Let’s Get Dangerous

RAINBOW 🌈 | She/They

[darkwingduck]

Hey, I’m Rainbow! I’m an ‘80s vintage adult in the U.S. I enjoy sci-fi and fantasy, RPG video games, learning cross stitch and crochet, and poking at new hobbies and interests when time allows.

I’m LaurelCrowned (pseudonym: Earthsparked) on AO3 (though I mostly read, rather than write fanfic). You can also find me as bethoutherainbow on Discord.

On tagging posts

•I tag fiber arts posts with “I yearn for yarn.” I’m slow with my projects, and also still pretty inexperienced but learning more all the time.

•I'm a newbie gardener and talk about it a lot! I’m learning as I go and like to document my experiences. If those posts aren’t your thing, I’m tagging them “gardening” and “garden 2026” for filtering purposes. I’m in USDA Zone 8. I have a post here about how I managed to grow lavender from seed.

•I tag posts about fighting fascism and US politics with “cannot be reconciled with wisdom justice and love,” which is a quote from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

•I generally tag common stuff like blood, insects, etc. but I’m not strict about it. If you need something in particular tagged, please let me know and I’ll try to be more vigilant.

House Rules

If I reblog something from a gross person, let me know and I’ll delete it. (I'm usually on mobile, so I miss things!)

I’m too old for drama. The block button is my friend. Allow it to be your friend, too.

Transphobes and fascists can fuck off.

I really like sharks and my favorite is the wobbegong. Its name kind of sounds like "woebegone," and also it has lots of frilly bits, and it's sort of orange. What’s your favorite shark?

[draconym]

The eye doctor is the most fun doctor you can go to. They never steal your blood. They never make you get naked and put on a paper dress. They're just like, "Can you see these letters? It's fine if you can't, we can fix that." And they don't even spell anything.

[draconym]

[darkwingduck]

I think I need to move my five roses that are in shade. They’re fine, but they’re definitely not blooming as much as the ones in full sun. I put them there because I worried they couldn’t handle the heat, but it’s not doing them any favors.

I don’t want to mess with it in summer, but I’ll wait till winter and dig them up and move them when I do a hard prune. I’ll need to figure out something else to put there.

I’m thinking of digging up my peace rose and doing a hard prune of it next year too. It’s in a visible spot, and it’s growing and blooming, but it’s also easily one of the most troublesome roses I have. It gets insect damage and spider mites and black spot when the others don’t. It doesn’t bloom as prolifically. I don’t like the shape of how it’s growing in, either. I’d rather put something else in that spot. Maybe I’ll use it as a test victim to see if it can actually handle our kind of summer heat.

I should replace my Joseph’s coat climbing rose too. It’s the one with mosaic virus. It blooms, it’s pretty, but it’s not thriving or growing much compared to my others. I can move it somewhere out of the way and replace it with something else.

I’ve been introduced to the concept of “shovel pruning” which is exactly what it sounds like. Don’t like it? Shovel prune it. Put something else there.

I’ve been so impressed with my Kordes roses. They seem to like my climate. The Earth Angel and Bliss roses have a gorgeous shape, the leaves are perfect, and they grow like weeds. The blooms are prone to balling in rainy weather, but that’s literally the only downside. I’ll have to take a good look at what varieties from them I can find next year.

[darkwingduck]

Parfuma Bliss has won me over on this style of rose.

[darkwingduck]

One of the things I’ve learned in my career is that the crux of a lot of civil issues is the matter of enforcement. Specifically that there is no mechanism of enforcement available to citizens, other than the courts.

If you can’t afford to sue the perpetrator, then you as a citizen can’t do anything to defend your civil rights. This has a bigger impact than I can properly describe.

Free legal counsel should be a human right. It should never be a barrier to holding the system accountable, when it is the only method of enforcement available to citizens.

[darkwingduck]

Pointing hard at this in the wake of the Bricks and Minifigs incident. How much of this could have been avoided if Bryan could have just sued the fuckers from the start?

[darkwingduck]

This is such a small thing compared to addressing the unreal garbage tumblr does to its trans users, but it would be nice to have the aroace tag colored with the sunset flag colors

[van1llaskys]

[darkwingduck]

Me, knocking furiously on the door of Ilmarin: hey. Hey Manwë. Open up. I need to talk to you. Is the Music of the Ainur diegetic or non-diegetic

[darkwingduck]

Genuinely been thinking about this and I think the answer could be both or neither, maybe. The dividing line between audience and the character/performer “onscreen” is - not a dividing line. In-universe the “audience” is inherently a participant, being both created and sub-creator in Tolkien’s cosmology. You could make a case that it’s diegetic then, because if everyone’s a performer/character then everyone can hear the Music?

But, also. The Ainur didn’t have anything to do with the Third Theme that created Elves, Men, etc. so…in a way you could say the Ainur are the audience, at least for that part of the Music. They didn’t create it but they could hear and experience it (but not fully understand it?) And the participants are the created and creators, but they generally couldn’t hear the Music except for sort of echoes, especially in water. So possibly the Third Theme is non-diegetic? Except in a really funny reverse way.

