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Flower Crab Spider aka Goldenrod Crab Spider/Misumena vatia/blomkrabbspindel. Värmland, Sweden (22 June 2014).
it's so embarrassing. what the hell was nagelsmann even thinking? we don't have a defense anymore, kimmich is playing all by himself and still he gets subbed out. wirtz isn't even touching the ball. musiala is trying but it's not enough (i know he's back from an injury but still). havertz thinks he's playing in his lazy ass team from england. i don't even wanna talk about sané because i've had enough. tah makes our defense the worst in years. manu isn't 2014 manu and people are not ready for this conversation. we can't be depending on undav getting in the second half to save us because it clearly won't happen all the time and he should just start in the fucking game to begin with. you can't make those fucking substitutions when we still have a lot to play and we weren't even winning.
anyway. we are up to the next round but at what cost?
I think Germany also really missed Nene Brown. He brings a kind of speed that I don't see in Raum.
GG Ecuador you clearly were the better team. 👏👏👏
Your defence was tight AF
Friendly reminder
That you don't have to keep That Thing™ in your story just because you came up with it a long time ago and now it's hindering your story or doesn't fit anymore. Even if you came up with it with someone. Even if you've shared it with a million people.
Save it for something else. But cut it out of the story that it isnt working for.
It's for the best, trust me.
Open your writing software, right now. Microsoft Word, LibreOffice, Scrivener, Notepad, whatever you use. Create a brand new blank document.
That Thing™ that isn't working, that you're contemplating cutting out, or you literally just cut? Write it down here. Save the document as something that you'll remember but not too serious. "Burn Book", "Trash Pile", "Cutting Room Floor", "Sourdough Discard", doesn't matter so long as you'll remember what it's for but not something you'll take too seriously that you won't be able to move on from it.
I mean it, if you take everything you write too seriously and treat every idea as something that must be ✨ Important and Official ✨, you'll inevitably ruin the actual fun of writing and close yourself off to better options that were staring you in the face the entire time. So do something fun and silly for yourself for once and give the document a fun and silly name.
From here on out, every time you're stuck trying to make a certain idea work, extract it from your story like you're playing Operation and put it in the other document. Don't bother organizing it or stylizing it, the only point of this is to put the idea out of sight, out of mind. It's like an ex-boyfriend, if you don't throw out his things or resist looking at his Instagram, you'll never get over him. Doesn't matter if it's 50 words or 5,000 words - thank it for all the time it's spent ruining your good time and chuck it in the fucking bin.
With that idea gone and out of the way, living its best life elsewhere, you are now free to live your best life anew. This is where the grieving finally ends and you can start having fun and mingling with other ideas again.
I don't remember who said it, or where I even read it the first time (I've tried and failed to find it) but some of the best writing advice I've ever gotten and has continued to save my ass even when I thought I didn't need it, is that the source of your problem is 10 sentences ago.
If you hit a mental block in your writing, if you're struggling to make an idea work, stop. Go back. Ten sentences, a paragraph, a chapter, just go back. Chances are, the source of your problem - and subsequently the solution to overcoming it - has been there from the start, and it's usually an idea we had that we thought could work in theory, but in practice, became unmanageable and uncooperative.
Might be a big idea like an entire concept, might be a little one like a character interaction or scene, might even just be one single sentence that isn't co-existing peacefully with the rest of the text.
Stop spinning your wheels. Stop stressing while you try to figure out how to make a square fit into a circle hole.
Pause, go back, find the culprit at its source, yoink it out, put it in that separate document, and move on with your life as a released prisoner.
As for that separate document? Treat it as a time-out corner for the naughty ideas that aren't getting along with the rest. If they're biting and kicking at the other ideas in the room, your first step should be separating them. It's not necessarily a punishment, just a moment of separation so tempers have a chance to cool off. Most of all, it gives you a proper moment of peace so you can come back to the problem with a more level-headed approach, without the intensity of trying to problem-solve on the fly.
The ideas that are in that time-out corner do not have to stay in there forever. The important thing is that they're separated and now you have time to explore other options. Your mind can get the peace it needs to think clearly without the stress or imaginary obligation to an idea you came up with ages ago holding you back from completing that first draft.
Maybe some day you'll remember one of those ideas out of the blue and realize they actually get along perfectly with the new ideas you've come up with since then. Or you might even peek into that document months later and realize, "Oh shit! I forgot about that idea that I convinced myself was completely necessary! Turns out it wasn't!" More often than not, you'll forget about these ideas completely, and upon re-discovering them (if you ever do), you'll be thanking yourself in hindsight that you didn't keep throwing yourself at the problem with an idea that simply wasn't compatible. And if it's an idea that you still think is cool but simply wouldn't work for what you were writing, well, now you have notes for the next story.
Just keep moving forward. Be willing to put both yourself and your ideas in separate corners, especially when they start biting and kicking you.
