#harbingers of spring

[ostdrossel]

Do you have special songs,

smells or sounds that instantly transport you to a time or place? These guys do that for me. Once I am hearing them, I know spring is on the way. Male Redwinged Blackbirds usually appear first, along with Grackles, but yesterday, I also saw the first females, as well as some Cowbirds. So despite the snow this morning, spring is really unfolding!

[emmbrr]

first snowdrops i’ve ever seen in real life!!!

[vandaliatraveler]

A few more treasures from my hike this past weekend in Core Arboretum. I’ve posted detailed descriptions of these ephemerals in the past. So if you want to learn more about these wildflowers, go to my main blog page and search on the plant's common name.  You’ll also be rewarded with higher resolution photos.  :-)

From top: sessile trillium (Trillium sessile); dwarf larkspur (Delphinium tricorne); twinleaf (Jeffersonia diphylla); Virginia bluebells (Mertensia virginica); Virginia spring beauty (Claytonia virginica); harbinger of spring (Erigenia bulbosa); cutleaf toothwort (Cardamine concatenata); Dutchman’s breeches (Dicentra cucullaria); yellow trout lily (Erythronium americanum); and great white trillium (Trillium grandiflorum). 

[johnschneiderblog]

Spring's northward march

As butterflies fluttered in Hilton Head and buds began to pop in the Smokies, 800 miles northward, in central Indiana, the crocuses were also fully committed to a new season.

That's just 240 miles south of our front porch, meaning that spring's march northward can't be far away from our own backyard.

It will approach, as always, in fits and starts - a sunny day here, freezing rain there. Maybe one more substantial snowfall. But we can see that daylight is making steady, inexorable gains in its fight for equality.

The mud stirs. The buds swell. The peepers are tuning up.

It's coming.

[redwinterroses]

Happy Easter!

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]

Treehouse Gardens

[aspeccharactersoftheday]

David from The Harbingers of Spring is demisexual!

[smilepebble]

good lord the knee pain is real tonight but at least that means that spring is coming

[irregularjohnnywiggins]

Everytime I replay it/watch someone else play it, I remember how much someone on the writing team for specifically Mass Effect 3 is a War of the Worlds fan.

[ostdrossel]

This week has been interesting.

It started with almost a spring-feel but ended with an icestorm. The backyard looked beautiful this morning, the lawn covered in frosted dew, and frozen, molty-looking layers over every branch. The trees were glistening with ice. Nevertheless, the hints of spring were becoming more pronounced. Today, there was not just one Grackle, but several, same for Redwinged blackbirds, and a Cowbird was present too. All good stuff for the Great Backyard Birdcount. If you haven’t participated yet, check it out, it is a lot of fun!

[thebotanicalarcade]

Ohio Spring Wildflower Field Guide

[angelheartcottage]

Little crocuses crocusing… #thechroniclesoffarnia #thingssoamazeme #crocus #spring #happy #harbinger #watercolor #purple #march #flowers #ilovethese #seasons #springflowers #joy https://www.instagram.com/p/CqIr_K8rVay/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[jymwahuwu]

anon who got beaten by covid coming through with more Capitano thoughts.. (no thirsts..yet. I need to coach myself with scenario building..Capitano talks you through every climax. There. That is the most I can write 😭)

Capitano tried to be patient, he truly tried. But he only sighs softly when communication cannot work but force must.

He is a very broad man and it's quite easy for you to spot his looming shadow over you when you had fallen onto the ground, having tried to escape the cabin with only the moonlight as your guide.

"S- Sir.." You look up, tears welled up in your eyes as you try your best to calm your racing heart. You've seen how he has dealt with..most unsavory soldiers. What will he do to you? A lone soldier who has deserted their post?

The man doesn't say anything for a moment, the darkness of his helmet staring holes into you.

"Have I done wrong with you?" He finally speaks, crouching down to speak with you. Despite him trying to match your height..it only makes it more threatening. "I don't believe.. I've mistreated you?"

He's genuinely confused, he can't..register the fact that he's feared by a soldier that he has treated so gently and nicely. "I apologize if I have harmed you.." He tried to make amends anyways.

But then you go and ruin it by trying to run..tsk, tsk, and of course, he only needs to grab your wrist and you're completely immobile. You are a deserted soldier..and unfortunately it seems like you must treat you as the soldier you are.

Even if he wishes you were more than just a soldier.

Bingo. All he has to do is make your punishment..become his bride. He doesn't like phrasing it as a punishment but..perhaps a training session would be better?

