#olivaceous

[junjomonstah]

you're telling me?? that's a canon event in his route?? he does?? unprompted?? all on his own??? and i'm supposed to act NORMAL about it??? for why did he just... DO THAT????

[manaquartz]

GODDAMN I'VE BEEN LOOKING AT THIS ALL DAY (source: https://twitter.com/bkomei/status/1694844535300375028 it's part of bkomei's exo anniversary series)

[hedgehogoftime]

Teenage Exocolonist Kids: How would they be as Jedi?

Sol: Our nonbinary icon is THE Jedi, especially after Transcendence. Goes on a long multi-lifetime journey to learn to accept there are things they cannot change and tragedies they cannot avoid is PEAK Jedi story. Definetly Master/Councilor material

Tangent/Tang: Eh, Tangent would probably not be a very good Jedi when it comes to active duty. She struggles with empathy which is a core Jedi value, but I think Jedi training would help her come to terms with her identity in a very helpful way. Definitely a more "stays at the Temple and researches/debates" type Jedi than one who goes out on active field work.

Cal/Recalcitrance: My gentle, plant-loving pacifist husband is PRIME Jedi material! Definitely head of the AgriCorps and teaches the younglings about cool plants from across the Galaxy on his off days. Man is literally great for the role of a Jedi. He's a Master, but probably not on the Council as he has no patience for politics.

Nem/Anemone: Eh... I do not think Nem would be a very good Jedi. Too angry, too attached to the memories of her loved ones. Relaly I see her more as a nat-born soldier or a light-aligned Bounty Hunter who works with the Jedi, but doesn't really get them. Not to say she's bad, but if she were trained as a Jedi she'd probably Fall at some point. However, I do think she'd make her way back to the Light eventually, with help. But, I don't see my girl as a very good Jedi.

Dys/Dysthymia: Dys would be a good Jedi... but only in certain circumstances. Definitely a Jedi Shadow, but with how he fails to get along with others I can't see him doing traditional Jedi things. However, he does have an instinctive knowledge of letting go. But, I do see his inability to feel fear as a detriment. Jedi train to overcome their fear and at in spite of it, but since Dys can't feel fear, i feel he would be missing a key piece of Jedi education. Not good.

Marz/Marzipan: Marz, actually would be a GREAT Jedi! Granted, not a very conventional one, with her love of the spotlight and drive to succeed, I see her as the Jedi's Liason to the Senate, as one of the few of the Order with a head for Politics. This lady would have the Senate and the Media eating out of her hand, giving the Jedi a sterling reputation. While she struggles with passion in some cases, I think she could easily overcome it!

Tammy/Aspartame: Did someone say Creche MasteR? Because this lovely lady is a Creche-Master! She would not only be great at caring for the Younglings, she's treasure every moment of working with them and readying them for the journeys ahead. And is Definetly secretly a Master and a badass, she actively chooses not to kick people's asses. Peace and love, baby.

Vace/Olivaceous: Not a good Jedi. At all. Too proud, too full of ambition and vainglory to hack it as one of the Servants of the Republic. Probably a Mandalorian, honestly, and a neutrally aligned one. If he were to become a Jedi he would fall. Period. He's too much like Anakin, too focused on his own glory and power to understand the Jedi Way.

Nomi-Nomi/Nomination: I'm...honestly at a loss, here. I think Nomi would make a very... weird Jedi? But a good one, probably? They're definitely kind and compassionate enough to be a Jedi, but they struggle with attachment so... probably a mid-ranked Knight who's a Smash Hit with the Younglings. Probably the first Jedi Twitch Streamer.

Rex/Basorexia: Honestly? Rex'd be a good Jedi. No in-depth explanations here, just vibes. Definitely Jedi material

[brainicusrotticus]

after killing noctilucent’s body to save vace, sol is an absolute nuisance to the night guards of the colony.

exhibit 1: sleeping in the communal barracks after nightmares because it’s comforting

person guarding the garrison tries not to freak out when the doc is walking with intent toward the barracks

(because the DOCTOR being that fucking focused going anywhere? usually not good)

“yo, doc, need help?”

for a second sol looks to walk straight past and in, not even acknowledging them

and then stops.

and backs up a step.

and bobs a finger in their direction.

(and doesn’t look up.)

“…you on watch until breakfast?”

“uh… yeah? er, yes sir.”

(he finally looks up.)

(oh. he looks like shit.)

