#little Christmas tree

[huariqueje]

The Little Christmas Trees  -    Margaret Thomas , 1950 s.

British, 1916–2016

Oil on canvas,  81 x 45.5 cm.

[aretis]

[sanhatipal]

I was feeling a little festive (that's a lie, I've been feverish and couldn't study and so was fidgeting with these instead) so I put up a little decoration! :D

I made the tree last year, and the angels and reindeer this year

[valtsv]

are we still doing this because i have a late submission

[enemymine2000]

I caved. I got myself a tree.

[goldencrownofsorro]

neve in claroscuro

[happy-little-nightmares]

I found tinsel in my gym bag yesterday. I swear it's contagious.

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[conjuring-ghouls]

You will never walk alone, you can always reach me (x)

[thoselovelythings]

[bklenk]

Tree of my day December 3rd 2023 🎄☃️🎄☃️🎄

[mlpoutofcontext]

[littleoil]

Merry Christmas

[plusie]

[a-most-beloved-fool]

there are many neat reptilian characteristics that one can give Cardassians. I've seen shedding scales, tails and claws, scent marking, and people making them ectothermic.

but consider:

Color changing ridges. Just for funsies. We already tend to headcanon that the ridges and spoons (chula, if you prefer) turn blue when aroused, mimicking the make up they wear in canon, but it would be a bit interesting if the ridges were Fully color changing, a la chameleons. Especially if they changed color based on emotions.

Because their culture is very focused on the Good of the State, it would probably be taboo to have your emotions plainly visible (too much risk of your colors giving away the fact that you aren't 100% content blindly serving the state). I think it would be typical to wear make up to cover up the color changing scales, or to wear paint in 'positive' colors.

Soldiers and the Obsidian Order might even find a way to chemically neutralize the color changing, either temporarily or permanently - it could be far too much of a liability, if someone got captured and interrogated.

Most non-Cardassians would be entirely unaware that this was a normal part of Cardassian physiology. Novels might have oblique references to the colors when describing emotions, but any book that spoke too clearly of them would be almost sure to get banned. Bashir would be slowly taking notes about which colors in novels seemed to correspond to which emotions, but he'd have no idea that it was because Cardassians could Literally Turn Those Colors. He'd just assume their color theory was different, and that they were Really into color metaphors for some reason.

Could be interesting to explore the cultural implications and see what kinds of new mischief happens on the station due to it.

[dearautumn]

imagine snuggling up on here on christmas eve