#when nature strikes

[musings-from-an-elder-goth]

Once they cut off our lines of communication, they'll take us out piecemeal as we flail about helplessly in tryptophan induced lethargy!

creaturesfromelsewhere 11-22-2023

#thanksgiving humor #turkey revolt #when nature strikes #dark humor #turkey humor #vegan humor #tryptophan makes you sleepy

[botanyshitposts]

today i found a plant growing in an alleyway downtown that gave me this delightful little seed pod that looks like a little banana about an inch long but it splits down the front to reveal hundreds of flat little seeds with little papery wings seed wings and theyre all stuffed into neat rows in a way that makes the pod look like an overfull expanding file and if you run your finger over it seeds fall out. the plant had like 6 of them going overhanging this one sidewalk and some of them were huge, like multiple inches long. anyway plants are still just making stuff outside it seems

#seedposting #this pod fell off into my hand when i touched it so i was like oh for me??? the fruits of nature??? #also the reason why this strikes me is bc we have multiple milkweed species around here that do a pod thing #but with big floofs on the end of each seed. and those look less like an expanding file and more like a tissue box #but there arent a whole lot of plants around here that have the little papery seed wings inside a pod?? #and the size. the whimsy #im assuming its an ornamental bc i havent seen it around here before lmao

[pendwelling]

only the best of gifts for our holy knights! 🌙🔥🌊

#when the third wheel strikes back #서브 남주가 파업하면 생기는 일 #twsb #섭남파업 #MY ART #jung yeseo #cédric riester #christelle de sarnez #cedyeschris #HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!! #jung yeseo is the best gift 🫶🫶 #and naturally ced has the strength to effortlessly carry his two partners 💪 #chris making mistletoe hehe theyll all have some fun later (they deserve it) #twsb fanart

[milkbreadtoast]

*pinches them btwn my fingers and pops them in my mouth*🍡🥱

#twsb #when the third wheel strikes back #서브 남주가 파업하면 생기는 일 #섭남파업 #jesse venetiaan #jung yeseo #cedric riester #christelle de sarnez #my art #the first one i was just trying to make sure i didnt forget how to draw christelles hair #and then the other 2 appeared on the canvas... naturally #sidenote blonde jesse is harder for me to draw than jung yeseo kdfhdj #bc his hair is so straight and flat... im used to drawing fluffy hair...

[silverstark]

I love how both Xie Lian and Hua Cheng embody “a sword in one hand, a flower in the other.”

#HuaLian #Xie Lian #TGCF #Hua Cheng #‘crimson rain sought flower’ is just another way of saying that #and Hua Cheng means flower city. the fortress built to protect the flower #and Hua Cheng is the ‘Hua’ the God-Pleasing Crown Prince held in one hand while fighting with the sword in his other hand #there’s lots of meta about Hua Cheng being a bad person and he says it himself #but to me it’s nature vs nurture. in which Xie Lian nurtured. #AND; CRUCIALLY; what Hua Cheng chose to nurture matters #what Hua Cheng chose to worship matters #the one god he worships is the compassionate kind people-saving god #the noble gracious special someone #and that says a lot about him #re-reading Book 2 it's striking to me that Hong-er heard from XL himself that he doesn't want to be worshipped through cruelty #He saw how angry XL was about QR hurting someone even when it was in his name #(notably; Hong-er also heard/witnessed XL being told he was in trouble over his choices in the parade) #(this isn't about just/proportionate revenge like the 33 gods: XL said that they didn't deserve to be gods and HC carried out his justice)

[starch1ldz]

Me: I need to go to sleep I have class tomorrow

Also me:

#star child speaks #why am i like this #why do i do this to myself #nature vs nurture #is a disease on my brain #UGH #im insane #send help #me when i decide to write a full length fic and inspiration strikes at 2 am #criminal minds x reader #criminal minds x you #dr spencer reid #spencer reid #spencer reid criminal minds #spencer reid x reader #criminal minds #spencer reid fanfiction #spencer reid is a soft soft little man

[seth-burroughs]

I think we as a fandom don't talk enough about how Seth:

Took bribes from the Nail Man, a serial killer in exchange for allowing him to keep murdering people -- said killer ended up killing 3 people (while they were 4 victims, one of them belonged to the copycat) in the span of 6 months(?). But I'm able to excuse everything the Priest has done, free my man, however...

It was rather strongly implied he (and the other peacekeepers affiliated) had a hand in the whole "Jiei being called to the Clocktower for a quote unquote emergency" trap, picking an innocent man to frame as the Nail Man and either put him on death row or in prison for life, so they could sweep the case under the rug and be done with it.