You're still training..just..training to be his wife. (Also training to take his very impressive size that he always sighs as he coaxes you into taking every inch of..)

cw: dub-con, forced marriage, yandere, size kink, female reader

Thank you for sending me a story, I really enjoyed it😽💖 You posted it in two parts, and I replied to both here!! (part 1 of the story is here)

Like gentle giant and skittish darling trope! Frightened, awkward you.

Be informed that you have been chosen as a warrior, and that you have given it your all…but, maybe you don't have the talent here. The combat movements are a bit clunky and don't flow smoothly. The vision tied around your waist shines with the light of the elements, but your skills… (such as flowing out a small amount of water, like a spring spring, or just condensing some cheap gems, or electricity like a kitten claws, etc…). Those skills are just not suitable for fighting, you know? Will you use gentleness against Heavenly Principles, against enemies?

After training, failure and frustration have overwhelmed you, and the physical pain and exhaustion cannot be ignored. Not to mention that Capitano in his cape looks down at you like an unshakable mountain. You rubbed your cheek against his palm and couldn't help biting your lip, shedding tears like a little kitten. He pats your head gently and tells you how to improve your movements and use elemental powers. Easier said than done. You nodded, but there was still no way to improve next time.

He's not biased, really. In Capitano's eyes, everyone can fight, but you… may be able to put your talents in other areas, such as cooking and knitting. Your elements are just as gentle as yours. Maybe you can keep that water and food warm. His confession to you is formal and prepared. He asks you in serious terms if you can marry him and spend the rest of your life together.

You… look terrified, hyperventilating from shock. "Me-me?" You pointed at yourself, shaking. Captain wants to marry you? That first of the Eleven Fatui Harbingers? He was just joking, right? You refused and distanced yourself from him like he was a flood.

I like drama🫣😹 so I added some wind and snow. On a moonlit night, you planned an escape, only to fall on the snow and almost be washed away and submerged by the wind and snow. Looking back, I saw that familiar huge figure walking out of the falling snow. He grabbed your wrist a little too roughly, "Sir- Sir?" As always, you looked at him with tears, but fear gnawed at your heart even more.

"You might be dead." There was ice in his voice. He knelt down on one leg and looked down at you. "What are you doing? Did I… hurt you? If you feel that way, then I apologize."

"I-I'm sorry!" You cried, even the tears froze. You know he's right. He is worried about your safety. How is he going to treat you? Will he put you in jail? Capitano carries you in his arms and takes you back to his home. It's there to restore your body temperature and keep you warm. He immerses you in the warm water and towels you off.

If you don't plan an escape, you can still enjoy your options. Since you ran away… you can't return to Fatui, but as his wife stay with him and receive training. Starting from looking directly at his mask, you panicked, but now you can't. You have to look directly into his dark blue eyes, from the depths of your soul. A huge cock stood erect in the middle of his pubic hair and was leaking pre-cum. You stammered, placing your hands on his heated belly as you looked directly at the impressive size of his cock for the first time, "W-What is this? How does this work…!? Can you- can you be a little smaller…"

That's why you need to be trained to accommodate his size. Capitano knew it was unlikely to work the first time. His cock swells against your belly and rubs against your clit, or pushes deeper into you, opening up the tight folds of flesh. The pounding of pulses sends pleasure through your limbs, into your brain as flesh slaps and pops, until the warm cream spurts and rushes into you.

There will be another training next time.

[toynbeetile]

Clawing at you everytime I look something up about the balladeer from my president killer musical google gives me shit about your gay little bohemian rhapsody reference

^_____^

[honeykaes]

—𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞, 𝐤𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲

✦ feat. albedo, childe, scaramouche, alhaitham

✦ warning: smut, 18+ content, minors do not interact

✦ disclaimer: afab!reader with no set pronouns, reader is implied to wear lipstick (scara), lipgloss (alhaitham) and chapstick (childe) some lipstick kink, fingering (albedo), exhibitionism (albedo, childe), oral giving (childe), blowjob (childe), toys (alhaitham), alcohol use, slight dacryphilia (alhaitham), overstimulation (alhaitham), unedited

Ball season has begun in Mondstadt as the spring weather finally greeted the land. Typically, Albedo passed these opportunities up, not finding a reason to descend down the mountain and mingle when he could work on various experiments and work. This year, was different; he had you.

As the two of you attended, enjoying all the festivities gifted by the Knight of Favonius and their sponsors, Albedo was in complete awe seeing you dress up for the event. The Chalk Prince swore you were glowing as the orchestra played sweet melodies. As he grabbed your hand guiding you outside where the two of you could be secluded so he wouldn’t feel overwhelmed with the number of people inside dancing, chatting, and drinking—he leaned over, pressing his lips against your own; an overside he didn’t see coming.

