#leafing-from-view

it's a little overwhelming to even open up the home page, there's so much stuff that's pushing the tags i have blocked already constantly. some of it you can tell people aren't 100% educated on systems, other parts don't know what they're doing (and that's not really my issue), and other people are just posting aesthetics and stuff.

it's insane though, the space itself for systems on here is so split down the middle? i mean, insane in the way that it's not really much i see. i don't really go on anything other than discord, tumblrs still relatively new to me. however, some of the posts have kind of helped me shape a better opinion of things? we're also a little uneducated on things as simple as just the terminology. found out that the term "core" is an endogenic term (i think)? and that osdd systems don't exactly have a single person everyone originated from.

stuff like that i wish was something i learned sooner? when we first learned we were a system we'd only really check out the documented, reliable resources online. after we had a good understanding of it, we set it down for a bit. we research things if we're not too sure about them when we hear it off of someone else. but, it's also difficult to find things that completely just... say the same thing? like, i'm not talking super major differences, but more-so just minor shifts of how people phrase things.

I WAS HOPING FOR THIS ONE... i doubled back and got SO excited to wake up to this. so! yes, i do associate our system with colors! a lot of colors, actually. you guys get a system name reveal, too, since i've been just... exclusively talking about us in a vague context and all outside of posts just about me.

we're the partygoers! our former host had picked the name for the system when we had been with an ex system friend. we've loved party themed things for a while, especially rave related things.

i bet you're telling me right now, "leaf, that's crazy! tell me more about your naming process,"

and i will eventually! just not in this post. anyway! my bad on getting a little side tracked with that one, but... since i associate the system with so many colors, i'll be using exact tones and explaining each color in detail. some of them are just favorite colors, some of them are just overall conceptualized colors for different things that hold significant value to the system as a whole.

so, i think it's growing obvious i'm a total nerd for symbolism in colors, right? we're gonna go down the line of explaining each color and their singular symbolism first.

the color red typically is used to describe passion, romance, love, things of the like... or violence, danger, warnings, etc. there's a ton of symbolism with the color red itself, it just varies based on the context of what or where it's being used!

the color orange is used to describe things like warmth, comfort, youth, fun, and similar concepts. while it's not as in-depth or widely used like red is, i still particularly enjoy the color orange.

yellow is used to describe happiness! yellow's that super bright color that just brings a lot of joy and whimsy to a room. people usually associate it with excitement, too, and things of the sort.

i think people get the general concept of it, but here's the rest of them boiled down a bit shorter so i can actually continue on with the post. (i love colors to bits, and plants... but i think these were obvious.)

green is for harmony, safety, growth, and health. blue is for security, trust, loyalty, responsibility. purple is for spirituality, mystery, royalty, imagination. white is for innocence, purity, cleanliness, perfection. and so on so forth!

for our system specifically, i'd like to associate it with orange, green, and blue. that being said, it's more for the concepts of being warm and comforting from orange. blue for loyalty, we're always there for our friends and strangers whenever they need it. and green for growth, as we're always learning new things and growing along with our surroundings. adaptation is important with systems, i will say. it's part of what keeps all of us safe in different scenarios!

thank you so much for the ask, hope this was a decent read. :)

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shout out to both of you guys respectively! plague was the one who taught me how to do minesweeper in the first place and sprout explained how to play sudoku and gave me some cool apps to try on our phone which was pretty sweet.

sprout's been showing me this one idle game too on mobile and it's this thing called "idle iktah". it's like one of those incremental games where you swap back and forth between menus doing various different things, collecting resources, fighting monsters, etc.

work's stressful and a bit tiring. i think we really wanna pursue the flower shop / garden center idea i had a while ago, so we're gonna be trying to look into good horticulture classes to invest in online. that and maybe find places we can volunteer at to work with plants, stuff like that. i'm not super sure where to start with this though?

the main goal is to get into bouquet making, as i'd enjoy it the most and be able to describe different flowers symbolism to customers if asked along with other things. firstly? i know i have to get the basics down of how to grow a plant, cross-pollinate, the germination period, etc. important plant info like that.

i also got a boyfriend a day ago! febris is the one i've brought up in some of my posts before, but he's so sweet. he pokes fun at me a lot but it's all just for shits and giggles, so i don't really mind. i let him get away with a lot of things. /lh

i'm just kind of surprised still? i never thought i'd find someone who really liked me for me. i was in disbelief when he'd asked, haha... still excited though! i hope we can grow together and learn things from one another to keep things interesting. though uh, i highly doubt i'd ever lose interest in him. he's genuinely an amazing friend and person in general... (i also may be slightly biased because he listened to me yap about the symbolism of the crocus for him, so.)