EXCEPT. After his arrest, he says this: "To speed this case along, we need to quickly deal with that Nail Man we arrested. We should even consider... a public execution."

WHAT are saying

In what time are we living. Is this the medieval ages. Is this the 1400s. This has to be one of the most barbaric sentences I heard a peacekeeper say in Master Detective Archives: Rain Code by Spike Chunsoft. Can he even do that? Would Yomi allow this

He just picked a random man, and didn't even want to lethal injection him privately, he was preparing the damn scaffold so that he could subject the whole district to his legendary beef with that guy in particular, because fuck him I guess. Was that personal? Did Jiei drive his mother of a cliff before the story and this is his carefully planned revenge after decades of suffering in silence

There was LITERALLY NO REASON for him to do this. It was not securing his Evil Plan, not anymore convenient than a private execution, or anything. It was simply Seth's whimsical urge of getting to fulfill his Monokuma fantasy after all these years of severe disrespect

Conclusion: that guy was OUT for BLOOD the sheer MALICE evident in his gay little eyes easily matches Yomi Hellsmile and they should fight to the death for the title of Kanai Ward's Top Cunt

#Free my man he did all that #Every discussion I see about Seth is how *he* got fucked over and. Well he kinda was but also I don't really care tbh #it's called karma <3 and Yomi can do what he wants have you considered that. you're stifling his creativity. god forbid tmen have hobbies #i think we should acknowledge Seth's cartoon villain qualities more. #Fun fact: Seth and Yomi are the only charas in rc whose debut was emphasized by a literal dramatic lightning strike in the background. #Though Seth's came a bit later than Yomi's (around when he said he's gonna make Jiei's tragic natural passing a spectacle) #mine #rain code #seth burroughs #Why was this so difficult to articulate. this sat in my drafts for like a few days #and yet. and fucking YET: #the i did not proofread this tag

[junkjounral]

June 6, 2023

“There is no difference between trying to love and loving” —Joy Ladin

#joy Ladin #junk journal #junkjournal #journal #art journal #gluebook #quote #bujo #aesthetic #bullet journal #scrapbooking #bird aesthetic #nature aesthetic #ion normally say what these are abt in the tags but this one was abt my mom #v messy and not one of my favorite pieces but it was honest and I did what I could which I think sums up where she and I are too #the partial quote from joy ladin’s book had me sobbing when I read it #I was feeling it on so many levels. being trans and Jewish and how do those fit together. having family problems. going thru change that #strikes u to ur core and u would die without but also not wanting to do it. so uh anyway she’s incredible #and I recommend her to anyone for any reason just read her shit it’s so fucking good

[knxfesck]

It's really fucking funny to me how you can see Drift's Nice Guy Persona being carefully crafted and eventually moved on from throughout MTMTE. This panel is like level 1. Acts of violence? well I mean. you can't just stand there and look menacing right. So he goes full throttle with the huge smile and everything. I bet he watched a marvel movie to find that quip. I'm sorry Drift everyone probably thinks the crystals are having adverse effects at this point.

And the fact that he knows it's pretty obvious and is just kind of hoping nobody notices and they don't because at least it's not Big Bad Decepticon so he's in a sunk cost situation. The act is bad but its also way too late now to drop it. At least in the world of Drift Self-Justification.

Nice save there buddy. Only 3 seconds delay! 👍

In all honesty getting kicked off the Lost Light likely allowed him to exhale and reflect on why exactly he was doing this, and how it was tangled in his own concepts of absolution and redemption and in hindsight, kind of stupid, even if it made sense at the time. Taking the fall for Rodimus fucked up a lot of things and enabled Rodimus' issues with responsibility but it did at least (forcefully) give Drift an opportunity to slow down and get himself back together that wouldve never happened on the ship or at least wouldve been a much slower process. Anyways, thanks for coming to my "let's make fun of Drift for being a really bad actor when not in high-stakes situations" meetup

#thinking thoughts etc etc #made sure to get specific with the acting dig bc I hate when people make generalized assumptions plus #drift strikes me as the kind of guy who's very good at acting/freestyle lying. Not in a way where he relies off of it or it comes very #naturally like starscream per say but you don't live through the dead end and be a successful decepticon commander wearing your thoughts on #your face #so I imagine he's great at it unless its something really minor in which case his brain's like What Are You Doing this is Not Necessary #so he's always fighting it over that bc reputation is important but everyone on the lost light is so goofy his habits arent #kicking in right #lmao #drift idw #drift #transformers idw #txt #analysis

[wonder-worker]

