#garden tending

[ato-dato]

Comission of AU Crowley I did for @arinadepan !!!

#she’s tending to her garden #like a good mother #and florist #crowley #anthony crowley #anthony j crowley #reverse au #swap au #vinylatte #aziracrow #aziraphale x crowley #florist Crowley #good omens #good omens au #good omens season 2 #good omens crowley #art #artwork #my art #fanart #digital art #drawing

[kneelingshadowsalome]

Am obsessed with the double trouble au with 2 readers and 2 königs <3 <3 It got me thinking, how do you think younger reader would interact with recruit könig? I feel like she'd honestly be terrified of him at first; he'd seem borderline psychotic (because he's practically drooling over her, always lingering around her and she might not be used to that kind of attention) but she might grow into liking him more once she discovers that she's into his annoying (maybe cocky?) antics.

CW: dubcon groping, dubcon kissing, dubcon everything

Hell yes she’s terrified.

This guy stalks her on social media, gropes her thigh under the table when they're out to eat, tries to move himself on top of her in the car when he leans to kiss her good night. Tells her the sweetest things before plunging his tongue in her mouth, one time he even flattens the passenger seat from under her so that she’s basically trapped.

Luckily he stops when she puts her hands over his chest and pushes him away: the drooly makeout session was getting out of hand, she sort of likes this crazy guy but she doesn’t want their first time to be in a car. Even if the said car is a nice black Hummer :(

He laughs when she escapes the vehicle – his little heartthrob is playing hard to get and it only makes König spiral further in love. He has an odd way of showing it though: sends her breathy voice messages in the middle of the night, so creepy, and one time she even hears a soft, slick sound in the background – is he fapping over there??

Young recruit König could be mistaken for a sadist but he really is just trying to make reader feel appreciated. Like… 24/7 appreciated… Fucked raw appreciated… Crying tears from overstimulation appreciated…

To König, love is not love if your partner isn’t shaking all over after you’re done with them and so the sex is bound to be a bit intimidating too, especially if reader is not that experienced. Poor young thing will be in constant fight or flight mode with him, and because König does the fighting, what else is left for her but to run? He always catches her though, and it takes months before she understands he’s not going to actually *hurt* her. Besides, König only enjoys her tears if they’re born from multiple orgasms.

If she’s crying because she’s scared, recruit König will become confused and oddly caring. So caring that she has to fawn or fake dead next because even this young man’s attempts to be nurturing feel like suffocation…

He asks, what’s wrong, did he hurt you, Liebe? There’s no need to be scared, little mitten. Shit, was he playing too rough…? Ah, you poor thing. Here, let him kiss it better…

…And before you know it, you’re squirming again, trying to get away from his mouth because there’s too much stimulation. König won’t let you go, hell no, you sound too cute when you’re squirming. Are you even trying to wriggle away or against him?

Then there comes the beautiful day when König is so tired from work he can’t even bother to chase her around the house and she’s like...

Do you even love me anymore?!

#wonder what colonel König and our other reader are doing in the meantime #just mowing the lawn outside? tending the garden and letting kids play? lol #maybe they don’t live in a commune but still! it would be fun <3 #double trouble au #I have to confess some of young recruit bled into stalker!König #they’re both such feral dogs ^^

[mwppp]

i love lie low at lupin’s because what! am i suppose to believe that remus had two bedrooms! no!! there was one bed! i know it! everyone knows it! and now there’s implications there’s scenarios! theres healing and there’s sharing the bed in the middle of summer! the middle of summer!

#they went from no interaction (assumption.) for a year! to lie low at lupin! to a shared christmas gift! #the days are longer! the sun is hotter! i know remus was trying and failing to keep his plants alive! #i know he had a stupid little gardeners hat from hope! no! i change my mind! from lyall!!!!!!!!!!! #and he cant keep his garden alive! #and i know sirius walks in fucking post gof where he quite frankly went through Some things! & is like now i have to tend to remus’ garden. #(he does he makes it look beautiful)(he doesn’t wear the hat)

[lilacfrostdraws]

they are so in love it’s not even funny

#zelink #totk zelink #botw zelink #my art #YELLS!!! I LOVE THEM SO MUCH #loz #i cannot stop thinking about them. the gentle tenderness that is zelink #i want them to just hold hands and live a peaceful happy life in the countryside #no more scary evil monsters or trauma. just kiss and tend to their garden. #i am so normal and sane abt them

[chao-studios]

happy easter everyone! <3

clash helpin to tend to an eggy! :DDDD <3

#sonic adventure 2 #sonic the hedgehog #dark happy spring garden #happy easter #eggs #tend #care #clash #greater kudu #bovine #antelope #africa #sega #sonic team #honeyspiret

[peachdues]

Ok a tiny little look at The Great War babies happily sleeping in a bed for the first time together

#garden huts are romantic ig but my back problems would not allow me to function #steadily realizing I tend to write smut taking place everywhere BUT the bed #tgw #demon slayer #giyuu tomioka

[oldtvandcomics]

Happy Queer Media Monday!

