#they're good for the garden

[balkanradfem]

How you don't afraid of snakes?

A snake had never hurt me in my entire life, and I've been creeping around them all my childhood. I had seen and stalked snakes everywhere, in forests, on the riverbanks, inside the rivers, and none of them had ever attacked me or even attempted to come after me. It's always a moment that we both realize that we're occupying the same space, then we stare at each other, and then she's like 'gotta dip bye' and slides away.

When I was a kid I once found this gorgeous white baby snake, and she was soo cute, she was too small to know to run away from me, and I gathered all my courage and pet her little head. And she YAWNED at me. It was single most adorable event.

I would not go ahead and hang out with a snake big enough to eat me, but I don't live in areas where snakes are likely to kill or eat people, so I'm not worried. I know to recognize venomous snakes, and would keep my distance from them. Also people around me have always been killing snakes out of ignorance, and I don't think if snakes were that dangerous that any idiot with a shovel could just kill them. Obviously they're more vulnerable than us, and more likely to be killed by us than the reverse. They're also much smaller.

I went to check what snakes are currently roaming in my country and found out that almost all of them are endangered, and forbidden to injure or kill. Now I'm even more devastated that people are afraid of them and killing them, we're a big danger to them if we're bringing them to extinction. And from 2005 to 2019, they had only killed 3 people in my country, 2 of them male. We must have killed thousands of them.

In conclusion, snakes good, people bad, snakes need our love, males obviously don't watch their step and have no sense of self preservation and thats not snakes fault.

#snakes #endangered snakes #snakes are cute #we love snakes #we need to protect snakes #they're good for the garden #eat tiny pests #so i can have my food

[shorthaltsjester]

the mighty nein - critical role

this is a place where i don't feel alone. this is a place where i feel at home.

#also with softer vibes. i offer They #every silly little brainheart found family deserves a to build a home edit #the mighty nein maybe most of all. thats my family #also the lyrics deliciously well suited to m9. #when jester pulls that. stupid tarot card for fjord. home or traveler. and there's a carnival wagon. and veth says Thats Us! . them #i just think about . the tower is their home the xhorhouse is their home the lavish chateau is their home the balleater. the mistake. #the nein heroez. veth and yezas apartment. the dome. fjord and jesters living room floor. #a bar with a silly name on rumblecusp #also like. the song has stone and dust imagery. gardens and trees. #the inherent temporality of life and love and how that holds no bearing on how greatly people can love. im losin it okay. #ive been making this edit for days straight with my computer screaming at me for trying to shove 143 episodes of cr into a 2min20sec video. #crying becuase. theyre a family do you get it. they were nine lonely people and most of them had given up on seeing their own lives #as something that might be good. something that might make the world a better place. and in the end they're heroes. #and it doesn't matter if no one else knows because They know they're heroes. and they wouldn't've believed that was true when they met. #rattling the bars of my enclosure. to be loved is to be changed #posted on twitter and want to get in the habit of posting here too bc. #general reasons but also bc . i have noticed some of the ppl liking/sharing it are also ppl who shit on my ops by vaguing about my posts #which is in general whatever but does leave a funny taste in my mouth. #critical role #the mighty nein #cr2 #caleb widogast #caduceus clay #jester lavorre #fjord #veth brenatto #yasha nydoorin #beauregard lionett #mollymauk tealeaf #my posts

[muffinlance]

Read "Suki, Alone". Liked it in general. But can they please, please hire someone who knows both the show's actual events and how to follow through on a character arc? Because guys. Guys. That comic is not implying about Suki what they meant it to be implying, and all because of literally one line.

So like. From a writer's standpoint:

What they meant to do: show Suki as a community-oriented person who cares for her people, and believes in everyone succeeding together.

As opposed to (spoilers): the thief girl they set her up in contrast with, who's pretty upfront and consistent on primarily looking out for herself. She betrays Suki for one (1) corn chip to improve her own life at the prison, no surprise.

