Flare's Corner of Tumblr

Hello humans, I forgot Tumblr exists but I might actually post something now. This includes numerous reblogs and just maybe some decent art.

[flare-the-pyrowing]

FROGS FROGS FROGS FROGS FROGS

Aka a ninja, a monk, and a confused punchy boi.

(Ramblings under the cut)

Hehehe artists commentary time. Cause idk I wanna talk about it.

This took me a long time ngl. I mean part of that was a took a break and then had to actively make myself sit down and finish it, which I don't regret.

This was the first time I've drawn Ranno and Liligator (as well as greninja from the front), so between that and the character spacing, posing, lineart, the fact I didn't have an actual lineart pen for most of this, and attempted color matching (cough cough perfectionist cough), it was a challenge. Dude color matching Liligator's blue was really frustrating for a while, but I'm happy with how it turned out. And its As Close As I Can Get™. Ranno's bubbles gave me hell when I started coloring them. I swatched a lot of potential strategies before I tried on the sketch, so eventually it worked out and I think they work pretty good. I've drawn greninja a couple times cause they're my main in ssbu, but MAN. Drawing them from the front. Not doing that again anytime soon I'm doing just great with a three quarters angle thanks. I still think their face looks off, but I redrew their eyes at least 50 times and had to just Leave It if I ever wanted to continue.

Despite all of that, I had such a clear image of this idea in my head so I went and put it on paper. Honestly this was really fun and I like having a project I can chip away at for a couple days.

Anyway here's some alt versions cause I wanna put them here.

W/o question mark

Individual frogs (can you tell I went from left to right lol)

And I know absolutely zero (0) people care but if you wanna use these for icons you can just credit me ig.

Seeya

[nyahgust]

[crazycrowstuff]

i follow this person on da, pleasant shape birds are very captivating

[crazycrowstuff]

theyve been posting wolves for quite a bit now. i love them just as much as the birds

[kushblazer666]

[flowercrownsylveon]

[homunculus-argument]

Random worldbuilding: there's a region in the country with a strong culture of offering homecooked dishes as gifts for all occasion. And over time, they have accumulated an entire category of dishware that aren't any particular individual's property - they are constantly in rotation, being gifted and re-gifted as the dish holding a pie, a casserole, loaf of bread, the list goes on. Once a gift dish is in your possession, you need to make something in it as a gift in return - not necessarily to the one you received it from, but to someone nonetheless.

They're called lovers' dishes, but not for any romantic reasons. The name was adopted after people started deeming the previous name, courtesan bowls, inappropriate. The term courtesan bowl was also a slightly more cleaned-up term replacing a previous one, as the dishware were originally known as slut cups. As they, you understand, they get around.

[haloveir]

I firmly believe this should be a thing.

Make food for people. Give it to them and ask them to pass on the container with food to someone else.

Bonus points if it's chili.

[homunculus-argument]

I'd be tempted to make this a thing myself. Compose a little poem that instructs the reader to do exactly that - get the dish as a gift, give the dish as a gift, keep it in rotation, don't leave it on your shelf <3 - and get some oven dishes from goodwill or something, have them professionally engraved (do they do that? is that a thing you can do?) and then put them into rotation. The dishes I cook are dogshit at best but I want them into rotation.

[tealdearest]

These are actually very plentiful already made up for the purpose at goodwills, at least in my neck of the woods. A bit twee usually though. Maybe a better poem…..

[animentality]

[animentality]

[ripplespate]

I don't have ms paint but just pretend it is bc no one knows paintbrush for mac but i can assure you it was just as hellish if not worse since theres technically no brushes other than a pixel round brush and the worst looking freaking spray paint

[unsound-satyr]

SCROLL BACK!!

IT'S A PAINTING!!!

[tonysaintborgi]

my mutuals are doing this to me

[problematic-woman-lover]

[fairy-space]

Rainbow mo

[chassdraws]

Hi I paint your cat wet hands style

[nogenderonlyfrogie]

@voidoffline

[kabber]

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[ceruleanheaven]

month starting on a monday we have no excuse guys lets get to work and lock the fuck in

[ceruleanheaven]

yk its actually very chic and avant garde to start on tuesday the second

[ceruleanheaven]

many claim theres nothing more subversive and revolutionary than starting on wednesday the third

[headspace-hotel]

Speaking of parasites, all orchids are parasites to some extent. They have to take nutrients from fungi to germinate, because their seeds are literally just specks of baby plant dust with no food for the baby plant.

Many orchids, potentially most or even all of them, get part of their sugars/food from fungus throughout the lifespan, with some orchids not even bothering to photosynthesize.

They use a special mycorrhizal relationship called orchid mycorrhizae to form relationships with their fungi. It is distinguished on the microscope because the orchid mycorrhizal fungus forms a structure shaped like a coil, called a peloton, inside the plant cell.

It's a big mystery why this would evolve and why the fungus doesn't fight back, if orchids feed off the fungus without giving anything in return...

you see, usually with mycorrhizae, the plants are photosynthesizing so they provide some of the sugar/food they get from the sun to the fungus, whereas the fungus provides nutrients like phosphorous and nitrogen

but orchids are out here taking food from their fungus partner, so what gives? In mycorrhizal relationships both organisms have to agree, and they can adjust their relationship as they see fit. So how could the orchids be one-sidedly extorting the fungus? Do the orchids do something for the fungus that we don't yet understand?

[lets-nuke-it-from-orbit]

It’s definitely blackmail.

[headspace-hotel]

They have dirt on everyone in the forest

[pocketss]

Ummm she's literally sensitive :/

[what-even-is-thiss]

I tend to do a lot of cooking experiments and frankly the amount of closed mindedness people have around what food should and shouldn’t look like is holding them back I think

[castformi-deactivated20241025]

dystopia au where we are all assigned one of two chosen genders at birth

[peppylilspitfuck]

Thanks to ultrasounds, the genders can be assigned before birth.  The people are so excited to conform they throw “Gender reveal parties” to make sure their offspring exist in a strict binary since before they can even form thoughts. 

[slightlykylie]

Children are color-coded according to their binary assignment. 

[darkersolstice]

One of the genders is seen as inherently inferior.

[yothobro-deactivated20200505]

This all sounds really effing creepy when you put it that way

[rooksandravens]

#BECAUSE IT IS

[fuckyeahfeminist]

And if you deviate from the assigned gender you can be disowned by your family, fired from your job, and beaten by authorities.

[rodserlingofficial]

[c3rvida3]

I think Joan of Arc's fursona would be a dog called Joan of Bark, but my partner thinks it would be a phoenix, which seems insensitive to me, but neither of us are furries, so I guess we don't really get a say either way.

[swiftrunnerfelidae]

I promise I’m not trying to be pretentious here. Jeanne d’Arc’s last name is d’Arc.  An overly-literal translator insisted it stood for “of Arc”, and that’s why we know her as Joan of Arc.  At the time, she was more commonly known as “Jeanne la Pucelle”, meaning “Joan the Maiden” or “Joan the Virgin”.

anyways since her main attack strategy was “hit them until they stop moving” I think she’d be a gorilla.

[c3rvida3]

*taking notes* What else do you know about this beautiful world?