#old man's beard

[mostlythemarsh]

Where Will I Be?

#old man's beard #lichen #usnea #woods

[bethanythebogwitch]

Australian Pokemon: non-natives

For this set of my fakemon set in the Goorda region, based on a combination of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand, I focused on non-native species. Both countries have a lot of introduced and invasive species to draw on for ideas. I previously made a regional Buneary and Lopunny based on invasive rabbits. Previous posts: regional standards, creepy lines, regional variants, birds, early-game standards, misc, misc, starter variants, starters.

First up is Sprigorse, the Long-Beard Pokemon, fairy/grass type. These Pokemon were introduced from a different region and have become an invasive species. Their bodies are made of wood and they wear crowns of flowers and long beards made of branches and leaves. Both the flowers and beards will spread seeds, growing foreign plants that outcompete natives. Sprigorse live in colonies in the forest and are led by the member with the longest beard. They are known to prank and attack travelers through the forest.

Sprigorse is based on two plants that are invasive in NZ: old man's beard and gorse. Both were brought in from Europe and are now outcompeting the native plants. Like the plants, Sprigorse is foreign import. I based it on a spriggan, a mythical creature from England, where both old man's beard and gorse are native. Spriggans were usually depicted as wisened old men and were said to inhabit wild places and were often malicious. Srigorse's name comes from "spriggan" and "gorse"

Next up is Tahrkid, the Ice Horn Pokemon, ice-type. Tahrkid's horns are made of ice and regrow stronger when broken, so they repeatedly smash their horns to strengthen them. They are highly dextrous and can leap between peaks and climb nearly vertical surfaces. Tahrkid was first introduced to Goorda from a region far away.

Tahrkid evolves to Yodhatahr, the Ice Horn Pokemon, ice/fighting type. Their horns are made from nearly indestructible ice, allowing them to pulverize boulders with a single headbutt. When two fight, the slam their horns together until one's horns break or it submits.

Tahrkid and Yodhatahr are based on a combination of mountain goats and the Himalayan tahr, a species of wild goat found in the Himalayas. Yodhatahr also has ram horns and Tahrkid appears to be wearing a coat and ski mask. Tahrs are an invasive species in NZ, where they can outcompete local herbivores in the mountains. The line's ability to climb nearly vertical surfaces is something real goats do and real goats also headbutt when fighting. Tahrkid's name comes from "tahr" and "kid" (juvenile goat) while Yodhatahr's name comes from "tahr" and "Yōd'dhā", the Nepalese word for "warrior". Presumably this line would originate from the Pokemon world's Himalayas and would therefore be known in the Pokemon version of Nepal.

The final line for this post starts with Dimpole, the Ball Pokemon, poison-type. Dimpole were introduced to Goorda from another region and have become an invasive species. They bounce and roll on their spherical bodies in such numbers that they coat the land during breeding season, causing a trip hazard for humans. They enjoy bouncing and being sent flying, so humans will hit them with sticks and golf clubs to get them out of the way.

Dimpole evolves to Foretitoad, the Toad Pokemon, poison-type. Foretitoad are an invasive species in Goorda. They leak toxins wherever they go, allowing them to reduce fertile fields to bare ground, while also making them too toxic for predators to eat. Females have spikes on their backs that they use to carry their eggs. When the young hatch, they use their paddle-shaped tails to send the young flying into new habitats.

(Male on left and female on right)

The Dimpole line are based on cane toads and toad golf. Cane toads may be the most notorious invasive species in Australia. Because of how many there are, people have invented various ways to kill them, the most infamous being toad golf: hitting them with gold clubsPart of the reason cane toads are so invasive is because they're too poisonous for most native species to eat. Dimpole is tadpole merged with a golf ball while Foretitoad is a toad with a golf ball belly and throat bouch, gold visor shaped head crest, golf club shaped tail. and the females have spines shaped like golf tees. Also their eyes look like the logo of Golf Australia. Golf is also not originally from Australia and, like cane toads, is terrible for the environment. Dimpole come from "dimple" and "tadpole" while Foretitoad comes from "fore", "fortitude", and "toad". @reikomania helped me come up with the design for this line.

#pokemon #fakemon #original pokemon #australia #new zealand #aotearoa #gorse #old man's beard #spriggan #mountain goats #himalayan tahr #tahr #cane toad #tadpole #golf #golf ball #art #new artist #artists on tumblr #drawing #digital art

[dansnaturepictures]

Morning walk at Lakeside Country Park, Hampshire, UK 04/01/2024

#landscape #sky #reflections #2024 #january #walking #lakeside #lakeside country park #outdoors #morning #britain #uk #england #europe #old man's beard #trees #winter #outside

[photonine]

Old Man's Beard

#old man's beard #lichen #lichencore #nature #nature no filter #photographers on tumblr #photonine

[eklektikos-jshu]

Snowfall in Coquitlam. December 2022.

