#it was fireflies for some reason

[flambo19]

More cat cakes! (do these guys have official names?) This time its a few Penacony characters because I really like their designs

#honkai star rail #hsr #hsr sunday #hsr robin #hsr misha #hsr firefly #flambo art #tbh the main reasons i wanted to draw characters as cat cakes was bc of silver wolf and sam #+ the vision of sunday and robin as cats still with the wings and halos #turns out these are pretty fun and lowkey to do in general #so im thinking ill do one more with some of the other penacony characters?

[spooky-activity]

Practicing my comic paneling and action poses with some Firefly/Stelle angst. Set immediately after the end of patch 2.2, where we find out Firefly is still alive!

+ bonus

#my art #mine #honkai star rail #stellefly #hsr spoilers #hsr firefly #hsr stelle #i love me some good misunderstandings resulting in some tasty angst #did this mostly for a friend who is a huge fan of the ship #but the idea popped into my head and wouldnt leave so it was partially for me too #i do love me some angsty yuri #for those who don’t know honkai star rail Sparkle is a character who can shapeshift #and she’s been running around impersonating people in the most recent patches #so stelle has good reason to be paranoid #and she SAW firefly die so she has no reason to believe she’s not actually dead #my favorite part of this is stelle’s face in the second to last pannel :U #my second favorite part of this is her gargoyle perch on the lance

[64tzu]

#firefly wedding #hotaru no yomeiri #i shouldve been packing and now tucked in asleep but my mind needef to twern this for some reason. like alriht. fine. damn. #.gif

[mymarifae]

me: i finished the latest trailblaze mission in hsr so i can look at what other people are posting now! oh boy i hope it's discussions and theories about the story. i can't wait to see what everyone thought about firefly (what was going on with you sweetie...) and A Child's Dream - that segment in particular really left a profound impact on me. like who is mikhail? the voice we hear throughout is obviously misha's - did he have a twin? does mikhail have something to do with clockie? and from what we heard and saw, misha or... mikhail. encountered the embodiment of Death that lurks beneath the dreamscape. what's... the full story there...? i can't wait to see other people's perspectives it'll help me piece a more coherent theory together-

other hsr fans: *thirstposting about aventurine and/or dr. ratio, trying to cancel sparkle even though the entire point of her character is that yes she's a horrible person because it's high time we see how DANGEROUS and CRUEL the masked fools can be - no more reducing them to the silly wacky hijinks sampo pulled on jarilo; you should be scared of these guys; the game's story never wanted you to make sparkle your next skrunkly blorbo babygirl lol, heated discussions about whether dr. ratio displayed the same racism towards aventurine that sparkle did and if that makes aventurine/ratio a bad thing to ship (??????????), more thirstposts about aventurine, 500 billion generic yaois of aventurine and ratio that don't even maintain either of their characters*

me:

#HONKAI STAR RAIL IS SO GOOD AND YET NO ONE SEEMS TO WANT TO TALK ABOUT WHAT MAKES IT GOOD #I FEEL ACTUALLY INSANE #I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE STORY!!!!! AND THE CHARACTERS AS INDIVIDUALS #NOT ABOUT HOW HOT THEY ARE OR WHO THEY CAN BE SHIPPED WITH #aventurine isn't even that sexy his eyes are the most interesting part about his design (HIS DESIGN. HIS CHARACTER IS MORE INTRIGUING) #the rest of it is just kind of ... like. yeah he's a blonde man. ok. #and my thoughts on aventio are i think ratio would betray aventurine for a single corn chip. and aventurine would do the same #i do not see a romance ever blossoming there. not even an enemies to lovers kinda thing. they're both too busy playing 5d chess for that #i want to talk about FIREFLY. I LOVED FIREFLY :( #i want to talk about acheron. and MISHA. SWEET BOY WHAT'S GOING ON? #there's so many interesting things going on rn and aventurine is not one of them. #like ok he knows some things but he's such a sleazy businessman about sharing info that idgaf i don't want to learn anything from him #he's always going to leave something out. because he needs to always have an advantage. for this reason i ignore 80% of what he says #i've gotten more context and clues out of everyone else he is nothing to me. i'll eat him.

[myosotislotus]

Unfinished sketch...

#mushroom oasis #mushroom oasis fanart #mushroom oasis vn #mychael #What were you going to do firefly? #Jahsja for some reason this drawing excites me #I need more time to draw T_T #silly creature with beautiful eyes <3

[transformers-earthspark]

New image leaks from paramountpressexpress.com

(Credit to @djhashtageditz, they found this first!)

In anticipation for the upcoming release of Earthspark episodes 19-26 in just under three weeks, new leaked screenshots have been uncovered. (There are a lot of them, by the way, and holy hell, they're exciting!)

