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They’re besties, your honour.

(Co-emperors of the Antarctic Empire emerald duo my beloved)

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Let’s talk Technoblade and flower symbolism!

(please note that these are the reasons that I use these specific flowers in my art for Technoblade, usually in reference to DSMP techno, so not all of the reasons are serious or symbolism-related :D)

(Part two here)

Dandelions

Not only do the common meanings of dandelions perfectly match Techno (faithfulness, hope, growth, and healing) but societal impressions of dandelions, to me, are a perfect reflection of Techno’s character and of his arc in the DSMP. I won’t go much into faithfulness and healing, but I hope that those are evident from his friendship with Philza and the healing of each member of the Syndicate.

Loyal talks about Techno collecting dandelions (Here!), discussing both the symbolism of Techno growing in an adverse environment and collecting hard-to-kill flowers and the fact that Techno uses the dandelions for stew and for his bees.

I think Techno’s use of suspicious stew is often overlooked. A suspicious stew made with dandelions increases saturation. He didn’t choose to create regeneration effects using an oxeye daisy. Technoblade, who focuses on xenia, guest friendship, the laws of hospitality, and the policy of providing food and shelter to guests; Technoblade, who chose his retirement to avoid the conflict and violence of his past and was still hunted anyways, chooses saturation. The choice to rely on dandelions was intentional. It was a declaration, perhaps just to himself, that he was retired, that he would not need regeneration, that all he would need is to be able to provide the hospitality of a filling meal and to protect himself and his friends from hunger.

Now, let’s talk about society and dandelions. Dandelions are considered by many to be a weed, an unkillable plant that spreads it’s roots even after they try again and again to get rid of it. Sound familiar, anyone? But, like many “weeds,” the reason that dandelions are seen as undesirable has roots in colonilization, where plants that were food sources to native and impoverished peoples were derided by colonizers and the upper class. The societal perception of these flowers is rooted in their usefulness to those that the figures in power wanted to eliminate.

Other than that connection to Technoblade’s anti-government perspective, why am I connecting this to our favorite anarchist pig? Consider Technoblade’s role throughout the dsmp, specifically the pogtopia arc. Technoblade provides armor, food, tools and materials. Then there is a shift in power and his ‘usefulness’ is up, as those in power no longer align with his goals and instead try to eliminate him. This shift in being recognized for usefulness to being forceably removed is due to a shift from the group in power, despite being the same as before.

I don’t want to limit this analogy to usefulness, although the tendency of Techno to provide food and hospitality does lend itself to that. No, the main reasons that I connect Technoblade to dandelions is their resilience, their potential for growth, and the hope they represent.

Technoblade retires. Technoblade is executed. Even before this, it is evident that Technoblade needs healing. He has the air of a war veteran, is referenced to as the blade, is used, betrayed, and fights for his life. He says that there is no safety except isolation. And yet, he retires and throughout it all there is his friendship with Philza, his cabin in the arctic, his suspicious stew; pieces of evidence that he never gave up hope that he could heal without violence. Pieces of that undying determination that both he and dandelions are known for. Dandelions can grow on rocks, on hard packed soil, in drought conditions, but they prefer rich soil like any other plant. Technoblade grows his hope in hard conditions, fights to keep that hope, and finds a place where it can grow. He finds a place where he can grow, and learns along the way that maybe faithfulness is not a weakness, and maybe you can live and grow with others.

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Hope and Dandelions: My second piece for the Technojoy Zine

+ me rambling about dandelion symbology and Technoblade here

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I really love his hair color!

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Happy birthday king!!! 👑

Bringing back some more SmpEarth Emduo for techno's birthday/20 mil. If your new, hi I'm Sikaydah, I like to draw Emduo as life-accurate militaristic pilots every once and while. And yes, phils in the plane in the back doing tricks.

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My prize contribution to the @voicesfortheblade sarcoma fundraising event!! Techno never dies!!!!!

Inspired by contributor prompt: "dragon shifter techno doing a terrible job at hiding he's actually a dragon"

Here, Techno has gotten lazier and lazier with his disguise over the years. He doesn't even have anything is common with Piglins but no one's called him out on it yet, so its fine

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It's easy to take the whole "piss on the poor" meme as "Tumblr is unilaterally bad at reading comprehension" but it's actually a lot worse.

Tumblr users are selectively capable of reading comprehension when it justifies being mad at someone. Tumblr users will have a comprehensive grasp of metaphor, rhetorical analysis and textual analysis for precisely one sentence in a post, when it helps them conclude that the author meant the exact opposite of the message of the post, if that helps them justify disliking the author of the post.

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FINALLY FINISHED MY @voicesfortheblade piece for Tin !!

im so happy i got to be a part of this event !! i missed drawing these guys sm

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Okay. I think I can share this job, too. On my main blog, I started a flash mob under the tag Technoblade_traveling

The point of the flash mob is to draw a Techno on a journey. This is my work for the flashmob, sorry for the Russian text, I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to translate it completely, but in short, in it Techno describes how these huge boars are kind, and that they shed their fangs like deer antlers, and from these fangs, boar riders make all sorts of products.

I'm thinking of doing something else for this flash mob when I have time ...

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Sorry I'm late, this piece was actually drawn on deadline, but I just now got up the courage to post it here ^^

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Happy birthday, Techno!

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Happy brithday to the king! and with it, my piece of @voicesfortheblade for @colormints-art :D

Hope you enjoy this gif uwu

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That’s how it went, right?

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Peace🌷

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big number :)

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Technoblade x Akira (1988)

Artwork for @colormints-art + @voicesfortheblade