Petra Pavlíková

Picture shows a piece of garden lawn covered mostly in moss and fallen oak leaves.

Moss and leaves in the morning :)

Listen to this 13 year old who went to her city's council meeting.

She had some things she needed to get off her chest

Picture shows a middle spotted woodpecker in flight.

Every morning, I watch birds in my garden. Today I took this picture of a middle spotted woodpecker in flight by chance. It looks like a watercolour painting. :)

The picture, which I took in autumn, captures the forest floor covered with many oak leaves and acorns.

#BookWormSat

"Every morning, in the dark, I gather a few acorns, and imagine inside of them, the pale oak trees."
Mary Oliver

Your need for rape victims to be perfect and only then you will see them as victims who deserve justice is emblematic of a society that has brainwashed you into thinking some victims “deserve to be raped.” Guess who this serves?

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

When romanced Halsin calls Tav "my heart" he's basically saying vhenan. #BG3 #DragonAge

Assorted yellow and green lichen on a tree trunk.

Moss on a wooden post.

Lichen on a twig.

A lichen ring on a cherry tree trunk.

Happy Sunday. It’s good weather for moss and lichen!

"Melania" is gonna get the FIFA Academy Award

This is what police have been doing to black Americans since forever. Enough of the "this isn't who we are." You're now noticing because it's white people.

The photo shows a bee in flight heading towards cherry blossoms.

#BookWormSat

"The Weatherbury bees were late in their swarming this year. It was in the latter part of June, and the day after the interview with Troy in the hayfield, that Bathsheba was standing in her garden, watching a swarm in the air and guessing their probable settling place."
~ Thomas Hardy

Incredibly emotional to hear my poem has been turned into a song of resistance and is being sung in Minneapolis right now. Please do not give up.

The photo shows a forest in winter during the evening. The tree branches are covered in snow.

#BookWormSat

"The night is darkening round me,
The wild winds coldly blow;
But a tyrant spell has bound me,
And I cannot, cannot go.

The giant trees are bending
Their bare boughs weighed with snow;
The storm is fast descending,
And yet I cannot go."
Emily Brontë

A conversation I’m having a little too often: I say I want guns banned so a guy replies “we need them because of the second amendment”

I ask “is that the one where you need guns to stand up to a tyrannical regime?”

He says “yes.”

So I ask “so are you using it right now?”

And then he blocks me

Understandably... :(

Picture shows a copy of Winter Rose by Patricia A. McKillip.

#BookWormSat

“I did not want to think about people. I wanted the trees, the scents and colors, the shifting shadows of the wood, which spoke a language I understood. I wished I could simply disappear in it...”
― Patricia A. McKillip, Winter Rose

The picture shows two little snowmen. One of them is holding two sticks (daggers) and the other one is holding one longer stick (staff).

Rogue and mage wish you a Happy New Year. :)

Rogue/Duelist and Mage/Spellblade. :)

The photo shows a lightly snow-covered forest.

Happy Winter Solstice! :)

Commission

#DragonAge

Normally I'd leave a post like this for DAFanFriday, but given the depressing state of my skyline and I suspect yours as well:

Are you a human who creates #DragonAge inspired anything? Show it off. Are your commissions open? Let people know.

Let's show support to real, human creatives! 🫶

Again I say: how fucking interesting that remote work technology is bad and not worth adopting despite all research pointing to productivity gains, but genAI which offers NOTHING is so important to adopt and force on people who have no use for it despite all the horrible things genAI does

As some of you are aware, part of Dragon Age day was to thank the DA Devs for all the hard work they put into the series we love so much.

This is also the first DA Day where we have no DA team, as they were laid off earlier this year.

So let's make an effort to support their new projects!🧵

I love this song. :)

Picture shows misty forest during colder months with several birch trees standing in the foreground.

#BookWormSat

"Erl-King will do you grievous harm.
...
The Erl-King lives by himself all alone in the heart of the wood in a house which has only the one room. His house is made of sticks and stones and has grown a pelt of yellow lichen."
Angela Carter

Sunlight shining through mature trees in a woodland, with an understory of new growth and bilberry covered in dewy cobwebs

Two ecologists opening a moth trap in woodland

Pebble Prominent moth resting on a lichen-covered rock

A small brown and white moth called Catoptira permutatellus resting on a lichen-covered rock

A project to restore ancient forests in the Scottish Highlands is significantly boosting moth biodiversity, a Butterfly Conservation study has found. 🌳

Read the full story 👉 buff.ly/AyKPh6e

📷: Patrick Cook, Sarah Wanless
#MothsMatter #TeamMoth

It is, but I think Hozier's Francesca is also a good Solavellan song. :)

It’s a great sketch. :)

In the picture, I have on my palm two tiny twigs covered in lichens. Under my hand is lawn covered with colourful fallen leaves.

It's a perfect misty morning for taking pictures of lichens. :)