Since there are too many images to fit in one post, here is a link to the website.

Fair warning: these images contain major spoilers for most of the episodes. If you want to go in blind, don't click the links.

Or for easier access, I've linked @djhashtageditz's posts containing the images under the cut.

Part 1: A Stygi Situation / Disarmed

Part 2: What Dwells Within / Prime Directive

Part 3: Stowed Away, Stowaways / Battle of Witwicky

Part 4: Last Hope, parts 1 and 2

And a few extras that were missed in the original posts.

Analysis coming (hopefully) soon!

#>> mod: firefly #{ important } #earthspark leaks #earthspark spoilers #earthspark #transformers earthspark #tf earthspark #transformers #tfe #tfes #macadamia #MACCADAM #damn you autocorrect #if you for some reason clicked the read more on the tags; hi #i'm going insane a little bit over these leaks #ok bye

[pancakes-with-grounded-hazelnuts]

hsr: 2.1 spoilers

thoughts on firefly (LONG AND UNPOLISHED BUT I MUST SCREAM)

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just to get it out of the way, i love that firefly is sam.

also what i’m about to share is a mix of interpretation and headcanon based on how i would write her. NOT INTENDED TO BE A THEORY OR A PROPER ANALYSIS OF CANON.

and i’m not going through all of samfire’s dialogue and lore for this because if i did that for every post expressing my thoughts i’d never post anything ever.

- - -

i propose: “firefly” is sam’s dream.

imagine this: you are a killer. one with strength and perception far beyond any mortal being. when an enemy is caught by your senses, their life ends before they ever knew the fear of your presence. this is what you were made to be, and this is all that you are. you can’t even dream…but you can imagine.

what if you were instead, a mortal? one with lovely eyes the color of the night sky lit by a bustling city below. you’ve always looked to a starry sky fondly, and longingly. so incomprehensibly vast - each speck of light was a unique something, forming a great sea of possibilities, but all too far from your reach. what could be a better fit?

and what if instead of the one role you were made for, you had many roles? this young mortal is an actor! sure, actors read off a script as well, but each story woven by the script was different. each has its own destiny. you ponder what it’s like to be bound to multiple destinies, rather than just the one.

and you continue to ponder. each day this imaginary “you” becomes more and more realized. and now that you have finished imagining, you begin to wish: that between the checkpoints of fate, the brief moments of freedom will let you play as this “you”. but you know that’s all it is: play. you can never escape your true nature…right?

- - -

UH. BASICALLY. i headcanon firefly as sam’s wishful persona manifested in the dream world.

that being said, that doesn’t make firefly any less real to me.

firefly herself even asserts that what one experiences in a dream is still true and valid, but when sam speaks, they seem resigned to what they believe is their “nature”, like they can only be the type of person firefly is in a fabricated world.

without the constraints of the waking world, sam can be a kind and lively young woman who can make friends on her own, and has a job - a purpose - where as a performer, obeying the scripts brings delight instead of blood. and it was such a wonderful experience that they didn’t want to wake up from it.

i don’t yet know how much sam fully validates their “firefly” self beyond the feelings being real, but the way they behave and describe themselves to acheron when they’re sam suggests that they don’t believe they can also truly be “firefly” at the same time.

also i’m mainly going off of the idea that firefly’s appearance can only be easily manifested in the dream world, and that sam’s “armor” is truly just their body, but i believe this headcanon still works even if it is armor, because it is more about the mentality.

of course there are some glaring constraints in reality that prevents them from being able to do certain things (at the moment), but the way sam views themselves also constrains them far more than they realize. if sam wishes to be firefly, then sam IS firefly. and once they realize that, they don’t have to strictly act and identify in the way they believe they should.

sam’s scripts have always been brief, and i wonder…is it just because sam is simple in their skills and approach to their work? or is it because between the inescapable events one calls destiny, between the tasks sam must fulfill, they can do or be whatever they choose?

- - -

that was a very roundabout way to say that i think samfire is trans.

bonus thoughts:

omg after seeing the reveal, firefly feels more like an affectionate parody of the character we were meant to think she is. hc sam watched and read a lot of romcoms and was like…damn i wish that was me. i wish i was a cute girl with fluffy hair going on a date with the trailblazer, but alas i am but a 8 ft tall murder robot. GIRL YOU CAN BE BOTH.

i also like that this idea highlights a more positive side to dreaming, in contrast to the rest of the penacony story so far. yes, one can’t slumber forever, but is a rest - a respite - not needed from time to time? and just as reality can follow one into their dream, can dreams not also be with you when you wake?

