Of Growth and Decay

pst/pdt time zone. 🕗 tumblr "old". 🔁 queer. 🏳️‍🌈 agnostic. ✌ novice cartomancer. 🃏 5e is home but Pathfinder is my origin story. 🎲 dabble in DA and recently: Valheim. 🎮

[amarynth]

i’ve been told that i should actually post my twilight princess link design

[ororium-z]

Happy Pride!

[rootbeergoddess]

Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions

[thesaltofcarthage]

I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.

[teaboot]

I will forever maintain that genuine fortune-telling and psychic medium junk is a load of bull, but as a person who owns tarot decks and regularly uses them as a tool for self-reflection I also have to admit that it does kind of work for that and it's very very funny when it does

Once I laid out some cards before I left the house and couldn't figure out an interpretation of the symbolism that made sense outside of "stop focusing and pay attention", which was of course absurd, so I was puzzling over that all the way to my bus stop and was so distracted the whole time that I walked face-first into a massive fucking spiderweb

[axyb]

[elfgrove]

#you ever realise how fucking terrifying Caduceus can be??? #he’s this sweet pastel coloured cow man who’s like 100 years oldlived in a grave yard #lived in a graveyard #drank tea made from corpses #and decomposes bodies on the regular

I kind of love that given his gentle and relaxed attitude folk forget Caduceus is very much a Cleric of the Wildmother in a very practical sort of way.

When you hear nature goddess cleric and meet the chill guy in pastels drinking tea and loving mushrooms and lichen who is patient and taking care of the group with a sort of bemused air, it’s very easy to go crystal waving hippie sort and ignore everything else he says and does.

But he’s been very up front about who he is from the moment they met him. He’s been raised in a family of clerics and paladins that oversee a graveyard. His calling is putting people in the ground and ensuring they stay there. He drinks tea made from the plants grown on the graves of the dead.

When they first met him and expressed concern he wasn’t up for a quest that involved fighting and killing, he very frankly told them:

“Have you ever BEEN in nature? Yes. Violence is extremely natural.” - Caduceus Clay, Within the Nest (c2e028) “Well, I don’t know about deserve, but I think there’s always somewhere there’s a plant that needs some compost, and I’m happy to make some more if it’ll make people happy.” - Caduceus Clay, Within the Nest (c2e028)

The first few battles he was in, he cast decompose on every single enemy body to start turning them to mulch and mushrooms immediately after. No one that went up against him was ever getting back up again.

And when you gloss over that, you’re gonna get mentally clotheslined when he says things like:

“I serve nature. I’m a maker of fine graves.” - Caduceus Clay, A Pirate’s Life for Me (c2e041) “The only thing I’ve found that brings closure is when everyone’s finally in the ground. From my experience.” - Caduceus Clay, Dark Waters (c2e098) “I wish for you, in the future, to find someone to mourn you when you are gone. Respectfully.” - Caduceus Clay, Dinner with the Devil (c2e110) “I don’t know how to put this but we are currently on what is possibly the universe’s largest cadaver. This is what I was born to do, is to put this fucking thing down. Let’s end this shit.” - Caduceus Clay, Where There Is a Will… (c2e138)

And I adore that about Cad.

[magpiesketchins]

The entire Discworld fandom on the 25th of May.

[h0use-fly]

Rolling hills 🐑

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

art by Curtis Lanaghan

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

you have this superpower! BUT you have this side-effect

is it worth it?

yes!!

the side effect is bad but ITS WORTH IT

meh it's okay

the side effect makes it unusable/not worth it

Results/option I didn't think of

Voting ended onMay 20

[mothermara]

remember to bury the dead with a phone, everyone. these days the ferry terminal at the river styx wants you to download a fucking app

[bucketofdeltav]

So my beta reader for the Big Fics is an astrophysicist, right. Who is currently also writing a hard sci-fi novel about the exploration of Phobos (more power to them, I cannot with the physics required for that, best I can do is soft sci-fi/fantasy and that reminds me I should finish that story).

Anyway I was bitching about how hard it is to come up with feasible planets in Star Wars because sometimes you need a new planet from scratch and sometimes you need to know more about a planet than the 'has jungles, is probably a moon technically' than Wookieepedia will give you, and they're like 'oh yeah I can do something about that'.

So they've written (in Matlab but they swear it will run as a .exe as well and I may be conscripted to embed it as a web tool at some point) a star system generator.

You input what you know about the planet (ecosystem, population, sun colour, does it have liquid water, does it have a moon or moons, is it a moon or moons, temperature averages, atmosphere, you get me) and it will give you the... everything else about the star system, in obedience to real-universe physics. And if you input nothing you get a randomly generated star system.

And I’m like oh I know people who will be into this with a vengeance, and they're not on Tumblr, so this is me seeing who exactly would be keen on, and I cannot stress this enough, a real-physics comprehensive star system generator.

It's still in the debugging phase (last error fixed: every planet wants to have a population of exactly 5000 regardless of other factors, turned out to be a missing equals sign somewhere), but I'm psyched for this and trying to gauge interest for how high a priority 'make this an accessible web tool' needs to be.

