#trees unlimited

[ghostlakan]

no feeling is final

[los-plantalones]

kousa dogwood.

[randomfandomsgobrrrrrr]

Books that I have read this year (listen okay they are technically fandoms with no fanbases)

Roomba eats Satan's general (proceeds to start a cult and adopt a daughter)-All the Dust that Falls

Furry is forced into a hunger games that is being live streamed on universal twitch (proceeds to start a cult and adopt a daughter)-The Rise of the Winter Wolf

Girl realizes she's a lesbian only after she becomes god (proceeds to start a cult and adopt a daughter)-Goddess Reborn/Mirror World

Local tree starts eating people on its path to godhood (proceeds to start a cult and adopt a daughter)-Reborn as a Demonic Tree

Ant decides that the food chain does not define him so he equips diamond armor and start controlling gravity (proceeds to start a cult and adopt a daughter)-Chrysalis

Murderhobo -Full Murderhobo

Autistic man decides he hates mushrooms (he is one of the strongest people on earth & his best friend is also a snake god but we don't think about that to hard)-Primal Hunter

Mans sea food is so good that it is legally heresy and gives people super powers (he also has to convince people that he isn't an alien but Australian)-Heretical Fishing

Dudes mere existence angers a god (proceeds to beat up a fantasy world racist) -Gene Harvest

As you can see my taste in books is the best

[a-personiftranslator]

hi my dumbass made an OTJ and she’s tiffin v storm’s location (and now he owes me 20 dollars)

catch all the references

inhales

The closed border running down her middle: Corpus callosotomy. She can function normally (not all the commissures were cut) but as with other split-brain patients, if something happens in only one sensory hemifield she can only perceive it with the corresponding hemisphere. Define one hemifield as everything on the Norwegian/Finnish side and the other as everything on her Russian side. She has language areas in both hemispheres of equal size, but one understands/produces Russian and the other Norwegian and Finnish. Both know a smattering of words from the various Sami languages. She’s still one consciousness due to the remaining commissures.

Cultural mixing: she’s wearing a luhkka, which was invented by the Sami, but it has a similar status to the parka in that nonnatives have taken it and iterated on it. It’s by no means traditional. I put rosemaling (except instead of roses it’s pine trees and cloudberries so is it really rosemaling?? Something resembling rosemaling at least), which is an artform Norway invented, on it. The ushanka is self-explanatory. I couldn’t get Finland in there visually but know that her phone is a Nokia.

Largest population of brown bears in Norway: her ushanka and fingerless gloves were textured to resemble the fur. Her close set eyes, large irises, and body shape were also chosen to evoke bears.

Norway’s last ancient pine forest: you decide if that’s shading along the bottom of the luhkka or if that’s the silhouette of the forest. Her antlers grow leaves. Rosemaling except pine trees.

Sami reindeer herding: her antlers. The collar thing on the luhkka is reindeer fur. The buttons on the luhkka are made of antler. The flag ear tags. You’re actually supposed to mark the reindeer’s ownership through earmarks but tags are useful as an extra identification measure and also I couldn’t figure out how to convey the identities of her ‘owners’ just through cuts on her auricles. I got a few stray whumperflies drawing the tags but I don’t think she minds.

The river that is the border and also what she is named after: I just. Slapped its shape wholesale onto the luhkka.

The Finland/Norway/Russia border tripoint being the only place where three timezones meet: her watch with 3 hour hands. Norway uses GMT+1, Finland uses GMT+2, and Russia uses GMT+3.

Use of Lutheran/Orthodox churches by Norway/Russia to cement their sovereignty in the region: the crosses/strings even though luhkkas don’t have strings. The Orthodox cross is bigger because, in tiff’s words, “the Orthodox kind of did win” (all the Skolt Sami are Orthodox and they exist on both sides of the border).

Sorry so many of these are Norway specific the 1 good source I could find (other than tiff) was about Sor-Varanger specifically ;-;

the source in question:

(most of the reference images and also the colors I eyedropped onto her are from there)

the pattern for the pine tree was referenced from here:

specifically this image:

some progress pictures so you can see the corrections tiff made:

(the yellow clip things on the river were supposed to be the hydroelectric dams)

i don’t know whether to be proud or upset that i spent more time on this than i did on the bayard drawing for the thoth map:

[what-is-it-to-be-pk-esque]

My partner finally finished BG3 but has no idea that his ending was actually bad cause he was a pro-Vlaakith githyanki who rode off with Lae'zel but got NO EPILOGUE where Withers points out y'all died im 😭😭😭

they have no idea what happened with Gale or anyone else (who was still alive) after flying away 🙃🙃🙃

[beedreamscape]

At the end of both ExUs it was love/fear that broke their resolve.

It was love for Ted that made Opal call for the Spider Queen and fear of losing her that made her put the crown on.

It was love for Quay that made Laerryn allow herself to be grappled and fear of losing him that made her blight the tree.

[mtarkaoui]

Spooky Night Friends

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[lil-kissy]

So I went a ahead and coloured Princess Tutu! Kaze.

Yes his hand is gold for a reason- look I know technically speaking Kaze's right hand is in fact fully functional it's just you know attached to/holding the Magun / Magun is attached to it.

However while I could give him a normal hand, another idea kept bouncing around and couldn't stop thinking- but what if prosthetic hand.

(It's probably not actually made of metal/gold and just you know gold coloured but yeh)

[wabitwithadot]

I really like pantufa the cat. Ft Chainsaw Tail!

I really like VAdaPEGA's work in general, not only their serious stuff, but also what im going to define as "serious shitposts". I unironically enjoy stuff like SIivagunner or Rave Story (a cave story mod) that start start off as a joke and never really loses the joke, but is so high effort and good that is suprising. Some might see it as a "waste of potential" but that kind of stuff really tickles a really specific part of my brain, maybe its because I watched SIivagunner when I didnt even know what Vinesauce was and just did it because of funy Flintstones theme and videogame OST mashups. Btw shoutouts to SIivagunner for showing me the existence of Vargskelethor Joel he is like one of my top streamers.

Btw Btw I also really love games that really selfish in the best way possible, maybe I should make a Huge Ass Post™ to explain what I mean by that, but to try and condense it, I enjoy the "Here's my OC that used/still represents me as the main character, btw here's a bunch of inside jokes, people you probably dont know and crystal clear inspirations from popular media, deal with it" I 100% explained that wrong and I should really gather my toughts about that kind of games, but the work of Unlimited Trees, VAdaPEGA and to some degree Patricia Taxxon are the only ones so far that that managed to hit that part of my brain and I REALLY love it.

Go and support VAdaPEGA's work you losers.

[veiledfox]

} There really is something to good music making things memorable

[moiynapakhi]

WE GOT TEFÉ AND THE PARLIAMENT OF TREES!?

[hollyevolving]

Yo! That's gorgeous!

Finally it’s finished!

The Tree of Names/Fall of Avalir!

Big thanks to @eldritchblep for letting me use her art as inspiration & the entire cast of EXU for such an amazing story 💜💜

Pattern and cross-stitch by me~

Size: approx 11x16.5” on 18 count Aida

Stitch count: 58,500

Only thing I’m sad about is that the shiny portions don’t show up with in the photo.

[6ghassan]

Lake Ontario shoreline by Mustang Joe Via Flickr: Taken in Jack Darling park, Mississauga.

[mtarkaoui]

The Magical Snowflake Adventure ebook for kids 4-8

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