#fern at some point

[adventuretimeaddict]

some Fionna’s and ferns I drew a little while back

I don’t think I posted them?

#art #adventure time #fern the human #finn the human #fern mertens #finn mertens #fionna campbell #fern campbell #fionna and cake series #fionna and cake #fionna fern #I’ll probably post some Finnfern/fife soon at some point #I haven’t drawn them in a while 😀 #I miss drawing them tbh #Haha

[sandpaperoctopi]

modern AU Kite

#he would be so delighted by all of the fish themed apparel #should have drawn him with a fish-shaped bag #his favorite animal is sturgeon #he would also love taking selfies #but he would not be able to handle internet people #I will draw modern AU Oriole and Fern too #at some point #art #illustration #ocs #novel stuff #kite #lgbt #queer

[guideaus]

i think eisen needs to show back up in snf... every stark episode i get mad at eisen again

#personal #seeing how nice his brother was and then eisen worsened stark's sense of self #like. he HAS to apologize at some point lol... i dont think a recontextualized flashback fits #he still hit him for no reason and then made stark run away. stark then berates himself every time calling himself a coward when he #just doesnt wanna be abused #stark's w frieren and fern now so its not the same but whenever eisen's in flashbacks im like 😑 #he was the only old hero that was shitty to his adoptive son/student and the narrative doesnt quite acknowledge it #w stark being super forgiving abt it while not even knowing eisen's pov #APOLOGIZE TO HIM 😠😡😡😡

[pinksilvace]

#fern muses #slfjsdfksf it's so funny when people follow me for fanart #they WILL see my alonzo catsthemusical propaganda at some point or another #anyways hiii new followers :D enjoy your stay

[mcnuggyy]

Did this for fun and will probably change it and add to it as I finish up character designs and story and stuff :o] also I think it would be super super funny if they had like a giant discord server and that’s how a lot of them talk w each other and bond over their shared experiences since most of them live pretty far away (some on an entirely different galaxy lmao) a lot of their relationships would probably change in the background of the main plot and as they get to know each other better! But this is about right for Fern’s relationship with everyone else at least :-] <3

#nuggyy art #this was so hard to color because I genuinely imagine this comic in black and white or monotones #or maybe even like a super simple 3-4 tone comic #with like maybe 1-3 pages of full color or something #but it was good for me to know regardless I guess jaja #cryptid♡crush #fern del cerro #ocs #I will NOT be tagging all the other characters im so sorry but yeah no way BAHAHAA #also some of them do not have access to the internet or even know what it like Sed The Darkness #and El Cucuy so they wouldn’t be able to really talk to the others but Fern always makes a point to try and let them know that they #aren’t alone :’)

[sylvarilining]

They both bite

#gw2 #guild wars 2 #sylvari #fern hound #my ocs #khrinkt #this was supposed to be part of a bigger thing but i liked it as a standalone #but yeah khrinkt spends more time with ferr the fern hound and his other animal friends than he does with people #so he adopts some uh. non-socially acceptable habits #also i'm experimenting with colouring #i should design ferr at some point i've never drawn a fern hound before i don't think

[fernsplaysthings]

My fucky brain chemistry is betraying me.

#ferns speaks #i'm trying real hard to outline rhen's experience pre-bg3 and throughout #and my traitorous fucking brain wants to go over all the character points that are intertwined with the romance... #and...maybe smuttiness #BEFORE setting everything up I...I want...a full timeline but... #i'd be so fucking nice to write something chronologically for once #but here we are #if I only draw some romantic/smutty rubbish then it doesn't count right?

[heretodefyfate]

Would be funny if Fern think Florinia having a crush on MC hence that’s why she always seem to ask them for helps.

#pkmn reborn #Terra randomly joke about Mc and Florinia dating. but like #what if some folk thought that was true #that's one of reason why Fern is mad at Kayne #Florinia: Kayne has proven themselves to be very reliable and easily being adapted to dangerous situation #Fern: they has only been here for a week! #Florinia: that's just further proven my points

[im-not-here-im-dead]

here. have some awful doodles. seriously just the worst.

