#flores islands

[renmoldovan]

Flores Island, Azores

instagram: renmoldovan

[pangeen]

“ Kelimutu lakes “ // Daniel Kordan

[wgm-beautiful-world]

G r e e c e

[flowerishness]

Cynara cardunculus (cardoon)

The cardoon is native to the Mediterranean basin and prefers a dryer climate. It's really just a giant thistle and this lovely specimen is growing by the seawall near Granville Island in Vancouver. The cardoon is a bold, architectural plant about six feet tall but it prefers to be out on its own and not surrounded by other tall plants. The first photo shows a honeybee and a bumblebee on the same flower but this is not unusual. Pollinators love cardoons.

The cardoon has been eaten since ancient times but mostly the stalks, which were blanched and eaten like celery. Homer talks about cardoons in 800 BC. One type of cultivar gives us the globe artichoke (Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus) with a large flower bud used in many Mediterranean cuisines. However, if a globe artichoke is allowed to flower, it instantly becomes hard and inedible.

I'd love to grow a cardoon in my garden but I have nowhere to put it. I face the same dilemma that every suburban gardener will recognize: so many flowers - so little space.

[terebelli]

Pink Beach, Komodo National Park, Flores Island, Indonesia.

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Stunning Flowers and Waterfalls on the Flower Island

Ilha das Flores, Portugal

Photographer: LucianoSphere (Luciano Abriata, PhD)

[thecryptidart1st]

More OGB sketches based on recent experiences:

*When it was raining recently in SoCal, I saw a tiktok where a high school student was showing a flooded hallway and people who have never been to an outdoor Californian high school were commenting in disbelief that we considered a sidewalk with a roof a hallway (which yes we do; its California)

*My lunch lady friend had the epiphany that despite huge generational changes, high schooler behavior remains a constant and she was serving to kids who reminded her of herself when she was in high school. My only response was “damn I cant believe Bowling for Soup was right”

* Apparently her high school has a night guy. Nobody knows what he does

[rotomblr-island]

News flash!

The population on Rotomblr Island has reached 100.

An island-wide festival was held on Rotomblr Island to celebrate the special occasion.

Islander Cerese was overcome with emotion when she said,

"I can't even express how I feel! I just love all of these fine people!"

Thanks for watching!

[mothmiso]

Indonesia (2) (3) (4) by Renaud Forest

Via Flickr:

(1) Kuta, Lombok (4) Ende     

[maxchael]

Judas updated refs reveal. I just wanted to give him boots really.

I might make a site for all his info idk.

[lookslikethatsallthetimewehave]

When I think of most popular main characters in Poptropica, they're usually either black or white. But there aren't a lot of other races as the main characters for each island, and if they are then they aren't as popular :(

Oh, you know what? You right. That's unfortunate.

Also, I don't know how relevant this is to your observation, but you made me come to an observation of my own:

For the majority of the black and white characters, you can look at them and accurately guess what race they are XD

Husbands <3

But for some characters, it's literally impossible to know their race unless the narrative makes it clear, or if it's stated somewhere else.

That's because the race of these characters doesn't really matter unless it's relevant to the locations the island takes place in.

When it comes to islands like Skullduggery, Red Dragon, Mythology, Arabian Nights, or Jade Scarab, the narrative/locations/outfits/names/etc make it clear.

Also, somebody once told me that they didn't know Mya was Asian until I started posting (way too much) about the graphic novels. Cause in the game it's impossible to tell that Mya is Asian and Jorge is Latino by looking at them, because Poptropicans all look the same pretty much. Also they don't say their last names in the game.

I mean, if you knew nothing about those characters except for this image, would you be able to tell they were different races? Probably not.

In the novels, they draw the Asian characters with slightly more oval eyes. And Mya's family name is "Wong."

Jorge's family name is "Flores". And his mother speaks Spanish at one point.

I guess the point is that it would be great to see other characters in Poptropica that aren't black or white become popular.

Also, again, there are a lot of popular characters who's races are ambiguous.

Let's get real though, Octavian is most likely Greek, or has Greek ancestry. The Protectors care about every little detail, so they wouldn't send a spy on an island who wasn't the same race as the natives. Even if it might be harder to tell on the outside.

[renmoldovan]

Flores Island, Azores

instagram: renmoldovan

[pangeen]

“ Waerebo “ // Daniel Kordan

[wgm-beautiful-world]

S A N T O R I N I

[flordejamaica]

The late Polynesian scholar Epeli Hau'ofa posited that European colonialism introduced the concept of islands as isolated, bounded entities. In the Pacific Islander worldview, "Oceania denotes a sea of islands with their inhabitants. The world of our ancestors was a large sea full of places to explore, to make their homes in, to breed generations of seafarers like themselves. People raised in this environment were at home with the sea [...] Theirs was a large world in which peoples and cultures moved and mingled, unhinged by boundaries of the kind erected much later by imperial powers.

Tatiana Flores on the distinction between the Pacific Islander and the insular Caribbean experience (for whom ancestral maritime culture was mostly wiped out)

[travelbinge]

By Kylevollaers

Komodo National Park, Flores Island, Indonesia