#tree talk

[bonefall]

Thinking about discostep and the silver tabby from BOTC being a couple, they will be in my head rent free

Hmmm... if Disco swaps over to that spot, I'm unsure if Silver Tabby will remain there. Might push him up to be Disco's parent instead, since I could actually use some older cats named by Brokenstar.

I have no name for him yet, but I DO know Silver Tabby's personality.

He's from a BOTC story about ThunderClan using hit-and-run tactics by leaping out of trees to convince an invading ShadowClan Patrol that there's more attackers than there actually are. This works, and the patrol is spooked enough to run.

So Silver Tabby is a bit of a nervous nelly. He's easily unsettled, and prone to making bad choices when panicked. Poor guy is easily pranked by his clanmates, he's the sort of cat who would launch 10 feet into the air if you put a cucumber behind him.

If he's Disco's father, it would be neat for her to have that association as a legacy. That her dad is the coward during an extremely violent period in ShadowClan history. I'd want to make her mother someone especially brave and "honorable" during the time period, though, to give Disco "privilege" which she uses to reduce suspicion on herself during TigerClan's Tyranny.

Maybe I'll call Silver Tabby BOTC "Quivershake" as a harsh Dishonor Title that Brokenstar laid on him. Dishonor Titles are not meant to be permanent, but his stuck with him for a long time. The mission to invade ThunderClan was probably not the first order he "bungled."

[tenalach10]

food for thought: what if irene controlled aphmau’s text boxes? what if she was the one giving aphmau options to choose? forcing her to make specific decisions? she’s whispering in aphmau’s ear, “guiding” her along the way. anything aphmau says is not her own voice, her own thoughts, but irene’s.

what if irene isn’t what she is said to be anymore? what if she’s worse?

[treetheory]

“To cease, to be unknown and external, a swaying of branches in distant rows of trees, a gentle falling of leaves, their sound noted more than their fall, the ocean spray of far-off fountains, and all the uncertainty of parks at night, lost in endless tangles, natural labyrinths of darkness!”

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

[paldean-ranger-brandy]

I think the dragonblood tree FUCKS

That tree gets hella bitches

For those who don't know, dragon blood trees seem to 'bleed' when you cut them. Metal as fuck, everyone wants to get it on with a dragon blood tree

[tenalach10]

my addition to this thread is "Untitled (March 5th) #2" by Felix Gonzalez-Torres. genuinely nothing has touched me more significantly than this artwork. this is art and humanity and pain and grief and power and i love it

[clownboybebop]

if you’re ever in the position to choose between giving up and accepting defeat, and actually trying to fight the ancient unkillable god that is about to peel apart reality like a string cheese, remember this: scientifically speaking, you might as well give it a shot!

1.there were trees at the beginning of the world! there were trees so long ago that they predate bacteria that causes wood to decay. when a tree fell, it would lie there in stasis and there wasn’t any way of breaking down wood xylem on a molecular level in that way.

2. it seems obvious to say, but wood eating bacteria are literally incapable of comprehending what they’re breaking down. It’s just not information conciously available to a microorganism. they don’t know what they’re deconstructing, where it came from, bacteria have no way to even fathom the existence of a tree as a concept.

3. Regardless of the facts above, the world we live in today is a world where wood inevitably decomposes

it is worth fighting the unkillable god no matter how pointless it seems. it is worth taking the risk even though youre trying to accomplish something impossible. the reality in which you live was also once reality in which trees didn’t rot. You live in a reality that allows for existence before the possibility of destruction. you live in a reality where uncomprehending microbes break down matter that is so far beyond the scope of their comprehension that it feels comical to specify something so obvious. you live in a reality that occasionally allows unshakeable physical truths to be altered with no warning.