But the problem is: they give Suki an inspirational line to the effect of "we're all working together and we'll all break out together"

You know

The thing she does not do in the show

So if both the show and this comic are canon, then instead of setting up a compare/contrast with the thief girl, they've just set up a comparison. One were Suki is arguably worse, because she's been leading a significant number of prisoners on with her "we'll all fight and win our freedom together!" business, only to straight up cut them out of the escape loop and abandon them, whereas the thief is only leading Suki on in the sense that Suki keeps telling her what it's morally correct to think and confuses snide replies with agreement

My dudes. My fellow writers. You people actually being paid for this. There were so many ways to fix those awful implications against our girl's character, the simplest of which would be to not include that line. Or they could have, you know, made it canon compliant with what actually happens in the show, so that this comic doesn't set Suki up as a betrayer instead of a community builder. Like... just send all her good prison buddies off to other prisons in the wake of the warden finding out they're colluding. Have it timed to be right before the next new prisoners arrive, thus setting it immediately before the Boiling Rock episodes, so Suki didn't have anyone left in the prison she'd want to take with her on a breakout. For bonus points, include a page or two of her and her Kyoshi warriors opening up the cell of one of her prison friends post-war, thus implying she's tracking down and actually fulfilling her promises. Maybe even show her doing the same with thief girl, who was established as being imprisoned on false charges anyway, and also showing that Suki is A) the bigger person, and B) willing to acknowledge her own role in mistakes (because I cannot emphasize enough how much thief girl was not hiding her own priorities, and it was Suki who approached HER with all this, not the girl ever doing anything special to weasel her way in) (this would also open up an opportunity for paralleling Suki's earlier in-comic mistake of not listening to one of her friend's very valid thoughts and feeling, which lead to the girl leaving their island alone pre-canon; a "seeing people as they are, not what you want them to be" moment)

Anyway yeah enjoyable enough for a quick read but another one for the "this can't be canon or the characters are So Much Worse than they were in the actual show" pile

At least Aang didn't promise to murder anyone in this one

#I also have minor critiques like #Why are all the guards drawn as short and noodly-armed as Sokka pretending to be a guard #Why are the guards the only ones allowed to have funny lines #Did anyone consider using a lack of dialogue in some panels to establish mood and let the visuals speak for themselves (no they did not) #Why is Azula villain monologuing for so long at the start #She does like her villain lines but in the show they're short #And generally aimed at fresh opponents #Not last week's old news #I kept wondering why Azula was even there instead of generic lackeys especially since she had to have been dealing with the conquest of #Ba Sing Se around then. big This Could Have Been An Email vibes #Also as a gardener #HOW FAST WERE THOSE PRISON PLANTS GOING TO SEED AND WHERE CAN I GET SOME #Apparently they needed minimal (almost no?) light and tiny cracks of space and were nutritious and tasted good raw and grew so fast they #Could substantially affect the diets of multiple prisoners within a short time span? #I WANT THEM IN MY INDOOR SETUP ASAP #Screw lettuce I want Suki's Magic Beans #avatar the last airbender #atla #Suki #There continue to be no comics in Ba Sing Se but this was a better attempt than some #Suki Alone

[pinkd3mon]

Gardening pals

#kirby #kots #kirby of the stars #kirby fanart #hoshi no kirby #taranza #Galacta Knight #last year I had it revealed to me in a dream that Galacta would enjoy gardening #it made so much sense back then #it doesn't make sense now but i don't make the rules #i think Taranza could show Galacta how to interact with fragile things without you know killing them #Galacta has been destructive for so long they have been used as a weapon for as long as they remember #and then being free and discovering they are capable of gentleness??? #the best i think #i started rendering this yesterday i spent like 4 hours on it until i realized i hate rendering so gray it is #please forgive me rendering gods I'm just no good #morpho butterflies surround Galacta in the garden if it wasn't clear #i know some people see them and freak out for obvious reasons but they're kind to Galacta and Galacta is still grateful to them #do you like galacta's cap it took me so long to figure out out how to get it on their head #i don't know anything about gardening so i just made Taranza hold any gardening tool I could think of #he has too many hands in my opinion i don't know what to do with them

[cicadaghost]

a chao model i made during the fundraiser stream the other day!

#chao #chao garden #sonic fanart #3d art #lowpoly #gif #these streams are... done? we may do one more but maybe not #but i'd like to open up more little models like this in exchange for donations as a personal project #they're fun and don't take me a ton of time. so they're a good way to put some good out into the world i think

[wanyinchen]

Handle them with love and care :3 they're still baby

#good omens #aziracrow #aziraphale #crowley #ineffable husbands #ineffable partners #fresh from the garden. they're really organic (of the occult and ethereal variety) #theyre still babiee? NOT FOR MUCH LONGER MWAHAHAHA #lies. i lied #theyre still very baby #sha's artsies uwu

[thefirstknife]

Speaking of weird things in the season already, I'm back with the obsession with names of things in the seasonal activity.

So in Riven's Lair, you get randomly assigned "missions" that change with each run. I believe there's five of them as I've played a lot of Riven's Lair so far and only got these five to rotate. Maybe there will be more in weeks to come!

