#tree talk

[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

[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

[uwhe-arts]

daydreaming . . . | uwhe-arts

[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

[drenched-in-sunlight]

i love the DLC man

[omniocademy]

Words of Wisdom from Arbis.

[tenalach10]

i hate saying this and i hate that i have to say it at all. one of my closest friends, kipper, is being labeled as a groomer and manipulator. this has been happening since 2022. i won’t have it.

the google doc supposedly proving kipper was horrible, published by ashesofangst, has many leaps of logic and hearsay in it. even if i didn’t know kipper, i think it would be easy to tell how fallible of a document it is. a good chunk of ash’s evidence is just their own words which is untrustworthy at best. other evidence does not prove their arguments, such as saying kipper groomed someone when they were 17 and turned 18. the supposed victim was fifteen when kipper, who was seventeen, dated them. just because someone turns eighteen during a relationship doesn’t mean it’s pedophilic.

in fact, i was friends with ash at the same time kipper was. ash admits that they are putting up an act when they talked with kipper in order to gather information on their accusations. was ash lying to me too? did they actually like me, or were they using me for information? it doesn’t inspire a lot of faith and trust between ash and i.

the reblog from burner506 blows ash’s already untrustworthy accusations out of proportion. if you actually knew and interacted with kipper, you would know they rarely do discord calls with friends. they especially did not do them back then, whenever this “allegation” occurred. it’s even more unlikely that they would ask for explicit pictures.

jumping to conclusions and blowing small things out of proportion are dangerous lines of thinking to fall into. no one is perfect. kipper has messed up in the past, but it is nowhere near the level that ash is saying it is. they did not “fake” dissociative identity disorder. they are not a groomer. they are not a manipulator. if they were, i would not be friends with them. i’m not stupid. i’m not brainwashed.

i know that this could all be read as conjecture and hearsay, but it is true. my testimony is based on close personal experience — a friendship with kipper that has lasted since 2019 — and critical thinking. if kipper was a truly bad person, i would have left them years ago.

talk to me if you have questions. i’ll answer to the best of my ability.

[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"

[treetheory]

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

[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.

[casually-eat-my-soul]

Love me an au where stiles doesn’t know that Derek is a werewolf and is always talking about how much he likes him where Derek and co can hear.

Stiles is like “look at him Scotty, he has shoulders that are built to moan into, how could I not want to date him”

And Derek is fucking dying off the to side, face red as hell. His sister are making fun of him, Erica, Boyd and Isaac are making fun of him, even the sheriff is making fun of him. All Derek is doing is thinking about is upping his work out routine

[bleakbluejay]

you motherfuckers have no concept of what "land back" or "decolonize" even mean. you're too busy demonizing entire groups of people, terrified, shitting yourselves, that they'll do even half of the horrors to you that you've done to them for decades or centuries. this shit comes off as hella racist for real. you hate arabs so much. you hate first nations people so much. you hate black people so much. even if you sympathize with them, you can't fucking bear the idea of them gaining freedom, independence, autonomy, safety, because you're so, so scared they'll hurt you back and cause chaos in the streets. these same people who just want to rebuild. who just want to go home. who just want to see their families again. who just want food. who just want medical care. who just want dry, warm shelter. you're so focused on the ideas of colonization, of "us vs. them", of one people displacing the other for a state to exist, that you cannot comprehend coexistence, and your only idea of peace is if an entire group of people were just gone and dead.

grow the fuck up. for the love of GOD, grow the fuck up.