#Either so timeline in WHiT Croplands or WHiT Cold lined up and suddenly I’m worried I messed up apple harvesting season

[nomsfaultau]

I was passing by a linden tree on my way to school and I immediately thought "Ooh, I had one of those in my backyard! Bees loved them! I wonder if Fault!Tubbo would like them.". And then I went on a googling spree because apparently some people think that linden nectar kills bees because it has things toxic to bees in it but ppl have disproved that. So. Linden trees. Tubbo's opinion on then? And your opinion on them

My opinion is that I’ve never seen or heard of them but they’re incredibly beautiful. So first I went on a googling spree to see if Tubbo has ever encountered one via geographic range, and while maps and sites differ, I believe generic rural area in West Sussex falls into that area.

Now I’ve found other maps that place it outside that area, but it is also a tree people plant themselves. Rhodes (guy who adopts Tubbo) is mentioned mostly as an apple farmer but I imagine he has a variety of crops that don’t strictly have to be fruit based, since people use it mostly for tea or home remedies. Plus he likes gardening so might just have it for beauty. So I think we can assume Tubbo has at least encountered linden trees.

And Tubbo LOVES them. They were a feral changeling in the woods for like the first 5-6 years of their existence and so deffo wouldn’t have encountered the rumor that they’re toxic to bees. Apparently that stems from linden trees flowering late in the season when bees are already starving, plus including caffeine that bees find irresistible buuut is probably not the most filling flowers they could find. But as a hivemind Tubbo has more communication and intelligence than individual bees, so could probably figure out that while delicious they needed to focus on other foods as well. Probably didn’t stop baby Tubbo from going nuts for the first one they found, getting suped up on caffeine and being over come with bee zoomies. Wouldn’t take very much since the hivemind shares experiences, which Tubbo found out in their experimentation with mead. Rhodes might’ve put a limit on that, but then Tubbo would snap back on him about how much tea he makes, etc.

Plus, linden trees make for absolutely DELICIOUS honey! So I can just picture Tubbo purposefully making some so that Rhodes and Martha can bake it into something amazing. Canonically their honey already tastes like divine ambrosia, but this would really up it a notch. Plus, medicinal benefits like helping with colds and other stuff that I think is more alleged but it’s possible? Potentially they could even be selling excess linden honey since it’s so hard to get but they also don’t want to draw much attention to Tubbos’ existence so that’s a toss up.

In short they’re like caffeinated candy that Tubbo adores and is fine to have as long as they balance the rest of their diet.