#submission fun

[boxofoxberry]

you've got mail! :D

[making-your-fave-in-fr]

welcome to the ecosystem! yet another has joined our ranks, and thus i must give you the official welcome-

can you make a grox in flight rising?

-making-you-in-spore

I made a Grox from Spore (2008) in Flight Rising!

M Coatl (Dark Nature eyes) Red/Tiger | Dust/Alloy | Red/Basic

Cinnabar Spine Enhancement, Cinnabar Wing Enhancements, Cinnabar Ocular Enhancement, Cinnabar Arm Enhancement (Front), Cinnabar Leg Enhancement (Front)

[rewormer]

for kyruiz's Diesevu

[historical-fashion-polls]

context from the submitter: illustration from a "Fechtkunst" manuscript by Jörg Wilhalm Huter. Bavaria, 1523. Munich, BSB, Cgm 3711, fol. 22v

submitted by @cuties-in-codices 💛❤️

[gilbirda]

Danny is the rightful Ghost King, but since he's not of age he needs a regent who is a) his species, b) his family, and c) an adult. The only adult haftas are Vlad or this Red Hood guy from Gotham that he's never heard of. Since Vlad is not going to happen looks like it's Red Hood, now how to make the guy count as family...

Jason has had a lot of weird shit happen to him over the years but a woman tracking him down as Red Hood to propose a temporary political marriage so he can be regent of a death dimension until her brother is old enough to rule in his own name is a new one for him. Of course he accepted. The only other option was apparently a creepy uncle figure. He's read enough romance to know a forced marriage of a woman to her creepy uncle never ends well. A forced marriage of a woman to a crime lord doesn't usually end much better, but he's ignoring that for now. He's going to woo and romance his spit fire of a wife with respect, spontaneous poetry, his damn good cooking, and by not being a Darcy. And he is going to rock not just this whole regent thing, but also and more importantly the mentoring her brother and his new ward on how to rule this dimension. Competence is always attractive. He runs a tight ship in his crime empire, surely running a dimension can't be that much harder.

He actually already has a plan on how he's going to handle the whole 'The USA declared war on the dimension he's regent of' thing. It's simple really he goes to the next family dinner and causes chaos. The faces everyone will make will be glorious when he drops that he's lord regent of a dimension, the USA is at war with his dimension, and it's such a shame that no one can meet Jason's wife or ward till there is a peace treaty. Then he just needs to sit back and watch the entertainment as his siblings realize he has forever won the position of favorite child by being the first married and first to give Bruce a grandkid. Also you know the chaos of Bruce willing to wage a one man war if necessary so he can meet his grandson. Jason figures it will take at most a month for the government to cave.

And like a cherry on top he's going to get on a medical treatment plan for the pit. Everything is looking great for him.

[michaelvalley]

[historical-fashion-polls]

from the submitter: this is my favourite vintage postcard that i've collected! the postcard itself was created and sent ca. 1910s, but the lovely ladies in the art appear to be wearing late 1700's fashion!

submitted by @seeraphina 💚💜

[pilkofi]

i couldn't help it

DTIYS by @miracle-negative

[evermarch]

hey! you said you had more to say on asterid and im so curious about your thoughts. I wonder what you think about how she might represent the progression of submission (from implicit, to anxious when she bans the hanging tree song, to silence when burdock dies). Just feel like you might have some interesting words on this.

i’m still processing all my *thoughts and feelings* so this may be a bit half-baked, but i think asterid is a fascinating case study in implicit submission. because she doesn’t start that way. and most importantly, she doesn’t end that way.

asterid can be analyzed by considering hume’s doctrine of implicit submission from his “of the first principles of government” essay iv, which says that while “force is always on the side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion.” hume extends the “opinion,” which can be understood to mean ideology (maybe not the best word idk), into two categories—opinion of interest and opinion of right. the former involves the idea that government in general is a good thing, and also this government isn’t really worse than any other conceivable form. opinion of right can be further divided into the right to power and the right to property.

right to property is somewhat self-explanatory, so we can look next at the right to power. that is largely about how a government in power gains a lot of its power from the idea that it (and by extension, the people in power) has always had power, so it will, and thus should, continue to have power. this concept is much like the heavensbees in the capitol—snow himself disdains but cannot refute the notion that the heavensbees embody panem, because the heavensbees have always embodied panem, and thus maintain the right to wealth and the sprawling mansions and the endless libraries. he tolerates it, largely because he, too, is among this class. he implicitly submits.

asterid, likewise, is among the privileged within her community. the “government” which affects her day-to-day life is, yes, the capitol, but more so its extension of the peacekeepers and the mayor in district 12. she doesn’t engage with the capitol citizens or its rulers, but she does engage with the peacekeepers that require her family to place a banner in the window and the mayor who reads the treaty of treason at the reaping.

asterid should subscribe to the “opinions” of government more than most—she certainly should have an opinion of interest, because, she is decently fed, has friends, and not the worst life. yes, she’s in the reaping, but so is everyone tangible in her world, and she’s in the bowl less than most. there’s no real reason for her to be able dream up a better system, or necessarily to want to.