“i’m sleeping in your bunk. if i’m still there when you’re done, just throw something at me.”

and he goes right in without another word.

and he is still there when they get off watch.

but they’re not going to wake the doc, are you nuts? vace would kill them.

as they’re standing awkwardly beside the bunk, a roll of socks nails sol in the head from across the room

(it was nem)

sol crawls, grumbling, like a goddamn lizard out of the bunk, across the floor, and into the one immediately adjacent while its occupant is still sitting on it, putting on boots

occasionally including bed sharing with nem or vace

nem is game, always

willing to play big spoon and envelope sol as much as he needs

not super jumpy, so sol can literally crawl right into her bed without waking the whole barracks

(she prefers a slight heads up, though, which is fair)

once forgot to tell sol she’d swapped bunks with someone else

the next morning, sol makes certain to reassure his accidental victim that screaming is a perfectly good fear response

no, it doesn’t matter if it was really high-pitched and woke everyone up

if it had been a real threat that would be the ideal outcome anyway

vace is… not the cuddling type.

especially not so soon in his getting better arc.

but sol knows that and does not actually crawl into his bed

because he’s a fucking gremlin, he crawls under it.

vace does not realize he has a monster under the bed until the fourth time it happens.

(condolences to the poor bastards who watch the doctor casually scoot out from under a bed the next morning and are immediately sworn to silence on it)

because sol has another nightmare and jolts awake.

right into the underside of vace’s bed.

sol is cussing and bleeding, vace is awake and foaming at the mouth and has pulled a plaspistol, everyone else has just learned that vace keeps a plaspistol under his pillow, it’s a whole mess

exhibit b: unauthorized night walks

sol straight up tries to leave in the middle of the night like it’s no biggies.

woe upon the poor soldier who had to try and figure out what to do with that one.

“sorry, doc, we’re locked up for the night.”

“how much to get through?”

blink. blink.

“…did you just offer to bribe me?”

ding. 200 credits received from: solaniac.

“that enough to ignore any screaming you hear for the next two hours?”

“…have a nice walk, doc.”

(two hours later, she’s very certain 200 credits is not enough to make up for those screams.)

(next time, she’s charging fucking double.)

exhibit three: sol just hanging out on the walls in the middle of the night

literally just climbs straight up and finds somewhere to sit.

intentionally waits for a gap because he just doesn’t want to answer questions right now.

almost gets shot by a very startled soldier.

rhett has to make sol promise to tell soldiers if he’s going on the wall. it’s a safety issue.

(he has to make him promise three times. the third time is a full sit-down, “if you do this again i’m going to have to assume you’re hoping to get shot and report it to instance and congruence” talk, before sol finally actually listens.)

he’ll just chill in one of the lookout towers, silent. staring off into the wilderness.

sometimes he looks particularly haunted about it, and the soldiers have to shake the urge to talk to him.

(one time, a soldier notices he’s not just looking haunted, he’s physically shaking. when sol doesn’t respond to questions, they send someone to get vace.)

(vace holds sol’s hand in his metal one until sol comes back to himself, and sits with sol until sunrise.)

one time, a soldier switched lookouts at midnight and forgot to tell his replacement that sol was there.

she didn’t notice for hours. sol didn’t realize she didn’t know.

she was scared shitless when sol coughed. sol was scared shitless when she pulled a gun on him. rhett filled a tub with water, dunked his whole head inside, and screamed for a full minute.

[kakajoju]

A Vace headshot I drew in between working on my comic.

Honestly, I'm a toxic men in media enjoyer lmao. (My biggest comfort character is Gavin Reed) So I ended up quite liking Vace when I maxed him out on my third run.

It was a /bit/ weird acting like his bestie when I immediately started dating Nem after I broke 'em off but uhhh... We're cool in the end ig.

[characterswithcolorsnamesfight]

Prelim Poll 20

Propaganda here

[tomodachibirb]

Eastern Olivaceous Warbler (Iduna Pallida), from a banding. Jerusalem bird observatory (JBO). 3.4.25

[hirokiyuu]

@almostgenalpha

oh my GOD i havent seriously done teenexo meta in probably two years but this question is worming its way through my brain bc the answer is almost unequivocally no but its close enough to yes that im like. insane

so the thing about dys. the thing about dys. he is SO isolated and i think in some ways he would not be doing well on the heliopause mostly because the general vibe of the ship is the hypermilitaristic society where everyone's gotta fit into the same box but also like. it's a society that rewards and encourages violence and dys has the potential for a Lotta violence in his heart

