#wise nature

[internationalemeteorologie]

William J. Webbe

Chanticleer and the fox. 1857

[officialspec]

ill be honest as much as i love to criticise the use of fatphobia for comedy ill never be able to hold the fatphobic jokes in kung fu panda against it

like yea those movies are guilty of dipping into The Usual Tropes for a cheap laugh but not only is the character writing for the fat characters the strongest and most sympathetic ive Ever seen literally just the character designs of the pandas in the 3rd movie get me choked up sometimes. theyre all so appealing and clearly treated with the same care and attention as everyone else without copping out and making them Barely Fat. po is already a size that doesnt exist in film protags and hes still the thinnest person in that whole village and that meant a lot to me

[squeakadeeks]

Sulu is (virtually) done! I still need to tidy some things up and of course the wig, makeup, and ear fins, but the bulk of him is done lmao. This project was a slog, I wanted him to look like a physical manifestation of my art style and follow his design close to 1:1, two things i didnt do on Pupet at all, which involved a lot of super clean, popping cartoony style crafting, which is not my strong suit.

[blobbei-art]

Light redesigns of Romeo and Delilah!

I do like their designs but I thought you could push them a little more. They're very rough, I was just doodling these for fun! Ended sparking some new headcanons i incorporated specific to these designs.

Can't decide whether I like the OG ambiguous robe or clearly a hospital gown for Romeo but I really wanted to see him with the gown!

[svampira]

my infant son👍

[funnywildlife]

#ThursdayThoughts

Most conflicts can be solved over drinks….

[bonefall]

When Thunder stays with Clear Sky for a while, does Clear ever insist on referring to him as Thunder Sky?

Towards the end yes, as the final detail to Thunder Storm that Clear Sky doesn't love him. He wants to ERASE him.

If Clear Sky recognizes he's made a mistake in casting Bright Storm away with their child, he's incapable of seeing it was wrong because it was cruel. He wants what he realizes he threw away, because he now sees it has value. He wants to own his oldest son the way he wants to own the entire forest-- as a reflection of his greatness.

Anything that makes Clear Sky uncomfortable about Thunder Storm has to be sanded down. The assertiveness was the first thing, he feels insecure when he's challenged, the child must learn to follow before he may learn to lead.

The second is that leg, presenting a prosthetic as a gift (that he isnt allowed to refuse), because he can't have been wrong about the choice that killed his younger brother-- here is a SOLUTION that simply didn't exist before! Behold how resourceful and wealthy his cats are, compared to your old group. We've fixed you.

(This prosthetic is a clunky piece of shit that is annoying to strap on every day, gets in the way and makes a ton of noise, and itches like hell, but the change in Clear's demeanor is immediate if Thunder doesn't wear it.)

But somehow, Thunder Storm was willing to take all of that. In hindsight, it bothers him that the tipping point wasn't the other two things.

Bright Storm gave her son her own last name. When Clear Sky sent them away and the Mountain Cats permanently split, it was pointed. "My only survivor is named for myself." SHE would raise him, alone.

Bright Storm herself slowly seemed to lose sight of the meaning, encouraging him to understand his father's good aspects, but in the meanwhile it took on a new meaning to Thunder. His mother raised him. He found a father in Shaded Flower. He grew up next to Lightning Cry and Acorn Swoop. Thunder Storm means this. It's the person he made himself, and the love they've all put into him.

Thunder SKY is just another monument to Clear Sky, stripping away the life he lived without him. And WHY? For ego? For comfort?

"What am I letting him DO to me?!"

It wasn't the final STRAW, but it was the tipping point. Once Thunder Storm had this realization, the minute he was not going to budge on something, that confrontation was inevitable. The blowout fight was making reservations.

Sunlit Frost is still the breaking point, the injury from his burn going sour, but I'm going to emphasize the way that Clear Sky only called that meeting in the first place as an abuse game. Thunder Storm knew it was coming-- but it still sickens him that it was something THIS monstrous.

[julykings]

kind of in my hermit era lately and trying not to feel bad about it im just such a homebody these days

[dumblr]

Best feeling is when you just naturally click with person. Talking all day, every day, no forceful conversation, laughs or attention.

[lindagoesmushrooming]

Flammulina velutipes

[ride-a-dromedary]

My favourite part of Halsin's speech pattern are the deliberate pauses he takes when attempting to search for a word or phrase, but especially when you know he's doing the work to consider what he really wants to say, and then decide how to phrase that thing as delicately as he possibly can.

[illithiddies]

gale. honey. sweetheart. dumbass beloved.

this makes you sound like a sorcerer. are you a sorcerer. you kind of sound like a sorcerer and not a wizard.

mr "being a wizard is my entire identity and I know nothing about myself outside of it"

[raayllum]

once they move out of the castle to a small town in xadia (silvergrove, maybe?) callum and rayla have a little cottage, and in between their occupations (rayla teaching people how to defend themselves; callum taking on mage students and making primal stones) callum raises chickens and other birds. it starts as an accident (a baby bird wanders into their yard with a broken wing) but then he realizes he actually really just... likes having birds around, and they seem to flock to him because of his arcanum, and he builds a little fish pond and... just spends time out in nature where he can feel all his arcanums thrumming through him, making him feel more connected to his body and the world around him, and not less.

[forestofsprites]

sometimes, life is truly dreadful. just really, really awful! but then there are FRIENDS, and STORIES, and with them, the suggestion that perhaps the bleak may not be so daunting, nor so lonely, as previously thought!!

[queerasian]

imagine if they didn’t dye jeremy’s hair for kendall and he kept his natural grey. he would’ve been far too powerful (image sources 1/2)

[weirdmageddon]

fuck it i did it myself