as Wordsworth did, “Beside the lake, beneath the trees/ Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.”

But this year, I’ve instead been walking in the still-bare forest and looking for Dutchman’s breeches.

In case you are wondering why some European left his pants in the woods, let me explain that the Dutchman’s breeches is my new favorite flower. Its bloom, just a half-inch tall, looks like an upside-down pair of white pantaloons, belted at the waist with a yellow rope. Native to this part of the eastern United States, it’s one of the first wildflowers of spring, popping up in late March or early April, flowering for a couple of weeks and disappearing as quickly as it came. Its entire growing season — from the time its first green shoot emerges from the earth to the moment its last bit of green foliage dies for the year — is just a couple of months.

Yet so much life comes from those delicate trousers. It’s one of the first foods in the forest after a long winter, and a crucial bit of sustenance for the queen bumblebee. When she emerges from her overwintering nest in the ground (the other bees die during the winter), she stretches her long tongue into the Dutchman’s breeches to reach its nectar, which nourishes her as she lays the eggs that will replenish the colony with the next generation of workers.

The Dutchman’s breeches are part of a class of plants felicitously known as “spring ephemerals.” They appear on the forest floor before the trees have leafed out, taking advantage of the sunlight. They flower, go to seed and die back within just six to 12 weeks. These are flowers you generally won’t find at florists: They are bluebells and bloodroot, trout lilies and toothwort, spring beauties and rue anemone. They are joined by other flowers that, while not “true” ephemerals (their foliage lasts a bit longer), generally share the same category: the great white trillium, hepatica, star chickweed and mayapple.

They are notoriously difficult to cultivate, hard to transplant and even harder to grow from seeds. It can take seven years from the time a trillium seed is planted to the appearance of just one of its three-petal flowers. Ephemerals are finicky and fussy plants, growing only in forests and typically near streams. They aren’t as bold and colorful as garden-variety flowers, and most don’t even have a scent. You won’t spot spring ephemerals from your car window with an “ooh” and an “ah.” To find them, you have to go on a treasure hunt in the forest. Their flowers can be tiny — sometimes just a millimeter or two — and you could easily miss them if you don’t look carefully.

That is just the point.

#wildflowers #ephemerals #spring wildflowers #Dutchman’s breeches

[pazzesco]

Nothin' But Flowers

Kerry Simmons | Hollyhocks

Kerry Simmons | Flowers

Kerry Simmons | Trumpets and passion flowers

Kerry Simmons | Cherry blossoms and tulips

Kerry Simmons | Trout lily & violets

Kerry Simmons | Yellow flowers

Kerry Simmons | Poppy variation 1

Kerry Simmons | Ephemerals

#trumpets #passion flowers #flowers #hollyhocks #kerry simmons #art #paintings #florals #cherry blossoms #tulips #yellow flowers #poppy variation #ephemerals #trout lily #violets

[birdlibrary]

:.)

#ephemerals #bluets

[gfdelmar]

Spring beauties and purple cress are flowering now <3

#spring beauty #purple cress #flowers #spring flowers #spring #spring ephemerals #ephemerals #spring equinox #welcome spring #wild plants #wild flowers

[whatdoyoudoieat]

Doctor Who Enlightenment by Barbara Clegg.

#Enlightenment #Barbara Clegg #Eternals #Ephemerals #Space Race #DW #DoctorWho #Books #TargetBooks #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #BookReview #VintageBooks #Classics #TARDIS #FifthDoctor #Celery

[lambergeier]

truly can’t believe the entire internet used to be about playing little games. it was about having adobe flash and playing little games on nick.com

#spent just a few hours trying to find the old wild thornberrys wildlife rescue game tonight #turns out that game is officially 'lost media' #which sure is a weird term for something i so vividly remember playing for hour after hour in the evenings in 5th grade! #truly sometimes the ephemerality of internet media is not only bad but profoundly disorienting #there used to be so many WEBSITES on the internet

[mmwm]

MAY BLOOM DAY

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#andromeda #bloodroot #blooms #brunnera #ephemerals #epimedium #flowers #Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day #GBBD #ginger #hellebore #May #pasque flower #spring bush pea #trillium #twinleaf #violets

[treecookie]

#snow trillium #dutchman’s britches #minnesota #ephemerals #mine

[oliviarosaline]

False Rue Anemone

Enemion biternatum

St. Charles County, Missouri, USA

March 13th, 2024

Olivia R. Myers

@oliviarosaline

#Enemion biternatum #false rue anemone #nature #woods #forest #forest floor #flowers #spring flowers #white flowers #spring ephemeral #spring ephemerals #forests #flower photography #the ozarks #Missouri ozarks #missouri #Missouri river hills #rue anemone #ephemerals #fairy core #fairycore #cottagecore #cottage core #naturecore #forestcore #botany #plants #hiking #wild flowers #ranunculaceae

[tsunosagun]

smoke and mirrors

#trigun #nicholas d wolfwood #vash the stampede #vashwood #tsunosagun art #ok adding to the tags cuz i unironically love explaining my own art bfnejfs #smoke cuz literal smoke but i also wanted to have a sense of ephemerality #and mirrors cuz of how they both see themselves in each other (but in such different ways) and it drives me bonkers #also in case it isnt clear thats ww's hand but still vash's body in the smoke in the 2nd pic.. #taking comfort in the idea that their similarities mean its like he carries ww within himself.. still there even if only figuratively

[sophieinwonderland]

Plural Coining: Ephemerals

An Ephemeral is a non-headmate simulated character. The Ephemeral may seem semi or even completely autonomous. However, unlike a true headmate, Ephemerals will usually only exist for a single interaction and will disappear afterwards.