Today: Vampire in the Garden (2022)

Very beautiful anime, very underrated.

(Fine and Momo, playing music together.)

Vampire in the Garden is a five-episode Yuri anime on Netflix. It is set in a brutal world where humans and vampires fight a bitter war against one another. One of the anchor points in this fight is music, which humans have outlawed and vampires embrace. Having both lost their girlfriend in the fighting, fourteen year-old soldier-in-training Momo and vampire queen Fine get accidentally thrown together, and decide to run away, looking for an almost mythical place where, according to the promise, vampires and humans make music together.

Vampire in the Garden is a very beautiful, tragic story about hatred and trying to fight it in order to build something good together. While it is a show, it feels a lot like a movie cut into separate episodes for Reasons, so it can be watched as both. The relationship between Momo and Fine is a very beautiful and loving one, and can be read as either a romance or as an older lesbian mentoring a young one. Which is how I chose to see it, and I personally very much value this kind of queer relationship, as we don’t see it often in media.

The series is a closed story, and hasn’t been renewed, so it’s safe to assume that it was always meant to be a limited series. From what I gather in the Tumblr tag, it never gathered a very huge fandom, and the feelings on it are rather mixed. People who are interested in the very deep and serious themes seem to generally like it, while the more fanish group, who wanted to see a clear and explicit romance with a happy ending do not.

You can watch the trailer here, and stream the show on Netflix. I have also written a post about lesbian vampires as a subgenre before, if that’s something you’d like to read.

Queer Media Monday is an action I started to talk about some important and/or interesting parts of our queer heritage, that people, especially young people who are only just beginning to discover the wealth of stories out there, should be aware of. Please feel free to join in on the fun and make your own posts about things you personally find important!

#vampire in the garden #it is one of those stories that are more deep and complex and require media literacy skills #something that... certain people struggle with #to put it nicely #which tends to annoy me very much #so I'm kind of proud of keeping an objective tone in this post #anime #Yuri #yuri anime #lesbian #vampires #lesbian vampires #Queer Media Monday

[profoundmakerdreamerss-blog]

Give me a fic where Romione go to the past and raises baby Harry. Please. Like why do we not have any. My boy also deserves someone going to the past to save him, like really imagine baby Harry growing up with these two people who loves him unconditionally and will fight Dumbledore (fist fight even) for his safety. Imagine Ron teaching baby Harry to fly, while Hermione helps him with his homework. The first time Harry eats with them, he starts hyperventilating because he doesn't know if all that food is for him. Imagine, they both went to the past to save the world because their Harry is dead. Imagine, Ron nearly cried when Harry asked him if they will leave him because he is a freak. Imagine, a grown Hermione with her controlled ruthlessness dealing with the Dursleys. Imagine, how lovely the story would be — imagine how happy Harry would grow up to be.

#golden trio #i imagine them going to the past to save harry #but end up going too far #and when they go to him #they see him #in all his 10 year old glory tending the HUGE garden under the sun #wearing way too large clothes #imagine them raging #imagine imagine harry with a happy home #and its his two best friends who know him SO WELL #yet never really knew him bc he never told them much about dursleys (or not properly anyways #) #just i wajt them all to be happy please #hermione granger #harry potter #ron weasley #hjp #harry james potter #the golden trio #i love these three together but i can't find a single au w just #Hermione #ron #traveling #for #some #reason #it's always harry who chooses to back to save the world 😭 or harry and Hermione or the three of them #give me #romione #raising baby harry pls

[feintenstein]

Era design doodles in no particular order

#goobied gabbad #more of these felloes UHG. #crowley's wings have always looked so thin in the eden scene... #aziraphale really is just moomin in funny clothes. i tend to gravitate more toward moominpapa in his design though #and personality #i also cant decide on whether or not this is an au or they just decided to be in the moomins series one day #ig with these designs definitely an au #good omens #good omens/moomins #aziraphale #crowley #bildad ur the greatest everyone was so wrong abt you. #goes for u too mr gardener (though hes not present) #good omens spoilers #? i suppose