#honkai star rail #hsr 2.1 spoilers #hsr firefly #god i hope i don’t regret posting this #this fandom scares me #yet for some reason i must share #if this gets too much attention i’m deleting it #i can’t believe i’m not talking about jingliu for once

[piece-of-hweat]

Hi. I'm going fucking crazy.

Sincerely, Hweat

#otgw #over the garden wall #otgw wirt #otgw greg #otgw sara #im going crazy... #hweat art #why is Greg just abnormally terrifying in our drawings-- #shitpost shitpost shitpost 👹👹👹 #doodles #The Greg is being drawn in Wirt's perspective. He keeps us up at night-- #Firefly poem composed by me... for some reason. Idk #ms pain #wirt

[elegyofthemoon]

tbh there's a good chance if i go with the winning choice and i dont settle, i'll wind up changing the blog again BUT at least this will help me decide on sOMETHING

for mutuals who dont know these characters:

#ok like. heres my reasoning for each #sampo robin and firefly? prepping for penacony time :) #the other three? 'oh i just relate to them so its just fitting for ME' #ngl i was tempted to put welt on there too but i was like NO IM UNWORTHY OF HAVING WELT AS MY BLOG THEME..... #welt is...the world. #hes too cool basically id just be tarnishing his appearance (you mean the guy who has arahato themed EVERYTHING?) #(you mean the guy who wears glasses just bc its cool and not because he actually needs them?) #(you mean the guy who may or may not have dyed his hair according to something said in argentis character quest ?) #thonk. #uh. #no actually id rather not stil ALKSJDFHALKJH #IT DOESNT SEEM RIGHT FOR ME...... LIKE OK YES I DO LIKE MY MARTYR ESQUE CHARACTERS BUT... WELTS BETTER THAN THAT NOW....HES OK....HES SAFE. #anyways me writing the description is funny askldjfahl #snowpolls #yes no dan heng in this >:( otherwise ill be super confused with myself LKASJDHFALKSJH #besides im scared he'd win again askdjhfalskjh #maybe some other time.... he can be my mains theme... #admittedly though #like my opinions might change on firefly and robin once we get to the story but theyre the ones im most looking forward to #so theres a chance i might change the theme if my opinion/interest change in them #the other four though less likely to change just bc i already like them #but yeah anyways! :)

[marinerainbow]

Here's a cursed-to-hell idea that literally nobody asked for nor will ever want to see, but I'm still gonna post because if I have to suffer, I'm dragging ya'll down with me.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but directed by Rob Zombie.

#i watched the Firefly trilogy and have been listening to a lot of metal lately #so ive been thinking about this :) #one thing is for certain; the DIP scenes would be MUCH more brutal than they already are #and thered probably be like some hellish reason that the toons are alive #lets see what else would happen... If Rob Zombie could make this move R-Rated theres plenty of shit he could do #AND!!!! With the toons' parts in entertainment and musicals RZ could use his music video skills in this movie #Rob Zombie #Who Framed Roger Rabbit #WFRR #Who Framed Roger Rabbit? #disney villains #disney #toon patrol #judge doom #ohhhh d'ya guys think Zombie would apply IRL animal stuff to animal toons like the weasels and Roger? #if so that could bring a whole new level to them chasing Roger. predator VS prey and all that #Roger Rabbit #disney heros

[acaciapines]

👀👀 tell us more, tell us more 👀👀

I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW THINGS…. (reply via @visdiefje)

THIS IS SO SWEET OF YOU BOTH BUT I NEED MORE DIRECTION DFKJGDFGDF i do not know what to yell about unprompted. what have i not talked about yet. have i talked about how witches and palistrom trees are symbiotic entities. im very proud of that particular lore :3 but also a lot of it is stuff unpacked across the series so maybe i shouldnt spill everything djgkdfg

but what i CAN say is that. palistrom trees are 100% sapient they simply exist on a time scale we mere mortals cannot comprehend. and they love their witches so so much you guys. they love those funky little guys SO MUCH.

#ask #daily interaction ask #yes tho i do need like #a bit of a prompt lol even if its just a character #unfortunately i do forget Everything i have ever written when someone asks me a broad question lol #uhhhhh some topics i think could be fun to talk about issss firefly/the owl beast... #more palistrom tree lore... #alternate history of the boiling isles... #alternate history of the HUMAN realm..... #some of my like. reasons for writing this #more daemon-au specific questions about how the world works w daemons #or anything you want me to talk more about in the many lil snippets i posted during nano #or my song drabbles i do sometimes!! #thank yall for being so interesting tho it makes me :) #this fic has been my life for two years and will be for two more n i love 2 TALK #and a grove of palistrom to you

[juanitasupreme]

