#a sapling

[clems-grove]

Indie music fans will literally be like oh yeah man you should totally listen to “my self doubt is slowly killing me and all my friends” by Penis Defibrillator it’s an absolute banger

[hedgehog-moss]

The cherry tree I planted in front of the greenhouse blossomed for the first time this spring! A round of applause!

The wind always blows from the valley so I planted this tree strategically so that in spring a delicious smell would be delivered in my living-room through the windows, and around the outdoor table where I work, and it worked :) I estimate that it improved my quality of life by 11%. A light spring breeze carrying a cherry blossom smell is the kind of thing that stops me in my tracks ten times a day and makes me close my eyes and take a deep breath and think oh, life is good.

More tree updates: I talked in this post from 2021, then this one from 2022, about how I hoped to plant a 'fruit tree path' in the woods behind my house—this project is still ongoing and, well, hasn't borne fruit yet, but has finally blossomed. My Fruit Alley now boasts 10 trees, and looks like—what it is, a small opening in the woods that I have to deploy heroic and sustained efforts to keep open, because the woods try to reclaim it year after year, patiently, like a slow green tide.

The white thing in the middle is one of the tarps I've been using to smother brambles, I move them every few weeks and it works pretty well. I also use cardboard, but in the spring it's hard to keep up with the sheer rate of growth everywhere. Of course the main enemy is the army of broom that you can see in the distance, all yellow and cheerful-looking at the moment. I mostly fight them in the winter, every year I manage to push them back a few metres...

Here's a photo where you can better see some of the trees :

In total I have planted 2 apple trees, 1 quince tree, 1 mirabelle plum, 3 red plums, 1 nectarine tree, 3 cherry trees. I'm really glad that all of them survived, as I was a bit worried about damage from deer or boars. I did lose 2 chestnut trees that were destroyed so savagely I have to assume it's wild boars, but I had planted them much farther away in the woods and I won't make this mistake again. I now have two new baby chestnuts and I planted them near the greenhouse (downhill):

I think I'd never seen nectarine flowers before, they look exotic! I also discovered this year what quince flowers look like:

The only tree that didn't bloom was the smallest apple tree, and honestly that's her fault because for some reason she decided to make tender new green leaves in the middle of winter, so she pretty much exhausted herself for nothing. And you can't blame climate change and seasons being weird for this, because it was a cold and snowy week and no other nearby fruit trees were making any leaves. The confused apple tree is a New Zealand cultivar, so I suppose you could argue she thinks she's still in New Zealand, except she's never been to New Zealand in her life, she was born and raised in France, she doesn't know New Zealand exists. The only possible explanation is, I suppose, a deep-rooted yearning for their ancestral homeland among New Zealand apple trees.

I was a bit concerned when this tree then failed to produce any leaves in the spring, I worried she might be hopelessly hemispherically-challenged, but then I went back to check two weeks later and she was finally green! In a seasonally-appropriate way!

Other trees I've planted, not in the fruit tree path: a persimmon, but it died very quickly :( I will try again; a goji berry shrub, which has been here for two years and seems to be doing well, but so far no sign of berries; and in front of my house, an amelanchier (un arbre dont ma mère n'arrive jamais à se rappeler le nom et qu'elle persiste à appeler "le mélenchon"):

Finally, my last piece of important tree-related news is that I had the hazel tree near my house removed this winter:

I asked the guy who was working on the road nearby with an excavator digging a drainage trench if he could do it, and it took all of 10 minutes, like picking a flower, it was impressive!

And the reason I wanted to remove it is that there are hundreds of hazel trees in my woods and I wanted something different in this spot by the house. Unfortunately for this deserving hazel, it just wasn't special enough.

So I planted a tiny ginkgo :) And now I just have to be extremely patient as I wait for everyone to grow.

[seabeck]

Spring, fall

[linterteatime]

More hollow knight gijinka- wait nvm wrong bug game

[daily-mc-block]

Potted Oak Sapling

[khairosclerosis]

our* wife

but of course thank you for asking ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝ ♡

↳ edit: i forgot to tag you lol @the-aftonsparv 🫰

[aroaessidhe]

aro & ace books: trans aspecs

trans rights readathon is on now, and I realised it's been a minute since I made a trans aspec books post, so here's some of the latest ones I've read!

previous posts: part 1 / part 2 / nonbinary YA / nonbinary A

Pluralities - contemporary/sci-fi novella - aro-coded transmasc MC

Compound Fracture - YA thriller - arospec trans boy MC

The Sapling Cage - YA fantasy - demisexual trans girl MC (+aroace SC)

The Evolving Truth of Ever-Stronger Will - YA contemporary - demi-aroace nonbinary MC

The Summer Love Strategy - YA contemporary - demi-aroace trans girl LI

Life Underwater - contemporary - grey-aro ace trans man MC

Be The Sea - scifi - nonbinary demisexual MC

Blessed by the Cupid Distribution System - romance novella - demisexual trans girl MC

The Space Ace of Mangleby Flat - contemporary - demisexual trans woman LI (& ace MC)

#aspec books / aspec database / tumblr masterpost

info included here is brief! please see my database for full details of the books

[phenomen0ms]

overgrown

[rotten-dan-art]

Sorry if this is really old but I was wondering if you completed that comic about Vi and gender?

oh heck that IS really old!!! i never posted it?? i really appreciate someone is still waiting for it. it feels nice to know someone likes my art!!!!!!

here anon, for you

is not this huge poetic piece about gender or anything, is just that Vi reminds me of myself when I was her age so I projected some gender stuff onto her. dysphoria! and also just some nice stuff about Kabbu and Leif supporting her

[jannieka394]

Sound up!🔊

Anyone else notice how the big tarsyu plants whisper when you stand close to them? I have more than 200 hours in the game and only just found out! It lowkey freaked me out! Anyone know what the voices are saying?

[cosmotellurias]

I think one of the best parts of TOA is seeing how many badass older sister figures Meg managed to collect

[clems-grove]

[wizardsvslesbians]

This book delivers the "young hero goes to magic school" experience, but the magic school is a women-only boot camp in the woods, and most of the other kids there didn't have a choice about joining up. So we're grappling with feminism and gender and community building (and race and sexuality and also land reform?), but the plot of a pretty standard wizard kid YA novel is happening at the same time. It's a lot.

[bogdreamz]

happy solar-versary!!! life only matters because of each other!!!

[fuckyeahcoelacanths]

Coelacanth Mouse Mat by Citrus Sapling

[daily-mc-block]

Pale Oak Sapling