"Mancini, an Italian visitor to England, was concerned for (Edward V and Richard of Shrewsbury's) fate as early as mid July. Well before he left England in that month, the princes, he later wrote, 'were withdrawn into the inner apartments of the Tower and were seen more and more rarely behind the bars and windows, till at length they ceased to appear at all'. Rumours of the princes' deaths were already circulating by the year's end. George Cely reported that he had heard that Edward V might be dead not long after 13 June, and certainly before his uncle claimed the throne. The Crowland chronicler, writing in about 1486, recalled how the rumour arose in September 1483 that 'the princes, by some unknown manner of destruction, had met their fate'. Some early reports went further, stating quite categorically that the princes were no longer alive. Robert Ricart, recorder of Bristol, entered in his Kalendar under the year ending 15 September 1483 that 'in this year the two sons of King Edward were put to silence in the Tower of London'. Shortly after 1485 the anonymous compiler of a genealogy of English kings concluded his work by accusing Richard, with his accomplice Buckingham, of murdering the princes. A London citizen, in some historical notes written before the end of 1488, noted that 'they were put to death in the Tower of London' in the mayoral year ending November 1483. John Rous, writing in 1489, reported that Richard killed the princes within three months of welcoming Edward V at Stony Stratford on 30 April; Richard, he wrote, 'received his lord king Edward V blandly with embraces and kisses, and within three months or a little more he killed him with his brother'. Rumours to similar effect reached France. In a speech to the estates general in 1484 the chancellor of France, Guillaume de Rochefort, reminded his audience how Edward IV s sons had been murdered and the crown seized by the murderer."

-Nigel Saul, "The Three Richards: Richard I, Richard II and Richard III"

*Just to add, Casper Weinrich of Danzig's chronicle at the end of 1483 also states that, "Richard, the King's brother, has put himself in power and crowned in England and he had his brother's children killed" and then in 1485 "King Richard of England, who had had his brother Edward’s children killed, was killed about St. Lawrence Day"

#r*chard iii #there were many more reports but I didn't want this post to drag #the thing is: contemporaries and immediate post-contemporaries were unanimously confident in their assertion that Richard III #murdered his nephews. But their reports are muddled and occasionally contradictory when it comes to the details #(the exact time and month; the method; etc) #and Ricardians seize those discrepancies to discredit all of them #but these minor differences are in fact entirely understandable and to be expected. #If the Princes had been murdered it would have been done secretly and would have been deliberately hidden #Richard never acknowledged or refuted any of the rumors against him and never displayed his nephews' bodies (dead or alive) to the public #So it's only natural that contemporaries were unsure about the specific details #But it's striking that despite these differences all contemporaries were unanimously certain about one thing: #that the Princes of the Tower were murdered and Richard III was their murderer #Their minor discrepancies make their main point MORE - not less - conspicuous

[justanotherfanartist]

rvb opinion poll #2

I’ve seen a lot of variants for him, I think the most popular ones are usually white & blue or black & blue.

(personally I hc him as having naturally dark brown hair that he bleaches shock-white. and maybe adds blue accents sometimes)

people also draw his hair long a lot which I think is really fun, but to me he’s got a disgusting short little rat haircut. it’s like a fucked up grown out buzzcut in my heart.

#rvb #rvb polls #mark temple #temple rvb #doin another one of these because I’m curious and also bc I’m trying to settle on a color palette for his face #it gets more complicated when you factor in eye color #to me blue is too boring bright green could be good as creepily striking but giving him big brown eyes is way funnier to me #I want him to make crazy eyes while having the softest prettiest eye color known to man you feel me. little freak #it also feels more natural especially if he has a darker complexion and doesn’t compete with the white/blue hair options

[darehearts]

i wish i could temporarily summon my 2016 version to fill up my vacation queue lightning fast  🤧

#yall... when i first joined the rpc i had like............ my queue #at 10-15 replies a DAY. A DAY!!!!!!!!!!! how did i do THAT!!!!! #granted-- threads were a lot shorter back then and it was #more widely accepted that things would be short and that #was natural. BUT STILL! lately i try to keep things as short #as possible-- i do that many replies in like a week now LOL! #i am determined-- but somehow still : 🐢🐢🐢 #i'm not #stressed about it but just like! pLEATHE... CREATIVITY GODS #STRIKE ME WITH STRENGTH asdfghjkl;' #tbd

[pluviophile-imagines]

Adult Shouto not being bulky but rather taking more after his mother in build (& growing out his hair super long to further the resemblance) is so very near and dear to me

