#image stack

[wolframcarbide]

[pickleweed2]

Hydnellum cyanopodium, with fresh guttation, growing in the open under story of a Sitka Spruce stand.

120 image stack

3rd image is mirrored multiple times

Big Lagoon, California

[rioblitzle]

working retail

[grantwilson]

we are discussing our childhood passions on the dash tonight

[ghost-kings-court-jester]

Something I think people are sleeping on Hua Cheng and his shapeshifting. I’m re reading and it’s really clear to me that Hua Cheng (who yes has self esteem issues) also does his disguises for fun. Like one of the things we first hear about him in this:

“The name Hua Cheng was very obviously fake, and his appearance was most likely fake too. In the rumors, he was sometimes a twisted boy given to capricious mood changes, sometimes a gentle and mannered handsome young man, sometimes a gorgeous seductress with a venomous heart, anything goes!”

Then later he appears in one of these forms. Like if you read the scenes of Xie Lian checking his disguise he is both giggling and twirling his hair at how smart his Gege is and how good his disguise is. He enjoys looking like a young pretty boy master with boyish charm. He literally changes shape just to play with his clothes. He switches forms I think at least 10 times in the novels possibly more (I’m rereading so I can’t actually remember) but like he has fun with it.

Like yes he does have self esteem issues creating the disguises would definitely be a part of that, but far too often I’ve seen the idea floated around that that’s the only reason he changes forms. Or if he does change forms it’s for self consciousness and for strategic purposes and Xie Lian helps him get over that. Like it seems to me a lot of people think when Hualian get married he never wears one when he’s only around Xie Lian and I just don’t think that’s the case.

Like yeah he does mostly take his true form with Xie Lian but I think that’s mostly because they are getting to know each other and he’s probably tired of masks being between them.

Genuinely he never stops changing forms completely once the reveal of his true form has happened.

Even when he’s forced to be shaped like a child he chooses a full fancy baby outfit and styled hair. He plays with his outfits and hair styles frequently and you’re trying to tell me that man is going to live out most of his married life in just one body type. You think he’s going to completely ignore woman’s clothing because I don’t. A female form is mentioned and I know there’s no way he doesn’t have a thousand outfits for her as well.

And while yes I do love the gender fuckery of it for my own headcannons I can also see him putting on his disguises like drag or to put on a persona to act. I think he just likes playing around and switching shapes because like everything Hua Cheng does he doesn’t go in for half measures. He doesn’t seem like some effort into learning how to shapeshift so perfectly it confuses even XL just because he’s self conscious of his own looks. Like that doesn’t really fit his personality.

Basically what I’m trying to say is my guy is fashionista playing dress up with himself as his own Barbie doll. Let him have fun! Stop making him using his disguises as an obstacle he has to overcome. Not everything has to be that serious.

[powpowhammer]

All the Spy x Family Chairs as of March 27 2025

I got sick of not having a good reference guide updated to current. All the chairs are Modern, but some are identified with related/sub-movements. this will be very embarassing when door inevitably corrects me

Volume 1: Le Corbusier, LCF Grand Confort LC-2 (Cushion Baskets, 1928) wikipedia

Volume 2: Irving Harper for George Nelson for Herman Miller, Marshmallow Sofa (Marshmallow Love Seat #5670, 1956), MCM wikipedia

Volume 3: Charles and Ray Eames, Chaise Lounge (La Chaise, 1948/1991), MCM eames

Volume 4: Eero Aarnio, Ball Chair (1963), MCM/industrial wikipedia aarnio

Volume 5: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich, Barcelona Chair (1929), Bauhaus wikipedia knoll

Volume 6: Verner Panton for his Series K with Vitra and others, Heart Cone Chair (1958-1959), pop-art vitra panton bklynmsm

Volume 7: Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Willow Chair (Chair/Settle[sic] for Willow Tea Room, 1902-04/1973), Glasgow school glasgow

Volume 8: Charles and Ray Eames for Herman Miller, Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman (1956), MCM wikipedia

Volume 9: George Nelson for Herman Miller, Coconut Lounge Chair ("Coconut" Chair, 1956-58), MCM bklnmsm

Volume 10: brutalism, whose name comes from the french 'beton brut' meaning raw concrete and frequently incorporates concrete and rebar as design materials, was in several ways a rejection of the modernist movement that could have been said to only have been made possible in part by post-war prosperity in 'allied' nations

