#it was built in a forest

[an-internet-introvert]

I just spent hours building a house in the Sims only for me to accidentally pull my hard drive out and lose all my progress because I didn't save it

#ALWAYS SAVE #I worked so hard on it #It had a built in attic #it was built in a forest #there was so much #and now it's gone #do I spend hours re creating it #or do I just go to sleep #aiyah ramables

[skumhuu]

✨👑 Throne 👑✨ pages 11-12

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#sku art #throne comic #unsympathetic killer #unsympathetic nightmare #dreammare #soft bad end #tasty bad end #Dubcon touching #fear #horror #at last the truth of nightmare’s castle is revealed #it was never a castle in the first place #but instead #the trees of the twins old forest full of ambient magic bending to Nightmare’s whims #he never found an old au and took it over #he never built anything #the world bends to his demands #Dream is understandably horrified #there is death in the walls #so much negativity that it’s snuffed out his magic #Nightmare is very pleased with this outcome 👀😏

[boanerges20]

Motolove

#motorcycle #biker girl #wild n sexy #freedom #adventure #explore #escape #nature #classic motorcycle #custom bike #wild #forest #woods #ride hard or go home #built for speed #experience speed #please reblog #moto love #lifestyle

[claypigeonpottery]

unicorn in a forest fire won the poll, and it fit beautifully on this long tray

#reserved #unicorn #fantasy art #pottery #mythical creatures #ceramics #sgraffito #underglaze painting #timelapse #video #artists on tumblr #forest fire #fire #hand painted #hand built pottery #slab built pottery #greenware

[bonefall]

I personally like Thunder's prosthetic. Explained it to my friend (who does use a mobility device, a cane and wheelchair, and listens to me rant and infodump about BB) and they agreed, it's important to know that not every person needs what someone wants to give them. It's another example of "bad ableist person does a thing that hurts a disabled person because they are bad and ableist".

Clear Sky got Jagged Peak killed and would have killed Sunlit Frost! He would absolutely force his disabled son to be "normal" and present it like a privilege. "I wouldn't do this for anyone else, it's special, why don't you want to be helped?"

Thunder Storm should toss it in Clear Sky's face. (I would say toss it into the river but we do not pollute waterways in this house)

Thank you for telling me this, and tell your friend I'm thanking them too! If they have anything else to add please forward what they have to say

Since BB!DOTC tackles some of the heaviest topics in the entire series because its canon equivalent is so dark, I think very carefully about what I do here and how I show it. I take feedback on its sensitive aspects very seriously. If I'm understanding the criticism properly, it's that I should avoid stigmatizing prosthetics by making sure Thunder Storm's not the only one with it-- which he's not! And I'll add even more.

I don't want to avoid something only because it's uncomfortable if the topic is important, and my portrayal is respectful. Ableism IS uncomfortable! There are some situations where a prosthetic is not wanted! I think the rejection of this particular one is both a good opportunity to show a type of ableism and ALSO is very fitting for the characters.

In BB!Clear Sky's mind, the villain, he's fixing an old mistake. He can't admit that he got Jagged Peak killed or take REAL accountability for it (though he will, occasionally, apologize insincerely), but deep in his bones, he knows what he did was cruel. He'll never tell anyone this because he doesn't really cognate it himself, but Thunder Storm NEEDS to take his gift.

If Thunder doesn't take it, it blows a hole in his newest story. You see, throwing Jagged Peak out was All That Could Have Been Done back then. It was a Tragedy and he simply Made A Hard Choice. He regrets it very much, But You Have To Understand.

But now? Now? Well, behold. Look at what he's accomplished since the tragic death of his little brother. His cats are well-fed, cared for, and stable enough to make such incredible advancements. If only Jagged Peak had been able to hold on longer, if only he could be here now, I could fix him.

Just like I can (MAKE YOU JUST LIKE ME) fix you.

"Everything I've ever done is for Jagged Peak. For Fluttering Wing. For you." Thunder Sky is SPECIAL, but if he rejects any gift, tries to turn down the "privileges" offered to him, in an instant that becomes ungratefulness and arrogance. He both forces him to be special, and then leverages it against him if it's rejected. "Spoiled brat, doesn't appreciate what I've worked so hard to give him."