Treat your mind as a home and your ideas as visitors. Not everyone who comes through the door would make a good roommate; a lot of them don't even make for good guests. You are not married to them just because you might have carried them over the threshold one time. It's okay to tell some of those visitors to come back later, or to take a hike and never come back. You do not owe them your home.
this genuinely such good writing advice and has already helped me out a ton. :)
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Luke Skywalker put away his targeting computer to destroy the Death Star so I don't need AI to help me write an email.
2000's Star Wars Tales Vol.1 #6 cover by artist Kilian Plunkett (unused & published version).
a tiny springtail on Craterium minutum
by Barry Webb
Sometimes when I remember that Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader are the same person things like this come to my mind.
I somehow managed to somewhat recreate the cover of "Yona of the Dawn" Volume 1 and I am so happy with how it turned out.
for reference:3
here is a fun little star wars scenario that has been pinging around inside my head like a screensaver:
so let’s say there’s some very zealous, very low-ranking fresh young Imperial officer on duty the day they take the Senator from Alderaan into custody.
and he is very very nervous because a) he’s been here for like a week and b) none of that week required him to be in a room with Darth Vader. which he now is. so he is trying to focus very very hard on Doing Everything Exactly According To Protocol, as a means of not focusing on the seven-foot evil wizard standing fifteen feet away.
and part of the protocol for processing new prisoners is to make a new file for them in the prisoner database, and enter all their biographical details and vital statistics and a gene sample and their known associates and the nature of their terrible crimes against the Empire and so on. which he does! very meticulously!
except the computer keeps throwing an error message. the stupid thing keeps beeping at him, this awful grating little noise that makes his shoulders ratchet up tighter and tighter every time it honks at him, and he can’t fix it and Darth Vader is right over there—
except oh god oh fuck the beeping noise must be annoying Darth Vader, too, because he’s coming over here and our poor junior officer is convinced he’s going to die before he even lives long enough to send his first paycheck home to his poor widowed mother —
he stammers out an apology. Vader just stares at him. he swears he’ll figure out the problem right away, sir, it’s probably a bug in the system, it’s just that for some silly reason it keeps saying this gene sample doesn’t match the one on file for the Senator so he can’t get her logged as a new prisoner just yet —
“Dismissed,” says Vader. the poor kid flees, gratefully.
Vader considers the matter. in fact, his underling was correct: the gene sample, which he saw taken through his very own helmet lenses, does not match the official record of Senator Leia Organa, heir to the throne of Alderaan. so: perhaps the sample on record was falsified. not impossible, but very, very difficult. and ordinarily a crime attempted by the lowly and desperate. he cannot see any need for it, in the daughter of a queen.
another possibility presents itself. Alderaan has no history of using royal doubles, as some worlds do. but Bail Organa has worked closely with royal houses where the practice is long-established. perhaps he was inspired. perhaps the girl they captured is not Leia Organa at all.
Vader runs the gene sample against the ship’s database. it is woefully incomplete, of course, containing only a fraction of the Empire’s billions of citizens: the ship’s own complement, a selection of known criminals and Rebels they might encounter, high-ranking officials whose identity must be confirmed should the Emperor require their presence. unlikely that this girl, whoever she is, would have a record here, or even a partial match—
the computer beeps at him. it’s a cheerful beep, this time, not the error message that stymied the junior officer. the computer reports that the gene sample is a partial match for Pooja Naberrie, the Senator from Naboo. they are, with eighty-nine percent probability, first cousins.
and Vader just. kind of stands there. for a minute.
when he goes to Leia’s cell, there’s no interrogation droid with him. he goes in. he shuts the door behind him. he stands, there, silent, for frankly a worryingly long time, until Leia has run through her entire stockpile of “how dare you, I’m a member of the Senate on a humanitarian mission” and “whatever you want, you can’t possibly think I would be of any help” and “well, if you’re going to interrogate me, get on with it already” and “are you even listening to me?” and falls silent herself.
Vader has been listening to her. he has also been listening to the Force, which seems to think that she’s not lying. obviously the humanitarian mission part is bullshit, that goes without saying. but the “I’m Senator Leia Organa” parts and the “I won’t help you” parts? yeah. he searched his feelings. he knows them to be true. the Force is singing in his head, bright and clear, in a way it hasn’t for nearly twenty years.
there’s still Tarkin to deal with, though. Vader turns and leaves the cell without a word.
Tarkin wants to blow up Alderaan. this is unacceptable, obviously, and Vader forbids it on the grounds that the Queen and the Viceroy possess vital intelligence, not disclosed to their daughter, that must be acquired. said intelligence being, not that he’s saying this out loud, how the fuck Bail got his hands on his daughter, and who else knows about it.