It is worth fighting the unkillable god because trees are so old they predate the source of their destruction, and it still did not spare them. It is worth fighting the unkillable god because bacteria rots unthinkingly, because there is room in our cosmos for destruction without comprehension on the part of the destroyer. It is worth fighting the unkillable god because now and then reality retracts the promise of immortality without fanfare, and when that happens there is no mercy for the ancient. the unmaking is not softer for the desecrators ignorance. for all things, existence is endless until the exact point where it ends.

so you might as well try to kill the unkillable god. it doesn’t seem likely, but at the beginning of the world, trees didn’t rot. so you never know! you never know

[uwhe-arts]

daydreaming . . . | uwhe-arts

[barghest-land]

drawings from paleo expedition to dagestan, done right on the trip. sometimes messy when it was cold and rainy, but i won't correct it. i think it's cool to leave it just the way it was done, and not retouch it after. there will be more drawings later, but those will be done from home

[tenalach10]

sorry for tagging this as last podcast on the left i realize that lpotl is not niche at all

No bond stronger than that of a guy and his favorite niche podcast

[proxycrit]

I interrupt my zelda posting with caitvi because Arcane changed my brain chemistry

(ight, now i go back on hiatus! If you want to see my sketchbook which I WILL be posting until the day I wither, check out patreon! Now excuse me as i crawl back into my warm little den)

((Im also currently significantly more active on my instagram posting commission work, if you wanna see it :0))

Edit: ah dang it the hyperfixation’s set in.

[tenalach10]

genuinely asking. why is this fandom so obsessed with janus have i missed some sort of crucial information. he appeared for like two minutes in rebirth but there’s so much content about him in fandom spaces????? help??? is it just cuz he’s a big macho white guy or what lmao

[treetheory]

Plato, "Under a Plane Tree", The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape

[tenalach10]

sent this to my dad. he’s a little bit of a hater but it’s ok

i love that motorcycles exist. like i'm genuinely so glad that someone was like "what if bikes were as fast as cars and could turn you into roadkill if you hit a pothole"

[drowninnoodles]

i was thinking about him again help me

man-

[paldean-ranger-brandy]

Tell me about your trees!

Oof this has been sitting in my inbox for a while. Sorry for the delay, wanted to make sure I had the time to give yall a real banger.

Back in my hometown of Fortree there is a subspecies of nincada called Branchcutter Nincada. They will crawl their little asses up into the tree canopy to harvest fresh branches from trees. And they are INCREDIBLY efficient at it - one colony of branchcutters can harvest anywhere between 50-70% of a tree's branches in an hour. They inject a special chemical into the branch that causes it to stiffen and crack, making it much easier to hack through. They also stay on the branch as it is falling out of the tree, clinging desperately to it until they hit the ground. Very silly, but they can't really fly so I guess it's the fastest way to the ground.

Once they have their branches the colony will start to head home all together. This helps protect them from predators, but man it is a sight to see. They carry their branches overhead, so you can't really see the buggies. You just see a HUGE swath of the forest apparently moving on its own. Branches crawling along the ground like they've gained sentience. Quite a lot of folklore around that phenomena, as you can probably guess.

Once the nincada have brought their branches home they use them to set up a huge, underground fungal farm. And they are incredible farmers, they fertilize their gardens, clear out the dying and decayed sections, and produce a bacterium that helps clear out unwanted mold, and has the added benefit of protecting the nincada from molds as well. They are so sensitive to their fungal garden's needs that they can sense how the fungi is responding to certain food and change things up accordingly. The fungi they grow they then feed to their larva, who feed on it until they grow big enough to gather their own food (typically tree sap).

Branchcutter Nincada are a really incredible species. REALLY harmful to the trees though, on account of all the branch cutting. Left unattended, they can clear something like 20% of an ENTIRE forest's biomass in a day, and have underground nests spanning over a kilometer in length. They are extremely important to the ecosystem, but the Fortree rangers have a hell of a time monitoring and adjusting their populations, especially since nincada don't tend to be a particularly popular pick for trainers, so we can't really rely on trainers to do the one thing their useful for (catching pokemon).

Quick aside, to bash the pokemon league of Hoenn. I swear, if the league was sooooo insistent on putting a gym in a city that didn't want it the least they could have done was try and find a way to make it work with the local community instead of directly against it. Having a grass or a psychic gym there to encourage trainers to catch some of those buggies would have been the one non-awful thing the league could have done. But they aren't interested in the communities they stick on the gym circuit, they've made that much PERFECTLY clear.

Bleh. Anyway. Branchcutter Nincada. Efficient pest, incredible farmers, very cool little bastards.

[drenched-in-sunlight]

i love the DLC man