It all goes back to him and his own guilt. He can NEVER be wrong. He can't accept his family doesn't have to be "normal" or reflect his own ability. He won't see himself as a bully, let alone a murderer. It was never about his son's comfort or finding out what Thunder Storm wants or needs, it was about his own ego.

...All that said I'm still taking feedback if there's anything else I should keep in mind, or if anyone has a counter point, especially if you also have experience here.

(In the interest of having a link trail for posterity, here's the critique/call for feedback this is in response to)

#ALSO also I will take suggestions on other characters who should have prosthetics #Sunlit makes sense and it will make a really nice character moment later for him to have one built #There's also an amputee in RiverClan few people talk about called Stonestream #I can give him one and bump him up into a bigger character. In BB he is the sibling of Willowshine #BB!DOTC #better bones au #Also just as a side note... I love writing BB!Skystar. My ire for the character comes from his redemption arc so I feel like I get to-- #--write the character I WANTED to see #Same with Bramble in other BB arcs #cw ableism #tw ableism #ableism #They're fascinating in that they always have to see themselves as the victim or the hero #They believe every lie they tell. #If you ever catch them in a contradiction they will still try to find some way to turn it on you and YOUR lack of understanding. #Interestingly both of them are ableist. Sky's is just more obvious because he's LOUDLY bigoted. #But BB!Bramble is *notably* less close to Jay for a very sad and very subtle reason. #Jay just doesn't serve his ego like the others do until much later in his life. #unfortunately most bigotry is like that. #the type you have a hard time calling out because it's a deniable bias. the constant gaslighting of being part of a marginalized group #Maybe I need to address the criticism by adding a character with a prosthetic to THIS arc even earlier #Problem is that like... Thunder's small merc group is already full of disabled characters and their THING is forming in response to ableism #OH maybe I'll put someone in the Forest Cat group which is lead by Slash? #I need to finish that last book and then gather up all the cats for sorting into allegiances

[amphibimii]

I love that Pikmin 4's rookie is just built different. All the castaways and other characters are hiding away from the murderous creatures of pnf-404, terrified of being attacked by these bloodthirsty beasts, and then the second the rookie sees their first bulborb larvae they run up to the things and punch them in the fucking face while their stolen dog mauls the rest of em

#pikmin 4 #pikmin #main characters are always built different i guess but its funny that this tiny 2 inch person is running around punching the giant animals- #of the forest because they just have 0 fear or self preservation instict

[creaturecraftsx]

minecraft sniffer ❤️

i love these guys so much 😭 i just HAD to make a little sniffer plush <3 again i made this without a pattern, and it was q hard making it square ? but still happy with how it turned out :D

#minecraft #minecraft sniffer #gaming #plushblr #plushies #handmade by me #i love sniffers I’ve built a little sniffer zoo #in a cherry blossom forest #they’re just the perfect creature to me 😭😭

[compacflt]

If you want, and only if you want to, could you explain about making Logistics a big part of Ice's career path? Not only did fit so well with your Ice's characterization, it was just so neat I've made it my HC for Ice's career path.

yes!

I got REALLy deep into the defense policy weeds in this post so I’m putting a cut to save people’s dashboards

1. when i was rewriting chapters 8 &9 last winter i did literally the bare minimum of research about the current set of high-level officers. the commander of the pacific fleet at the time had previously been the director of pacific fleet logistics ordnance & supply. So that was easy to yoink. a proven chain of succession.

2. but also: it fit ice’s (or his alter ego admiral Kazansky’s) neat, orderly, effective, collected, strategic characterization. And as professional tactics go, there would be no better promotion for a high-level officer looking to take over the fleet than DFLOS. understand the fleet by the numbers, you comprehensively understand the fleet.

3. In terms of secret-keeping logistics, ice is supposed to be kind of the best. like, because of his logistical thinking, he & maverick get away with it. Or that’s how I would’ve written it if I were a little smarter. Obviously in practice a bunch of people find out so it’s not great. but the navy AS A WHOLE doesn’t find out.

