#the oldest tree

[wgm-beautiful-world]

The oldest tree in the world is 6000 years old in TANZANIA

[shieldmaiden19]

The Bridgerton boys really are all hoes.

Anthony - the ‘so intense it makes him stupid’ hoe

Benedict - the ‘hoe for a good cause’

Colin - the ‘self-absorbed, dumb of ass’ hoe

[carmeltheslimy]

(📹🚧🌳)

[jonathanbyersphd]

Nancy and Jonathan willingly said "there's only one bed" and y'all think they AREN'T endgame???

[alackofghosts]

in opposite energy to baby tree, my mom went to see the oldest tree in estonia a few months ago and in true estonian fashion has not been able to get over the experience still

[theposharoace]

My Pokemon Trainer-Sona with her team!!

All with actual pokemon I have and transfer to each game new game

[legendary-cookies]

Happy New Year everybody!

January 1st is also funnily enough this blog's anniversary!

Legendary-Cookies is now 3 years old which means of course your obligatory cheesy post lmao

I'm putting it under a cut because the post ended up longer than I meant

Sorry gzjrhrzjziyt

I feel like I've only been posting less and less lately, but I really appreciate every one of you for following this blog anyway!

Thank you all so much!

I still very much like Cookie Run but I've been much more busy with less motivation, so I haven't been posting nearly as much as I want to

I can't promise anything unfortunately, but this year I hope to be able to get through my art ideas list for this blog and work on some other projects I have planned

For one, I do plan on adding Black Pearl to the profile picture and banner

I haven't forgotten

I just haven't gotten around to it lmfao

I also want to work more with animation this year, so things like animation memes or test animations or stuff like that might happen in the future

I'll still post in-game content about the Legends as well of course

I've made two other anniversary posts but I feel like I've never talked about how this blog started

Honestly though, I'm not sure how I started this blog lmao

I remember I wanted to make an ask blog with Cookie Run characters, but I couldn't tell you why I chose the Legends specifically

It could've been that I liked their concept because I've always been a sucker for elemental characters

I feel like it also could've been that of all the groups in Cookie Run, the Legends appealed to me the most

For those who didn't know by the way, this blog used to be just the Elemental Four

I added the rest of the Legends later, but Sea Fairy, Moonlight, Fire Spirit, and Wind Archer were the very first

Funnily enough, the first Cookie Run character I ever remember seeing was Sea Fairy

It all came full circle lmfao

I love all of the Legendary Cookies, but those four specifically will always be close to my heart

It's about to get extra cheesy, but ever since I started this blog, those four specifically have become so special to me and are definitely comfort characters

Maybe one day if I'm brave enough, I'll go through my old posts and redraw some stuff

But I digress

To finish this long post off (sorry about that hgszhdjihfz), I want to thank you all again so much for following me and my content!

I guess we'll see what 2023 has in store for us

And hopefully it's better

- Mod Velvet

[vox-anglosphere]

At 5000 yrs, the Fortingall Yew Tree is the planet's oldest living thing.

[balkanradfem]

i have seen old tjikko - a clonal tree that's the most recent of several genetically identical trees that have been growing in the same spot for nearly 10 000 years. it likely sprouted for the first time very shortly after the ice receded from that part of sweden.

unh I love her

[aroaceleovaldez]

im still thinking about Cassius from TOA being heavily implied to be a Zeus kid. we’re just left with that information. kind of fucked up.

[majouartings]

My finished piece for Dottolus' Dotnomicon: Grimoire of Wonders! I was going for kind of a folk-magicky vibe with my one, heh. The zine is available for FREE on itch.io at the above link, so definitely definitely check that out. The full list of artists and writers involved in the project can be found here; they've all done absolutely incredible work on this, and it's been super inspiring getting to see them all do their thing, so be sure to check them out too! Thank you again to @dotzines for having me, I had a really great time working on this and I'm so excited to see the end result!

[silvantransthranduiltrash]

I'm dying XD

Glorfindel after killing the balrog, dying with said balrog and coming back because the valar thought it was cool:

Silvans: first time, eh?

OR OR

Some random Silvan: oh, so I kill two and no other elf bats an eye, but WHEN GLORFINDEL DOES IT SUDDENLY HE'S THE ALMIGHTY ONE, EH?! I'm sensing some favoritism-bullshit here.

All the silvans protesting how they’re left out of history (other than the necessities where the historians don’t get away with erasing them) bc they don’t care for the valar and the sailed elves’ opinions one bit: HELLOOOO??? WHY ARE YOU ONLY PORTRAYING OUR FAILURES??? WE FIGHT MORGOTH AND SAURON HEAD ON FOR MILLENIA AND THIS IS THE THANKS WE GET??

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Glorfindel: - so that’s why I got chosen by the valar to come back in the time of need.

Silvans, who’ve been fighting balrogs regularly during the years of the trees and 1st age: wow, weak sauce.

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Noldor elf: and that’s why we don’t trust the feanorians

Silvan: see, what I don’t understand is: we can’t die. Like, we literally cannot do that. So why are you so pressed about a little massacre? It spices life up a bit.

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Silvans in valinor:

Silvan 1: which one would hurt more: being cut in half vertically or horizontally?

Silvan 2: I don’t know, but let’s find out-

The valar: No KiNsLaYiNg

Silvans: ok, but this is like, consensual murder. Murder with benefits, if you will.

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In valinor:

Silvan 1: *about to drink poison*

Silvan 2: what are you doing?

Silvan 1: can’t sleep, so I thought I’d take a spiritual trip to the halls to catch some rest.