“the fate of the galaxy rests on it,” is what he does say out loud. from the way the Force harmonizes with his words, that might even be true.
so the Death Star just. parks there. in an incredibly threatening orbit around the planet. they issue a demand that the Organas surrender themselves, or else, but apparently the happy couple just left for a low-tech weekend retreat in the mountains, what awful timing, they’re sending someone to fetch them right away. Vader shuts himself up in his quarters, to seethe and watch the surveillance feed from Leia’s cell. he’s not really paying attention to much else.
and it’s not like a random freighter getting tractored in for being an incredibly obvious smuggling vessel is the kind of thing you’d alert Darth Vader over, anyway.
so he’s still sitting there, one great big thought filling up his whole entire head, watching Leia take a frustration nap, when her cell door opens.
and a trooper comes in.
and the trooper takes off his helmet.
and he says, “I’m Luke Skywalker. I’m here to rescue you.”
inspiring obi wan quotes for intellectuals to ponder.
we’ve all heard “If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine” and “The truth is often what we make of it”, but I bet you are unfamiliar with these gems.
gosh this is why we read Star Wars books
Conya Art for March
Wow I am really late but sometimes I really struggle with the Lineart. It takes up so much time (TwT)9
Also yes this is the official unofficial illustration for Chapter 8 of Wellspring.
Anyways here is the time lapse of the coloring process :3c
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Last song: AC/DC by Andrew Lloyd Webber, specifically the 1989 Bochum Complete Live Recording
Currently watching: "An observation log of my fiance who calls herself a villainess"
Currently reading: Yona of the dawn by Mizuno Kusanagi, it really is a fun read. Sinha is my favourite little guy right now.
Current obsession: Starlight Express, I just really like trains ✨🚂🚃✨, also stickers, stickers are incredibly fun and I really have to restrain myself from putting them all over my sketchbook I especially like the cringy 90s looking ones.
Currently working on: I have way too many WIPs too lol, but one specific one would be my Kurokiba X Tadokoro fanfic. Also I should really get started on the Conya art for April.
Last Google seach: "Sonic Comic Collection 3", the IDW comics are only released like this in German and we get like one volume per year (T~T)
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To understand and appreciate the Lucas Star Wars saga (aka The Prequels and Original Trilogy),one must accept certain truths:
TPM exists to show Anakin is a good person (his True Self is good)
Shmi Skywalker is the person responsible for the helpful, kind, and selfless person Anakin was at the time Qui-Gon and co met him
Anakin and Padme met before Anakin encountered either the Jedi or the Sith (in other words, their love transcends both)
Qui-Gon is depicted as the ideal mentor for little Ani, and his death is what dooms Anakin, as it means there is no longer anyone standing between him and Palpatine's false-fatherly influence.
Anakin is the Chosen One (aka, Qui-Gon is meant to be proven RIGHT about that)
AotC emphasizes the fact that the Jedi Order forbids LOVE (including family - that's what the whole storyline surrounding Shmi's death is all about)
Anakin and Padme genuinely love each other and are good for one another (they also genuinely KNOW each other, that is not up for debate)
Once again... the Jedi Order forbids love (which includes family); this is supposed to be a FLAW (see: Lucas' previous works that depict this type of thing as unquestionably dystopian)
RotS shows that Anakin was a flawed but good person right up until his fall to the Dark Side.
RotS shows that Obi-Wan cares about Anakin, but is a failed mentor.
Anakin falls to the Dark Side due to his Fear of Loss and Palpatine's grooming
RotS shows that both Anakin and Obi-Wan are in the wrong about their actions in the lead up to and during the Mustafar duel ('do what must be done'/'i will do what I must')
Padme's final words about Anakin are RIGHT ('there is still good in him...')
The Original Trilogy depicts Luke and Leia as unequivocally heroic and gives them a hopeful and triumphant happy ending
The Original Trilogy demonstrates that someone can be a Jedi while still having personal attachments of love and family (and in fact, love and family are what saves the day, thereby proving the Old Jedi Order WRONG)
The ending of RotJ vindicates Anakin and Padme's forbidden love (their love does NOT doom the galaxy; it saves it!)
Luke proves Padme's final words RIGHT
The Skywalker family are the main characters and protagonists of the PT x OT saga. They are meant to be heroes of this tale. The Jedi and the Sith are the backdrop for the Skywalker family's story.
Anakin is redeemed through unconditional love. He destroys the Sith and brings balance to the Force, fulfilling the Chosen One prophecy
The (real) Skywalker saga stands entirely on its own as the fully completed story told by George Lucas between 1977 and 2005. Said saga is self-contained and none of the retcons or contradictions Disney has churned out over the past decade have any actual bearing or effect on the saga's original authorial intent or its integrity *as a story*.
If you cannot accept the above list of facts, or if you simply don't 'like' these facts, please consider that you may not be a fan of the Lucas saga. If that is so, then likewise consider maybe just... leaving those of us who are fans of the Real Skywalker saga alone?