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[verdantglow]

Well hello there!

I’m VerdantGlow, but you can call me Vert (like "fair" but with a V).

- My pronouns are they/them/fae/faer.

- I’m not fandom old, in my opinion, but I am at least fandom middle aged, & if reactions I’ve received in the last year or two are anything to go off of, I’m probably older than you think.

- This is my MCYT sideblog! Here you can find me being hingeless about Bannerfall SMP, Vampires SMP, The Life Series, Hermitcraft, & Empires.

- This blog contains shipping content! If you’re not down with that, this is probably not the place for you to hang.

- I make art! Check out my art tag here: Verdant Art

[verdantglow]

I haven't been keeping up with Lunar Phase SMP even remotely, like I've been showing up to Nom's streams long enough to maintain streak & bouncing 'cause my brain's not there at the moment, so I am only just now learning that The Problem fucking yanked bf!Nom into LPSMP for a minute the other day?????

& I just keep rewatching this clip of it, 'cause like. Wow. Transcripts of it on here were already something, but there's details in the exact delivery that just keep fuckin' murdering me?????

If I might make an attempt at capturing it... ----

lp!Shauna: [lightly] Well well well...

[bf!Nom moves towards Shauna's voice, looking around & stopping at the edge of the building he's on]

bf!Nom: [shouting] WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?!

[lp!Shauna comes into view from behind base of building]

bf!Nom: [still shouting] HOW DID I GET HERE?!

lp!Shauna: [light, slightly dreamy tone] I made you.

[bf!Nom turns away from Shauna to look at the surrounding landscape]

bf!Nom: [shouting, a tinge of pained panic rising up over course of line] WHERE'S SCOTT?! & 4C & Katie?!

[bf!Nom turns back to lp!Shauna who is now standing closer, staring up at him]

lp!Shauna: [matter of factly] Dead.

[after a beat, bf!Nom pulls out mace & jumps off building to hit lp!Shauna]

lp!Shauna: [takes a step back just as bf!Nom is about to hit them, letting out a high pitched scream]

lp!Shauna: [starts a giggle, turning head to look back at bf!Nom]

[giggle is cut off as bf!Nom immediately hits them with fire aspect, knockback sword, lighting them on fire & sending them flying over the fence behind them]

bf!Nom: [with the tone of having reached a factual conclusion while hopping the fence, cycling between holding the sword & an empty fist] 'Kay. Well. Guess you're dyin'.

bf!Nom: [punches lp!Shauna with empty fist] WHERE AM I?! WHO ARE YOU?!

[lp!Shauna flies over edge of small cliff & out of sight from force of punches]

lp!Shauna: [vaguely annoyed] Oh my goooooooddddddd....

[bf!Nom runs after lp!Shauna, stopping as he sees them land in a body of water]

bf!Nom: [utterly bewildered, while turning around to look along the coast line] Where's Blue Kingdom at?

lp!Shauna: [light & matter of factly while bobbing in the water & looking up at bf!Nom] Oh, they all fell many many years ago now-

bf!Nom: [overlapping] Why do I feel like all my atoms are ripping apa-? AHP-!

[scene disappears]

cc!Nom: [short wheezing breathy laugh]

The Problem: Naaaaaah that guy had his time in the limelight, he's goooooooone.

[pause]

The Problem: That guy really thought- I had to take him out of retirement. He was sailing on a ship in the afterlife.

[pause]

The Problem: I decided to go back in time & nab him from his last possible place in the timeline.

[pause]

The Problem: I'm sure that's fine.

---

Like. It's Shauna's delivery on everything they say. It's the absolute silence after they say Scott & 4C & Katie are dead, as bf!Nom pulls out the mace & attacks, & continues to attack with a sword after missing.

It's the loud blunt confusion of bf!Nom demanding an explanation, with just a hint of panic making it through the end of the first question, in that "you?!"

It's how "WHERE'S SCOTT?!" is mostly said in the same tone, a full chested shout, but at the end of Scott's name, the pained panic starts slipping in more, rising so it's fully evident by Katie's name, his voice gradually growing thinner as he says the names of his loved ones left behind.

It's also definitely the fact that he first demanded to know where Scott was, that there was a stop (perhaps not a full stop, but still definitely a stop of some sort) after Scott's name while "& 4C & Katie" was a full, fluid, tightly tied thought. I really debated how to capture that line, 'cause it's all pretty subtle. Like I think listing it all as one sentence isn't really incorrect, but gods, that partial stop after Scott compared to how there was none between 4c & Katie.

& it's how, if The Problem yanked bf!Nom from a ship in the afterlife, at the last possible moment in his timeline, then that means that when bf!Nom suddenly found himself no longer in the afterlife, the first person he expected to see was bf!Scott, the person he was still tied to via Guardian's Oath. & if he's not first seeing bf!Scott, then he's expecting to see bf!4C & bf!Katie.