#it was bound to happen at some point #I’ve only had Isaac and Willis for one layer but if anything ever happened to them I would explode the entire universe with everybody in it #crash is still my favorite tho -_- #lumpy little fffffffartface #son of a bicycle #pain in my astrophysics #genuinely mean person #hate his stupid face #I hope he’ll be okay #I like fern too. I hope she gets her son back #awful hospital #not utdr

[perenlop]

sorry ik i said i was done with my wc rambling but wtf happened to ivypool. both in the books and in the fandom. originally she was this cool ass double agent with a compelling character arc with both positive and negative development that felt cruel yet natural and we all cheered when she broke out of the abusive situation she was in. now people just go “aw shes the girlboss to her malewife cousin </3″ and thats all the fancontent of her amounts to anymore bc incest is ok if theres one vaguely feminist line, and in the books she’s literally just a complete bitch to dovewing for finding happiness after being used for so long, to the point where she’s apparently putting whats basically an orphaned teenager in distress to stick it to her sister. like what the fuck happened man i hate the erins so much

#remember when wc fans were like ''oh my god do not give her a mate itll literally ruin her character if u do to her what u did #to every other female protag that didnt die or suffer horribly'' #andd were like ''hell yeah aroace ivy! lesbian ivy! we need one character that doesnt end up with a man PLEASE'' #and now ppl will apparently get angry if u suggest either of those bc ''oh my god let us have the boring male wife UWU'' #what annoys me abt that ship specifically is that they were acknowledged out loud tobe cousins #their direct relationship is called out multiple times before fern is born. its the entire point of omen of the stars #but uwu its ok if it fits my cookie cutter girl boss male wife ship dynamic i guess #granted there were some moments in oots where shes too harsh to dove and ppl held her as perfect when she wasnt #but i can forgive those moments bc shes a child being manipulated behind the scenes #in the new books its like. wtf is she even doing? #echoed voice #also not related to the post but still ivy related. most maps and songs associated with her are actually dove songs bye

[onepiexe]

ok i can talk abt work now. i got hired to assist the main person who runs inventory and communicates with the vendors, orders plants and products etc etc. its been hard and mostly office work but insanely rewarding.

#logbook #they have me sitting at a desk ik they had to pull from someones ass in the corner of the main room next to her #this first week i went thru and counted every perennial they have on property and then went into the system and cycle counted it properly. #come mon i go back thru sales and if a plant want sold in 22 then i archive it. . .going to be so much work lol #i miss working outside with every fiber of my being but im also starting from the bottom with this job. . .im not at the top of pack here. #and ive been enjoying this aspect of the plant world so im honestly satisfied for right now. and i love the ppl i work with in the office. #we had a staff meeting yesterday and i texted c after going 'man im so relieved to know they still have workplace problems lol' #cause its really a priveledge to work in a garden center like this. . .imo. #anyways im full time<3 and ive been told i can come in earlier then i have been come march. #plus i get an employee discount lol. . .going to be so bad with the houseplants. theres a fern i really want if its still there mon. #im apparently doing all the work faster than anyone expected. .i thought i was going slow lmao #also she let me into the system on my first day and she told me she never does that. . .i was like 🥺 #also i texted j this week and she said that the b+tes ppl go into l+wes and get lumber and said i was a hard worker and good!! #i was like ???? hello??? bc at that point id only worked 2 days. . and i still dont know who it was either. #ive been having fun tho. this week i'll take pics of the plants that are actually flowering. . .and some shrub closeups. #also checked in my first delivery on wed i think. it was fine. ik product and can count and i care so its not like its hard. . #going to be doing that all spring. . .whew.

[encounse]

Very funny seeing people die on the "modern art is dumb and weird" hill

#fern ebooks #also a little alarming because of how some of these people could be swayed by fascist taling points

[alithographica]

As promised, welcome to

Fun biology in TOTK’s designs

I'll keep this post updated as I go through the game. I'm going to skip the more general identifiable things like apples (they're based on apples!) because there are tons of more unusual species to talk about.

Overall, the really interesting thing I've noticed is that many of the more unique Earth-based lifeforms in TOTK are super ancient, like predating dinosaurs ancient, which is a really cool tie-in to the overall time-hopping plotline of TOTK. Specifically, they're found in the new areas (caves, depths) while the surface remains a bit more normal.

