#frangipani rants

[selora-florients]

Big plant update

Not really able to be seen from this angle, but there is already 5 flowers blooming. And a lot more is on the way. We bought this plant when I believe there was no flowers?

One of these petunias is gonna bloom with two flowers! And like yeah, sure, most of these has a second bud growing, that particular petunia is gonna bloom with two at once!

Bottom image is one of the newest petunias getting ready to bloom!

It just looks like dirt and hints of green but these are my Carnations!! They're so small right now. These are those "choice double mixed" which I'm just assuming means random colors. The dwarfs haven't started growing yet.

I didn't take a pic yet, but I think soon I'm gonna need to replant my forget me nots. They're in a tiny tin and are growing, but I want them to have more space. Unfortunately, I believe they're way too tiny for me to do that with.

#plant progress #plant updates #plant rants #If anyone has tips or advice I'd love to know #I am trying my best but I'm also a fool #look at my plant babies! #frangipani #petunia #carnation #forget me not #forget-me-not #I'll check on my plants later in the day and get photos of all the others! #I hope someone enjoys my plant rants

[summoner-chan]

Sorry, I guess I should have been more specific, I WAS talking about Darius lol. Aight then last two questions: Shiro and Durga.

And don't worry about the long winded responses, I love it when people feel comfortable enough talking about themselves, and I can, like, feel their excitement as I read. :)

I tend to worry about how much I talk since that experience with someone on discord (the same server as those two passive aggressive peeps) asked me to not to post a wall (what they meant is that not send a long ass one whole paragraph of words) because I was talking a long time to type and send-

Mind you, my phone was lagging at the time there was a lot of typos happening without my control so I had to retype them. I remember it being something they asked what's about that art I drew?

Other than that, they were pretty mean, maybe because they were part of the admin teams of the discord or they're just a natural born dick :/ and I mean by natural born dick when someone just said good criticism and everyone who's friend with that person just-

y'know bit his head off saying things like "lmaooo nobody needs that shit critism 🤪. Look at this guy shitting on (username) 😂😂" and there's them going all "I don't need your damn critism, I don't fucking care. I ask critism when I want to and I didn't ask for yours so you can stfu" like okay....no need to offended by that... And I found the critism on the spot though? I couldn't see your linework from all those shading-

Anyways, I'm being off topic so let's hop to the Housamo Ask Game!✨✨

[Shiro]

Favorite book or favourite book series? Oof, truth to be told, I'm more to a manga/comic book reader 😂😂 but I do enjoy reading books once awhile!! I only own two horror light novels which are in my native language so I'll try to translate their title??

The very first book I had was Kakak Kemboja (Kemboja in English is Frangipani) which translates to Big Sis Kemboja/Sister Kemboja (not in a Nun way-) and it was about a young boy meeting one of the tenants in the old apartment he lived in.

After losing his father and his house, he and his mother was forced out by the late father's mother and brother who planned to make their house into a homestay. This caused the young boy to stay at the apartment alone while his mother was working to bits but don't be sad, Big Sis will always be there for you

Spoiler, Big Sis is actually a ghost 👻

In Asian culture, Frangipani is one of the notorious for having it's scent being related to ghosts. If you're alone and you smell something fragrant, it's best to get out of there as fast as you can along with to not comment about the scent on the spot. I tend to smell fragrant things (doesn't help that I can see things ksjdjwkdje) even in my own house so I just- Yeet myself from that place

The second book is Somniphobia which is the Fear of Sleeping. It's about an office guy who likes to read scary and horror books at night until morning which causes him to get late for work most of the time. He was starting to get bored since he's already read all of the books he owned and nothing seems to catch his eye until his old friend suggested him a book, Somniphobia. Little did he know, the more he read the book, the less sleep he had. To be specific, he's started to develop Somniphobia himself. .

I only read light novels because once I bought the book, I immediately read it, to the point I finish it one day which just frustrates me to no end. I read super fast and everything just gets crammed to my head and I'd have to reread again to make things sensible kskskksksdj

I'm not a manic like my big sis though, she has two shelfs full from her novels. Her favorite book series is the Clockwork series, the Shadowhunter series which is written by Cassandra Clare and she almost have the full set now- 😂

[Durga]

To be sentimental or to not be sentimental-

Well then I'm going to the sentimental path skksksks

I'd actually want my family get back together again but you know, I can never take in another man who's not even my biological father to begin with after what I went through with said man