#december #snow #2022 #neige #snowfall #hiver #hivernal #light #moss #old man's beard #flare #forest #walk #coquitlam #bc #britishcolumbia

[mystrangelilartcorner]

Wild Wonders day 18: Lichen

#my drawing corner #spellstober22 #spellstober 2022 #drawtober #oak trees #old man's beard #lichen

[unkn0wnvariable]

Clematis Seeds by Oliver Andrews Via Flickr: Clematis "Old Man's Beard" seeds forming on finished flower heads along the edge of Twywell Plantation.

#canon #canonuk #clematis #clematis vitalba #flora #nature #nature reserve #northamptonshire #northants #old man's beard #outdoors #petals #plant #plants #twywell #twywell plantation #wood #woodland #woodland trust #woods #Kettering #England #United Kingdom #flickr

[thebotanicalarcade]

n35_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: Botanischer bilder-atlas nach De Candolle's Natürlichem pflanzensystem /. Stuttgart :Julius Hoffamnn,1884.. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52998092

#Botany #Germany #Pictorial works #Plants #Harvard University Botany Libraries #botanical illustration #scientific illustration #Clematis Vitalba #clematis #common clematis #Thalictrum aquilegifolium #monkey-leaved meadow rue #Anemone Pulsatilla #common pasqueflower #Adonis aestivalis #Myosûrus minimus #Ranúnculus aconitifolius #Old Man's Beard #thalictrum aquilegiifolium #Greater meadow-rue #Siberian columbine meadow-rue #columbine meadow-rue #French meadow-rue #Pulsatilla vulgaris #European pasqueflower #summer pheasant's-eye #tiny mousetail #aconite-leaf buttercup #bachelor's buttons

[omaano]

Touchy subject

"The 501st was one of the best legions during the war. I've lost a lot of good men over the years - some of them would have given even you Mandos a run for your credits. And my general... My general was a good man too, but that's enough of that, I thought you were too old for bedtime stories by now."

Din just tried to figure out what the colour of the clones' armor paint meant, and why he's never heard Rex mention his CO during all the wartime stories and lectures; whereas he's already got to meet Wolffe and his general and even heard Cody mention his every once in a blue moon. (Special thanks to @witchydom for helping with the "dialogue" :3)

The rest of my Star Wars meets Hades AU project is here

I'll take a bit of your time to give a bit of an explanation why I decided to put Rex in Skelly's spot:

During a playthrough when I was looking for screenshots to use as backgrounds the first thing that greeted me was Zagreus calling Skelly "Captain" upon entering the armoury, or whatever that chamber is called. And that really decided it, let's be honest. Rex is Captain, and that is the Captain's spot. End of story.

Reading "still got it" by qigiined even before I got into watching TCW was such a personality defining experience (seriously, this fic lives forever rent free in my brain), that I really had no other option but to put the few clones that I'm willing to work into this AU somewhere around home base (the covert) - so you can guess where Cody and Wolffe are situated. Or will be, hopefully soon enough. Rex needs to be able to hang out with Cody, that's just how it is. (Rebels and TBB canon who?)

Rex deserves to teach some uppity Mando bounty hunters and other warriors who think too much of themselves a few lessons in humility and some crafty tricks. I think it would be very good for him.

As a throwaway note since we are already under the read more section, I've been thinking about sigils and keepsakes (trinkets) and cthonic companions (I know that over a year ago I inaccurately but very self indulgently designed one for Din, Boba and Cobb, that is not the point now) and while Cody can have one shaped like Boga, and Wolffe can obviously get a stuffed loth wolf (and Bo-Katan a very squishy owl)... I have no idea what shaped companion Rex could have. If anyone has any suggestions and would love to share it with me, I'd be very grateful!

#captain rex #rex #the clone wars #star wars the clone wars #tcw fanart #sw tcw #my art #hades au #star wars fanart #old man rex #star wars rebels #sw rebels #I grew to love his beard so much I cannot believe it #these two gave me so much grief but in the end I think I managed to pull them together #old man rex somewhat even looks like boba too which makes me really relieved I'm not gonna lie #but also boba looks so messy in comparison to these later drawings when I actually know what I'm doing orz #also new pocket rex look at him! #but not too closely please he is a little sketchy

[transmunsons]

Steve traced Eddie’s scars, long since turned to white. He grazed his fingers over the ragged marks on Eddie’s stomach, the neat lines under his pecs. Light filtered lazily through their blinds and danced across Eddie’s skin in golden stripes.

Steve had woken up first. He loved moments like these where he could just look and touch, remind himself that he’s not alone. He got to see this every morning but the novelty had yet to wear off. Eddie’s face was relaxed, half smushed into a pillow and his hair tumbled wildly out his bun. He’d found another gray hair the other day and made a fuss to Steve about it.

Steve pressed closer and wrapped an arm around Eddie’s thick waist, almost lying on top of him. He buried his face in the space between Eddie’s neck and shoulder and focused on how warm he was, the way his chest rose and fell. Still alive.

Eddie stirred and rumbled out a, “Mornin’ to you, too.”