If he's not in Death anymore, it's either because he's been returned to them moment before dying or it's because Scott found a way to bring him back home to him. If it wasn't Scott, it was his siblings. Blue Kingdom not being there is secondary.

If bf!Nom is no longer dead, then where are the people he loves?

[i-will-eat-your-lawn]

Scott Goldsmith totally thought he could just amass a cult while waiting for Abolish to die. And then he just. didn’t. So now Scott just has to just keep ‘getting better’ instead of ruling a country with a gold fist. L

[crabandcheese]

AU in which Abolish, after going home to The Organisation, slowly realised that it, too, is a cult, and has distanced himself from all of that, still keeping an eye on the NY trio out of… what? Some misplaced sense of responsibility? It’s not his problem anymore, in fact doing this at all puts him at risk of running into the Organisation agent now sent in his place (he’s perfectly capable of still doing it himself, but god forbid the proper paperwork isn’t signed). Until one day, when peering through the window of the luxurious skyscraper apartment to see a tense Drift, Shelby with an anxious, complacent, pleading smile, and Scott.. he’s had enough.

The Organisation is a ‘community’ with thousands of years of history and alliances and relationships and friendships and, yes, employment. He knows that he can’t change it. That’s why he elected to leave; it was the best thing he could do. But this… this is a cult of three. And if Legs’ death taught him anything, it’s that convenience isn’t everything— staying observant and helping the people around you is all you can do.

Abolish won’t let anyone else get hurt like he was. And while Scott might be good at playing the social game?

He was raised in it.

[verdantglow]

(tags from @crabandcheese's prev reblog of this)

This... This is the only flavour of 2006 New York coven + Abolish AU I will accept (unless we get some canon divergence first & even then, I still want this flavour family).

I want Shelby & Drift to get away from Goldsmith. I want them to exist outside him & understand that family doesn't necessitate accepting or ignoring someone's cruel & harmful & controlling behaviour.

& if The Organization actually turning out to be a cult is the cost of that, I am willing to take it.

[molabuddy]

really specific trope i like that i feel like can only be explained in a diagram

[poppitron360]

This. This is my favourite genre of fanfiction. Especially if the characters die in canon.

@verdantglow what if I told you this was a major theme in the Flowersmith Modern AU...

[verdantglow]

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What if I then told you that this was also a major theme in my Nom Lives AU.....

[vicprobably]

thinking about the Bannerfall masquerade again... everyone's names were so perfectly picked. man it was so good, I miss it...

[monodramatical]

I love and support all of my mcyt mutuals but god bless what are the names of these people. you are all reblogging posts about scrimblo bimblo's deeply queerplatonic bond with spinkle in the jimble-jamble-womble-thon and then putting the most beautiful sistine chapel level art of deeply symbolic and emotional moments tagged #Squamp on my dash. who is squamp!!! which coworker are they gay for !!!!!!!

[thebestfrickingbutton]

Huzzah !!! The two kingdoms are at peace :D a little drawing of the duo themselves

[just-some-squirrels]

Vampires smp finale is still haunting me because its like...

Divert the trolley to save three people by killing your friend. Divert the trolley because your friend agreed to it. Your hand is on the lever. Divert the trolley -

- But no! the trolley isn't there yet, and two people have just been killed?? One guy left on the tracks, and really just his arm (He'd live. You've lived with worse. Everyone here has).

But your hand is already on the lever.

Divert the trolley to save one person. Kill your friend. Everything is happening too fast. Your friend says to do it. No time to think. You walked him here from a cliff edge and he helped you tie him down. The guy with his arm on the tracks says "hey can you get on with it already?" Other people are already thanking your friend for his sacrifice. They tell him he is a good man, and he says he has them so fooled. He looks at you and tells you this is the right thing to do. He is covered in blood. Your hand was already on the lever.

One(1) person leaves the town unscathed and everyone acts like it was worth it

[redstonedust]

villain character who has a last minute change of heart and sacrifices their life to defeat an even bigger bad but it entirely does not land as a redemption with the heroes. the heroes are just like "oh hell yeah two birds with one stone. thank fucking god i really didnt wanna have to deal with that guy anymore. good riddance."

[verdantglow]

I went & grabbed my draft of the Springwell Well Well off my old iPad, & first of all, oh my god, it took like three minutes just to open this fucker. I remember having to have ten million documents in order to get the number of layers I wanted, I'd forgotten how damn long it takes to open anything, how did I live like this.

ANYWAY. It seems I was trying to do some single layer thing to avoid the layer constraint issues, so I just have this with no sketch of the whole thing. I pulled it over to my new iPad (which opened it in maybe three seconds) & did a super fast rough sketch of some of what I was planning on doing. Basically the concept was an above ground house build above the Well Well Well house, both of them connected by a tower built into the cave wall behind the mushroom house, & then the Well itself becoming part of their "yard," with Scott turning the wheat fields into something that was more a mix of that utility with pretty flower beds in some visually pleasing manner. & then Scott would have a greenhouse on top of the above ground house because he needs one. For enrichment. & because I love building greenhouses on top of bases in block games.

