#flamboyance

[blondebrainpowered]

A flamboyance of Flamingos.

[transport-methodology-101]

Remembering the exaggerated sweeping tailfins that resembled bat wings. These fins, along with the car's overall low and wide stance, epitomized the futuristic, space-age aesthetic of late 1950s American automobiles.

1959 GM models.

[beebra1ned]

can you tell us more about Flamboyance please?? very curious

Of course!

Flamboyance was born on the Heliopause along with Vace, Rex, and Nomi.

Due to the Heliopause prioritizing strength and soldiers, Flamboyance was raised to train extensively. Whenever he did have free time he spent it looking at Earth's old architecture. Things like Basilica de la Sagrada Família in Barcelona.

When they arrive on Vetumna he sees it as a chance to finally break free of the strict training expected. Adapting a live life to the fullest mentality.

Although he still is technically a soldier, he mostly sticks to lookout duty, Although he gets distracted sketching designs for buildings on his holopalm when he should be paying attention.

[lgbtqreads]

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[mote-historie]

French artist René Gruau has had a lasting impact on the fashion industry with his unique and expressive illustrations and advertisements, paving the way for a far more successful fashion culture. His beautiful images and designs have been published throughout the years in internationally acclaimed fashion magazines such as Vogue, ELLE, Harper’s Bazaar, and many others, especially at the time when fashion editorials featured illustrations on their cover rather than photographs. Gruau has also been hired by major designers like Balenciaga, Dior, Balmain, Lanvin, and Givenchy, to name a few. His work popularized haute couture and influenced fashion design to exhibit the flamboyance and elegance it is known for. His pieces exhibit vivacity and character through Gruau’s use of bold strokes, bright primary colors, and just the right amount of detail and space. (x)

[wtf-fun-factss]

A group of flamingos has a flamboyant name. Click to read the full fact.

[malakkc-poetry]

Timely Moon

Moon, moon, moon,

Rise! Rise! Rise, asking for a boon!

Look up into the lover's moon,

Its shiny disc sneakily covers a heady

Darkening sky, envading its gloomy melancholy.

Strip the colorless night,

Let its beauty shine and fight

Against its enveloping burdens, and light

The heavens with the flamboyance of flight.

Right or wrong,  the prodigal

Moon rises, illuminates its methodological

Muse, news, knowledge,  that are all in a chronical

That recites events, times, and all epidemiological

Situations that alienate all that's human and emotional.

The time of night is now!

Fill it with dreams that ever flow!

With perseverance, time that'll have them landing in a glow.

[smallgodseries]

[image description: An extravagantly-colored soft-bodied, marine mollusc twirls in a sea of beautiful blue. Text reads, “84, NAKED GILL ~ the small god of NUDIBRANCHS”]

Comes a god who needs no introduction, but will probably get one anyway, since most people looking upon his glory for the first time react either with uproarious laughter or with an in-drawn breath and the querulous demand, “What the hell is that?”

Gil doesn’t care.  Gil’s church encompasses the only known marine animal to be capable of photosynthesis.  The opinions of a few dry bipeds matter about as much to him as the opinions of a clam, and everyone with any sense knows that clams don’t have good opinions about anything, except for maybe sand.

Gil knows exactly what he is.  Gil is the small god of hidden potentials and beautiful things, the theater kid forced to hide his sequins before the gaze of a disapproving father, the gifted carpenter who can’t own her own hammer without her older brothers taking it away.  Gil sees beneath the masks and the draperies people use to hide themselves, and he knows what’s really there.  And he loves it.  Every misfit, every malcontent, he sees them all and loves them all and hopes they will all, eventually, be allowed to find their own way home.

And when the people who would keep his faithful small make their own frightened voices large and demand, “What the hell is that?”, Gil is more than happy to remind them that the law of tooth and claw looms largely in the sea, and even the nudibranch—pretty painted princess of the benthic that it is—is a fierce predator in its own right, capable of swallowing creatures larger than itself entirely down in a single gulp.  Gil will keep, protect, and defend what’s his, and if some of those same dry bipeds have a problem with it, well.

That’s their problem, isn’t it?

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