#the coniferous

[pellinni-photo]

gorgeous mountain lake in autumn fog. lovely nature scenery with coniferous forest. surface of water reflects the beauty of exquisite landscape. misty weather

[margocooper]

Опавшая хвоя укрыла собой маленькое болотце. Ноябрь 24. Fallen pine needles covered a small swamp.

[letmeinimafairy]

Pine tree on sea pottery. I love pine trees.

A necklace is made of sea glass, ceramic beads, driftwood and stone. Available.

[ohtendril]

Polin Week ↳ Day Three - mutual pining

[huariqueje]

 

Coniferous Forest  - Marjolein Terwindt-Wetterauw , 2016.

Dutch , b. 1957 -

Woodcut , 60 x 60 cm.

[tapestryundone]

thinking about the narrators lines in the beginning of the game

"no more birds"

self explanatory. the long quiet is represented through birds, theough feathers. the narrator is represented through birds, but a more grounded version of them. less draconic. but the princess is tied to birds more abstractly- HEA exemplifies this. the construct is her birdcage

birds are highly symbolic throughout the entirety of slay the princess. they represent death, change, the concept of free will. is it any question that the long quiet is a bird, when he acts of his own free will the most?

"no more trees"

the woods are the first thing the long quiet ever truly sees. before awakening, it is the first thing he even knows. trees are the anchor of the construct, and the last to change as the long quiets perception of the princess changes the construct itself. but they are discarded by the heart of the shifting mound- only the cabin is visible, something created of the woods. trees constructed into something new. trees are not static, even as the narrator relies on them being so

just as significantly, the princess is on occasion depicted through vines, and trees. even the shifting mound is highly reminiscent of the shape of a tree. more specifically, she calls to mind a deciduous tree- a tree that changes through the seasons. life that is not static, but is still sturdy, long lasting

the long quiet, however, hears the narrators description of a forest and immediately thinks of coniferous trees. trees that retain their leaves, and remain relatively static through a year. but they still grow. they are still, but not forever. the construct retains the shape of these even as the cabin and the woods erode away, leaving nothing but the imprint of the woods

and perhaps most problematically of all, no more people

ive discussed this before, just how deeply tied to people that the long quiet and the shifting mound both are, so i wont repeat it all, but above all else, the two are deeply interested in and care about people. people are the reason that the nature of reality is questioned at all, and it is the narrator- the original narrator- who grants them humanity at all. the shape of something human. as far removed as either may be or become, that humanity is never fully lost. it can never be discarded or forgotten

being a person is not a "you are or you arent" thing. the long quiet often thinks of himself as a person, but the shifting mound discards it entirely. they are both right, and they are both wrong. because being a person involves the experience of life, but also the experience of death. and yet it is also the capacity to know what you are experiencing, to feel the world around you and to know that it is. the long quiet and the shifting mound arent 'people' in a literal sense, but how else would one describe the experience of being? the ability to care about others? the ability to care about yourself?

'people' are just one lens that can be looked at to interpret the world. the two are many lenses, but those lenses are all their own people. the voices and the vessels are all people that make up the sum of two vast people

the narrator, within his first moments acting in the construct, is calling to mind all the most important things to the long quiet and the shifting mound immediately, intentionally or not. the capacity for agency and free will and the nature of the self, change and permanence as concepts that can and do coexist as forces in nature, and above it all, how these concepts tie into the experience of life itself. a constant that does not last forever and is experienced by and to life. from a writing perspective, it is incredible how one line feels so powerful with the context of the whole narrative

[ed13d1]

will anyone hear us

drawing by Andrea Kowch

[samediseaseasthetrees]

Never been more at peace than I was in this spruce forest

[mariajoseignacia666]

[vox-anglosphere]

January!

[leafie-draws]

a fun fact about me is that if we're just chilling outside or whatever I'll be like "oh that tree is invasive" and then explain why in every extreme detail until I exhaust my dialog and space out for an hour

[pellinni-photo]

spruce forest on the hill. beautiful nature scenery of carpathian mountains. summer vacation and outdoor tourism concept in ukraine. wonderful sunny weather in summer

[margocooper]

Рыжее золото тонкой хвои лиственниц над головой. Декабрь 24. Red gold of thin larch needles overhead. December 24.

[murkshade]

🌼🪲🐑 for the emoji meme?

best friends

[veganterrorist]

Coniferous Myst

[danwithouttheplan]

Coniferous tree you say? A vile man-eating beast?