#roaming trees

[ivankosovan]

Oregon Coast.

[mothmiso]

Rhodes 2024 (2) (3) (4) by Arnold van Wijk

[filurig]

lichen

[blueiight]

Its always funny when amc iwtv fans scold people for finding interest in the ‘lowpoints’ of the 1910s-1940 timeline in s1 beyond thinking itll be retconned or rewriting it entirely. maybe the reason the vampire being interviewed in 2022 acts the way he does in 2022 can be foreshadowed or is downright partially explained by how he acts in his low moments in his past+ will be elaborated on in s2 but there is alr a foregrounding for a pattern of behavior in s1

[faehrnem]

In a different timeline, where Faehrnem never comes to be as the Bold Tree follows in his older sister's footsteps by setting aside his own wants and dreams to instead begrudgingly take on his role as an avatar.

[pangeen]

“ Roam far. Wander wide “ // © Søren Rajczyk 

Music:  Brian Eno - An Ending (Ascent)

[sesamenom]

alright you’ve been extremely extremely kind and indulgent to me about my oc and i cannot possibly thank you enough <333333 so MY turn now to ask YOU about YOURS. please tell me about maglor’s distant granddaughter who is also your bbeg?? .w. or about the chatty hobbits i would very VERY much love to hear about both!!!

~ @nelyoslegalteam, reporting from main <3

(long post, sorry for the random people stumbling upon this lol)

so I'm the dm for the chatty hobbits campaign and essentially it's set in a beleriand-adjacent continent, but with a few extra races and stuff. of the founders of the original settlements, the king of elende (the elf kingdom) is Gil-galad's (invented for the campaign) twin brother Finellach/Finwain. originally he was inspired by the fact that gil galad has a ton of names but only uses ereinion/gil, so I just invented a new character and gave him half the names. I headcanon gil galad as maglor's son, so finwain is in universe maglor's son (left at the havens with gil bc his wife divorced him for kinslaying and his kingdom, being next door neighbors with morgoth, is far too dangerous for small children).

Anyways, his descendant Elinyel (also known as aramire or elinnor) is the current queen of Elende! she's an evil fire-themed bard who is extremely feanorian in all the worst ways - her actual kingdom prospered under her reign, but she just does not care about everyone else as long as she's protecting her people. There were some tensions with one of the major kingdoms to the north (conflict over unclaimed territory between the kingdoms and some tariff stuff), so instead of risking the other kingdom starting a war and hurting her people, she just preemptively invaded it and started burned all the border territories to the ground.

her actual coronation was pretty weird- so she's the second child, but her older sister was born in wartime and there's a general belief in elende that children of peacetime make better rulers, so Elinyel was chosen as her family's heir. her grandfather (the crown prince of his generation) died defending Elende in one of the major wars, but his younger brother and two young kids survived. there's a whole feud between their houses because the brother chose to retain the kingship even after the kids were old enough to take the throne. anyways, two generations later Elinyel killed her cousin Arendil (the previous king of Elende) over a dispute about the legitimacy of his house (and what she believed to be a dishonoring of her grandparents' sacrifice) and took the throne.

obviously she has many Issues. arendil also has two surviving kids who are now essentially trying to stop her from murdering all their neighbors in proactive defense of her people.

however, when she first ascended she recruited her friend group as her elite guard/vassals of the kingdom. (aka the other bosses in the storyline). so it escalated to a war between her forces and the children of arendil, which ultimately culminated in her beloved sister being killed by one of arendil's children. this in turn led to her having basically a massive mental breakdown and feeling like she failed to protect her loved ones (exacerbated by some of her other friends being killed in battles she led). a normal person might decide this is was kind of her fault for starting a war and putting her friends in charge of the army. instead she decided she needed to destroy everyone who could ever potentially pose a threat. which is, in her eyes, literally everyone on the continent (except for her kingdom, of course).

so now she is at war with absolutely everyone of all factions! She is also somehow winning by virtue of Song almost on the level of maglor himself, and ten (now six) also incredibly powerful friends. Anyways, she has decided that the best way to wipe out the continent (except her kingdom) and start fresh is to literally find an ancient lost stone that can break the Doors of Night, summon Morgoth himself, and start the Dagorath. obviously this will Not go well for anyone at all if she succeeds, but she is on a full-on rampage and genuinely believes she (plus friends) can protect her kingdom from Morgoth's army while he wipes out everyone else.

Here's some old art of her btw!

And some slightly more recent unfinished art of her and the Evil Friend Group from when they were younger:

and here's (L-R) her cousin who is the 3rd boss, Elinyel, and her sister from before the war!

[vettelcore]

people with outdoor cats be like: yes my cat came back home half dead, caught hiv, is full of parasites and sometimes has gone missing for weeks but i don't care bc at least the cat is free and not locked inside like selfish people do!!!

[cloudscapecomics]

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[marmarparadoxa]

It's been a month since this peacock appeared in the garden behind our university. I don't know where he came from, and I surmised he must have escaped from some house with a courtyard in the vicinity. This garden is also connected to a wood north of the city, but nobody ever heard about wild peacocks in this area. So, me and my colleagues started leaving seeds on a plate and a cup of water outside. The peacock stayed, and my friend gave him the name "Vinicio". Now it's been a month, it has snowed a couple of times, and temperatures are dropping during the night, but Vinicio seems to be doing fine.

As soon as he spots us, he usually starts turning away, but the other day he finally approached us and looked at us with his dinosaur eyes.

[hzdtrees]

Plowhorn

[ivankosovan]

Cold but warm feelings taking a walk near the cabin.

[mothmiso]

Kefalonia (2) (3) (4) by Conrad Selzer

[eats-the-stars]

upside to a workplace w/shop cats: free kitty time! take a short break to pet one of these little fur-balls

neutral side to a workplace w/shop cats: i have heard each of my coworkers meow at least once, which is odd but neither good nor bad

downside to workplace w/shop cats: one is obsessed with knocking over cups, making water placement a delicate act. also he once knocked a glass bottle of hot-sauce onto one of the machines and i had to clean it all up while he just sat there and took in the free entertainment

[monster-that-you-made]

Roam with the tides,

And breathe with the trees.

For life is never

What we expect it to be.

Things all around us,

Grow and they change.

We never really know,

What's on the next page.

We're floating in space,

On a big giant ball.

And at any moment,

Our lives could crash

And/or fall.

So Roam with the tides

And breathe with the trees.

For life is never,

What we expect it to be.♡

[auutumn]

so for context, i was writing in my notes what architectural designs from different cultures & eras i associate with the courts, and i concluded that i like gothic germanic for the autumn court, so it would actually be neat to emphasize the gothicism!!!

i associate the forest house with brandenburg's castles; the major cities are a more baroque, viennese style, but the countryside? wild autumn is haunted groves and ghosts roaming the village houses. fog and mist. leaves shuffling with hidden creatures, helhonds and attorcropes. the wheat fields sway with the winds, beckoning you. the vineyards pulse with mischief. the land is built on bones. you are lost in the woods. there is something in the grass, and it knows your name. there are beasts hidden between the decaying branches of the trees, skohsls and wichts. carved pumpkins whose eyes seem to trace your every move as you stalk through the endless maze of corn. critters scurrol to their dens. the scarecrows hum a foreign tune. the deer know something you do not. the birds croon a mournful, melancholic lament. autumn is in perpetual transition. everything is dying, and everything is living.