#florion

[elemental-floweys]

Khaos (Silver): “Alright for those of you who wish to see all of the flowers, here are the pictures of all of the flowers I can play on the blog, there are a few other people who are also doing things on this blog (Such as Raz who is done by one of my good friends, and Zorch....when he at what ever point chooses to make his intro post >.>) But if you guys wish to read about the flowers on this blog I now have an about Page, so feel free to check it out for details on each one of the flowers. Khaos (Silver): When it comes to questions, RPs, Asks, or things you want to help me out with, be it new designs for flowers to add to the blog, Advice or tips on how to draw some of the flowers, Stuff to help me flesh out the flowers or if you want to give me a flower to join into the blog that you have made yourself, then feel free. I am very open to help or asks you might have, but when it comes to M!As....While I don’t Mind them...I am not quite amazing at drawing all kinds of crazy things as much as I would love to. Khaos (Silver): Also as a note, any and all drawings done by me OOCly (Such as these) can be called Chiller’s Drawings ICly, If you wish to send in a drawing to be something IC for one of my OCs to draw, then just tell me.

[elemental-floweys]

How many of you are there?

Chiller: “If you are just counting flowers, there me, Lit, Auber, Lily, Cooler, Mushbloom, Florion, Phate, Cirrus, and Spoopy. Each of us were made using something else, But we all use a base of golden flowers. I was made using a thing called a Shiverthorn and Ice flower plant, Lit was made using a Firebloom and fire flowers, Lily was made using a mix of different nature plants, Cooler was made using Deathweeds and Dayblooms, Mushbloom was made using super mushrooms, Florion was made with a number of different poison based or venom based plants, Phate was made with metallic plants and mixed in with a little magic from metal hats, Spoopy was fused with Ghosts such as Boos and the like…just a small taste of each of us and what we are made of…if you want to, you can try to talk to them.”Chiller: “Oh, that isn’t even countering the flowers who don’t stay here such as Zorch, Raz, and Arcane, but My dad hasn’t told me the details on that…if you have questions regarding them, he has his own blog he uses most of the time called @silverslayer667

[learner-stories]

Ruth, 54, from Manchester, suffers from chronic ill health. Here she shares her early experience with education, the restrictions ill health has had on her and how, with the help of FutureLearn, she has broken boundaries and surprised herself along the way. 

“As a young person, I think I was reasonably intelligent. I passed my 11 plus (Yes I'm THAT old!!) and went on to the local state grammar school where I got 8 'O' levels and 4 'A' levels. I went on to study Nursing and then Midwifery. I always kept my brain active by reading, doing cryptic crosswords, watching TV shows on history, Archaeology, Art, Literature etc... I was never interested in sciences and hated maths with a vengeance!

I  was leading a normal life until 14 years ago when I developed Fibromyalgia (A chronic pain condition which leaves me with pain, 24/7 requiring high doses of Morphine, fatigue and brain fog) and M.E (Myalgic Encephalopathy causing extreme fatigue and brain fog apart from many other things), So a double whammy. Over the next several years my physical life slowly eroded until I lived a very narrow life indeed. Today I am fairly housebound, not being able to drive anymore and needing to be pushed in a wheelchair out of the house, plus not having the energy to go out much anyway. The brain fog is awful. I struggle to concentrate, understand what's written and said, express myself and remember things. It's a bit like having Alzheimer's and isn't helped by the many medications I take. I had for some time been thinking about trying an Open University Degree or some form of study, but as I can't recall, retain or regurgitate any information and as I can't concentrate for long I decided it was a non-starter.

Like I say sciences never interested me, then at the end of 2015 Tim Peake went up in the ISS into space and suddenly my interest was peaked (Pun intended!). I started reading about Cosmology and then became interested in Astronomy and bought some binoculars to look at the night sky. I started trying to educate myself about it all. I was, and still am, really excited by it all. I joined a few Facebook Astronomy pages and on one of these, someone posted about the Future Learn Orion course. I went and had a look at the web page and thought I'd give it a try as it was free. I didn't think for one minute my foggy brain would cope. But I loved it! I then went on to look at other courses, Moons and other history and dietary courses.

I love doing the FutureLearn courses. Some days I really struggle to get anything into my brain. I seriously could not recall what I've just read. I couldn't explain it back to you if you asked what I'd learnt, BUT I really feel as though my brain power is improving slowly. I'm also learning, meeting new people online and I'm not just sat at home stagnating.”

[silverartcorner]

Alright! The fusions today are Chillit (Chiller + Lit and as an added bonus, Shara + Joey = Josara) And Rowdion (Florion + Rowdy) Rowdy owned by @rowdyrowdyflower