[melyzard]

[elodieunderglass]

@bucketofdeltav says the URL is here: http://tumblr.com/star-system-generator

okay it has its own blog now (@star-system-generator) on Tumblr

Follow @star-system-generator and get more of the good stuff by joining Tumblr today. Dive in!

[biglawbear]

I'm instituting a new policy of "if I can't easily read your crusty scanned PDF then I'm sending it back to you, telling you to get your shit together and save your .docx as .pdf, and causing snakes to manifest inside your house"

[christaaah]

this but also if you are in accounting and you have an Excel file please do not save it as a PDF or take a screenshot of it and then paste it into another Excel file

[biglawbear]

I take it back whatever you have going on is way worse than what I was dealing with holy shit

[firstbornsons-deactivated202605]

@thesummoningdark hello?????

[thesummoningdark]

yeah no this is a real thing an actual human being said to me

[biglawbear]

Good afternoon to everyone in the notes having a horrible time! Y'all are fighting demons I never knew existed!! I think every person that makes you do stupid time wasting shit like this because they refuse to learn basic computer literacy should be fired!!

[supertaliart]

Happy May the Fourth! I added a second page to this comic from last year!

[brenna-ivy]

- Examples of my art -

- Commission me -

[brenna-ivy]

Heyy guys, I’m currently looking for commission work!

I love doing character concept art, big background pieces, fantasy themes, and horror themes. Have a look at other examples of my art to see what I can make for you!

[brenna-ivy]

I could really use some work right now! <3

All my slots are open and I’d love to draw your OC for you!

[yeehawpim]

having a ponder about being aromantic and the kinds of friendships or qprs I might want to have

[angelheartedlover]

Happy Beltane!

What is Beltane?

Beltane is the midpoint between the Spring equinox and summer solstice.  

Celebrates the height of spring and the start of the summer season. 

It is a free spirited time where we laugh and run wild. 

Beltane is a fertility holiday, it celebrates fertility both physical and symbolic. The holiday also celebrates the potential relationships that can come from it. It was normal for people to perform handfasting rituals during this time as well as get married to their chosen person. Beltane is also known as May day and has a practice of dancing around the maypole. At the end the dance people would take their chosen partner in the meadow for a romp.  

How to celebrate Beltane

Take time to make a flower crown and wear it throughout the day.

Gather your loved ones and have a bonfire. 

Dance around the Maypole

Have a picnic whether at the park or in your backyard, have a cute outing in nature with yummy snacks. 

Decorate your space with flowers, wreaths, and garlands

Go on a walk and pick wild flowers

Plant seeds of your favorite plant or vegetable.

 Give and offering to the Fae 

Run bare food in the grass, forest, or field. 

Read folklore while basking in the sun. 

Drink honeyed milk while nestled in your bed.

Common symbols associated with Beltane

 Herbs:  Mint,  Strawberry,  Nettle, woodruff, mugwort, cowslip, rosemary, thyme, Yarrow 

Plants:  Oak, Dandelion, Hawthorne,Rose, Honeysuckle, Daisy, Snapdragon, Bluebell, Birch, lilies, tulips, marigold  

Crystals: MAlachite, Tigers Eye, Carnelian, Bloodstone, Rose quartz, Emerald, Aventurine 

Colors: Brown, Green, white, yellow, red, and pink 

Animals:dove, cats, swallows 

Deities: Horned God, Diana, Freya, Odin, Pan, Flora, Persephone, Aphrodite, Cernunnos, The Fae Folk, Hathor   

Incense: Frankincense, Citrus, Jasmine, Ylang-Ylang, Pine, Mint, Rose, Vanilla, Musk 

Common Altar pieces for Beltane 

Mini May Pole 

Fairies or elemental imagery 

Roses, daisies,  or any spring flowers (Fake flowers are fine)

Candles 

Antlers or horns 

Brown, green, white, and yellow candles 

Symbols of fertility 

Ribbons 

Common foods to Eat:

Fruits: Apples, Avocado, Banana, Blackberry,  Cherry, Coconut, Dates, Grapes, Lemon, Pomegranate, Raspberry, Strawberries, 

Vegetables:Beets, Celery, Corn, Cucumber, Dandelion, Greens, Eggplants, Mushroom, Squash, Sweet Potatoes

Spices: Anise, Basil, cardamom, cinnamon, Lemongrass, Nutmeg, Peppermint, Poppy Seeds, 

Grain: Oats, Rice, Wheat

Meat and proteins: Beans, Tofu

Sweets: Chocolate, Vanilla, Honey (Ex: light cakes, cookies)

Drink: Wine (red and pink wine), Teas (ex: Strawberry rose, Lemon Nettle, Orange Mint, Lavender earl grey, Hibiscus cherry, raspberry hawthorne)

[keepcalmandcarriefischer]

It's the last day of April

[my-little-bologna]

Wake up babe, new meta layer just dropped

[sanerontheinside]

I don’t know who needs to hear this

but it’s time to move the noodles to the pot

[durbikins]

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