Anyway, if you look in the top left corner when you start the activity, it will tell you the name of the mission you're on. The names that I've seen so far are:

Polysemy

Apophasis

Synchysis

Enthymeme

Tautology

Long post under:

These aren't random words! They're all related to language and rhetoric, which makes sense with the Ahamkara theme as Ahamkara are very dependent on the way language is used around them.

Polysemy is when words or symbols are capable of having multiple meanings. Apophasis is when you speak about something by denying it or mentioning it by saying it's not required to be mentioned (def check examples on wikipedia if this is confusing). Synchysis is also a way of speaking in a way that deliberately messes up the order of words to confuse or surprise the person you're speaking to. Enthymeme is a type of an argument where you construct a sentence which tells some sort of a fact by omitting the way you came to that conclusion because the fact should be obvious on its own (again, check wiki for examples, it will be easier to understand). And tautology has a meaning in both language and logic; in language, a tautology is a statement that repeats something, adding redundant information and in logic, a tautology is a logical formula in which a sentence is constructed in a way that every interpretation of the sentence is true.

I doubt these words were chosen randomly and there might be more or perhaps more will cycle in during weeks to come. But even with just this, there's a pattern. I'm not sure which meaning of tautology is being used here; possibly the language one because it fits the rest, but the logic interpretation could also be possible.

The first week's mission was also specifically Polysemy:

I assume next weeks we'll probably do other specific ones in some order, which would also mean there should be at least 2 more. I'm wondering if there's some sort of a reason why these specific words were chosen. Obviously they all relate to forms of speaking and language which is the primary way that Ahamkara use to affect reality; speaking in specific terminology and using particular phrases and language forms is important to them and when speaking to them.

But given the involvement of the Vex, it also reminded me of the lore book Aspect in which every chapter is named after grammatical, linguistic and logic terms. Aspect is also specifically related to the Black Garden and Sol Divisive. Not only that, but Aspect deals with, among other things, the fate of the Ishtar scientists and their copies in the Vex Network, and primarily uses Chioma as their main viewpoint, and the whole situation with Neomuna and Veil Logs has returned my interest in this lore book.

I feel like it isn't a coincidence that we've spent essentially the entire year reacquainting ourselves with Chioma and Maya and Ishtar as a whole only to bring back Sol Divisive and the Black Garden back in the final season in this way. As the Veil Logs told us, one of Maya's copies interfered with one of the logs, sending signals, and Chioma, at the end of her life, contacted the Vex presumably to be consumed by the network so she could possibly reunite with one of the copies of Maya in there.

This brought me also to the mysterious signal from Scatter Signal lore tab in which Osiris tracks down some sort of a signal that seems to be talking about the Vex, but spoken in a strange way. So I began thinking that this signal might be coming from Chioma, consumed by the Vex, from the Vex Network, reaching out to the man who's been studying her, living in Neomuna and researching the Veil for months. Specifically, the final Veil Log mentioned a few similar words and phrases being repeated. Specifically, when Osiris mentions that Chioma was researching "the entaglement of Light and Dark" and when Nimbus and Osiris discuss "parallel connections and parallel energy fields;" then in the Scatter Signal message there's mention of how, presumably, the Vex are trying to "move from parallel to entanglement." The Veil Log also talks about how the Witness can communicate through our Ghosts and how that connection might be going both ways; Scatter Signal also mentions "bridging communion with a Voice."

Copies of Chioma and the other scientists (with the help of Praedyth) once tried to use the Black Garden to send a message out of the Vex Network, detailed in Aspect. We don't know if they succeeded (at least in our current timeline). The Black Garden has been a big focus in Lightfall almost out of nowhere in such an immensely world-changing way (with the explanation of the Black Heart), and it will still be important this season with the exotic mission. It's a very pleasing loop of the story; everything started with the Black Garden in D1 and everything just before TFS might end with it. I'm also incredibly intrigued by the fact that the returning weapons from Undying (a season about the Sol Divisive and the Black Garden) have returned with a new perk called nano-munitions: very Neomuna-sounding name. Perhaps certain Ishtar scientists are influencing the Vex or extending a helping hand to us.

The questions that remain: how does this tie back to the Ahamkara? Why are the Vex interested in the Ahamkara? What do the Ahamkara have to do with the Black Garden? What's with all the strange language terminology that deals with double meanings and ways to confuse? Is it just regular Ahamkara shenanigans to trick us? To trick the Vex? Maybe both?