“I had that dream again,” Steve murmured into Eddie’s neck. The one where Steve couldn’t save him.

Eddie dropped a kiss on his hair, wrapping him in an embrace. “I’m not going anywhere, sweetheart.”

#trans eddie munson #steddie #steve harrington #eddie munson #ftm eddie munson #steve x eddie #they grow old together #Eddie didn’t think he’d live this long #I saw a tiktok a while ago of a trans man with a full white beard and almost cried #I think that’s why I like historically accurate trans Eddie so much #we’ve always been here

[kaoyoll]

#made some designs for those old man #fanart #genshin impact #art #genshin fanart #adepti #genshin adeptus #adeptus #xianyun #mount shaper #cloud retainer #moon craver with beard I CANT- #moon craver

[mostlythemarsh]

Me Nerves

#usnea #old man's beard #woods #lichen

[diioonysus]

memento mori

#the ballad of lenora by horace vernet #the reaper by stevan aleksic #self portrait with love and death by hans thoma #death and the woodcutter by jean francois millet #self portrait in a tavern by steven aleksic #self-portrait with death playing the fiddle by arnold bocklin #death playing the violin by frans fracken #death and conflagration by albert chmielowski #death and life by gustav klimt #death on the pale horse by gustave dore #death by janis rozentals #power of death by william holbrook beard #death as a general rides a horse on a battlefield by edgar bundy #death vistor by adolph menzel #the old man and death by joseph wright derby #the old man and death by sobeslav pinkas #old man's death by laszlo mednyanszky #smierc by jacek malczewski #death and the miser by hieronymus bosch #death comes to the table of the miser by giovanni martinelli #konec vsech veci by maximilian pirner #a sickly female overlooking a beautiful view by richard tennant cooper #death and the masks by james ensor #the human paraody by felicien rops #the drinker by e plontke #death and the soldier by hans larwin #ahasuerus at the end of the world by adolf hiremy-hirschl #the last friend by zgymunt andrychiewicz smiierc #angel kills firstborn by ilya repin #garden of death by hugo simberg

[dansnaturepictures]

27th December 2023: Lakeside and home

Pictures taken in this set are of: 1. Starlings on the roof out the back, great to see hoards of them coming in. 2, 3, 6 and 8. Blustery views at Lakeside, it was a windy lunch time walk. I have really enjoyed seeing the beauty in moody grey bare branch scenes and scenes impacted by the weather these past few days. 4. A Moorhen I enjoyed seeing walking on the ground at Lakeside, something I've taken in a lot lately. 5. Great Crested Grebes, it was a highlight of my walk getting amazing intimate views of the two birds on beach lake still in their summer plumage somewhat which is interesting as well as a stark winter plumage one on beach lake. 7. Black-headed Gull on a buoy with a Mallard behind on the lake. 9. The fine spider I've liked seeing on the window a lot recently. 10. A dramatic scene of the moon rising through soft cloud tonight.

At Lakeside it was also great to see Cormorant flying over, Coot, Robin, Long-tailed Tits, Magpie, daisy, some musk mallow just about in flower adding to the extraordinary times with bits of flowering appearing notably early and some of the summer species in flower here and there, old man's beard creating nice scenes at the south of the site, wood fern and moss with Ring-necked Parakeet heard nicely with their eccentric call for the second day running. At home a crowd of Collared Doves seen out the back with a few in a row entertainingly at one point, Goldfinches creating colourful scenes as they fed on the balcony feeders as I got back from my lunch time walk, Jackdaw and Long-bodied Cellar spider were also nice to see.

#goldfinch #photography #nature #moorhen #great crested grebe #views #cormorant #long-tailed tit #starlings #daisy #old man's beard #birdwatching #2023 #lakeside #lakeside country park #lunch time #walk #walking #birding #europe #ring-necked parakeet #outside #coot #water birds #spider #spiders #long-bodied cellar spider #moon #december

[photonine]

Old Man's Beard

#old man's beard #beard lichen #lichen #lichencore #nature #nature no filter #photographers on tumblr #photonine

[so-i-did-this-thing]

It was a little intimidating, but I asked my new barber to also do my beard today.

I feel like so many shaving tutorials for trans guys only cover the basics of using a razor and it's frustrating not knowing how best to shape your facial hair to suit your face.

It was nice to have someone who knows what they are doing set my beard line (hard to do when most guides assume you have a prominent adam's apple as a guiding point).

The barber also walked me through what guard settings he used on the clippers (you blend your beard instead of going all one length) and how I should continue to grow out my beard to get it more in the shape I'm looking for.

Highly recommend, worth the price. I feel better equipped now to maintain it on my own. His razor cut was also far gentler on my sensitive skin than anything I could manage on my own.

#trans stuff #transgender #trans man #was nice to have something affirming today given the recent Florida news #the hot towels were also nice #be aware friends who have never gone to a barber for a beard trim #that a face and/or shoulder massage is typical #especially if they are old school #it's a rare sort of intimacy but it can catch you offguard! #my face