Alright (cracks Knuckles) Time To Look Up What Flowers Mean.

Alright (cracks knuckles) time to look up what flowers mean.

Adaine: Purple Crocus. Dignity, success, cheer, youthful joy, spirit, grace, positivity, optimism, growth, and elegance. This flower represents “the start of a new cycle.” She’s so successful and impressive and graceful, and she just happens to be the elven oracle? She’s the epitome of hope and beginnings, she can literally see the future, and she’s incredibly powerful and brings so much good on the world. He wants to manifest happiness for her in any way he can.

Fabian: Tiger Lily. Prosperity, luck, strength, wealth, pride, success, heart, resilience, and courage. This flower is a dare. This is Fabian to a T, and not just because he’s rich— Fabian is the resilient and strong one, he’s full of pride and confidence but also genuineness and courage in tough spots. He’s maximum legend, who else could have a powerful enough image for this flower?

Kristen: Petunia. Comfort, passion, hope, spiritual purity, beginnings, resentment, anger, and creativity. This is kind of the vibes flower. Not only is Kristen creative and hopeful and passionate (and vengeful and spiteful), but of course she’d have the flower for good beginnings, she creates gods! The spiritual yet moody nature of this flower makes it perfect for her. Cassandra loves it too.

Fig: Red Hyacinth. Beauty, commitment, pride, power, joy, forgiveness, sincerity, playfulness, and lightheartedness. It’s literally the playful flower. Who’s more playful than Fig, in personality and literally, with her bass? She commits, not to “going to class” or things like that, but to her strong, powerful energy, and to her friends. She’s just chilling, and also doing the most batshit crazy stuff you’ve ever seen, and she’s perfect for it.

Riz: Purple Iris. Wisdom, courage, respect, chivalry, admiration, trust, heartfelt connection, valor, nobility, and reverence. This is a symbol of royalty, and the flower that guides people to heaven. Obviously this is Riz, and Gorgug really must be the greatest wizard of all time because he attributed this flower to Riz before Riz even really was respected! This is our genius, our sleuth, and also one of the most courageous people in existence, and Gorgug can’t fathom why people look down on him (figuratively) for being a goblin. Gorgug treats this as his personal little medal of valor for Riz, the courageous ball. It’s also clever because the iris is part of your eye and he’s always looking for clues and… just me? Ok.

Riz eventually cracked the case on this whole flowers-symbolism thing, noticing the patterns and deciding to do some research and was kind of confused by his at first. He cried a little when he realized how much Gorgug, as a burgeoning intellectual, low key high key respects him. He brought this flower information to the others one day, giving them the basic overview on what he could find for their flowers’ meanings.

In a wave of sentiment, they decided to do something back for Gorgug, to show him he’s special and appreciated too. After a lot of reading and searching and confusion and secretly calling Wilma & Digma on the phone, they decide on yellow alstroemerias. They each procure one and, the next day, swarm him with them. He realizes what’s going on and cries, and then they spend a whole lovely day together talking about flowers, Gorgug explaining all his choices to the utmost detail, inadvertently showing off just how much care and intention went into all this. Now flowers are just a little bit special to everyone, and all of the bad kids have a favorite flower: crocuses, tiger lilies, petunias, hyacinths, irises, and alstroemerias.

Boy, I got a little carried away there, hm? Anywho, here are the flowers: (click on em, they’ve all got the names on there)

More Bad Kids headcanons because I’ve caught up, and I have feelings. Long post here.

-Everything Gorgug makes for the party, weapons, accessories, ect, has flowers on it. Each member has its own flower (I don’t know flower symbolism, sorry), and it’s stylised based on what he made for them.

-The entire party hates porcelain dolls. And masks. Anything to do with Baron. Adine used to have a collection of porcelain dolls, but they were in the attic when her house burnt down. She’s a little grateful for that now.

-For his birthday, the party put together a clues board for Riz that held everything they liked about him. Pictures of them hanging out, lists of affirmations and assurances, all connected by Riz’s string catagories. He keeps it in his office, in front of where the broken mirror was.

-Fabian will employ anyone to help with his dance practise. Usually Gorgug, since he’s big and can spot Fabian easily, but Kristin has also helped since she got buff. The others cheer him on, just like they do in bloodrush.

-Fig is the most encouraging of everyone’s self-expression. She is indeterminate of who she grabs to practise painting nails, and Fabian learns eyeliner from her. She is also great at knowing when someone is flirting with her friends, but can’t figure it out for herself.

-Kristin has a bunch of stuff from different religions, from the time she was researching different practises. Some she gives away to other worships who use them, but some she keeps either for sentiment or because she uses them with Cassandra.

The 2024 Gender Census is now open!

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The 11th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 13th June 2024.

It’s short and easy, about 5 minutes probably.

After the survey is closed I’ll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a report summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like we’re part of a huge and diverse community.

If you think you might have friends and followers who’d be interested, please do reblog this blog post, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks. Every share is extremely helpful - it’s what helped us get 40,000 responses last year.

Survey URL: https://survey.gendercensus.com

The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesn’t fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.

For the curious, you can also spy on some graphs and demographic data for the incoming responses here.

Thank you so much!

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Image credit: Malachite and rhodochrosite.

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Your mother.

Your mother.

I feel like this generator is being horribly underappreciated. It’s absolutely gold. I clicked it a few times, and got a damn accurate assessment as an asexual,

Some other iconic and vibe-accurate descriptors,

And some absolute bangers no matter what,

So… yea check this one out y’all.

from now on your tumblr nickname is whatever you get from this sexual identity generator  ☆

Preface: This is my bestie & roommate, Moon. We have autism. I refer to them as my malewife because she does the dishes. Her love language is acts of service and mine is gift giving. Today they awoke to find a plushie keychain on their door handle that matched one on my door handle. The plushies are us.

Things pinned in my discord DMs with my malewife:

If you and your bestie aren’t like this: why not?

My depression has been fascinating recently so I don’t have much energy to put into others. But I will always have her anyways. My malewife. We don’t need half the relational maintenance others do. We’re going to conquer the world and kill god together.