Watched Grave of the Fireflies and I've been criying for 40 minutes straight

#grave of the fireflies #what now #just at some point you just watch the movie and keep crying #ugh im glad i watched it at home like imagine being at the theatre and having to walk home #i would have to be physically removed #film #also played myself because i wanted to watch a sad movie for whatever reason

[valmillion]

regretting not using garrett the racist where he says wop ya up to instead of black friday 6am in that video i made

#you cant really even hear bryan say faggot in that clip #for some reason i remembered him singing along to fireflies and saying it

[prismit]

happy minecraft live day! mob vote controversy aside, i reeeaaallly hope they discuss the badlands update today 🥺 please i need the vultures asap

#ghost town... 2! #minecraft #minecraft live #if they for some reason give vultures the fireflies treatment i will be Very upset. no real reason to think they would but yknow #the amount of controversial stuff they've been doing lately has my level of faith and trust in them kinda low #given i think a lot of it is the internet taking a bad thing and presenting it as the worst thing that could ever happen. but still #anyways nevermind all that. BIRDS. GRABBY HANDS. I WANT TO SEE THEM. ONE OF MY FAVORITE ANIMALS IN THE REAL MINED CRAFT.

[microsuedemouse]

sometimes you find yourself nostalgic for the Harry Potter fandom days, and thinking affectionately about the things that were good about that time and place, and you just have to reckon with that. like, yeah, jkr’s behaviour has escalated to the point of unforgivable over the years. yeah, her stories were problematic in the first place, and that’s all the clearer in retrospect. yeah, I don’t feel comfortable anymore refering to my hogwarts house or my patronus, nor would I wear hp merch in public; I don’t want to give any impression whatsoever that I support jkr’s views, let alone ever give her my money again.

but none of that changes the impact the story had on my life. none of it takes away the joy and wonder that hp once inspired me. it doesn’t erase the fun I once had - many of us once had! - engaging in fandom discussion, making and sharing some truly remarkable fanworks, or indulging together in any other aspect of the massive community that built up around the fandom. jkr may leave a bad taste in my mouth (to put it mildly), and her bigotry may make it difficult for many of us, myself included, to purely enjoy any of the books or movies (or etc) ever again. but there’s still an attachment there. there are still characters and details and ideas and ships in hp that I love, in spite of her.

figuring out what to do with that lingering affection is something I guess we all have to do on our own. everyone is going to draw a different line in the sand. maybe tonight I’ll decide to read some fanfic, and try not to moralize that too hard, because reading fic is a long way removed from supporting jkr and her views. but it can be really tough to decide where exactly your hard line is. sometimes it even moves.

this isn’t a productive post; I’m not drawing any conclusions. just sort of thinking out loud, so to speak. it’s not something I think about often these days, but it still hits me sometimes, and few storytellers have ever inspired and then horrified me to the degree that jkr has. it’s just… tough to reconcile these things.

#harry potter #specifically I miss Neville/Luna tn #they were I think my first ever real intense OTP #and for some reason I’m thinking about them. idk. #Courtney thinks #btw the only other storyteller I’d put actually on par with jkr for me #in terms of the ‘love the work dearly/horrendously disappointed with and appalled by the person’ thing #is joss whedon. fuck him. but Firefly is still so fucking important to me.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

#god. do u ever just look out at a landscape and think: there are layers and layers of history buried under that strip of sidewalk #creatures lived and died and lived and died and changed morphologically like a meandering river. into the sea back onto land #diverging and convering evolution. building changes through ever branching phylogeny. its crazy. literally unfathomable #it's so painfully clear rn that my astrobiolological interests are entangled in understanding how life works. i want to know the tiny #details. i want to look at traits across different branches within a phylum and understand where differences creep in and what we can learn #about the past from the present. i want. i want. i want a project where it doesnt feel like im bleeding myself dry. i want to produce data #that doesnt feel like its a symptom of a disease. i want to cultivate knowledge out of love. not in an effort to drown myself. not out of #some frantic Compulsion. i want to look up at the stars and not feel the weight of all the time i have to keep moving when im never going #fast enough. exhausting. but here i am again. spiralling. bc i spent all day drawing not reading even tho i was learning thru audio all day #slacker. an excuse. irrational. im self aware! and yet that doesn't seem to make things easier. never relaxed. always guilty. #sigh... my dad txted me that he missed me today. theyre up on that lake brimming with fossils and dead fish and broken glass. i wish i was #there too. watching fireflies and crawling around for algae and lichens. anyway i digress... i should find a phd project i say for the #thousandth time. maybe ill have the motivation now. maybe ive recovered enough i say like i didnt spontaneous burst into hysterical tears #Friday morning for no descenable reason. maybe. maybe. youll never kno if u dont try #unrelated