4. The field of military logistics is rigorously bureaucratic, boring, soulsucking, selfdefeating, notoriously corrupt, and yet entirely necessary for the military to succeed at any level (in the very first draft of WWGATTAI i included a famous US marine corps maxim that most people have heard at some point: “amateurs talk tactics. professionals talk logistics.” but that was literally the only good thing about the original chapter 6 which got entirely rewritten a month after i published it). So logistics as a field of specialization fit in perfectly with my secondary character thesis that rising through the boring bureaucratic ranks of the Navy sucked all the humanity & will to live out of ice one day at a time.

a couple related interesting things that I’ve never talked about on this blog & might never get the chance to again:

a) ice canonically joins the navy as a fighter pilot & ends his career as a glorified bureaucrat. that sucks. obviously the struggle to rise in the ranks is a notoriously cutthroat, political, sleazy business (you do not get to the top of the United States Navy by being nice to people), but i would also not be the first person to say that—for exemplary officers—leadership is an EXPECTATION that can counterbalance someone’s natural drive to excel, if that makes sense. You get promoted because you’re good at something (flying), but you get promoted away from the thing you were good at. There is an extent to which you have to fight for a promotion—but there is also an extent to which commanders above you pick you for the job, suck you up along the pipeline. Loss of agency—a major major component of joining the military—does still apply to upper-level officers.

B) to that end, i am reminded of one quote from Todd Schmidt’s 2023 book “Silent Coup of the Guardians: US Military Elite Influence on National Security.” This is an Army training & doctrine commander speaking: “the military has a lot of two- and three-star senior leaders that were confident, charismatic commanders at the O-6 level. But that’s the end of the story. One in fifty, maybe one in a hundred, truly have what it takes to operate successfully at the strategic level and make a real difference for their service. The problem is that they all tend to think that, since they have stars on their shoulders, they’re the one.” —I’ve been writing ice as “The Chosen One,” the officer unicorn, for two reasons: one, it provides him cover for his illegal relationship (and also asks an interesting chicken-egg question: does he get away with his rlnship because he’s so good, or is he so good JUST to get away with his relationship?); and two, he’s “the chosen one” in canon, i.e. he already has four stars in canon: canonically he is not a mediocre officer. But most officers (cough cough maverick) are not cut out for high-level leadership.

C.) in Thomas E. Ricks’ book “The Generals,” Ricks argues that (at least in the Army) mediocrity in the general/flag officer ranks is unfortunately by design. In WWII, if you were a mediocre officer, you got relieved! You got fired! It’s part of why we won: merciless culling of the general officer ranks! But between WWII and Korea, officer relief began to be associated with shame & wasted resources. Mediocre officers got promoted anyways. The military elite pipeline sucks mediocrity up the chain of command. Ricks blames this issue for (at least the Army’s) shit leadership in every post-WWII war, including but most especially Iraq and Afghanistan. There’s no penalty for mediocrity. That in turn reflects on military strategy (mediocre strategists at the helm) & the outcome of every military foray (mediocre outcomes).

D) additionally. There’s a whole neverending debate in the field of civil-military relations (an extremely interesting field of study btw) about the corporatization of the military—lots of high-level talk over the years of “running the military like a business.” If you get kinda into defense policy like me (am i still antimilitary? Idk! but i CAN easily tell you i am against the navy’s littoral combat ship program! It sucks!) then you will know that the navy is struggling right now on a lot of different fronts (procurement [shipbuilding esp. is a disaster—ford-class carriers are under budget though 👍🏽], recruitment, theatre prioritization, general preparedness, readiness against major adversaries [China in particular]). Simply, the navy is pretty mediocre at the minute. I talk a big game about ice being COMPACFLT & SECNAV, but if those are true, & if he “exists” in our current timeline, or even canon timeline (COMPACFLT in 2020), then he’s complicit in a lot of why the navy is sucking ass right now. He didn’t do his job very well. LOL. So, because I love (especially my version of) ice too much to see his legacy suffer, I am stating for the record that my timeline is a different timeline where ice saves the navy from itself and fixes all its issues & solves all its problems & makes it the pride of the armed forces & the tip of the spear of American defense :) because I said so

