#linseed

*Les Meilleurs Arguments, Painting by Manuel Leonardi | ArtMajeur*

Leonardi's multiple layers of oil create such rubbed, mashed, seemingly forced strokes. Softness in its brutality. Waiting for one layer to cure, to settle *just* enough.. before superimposing the next, less sharp, more blunt, dense oils.

A snapshot captured with Raw emotion.

Patience; while staring; a mastepiece in wait.

yes!!! im gonna give all of them a fav rn actually :3 the pets are excluded for obvious reasons

Josef: either a red fox or a great horned owl, but he loves all animals. theyre his special interest

Ake: cats

Jannie: mice

Gaspar: theyre very fond of elk

Rismus: dogs

Dr. Onyx: do moths count? if not, probably a tenrec

Dr. Parson-York: mountain lion

Pith: he would never, ever admit he likes anything earthly, but its sparrows

Josephine: snakes. specifically ball pythons

Kimmy: she likes plants more than any animal, but her favourite is, verbatim, "probably a dog or something"

Jamie: pomeranians, specifically

Ermine: dogs

Dr. Obsidian: centipedes. they will not submit a non-insect

Peel: servals

Lenka: deer

Mangrove: cuttlefish

Linseed: bat [obvious reasons]

Junimo: ferrets

Rowdy: zebras

Roughhouse: ostrich

Yuzu: flamingo

Damien: cows

Primmy: she says she loves them all equally, which is fair, since she can talk to them

Eka: bunnies [obviously]

Antimony: they dont really know any animals yet butthey probably like dogs

Mareena: she doesnt know many animals but she really likes Smok. so. whatever the fuck Smok is

Donovan: lemurs

Freak [the character]: uhhh cheetahs i guess

The Demon: sometting horrifying and fucked up and probably venomous. idk what

Ruis - /r/ has traditionally been associated with ruise 'red' however I believe that it should be noted that ruis is OI inflection of ros which means 'linseed or flax' (which should be noted are often red in color) and was highly used in iron age British isles as a medicinal plant (with studies showing it has anti-inflammational properties that can help with skin conditions)

MM: tindem rucci - most intense blushing

MO: rúamnae drech - reddening of faces

Note: this is not to insult Star Stable’s herbal teaching programs at all, I actually really enjoy them, and they’re overall pretty accurate, there are just some aesthetic differences and details that I think should be clarified. Not that I’m an expert or anything, I’m just a nerd lol.

Flax is one of the plants you can gather in Star Stable. It takes the form of a tall bush with small, five-petalled yellowish flowers on the tops of the long stems. 

[ID: a screenshot of an SSO inventory box. It shows a green plant with long, thin leaves, a yellow flower with a darker centre and five petals, and a yellow bud on the end of a second stem, over a black background. End ID]

Their description of flax is pretty darn accurate. A bunch of stems growing from the same root in a bush, with five petals and a flower on the heads of the stems.

 The primary thing that can be misleading is the colour.

You see, while flax can be yellow- there are several of species of yellow flax, actually- and many do look just like that- flax is usually blue. 

We grow a few plants ourselves- we’d show it, but it’s winter rn lol, so this picture from oceanhero will have to do.

[ID: A photograph of a green plant with long, thin stems and long narrow leaves, with five-petalled periwinkle flowers on the ends. End ID]

Flax tends to grow in dry and cool regions, especially yellow flax, but it’s an incredibly hardy plant. The particular plant I found in Star Stable was on the outskirts of Silverglade, and I wouldn’t be shocked if that was a good habitat for it, but I’ve only found one plant so far so I’m not sure if that’s its general spawn area yet.

Star Stable’s description of flax’s properties are accurate as well- linen and oil. You’ve probably heard of linseed oil? Linseed is another name for flax.