#parsnippety

[wolfythewitch]

Idk how you do it but your art has such elegance and grace every single time and I'm just like "wow, this isn't just how [insert subject] looks, it's the essence of their character." and I just- it's incredible.

:'D thank you

[dramafreeflora]

pls tell me everything about sed & tricho & eve?? can i draw them?

omg !! sure i can tell you about them :') i will write a short summary about them here. and omg yes you certainly can draw them ;_; id love to see your drawings of my characters!!!

here's a bit about the three of them:

sed, tricho and eve are the main characters of my story that happens in a world where there are mostly only plants, cacti, succulents & fungi folks. theyre like human people!! they have jobs, families, personalities, dreams, fears...

sed is based on the succulent called sedum rubrotinctum. he's a young adult who is kinda melancholic in general. even though bad things do happen to him a bit often, it also sorta depends on his point of view too?? he's always very negative. it's not always that bad. but he's really a "sed boy" (a pun with his name). he's not rich or middle class, but i wouldn't say he's poor, he pays rent for his apartment (that has some leaking) and has a job as an customer support intern for IT. he's got colleagues at work but he's soo insecure that he doesn't get along with the folks. however!!! there's a couple of pals in the place where he works that are closer to him. he wouldn't call them his friends "friends?? i dont think anyone likes me, really. i mean, they're a bit close, but i don't think they care about me..." he would say. truth is that those two who are closer to him (tricho and eve) do care about him, but they just don't take work friendships too seriously. they're not overthinkers like sed, so they do like sed's company (when he's not being too dramatic), but they just dont think too much about it.

eve is working at that same company as sed, she works at customer support too, but she doesn't know much technical stuff like coding (sed does know a bit of it since he's in an IT long distance university). she's been working at that company for a bit longer than sed, so she's no longer an intern. she got hired because her family has connections with the CEO and the folks over there, but she's not horrible at her work. she just doesn't put much effort into it, she's there solely for the experience, doesn't really care about the paycheck. you might find her listening to loud pop music in her earphones even when she's not at work. she cares a lot about pop culture and trends... and she's got some followers in her social media app where she shares lifestyle stuff. she doesn't want to be successful at her 9 - 5 job though, her dream is to be a famous influencer one day!! she started getting along well with sed because sed secretly is into pop music too, so they talk a lot about music stuff. sed encourages eve to express herself more in real life because he thinks she has social media addiction.

tricho has hired as an intern at the same day as sed, and they were kind of partners in their work days, but as sed kept stagnated as a customer support intern, tricho quickly developed himself into a project manager. he kinda grew apart from sed as his goals aimed higher and higher, until he became sed and eve's boss. tricho is naturally egocentric and selfish. his childhood dream was to be successful at work, he always had the highest grades and would lead the teams at school activities. but he's not a good boss........ at some point he faces the fact that no one likes him and he feels upset for that. he's kinda detached and hyperfocused on "success" so he didnt notice he was acting like a dumbass. he starts learning empathy and feeling sorry for his mistakes. he's still the gemini cactus he is, though. he's never not gonna be like that. so yeah his default mode is still kinda selfish, but now he apologizes and tries better next time.

i think the three of them live in the same building too, by the way. there's a whole thing about the landlord and his family, but that's enough story to tell for another time :-)

i hope you enjoy the little lore i have about those silly plants!!! thanks for your kindness again! <3

[paintingpuff]

do you have any wisdoms, advice, things that get you through tough days?

I guess that depends on what made the tough day. Sometimes it's because I didn't eat enough or haven't spent time with people. Sometimes it's something out of my control.

This handy site is an interactive flowchart that can walk me through those potential sources and how to address them. Especially helpful when the bad mood makes it hard to think.

[music-interpretation-review]

do you have haul away the bowline in your sea shanty tournament?

That one was not submitted!

[dramafreeflora]

hello have you heard of haworthia cooperi truncata?

yes!!!! they're beautiful succulents :') i didn't remember well just by the name, so i googled them and found out that this one specifically is known as the glass succulent. doesn't it look like it's made of glass? O:

i had a haworthia retusa once ages ago when i was a teenager. here's an image of one i found on google:

they're both very cute and interesting succulent species!! i could certainly make new characters based on them :D

[dramafreeflora]

hello! i just saw your plant comic & your storytelling is excellent. i think that in an author's mind, stories are fires. theyre alive. but to pass them to someone else, they have to be channeled into embers, coals, whatever (i cant with words this morning omg). when you write/share your embers, you run the risk of someone dumping cold water on them or worse, just letting them roll into a puddle or fizzle out.

it takes a lot of courage to share your stories. more courage than i have lol. i admire you for that... and also because at least one of your embers, the plant thats learning empathy, is now irrevocably lodged in my brain and hoo boy it is burning bright. youre amazing & so is your storytelling; pls dont let external forces (or lack thereof) keep you from making things you love...

woah, this message just filled me with such a good feeling. you're too kind!!!

it makes me so happy to see that my story resonated with you, but you're also so right when you explained about converting stories into embers.

im brave enough to share my stories, but i feel unsure of the things i show to the world when i try to understand what people could think of them. i always expect good things, but at the same time im kinda negative, so it's a bit contradictory. i want my characters to be appreciated and i want people to enjoy the stories i tell, but im very sensitive. i gotta grow a thicker skin. the thing is that no one really told me my story was bad, i had this conclusion on my own by trying to read what people thought ^^'

im learning, and you have no idea how much your message made me happy, proud of my small progress with my story and hopeful that i will develop it and people will know my silly plant characters!

thank you for such kind words, it's so intriguing to me that you found that cactus character interesting. he's got many layers in his heart/mind. i really wanna share more about him and my other characters!!

i dont quite understand what happens to a storyteller's mind when they want to share a story. the story itself is interesting enough in their own imagination, but they feel like sharing it with the world, and you could tell them "it's okay if no one cares! because the story is already important in your heart". but somehow this person feels the need to see smiles from other people when they share their story. to see how people react, if they feel surprised, if they laugh, cry, feel empathy, if they have an opinion about something that happened. im like this person.. i feel a bit embarrassed saying out loud that i want people to care about my creations, but i guess this is an artist/storyteller's thing. i'll accept it :-)

thank you again for this message, hope you have a great day <3 i will keep working on my stories!