#patch of grass

[peaceinthestorm]

Vincent van Gogh ~ Patch of grass, 1887

[Source: Google Art Project]

[shhwsper]

my piece for the @sing-it-togetherzine !!

this project is absolutely beautiful and i'm so excited that it's finally out in the wild for everyone to see and enjoy for themselves!

everyone did so amazing and im so lucky to have collaborated alongside so many talented artists & authors to bring this to the community!

[nvoc]

SKYRIM ; scenery 43

[you-shiny-thing]

Oberon is hard at work, making sure the grass stays looking nice. Everyone say thank you Oberon

[xem-ity]

toby fox is such a good storyteller when it comes to suspense and relief. it’s like he was made for this one specific purpose he’s that good

i was thinking about sans and the theory that he comes from deltarune, and how toby managed to keep the suspense of not knowing that for years. he planned it all the way back in undertale, giving us clues we had nothing to do with at the time, the idea that sans came from somewhere else rather than the undertale world was in our minds, but we had nothing to associate it with.

then chapter 1 of deltarune dropped and just seeing sans exist in this world, suddenly things started feeling plausible. the simple act of him being there made the clues fall into place, but everything was still fuzzy enough that we weren’t really sure.

then come chapter 2 and we see the way he interacts with toriel, and the theory becomes so much sadder. if he really did come from deltarune, then he lost everything he knew (except maybe his brother, but we don’t even know that). in undertale, after learning toriels name at the end of the pacifist route, he immediately starts calling her “tori” as a nickname. it seems a little odd to have a nickname already for someone you just learned the name of, but it makes sense if he came from a world where he knew her without the door as a barrier.

then, chapter 4.

chapter 4.

spoilers from here on out because there is a moment in chapter 4 that any theorist needs to experience blind.

we get some more sans shenanigans during the first light world segment, and maybe even a bit of evidence he can teleport? (then again maybe he’s just walking between rooms like rouxls) but nothing really special.

the real first kicker is being able to look inside his house later on, when it begins to rain. everything inside seems just as it is in undertale, almost exactly it seems, though it is “a bit messy”. how papyrus would allow this is strange and very intriguing, but that’s for another post.

however, the moment i really wanted to talk about is at the end of chapter 4. after the adventure is over and you’re overloaded with feelings. you walk out of the church, mind full of theories and ideas about what’s going to happen next, and susie says that “it smells nice, after the rain”

then the first chord plays

the first chord of a melody you know, that you know

you’re transported back, in time, in place, your vision becomes distant. no way toby did this. you immediately understand the implication, immediately understand what has just been all but confirmed. for so long you’ve theorized about what the “somewhere else” in “it’s raining somewhere else” means. it might’ve been deltarune, but it might’ve been something else entirely.

the substance of the “sans came from deltarune world” theory hinged on just one extra clue. one single connection between the two worlds and the two sanses. that’s what created the tension and suspense behind the theory.

one single chord, and it was like a rubber band snapped. the release of 10 year old tension was unlike anything i’ve ever felt playing a video game.

toby fox u are a god, a genius & i cannot wait for chapter 5.

there are still theories to be resolved, and i know toby will release all of that 10 year old tension by the end of this game.

[a-lonely-dunedain]

Ouuuuu it's grass time

[starry-bi-sky]

Hello Starry! I just had a thought about your Danyal al Ghul AU, and didn't have anyone else to share it with, so here we go:

If in this universe Bruce is Jewish, and Danny knows this(probably from a google search), he may wear a Star of David necklace to have a piece of his father with him at all times, since he knows he will never get to meet him. Or maybe the necklace sits in a box under a floorboard, because he can't stand the constant reminder of the father he'll never get to have. Maybe he observes Sam and her family celebrate Jewish holidays, or he learns how to by himself, but uses the time to mourn, instead of celebrate.

Anyways, hope all is well, and thank you for sharing your writing!

