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aldercaps · 10 months

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Cyathus olla, bird's nest fungi! Found growing in my rosemary pot

#cyathus #fungi #mycology #nz fungi #mushrooms #not really but for tagging purposes #homepost #tried using my pocket lens for this to mixed success #i want a camera with a macro lens SO BAD

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imminent-danger-came · 6 months

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Leola's Last Wish kinda looks like a compass doesn't it

#like. hmmmm #tdp #the dragon prince #tdp theory #not really but for tagging purposes #tdp s5

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younglingslayer300 · 3 months

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one of the reasons i hate the sequels, regardless of quality, is the fact that they undermine the original trilogy. i don't think they're very well written, and frankly i like the prequels than the ot anyway, but the main issue is that this is a franchise, and the sequels have neatly undermined everything about that franchise.

some of the other newer content does this for me as well - again, it's not an issue of quality, i don't care how good the new tv shows and books or whatever actually are, but they take away from the basis of star wars! the point, tragic though it was, was that no one from the original jedi order survived, and luke's new jedi order was an entirely fresh start. the sequels are terrible because they make it look like luke failed badly (bad move to undermine the main character of the beginning of all of star wars?? but ok??), and actually someone else has to come along and do his own journey for him (again, moronic thing to do to your original protagonist).

and in terms of other new content - i love lots of new characters, like ahsoka, but at this point it's getting insane. yoda's baby frog cousin survived order 66. this random ginger survived order 66. another padawan survived it. actually whole hosts of padawans survived it. the villain in ahsoka's show was some random guy who survived it. the fucking LIBRARIAN survived order 66, even if she did die a year later. order 66 was the most pathetic failure of a mass murder in the history of fictional mass murders, and while that is kind of funny, it does also make the whole point of star wars stupid. it's a big tragedy that luke is the only jedi left, and while he can start a new order, there's no way to get back thousands of years of living history - except that actually darth vader, one of the most feared villains in fictional history, was pretty incompetent, as was palpatine, the master of the downfall of a thousand year old republic. everyone has survived. luke is whining about nothing. why did he face palpatine alone when he could have called on hordes of force sensitives with as much/more training than him. you're building your wall with material from the ground below it?? has anyone at disney actually watched star wars

and ok, the tv shows are sometimes kind of counter-productive, but not everyone's going to watch those, they're not such a big deal. but to undermine the original trilogy in another trilogy?? to make the original heroes look bad and incompetent in the main films? what's the point of adding to a franchise if you're going to make the basis of the franchise look bad

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ae-neon · 6 months

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I saw you talking about Nalini Singh, and I love her series, specifically the Guild Hunter Series. What are your thoughts on it? Likes, dislikes,

I love the diversity and how the bad guys are still complex characters while the good guys are the same. Also the settings seem realistic and well detailed

The only part of the story that didn’t make sense to me was the introduction of Elena’s grandparents. I didn’t really see the point of them, that a history/DNA test wouldn’t have also accomplished.

What do you think? 🥰🥰

Hi! 🌷

Disclaimer: Its been a looong while since I read the Guild Hunter Series so I'm rusty on the details. I was also a much less critical reader and I took long breaks between books since I was reading it really casually.

But

I really loved the diversity. Not just lazily including vague poc rep but fully fleshed out characters as leads and romantic interests

Also the lore around vampires being the result of the angels turning humans. I enjoyed the action in the series, chemistry between characters and the consequences around power too.

Lijuan was probably my fav villain and Neha's Court in India was maybe my fav location (also probably because I liked switching pov to Mahiya and Jason) but Caliane(?) emerging or awakening and wrecking everything was a really intriguing plot for me

I don't remember much about Elena's grandparents, except that her grandma was Moroccan? And 1 or both were also Hunters like her? I think?? Lol. I might have to reread because I remember wanting to get more into her family after her (step?) sister went missing in one of the books but unfortunately I don't remember what that led to

My dislikes are maybe seeing too much of Elena and Raphael? And maybe not having their romance (especially since Raphael was in that 'cold' state the power forced him into for a lot of it) and Elena's time as a human a bit more drawn out? It's not like she was too weak to be relevant, we could have really explored what being a Hunter is and connected with the guild characters more before they became relevant in later books.

I also skipped Dmitri's book because I wasn't feeling the specifics of the 'reincarnation but not really' situation with Honour.

All in all, Nalini Singh is really up there when it comes to romantic fantasy as someone who nitpicks a lot lol. In particular the world building of her Psy-Changeling series is one of my fave urban fantasy lores ever.

