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The Formation Of ‘Ice Flowers’ Is A Beautiful Natural Phenomenon In The Great Lakes Region Of North America. When the temperature drops under freezing temperatures, the non-frozen water under the ice layer is pushed upward, creating small cracks. Then, as very little water flows through these cracks and almost immediately freezes, very thin ice layers of irregular shapes are formed. As they accumulate, they create fantastic geometric shapes.

Everything I learn about The Great Lakes here on Tumblr convinces me that they’re Living Gods.

i am increasingly convinced that the wedding industry is having a statistically significant impact on young women leaving the mormon church. has anyone looked into this?

>mormons tell girls their most important roles throughout their entire life are wife and mother. extremely patriarchal, told in every way except in plain speech that they are expected to erase their personhood in favor of performing a strict role

>american culture says that the wedding day is about The BRIDE. it's HER day.

>mormon girls are not told about the strictures of a temple wedding until endowment because secret secret.

>mormon girls spend their whole lives dreaming about their american weddings with their wedding dresses and decorations and loving vows and a day about me me me me me me. perhaps the ONLY day that they truly expect might be in some way about them. the day they get to be star of the show

>wedding industry puffs these american girls dreams of their wedding up to extremes

>forced out of wedding dress on wedding day by a random bishop they've never met in their life because it's debatably not modest or white enough (even though it was made by a mormon dress shop) who also says your name wrong. you're not allowed to speak, and especially if you're in a larger city or a busy day, your wedding ceremony feels more like being processed at the DMV than a celebration of your love and commitment to each other. factory pace 15 minute wedding

>bishop follows you to the reception and loudly tells everyone that you and your new husband are the least important part of the ceremony because actually the holiness of the mormon temple church is what's really been proven today. better not get distracted by young love when really it's the Mormon Church That Matters

at least these are the throughlines i've noticed. i've never watched a woman's "I left the Mormon Church" video that didn't mention her wedding and how much it sucked absolute shit the whole time.

@tater-tot-pot-dish almost forgot to tag lmfao

thank you for explaining further! that makes a lot of sense.

totally <3. i also realized i kind of sketched this out but didn't fully explain. i don't think the heart of it is the opulence or extravagance; more that it's about the specialness of the day and the focus.

mormons think they're normal perfectly average christians until endowment because people who aren't endowed aren't allowed in the temple even if they're a mormon child in a mormon family. (to the point that exmormon youtubers and social media personalities regularly get comments from mormon youths saying that they're lying about the temple and endowment and all of it). + endowment takes place after high school graduation and the expectation is to marry YOUNG. so these girls are generally 18-22 (up to 24 if she both went to college and on mission), brand new to a church that runs on social pressure and expectation, and trained for their whole lives to obey and trust authority without question while ignoring their own feelings and misgivings. the consumerist american values and ideas of the wedding are in full play, including ideas that are WAY more powerful for mormon girls. it being the bride's day is supercharged in importance when the bride knows she will never get another day.

i think in the mormon girls' consciousness, she always knows she's going to be second fiddle. or fourth or fifth. she'll never hold the priesthood or be a leader to her family or community and even in the afterlife, she's beholden on her husband to call her forth by a secret name into paradise. and he can choose not to. but this day is supposed to be the day where she gets to be her own person and honored for her necessity to the whole process even if she's in a support role. where she gets to be recognized and honored for the role she's committed to.

and then. she likely can't wear her wedding dress and will be forced to buy another one in the mormon church giftshop that also sells the secret underwear. even if she does get to wear her dress, she has to put the shit quality mass manufactured one-size-fits-all temple garments on over it to feel ugly and undifferentiable during the ceremony. and her wedding ceremony is conducted in a factory style and it's exactly the same as the other girls that have gone ahead of her. to the point the bishops regularly get their names wrong. and then they don't get to exchange vows. and then they literally aren't allowed to have any kind of wedding celebration disconnected from the church so they can't hold a reception without a bishop in attendance to spend the whole time denigrating the importance of her relationship with her husband and telling all the non-mormons that the most special part of the day is over and they weren't allowed in because they're not holy enough and this reception is just a stupid meaningless party. telling everyone that the only part of the day that the bride had any say over and the only part where she's meant to be special means nothing and is nothing. the part that matters is the part where she doesn't.

during what is supposed to be her special day, she probably never feels more reduced to being an interchangeable hole whose purpose is producing flesh children and spirit babies. any other girl could have been standing there with your husband and it wouldn't have made a single difference. and this is the day your whole life has been leading to.

like, it's the young ages and the recent surprise of what the church actually is and the unbelievable sexism to their liturgy and how it's all mutually exclusive to an american wedding culture that mormon girls are primed to invest in. like these girls talk about picking out baby names and starting wedding scrapbooks at like 8. they're all trained by their religion to be the girl in class that is the most obsessed with getting married and having babies and then, right before what they've been dreaming of for their entire life finally happens, all of those dreams are crushed into dust and replaced with something i think every american would call a very bad wedding.