(There will be no plot spoilers in this post, and also I've barely gotten into the plot because I'm spending all my time wandering, so shhh no spoilers in the tags for like a month please.)

Most recent additions: More lilies, irises, wild ginger, spiny bones, pigeon extravaganza, plus added some more real photo comparisons to old stuff.

PLANTS

Bryophytes my beloved. Bryophytes are among the earliest land plants, waaaay predating flowers and even seeds. In our world, they’re small by necessity—they lack vascular systems to help move water around like other plants, so they have to stay small and moist (hence their frequency in caves in TOTK—though they do need some light in real life.)

In TOTK they’re quite large and I think that’s very sexy and art directors should give us big bryophytes more often

Anyway, there are three types of bryophytes: mosses, liverworts, and hornworts. First image pair is a moss, second is a liverwort. Those red-brown and palm-tree-like structures, respectively, are their reproductive structures.

Real liverwort photo © Graham Calow, NatureSpotUK

Not yet spotted: Hornworts! Did they forget the third bryophyte sister :(

I think these next guys are probably lycopods (specifically club moss, which is not a true bryophyte moss, thanks science.) Very old, but vascular, so they're a bit more evolutionarily recent than bryophytes.

Real photo © Gloria Hanley Schoenholtz, virginiawildflowers

All the enormous curly-topped trees in the depths: Ferns! They curl like that until they unfurl. Another very old plant, though younger than bryophytes and lycopods.

Real photo via The Cosmonaut, Wikipedia

Brightblooms and some of the other giant plants in the depths: Possibly based on a cycad? Again, a very ancient plant lineage. At this point, evolutionarily, they've developed seeds—that giant cone in the center is called a strobilus, and that's the seed structure.

These next few plants are angiosperms, meaning they produce flowers. Angiosperms are a more recent evolutionary lineage—still many millions of years old, but it took a while to develop flowers as a reproductive tactic.

Sundelions (left) are a fun recolor of a lily. There are also some scenery lilies (right) in various places—there are yellow ones that spring up when you turn on a lightroot (which gives them literal and thematic connection to the surface) and several other varieties, including tiger lilies, throughout Hyrule. Fun note, the sundelions appear to only have 5 stamen, while other lilies in the game (correctly) have 6. Seems to be an intentional decision to make it a more distinct fantasy species.

These next ones are Peruvian lilies/Alstroemeria, just used as a scenery plant but a very fun inclusion. Fun fact, not true lilies, so they're not deadly to cats like true lilies are.

Real photo © Dick Culbert, Wikipedia

Plum trees: These are also called out as plum trees in game! There's a journal in Kakariko that refers to the plum orchards.

Okay I'm a little proud of figuring this one out. Bomb flowers blend a few botanical references. Superficially, the fruit resembles a type of seed pod called a capsule—specifically it's very similar to a poppy capsule. The little red thing in the center is a nice addition to resemble both a flower stigma (reproductive part that leads to the ovary) and a bomb fuse. Now, poppy capsules disperse their seeds via wind, but there are other plants who do explode their seeds outwards as a dispersal tactic! This is called explosive dehiscence.

There is one tree in particular called the sandbox tree, AKA monkey-no-climb or dynamite tree (yes, really.) Their capsules look more like little pumpkins, but are known for violently exploding when ripe—they can launch seeds at 150 miles per hour (250 km/h) and spread them roughly 200 feet (60 m) away. The photo comparison is a poppy capsule but you should def go look up dynamite tree videos.

Real photo © PommeGrenade, pixabay

Fire fruits (and the other elemental fruits) grow on the same generic plant that looks kind of like it has grape leaves. Fire fruits resemble a specific botanical thing too though—the black netting is a papery calyx (part of the flower) seen in a nightshade genus, Physalis (golden berries, tomatillos, etc.)

Real photo © Helene Rogers, Alamy

I think this stuff is an Asarum, AKA wild ginger. I was actually puzzling over it until I walked past some today and went HEY

Not sure of the exact species but they're very green and heart-shaped and love being dense and low to the ground.

