#reading under a tree

[middlebury-college]

[javierduffy]

different.

[m3-kk]

ARE YOU SEEING THISSSSSSSSSSS??????v

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THE LAURAL WREATH ON HIS HEADD!!

HONGS LITTLE FACEEEEE

(>^ω^<)

This man is just laying there peacefully with his babies all around him looking at them like they’re his world and omg and Raon’s little claws and omg hands and WAIT OMG UIS HAIR I JUST NOTICATED ITS LONG OMG IM FERAL

I CANTTTTTT ITS AMAZING

[wuthering-high]

Big, grumpy, scary manhwa men blushing is my favourite genre🥰

[calciferiguess]

oh yea bb i survived my finals

anways look its my fav fluffy tree and fluffy pig

[sammystruggles]

Obsessed with the physical copies of Under the Oak Tree by Suji Kim. I read some of it on Manta but fell off for some life reasons and I'm SO excited to get back into both the manhwa and novel versions!

[londonadayatatime]

Peeking Through, April 2024

[saint-hymn]

hymn dearest hymn. what say you to a fic that rewrites the whole “revivebur making a deal with dreamxd” thing the way i thought it was gonna go before that stream happened. ft cwilbur experiencing the totality of the universe and also the end poem and basically having a transcendentalist mindfuck acid trip that was mostly just a test from dreamxd to see if his love or lack of faith was stronger

WHERE

[zahri-melitor]

I went back to the panels in Nightwing #127 (1996) and saw something I hadn’t noticed before:

The colourists, Richard and Tanya Horie, have Dick WEAR OUT HIS GLOVES digging out of the grave. His fingers are visible.

Also the man dug through tree roots to escape. Never let it be said Dick had it easy here.

[rozesmiana]

Every so often his existence activities some part in my brain and then I have to draw him

[docholligay]

@katrani so, when I'm doing a fic that is, hard, a lot of times I'll create like a little map that is very very sketchy, and when I decided I was gonna bring Hughes into this nightmare because it made sense for him both to have the insight and be willing to tell Roy shit he doesn't particularly want to hear, this was my sketch note:

@morkaischosen when I think about the two of them, one of the things I really think about is how Hawkeye protects herself and gives nothing away by not saying much, and Roy protects himself by fucking flooding the zone. You can never ever tell if he's being serious and sincere or not. It's another way that they are this matched pair, because in the same way that Roy knows what she is saying when she says nothing, she can winnow out what he actually means when he cloaks everything in what comes down to, "I'm just joking obviously" They are safe enough with each other to be vulnerable, but they also don't ask it of each other. They don't need to by this point in their relationship! Hakweye doesn't need to say, "I love you even when you make me fucking crazy you asshole jesus christ and I am so so angry at you but this isn't the end" because she just wordlessly and quietly removed the clip from his gun which communicates all that. And Roy hears that! IN the same way that his whole speech joking about sentimentality and beetles and all that contains the words Hawkeye needs to hear to know that what he means is: "I did in fact wrong you and I'm sorry" They are both insane. They are making me insane. I am so sory about this ramble, it will happen again.

And also yes! I do think Roy appreciates that she would take her execution like a fucking champ, and I agree with him that I think she would. I think Roy is being whatever version of sincere he's capable of being when he says he doesn't have to tell her how good she is at her job. (and hawkeye is being sincere when she tells him to knock it off with what is very nearly tenderness)

@katrani tis was my first real outing with Hughes and it was fun! I think when the three of them are together it can be sort of "how could Hawkeye get a word in edgewise even if she was thus inclined?" and that can be really fun maybe but this wasn't the venue I needed him to solve a problem and be smart ahaha.

One of the hardest things in this fic, besides figuring out how the fuck to start with Hughes was, "How do I communicate that Hawkeye is fucking furious, BUT, she's not furious in a way that will sever the relationship?" and I was not displeased when I came up with this.

THANK YOU ALL

[roodllle]

I go back and forth on being understanding and upset that people don't know/forget that Melina's dagger (Blade of Calling) is found in a one-room, guarded, prison that was built inside the elevator lift that goes to a place no one is supposed to go to anymore (Consecrated Snowfields/Forbidden Lands SoG)

And there's this item on a corpse right outside the room

Official's Attire Grubby blue robe worn by magisterial officials to carry out their grim tasks. Surveillance, executions, gruesome rituals... The darkest duties drive the wheels of mankind.

And here's the description for the Blade of Calling

Blade of Calling Dagger given to one who set out on a journey to fulfill her duty long ago. The power of its former owner, the kindling maiden, is still apparent. The one who walks alongside flame, Shall one day meet the road of Destined Death.

We know that Melina was born at the base of the Erdtree, she was given her duty by Marika, and remembers quotes from her mother. And yet she doesn't remember what it's like to have a loving mother

Melina about Boc: "I think he misses his mother. He wants someone to tell him he's beautiful. Does being born of a mother... Mean one behaves in such a manner?"

I also find it interesting that Melina was given this purpose but now is not doing it for Marika, but for herself and she talks a lot about how she wants to see this world change for the better. Ex.:

Melina: However ruined this world has become, however mired in torment and despair, life endures. Births continue. There is beauty in that, is there not?

My own personal theory is that Marika knew that her first daughter was destined to burn the Erdtree and that scared Marika, so she locked her away and Melina died in that room. I know that doesn't explain the burn marks on her skin or why Melina has a claw/talon mark over her closed eye that goes away when we don't use Death/Giant's Flame but Frenzied Flame. And no I do not think Melina is/was the Gloam Eyed Queen.

[airbus-a350]

i'm ngl i genuinely don't rly understand escapism fiction at all like i get the idea of course but i don't understand what i'm supposed to be getting out of it. i don't understand what sort of relationship i'm supposed to have with something like that. it's fully a personal opinion and i'm not hating on it either i'm just very ??? about it

[londonadayatatime]

In Memoriam, April 2024

Robbed of its colour, this feels to me almost like a mourning, especially with the branches looking rather bare.

[loveofnerdsndonuts]

I'm so excited to finally own Under the Oak Tree in physical print!!

I had originally found an English translation online back in 2020 and instantly fell in love with Maximilian.

I've already started reading the book 😁 💖

[essektheylyss]

y'all wanna see some cool moss and lichen? of course you do.