[scopophobia-polaris]

i feel like they'd fight like siblings sometimes

NOT HIS NICE SHIRT

#OH MY GOD HE'LL LEND TIMIE HIS WORST SHIRT BUT OHSHSHHSHAHDHAHHA HIS NICE SHIRT SWEATER COMBO........ #I NEED TO GO BACK TO COLORING IVE BEEN SHADING THE PAGES NAVI GOT THE FLATS ON #its been so tiring lately #not the comic drawing just doing gardening and chicken tending #honestly if Timie wasnt dreaming all the time they would of just started putting on Cless' clothes theyre comfy

[mishapen-dear]

hey. hey. have we all noticed. the tea garden. because i watched the qsmp emergency vod and. cucurucho's tea garden.

jaiden made a tea garden for cucurucho because she thought it had nothing. because she wanted it to have something that was Only Its, and not the federation's.

but it has a tea garden. and a corn garden. and a fucking tv. it has more items that belong solely to it than jaiden herself does.

anyway who wants to join my imploding party. main entertainment is imploding

#TEAR THAT BITCH APARTTTT #its so silly its so so silly #she made it a fucking tea garden #and it already has. a tea garden. #it already has so much #qsmp jaiden animations #qsmp #it's too late for me to be eloquent she made it a tea garden and it already has a fucking tea garden #and it let her think it didn't #which. we know cucurucho evil. #but. it already has a tea garden #it enjoys gardening #it didn't tend to any of her gifted crops

[fadedrainbowbookshelves]

Day off gardening with the husband.

#welcome home #welcome home fanart #frank frankly #eddie dear #eddie x frank #frank x eddie #They're both content to garden and relax. Eddie's the best with plants but Frank has more technical knowledge #Between them both they have the best garden in the neighborhood #While Eddie loves to help all his friends he tends to spend most of his time with a certain grumpy bug enthusiast #They'll talk to each other for hours while picking weeds and watering. #Or else just stay quiet...in the most comfortable and happy kind of quiet you get from being with someone you love #I once grew a tomato plant in a home depot bucket and I didn't expect it to work. You get a lot of fkin tomatoes from a single plant actual #Unaffiliated with the incredible Welcome Home creation I'm just a fan having fun!

[thepoisonedchalice]

some mountain ghoul thoughts i had on my walk this morning..

give me mountain with wavy shoulder length hair. give me mountain with a messy bun. give me mountain with moss covered ram horns. give me mountain with tattoos of all his favourite plants and flowers on his arms. give me mountain growing weed in the greenhouse. give me mountain walking around the ghoul den shirtless and everyone ogling his tattoos and his pants sitting low on his hips. give me sweet and soft but intimidating mountain. give me mountain bringing you flower bouquets every few days full of flowers he grew. give me mountain laying naked on the dock at the pond soaking in the sunshine with rain and swiss swimming. give me mountain relaxing with a joint after a loud and overstimulating day. give me cheeky and smirking mountain.

#i am having a lot of mountain feels today if you couldn’t tell #i love this forest creature ghoul #i want to tend all the gardens with him and talk about plants and flowers #(and to kiss him silly) #i love this gentle giant ghoul #mountain ghoul #rain ghoul #swiss ghoul #nameless ghouls #mountain my darling #chalice writes

[ceoofmetagala]

so i saw on twitter you’re hosting an ask event for fecto flora, is it okay to ask a question?

for fecto flora: who is it that you hangout with the most?

//hi yes hehe

#mocha.txt #galacta knight #techno knight #neopolatain kirby #taranza #veri kirby #fecto flora #mocha inbox #he has a pattern of liking people who remind him vaugely of ppl he knew in the past!! #veri doenst have aby simalrietes they just talk sometimes and also trauma exchange #he doenst like ranza that much. he prefers to garden in peace without hearing taranza go these flowers remind of sectonia... #he's sympathetic but also flora is only a tad of an asshole you'll notice my fectos tend to have a but of an assholey side #floras is not gaf abt anyones issues if he cant relate #neos is being unemphatic #lis has a bit of a massive ego #and opal is just uncaring to others wishes #flora is defintly on the “least bad” since this assholey ness is hidden underneath everything #galacta is aware of this assholeyness more than others since hes seen first hand flora seem to zone out whenver issues he couldnt relate to #were bejng discussed LMFAO #floras ass was not paying attention sometimes during discussions #galacta juts shook him anytime he started to zone out #which works well enough #mocha.png

[anipgarden]

The Secret Other Thing: KILL

This is my eighth post in a series I’ll be making on how to increase biodiversity on a budget! I’m not an expert--just an enthusiast--but I hope something you find here helps! 