Real photo via David Stang, Wikipedia

Irises: Love irises, one of my favorite flowers and words, very happy to see them in game.

MISCELLANEA

Cup lichen! Lichen is not a plant, but a symbiotic structure of an algae + a fungi. Cup lichen is just a type of lichen formation that has a kind of vertical cup-like structure.

Real photo via Bernard Spragg

Geology crossover! Go look carefully at some of the whiter walls in the depths—they look like they have fossils of coral and other undersea hard-structured animals in them.

ANIMALS

Sticky lizards: Based on Diplocaulus, a very early (now extinct) amphibian! Their skulls are wacky. We're not sure whether the long sides stood out separately or were smoothly connected to the body by skin flaps, but the separate arrow-like shape is the most popular rendition.

Deep firefly: Might be a stretch because it could just be a multi-winged fantasy critter, but I think the "wings" and antennae are very reminiscent of Anomalocaris, an ancient aquatic arthropod.

Update: Other folks in the notes/tags have pointed out that they're probably based on a cryptid that's especially popular in Japan: skyfish AKA rods! They show up in photos and people think they're an alien lifeform. In reality, they're an optical blur created when a lower quality video captures intermittent flaps of an insect's wings, leaving sort of a many-winged smear in the photo. Thanks to all who left info!

Little frox: Another stretch because it totally could just be a Hinox-like frog, but every time I see the little ones I can't help but think of like...Ichthyostega, Mastodonsaurus, Eryops, and other early amphibians. They were pretty hefty—little frox size or bigger—and had with little waddling legs. This is less "I think it's definitely this" and more "it makes me happy when I picture frox as primitive amphibians."

I haven't detailed many of the scenery animals around Hyrule because most are identifiable with the camera function—it'll tell you that a certain animal is a heron or porgy, for example, and those groups are real, even though the exact species is made up. But I think the pigeons are fun because they're all crested pigeons. Pink-necked green pigeons may have also been the inspiration for the color palettes on the wood and rainbow pigeons.

Both pigeon photos via JJ Harrison, Wikipedia

Spiny bones: Not a specific critter, but those spiny bones that you can find lying around Eldin Canyon are vertebrae—possibly from the same thing that left those big rib cages around? The top spike is the spinous process where muscles attach, the littler spikes on the side are the transverse and articular processes. The dark O in the center is the spinal cord.

Also I made a friend who finally recognizes my purpose in Hyrule.

That's all I've got for now! Will add more as I keep playing.

#tears of the kingdom #totk #legend of zelda #loz #science fun #biology #lizard #plant #botany #image heavy #long post

[fernscare]

some kinda swamp dragon

[ID: a watercolor, acrylic, and colored pencil illustration of an alligator-like creature with blue, purple, and reddish-pink scales. It has a pointed tail tip. It is holding a large star/sun in its parted jaws. It is surrounded by swamp tupelo leaves, fireflies, ferns, and waterlily leaves. The background is black.]

#drawing #insects #bugs

[uzlolzu]

Some time ago, I designed a dryad for every platycerium/staghorn fern species I have or have had (my grande died, but the rest lives). They are sorted here in the following order:

p. ridleyi

p. bifurcatum

p. superbum (+ grande)

p. elephantotis

p. veitchii lemoinei

p. cabbage

p. madagascar alcicorne

p. quadridichotomum

p. stemaria

p. coronarium

My collection has grown with two p. madagascariense and a p. mt. kitshakood since I made these, so I suppose I’ll do two more at some point. The line art, ink layers, my design thoughts and some plant talk is publicly posted on my Patreon.

#uzloart #dryads #character design #creature design #old

[anthurak]

Something I’ve often found really compelling in Adventure Time is how The Grass Sword/Grass Demon/Fern found up becoming one of the most prominent and disturbing antagonists of the series pretty much by complete accident.

Like it’s easy to forget after Fern has become such a prominent character both in the show and fandom, but the ‘curse’ of the Grass Longsword started out and spent much of the show entirely benign. All it really did was cause the sword to stick to Finn. If anything, the sword/curse was quite beneficial to Finn, providing him with a prosthetic arm and activating on several instances to protect him. Really, the entire point of the original Blade of Grass episode was that the sword was actually pretty useful.

