#floor lanterns

[claviculars]

Landscape - Traditional Landscape

Inspiration for a sizable formal backyard concrete paver garden in the spring.

[querida-cinderela]

Detroit Landscape Inspiration for a huge traditional full sun backyard concrete paver formal garden in spring.

[beta-isaac-lahey]

Concrete Pavers Landscape (Detroit)

[vintagehomecollection]

The Decorating Book, 1981

[moonsidesong]

doodled all my little critters come and meet them

[stardustdiiving]

How evil is arlecchino and what is she cooking

As of 4.2, I’m really curious what they’re planning with Arlecchino as a character, especially as a villain/antagonist/morally dubious character, and how far/which direction they may go with that

Intuitively my impression is we’ll see her do something way more “villainous” than she presents herself as being for majority of Fontaine’s AQ in front of us right—(which isn’t a surprise given that, you know, Arlecchino nor the House of Hearth have never been presented as 110% ethical LOL) but I find myself not being in complete agreement with most analysis or speculation threads I see about Arlecchino’s morality and the like, level of sinister people seem to ascribe to her.

Idk how to put it, especially in regards to her children I do agree they are not a wholesome found family, that Arlecchino is not above pulling strings or using them for her own ulterior motives, but I kind of hesitate on the idea she only cares about the Hearth children as a means to the end/things she can control and there’s nothing else going on with her characterization wise there. I’m not saying that impression seems remotely unreasonable or unfounded, but just that it feels there’s something intentionally missing in how we are supposed to conceptualize her as a person

My main reasoning for this hunch is the fact they have not elaborated on Arlecchino and the previous Knave—who Arlecchino is stated to have taken over the position from by force. The extra tidbits I think about are that 1) Arlecchino was previously an orphan in the Hearth 2) the previous Knave is described as way, way crueler to the children of than Heart than Arlecchino was from when she took control of the House

Often, people’s major indicators that the House of the Hearth is kind of super fucked up are the NPCs we meet in world quests who are part of it and clearly suffering. But one thing I haven’t ever seen people mention w this that i think is a very interesting detail is, in The Very Special Fortune Slip Inazuma worldquest, where we stop this House of Hearth guy (Efim Snezhevich) from manufacturing tension between Watasumi/the Shogunate to restart the war with his other Hearth subordinates, at the end of the quest we get this dialogue that reveals he had been acting under the previous Knave’s directives:

It’s also mentioned he’s employing this plan in an attempt to “rebuild the prestige of the Knave” following Signora’s death, iirc? Now, see, the dialogue itself says that this is “assuming our captive is telling the truth” so who knows what’s really going on, but I find this a really odd/interesting thing to highlight. I’m a bit fuzzy on other world quests with Hearth members, and am not saying none of them were acting and subsequently being treated poorly by our Arlecchino, but like, this gives me a lot of questions especially when paired with implications this previous Knave seemed to be way worse

Like, what drove Arlecchino to take over? How unexpected and controversial was this within the House? Assuming the above information is all true it definitely says something this guy went rogue and acted on what the previous Knave would want and didn’t think our Arlecchino would greenlight it, which does feel consistent with the previous Knave being described as basically worse & crueler than our Arlecchino. It also makes me question how much house of hearth things we’ve seen outside the main story are the work of our Arlecchino or if there’s a bigger divide of loyalty. Heck, I could be wrong but it doesn’t even seem like we know if the previous Knave is dead or not

This isn’t me saying Arlecchino couldn’t possibly be treating hearth children worse than she wants us to know, especially ones who aren’t her “favorites” the way the fontaine trio seem to be, but I really don’t feel sure about making a solid conclusion of her exact level of malice the way ppl r generally understanding it rn when it feels there’s going to be more about her. Just the idea of she, as a Hearth child, clashed with the previous leader who was known for being cruel, overtook their position and took on less harsh methods of leading that made at least some members with more power/possible closer proximity to the previous Knave go rogue and try to commit atrocities in the previous Knave’s name…I feel this leaves a lot of room to suggest there’s more going on with how Arlecchino is as a person

I don’t mind if she’s just very evil and deceptive bc if she totally had me fall for thinking she was less evil than she actually was that’s fun tbh. But I feel people suggest that’s all her character could be with no degree of like, “sympatheticness” or deep grey morality and that if her character did go there it would be automatically poor writing and genshin walking back on making a truly evil woman when IDK. I feel you can claim at this point they have left it open ended and it’s never been completely confirmed she’s pure evil. Also sometimes I just get a hunch and feel cautiously confident in Genshin executing certain characters well. Not all characters, just certain ones. Especially given Fontaine’s character writing being very good and a character like Lyney feeling very solid to me when any development with Arlecchino would likely involve him and his siblings as well, I honestly feel open to the idea of Arlecchino being satisfyingly written to be both villainous/morally dubious but “sympathetic/likable as a person” in ways outside of just her ruthlessness if that makes sense

If I’m wrong/they drop the ball with it more than I anticipate I’ll eat my hat but I am pretty excited about her character and which way they decide to go with it. I will say the only potential impression I have of where they’ll go with her has been wondering if it will go in a “cycles of abuse” direction—I’d be surprised if they ever elaborated on Arlecchino’s character especially in how she feels about things and her also growing up as an exploited child of the hearth wasn’t relevant

[batburgerofficial]

i am so so soo normal about green lantern (1990) #100 btw

like hal asking kyle if he's met him in the future and kyle just saying that he has, hal saying that he's never considered killing anyone and never intends to, kyle watching hal and the corps and feeling like he belongs, everyone instantly recognizing that kyle isn't a normal lantern because he wasn't trained like everyone else

so soooo normal :)

[toyastales]

Relaxed dining

[binah-beloved]

I would cry a lot with Distorted Binah, because I would feel like it was my fault, because of my weakness she became distorted. I would give her all the love in the world while in blame, and if any workshop tried to hurt my giant toucan (affectionate nickname), I would have to deal with all my combat pages, and the distortion pages

she'll watch you cry and try to comfort you, tucking you close to her feathers. your love isn't weakness, your love is what gives her strength. it's why her mind isn't as far gone as it could be, why she's mostly at peace with her distorted form, why she was able to recognize you in the first place. it seems you need a day off, so she sweeps a tattered wing overtop of your body and settles in next to you, the soft hums she lets out reminiscent of her voice when she was still human

she doesn't regret loving you, not in the slightest. she'd rather love and distort than to never love at all

[lanternlightss]

am once again thinking about how venti is quite literally friend shaped

[lady-of-lyon]

There seems to be one unspoken rule in the Ben 10 fandom

[eorzeashan]

jadus stashing all his secrets around his house is a lot funnier if it's not some oral or written knowledge to impart so torturing yanol for it is pointless and requires you to have the exact same kooky headspace and familiarity with jadus in order to recognize exactly what he was doing in his free time. you have to break open a wall and find a weird artifact with a meager fromsoft descriptive note and connect it to the oddly placed skeleton in the basement in order to theorize he was not just killing people for fun but for research

[life-spire]

@ Daniel Lincoln

See more like this.

[allanodyne]

Simple revelations they come in time

by AllanOdyne

[scatterstory1]

[urbangaffa]