#fire flowers

[megcutspaper]

SGDQ is on this week! Super talented video gamers supporting Doctors Without Borders.

#twitch #speed gaming #sgdq #sgdq2023 #agdq #fire flowers #Mario #videogames #video games #fan art #digital art

[boganvillas]

Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

#japan #summer #kimono #fireworks #festival #hanabi #flower fires #fire flowers

[hikayaking]

As I was walking towards some salt water marshes, this bright yellow flower with red flames skimming the petals caught my eye.

#hiking #outdoor photography #nature #flowers #vancouver island #fire flowers #yellow

[reasonsforhope]

In the Willamette Valley of Oregon, the long study of a butterfly once thought extinct has led to a chain reaction of conservation in a long-cultivated region.

The conservation work, along with helping other species, has been so successful that the Fender’s blue butterfly is slated to be downlisted from Endangered to Threatened on the Endangered Species List—only the second time an insect has made such a recovery.

[Note: "the second time" is as of the article publication in November 2022.]

To live out its nectar-drinking existence in the upland prairie ecosystem in northwest Oregon, Fender’s blue relies on the help of other species, including humans, but also ants, and a particular species of lupine.

After Fender’s blue was rediscovered in the 1980s, 50 years after being declared extinct, scientists realized that the net had to be cast wide to ensure its continued survival; work which is now restoring these upland ecosystems to their pre-colonial state, welcoming indigenous knowledge back onto the land, and spreading the Kincaid lupine around the Willamette Valley.

First collected in 1929 [more like "first formally documented by Western scientists"], Fender’s blue disappeared for decades. By the time it was rediscovered only 3,400 or so were estimated to exist, while much of the Willamette Valley that was its home had been turned over to farming on the lowland prairie, and grazing on the slopes and buttes.

Pictured: Female and male Fender’s blue butterflies.

Now its numbers have quadrupled, largely due to a recovery plan enacted by the Fish and Wildlife Service that targeted the revival at scale of Kincaid’s lupine, a perennial flower of equal rarity. Grown en-masse by inmates of correctional facility programs that teach green-thumb skills for when they rejoin society, these finicky flowers have also exploded in numbers.

[Note: Okay, I looked it up, and this is NOT a new kind of shitty greenwashing prison labor. This is in partnership with the Sustainability in Prisons Project, which honestly sounds like pretty good/genuine organization/program to me. These programs specifically offer incarcerated people college credits and professional training/certifications, and many of the courses are written and/or taught by incarcerated individuals, in addition to the substantial mental health benefits (see x, x, x) associated with contact with nature.]

The lupines needed the kind of upland prairie that’s now hard to find in the valley where they once flourished because of the native Kalapuya people’s regular cultural burning of the meadows.

While it sounds counterintuitive to burn a meadow to increase numbers of flowers and butterflies, grasses and forbs [a.k.a. herbs] become too dense in the absence of such disturbances, while their fine soil building eventually creates ideal terrain for woody shrubs, trees, and thus the end of the grassland altogether.

Fender’s blue caterpillars produce a little bit of nectar, which nearby ants eat. This has led over evolutionary time to a co-dependent relationship, where the ants actively protect the caterpillars. High grasses and woody shrubs however prevent the ants from finding the caterpillars, who are then preyed on by other insects.

Now the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde are being welcomed back onto these prairie landscapes to apply their [traditional burning practices], after the FWS discovered that actively managing the grasslands by removing invasive species and keeping the grass short allowed the lupines to flourish.

By restoring the lupines with sweat and fire, the butterflies have returned. There are now more than 10,000 found on the buttes of the Willamette Valley."

-via Good News Network, November 28, 2022

#butterflies #butterfly #endangered species #conservation #ecosystem restoration #ecosystem #ecology #environment #older news but still v relevant! #fire #fire ecology #indigenous #traditional knowledge #indigenous knowledge #lupine #wild flowers #plants #botany #lepidoptera #lepidopterology #entomology #insects #good news #hope

[irlplasticlamb]

satin, they called him, even in the wool and mail and boiled leather of the night’s watch; the name he'd gotten in the brothel where he'd been born and raised. he was pretty as a girl with his dark eyes, soft skin, and raven's ringlets. (commissioned by the lovely @hoopyfrood)

prints + merch + commission info

#vic.txt #my art #satin flowers #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #valyrianscrolls #pureasoiaf #jon x satin #got #game of thrones #asoiaf art #asoiaf fanart #art #fanart #illustration #artists on tumblr #digital art #character art

[daily-crowley]

Crowley Of The Day: how are the back of their heads attractive also?