[lolli-popples]

I respect hardcore fans of Flowersmith however I don't understand why you guys didn't call the ship "Spingwell-well-well" like it was right there

[verdantglow]

I love the ship name Flowersmith but Springwell Well Well is still such an absolutely peak pun.

My friend Ex ( @ohwaititsk ) pointed out Nom couldn’t wreck his relationship with Scott, he needed to lock in for the pun potential back in early March.

Somewhere I’ve got a procreate document inspired by them mentioning that, that has a sketch of a hypothetical future Flowersmith home in Blue Kingdom that combined Scott’s home with the Well Well Well to form the Springwell Well Well. My theory was that while Scott would insist on them not living at the bottom of a well, he could never make Nom give up the Well Well Well when it was one of the few things Nom had just because he loved it & it made him happy.

Of course, then we learned Nom lived in the Well Well Well because, being underground, it was least likely to get absolutely destroyed in any inevitable battles with Red Kingdom so he didn’t have to repeatedly lose & rebuild his house. Which did rather change the significance it holds.

& I guess technically he died or whatever.

[sycamorality]

do you guys like my enchantd book

[verdantglow]

I was going through the "Top #flowersmith Blogs" carousel on the tag page & how on earth are two florist blogs that haven't posted in 13 years listed

BUT @poppitron360 ISN'T?!?!?!

[agitated moth slaps my desk]

[flowersmithpromptweek]

Four weeks until Flowersmith week! (All info for the prompts is in the pinned post on this blog)

[flowersmithpromptweek]

Flowersmith prompt week!!

Thank you to everyone who helped out or told me they were excited for this!! I’m really looking forward to seeing what we all make!

Guidelines/rules under cut

Art, fanfic, edit, cosplay, animation, collage, whatever your heart desires! As long as you made it yourself, it’s ok for this event! (Hopefully doesn’t need to be said but absolutely no AI)

Tag all submissions with #flowersmithpromptweek if you want to be featured on this blog! In an attempt to be respectful of others who may not wish to be grouped here I will not be reblogging any Flowersmith works that are not tagged with this.

Romantic, platonic, queer platonic, whatever way You want to see them is valid for this event!

Pick one prompt, use both, or do separate submissions for each! Whatever you want to do! Also if you don’t click with any of the prompts feel free to substitute with the alternate prompts :)

You can of course include other characters or relationships as long as the focus is on Scott and Nom

NSFW or Explicit rating will not be reblogged, although mildly suggestive or Mature rating is fine.

Early submissions won’t be reblogged until  the right day, late submissions will be reblogged for about a week or two after.

Characters only, no rpf.

Most importantly have fun!! This is all just silly characters so don’t get too stressed on doing every day :)

[0sunnyside01]

crying on a random monday thinking about Flowersmith, these guys weren't even canon and i've still somehow ended up in the doomed trenches send help

[autistichalsin]

Periodic rent-lowering-gunshots:

Fiction is not reality.

You can enjoy things in fiction that would be awful in the real world. Like playing a murderhobo in a game! In the real world, being or supporting a murderer-thief would be pretty damn awful, while in the game it's just good fun. Same with anything else you choose to do with the pixels on the screen, like kinks that don't affect anyone real, so they're okay in fiction, but would be pretty damn bad in real life.

No one else is responsible for your online experience. They are required not to harass you, but they are not and never will be obligated to not post about ships, kinks, or tropes you dislike just to avoid you seeing them. It's up to you to blacklist words or phrases, block tags, or even block users as needed to avoid seeing content that upsets you.

No one can force you to read anything against your consent. Any content you don't like seeing can be instantly avoided by closing out of the offending post/fic.

You are not owed an online experience free of discomfort.

Nothing that happens in your imagination can ever make you a bad person. Words you write or read about fictional characters will never make you a bad person.

The claim that media consumption influences real-life behavior is intellectually dishonest and serves only to excuse the behavior of real offenders.

Fiction is a safe way to explore horrifying or confusing concepts. Therapists agree that fiction, even (or especially) about taboo topics is a good coping mechanism, especially, but not exclusively, for trauma survivors. Fiction is to adults what play therapy is to children. This doesn't stop being true if the work in question is of a sexual nature.

Sex isn't an inherently worse or better motivation than anything else. A work written to create feelings of arousal isn't dirty, shameful, or in any way less pure than works written to entertain, provoke moral questions, or for other reasons. And worth noting is that multiple purposes can exist in the same story, especially fanfiction.

You aren't entitled to an explanation for why someone reads, writes, or otherwise enjoys certain works, kinks, tropes, ships, etc.