#anon asks #not really but for tagging purposes #nalini singh

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waldensblog · 11 months

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🔥 about a fandom of your choice 👀

Send me a “ 🔥 “ for an unpopular opinion. Buffyverse: I'm not really much of a Cordy fan - I don't hate her, she definitely has her moments, but she doesn't really... add much for me as a main character. Thanks for the ask! :)

#btvs #ats #anti cordelia chase #not really but for tagging purposes #unpopular opinion #asks #answered

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fesenmoon · 1 year

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no fucking way

#sketches #comics #the far side #crocodiles #my art #i don’t know how to tag this.#also i should probably say. i tried to look into it further and i haven't seen hard hard evidence that they do this on purpose #personifying animals is tempting but ultimately i think it's just hot speculation atm. crocodilians are famously tough to research too #like the advantages may be a coincidence or just pure curiosity/play. which is also really cute...love those guys #sorry for the misinformation! light theory only afaik #comic

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coe-lilium · 8 months

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In a world in which the WOT TV series caters to my specific tastes in how it alters the books the Seanchan and the Sharans roles in the series would be reversed.

Idk mr author, "the society that renounced their institutional, brutal slavery (and bonked a Forsaken on the head till he nearly saw sense) allied itself with the heroes despite their massive differences" sounds more appealing to me than "that society who ditched slavery? It served the fantasy devil till the end. Now the unrepentant, horrifying-to-the-point-of-nearly-ridiculous-evil slave-owning society? Now *that's* the heroes unlikely ally! Do they fully reform at the end of the series? Of course not, dont be ridiculous now!"

Alas, we dont live in that world.

#yes i have read and imprinted on the sharans short story in the unfettered collection #torn might have had three lines total but i love him #those two years must've been insane. peak chaos #*sighs dreamily*#if only...#coe reads wot #not really but for tagging purposes #and also not to put this rambling in the show/book series general tag

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ao3-crack · 1 year

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#archive of our own #ao3 quotes #ao3 stuff #archive of our own quotes #fanfic #fanfic quotes #funny #ao3 #ao3 tags #is it canon? no.#is it true? absolutely.#is this not the purpose of fanfiction #i mean really

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verflares · 1 month

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(click for higher quality!) draconified link concept ive been chipping away at this past week ..... here's my funny little compendium concept for him:

"A heroic spirit has taken the form of this bestial dragon. Unlike it's kin, this creature exhibits an extremely aggressive disposition. It appears highly territorial, and will relentlessly chase down those who disturb its skywide patrols - of which it seems to be endlessly searching for either a long-time vassal or foe. Unfortunately, it seems the spirit within has long since forgotten exactly who it was looking for…"

#now. how on earth do i begin to tag this. um.#link #loz #totk #totk spoilers #light dragon #dragon link #loz au #totk roleswap au #there . i'll add more if they come to me LOL #um i can talk about some of my insps i guess?? might make another post too #so mostly i just dont really like turning him into 'light dragon but male' and giving him slightly darker colours or something like that #this also obviously isnt exactly like the botw dragons either though and its a bit more of a mix of other creature concepts i enjoy #since everyone agrees he'd have a farosh horn i wanted to make him a kirin/unicorn :) which is why his tail looks like that #aside from the obvious eastern dragon insps and what ive picked and chosen from the botw dragons #and obviously this looks a lot like wolf link. thats on purpose #i wanted to give him some fierce deity design refs too but because this is so dark/earthy they didnt look very fitting #but honestly you could do a whole fierce deity dragon design on its own i think #okay lots of tags but IVE THOUGHT ABOUT THIS FOR A WHILE. okay. let me have this.#my art

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tiredarts-main · 1 year

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I SWEAR I’M NOT DEAD

apology cat: Tzumba, the local “stray”

he’s an old boi who’s very chatty and lives about a block away

stray in quotations because he technically has owners but I don’t think they let him inside so he just kinda wanders around (hence his title)

Almost always at my doorstep because my family feeds him better than his own family does

very soft, likes headpats

#pictures #my cat #not really but for tagging purposes #Tzumba the wanderer #irl shit

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pocketgalaxies · 14 days

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I'm alive because they made me alive. It's the connections that I made with all of them, and it's a feeling of joy. I'm happy to do this. (insp. via @igotublue)

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common-world-domination · 7 months

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JOHN: he doesn't have a dog? DAVEPETA: B33 < maybe hes talking about karcat

and then they all watched the mlp:fim movie and proceeded to get into a heated argument over character analysis afterward. john interrupts them all by going "well i like pinkie pie! she's silly." and they all just stop arguing and are like yeah. yeah pinkie pie is silly.