#pattering on the roof #i rlly like… the three todo bros having varying body types #with Natsuo heavily taking after his dad & Dabi being more middle ground & Shouto being v lithe and kinda feminine #this is hilarious bc I love me some big men #but perhaps it’s pettiness bc I just know endeavor would be stupid proud of Shouto got all bulky like him #and I simply don’t think he deserves it 😌 #also the long hair… with the natural split dye… so striking esp when he braids it

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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#there's something really beautiful about experiencing the weather patterns of a new place #where i live now. its not like where i grew up. not like the foothills of Appalachia but its more familiar than the Chihuahuan desert was #when i go home to ohio everythings so green. so green. unimaginably green and the towns are in the woods. the hills roll #and trees billow deciduous and packed so tightly the treeline is like a wall of plant matter. here there are trees but they are tall and #evergreen. patchy in places like shrubs in the desert. the grass grows green but also pale tan and dead. houses are routed in valleys #between mountains. they're made of wood and not stucco but they still look strange and the landscape is crumpled together tall. and there's #water. it rains. days can be dreary and gray with drizzle. i forgot what thats like. when a single low stratus cloud blocks out thewhole sk #and fog clings to the trees. my school bus used to drive by a lake where thr fog was so thick i didnt kno how the driver could see the road #but somehow i forgot how much joy suspended water vapor gives me living in a place where when it rains it pours so hard the streets flood #and the greedy ground drinks the landscape dry. but there are new things as well. here smoke rolls up over thr mountains and gets stuck in #the valleys so that the weather forcast reads: Smoke for days on end. im used to tornado warnings and heat warnings and dust storm warnings #but ive never expected Smoke as a type of weather. and im sure there's more to experience. ive only been here like 3 weeks. its not as gree #as home. the storms dont seem to get quite so violent. the woods are so full of bears that its an active threat. but its not the desert #and while ill miss the shapes of desert plants and little lizards. when i look up at the pine and spruce trees i feel like i can breathe a #little easier. well see how i feel once the long cold winter sets in haha #but i dunno. part of me still longs for a violent thunderstorm. one where u can feel the temperature drop and u csn feel it building all da #one that bends the trees and smells like ozone. it was never like that in thr southwest and im not sure that happens here #but maybe thats just a desire for chaos and violence as a product of my pathological internal control. i cant be spontaneous so let nature #bring the fear to me. some of my favorite memories are watching lightning strikes #so it goes i suppose #unrelated #listen. is it fucked up to have ohio nostalgia? maybe so. but in my defense i grew up in the pretty part of ohio lol

[sneakydraws]

i've had some VERY LOVELY <33333 people in tags saying they like my anatole design.. so i thought i might post a little breakdown of things i try to keep in mind when i draw him... just for fun! but of course the firstest and most importantest principle is this:

#war and peace #anatole kuragin #the most important and inspiring feature for me is the eyebrows tbh lmao #after his height theyre like the first physical trait of his described i think... and imo the contrast between light hair/skin and #dark eyebrows could def be cool and striking #also yes i do usually draw him looking smug rather than the oft described open and good natured look hes supposed to have #in my defense tolstoy says his attitude changes considerably when in male vs female company #yeah thats my excuse #ANYWAY tysm for all the kind words ahahah they warm my little heart

[clumsycapitolunicorn]

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#it's so sad seeing the t/r tag goddd #it really ended up like the kabby tag #forever mad at these men for actually turning out to be the most basic writers after all #who for all the preaching about romance couldn't let the big ships that made sense and felt like a natural endgame happen #but hey at least we got the iconic love story of beard with the woman who ripped up his passport...jumpscared him...stalked his friends...- #-didn't want him around his friends...threw his keys away and sent all those gross messages to him *sarcasm* #honestly it's worrying BH didn't see how bad that was and the message was nooo don't butt into your friend's ab*sive relationship- #-possibly saving them from a terrible fate and pain...(like you're just butting into a minor disagreement) just leave them be! what a- #-sh*tty thing to take from that... #and acting like they love their female characters but keeley who they gave a 'girlboss' ending (because oooo can't be both a girlboss and- #-in a relationship) but didn't show her being a boss in her own plot or anything really... #plus how last minute they made rebeccas plot and it didn't make sense and laughing at people who saw the t/r potential #they aren't sh*t and i mostly take back my praise (there were some good eps ofc which makes this mess worse) #hi im still mad about tl almost 3 months later #i try not to focus on it tbh i don't want to spend any more than 5 minutes thinking about it #the fact even when the strikes are done js will never own up to his sh*t #and i swear if that ep wins an emmy (when the other eps s3 and previously nominated were right there) im done #that'll be the sh*tty icing on the sh*tty cake