#I was building the Lego flower bouquet whilst watching a paranormal show when I remembered I forgot to post here ahsjjdnf #I dropped the Daisy I was working on as if it was on fire #anyway #I want to run my fingers through their hair #especially Aziraphales it’s so fluffy and looks so soft #Crowley #Aziraphale #Good Omens #David Tennant #Michael Sheen #Good Omens Prime #Neil Gaiman #Terry Pratchett #Ineffable Husbands #Crowley Of The Day #COTD #COTD New Post #New Crowley Of The Day #Daily Crowley Content #Daily Crowley #Good Omens Season 2 #GOS2

[elitadream]

What if this was Luigi's fight all along?

#Alternatively: what if Luigi finally snapped? #And what if he had the chance to save and protect Mario? #He would take it in a heartbeat. Danger and anxiety be damned. #There's nothing he wouldn't do for his big brother #Including facing his single greatest fear #And Mario knows this #bless them both #Also when I said I was going to bring my Bowser back as himself... This was the piece I was talking about! #I've had this scene in mind for a whole year omg #But could never seem to find a good opportunity to finish it #The recent talk about Luigi for the body swap concept was just what I needed #And now I finally get to share it with you all! #Luigi #Bowser #Mario #Fire Flower #power-up #angst #drama #fight #family #bravery #heroism #Super Mario Bros #fanart

[constantlyfalling]

🔥☁️💧

Brushes by Brusheezy! Photography and editing by me.

#flower aesthetic #flowercore #wild flowers #flower photography #flowers #flower #photography #my post #photoshop #digital art #i did take these pictures and then edit them #fire #air #water #elements #magic #magic flower #magic aesthetic #magic core #magical #nature

[tangramkey]

🍉🍉🍉

#free palestine #free gaza #cease fire now #cease fire permanently #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #leafy bfdi #firey bfdi #bubble bfdi #blocky bfdi #flower bfdi #bfdi #bfdia #bfb #tpot #my art

[lasersinger]

...Giant Woman...

#mario movie #super mario bros #mario #mario kart #princess peach #fire flower #smb #smb movie

[exisaltiora]

| “I wish I hadn’t loved you from the beginning” I say, but it looks like you’ve seen through the lie.

#the magnus archives #magpod #tma #tma fanart #agnes montague #the desolation #lyrics from fire flower by haylosy #me when women wear pretty dresses GRAHHH #exartiora

[doctorcorby]

There it is. Crimson flower + textpost

#edelgard von hresvelg #fire emblem #fire emblem three houses #fe3h #black eagles #crimson flower #textpost meme

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Fire of Love (Sara Dosa, 2022)  

#Fire of Love #Sara Dosa #documentary #nature #2022 #flowers #trees #sky #birds #Maurice Krafft #Katia Krafft

[otaku553]

Some more spy x family one piece crossover doodles :)

A fic may or may not be in progress…….

Edit: the fic is posted :)

#one piece #spy x family crossover #portgas d ace #revolutionary sabo #sabo #monkey d luffy #loid forger #yor forger #anya forger #ok so I chose the last name Brenner for ASL as a cover because they’re all very fire coded #thanks to the person that commented eclipse as a WISE codename for sabo it fits really well #ace’s assassin codename is fireball after the fireball lily. wanted something subtly flower themed but also fire related #Spider-Man pointing meme happens between ace and yor when they’re given a joint mission and see each other as assassins for the first time #lots of ideas on the dynamic between loid and sabo…… #the ideological difference of sabo being willing to give up everything including spywork for his brothers #whereas loid has given up everything including his past and identity for spy work…. because he didn’t have a choice in it #because so much of his past was taken from him and not willingly given up so his motivation for being a spy is so strong…. #sabo responds the only way he knows how to to loid’s animosity by yknow. being a little shit and a gremlin at him

[jeyneofpoole]

at the end of the day i think the reason we’re all so obsessed w jon snow in the books is the inherent comedy of the Chosen One being sent to magical boarding school and just hating every minute of it. he’s not realizing his full magical girl potential he’s just exhausted. mans is TIRED. there’s a literal giant camping out in his front yard and he’s stressing over salt beef. there is an uber hot magical witch actively trying to seduce him and he’s just like ‘omg ygritte had red hair... im going to kms’. he is actively becoming a wolf. like straight up animorphing into his pet dog. and he doesn’t give a shit he’s like ‘hm that’s weird’ and then he gets distracted smelling satins’ hair again. easily the most character of all time. god.

#asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #valyrianscrolls #jon snow #satin flowers #ygritte #melisandre #ghost the direwolf #the nights watch #asoiaf meta #asoiaf shitpost

[iubworks]

Edeleth - After the War

#edeleth #male edeleth #edelgard #edelgard von hresvelg #Byleth Eisner #Byleth #FE3H #black eagles #crimson flower #blue lions #azure moon #golden deer #verdant wind #feh #fire emblem heroes #Nintendo #fire emblem #fire emblem three houses #three houses #fe17