Having to cope without having a dad for 2 years now is sad but it happened, I know it's not my fault even though another part of me insists that I should have done better. I cry so easily whenever there's things that reminds me of him, I can't handle scenes where a man is lying in bed in the hospital, I can't handle seeing fathers being very affectionate to their children and I can't handle going to hospitals again

Thinking about marriages is what hits me the most because in my religion, the bride's father will be the officiant for the wedding, handing his daughter over to the groom's care so to say. That doesn't mean that I won't be able to get married without having a father to be the officiant but rather the officiant will be replaced by the bride's brother or uncle (brother of the father) and if there none, a court religious officer will be the officiant

It's just that thinking how lucky your eldest sister (from the first wife of my late dad + divorced) was able to have your late dad as the officiant of her wedding then when it was only you and your four sisters (two from the same mom while the other two is from the second wife), the chance was already gone. I won't see my late dad at my own wedding, only having it being replaced by my brother or uncle. It's not the same, it won't ever be the same because he's not there to see his grandkids or will he have the opportunity to be called grandpa

It just hurts knowing that he won't be there to be a part of the big parts of my life

But it happened and there's nothing I could change, I'm already quite happy and grateful to have mu late dad's wife and her family taking care of me and my two sisters despite there are times when we've fought but nonetheless grateful

I don't have my biological mom with me at the time since she was forced to stay in her own home country due to her citizenship, I dearly miss her but...due to personal reasons, I can't help but hate her from time to time. She does the wrong things and it scarred me badly, hence why I am unable to give her my blessings for her to get married

That's all I could say since if I were to say more, things would get pretty long and it's just me ranting out :P

Thank you for sending in ask in!! Feel free to send anymore like usual~

#housamo #tokyo afterschool summoners #housamo ask game #summoner answers #mauveadagio

[figure-skating-watch-party]

Gran Premio Italia (2nd stage), Egna

Just stopping by to quickly yell about Gran Premio Italia. ... I love Matteo Rizzo. I love him. 

MEN

The jumps were very moody for the guys in the SP. Poor Mattia dalla Torre, especially. But! His step sequence in the Step out for a while SP is really interesting. The next competitior was Alessandro Fadini and he was returning to a competition after a year-long absence due to an injury and he seemed happy with the skate to Two feet so we are happy! 

I’m really not a fan of Daniel Grassl’s Muse SP... But sure he does jump. Quad lutz here and there... 

[And yes I know it’s not fair to think that but I can’t help it: while watching Daniel I’m just kind of sad because of Matteo. Because Daniel seems to be jumping with such ease, seems to be so comfortable, not being nervous. And I know how much Matteo tries and wants to succeed. And I want to see him on top of Europe, fighting with the guys from Russia and meanwhile he’s just fighting to be number one in Italy. (sorry for the rant, I just love Matteo too much...)]

Matteo Rizzo is poetry on ice. What can I say. My favourite (currently competing) skater skating to my favourite singer ever. (Andrea Bocelli - Romanza). I cannot be not biased. I love it 😭

The free program went really well! Jumps were mostly behaving and the guys showed great performances. I was so happy about Mattia dalla Torre’s redemption skate and his In this shirt FP. All the jumps were clean! He did a beautiful 3A to start the program. It’s just a beautiful program overall. 

Though I don’t know maybe I liked Alessandro Fadini’s Caruso even a bit more or at least equally as much. I loved the long spiral and give me alllll the illusion spins you can. And he was so happy in the k&c, you have to be happy for him. 

Besides the fact, that I really like men skating in suits I absolutely looooove story-telling programs. I’m here all for Gabriele Frangipani’s Peaky blinders FP. The choreography is so entertaining. 

Matteo seemed to be enjoying his The Greatest showman program so much. The facial expressions. The energy. The whole attitude. I can’t ask for more (maybe for the 4T to fully come back)... I don’t like this program very much, but I don’t care, as long as he’s happy. And I’m so relieved because yesterday I was quite sad, even though it was not a bad skate at all. I was just comparing him with Daniel so much. And here in the free, Matteo was only ten points behind! Everything’s possible. I believe in him, I believe that he gained some much needed confidence here and I’m just  already looking forward to see Matteo again!

I have to admit that Daniel’s choices of music and my taste did not meet this season at all. I’d love to support the guy, he has great spins, he jumps with ease, seems very nice, I have nothing against him, I have everything against the choreo though. He deserved to win, I’m perfectly ok with that. But he also deserves much better programs. (Have you seen the weird leg holding??? I don’t even want to know what’s that suppossed to mean...) 