#hs #homestuck #dave strider #dirk strider #john egbert #davepeta #davepetasprite #arquiusprite #arquius #i'd tag equius and hal but they're literally just sitting there dead silent the whole time so #also lowkey dirkjohn but so is everything i make at this point #this is another idea thats been polluting my brain so i just had to get it out #this could be post ALTTLau but i havent really decided #JESUS tumblr really compressed the shit out of these panels huh #oh well just pretend the artifacting is on purpose

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almea · 1 year

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"But what if she isn't Ruby anymore when she comes back out?" "Maybe... that's not for us to decide."

#RWBY #Blake Belladonna #Yang Xiao Long #Bumbleby #rwby spoilers #😭😭😭 LOVE REALLY IS STORED IN BLAKE BELLADONNA #And very specifically love for Yang Xiao Long #The way Blake's love for Yang is just so steady and gentle and exactly what Yang needs #It looks like she's about to turn away from Blake in the last shot #But Blake is just SO GENTLE in stopping her so she can wipe her tears and show she's there for her #The way they're holding hands after being startled by Herb coming back is sooooo cute #otp: with every smile you told me i love you #For my own tagging purposes

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gray-warden · 11 days

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I just realized I never posted photos of this really pretty harvestman i came across a while back. Note the green pedipalps and the dark and light spots on its back.

#opiliones #arachnids #chelicerata #bugs #harvestman #bugblr #the light spots were a very light green iirc (it's been a while) but they just look white here #there's a photoset of a really cool harvestman going around and it reminded me of this one and i realized i never posted these pics #spider #(ik they arent spiders but i'm tagging it as that for blacklist purposes #bc i imagine that someone who's really scared of spiders probably doesnt care that actually opiliones are not spiders just close relatives)#i think its so cool how i didnt even know opiliones were a thing until a couple of years ago and now i see them all the time #turns out they're pretty common around here #(not that i never saw them before i mustve just assumed they were spiders)#theyre usually not as pretty as this one though #most of the ones i see are just black or dark brown #also i have a massive backlog of pictures ive never posted of bugs and other nature stuff #my stuff #my posts #outside tag #nature

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tubbytarchia · 2 months

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@mcyt-yuri-week Day 5, Rose/Thorns I never stop thinking about SL episode 8 never ever

#gempearl #pearlgem #shinyduo #shiny duo #trafficshipping #I tried to word it a few different ways but I feel like its still so easy to interpret this as negative but noo its positive #because the thorns here are referencing the scarlet persona that Pearl's embraced. being left with nothing but it - the thorns #But it's not that Gem likes her just for her scarlet persona. She likes her for her. Pearl's not just thorns #Gem doesnt really care about the “thorns” or the petalless rose stem. she cares about Pearl. She thinks Pearl's cool (thumbs up emoji)#Pearl changes into her scarlet fit like she has many times before with the purpose of scaring people & leaning into her feared witch thing #but Gem's just like “omg slayyy” and its the best. And to Pearl it's like whoag #Gem never saw how she changed. Never saw her be ostracized and the aftermath #But she thought that the Pearl she did see in SL was cool and so easily accepted her when Pearl herself though herself so unacceptable #she got love from the Mounders and BigB and that warms my heart but Gem being a newcomer immediately embracing Pearl is just #it hits different #whoa jimbo way too many tags hghghgh #mcytyuriweekvalentines #at first I thought about smth like “where the others saw thorns you saw a rose” but I thought it was more fitting this way #I guess you guys be the judge of that haha idk what Im saying #tubby art

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noisyghost · 17 days

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rambling out loud about the one year timeline of how getting bit by a werewolf affected ark/his body <3

#OC #ark #posting bc u guys seem 2 like this guy #he was p skinny most of his teens/twenties bc he would just. skip meals #not even on purpose he just wouldnt pay attention #hes a lot healthier now :)#also i guess i should tag #gore //#idk if i really have the audience for it here anymore but god i wanna draw some fucked up werewolf infection/tf shit #this isnt nearly as gross as i wanna draw it but it's a little gross #i have thoughts on what the first month of werewolfery would look like and its. nasty. lol #body horror my beloved <3

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