i dont think dys would be friends with nomi and rex. i dont think he would be friends with anyone. i think dys would be a misfit off to the side and even olivace doesn't fuck with him because hte one time he tried dys pulled a knife on him and nearly killed him. i think dys has a Reputation and absolutley fucking no friends bc nomi and rex aren't gonna hang out w/the hyperviolent guy who hates everyone who even tries to get close to him. i think dys has never lived in a society where feelings are encouraged instead of pushed down and while in canon dys is damaged by everyone's awkward refusal to talk abt his mother, a heliopause dys would be damaged by everyone's furious refusal to talk abt a woman who killed herself rather than suck it up and get her shit together. heliopause dys is just so angry i think. i cant see any other end

however. in a bizarre way. i think in some ways he Thinks he's better off, because i think a dys w/o the emotional focus of the stratos doesn't Realize how deeply fucking unhealthy this is. i think there's something gnawing and terrible and empty inside him but he doesn't have words, and is able to justify all his loneliness and misery w/the idea that it's everyone Else who's wrong. dys in a society where violence is rewarded can't understand why ppl don't praise him for bringing a knife to a fistfight and thinks they're all stpuid as a result. i think this in some ways "mitigates" the loneliness he has but i don't think it's actually good for him i just think its more paper over the gaping hole that he doesnt necessarily havei n canon

i feel like there's a lot more i could say/think abt but again it's been like two years since ive done any kind of serious teenexo meta let alone opened the game so like. this is rusty. however im fucking fascinated by this concept now thanks op

[proton-wobbler]

Red-eyed Vireo

[image ID: a small songbird with a bright red eye. the eyeline and crown are gray, while the eyebrow is white. the throat and belly are also white, while the back is tan-olive. the bill and legs are blue. end ID]

Song:

Scientific Name: Vireo olivaceus

IUCN Rating: Least Concern

Habitat & Location: overwhelmingly common in deciduous forest across North America; overwinters across most of northern South America

Fun Fact: they seem to never stop singing-- a male can sing up to 20,000 songs per day

[image ID: a map of all of North America, as well as a large portion of South America. a large swath of North America (all but the West Coast and Southwest, as well as Mexico) are colored red, to denote breeding range. the East coast of Mexico, the Caribbean, and all of Central America, as well as most of Colombia are colored yellow, to denote the migration path. a circular area across most of northern South America is blue, to denote the overwintering range. end ID]

Image Sources: bird (Rick Bowers); map (birds of the world)

[squawkoverflow]

A new variant has been added!

Western Olivaceous Flatbill (Rhynchocyclus aequinoctialis) © Roger Rittmaster

It hatches from broad, distinctive, dull, long, medium, new, and pale eggs.

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[blcssom]

to be fair, he’s been waiting in her living room alone.... in the dark... for about an hour now. so when the lights finally flick on, he can’t fight the annoyance in his tone. “y’know, for someone with little to no social life, you really take your time getting home from work.”

closed starter for @ivyroads // ft. grace porter

[junjomonstah]

All my favorite boys enjoy getting cake as a gift and it brings me so much joy 😭🍰💖💕

[manaquartz]

Started working on my SymVace fic again so here's this meme I made forever ago

[wanderingchronicle]

temptation to post vace failboy compilation growing

[brainicusrotticus]

more doc!sol au shit

vace’s augment? is not biggus dickus. it’s called “well-endowed”, because the helios gene technicians are morons—and vace definitely likes to mess with people with that—but one: that’s just. why? and two: it’s really kind of useless? like, that ain’t gonna help all your soldiering.

it’s actually, essentially, hardiness. this bitch can take a hit. he is “well endowed” with a stronger constitution overall. harder to take down, harder to keep down, and yeah, insanely cocky about it. but also he absolutely lets people draw their own conclusions because he knows what conclusions they’re going to draw. and it’s funny.

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Word Alternatives: Colours

BLACK atramentous, charcoal, coal, crow, darksomeness, denigration, duskiness, ebony, funereal, jet, inkiness, melanism, melanotic, midnight, niello, obsidian, pitch, raven, sable, singe, sloe, smirch, smoke, sombrous, soot, swarthiness, swartness, tar

BLUE aquamarine, azure, berylline, cerulean, cerulescent, cyan, cyanosis, cyanotic, electric blue, ice-blue, indigo, lividity, midnight, navy, Oxford blue, pavonian, pavonine, peacock blue, robin's egg blue, royal blue, sapphire, turquoise, ultramarine

BROWN adust, auburn, beige, biscuit, braise, bay, bronze, brune, brunette, buff, burnt umber, burnt sienna, caramel, castaneous, chestnut, chocolate, cinnamon, cocoa, coffee, drab, dun, embrown, fawn, grege, hazel, henna, infuscation, khaki, mushroom, ochre, paper bag, pumpernickel, raw sienna, raw umber, roan, rubiginous, rufous, russet, rust, scorch, seal, sepia, sorrel, suntan, sunburn, tan, taupe, toast, umber, walnut