It was only AFTER stabbing and later merging with the Finn Sword to create Fern that the ‘curse’ started becoming actively malicious.

In hindsight, I think it’s pretty clear that while the Grass Spider/Octopus/Demon ‘curse’ entity within the Grass Sword may have been malicious, for the longest time it had no way of actually controlling or otherwise influencing Finn. The sword may have bonded to Finn’s body, but NOT to his mind, or more importantly his soul. This left Finn free to use the sword, and later even the grass-prosthetic freely without any danger or corruption from the curse.

But then Finn accidentally used it to stab the Finn Sword. As we see in Two Swords, this for the first time gave the Grass Demon/Curse direct access to a soul, the soul of the alternate Finn within the Finn Sword. A soul that it was able to corrupt and influence and ultimately merge with to create Fern.

This is one of those things that I think a lot of the fandom seems to miss: Fern isn’t some quirky doppelganger or a ‘brother’ to Finn. He is straight up a distorted, corrupted version OF Finn (the alternate iteration of him within the Finn Sword) manifested by the CURSE of the Grass Sword.

As in, basically EVERYTHING Fern does that deviates from the ‘norm’ that is Finn can be considered the work OF the curse. From more overt stuff like his tendency to ‘stab first, ask questions later’ or the times he ‘flips out’, to more subtle things like his brooding or just the fact that he has a noticeably different voice (the voice of the Grass Demon mind you), ALL of these are the product of the Curse.

And it’s this fact which makes Fern a truly tragic character. Because he was effectively doomed from the very start. Despite Fern’s attempts to do good and Finn’s and Jake’s attempts to accept him as his own person, Fern simply could not escape the curse’s influence. Because that curse was the very thing that created and maintained his physical body. It WAS his body. And this curse wanted nothing but to subvert, influence and ultimately CONTROL him for its own ends.

I think we can very easily assume that all of Fern’s failures, all his insecurities, everything that drove him to turning on Finn and trying to kill him and becoming the Green Knight in the final season, ALL of that was the result of the curse’s influence. Trying to whittle and break down Fern’s will so that it could mold him into whatever it wanted. And there was NOTHING Fern could do to stop this. Because the curse made itself a core part of what he was.

When Finn and Fern finally enter his mental world and destroy the Grass Demon in Come Along With Me, we see Fern as he truly is: simply another version of Finn who has been corrupted by the curse.

And with the Grass Demon dead, there is nothing to maintain Fern’s physical body, causing him to soon fade away. In order for this alternate Finn to be saved, he couldn’t exist as ‘Fern’.

Of course this also means that ‘Fern’ didn’t actually DIE at the end of the series. He simply reverted back to his true form: The Finn Sword.

And what I find so compelling and tragic about all this is that NONE of it had to actually happen. The Finn within the Finn Sword didn’t need to be put through all this suffering. Like it seems pretty clear that the Finn that become the Finn Sword was perfectly content being a sword. He didn’t need to be corrupted and spend the last two and half seasons being manipulated by a grass octopus demon.

Because when you think about it, ALL of this happened by accident. If Finn hadn’t lost the Finn Sword to Bandit Princess, or if he’d been able to simply avoid stabbing it with the Grass Sword during his fight with her, NONE of this would have happened. Finn would still have the Finn Sword and the Grass Sword would have likely remained benign and helpful to him. Heck, given how Finn seems to fully regain the use of the Grass Sword in his fight with Bandit Princess, he probably would have been able to duel-wield the Grass Sword and Finn Sword together.

This is really what I find to be the tragedy of Fern: That two of Finn’s greatest tools wound up becoming one of his most dangerous adversaries, and even worse that the Finn who became the Finn Sword was tortured and corrupted for no real reason, all essentially by accident.

#adventure time #adventure time analysis #finn mertens #finn the human #fern the human #the grass sword #the finn sword #now that i think about it calling him 'fern' almost feels insulting #like we insist on calling this finn a name that represents one of the worst times of his life #imagine the au where finn DOESN'T stab the finn sword?