Ephemerals are a completely normative experience that can be created by most singlets easily. Ephemerals can be further distinguished from headmates in that they lack autobiographical memories. If you interact with an Ephemeral of the same fictional character multiple times, the Ephemeral will not remember the past interactions as it's a brand new instance each time.

#plural #multiplicity #pluralgang #system terms #plural terms #system #systems #ephemeral #ephemerals #system stuff #plural stuff #endogenic #tulpamancy #tulpa #tulpas #endogenic system #endo safe #tulpa safe

[stuckinapril]

Idk if this is a me thing but sometimes I feel like I’m in a constant state of forestalling grief. Scared that I might lose someone, scared that something might end, scared what I’d do if it did end. I have to be extremely intentional to live in the moment & not consider the long-term consequences of truly immersing myself in something or someone, for the undeniable fact that all things have an end. I wish this was a thing my brain chemistry accepts, but it really does fuck w me every now and then. Sometimes it feels like no moment will feel better than the current one, and that’s one of the most bittersweet things ever

#basically in a state of grief over the fact that I have to experience grief #things being ephemeral is both lovely and gut wrenching and I HATE the duality of it #on grief #text

[rui-drawsbox]

remembering the most memorable mc's (with canon appearences) from the otomes i played

all of them are phone games btw. and looong rambling about the games after the cut!

Mystic messenger has been in my radar since i was in elementary school but i played it for the first time after the spanish traslation came out (2017 i think?) Seven shaped my type in such a specific way that im not really sure why loved him so much (it was the whole "he loves you in every route" stuff). I like a lot the default mc, most of the fandom did and that was enough to won me over

Rosa is top tier protagonist tbh, Tears of Themis has really good story and characters (as far i played, not a lot but i enjoyed it) The reason i'm not that much of a fan is bc the game is expensive asf and not very free to play friendly. You're either lucky or have a big wallet with the gacha

i miss my wife man(Marius)

Ephemeral has to be one of the best free to play otomes i've played tbh (if my memories aren't tricking me, it's been years) Good artwork, good storyline, good characters and as far i remember you can unlock one chapter of the character route per day (mabye two days, idk) and the mc's background has an important role in every route (she's a zombie! she's pretty now but eventually will fall apart, aaaaand her story gets expanded in one of the routes!) ((shes also adorable)) There's also a sequel, if you wanted more of the boys! never finished it but i'd recommend it

Honorable mentions! Huellitas Mágicas is a great game! has a really good cast with well fleshed arcs for all the characters, even the scondary ones! The game shines more for the development of *all* the characters rather than just the protagonist/ml. The main theme is overcoming insecurities! Each love interest has a different way of helping our (very insecure) protagonist and helping different characters with their own struggles :DD

10/10 i recommend this game if you want something cute and can be finished in a few hours, if i remember right. It also has a sequel! with like- 12 new love interests, also never finished it bc i didnt found a guide that worked for me but ñek

A3! is my canon event as a gacha player. Discovered the english/global server, tried it and got bored, left it for a few months, tried it again and fell in love, noticed the game was going to shut down bc low sales -HAHA :(-. This is not a otome btw, this is here bc Izumi has to be one of my favorite protagonists in gacha games ever

last but not least! Obey me! Shall we date? oh dear, what have they done to you :(. The original had intense powercreep to force you to pull cards -multiple times bc that makes them stronger- and even now, the company showed a lot of favoritism to some characters, leaving others to dust bc they don't make the same money. Not to say, they released a new game with the same cast and new main story (ignoring all what happend before). And let me say: THEY LITERALLY WANTED TO KILL THE ORIGINAL GAME.

Nightbringer might be a decent game but i don't trust the devs anymore, i still remember what happend with Asmo's birthday right after the release, and honestly i don't want to sit there watching how they disrespect my favorite characters again and again and again. Loved the characters hated the devs. 5/10 you can play it if you want but i don't recommend spending money on it, it's not worth it, just search #obey me here in tumblr and enjoy the amazing fanworks that i can assure you have a lot more love than the game itself

i miss my wife man (mammon and levi)

#got sting by the nostalgia mosquito #thinking about it i kinda want to play huellitas magicas again #mystic messenger #mysme #tears of themis #rosa tears of themis #ephemeral #its that the right tag? #huellitas magicas #a3 #a3! act! addict! actors! #izumi tachibana #obey me #obey me shall we date #otome game #tot