And if you take the meta step back and consider that we are the audience, then we’re still experiencing the Music because the Music is creation and the characters are both created and creators, but we can’t like. Hear the Music, which is embodied by the characters. They can. What is it when the audience can’t hear the Music? Maybe that’s the opposite of diegesis. Antidiegesis.

And it’s not like actual music that you could read off a page. It’s, y’know. Metaphysical forces of creation that wove intention into being. That happen to be described as Music. But that ruins the premise so pbbbt.

Yes this is a silly joke but actually trying to answer it has been turning my brain inside out. I’m not smart enough. I’m probably wrong.

Continues banging on Manwë’s door: I’m gonna steal one of your Eagles and take him for a joyride so help me. Come out here I need answers

[dw-ebook-preservation-society]

Hello, Tumblr! The doctor who ebook preservation society has an exciting announcement: we have massively updated the library! Please check out our new pinned post and make sure you're spreading that one around - the link to the new library is here:

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[hxneyfarm]

Happy pride month specifically to folks on the asexual and aromantic spectrum who oftentimes feel isolated and left out of the conversation. You belong here as much as the rest of us and I hope that you are all loved in a way that is comforting to you.

[yipyipallyall]

[darkwingduck]

So happy that some of my coreopsis is fighting back and recovering from being eaten to the ground by beetles. These are young plants and I really didn’t know if they would survive. I’m so glad they did!

I managed to get the daisies and penstemon in the ground without killing them. The liatris, columbine, snapdragons, hollyhocks, rose mallow, salpiglossis, and cape daisy are all growing in containers. I need to make a plan for getting the snaps and liatris in the ground quickly. They really started to take off.

The five dahlias I ended up with have gotten HUGE. I really need to move at least three of them to their own space. The one I grew from seed last year is about to bloom (!) and I started a whole new packet of seeds because they’ve done so well. I got amazingly good germination and should have about 15 more dahlias to add to the rest, in a few months.

The tomato starts are big and chunky, and flowering. The watermelon seeds actually germinated. I’m really enjoying having raised beds where I can put things and actually expect them to grow/not get eaten/torn up.

I started a tray of cherry tomatoes, eggplant, and peppers, and some cucumbers as well for the raised beds. I’m not as worried about the heat, given these are going in a place I can easily shade and keep watered. I’m hoping I’ll be able to actually take advantage of having a long growing season.

I also have another tray of zinnias going, because my in ground ones have been incredibly slow. And another bunch of snapdragons, some tithonia, and some pink echinacea (a cultivar).

I’ve been fairly hands off with everything lately, because we’ve been getting rain regularly (thank goodness) and with everything planted, the most I’ve had to do is deadheading the roses. I’m putting out fertilizer every two weeks and that seems like a fair amount for now.

I have about a month before we hit the dead zone, but fingers crossed we keep getting rain. I do need to pick up a bunch of mulch, and get things mulched before we hit July. That should help a lot.

[darkwingduck]

Flowers - May 31, 2026

[homunculus-argument]

"If you accept any food from the fae, they shall never let you go" is a human belief. The fair folk stand by the principle that if you feed 'em, you gotta keep 'em. If wildlife learns to rely on you for food, you have already fucked up, and you can't just stop feeding them cold turkey. That human is your responsibility now. Because you left your peach cobbler unsupervised.

[milkywayes]

The senior crew of Starfleet's most controversial starship, the USS Normandy SR-1.

blurb and crew list under the cut!

I came up with a whole backstory for this AU, but I’ll just leave you with this blurb:

After the media circus around the Cerberus trials dies down and the rogue Section 31 cell has been thoroughly dealt with, no one expects to see key witness Shepard, ex-special forces commander, ever again. Not after she publicly disavowed Starfleet, and not with half the quadrant still questioning her involvement. They especially don’t expect to see her captaining her own starship. And to hire a turian first officer only months after the Hierarchy’s sudden and inexplicable move to join the Federation? It’s like she’s begging for negative attention. The galaxy wants to know: what leverage does she hold against Starfleet brass to make them cater to her every whim? And how long until the crew cannibalizes itself under her rogue leadership?

SENIOR CREW LIST

CMDR. Shepard, Commanding Officer LT. Moreau, Helmsman

LT. CMDR.* VAKARIAN, XO, Chief Tactical Officer LT. ALENKO, Second Officer SPECIALIST TRAYNOR, Communications Officer

*approximate rank based on Hierarchy tier

CPTN. CHAKWAS, Chief Medical Officer CPO WILLIAMS, Chief of Security N/A [INVALID NAME], Acting Chief Engineer ENSIGN T'SONI, Science Officer

[drchucktingle]

another day, another opportunity to create. you get to shape this moment as a thousand different timelines pour off of you in a thousand different ways. so fill it with beauty. how? give today the the uniqueness that makes YOU you. you are the perfect ingredient for this moment bud. LETS TROT

[drchucktingle]

thats exactly what i meant

[userfish]

this pride month we’re all going to be radically pro transgender. or else.

[userfish]

hey so this means radically pro ALL transgender. don’t put limitations on this. all trans people are radically accepted here.