GRAY ashiness, canescence, cinereous, cineritious, dullness, ecru, fuscous, glaucescence, greige, grisaille, gunmetal, hoar, iron, lead, mousiness, oyster, pewter, slatiness, smokiness, steel, taupe

GREEN aerugo, aestival, avocado, beryl, chartreuse, chloremia, chlorophyll, chlorosis, chlorotic, emerald, foliaged, glaucescence, grass, greensickness, ivy, jade, loden green, holly, olivaceous, olive, patina, patinate, pea-green, smaragdine, springlike, verdancy, verdantness, verdigris, verdure, vernal, virescence, viridescence, viridity

ORANGE apricot, cantaloupe, carotene, carroty, ochreous, ochroid, pumpkin, saffron, tangerine, terracotta, Titian

PINK carnation, coral, coralline, flesh-pink, incarnadine, peach, primrose, roseate, rosy, salmon

PURPLE amethystine, aubergine, bruise, empurple, fuchsia, lavender, lilac, lividity, magenta, mauve, mulberry, orchid, pansy, plum, puce, purpure, purpureous, raisin, violaceous, violet

RED beet, blowzy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, carnelian, cerise, cherry, copper, crimson, damask, encrimson, erubescence, erythema, erythematous, erythrism, erythroderma, ferruginous, fire, floridity, floridness, flushing, gules, hectic, henna, incarnadine, infrared, laky, lateritious, lobster, lurid, magenta, mantling, maroon, miniate, port, puce, raddle, rose, rosiness, rouge, rubefaction, rubicundity, rubor, rubricity, ruby, ruddiness, rufescence, rufosity, russet, rust, sanguine, scarlet, stammel, vermeil, vermilion, vinaceous

YELLOW aureateness, auric, aurify, banana, begild, bilious, biliousness, cadmium, canary, chartreuse, citreous, citrine, citron, engild, fallowness, flavescent, flaxen, fulvous, gildedness, gilt, goldenness, honey, icteric, icterus, jaundice, lemon, lutescent, luteous, luteolous, mustard, ochroid, old gold, primrose yellow, saffron, sallowness, sandy, straw, sulfur, topaz, xanthism, xanthochroism, xanthoderma

WHITE achromatic, alabaster, albescent, albinic, besnow, blanch, bleach, bone, calcimine, chalk, cream, cretaceous, eggshell, etiolate, ghastly, ivory, lactescent, lily, lime, milk, pearl, sheet, swan, sheep, fleece, flour, foam, marmoreal, niveous, paper, pearl, phantom, silver, snow, driven snow, tallow, teeth, wax, wool

VARIEGATION (diversity of colors) spectrum, rainbow, iris, chameleon, leopard, jaguar, cheetah, ocelot, zebra, barber pole, candy cane, Dalmatian, firedog, peacock, butterfly, mother-of-pearl, nacre, tortoise shell, opal, kaleidoscope, stained glass, serpentine, calico cat, marble, mackerel sky, confetti, crazy quilt, patchwork quilt, shot silk, moire, watered silk, marbled paper, Joseph's coat, harlequin, tapestry; bar code, checkerboard

variegation, multicolor; parti-color; medley or mixture of colors, spectrum, rainbow of colors, riot of color; polychrome, polychromatism; dichromatism, trichromatism; dichroism, trichroism

iridescence, iridization, irisation, opalescence, nacreousness, pearliness, chatoyancy, play of colors or light; light show; moire pattern, tabby; burelé or burelage

spottiness, maculation, freckliness, speckliness, mottledness, mottlement, dappleness, dappledness, stippledness, spottedness, dottedness; fleck, speck, speckle; freckle; spot, dot, polka dot, macula, macule, blotch, splotch, patch, splash; mottle, dapple; brindle; stipple, stippling, pointillism, pointillage

check, checker, checks, checking, checkerboard, chessboard; plaid, tartan; checker-work, variegated pattern, harlequin, colors in patches, crazy-work, patchwork; parquet, parquetry, marquetry, mosaic, tesserae, tessellation; crazy-paving; hound's tooth; inlay, damascene

stripe, striping, candy-stripe, pinstripe; barber pole; streak, streaking; striation, striature, stria; striola, striga; crack, craze, crackle, reticulation; bar, band, belt, list

mottled, motley; pied, piebald, skewbald, pinto; dappled, dapple; calico; marbled; clouded; salt-and-pepper

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