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yourlibrarian ([personal profile] yourlibrarian) wrote in [community profile] common_nature2026-03-20 12:58 pm
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Mixed Media



My partner was out for a walk given the unusually warm weather we've been having. He texted me excitedly that he thought the swan might be back. (Some of you may remember we got a weeklong visit from one last year).

Then as he came closer he realized the swan seemed unmoving and stiff...

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Azure / Bede ★ ([personal profile] bedes) wrote2026-02-12 06:03 pm

Childhood Trauma Motifs (Cookie Run)

You know how Shadow Milk has many childish mannerisms and ways of thinking? How he has many themes and motifs that deal with play, such as plushies, stick puppets, and arts and crafts?

Have you even seen those drawings made by children who have been through trauma or abuse, and who were asked to draw the situation or person that hurt them?

Shadow Milk's sad, scribbly sprite Shadow Milk's manic, scribbly sprite The scribbly sprite of one of the Fount of Knowledge's followers

Did you know that, in the original text, Shadow Milk calls Pure Vanilla a "doll" instead of a "puppet"?

And have you heard that children with trauma often recreate their trauma while playing with dolls to process it?

A screenshot, showing Shadow Milk transformed into a dying cookie, talking to Pure Vanilla. He says, 'You promised... I'd be fine... *Cough* ... But... I'm going... to crumble… aren't I?’
A screenshot, showing Pure Vanilla in the flashback where he experiences what the Fount of Knowledge did. One of his followers says, 'O Fount of Knowledge! My dough grows colder and colder... They say there is no cure… Perhaps, you can help? Will I live?'
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Azure / Bede ★ ([personal profile] bedes) wrote2026-01-17 05:57 pm

Riku's Character Design Change

Now, if I were writing the Kingdom Hearts series, I would make it so that Riku cut his hair while undercover at the Organization, so that his hair would grow out again and go down to his upper back by the time Dream Drop Distance comes around. Instead of cutting it short and then associating his longer hair with "Dark Riku" and his flawed past and such.

I mean, the writers can do whatever boring shit they're doing too I guess. All I'm saying is that every time a queercoded male villain is made to cut his hair during his redemption arc, an angel loses its wings.

Jan 22nd update: My feelings on this matter have only intensified since learning that the sole reason that Riku's hair was changed was because ""fans"" kept complaining about it.
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Azure / Bede ★ ([personal profile] bedes) wrote2026-02-01 04:56 pm

Shadow Milk "Mommy Issues" Cookie Confirmed

But jokes aside, I’m pretty sure that The First Cookies are the Beast’s “mothers” in the same way that God is “the father”. It’s meant to mean that they are their creators in a religious context, not their literal parents. Especially since The First Cookies were once witches that are now in cookie form, and witches are very clearly worshiped as religious figures. (Shadow Milk even refers to them as “gods” quite blatantly.)

The implication is intended to be that The First Cookies made the Virtues when they were witches — thus, why First Milk is still a human when depicted with Fount of Knowledge.

Anyways, Shadow Milk’s creator being a healer and his other half being a healer and the Beast he’s arguably closest to being a healer is so funny because that freak has never healed from anything in his LIFE
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Azure / Bede ★ ([personal profile] bedes) wrote2026-01-17 04:52 pm

Plural Shadow Milk Headcanon

System: OSDD-1b (lacks amnesia between alters). Unaware that they are a system. They all believe that they are Shadow Milk, who has different “mindsets” he takes on.

Shadow Milk Cookie: Current host. Originated as a protector, now a persecutor. Initially split when Fount was attacked by the angry mob depicted in Dominion of the Beasts 2.

Fount of Knowledge: Ex-host and core. Infrequent solo-fronter, occasional co-fronter.

Young Shepherd Cookie: Syskid and innocence-holder. Only fronts when by himself. Initially split during their imprisonment in the Silver Tree, partially to make up for the system’s lack of a childhood.
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bookscorpion ([personal profile] bookscorpion) wrote in [community profile] common_nature2026-03-19 04:02 pm

Orchard Bees

This morning I went to check out the big insect hotel near the canal and I was just in time to catch a whole bunch of male European orchard bees who I am fairly sure had just hatched (the females will hatch a little later in the year).



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autobotscoutriella ([personal profile] autobotscoutriella) wrote in [community profile] common_nature2026-03-17 10:09 am

goose on the loose

a Canada goose, sitting on grass, looking peeved

The geese have returned! This one was NOT happy to see me.
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Mark Smith ([staff profile] mark) wrote in [site community profile] dw_maintenance2026-03-14 01:04 pm

Performing some traffic maintenance today

Happy Saturday!

I'm going to be doing a little maintenance today. It will likely cause a tiny interruption of service (specifically for www.dreamwidth.org) on the order of 2-3 minutes while some settings propagate. If you're on a journal page, that should still work throughout!

If it doesn't work, the rollback plan is pretty quick, I'm just toggling a setting on how traffic gets to the site. I'll update this post if something goes wrong, but don't anticipate any interruption to be longer than 10 minutes even in a rollback situation.

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yourlibrarian ([personal profile] yourlibrarian) wrote in [community profile] common_nature2026-03-12 03:22 pm
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Hole in the Sky Sunset



Loved the look of this sunset through a cloud gap the other night.

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bookscorpion ([personal profile] bookscorpion) wrote in [community profile] common_nature2026-03-11 04:24 pm

March: Pusekätzchen

I went out for a little walk this morning and found the first willow catkins - Pusekätzchen! They are an important flower for bees at this time of year, not just for honey bees but for solitary bees, bumblebees and solitary wasps.

catkins
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mabiana ([personal profile] mabiana) wrote2026-03-08 06:12 pm
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Recently Aldi sold a set of strawberry seeds, soil and a wooden box to plant them in. I decided the strawberries had a much better chance of survival in the self watering pots which I want to use for my plant hangers anyway. But the boxes made me think of using them for a craft project right away, and yesterday I went to work and made this:



Now let's see if I actually get something out of the seeds. ;-)