PAIRS

In pairs we finally saw Nicole della Monica & Matteo Guarise, they have a new SP and it’s beautiful. They really are ready to fight again for the top positions in Europe (after being absent from competitons for almost a year). 

I really enjoyed Sara Conti/Niccolo Macii’s SP to Oblivion. They were told last week that they would skate in this event because another pair withdrew and they skated so well. If I understood it correctly, this is their second season skating together... and I’m really really impressed. And I loved hearing Ondřej Hotárek praise their FP so much. 

 In my opinion in pairs it’s the most difficult - out of the four disciplines - to really perform a program, to really skate to the music and to really express a story or the emotions and not just have the music as a background support. You really can’t do that in ice dance but in pairs maybe it’s sometimes the case. But certainly not this skate. This was beautifully interpreted and performed from the beginning to the end. 

I also like Rebecca Ghilardi/Filipo Ambrosini’s FP to Grande Amore so much. But this wasn’t their day. However, they had a good SP yesterday, great skate at the first stage of Gran premio Italia so it should be ok. 

And I hope we’ll see some ice dance next time!

#figure skating #figureskating #current season #watch party #gran premio italia #matteo rizzo

[thehonoraryamerican]

Questions

I saw @tripletwistinggainer do this and wanted to do it too!

name: Courtney nickname: I don’t really have one zodiac sign: Virgo hogwarts house: Gryffindor!! height: about 5″7 ethnicity: not sure if this counts as ethnicity but I’m Scottish-Australian favorite fruit: green apples, navel oranges, strawberries, mango and watermelon favorite season: definitely winter, because I hate the heat, but summer evenings are beautiful too! favorite book series: without a doubt, Harry Potter. favorite fictional character: JENNIFER JAREAUUUUUU favorite flower: gonna be a basic bitch and say frangipani favorite scents: watermelon soy candles ahhhhhhh favorite color: caribbean blue favorite animal: my dog (even though he’s an asshole and chewed up my only working phone charger) favorite artist/band: at the moment, it’s Lights and Halsey coffee, tea or hot chocolate? hot chocolate, caffeine in any shape or form doesn’t tend to agree with my stomach average # of hours of sleep: 7 number of blankets: three dream trip: eight weeks in Scotland to discover more about my heritage and meet my family, OR climbing Everest last thing i googled: "olympus mons” blog created: I can’t remember exactly when I made this blog, but it was around the start of the US elite competition season last year. I think. It may have been earlier. how many blogs i follow: 479 number of followers: 498 what i usually post about: gymnastics, personal rants, and anything funny that comes across my dash do i get asks regularly: nope, but honestly, I’m always open to answer asks!!

I tag @omgsamchap @olympichampion @itssimonebiles @categoricallyunsound @ginamarie135 @stone-faced-sunset and anyone else who wants to do it!

#questions #random

[sheisthepoetryshecanwrite]

"Ranting Ritual" A spoken word piece, to calm me down. . . . . . . (at Cafe Frangipani)

[frangipanidownunder]

All you lovely writers out there doubting your worth

Let me say to you, that you are all amazing. You are taking words and putting them in an order that makes readers gasp, or cry, or laugh, or sigh. You are painting pictures with letters. You are creating believable or fantastical scenarios into which you place our favourite characters. You make them fall in love, debate, run away, clash, fight, fuck. You make them human. You make them super human. You make them hateful or beautiful. 

You make us want to read more. You keep our dreams alive. You mend our broken hearts. You show us what could have been, what should have been.

Some of you get a gazillion notes, on everything you write. Some of you don’t get the notes you should. Some of you have had a stand out hit fic that breaks through your own expectations. Others of you are still waiting to feel that. It will come and then the next one will not reach those heights. You’ll feel like shit again. That’s writing.

Some of you write a fic a day, some a fic a month, some will only ever write one fic. But that one fic might be the one fic that somebody will never forget, that still makes them swoon or laugh or cry. 

The time you spend nurturing your creativity is donated to us readers and we genuinely love you for it. Not all stories hit the mark. Reading preference is subjective. Writing is lonely. Writing can be hard. But ultimately, writing is a gift - for you and for the reader. An artistic endeavour that should be celebrated. Never forget that, whatever you currently think about your talents as a writer.

#writing #frangipani rants #you are sharing your stories with us for free #we are grateful #we are greedy for more #we should try to drop by inboxes more often to thank writers for their contributions to oour days #maybe there should be a weekly thank a writer campaign #shut up vicky