E.) unrelated but important. It sounds obvious but it must be said. Ice dies on the job in TGM canon. To the extent that in earlier drafts of the script, not-his-sister-Sarah even points out to maverick that ice is still active duty, in the same breath as she tells him ice is sick again. (A wise move to remove that line.) ice does not resign his commission. Ice does not retire to spend time with his family at the end of his life. Ice dies as commander of the pacific fleet. He dies on the job; he dies FOR the job, bureaucratic as it is. If you were wondering why I wrote ice so dormantly suicidal, it’s because canon (i argue) has made it clear that—since the second ice signed up to be a fighter pilot during the Cold War to the second he died active duty—ice has ALWAYS been ready and willing to die for his honorable Navy career.

#so imagine what would have happened had he been publicly dishonored 😶 #It’s also why i interrupted his SECNAV tenure with his cancer #to pay respects to compacflt Ice having the same thing happen to him #my Ice is built different tho. it doesn’t kill him #he retires to spend time with his family ☺️ #unlike selfish asshole canon ice ‼️🤬 #/s #this post gets DEEP into it but i find this stuff sooo interesting #got really into defense policy & missing the forest for the trees #i will admit that #military bad? yes but. #but defense policy so interesting anyway. #tom iceman kazansky #top gun #top gun maverick #icemav #edts notes #asks #last post of the night

[emmafallsinlove]

the fact that dean built rory a car so she could drive to school and not take the bus is hilarious to me because she still took the bus when she had the car. the only time we saw someone drives that car is jess before the car accident lmao 💀

#💀💀💀💀💀 #he built her a car and she really said no thank you i want to read my books at the bus on the way to school 💀 #anti dean forester #jess x rory #rory gilmore #jess mariano #gilmore girls #or speaks now

[tac-bat]

I wonder sometimes, how often the mining accidents keep Forest Elder up at night.

How the cave ins and rock slides took life after life. How long tearful lightminier and their friends we're stuck there, right outside the temple. Did Forest Elder feel helpless? Did they stay in the rain to move the rocks? I feel like they did, I like to think they stayed there for hours, hands bleeding and dress ruined from the mud and rain, refusing to give up, not wanting to give up because in their eyes, if they did, they'd fail as an Elder. I like to think the forest floods regularly, quickening the evident erosion clear as day in the realm, washing away the soil, food, and spirits. I like to think that's how tearful miner died, not by drowning, but being stuck in a flood when in the cave, the rocks being removed to save them now being what kept them alive, forcing the rescue teams back.

I can imagine the guilt, Forest Elder ascending the spirits they couldn't save, that died under the protection they promised to give when they became an Elder.

I usually see the general assumptions people make of forest elder being cold, mean. And I just, don't get it. They took our light because they had the desire to build, to create after being stuck in limbo for god knows how long. I get them, I get the eagerness to do something I couldn't do for a long time. Forest Elder to me is somebody who means well, somebody that on the outside might have the struggle with tone and expression (neurodivergent hc). But they're the type to help you with whatever you need, the type to show their care through gifts than words, they would fight for you, they would do whatever necessary to look at a better future. They might not show it, but they have their own way's to show appreciation, fear. I cant sleep, so thus I think of Forest Elder.

#just god #the character i've built for them is tragic #sky cotl #sky: cotl #sky children of the light #sky: children of the light #forest elder #tac rambles

[shmorp-mcdurgen]

Sure I’ll post this on the same day as my last monster au post

Anyway I never mentioned my concept for vampires in this au, so here’s this au’s N and just other sketches for them

#tmc #tmc monster au #body horror #face horror #shmorps art #basically. vampires in this au are people who got lost in the forest and ended up stuck in pitch black darkness for a long time #ended up. changing into these things. which latch and stay in trees and attack anything that makes sounds or moves #they’re built for completely dark and completely silent environments #and thus have SUPER sensitive hearing and can use echolocation #wacky creatures.

