#i love almost all trees

[moki-dokie]

this is especially hilarious for oklahoma tho because there was a whole fucking initiative to bring these stupid motherfuckers in to pretty up everything. one of the few trees that do well here in our batshit climate and have pretty blossoms that last more than a day. so, all across the state, on all govt property that has landscaping, these pieces of absolute shit will be found. which. you know. is literally everywhere that isn't a home or private business property. and then 20 years later suddenly govt officials see exactly what biologists were warning them about like WHAT DO YOU MEAN ALL MALE TREES WILL CAUSE A CATASTROPHIC EFFECT ON POLLEN COUNT AND ALLERGIES?!?!?? (these trees were bred to be sterile. there are no females to pick up the pollen except the rare fruiting pear here and there but these outnumber them like by the thousands if not millions by now) but do they do anything about it? fucking no. because now all of the trees are mature and it would cost a fortune to rip them all up and replace them ESPECIALLY since many of them line roads.

oh and by the way these trees smell like fucking ASS when they bloom. legit some of the stinkiest goddamn trees you'll ever come across. they smell like rotten fish vomit. their wood is incredibly weak and they break often in high wind and ice - which oklahoma is prone to a LOT. they're almost entirely decorative. they will suck up every last drop of water in the dirt and smother forests. no one has more of a hatred for the bradford pear than oklahomans. i think the only tree we might hate more is the eastern cedar.

but the real kicker??? OKLAHOMA HAS ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL FLOWERING TREES IN THE NATION. NATIVE. SAY HELLO TO THE EASTERN REDBUD

but WAIT, there's one that is SPECIFIC to oklahoma (well technically texas but more popular here) because we said fuck it we want MORE MAGENTA

and these babies stay in bloom for like a full month if not more (just depending on how warm the spring gets), actually smell nice, has bisexual flowers and thus there isn't a huge pollen dump from them every year, they are drought resistant and fire resistant (to a degree. as in they don't burn as well as other trees and grow back easily if destroyed), are important nectar sources for pollinators, have much stronger wood, and are a food source for all sorts of wildlife. we had these right here and our elected officials were like "hmmm nah lets bring in the most useless stink trees in existence nothing bad could possibly happen."

anyway. fuck bradford pears.

Nobody throws shade like a biologist with burning hatred for invasive plants

[doubleedgemode]

Happy summer, everybody!

This has been a big project to take and while there's stuff to improve I'm pretty happy with it. Be sure to zoom in the big picture for details and read the comic from left to right. (Needless to say, please don't try A.B.A's behaviour.. For your safety)

Bonus doodle:

[spacebugarts]

I wasn't gonna make an Indigo Park oc but then I started thinking about the theme park I went to as a kid and I got the idea of a beaver running a ride based on water flumes like Logger's Run or Splash Mountain :3

They're also based on wildlife education characters like Smokey the Bear and Ranger Rick!

[moregraceful]

max and i are closing in on launching [redacted sports rpf charity fest] and i am once again pondering how do i write "experience with writing form emails and manipulating google forms in ways no one has dreamed of" in a cover letter without saying "i did it for the rpf grind"...like there's no way unless everyone in this microsoft teams meeting gets really cool about a bunch of stuff really quickly. you know

[itspileofgoodthings]

remember when you hit the brakes too soon! twenty stitches in a hospital room! when you started crying baby I did too! but when the sun came up I was looking at you!

[vonkarma2]

oc tober day 30: ghost 👻 victor isn’t technically a ghost, but he is dead, and does return from the afterlife to the realm in which he died, so I guess that’s pretty close? after dying the first time, he has been living in the second of ~800 successive afterlives. it’s ordinarily a desert setting with a deep red sky, a huge plane surrounded on all sides by infinite ocean, with a Wild West / Roman Empire combination society. flawed at the best of times, but ever since rocio started planning to kill gabriel, the realm’s current god, things have gotten pretty rough, with frequent earthquakes and droughts and people being mind controlled into becoming soldiers to execute gabriel’s will. victor goes along with the possessed wolf demon to kill angel, but accidentally kills tiago instead, and has to deal with the various negative consequences of this event.