A small moan left his lips as he pulled your hips closer, nibbling your soft bottom lip as he deepened the kiss. You didn’t notice his hand beginning to trail up, pushing past the layers of your bottom to cup your cunt. You gasped into his kiss, breaking it as a string of saliva connected his glossy ones with your own.

“A-Albedo someone will see!” you stammered out. A mischievous look glinted in the alchemist's large cyan eyes before sinking two fingers inside your sobbing cunt. Another gasp escaped your lips feeling his digits slowly move inside of you, curling and brushing against your velvety walls. He leaned his lips towards the shell of your ear nibbling at the earlobe feelings your walls flutter down at his thrusting fingers. 

 “Then let them. You’ve completely intoxicated me tonight, I just can’t help myself,” he groaned out, deep in your ear feeling his cock uncomfortably press against his tight pants. You threw your head back, as his thumb brushed against your throbbing clit.

“A-Albedo, more…” you whispered out. You felt his lips curl into a smile that was firmly planted on the nape of your neck.

“Whatever you desire, my love…”

With his connections within the Fatui and the harbinger’s constant travels, Childe seemed to always know where underground parties were in the various nations of Teyvat. Hearing about the next event in Inazuma, Childe asked you if you wanted to join him to witness these crazy gatherings for yourself and you agreed.

Watching you get ready, his dull sapphire eyes focused in on the chapstick you glided along your lips, leaving a nice shine on them. As you turned to him, he merely smiled trying to ignore his lustful desires knocking in the back of his head.

When the two of you finally get there, it seemed already wild. People were drunk, some were dancing with bottles of sake in their hands. You offer a timid smile to Childe who guided you to the dance floor to try to ease your nerves. The two of you danced with a smile on your face, and it was fairly easy to forget about the rest of the world around you as you enjoyed one another’s presence.

You soon found yourself turned around, feeling his hands sway with your hips—something beginning to harden pressed on the plush of your ass. It didn’t take long before Childe leaned over and grabbed your chin, pressing his lips on your own as he continued to grind on you with soft groans drowned out by the sea of noise around you.

Wanting to continue this, you grabbed his hand—to his shock—leading the two of you away from the crowd and into the bathrooms. As you locked the door, you were shocked as Childe came over to claim your lips once more. He was fumbling with his belt, soon shimming his pant's down and lifting his shirt up before his cock sprang up and hitting against his lower stomach. The slightly curved appendage twitched, precum budding at it’s flushed tip as Childe’s whole body shivered as you grabbed onto his cock.

“Ah ah ah, sweetheart. I don’t think a handy is going to suffice this time,” he groaned before flashing you a smirk. “I’ve been thinking about those lips all night. Can you indulge me?” You shyly agree, getting onto your knees and pressing your lips at the base of his cock as he sucked a breath in. You flattened your tongue against it, hitting one of his prominent veins—causing him to shiver again—and moved all the way up his tip before you finally took him into his mouth.

Bobbing your head and sucking as much as you could, you tried not to gag feeling his cock hitting the back of your throat. His hips bucked a few times as he tried to control himself, soon placing his hand on your hair watching you go down on his cock. He could see the shimmer from your chapstick beginning to shine on his cock as he began to grin.

“Good. Just like that. J-Just like…” he groaned out, sucking another breath in. You could feel his cock twitch in his mouth as a loud moan of your name echoed out—ropes of his cum shooting into your mouth. You closed your eyes swallowing as much as you could before you finally took his softening cock out of your mouth. Childe grabbed your chin once more, looking down at you.

“Heh, now…why don’t you reapply that chapstick. I think you accidentally smeared it,” he cooed, pressing his thumb against your bottom lip.

As begrudgingly Scaramouche did not want to see his fellow Harbingers, he knew that he had to show face at the Fatui banquet tonight before he could leave the Tsarista’s icy domain and head back to Inazuma. 

He glared at the bathroom door, crossing his arms and tapping his foot impatiently. This suit was already irritating him, he hated the tie clinging onto his neck and the heavy coat covering most of his body. He was ready, he has been so for the last half hour so why weren’t you ready yet?

“We need to leave now. I want to get there early and leave early!” Scaramouche barked at the door. He heard you snort, before opening the door. He felt his chest flutter seeing you adorn such exquisite attire—the tailors he employed to create whatever formal attire you wanted seemed to earn their keep for now.

“I just need to do my makeup and we can leave. Since you seem so lonely, you can keep me company while I do it,” you sarcastically reply. Scaramouche grunted walking up and leaning in the doorframe, glaring at your image in the mirror. He hated that his how frantic his body felt watching you do your makeup. As you finally picked out a suitable lip color, you popped the lipstick open—applying it to your plush lips before he snapped his eyes shut.