like. when you think about how a non-mormon girl who started her wedding scrapbooks at age 8 would react to the priest at her wedding getting her name wrong, to not being able to wear her dress, to not being able to choose her venue or have her different religion family members and loved ones in attendance, to have the same guy who got your name wrong in the ceremony follow you to the reception and continue to shit on your relationship in order to remind everyone that the Church is Most Important? she'd murder that priest and burn the fucking building down with everyone in it, laughing while people fled. and then she'd have a re-do and no one would be surprised. the mormon girls seem to leave the church about it, which is basically burning their whole lives down with how enmeshed the mormon church demands you be.

they train these girls to look forward to their wedding as the most important day of their lives and then their church structure actively manufactures the worst, most depersonalized and disrespectful weddings i could ever imagine. and then girls who've been dreaming about their weddings forever go "actually fuck this and fuck you."

every day i think about how wild vaporeon would live mostly in the water but come to shore to have their pups (eevee), and then would probably groom their pups in a special way to trap air bubbles in their soft fur to make them more bouyant so they can float unaided on the water. and then as soon as the eevee have control of their little legs they're being taught how to swim, so you could come to a lake at a certain time of year ans see a vaporeon swimming around with a tiny soaked eevee paddling along behind it like

hey @molabuddy this was such a cute mental image that wanted to try and draw it :D

GWUHH THIS IS SO CUTE yes!!!! yess!!!!! baby swimmi !!!!!

hiii farcille nation

Honeybuns

it seems i have a new bear OC :3 she has no name yet, need to figure one out

Winter has arrived on Poob.

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honestly i think a huge part of getting better at creature design is gaining an appreciation for "normal boring" animals and realizing that they also have evocative character designs that are just as good to draw from as tigers or deer or vultures or piranhas or anything else on the whole have deemed more charismatic or interesting looking in some way

There really aren’t any “Regular Creatures” there’s just the ones that adults decided to draw cartoons of and show to you when you were a kid.

Another one picked out by the Patreon

This feels like a game Steven would've asked everyone to play with him in season 1

Bison-coded Giants that migrate nearly year-round between seasonally good hunting grounds, who never bothered to develop writing because their memory is near flawless.

Gopher-coded Gnomes whose extensive underground civilization is fed by an earthen mound agriculture that they harvest from beneath and which is indistinguishable from regular-ass grassland to the untrained eye.

High Elves that plant Elven Cane everywhere they go, transforming the landscape and expanding the Elven Empire through ecological colonialism.

Appalachian Dwarves, drinking whiskey on a porch near sundown, telling the little’uns a scary story about gettin’ too greedy and diggin’ too deep in those ancient caves what which sum done been older’n life isself

he can infodump so deep inside me I'll have trivia running down my leg

"how can m/f ships be good-" first of all through the power of bisexuality anything is possible so write that down. second of all if we start othering ships based on gender and nothing else we're no better than the opposition. third of all you need to watch more addams family

Hypotheticals:

A Poet / Their Muse (works both ways)

Butch Woman / Feminine Man

Dog-coded / Cat-coded (works both ways)

Boss Lady / House Husband

A Pair of Marine Biologists (seriously go meet a marine biologist sometime they need their own Gender fr)

Both Married To The Job (many such cases)

Wait I Thought I Was Gay / Wait You’re Not Gay

Whatever The Fuck Is Going On With Sailors

Short’n’Fat (Funny) / Tall’n’Skinny (Elegant)

Whatever’s going on in Miyazaki Films

Concrete Examples

Mulan / Shang

Greg Universe / Rose Quartz

Howl Movingcastle / Sophie Hatter

Morticia & Gomez Addams (of course)

Etc

So they're like a found family, except explicitly modelled after the American nuclear family, like that one's like the mom, and that one's like the dad, and those two are like siblings. What? No, they're definitely fucking. Yeah, they refer to each other as siblings while they're doing it.

Them: This group of characters is a Found Family™, which is exactly like a related-by-blood family, so only the one I've decided is the Mom and the one I've decided is the Dad are allowed to fuck, and shipping any other pairing is literally promoting incest.

Me: That's kind of hot.

Them:

wore my thigh high boots on a walk today and we had to take a path through some long grass and while everyone else was rolling their pants into their socks and putting on jackets to protect themselves from ticks i was standing there smug as hell in my thigh high leather boots.

a hoe never gets lyme disease

Demon girls worker collab with my friend Knoxy

@feyosha I'd like to make a referral.

Make sure you have a full Human on staff who can read and write Infernal, first of all.

Second, never just take the DemonGirl’s word for anything; if you want to get it done, get it in writing.

Third: post the Rules. Publicly. In writing. In Infernal. That won’t stop them from breaking them but it’ll save you a lot of time avoiding any “but I didn’t knoooow…” kinds of excuses.

A “harmless prank” looks pretty fucking different when you’re fireproof and impact resistant, which makes them great for certain tasks, but they might not know that Humans aren’t so if you’ve got a mixed crew make sure everyone knows what’s up.

Oh and in case you didn’t know “horny” is a direct allusion to demon horns, so they [glances into next room] oh. Oh my. I see. Nevermind. Well. Don’t mind me. Do carry on.