Volume 11: Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Hill House Chair (Ladder Back Chair [for White Bedroom], 1902-04/1973), Glasgow school glasu

Volume 12: Harry Bertoia for Knoll, Diamond Chair (1952), MCM/industrial knoll wikipedia

Volume 13: Eero Saarinen for Knoll, Tulip Chair (Tulip Side Chair, 1955), industrial/proto-space age wikipedia knoll

Volume 14: Frank Lloyd Wright for The Robie House, Robie Chair (Dining Table Side Chair, 1907-1910) smartmsm

Volume 15: Hans Jørgensen Wegner for Johannes Hansen, Peacock Chair (Påfuglestolen/PP50, 1947) wikipedia

[artuurle]

More bunny clickclack because living with a rabbit inspires me to make stupid images.

[wolframcarbide]

[pickleweed2]

Genus Hydnellum, on a Sitka Spruce stick

Big Lagoon, California

[atlasblue85]

oh, lift up your head, boy G, 1.5k

“Sorry, it’s my son,” he hears his dad say as the call connects. “What’s up, bud?” “Dad, have you seen the news?” “I’ve been driving all day, Chris, I haven’t had time to check.” “Something’s happening in L.A.,” Chris says, and he can’t keep the waver out of his voice.

an 8x14 Chris POV missing scene

[melkor-did-nothing-wrong]

Soooo if we operate under the assumption that they circulated any form of currency... do we think that Utumno/Angband coins had Melkor's face on them, on account of him being the ruler orrrrrr...?

[necrotic-nephilim]

what's fun about shipping Tim with Dick, Jason, or Damian is he has, at some point, hallucinated all of them to comfort himself. even when he doesn't like them or particularly get along with them, he has to imagine/hallucinate them just so he has the power to go on. Tim's concepts of the Robin mantle and what it should be is so fun, because he respects the others through the Robin mantle. Tim worships Dick because he was the first Robin. he wouldn't be Robin if Jason hadn't died in the mantle. and a lot of his frustration with Damian is he feels Damian isn't honoring the mantle correctly. when you ship Tim with the other Robins you can't divorce their identities as Robin from it because Tim will always see them as a Robin first and that's so fun and fucked up. like.

batman (1940) #456

Tim perceiving Dick as *Robin* cheering him on, not Nightwing, which is the version of Dick that Tim actually knows? that's just. wild of him. he will always view Dick as Robin first, his personal hero but also the original of the legacy. his love for Dick is shaped by that.

and then of course, even when he's hallucinating/imagining Jason cheering him on, it's *still* through the lense of being reminded how Jason failed? subconsciously believing that Jason got himself killed because of his actions, and that being a lesson for Tim to learn from? Jason isn't a person to Tim, he's a moral lesson about how to be Robin. any potential idolization he could have of Jason isn't because he loves Jason, it's because of the lessons Jason's death taught him.

and then, even though him hallucinating TIm is from the New-52, which makes characterization all kinds of questionable, i do think it makes sense for TIm to hallucinate/imagine Damian after Damian's death in an attempt to cope with it.

teen titans (2011) #18

to an extend, he sees Damian's death as in part his own fault. and even hating Damian, Tim needs the comfort from this to cope with Damian being gone. he's angry that Damian even was Robin, and has to learn something from Damian's death and how it impacts the Robin mantle, and teenage heroes as a whole. like, Tim can pretend he hates Damian all he wants, even getting taunted by the image of Damian, but there's still an underlying love to their relationship.

i think that's just the fun of shipping Tim with any of them. you will never divorce Tim's views of them from the Robin mantle and how fucking Unwell he is about anyone else who's been Robin before or after him, to the point he has to hallucinate them comforting him when he's at his lowest. it's always going to be a little unhealthy, a little toxic, and driven by Tim's relationship with being Robin as well. i need more Tim being weird about Robin in these ships.

[rookvie]

;333333

[roenais]

cant talk busy being obsessed with my own ocs

[m-kyunie]

The designs for yulma mermay I did……if u wanna see all the prompts I drew it’s all on IG won’t be posting them here

[lunarfeat21]

Zebedee: (noting a cheery Zak) you seem very cheerful today Zak.

Zak: *grinning* much very Zeb!

Zebedee: so what got you in the mood today, somethin’ special?

Zak (getting more excited): yeeeeeppp and it's coming!

(cue Zorran arriving, completely painted in pink and Zak laughed hard)

Zorran: WHO DID THIS WHILE I SLEPT!! THIS IS NOT FUNNY!!!