[risingsunresistance]

ok so back when techno changed his alt's IGN to cyberknife, a bunch of ppl (mostly on twitter) made designs of him where he was blue bc they just took techno's skin and inverted the colors. they were all human tho :( when i saw those and wanted to find a way to make a pig blue but like... with some kind of logic to it, my immediate thought was warped mushrooms. they're kinda green but Shush

hehe he has an infection :D

now that cyber has a Canon Design or whatever, this is kinda useless, but i still think he's silly

#techno gets haunted in a soul sand valley and cyber gets warped in a forest. L #what was a hoglin doing in a warped forest? testing his limits 😌 #also there are small differences between them #cyber's hair is less all over the place and he's not as fuzzy. techno's snout is JUST A BIT bigger #techno's face is also a bit more scrunchy. and he's just built bigger than cyber but it's hard to tell in these outfits #oh also cyber trims his tusks down. techno will only do that if he has to #i miss everyone going ''wait if they look exactly alike then are they twins'' we should do that again jhddhk #they dont talk much bc Government and also cyber smells bad 😔 #just mixing the vague dsmp lore with my own. as god intended 😌😌😌 #technoblade #cyberknife #awa

[boanerges20]

Lost & Found

#motorcycle #lost & found #freedom #adventure #forest road #sport bike #racing #motorsports #ride hard or go home #built for speed #experience speed #please reblog #moto love #lifestyle

[starheirxero]

THE ANTLERS ON YOUR GEMINI DESIGN ARE LITERAL PERFECTION-

-Stardust

ABAUAHAUSHSD THANK YOU!!!!! I had the vague silhouette idea for a sort of angelic tarot card sort of look w/ Gemini?? And I felt pike I had to add something to fill out the "halo" look and then I was like OUHG. ANTLERS......

Like this!!! If i makes any sense HSJWBSJS

#asks #anon #stardust anon #xero creations #i saw a post where they used a deer as religious imagery and technically it was bc of the author's own personal experience #but also like. i feel like i've seen a lot of media where deer or deer-like figures are used to signify you are seeing smth More Than You #princess mononoke comes to mind with the forest god. yk? antlers are like built-in halos 2 me and i just. AUGH. i wanted to make- #-gemini more visibly Off. like they'd be smth that people tell myths about if they ever saw them. yk??? #lunar and earth show #the lunar and earth show #tlaes #tsams #laes gemini #gemini laes

[bonefall]

Ok dude to a recent post of yours is have to know what other plants are sluts?

Rhododendron is the QUEEN of sluts. It will not STOP. Uprooting this fast-growing monstrosity is dick and half a ball because it has strong roots and woody stems; UK conservationists hate this stuff.

The most monstrous slut, Colonel War Crimes of the slut kingdom, is Giant Hogweed. Not ONLY is it voracious, not only is it huge, but this plant is NOXIOUS. You have to sequester it off when you see it and eradicate it in PPE. Actively dangerous just to stand around.

Other sluts are sitka spruces, mile-a-minuteweed, japanese honeysuckle, skunk cabbage... very aggressive invaders. The UK is under seige with invasive species since the island is REALLY unique in its soil chemistry. Once you deacidify it, you have a hard time fixing that.

#Funfact! Earthworms are invasive to America and they came from Europe/UK #American forests did not evolve for earthworms to break down leaf litter the way they do #The UK did #Im noticing that in the uk there's a theme of having large and small animals (humans worms hogs)-- #That churn the soil in some way and the ecosystem really being built around that #So when you get a new plant that fucks with that cycle it causes brand new problems #Especially pioneer plants that would ANYWHERE ELSE help fix an environment #But moor and bog is *supposed* to be like this #Cw vulgar language #Bone babble

[citrlet]

my uncle who works at Intel (not nintendo) told me he might be able to get me one of the newest CPUs for the computer I'm saving up for FOR FREE

#im freaking out im like yesyesyesyesyes #ill still have to get all the other parts but im hoping my relative who built my first one #can do the new one for me for cheaper #he only charged me 700 for the one i have and at the time it was really good quality #im so freaking excited i might be able to finally play triple a games like sons of the forest on the pc