[selunesfavouriteprincess]

okay but it’s like. if Lae’zel was in the modern day she’d be the top of all her classes (beating Gale who would be so fucking mad about it), on every sports team, head of the prom committee, just constant after-school activities, total overachiever, and she will not accept being second place to anybody. meanwhile Karlach is on every sports team but she doesn’t really want to be, she just wants to do sport for fun and hang out with her friends, but the head of P.E. made her join because she’s good at it. unfortunately getting mad about it makes her compete better. Shadowheart grew up in a weird church and was definitely homeschooled for most of her life and is only in a mainstream school for sixth form because her weird church want her to recruit new members (she sucks at convincing people the church is good). sometimes she says fucking insane things totally seriously and everyone in the class goes what the fuck. Wyll is a very nice empathetic boy who tries to get along with everyone including Shadowheart even though she roleplays warrior cats at lunchtime and Lae’zel even though she threatens to murder him if he gets a higher grade in the debate than her, and it blindsides everyone when they find out his dad is the Head Teacher. Gale would be taking five A-Levels instead of three or four solely for the academic clout it brings him. Astarion should have graduated ten years ago and nobody knows why he’s still here. Withers is the school nurse.

[stinkrascal]

i am afraid i had a really cute dream about the skullfu—i mean skull-liker emmrich. it’s getting bad you guys. if we dont kiss today i dunno……might not make it……

[imadhatt3r]

I can't stop thinking about Koujaku's name and sparrow motif...

So his name means "red sparrow"; And I'd imagine that he was most likely named by his mother. I don't think his father had much of a presence in his early life, and besides, I feel like a violent yakuza leader would want his son to have a more "powerful" sounding name. So it was probably his mom's choice.

I feel like she must've loved sparrows if she named her son after them. I can see her going out to parks and gardens just to see them, and taking older Koujaku with her to feed them too. They were always so cute and cheerful, so they always managed to lift her spirits whenever she was worried about her pregnancy, her partner, or future in general, so she decided to name her son after them, because she wanted him to lead life with the same qualities she saw in these birds: She wanted him to be joyful, resiliant, adaptable, and always surrounded by loving and like-minded people (since sparrows live in large groups). He was her little birdie since birth... 😭

I think that Koujaku grew fond of sparrows too, through seeing how much his mother loved them. Maybe that's why he wears a kimono with sparrows and picked Beni (a sparrow) as his AllMate. I can see him putting out a small bowl with grains on his windowstill to get some sparrows to come, like he used to do with his mom when they went to feed them, but with mixed results (sometimes they come and sometimes they don't).

Aoba picks up on it too; Whenever he's out doing deliveries and he spots a flock of sparrows foraging in a patch of grass or drinking and bathing out of a puddle, he takes a photo on his coil and sends it over to Koujaku, usually with some silly caption he comes up with on the spot. He absent-mindedly picks up any sparrow-themed knicknacks to give to Koujaku, all of which are deeply treasured and loved- if they're something like post-it notes, there's a guarantee that they'll never be used, and they will be lovingly stored in a drawer untill the end of times. Aoba actually bought an extra set of post-it notes and a pen with a sparrow-themed topper to keep at his desk at Hum-Drum.

This is more of a sidenote, but I always imagined Koujaku's mother as a rather short and frail woman, probably a bit shorter than Aoba, so the height difference between them now would be really big. I guess I was just touched by the image of Koujaku's mom cradling his head in her hands to have him look at her as she wipes away his tears with her thumbs... Her birdie's all grown up, but he'll always remain her little sparrow...

[jamboreeartsupplies]

Acorn Anne visits some Mulberry trees that are in need of healing. please send a small offering of dry, warm air through your closest fairy ring and Acorn Anne will direct it to the leaves of both trees. thank you for your cooperation 🫡

[oohbuggypie]

also not a doodle request but im srry this is for a very specific and small audience . to all my fellow Mexican ppl who own The Tiger Blanket ,, U get it . Had to grab my kin and use the canon Tiger to create this incoherent mess that was drawn and colored in the same like 5 minutes . Masked Muscle gives Tiger THE tiger blankie and the effects happen upon contact

srry not srry 4 posting such unbelievably not serious doodles but this had 2 be put into the world i felt it in my BONES

[paceypeternathanslawyer]

One Tree Hill Meme {40/187} Season 2 Episode 18: The Lonesome Road Nathan & Haley In Every Episode

[fragmentedblade]

Also, Velite/Argenti actual OTP. What's that post about the hero walking into the story and the friend aware of the tropes walking alongside them right into danger because even if they know, because they know, they can't let the hero go alone?

[mx-legend-of-faye]

Post-totk Wild joining (or rejoining) the chain and eventually they have a water balloon fight but instead of throwing actual water balloons they all throw splash fruit that Wild had collected.

Despite not having joined the fight at first, Time is the one who ends up winning it.

[nexus-nebulae]

watching scavengers reign is like

ooh a creature

wow thats fucked up

ooh a creature

wow thats fucked up

ooh a crea

[spinninglightning]

whenever i read fics i always end up thinkin of a song for the fic or like, th chapter and then i canr stop associating the fic w/ those songs