The point is, I don't think this is as simple as Riven just being sad that all the Ahamkara are dead and wanting to secure her clutch. Nothing is ever simple with the Ahamkara and nothing is ever simple with the Vex; and now we're dealing with both. And somewhere in all of this, there is also a concerning involvement of the Black Garden that connects to both of these elements. At the end of it all, there's us, who rely on this specific combination of elements to get through the portal, pursue the Witness and save the universe.

Spreading the brain worms to the rest of y'all to think about. If you spot any other mission names, feel free to share, though I think that if they happen, they might happen in the coming weeks. Also as I mentioned before, I know there's been leaks and lore tabs unlocking early on Ishtar: I've not seen any leaks or cutscenes and have not read any lore tabs that aren't explicitly visible in-game so if there's a really simple answer in that leaked material, I don't know about it and don't want to know about it so please don't spoil to me or to others!

#destiny 2 #destiny 2 spoilers #season of the wish #season of the wish spoilers #ahamkara #vex #black garden #lore vibing #long post #it took me a few runs to notice the names in riven's lair ngl. i was not paying attention to that at all #it was a few runs in when i realised there's weird words as 'missions' and then remembered polysemy being the first separate one #and whenever there's words like this they're there for a reason. they weren't picked randomly #it's so interesting to try and decipher why the writers chose those in particular #if anyone has any other ideas for them feel free to speculate! #also getting the feeling that the vex are taking a crack at paracausality #therefore their interest in the ahamkara. perhaps even taking a crack at also following through the portal #whatever they're doing it can't be good. i'm going insane #if anything. it's setup for them being a big threat post-TFS

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

hi! do you draw your comics traditionally? saw u said ‘rescan’ in the previous ask (i’m not the same anon tho). side note, thank you for making my day w your art

#ask #non mdzs #flowers #All PD-MDZS creations are physical and tangible. You could eat them #if you wanted to. #the flowers are marigolds and Zinnia Elegans! #I borrowed someone's phone to take this picture but I've been wanting to do little photo shoots for *ages* #They are on a thicker cardstock too so they're quite good at hanging on flowers! #It's quite exciting to have my little cat guy out in the garden #Thanks for the ask! I had a blast setting this up #and thanks for all the love and support #I *do* own a graphics tablet but....I don't find the same joy in drawing digitally B*( #I'd love to learn and practice more! But I love the tactile feel of pencil & ink #I also love love love the texture of the markers and I *cannot* find a easy way to replicate it digitally. Yet.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Hi there! I hope you're doing well!

In your human au, do you imagine Julie and Frank to have a similar relationship to Barnaby and Wally (lifelong platonic partners) or are they more toned down?

In that same vein do you imagine them having something similar in cannon since ik you have your analysis of Julie initially being Frank's love interest, but do you think they can move past that and come back stronger?

Have a great day/night whenever you are 🫶🏽

more toned down, i think! less "i literally cannot imagine a life without you" and more "two stray cats that bonded and are not inseparable". i imagine that Frank & Julie were planning on living in the same town, but they wanted their own living spaces to do with as they please without having to compromise. i like to think that they got neighboring properties - or do they live in the same apartment / condo building? still thinking about everyone's living spaces...

and Yes! i like to adhere to canon as much as possible with my aus. i imagine that when they met in school Julie may have developed a crush on Frank, but has long since grown out of it. and she learned pretty quick that uh... hon... Frank's a lover of men <3

#lmao maybe once julie figures out her gender fluidity #she'll go to frank like 'if i knew then - would you have liked me back?' #and frank has to let her down gently a second time <3 #sorry jules you are Not his type <3 he likes hunky mailmen <3 #julie spotted a depressed emo boy and went Wow! That One Is Mine! #and she was right <3 #like... if they go a full day without seeing each other they'll be sad #but they can handle it yk? they can manage without each other #they enjoy pursuing separate lives but they want to Share that separation over gardening sessions and games #rambles from the bog #wh modern human au #they're best friends! slightly codependent! but they're not at barnaby & wally's level #those two are just. operating in a whole different wheelhouse #regular chess vs 4d chess yk yk #'you are one of - if not The - most important person in my life' vs 'if you die i die' #if you catch my groovy drift... #you have a good day/night As the Case May Be as well!

