#tree access

[canisalbus]

thought you would appreciate my grandmother's great big fiddle leaf she has in her dining room. She has a whole greenhouse attached to her living room as well and her hydrangeas in her garden are all a beautiful blue and violet.

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[son-of-avraham]

Fun fact: when the person who sent me this text message sent this, I was jewish for literally all of two hours. In fact, I had pretty much just made it home from the mikvah (also, yes I will only eat cheesecake if she's made it. I hate every other cheesecake but hers)

[divorcedwife]

some pictures i took in the moors near haworth last summer

[sesamenom]

Festival of the Trees in Rivendell (very much outdated) vs Festival of We Got Another Wine Shipment in Mirkwood (invented three hours ago)

somewhat inspired by this post by @elvinye

[hiddencarpet]

[ID: Mushishi fanart. A warm digital painting depicting Ginko from bird's perspective. He's sitting on the forest ground in front of a lake. He's cleaning a small bowl while looking up at mushi traversing the sky. Next to him lies his wooden backpack and a square piece of cloth filled with fruits. His skin is delicately illuminated with warmth of the sun. End ID]

Art raffle prize for @eyobis-andthe-bunnycats

[oddestishottest]

Indian Creek Landing Strip

Salmon-Challis National Forest, Idaho

my photography, July 2015

[ariadne-mouse]

Me: *possesses a tree-ripened apricot, carefully washed, the ambrosia of summer*

Me: I am wise to the ways of truly ripened stonefruit! I shall cunningly hold this apricot in a paper towel as I bite it so it will not get messy

Apricot: *precision fires a squirt of juice directly down my open long sleeve that drips all the way to my elbow*

[dailyhtfboards]

I love how Lippy did his boards.

Yeah, I tend to find Lippy’s boards are some of the most expressive outta the bunch! I actually got another one of Lippy’s boards lined up for tomorrow’s post, whadda coincidence :]

(From TV episode 4A Easy for you to Sleigh)

[eretzyisrael]

Source

[phaoi]

these two items from the new sims pack are so phouse coded btw

[hinge]

Hinge presents an anthology of love stories almost never told. Read more on https://no-ordinary-love.co

[runefactorynonsense]

Melotober - Day 21 -Night Sky

Sometimes you just need to stop, and breathe

[oddestishottest]

Southern Oregon, 08/16/12

Somewhere along the Rogue River

[arctic-hands]

You ever be totally immersed in a story and then you come across a line about a subject and you realize you know more about this subject than the author and what the author wrote down was completely wrong and it's not even that the author didn't do research so much as the author didn't even think this was something that even needed to be researched? And it drives you absolute cuckoo bananas?

[pennaraptor]

you wouldnt think that this is a breakthrough but it. is

[titisorriso]

Still experimenting with CSP. Have a Hestia.

[vole-mon-amour]

I don't know if I'll write this fully when I have the time and energy (depends), but I know that if I won't get it out of my system, I'll forget & I don't want that.

The short idea is: a body of water (a river or a big lake). A magical fruit tree whose trunk is fully leaning over the water, so the chances of shaking it really hard and getting the fruits are close to zero. The three grows several kinds of fruit at once: peaches, plums, apples, pears.

Halsin and Astarion have been on the road for several days. Halsin is hungry as hell, they're low on food and money (and the damn druid absolutely forbids any kind of stealing, and it's not like they've encountered a lot of people to steal from on their travelling). And here's the tree, right in front of them.

The catch is, not only can Halsin not climb the tree (he'll probably end up in the water, either out of his clumsiness or because one of the branches/trunk snap under Halsin's weight and size), but he is also magically wounded in a battle.

Why does it matter that he's magically wounded? Because he can't heal himself. No potions or spells he has tried worked, so the healing is very, VERY slow. So climbing the tree and picking the fruits himself is out of the question—dor the reasons of mentions above, for also out of fear to make the damage way worse.

So, we have Astarion that bravely climbs up the tree (doesn't even complain much, he'll do things for Halsin he didn't do before for anyone else—because he cares for him very much), picks enough food that lasts them (Halsin, because Astarion mostly feeds off Halsin's blood—his favourite meal/treat) for days. Then jumps down in the water, makes several in-and-out of the water while carrying the fruits in his shirt.

And all I can think about at that point is Astarion being a wet cat in this situation. Up the tree (he's the beauty, he's the grace; he also knows how to pick pockets, so this should be twice as faster and easier), in the water collecting the fruits (hair sticking to his forehead, a bit grumpy, sopping wet cat),getting out of the water (the clothes sticking to his entire body and it feels horrible), sitting next to Halsin—Halsin is in the shade, Astarion in the sunlight in his underwear while his dripping clothes are drying on the tree. He tried to squeeze the water out of it, but of course it's still dripping.

Halsin probably watches his attempts, then calmly offers a hand (even two) ("Let me help you with that") while also flirting and thanking Astarion in the process. It was a really nice thing that he did, considering he's still unsure of the water and it doesn't always feel nice.

I can also imagine Astarion either wanting to try and get dry in those soaking wet clothes (unsuccessfully, obviously) until Halsin suggests he takes the clothes off. Or having trouble removing the clothes/himself out of the clothes because it's clinging to his body, it's heavy, and he's already been in the water for long enough and he is now kind of overwhelmed. So Halsin helps him get rid of the clothes in his usual calm demeanor, squeezes as much water as he can and hangs it to dry.

And in a while, when Astarion's body is dry again, Halsin offers him a spare change of clothing. When Astarion refuses (hell wait for his clothes to dry, thanks very much), Halsin wraps him in a light blanket and makes him sit in that blanket until the clothes are dry—not only it's important to protect Astarion's pale sensitive skin from a possible sunburn, but to protect from getting sick. The wind, the cold lake water, and a burning sunlight can be a cruel and unpredictable mix on him and his well-being (assuming he can get a cold).

Also, I'm still 100% sure Astarion is a cat. So he acts like one, and Halsin is his well loved, loyal bear. And they're a very, very cute couple.

So.

Would anyone be interested in reading/drawing that? No writing that, please, I want to keep the idea for myself in case I do write it into a proper fic.