KILL, TEAR, RIP, MAIM. 

You may have seen this sentiment a few times on gardening and wildlife blogs and been incredibly confused. Isn’t killing things the opposite of what you should be doing to protect habitats? In some cases, it really is necessary!

Invasive Plants

Invasive plants can do more harm than good, taking up space and nutrients and providing little in return to local wildlife--while spreading and choking out the native plants that would provide the most to our native fauna. Learn how to identify invasive species in your area and how to properly dispose of them, and do so whenever you have the opportunity! You may even be able to find volunteer groups/events where you can join up with like-minded people to remove a specific plant from an area.

(This image refers to the United States specifically--these plants aren't invasive or native everywhere!)

Pro tip, though; if you take out an invasive species and leave empty soil where it was, it’s likely another quick-growing invasive species will just move in. We don’t want that! Try to plant something in its place! If you’re going out on a mission to take out invasive plants, try to keep some native flower seeds or seedlings on your person while you do this work.

Different plants are invasive in different places, so be sure that the plant you're targeting is actually invasive to where you are. You don’t want to rip out a beneficial plant because it’s invasive somewhere else! Social media sites like Instagram and Tumblr are great for spreading information about invasive plants, but they can often be a bit… US-centric. Even I'm guilty of this, plenty of times! Plants like garlic mustard, kudzu, butterfly bush, Amur honeysuckle, wild radish, and Japanese knotweed are high-profile invasive plants that I hear about all the time here in America--but they came from somewhere, and are a part of the environment in these places! Likewise, many plants that are branded as pollinator-friendly and biodiversity boosters here in the states can be awful invasive species elsewhere. Even plants and animals that aren’t invasive in one part of a country or continent can be detrimental in another--Canadian waterweed is native to North America, but it’s actually invasive in Alaska.

(Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica) vs Coral honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens) vs the yellow variety of Coral honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens))

Be sure you’re taking out the right plant--be very confident in your ID before you take any action! Amur honeysuckle and Japanese honeysuckle, for example, may be invasive in the US--but coral and northern bush honeysuckles are native and key species in their environments. You don’t want to do harm while trying to do good--double check your IDs. Being certain with your IDs can also prevent you from doing harm to yourself and others--some plants produce toxic smoke when burned. Stay well-read on how to dispose of the invasive plants you’re targeting. 

(Garlic mustard pesto! Can't say I've ever had it, but I've heard good things about it online!)

With that being said! Some invasive species can be eaten. It’s free food! And you’re helping the environment? Win-win! Try looking up recipes that use these plants, or see how you can substitute something else for them! Foraging guides and blogs would likely be extremely helpful for this.

A super easy way to help curb the spread of invasive plants is to not grow them yourself! Double check any plant you’re considering buying or growing from seed--some sold in stores like butterfly bush are often touted as great plants to add to a pollinator garden, but in reality are an invasive species that eagerly displaces native shrubs here in the states.

POV: you're working the garden center at the Blue Big Box Store, you care about the environment, and every day you watch people buy Butterfly Bush and can do jack shit about it asides from try to gently steer them towards something else (but the other next best option was also Invasive Tropical Milkweed because its easier for Big Box Store to sell) I have a personal vendetta against people who grow Butterfly Bush (I live in The States) (If you didn't know Butterfly Bush was invasive in the US before now you're valid but also please god consider replacing it with an alternative ASAP)

Invasive Animals

POV 30 to 50 feral hogs are running into your yard within 3-5 minutes while your small children play

Invasive animals and insects compete for resources, take over habitat, and can even spread disease--all while pushing native species out or dwindling their numbers. Keep track of invasive animals you see and report them. Depending on the severity of the situation, killing them can be necessary and even encouraged. Do be sure it’s an invasive species and not a look-alike. If you’re unsure, take pictures, do research, and take action the next time.

Some high-profile invasive species in the US are spotted lanternflies, cuban tree frogs, hammerhead worms, feral swine, zebra mussels, lionfish, asian carp, burmese python, and others. Again, do make sure you’re targeting species that are invasive in your area; I doubt Asian carp are considered invasive in Asia, for example. Similarly, the American bullfrog is native to the eastern US and Canada, but is quickly becoming an invasive species around the rest of the world. Not to mention, the racoon problem in Japan… 

Some invasive species can be eaten as well! Some of them taste awful, and some can even be dangerous to eat or handle without caution. I would do a good amount of research online before trying to cook up just anything.

