#tree knowledge

[balkanradfem]

Tell me more about trees 🌳 💚

They're very warm inside, they like the wind a lot!

When trees fall, if there's a percentage of roots still in the ground, they're not dead, they can keep living. If in theory we had one giant human who just went around picking trees up and burying them back down, they would all recover and be fine. I was going to put that in my story when I wrote a continuation of Thornwood! I just think it would be very cool.

Some trees still go on living even when fallen down, they just adapt so their branches become the new trunk and they grow up form there.

The reason trees lose their leaves in the fall is related to the hours of light we have in the day, more so than the cold. Trees do a little calculation, and when there's less than ideal light in the day, they go 'well, this is not worth keeping leaves', and they let the leaves fall off, because it's not worth the effort for that little amount of light. Then in the spring, when they notice the light hours getting better, they start making new leaves, because now it's worth keeping all that greenery in order to receive nutrients! But trees are definitely not 'dead', or 'sleeping' during the winter, they're very much alive and calculating their next move. If you look at a tree in January or February, you'll be able to see them already forming lots of little buds and preparing to grow flowers, they're very much active! And I imagine they're enjoying how saturated the ground is with water, growing the roots down and taking in all they can.

If anyone can think of more tree knowledge on the spot, add to this post!

[pratchettquotes]

One of the recurring philosophical questions is:

"Does a falling tree in the forest make a sound when there is no one to hear?"

Which says something about the nature of philosophers, because there is always someone in a forest. It may only be a badger, wondering what that cracking noise was, or a squirrel a bit puzzled by all the scenery going upwards, but someone. At the very least, if it was deep enough in the forest, millions of small gods would have heard it.

Things just happen, one after another. They don't care who knows. But history...ah, history is different. History has to be observed. Otherwise it's not history. It's just...well, things happening one after another.

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

[tess-talks-inc]

I need fanart of Penelope and Odysseus in a mirror “It’s you!”

And then Penelope holding it leading him to a mirror with the “Despite everything it’s still you”

[popppyfur]

sometimes when i like characters thisssss much i like drawing unnecessarily complicated comics of them having a normal ass conversation

[7pleiades7]

Eve (1885), (detail), by Anna Lea Merritt (American, 1844-1930), signed and dated 'Anna Lea Merritt/1885.' (lower left), oil on canvas, 30 x 43 in. (76.8 x 109.2 cm.), Private Collection

[iztea]

a good strong wind will keep you honest

[smile-files]

mommy let you use her ipad, you were barely two

and it did all the things we designed it to do

now look at you, look at you!

(objectober 2024 day 10: internet)

[tradingjack]

how bout them apples

[notbecauseofvictories]

I'm re-reading Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters for book club, and there should really be a truly epic saga about The Friendship Of Gytha and Esme, Young Witches Who Absolutely Shouldn't Get Along But Do, Shockingly (Even If Sometimes There are Minor Natural Disasters Because There Has Been A Row)

[elefsina]

TRADITIONAL WITCHCRAFT…

…with its many and various branches, is a Craft born largely from the very landscape in which it is practiced. There exist common threads that run throughout the various recensions of the ‘Elder Faith’, but the precise traditions, ways and practices of the ‘Old Craft’ will always differ and be flavoured by the preserved folk beliefs, traditions, customs, lore, historical magical rites, charms and impedimenta of the region in which its practice is rooted. Traditional witchcraft is regional witchcraft, it is not and never has been a standardised practice and long may this continue to be the case. The day witchcraft loses regional variation is the day traditional witchcraft ceases to exist.

Traditional Witchcraft, Gemma Gary (2008)

[splinterclan]

Moorsnow is not a chimera! White is a dominate trait, it covers up a cat's base color.That little spot of color is actually her true genetic coloring the white did not get to while she was in the womb. Genetically, I would call Moorsnow a high white spotted golden tabby cat. It's debatable if Whorlstar is a regular torbie or a chimera, depending on if you consider her warm color to be red or cream! It could be either. But the way her darker coloring and her warm coloring is so cleanly split by her fur I would personally lean towards being a non-dilute/dilute chimera (split between chocolate(nondilute) and cream(dilute)) However Prairiekit is definitely a chimera! She is a mix of solid red + black tabby. The black tabby part genetically is not possible since both her parents are Red, but ClanGen itself isn't genetically accurate in the first place :) A solid-tabby chimera.

that's super interesting!

Again I know nothing about cat genetics so many mistakes are done on my part - Like in Clangen's defense Cedar's kits did not have a canon mother until I made one up for them/designed her myself and I just thought since they were orange, mom should be orange xD I am definitely not going for realism with my designs but I love that for Prairiekit <3 Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

[balkanradfem]

Loved your tree story. Can children really develop extra senses when their home is troubled? As a toddler I predicted my brothers birth, i knew my mom was pregnant about a week before she did. One time in college I did mushrooms and walked past some trees in an apartment complex, I swore they said hello to me and laughed a bit at the state I was in. I have this book called.... "the secret language of plants". I never got too deep into it (easily distracted) but the whole thing is kind of about talking to plants and how they can communicate with us, and tell us their potential medicinal uses, and things like that. Have you heard of it? If you ever read it I would love to know your thoughts ❤️

Yeah I do believe that kids can develop extra senses when they're in a troubled environment very young! What you're describing is another layer of extra senses, I've never been able to predict anything like that, that's very cool. I've never managed to ask a plant about medicine uses, but I knew instinctively that yarrow is medicinal as a kid, I just didn't know what for (but I collected it anyway).

Thank you for sharing your story!

[milkweedman]

finished my hat finally and its super warm and comfy and i keep putting it on and then feeling the strong urge to knit more warm items. and then i take the hat off and can be normal. and then i look at the hat. and im like oh its such a warm and comfy hat though why would i not wear it ? so i put it back on and then the urge returns.

may have knit a cursed hat, basically ?

[asspinkie]

there should be a permanent option to ask gale about his special interests. it varies depending on act/setting perhaps but. sometimes i just want to listen to that man speak

[reality-detective]

The "Java cucumber tree" grows on the island of Java, Indonesia. This tree leaves its leaves in a plane-like shape with 2 wings to send each of its seeds as far as possible. An excellent event. 🤔

[imaginal-ai]

"Adam Wonders"