Silvan 2: can I use your body in an experiment once you’ve passed on?

Silvan 1: yeah go ahead.

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Noldor, teleri, vanyar, sindar: life is sacred

Silvans: *cackling in the distance*

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Thranduil, in the first age watching all these baby elves who could be his grand kids take offence over literally everything: jfc, what did the valar do to them. Did they loose their common sense???

Lasgen, his daughter and eldest: don’t ask me. I don’t get why they’re so worked up over a bit of murder. And very clearly goaled murder with forewarning at that!

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This has turned into another incorrect quotes for my feral silvans au

[thepastisalreadywritten]

By Connor McGovern

16 October 2023

We’ve a lot to thank the trees for. Other than their vital role in the ecosystem, they’ve played an important part in mythology, agriculture, industry, and medicine since humans first walked the Earth.

Remarkably, a good number of the UK's most ancient trees — most of them yews and oaks — still stand today as living, breathing witnesses to centuries of British history.

We take a look at some of the UK’s most fabled trees — and the intriguing stories that surround them.

1. Ankerwycke Yew, Berkshire

Yews are guardians of churchyards throughout Britain. Many represent the oldest and most storied tree specimens.

Few are more spectacular than the Ankerwycke Yew, in the village of Wraysbury, near Staines-upon-Thames.

Measuring 26ft in diameter, it’s a botanical behemoth that’s believed to be around 2,500 years old, making it one of the oldest trees in Britain.

It long outlived the now-ruined St Mary’s Priory, a Benedictine nunnery whose grounds it stood in, and some even believe it to be the true site of the signing of Magna Carta in 1215, rather than Runnymede on the other side of the river.

Its intrigue doesn’t end there — it’s also alleged to stand on the spot where Henry VIII wooed a young Anne Boleyn. If only trees could talk.

2. Isaac Newton’s apple tree, Lincolnshire

Numerous trees are cited as being the very one that inspired the young physicist to investigate the theory of gravity.

But the apple tree in the grounds of Woolsthorpe Manor, near Grantham, has arguably the greatest right to this claim, with a scion planted (and still growing) at Trinity College Cambridge, where Newton once studied.

While the apple story is probably the stuff of scientific myth, it’s almost certain that Newton would’ve been familiar with the tree — which today is at least 350 years old — as it’s the area in which he was born and raised.

The county is also home to another of the country’s stalwarts: the Bowthorpe Oak, reputedly the UK’s girthiest oak, with a hollowed-out trunk so wide that it’s said to have hosted the Earl of Bowthorpe’s parties.

3. The Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Tree, Dorset

Beneath the boughs of a 350-year-old sycamore in the village of Tolpuddle, a small group of agricultural workers gathered in 1833 to lament their poor working conditions and paltry wages — only to be arrested, tried, and sentenced to penal transportation in Australia for seven years.

The six men became known as the Tolpuddle Martyrs, and after much public outcry, they were pardoned and returned to England.

Their cause was a key step in the workers’ rights and unionist movements. It is remembered in the annual Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival; a memorial plaque sits beside this great tree.

4. Fortingall Yew, Perthshire

Widely believed to be one of the oldest living trees in the UK (and indeed in Europe), the Fortingall Yew spills over its walled enclosure in a village churchyard like a great shower of dark green needles.

Some experts estimate the tree to be the ripe old age of 3,000, which would make it date as far back as the Bronze Age — some 1,000 years before the Romans had even come up with the name ‘Caledonia’ for Scotland.

The sheer age of the tree means that over time, the trunk has split that it now resembles several smaller yews, rather than one sole, mighty plant.

The future of the Fortingall Yew, however, is precarious, with souvenir-seekers stealing needles and branches, and so compromising its health.

Ongoing conservation efforts that preserve the tree’s DNA by planting saplings in other Scottish churchyards will be key to maintaining its history.

5. Spanish chestnut trees, Herefordshire

Of all the ancient trees at Croft Castle, near Leominster (including the 1,000-year-old Quarry Oak), most noteworthy are perhaps the huge Spanish chestnuts.

Planted in one grand avenue, their origins are believed to hark back to the battle with the Spanish Armada in 1588, when chestnuts were salvaged from the wreckages and planted here at Croft.

In fact, the planting arrangement is said to represent a flotilla when viewed from above.

But it’s at ground level that the trees truly amaze, as they’re almost fantasy-like in their size and contortion.

Take time to admire the gnarled, grotesque trunks and the twisted branches reaching towards the sky.

6. The Chained Oak, Staffordshire

This old oak in scenic Dimmingsdale is now bound in rusty chains.

Local legend has it that in the early 1800s, the Earl of Shrewsbury was accosted by a beggar as he was passing by.

He snubbed the old woman, and in retaliation, she placed a curse on his family that held that every time a branch fell from the oak tree a member of the Earl’s family would die.

That night during a storm, one of the branches fell from the tree and — lo and behold — a relative of the Earl died.

Seized by paranoia, he chained up all the branches to prevent any more falling from the oak.

Even today, as you approach the tree through the thick woodland, there’s a mysterious air to this gnarled old giant.

Just moments away at Alton Towers, the legend is the inspiration for Hex — a psychological hair-raiser of a ride set within the Alton Towers building itself.

[justablix]

I think Peter and Tyburn might be my favourite friendship (frenemyship?) in the whole series

[boyczar]

Things Younger Than Sharks

[postcard-from-the-past]

El Drago Milenario, a roughly a thousand years old, the oldest and largest living specimen of dragon tree in Parque del Drago, Icod de los Vinos, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain

Spanish vintage postcard