Doing it Right

If you’re trying to handle invasive species, you do have to ensure you’re doing it properly. As you do your research, you’ll likely see if the species should be photographed and reported and to what channels. Also in some cases, going about destroying them incorrectly could unintentionally help them spread--some plants spread quickly through rhizomes into disturbed soil, and hammerhead worms can actually regenerate from pieces into fully-developed new worms when you try to cut them up. Some invasive species are even actively harmful to humans, so I cannot emphasize enough that you need to be sure about what you’re dealing with and be careful about it. Giant Hogweed, for example, has toxic sap that’ll cause severe skin inflammation and painful blisters if it contacts skin and is exposed to sunlight. The blisters last for months, and the skin may develop long-term sensitivity for sunlight. 

If you’re unsure about how to handle an invasive plant, or are unsure of it’s identity, try contacting your local university co-op extension service if you’re in the states. They can tell you how to remove it safely and effectively. I can't say for sure what other channels would be the best option for someone living outside the states, so if anyone knows, feel free to chime in!

Pets

POV: ur little outdoor kitty Firestar is destroying the balance of your local ecosystem plz keep him INSIDE

Please keep your pets inside, or at least on a leash. An outdoor cat can do a lot more damage than one might imagine, as well as unrestrained dogs.

That’s the end of this post! And... technically, the last post in the series! My next and final final post is gonna be basically a giant list of all my sources that I used to make this post! I hope this post series was informative, helpful, interesting--anything of value, really! Feel free to reply with any questions, your success stories, or anything you think I may have forgotten to add in!

#biodiversity #solarpunk #gardening #invasive species #ani rambles #out of queue #the biodiversity saga #i wasn't sure where to add this in on the post but not all non natives are invasive and some native plants have sorta invasive-y habits #i dont remember the proper term that isn't just 'invasive-y' but yknow. #with that being said I tend to do a quick google search to make sure a plant I wanna buy isn't invasive before I add it to my garden #with that being said fuck big box stores STOP SELLING INVASIVE PLANTS I SWEAR TO GOD I DONT CARE IF THEY'RE POPULAR STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT #someday I will go on an entire unhinged rant about tropical milkweed #ive already done it before but I'm willing to do it again fuck it #anyways!!!! this is the last post if you don't wanna read Collection Of Links: The Musical so uh #hope this was a nice series with helpful information!! love yall byeeee

[noxcorvid]

think I’m almost done deciding when serana gets bank chuted w her elder scroll, sometime between 1E 2331 and 1E 2703, the end and beginning times of the alessian and reman empires, bc the main hangup in figuring out when that happens is her line of “cyrodiil’s the seat of an empire?” when you wake her up. I decided against it happening during the interregnum in the 2E, bc while Cyrodiil doesn’t have a solid cohesive empire at that time, it still was kkkkkkkind of an empire? it was nominally an empire (the empire of Cyrodiil) so I decided against it, and then that segways right into Tiber septim septiming all over the place into the 3rd era, so 1E it is. Considered before the Alessian Empire, but that began 1E 243 and for the sake of keeping the story relatively cohesive (for perspective, the Dwemer getting thanos snapped and chimer->dunmer happened around 1E 700, and the yokudans began sailing en masse for Tamriel in 1E 792), and I initially didn’t want serana to be so violently out of the loop... I was gonna save that level of dissonance for a potential miraak doesn’t die in apocrypha arc but the ideas been growing on me. Like a fungus. ALSO, re: language: I don’t care what the official lore (or at least uesp) says there’s no way all of tamriel was using high elvish for legal documents continent-wide, serana would speak primarily old Nordic either way, but at least with the Alessian empire having already happened it makes sense if she at least spoke a little bit of old cyrodilic ……… but also very early 1E serana so. Hm.

#Skyrim #tes #serana #other things to consider: valerica tended her garden for centuries without there being a Cyrodiil empire #dragons weren’t so uncommon yet #the architecture of the Volkihar castle feels very… Breton in aesthetic #and I know this is bc Bethesda was probably going for a very generic spooky vampire castle design #but I like to think w the timeline its given enough time for the Bretons to expand out #bc the castles like. right on the border there #and I like the idea of it being originally built or commissioned to be built by Bretons #and before the alessian empire feels too short a period #like too close to when the direnni ruled and held the power #the Breton would be too busy figuring out their own shit to make a big fancy castle for the nords over there #so yah.