as far as opinion of right, the government owns the property (see katniss and snow’s conversation in the study in cf, where she says “he has no right, but ultimately every right,” to occupy her home). but asterid has all the access she needs. and with the right to power, the capitol has always had power, true, but so has she—it’s understood through the physical features that the merchant class shares (blonde hair, blue eyes), which differs tremendously from the seam (lower class) people, that the privileged, “powerful” class in district 12 have always been afforded proximity to the government’s right to power and the benefits therein.

but asterid doesn’t. she, much like plutarch, rejects the submission which should come easier to her than to most of the people of district 12. why? because of the three limitations on the opinions which empower government—“self interest, fear, and affection.” hume emphasizes that these limitations don’t overthrow a government on their own; they require a lot of people to reject and/or utilize them accordingly. that said, an individual’s expression of any of the limitations can extend somewhat far in terms of their own autonomy.

asterid, of course, fears the government, and protects her self-interest (her life as described above). she doesn’t run from the reaping. she doesn’t step too far out of line, as far as we know. but she does wield her affection as a healer as a means of force. she treats those in the seam and takes no payment for her services. she falls in love with a man from the lower class and rejects the relatively comfortable life to which she was born entitled. in doing so, she sacrifices the right to extend such comfort to the future children she may have had with otho mellark. these actions are inherent objections to the stratification of the classes of district 12. in other words, our girl is a class traitor, and she commits.

however, embracing these limitations only goes so far. her fear for her family’s safety takes over when she bans the hanging tree, and when she silences katniss’ defiant speech at home. when her husband dies, asterid’s affection turns against her. she enters a catatonic state which endangers the life of her children. had she fallen in love with a man from town, she may have still gone into a catatonic state, but she would have the resources to treat herself and go on. because of her small acts of opposition, otherwise insignificant to the government and its power, she lost the privileges of her prior proximity to the government’s right to power. so, she implicitly submits.

but that’s not true anymore once her daughter comes back from the games. she returns to treating people with no payment. she’s in more danger than ever before, and yet, she brings gale to her home in the middle of the night. after that, she risks prim’s safety by allowing her to aid the steady stream of beaten bodies which arrive on her doorstep. she begins to envision a better world—in district 13, she does her part to help the rebellion. she models the same behavior for her impressionable little girl. a child best known for following in her mother’s footsteps in appearance and in behavior. a daughter whose life is blown to pieces because she, like her mother, refuses to submit.

while it’s true that asterid suffered far more from her small acts of defiance than was proportional, and certainly far more than she gained, i think that she stands as a extension to hume’s assertion that the limitations on the opinions of government can only achieve so much. his example is in collective action, like the rebels fighting the war. it’s true that asterid did not participate in destroying an arena or shooting a gun. but without her affection for a seam boy overtaking her fear and self-interest, we would never have had katniss. without her demonstration of love across stratified lines, katniss would not have prim to protect, or, if she did, a will to do so. without her healing, katniss would never have known how to save peeta (or herself) in the arena, and panem would have never seen the trick with the berries.

through her little acts of defiance, her incidental rejections of submission, asterid birthed a revolution.

[miyuka1709]

The things I do in boredom... <- has a lot on her to-do list

Basically Morse code stuff but kinda stylized for each vessel/voice pairs

.... . .-. --- & .--. .-. .. -. -.-. . ... ... : normal Morse code. Stripes and dots/circles

-... . .- ... - & .... ..- -. - . -.. : leaves and simple circles!! Usually wavy base line like vines

.-- .. - -.-. .... & --- .--. .--. --- .-. - ..- -. .. ... - : small and tall thorns and flower for spacing, also wavy base line like vines

.--. .-. .. ... --- -. . .-. & ... -.- . .--. - .. -.-. : Chains, very obvious. Alternatively, the spacing (square) could be switched with the circle chain instead. Lengthier chain link = stripes

-.. .- -- ... . .-.. & ... -- .. - - . -. : vaguely half heart shapes

.- -.. ...- . .-. ... .- .-. -.-- & ... - ..- -... -... --- .-. -. : is the most difficult to read.. urgh my bad. The Rivalry duo's pattern is supposed to be short and long \ with triangles as spacing

- --- .-- . .-. & -... .-. --- -.- . -. : cracks. I just think it would look neat and ominous.

-. .. --. .... - -- .- .-. . & .--. .- .-. .- -. --- .. -.. : heartbeat! Similar to Betrayal's

... .--. . -.-. - .-. . & -.-. --- .-.. -.. : wispy.. thingies ~. The single ~ represents the dot and double ~ represents stripe

.-. .- --.. --- .-. & -.-. .... . .- - . -.. : similar to Betrayal and Devotion, uses the "perfect"/nonslanted triangles for spacing

... - .-. .- -. --. . .-. & -.-. --- -. - .-. .- .-. .. .- -. : swirls and.. um horizontal ( <-this with z as a kind of spacing symbol because I didn't know what else to put ehe..

[itslilacokay]

(lllate...) CHOSENWEEK DAY 3 : INTERACTIONS

i swear they rehearsed this

also dont worry theyre fine, adobe animate isnt though

+ a bonus, based off this community post

forgot to add promptlist and obligatory chosenweek announcement post for context blahblah yeahhh yayay blah

[historical-fashion-polls]

submitted by @wardenmcpherson 💙🤎

context from the submitter: this is a woodcut of two catfish as street musicians in the kashina district