AAHHHH??? YOUR BRAIN??? Thank you!! I love sharing my writing, it soothes my need for attention lol. lmao, even. (Also how did you know i was thinking of my danyal al ghul au today -- i have an unfinished draft that i was thinking of delving into after my work meeting) also aahh!!!!!!!! im so happy that you wanted to share your thoughts with me about it <333

But dude BOTH of these ideas are soo?? GOOD and ANGSTY. I love angsty. Danny would for sure know if Bruce was Jewish, lil guy did an obsessive amount of research on his dad the moment he got his hands on a computer and figured out how they worked. Danny has like, a three inch thick folder almost on his father alone. Anything he could get his hands on, he's got it. That thickness is almost exclusively from his first like, six months in Amity Park. He keeps it in a box in his closet, along with his growing-folder on Damian and his achievements as Damian Wayne. He pages through it when he's feeling like mourning.

First off: him wearing a Star of David necklace to feel connected to Bruce. That is SO sad and I love it so much. He bought it with an allowance he'd been given when he first started living with the Fentons, he keeps it tucked under his shirt so nobody even knows he has it. Sam and Tucker don't until it slips out while he's hanging out with them and when they ask him about it, Danny very reluctantly tells them that his father is Jewish. When he's distracted, nervous, or sad, he fidgets with it. How this looks is that he looks like he's kinda rubbing his chest, like ungrasping and grasping something.

Second Off: him keeping it in a box under the floorboards. That is also so, so good. He's got it in the box along with a few other things that remind him of his father and Damian and his mother. He takes it out when he's feeling particularly lonely and homesick, it's a feeling that never really goes away even after five years of living in Amity Park. It's like a longing for something you'll never see again, but isn't that just how grief works? i can just imagine him sitting against the bed, late at night and back from patrol. He's still in his ghost form, his katana laid on the ground next to him, and his almost bird-like cape pooling down beside him as he cups the necklace in his hand like he's cradling an egg. Maybe he's bleeding from somewhere, and he's telling the necklace about patrol, murmured soft in Arabic.

When he finds out Sam is Jewish he probably, after much consideration, asks if he can observe their holidays -- after all, researching Jewish holidays only does so much. Sam agrees when he explains why, much to her parents chagrin, and he sometimes tags along. But once he gets an understanding of how they go, he starts doing it on his own. Somewhat. He celebrates with Sam for most of it, and then has some time to himself where he celebrates it on his own. So it's a little bit of both.

^^^ which brings me to thinking about my danyal snippet here where Sam is at a Wayne gala and tears into her parents over Danny in front of Bruce. And it's making me think of, with this idea in mind, Sam in a moment of emotional impulsivity, saying "I know that he wears a Star of David because his father is Jewish and he wants to be closer to him, because he loves him so very fucking much." And while saying that, briefly makes direct eye contact with Bruce as a way to tell him "I know you're his fucking dad. Look at the son you have left behind."

If only for the emotional gut punch that can leave Bruce with. 🥰

Thank you for the ask! I had a lot of fun responding to it, have a fantastic evening/day/night.

[fairylando]

[halloween-sweets]

[dramatic-dolphin]

i LOVE going for a walk after it rained. look at this snail munching on some nice fresh plants!! ❤️❤️

[peaterookie]

Shin Lupin wallpaper edits by me, feel free to use these!

[greencomfort]

bluebell woods, my beloved!!

[aloeclown]

beloved henry… only 3 apples tall…or perhaps even just 1 apple

[sexhaver]

it's easy to forget now that literal dozens of youtubers have made careers out of dissecting every conceivable aspect of Elden Ring's lore, but one of the funniest moments in any Fromsoft game ever was going into ER completely blind at launch and being told that you can meet with "the Two Fingers" after some point in the story, and you think okay, so obviously they're referring to two human people who have a role in the religion of this world referred to as "fingers" because there's five of them total i guess? oh Miyazaki and GRRM, you two are so kooky sometimes. and then the door finally opens and you walk in there and are confronted by two giant literal fingers with knuckle hair and all

[jasperyourmutt]

Need a big comfy puppy pile w the mutuals to nap in please 🤲

[nefja]

The plants are getting big in the garden but it's not my duty to cut it. I also like that it gives the insects a nice food source and hideout tbh