He couldn’t take this anymore.

“W-We’ll arrive late and just leave later,” Scaramouche suddenly explained. As you were about to turn to inquire why he suddenly changed his mind, he hugged you from behind, you could feel his cock eagerly pressed behind you as he shielded his face away from your gaze, frustratingly embarrassed at himself. Your eyes softened as you sighed.

“Okay, but we have to be quick—” Just as you said that you felt him shift around to reveal your underwear, bending you down on the counter of the bathroom. His finger pressed against your clothed slit watching the fabric soon dampen, from sliding it up and down before it settled on your clit. Your body quivered in delight, feeling his finger swipe the fabric so he could directly play with your clit and watch as your cunt began to drool for him. 

He quickly unzipped his pants swiping his tip along your slit with a hiss before sliding the tip inside of you. He did this movement for a while, trying to quickly get you more arousal until he felt you were properly prepped. Once satisfied by your slick beginning to coat his cock and sliding along your thighs, he fully sank his length inside of you—fingernails digging themselves into your side.

As he thrust inside of you, he watched the globe of your ass ripple to the pace of his thrusts. Heavy moans escaped his lips as he reached over and pinched your clit before pressing his thumb on it and flicking quick, tight circles on it. Your falls clamped down on his cock, as you grabbed onto the counter, feeling his spread your legs wider so he could get deeper inside of you.

You muttered his name countlessly as your eyes rolled to the back of your head, finally reaching your high before Scaramouche quickly followed suit. Thick globs of his cum spurted inside of you as he bucked his hips, trying to milk himself down from his high. With a sigh, he left your warm insides. He quickly pulled your underwear back up before his cum leaked down and adjusted your bottom self as he zipped his pants back up.

“When you calmed down a bit we’ll go,” he hummed, now satisfied walking back towards the front door as your legs shivered still trying to recover. That man is going to be the death of you.

Alhaitham was a lot more sadistic than he liked to let on. When you two first started dating and got comfortable sexually with one another, he would spring random questions about various kinks to see if you would like them. Some were great, others uncomfortable, and others a turnoff. You had suspicions he was doing research or utilizing a knowledge capsule to learn more about various and popular kinks of Teyvat and this aspect of him still continues in your relationship now.

Earlier this afternoon, Alhaitham revealed to you a new sexual device one of the Kshahrewar students had created and trademarked. Although it was just a prototype, he thought it would be interesting to try to test it out…on you, with your permission. Curious about it too, you agreed to participate in his study.

You felt your heart flutter watching him walk up to you, he glided your pants down slightly along with your underwear—cupping your cunt as he placed the device on your underwear and pulled everything back up as normal. 

“How will this work anyway,” you ask. Alhaitham didn’t respond, at first before revealing to you a small remote device in his hand. 

“This will control it. Why don’t we try something small at first” he stated. Just as he flicked the button on, your eyes widened and a moan erupted from your lips—intense vibrations were firmly pressed against your clit as your body shivered at the intense waves of pleasure flushing throughout your body.

“F-Fuck! A-Alhaitham…A-Ah!” you croaked out, stumbling to his chest. A small smirk curled onto Alhaitham’s lips watching you look up at him, lust completely clouding your eyes now tearing up from the intense pleasure.

“This bad? This is the lowest setting too…” he mumbled. Your eyes widened at that statement; how would you even be able to handle the rest of the settings if it was already this intense? Just as you were about to croak out a reply, you cried out body giving out as the vibrations began to highen even more as Alhaitham turned it on its medium setting. He held you steady before his eyes narrowed down seeing the smear of your lipgloss now on his shirt you didn’t notice you did.

“Now you’ve done it…Well, it’s an excuse to try this now,” Alhaitham mumbled, your eyes rolling to the back of your head, not even knowing what he said as the vibrations got even faster and harder, nudging firmly on your clit. Your vision turned white, finally cumming loudly in his arms—your clit burning from overstimulation. He quickly turned it off watching you shiver, silently in his arms completely tired and drool running down your lips.

Alhaitham silently wiped it off, feeling his cock twitching desperately to plunge itself inside of you. With a sigh, Alhaitham silently guided you to the couch, letting you recover from the toy.

“I’ll tell them they need to adjust the settings as they’re too intense. Usually, I alone like to see you like this on my cock, oh well, I guess…” Alhaitham hummed brushing your hair away from your closed eye.

[fayriequeene]

Chaste Snowdrop, venturous harbinger of Spring 🌿