[martianbugsbunny]

Had the world's most realistic dream last night that involved Zeb in the Ahsoka show with like a wedding ring tan line (no idea why he wasn't wearing it at the time) and he was talking about how he and Kallus spent a lot of their time in their garden at home and Dream-Me was like "man, I can't believe nobody else is talking about this scene, I should double check and make sure it actually happened" and then I woke up and I wanted to cry a little

#it felt like being awake #I was so excited #and then I woke up and the scene doesn't actually exist and they're not canon married and they don't eat in the garden together #I'm preposterously sad about this #stupid sleep brain showing me wonderful things only for cold reality to snatch them from my arms #*hefty sigh* #kalluzeb #garazeb orrelios #zeb #alexsandr kallus #star wars #Star Wars rebels #ahsoka show #ahsoka series #dreams #and when I woke up it wasn't abrupt it was like a really good transition in a fan edit #I thought 'I should go check that' and then I rolled over irl and as I did I woke up #it was horrible #also zeb's fur was kinda mussed around the spot where his ring tan line was it was so adorable #but it's not realllll!!!! #*wailing crying throwing up* #martianbugsbunny ships

[moreaugriffins]

3: there are creatures out there, that view us the way we view bugs.. we are like ants, in this universe..

Brig: Bugs have changed the course of wars..

Brig: Did you know the Americans partially owe their so-called liberty to the mosquito? No amount of gin and tonic can cure British soldiers of Malaria-

#classic doctor who #3rd doctor #brigadier lethbridge stewart #not the same tone or words as the audio (AWOL) - the brig and 3 are having a serious and civil conversation about life and Earth #but i do find it funny each time i listen and Brig is like “Any solider will tell you this bug fact-” - like he makes a good point that #humans can make a change make an impact on the universe (even if they're just 'bugs' in the grand scheme of things) but also no soldier is #telling people this fact Alistair! it's only you #'i have three interests - the military - gardening - and bugs. i can bring up two of them in this conversation' #(another bit of evidence for the autistic brig hc lol) #(please yall - AWOL is a great audio piece!)

[mod2amaryllis]

my good next door neighbor came by to ask if our bad next door neighbor was around, because he hasn't seen them in a while and wants to make sure we don't have to check for dead bodies. so connected to my community 💛

#i assured him: oh they're fine. they come out to smoke and yell on the back deck like clockwork. I've ducked behind my garden fence- #-many times! #the cops have been there what twice in the last few weeks? no worriessss #then good neighbor was like 'man if any guy on this street were to snap it'd be him. or the white supremacist in the yellow house' #I'm like yes for sure thank you dwayne for the heads up

[jingledbells]

FUCKKK I forgot to post this. anyways. have this nova and Evo doodle(nova uses she/her and Evo uses it/he)

goobers

#Evo is a spirit that follows nova around(they're homies) #its very sarcastic and likes to mess with nova sometimes #but its all in good fun :) #my ocs #bella's doodles #paisley's garden

[cuntbrow]

in the face of a bright future we must remember our roots. south downs cottage when i had nothing i had you 🏡

#feeling emotional. like bro they're gonna make their own garden 😭 #good omens #ysa.txt

[cordycepsbian]

two vessel ocs we actually conceptualized a while ago and just never posted about

#hollow knight #hollow knight oc #stuff i made tag #oc: flower pot #oc: treasure chest #our naming scheme for vessels is. actual vessels. things that contain other things #little bit of trivia: flower pot made it to queen's gardens by going through deepnest #and it met caprice along the way #she only eats freshly caught prey and flower pot smells like it's already dead so she let it go #treasure chest climbed up through basin and into palace grounds #it got its face broken by a husk sentry and would have died if it wasn't quickly found by said pirate crew #their leader is the earwig pirate we mentioned like once. still haven't named him whoops #they're both dubious little creatures up to no good. flower pot is just more refined in appearance #and true to its name treasure chest is a big fan of putting geo in its eye hole #holds them both gently like hamburgers

[less-lost-than-you-realize]

See, now I don't know which way is better.

@allieinarden's Greg as the Woodsman and Wirt as the Beast

Or

@okota0124's Wirt as the Woodsman and Greg as the Beast.

On the one hand, Allie's tags:

Which is adorable. And which also fits with a fic I've been reading recently (the only Beast!Wirt I've tried so far, and it's good).

On the other hand:

Greg got it in his head that he had to dress up as the scariest thing he could think of. It made Wirt laugh, though, when he saw Greg's little face in the garb of the Beast, turning the terrifying into something comical.

Wirt decided to go with the theme, and picked the Woodsman. Greg thought that was perfect, cause they're both so poetic and all. Wirt smiled at that, but he didn't reply.

See, I like BOTH of these, and I can't decide which one I like best.

#over the garden wall #otgw wirt #otgw greg #otgw woodsman #otgw the beast #cool costumes #halloween #it's partly about the fact that they're laughing at the reminder of the Beast because his power is broken #it's also partly about the fact that they remember the Woodsman kindly despite his being their seeming-enemy half the time #it's good