#tree is in paine

[swiftiethatyouhate]

literally so pr coded lmaooo “yeah i was making out with her ALL night”

[turnnoffyourmind]

Autumn symphony

Torres del Paine National Park, Magallanes, Chile.

[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

[kingcael]

all in the eyes of a boy

[missegyptiana]

also happy one year since this

[zillychu]

Consider this: ghosts are actually exactly what the Fentons think they are.

They're snapshots of a longing so strong, unfinished business so deep it reaches out beyond life. Lingers just a bit longer. And if it happens to meet a dense cloud of ectoplasm (invisible to the naked eye, but omnipresent even in the mortal realm), it coalesces. The ectoplasm fits into the shape of it. Which, when the desire is strong enough, it's got a rough idea of its self-image. This tends to mean a more humanoid figure, though it's more often warped in some way–a self-reflection, skewed by said desire. The warping varies on the dead soul’s perception of themselves, the intensity of their desire, how much time passed after death, and how much ectoplasm was present.

In short… no matter how “normal" a ghost looks or acts, it really, truly isn't human. It's animated ectoplasm with a single goal: an obsession. Nothing else. They're more akin to plants than animals, following a single drive with no emotion. They react to stimuli, recognize threats (including other ghosts), and can even imitate human speech and mannerisms to obtain fulfillment of their obsession.

Not “evil" by any stretch, but they're entirely driven by instinct. A tree doesn't pause to consider the rocks it breaks with its roots. A cordyceps doesn't torture its host for fun, or kill with malice. It just does. It follows code in its DNA to survive and multiply–And ghosts just follow the code in its ectoplasm to fulfill its obsession. The more powerful a ghost, the better it's able to overcome obstacles preventing this–whether through brute force, or manipulation. This power is always directly proportional to the amount of ectoplasm present at the time of formation, and how much time passed since death.

What then, does this mean for Danny? Danny, who's previously come to the conclusion that he's only half-ghost, which surely explains how he retained his mind? His independent thoughts and emotions?

What does this mean for Phantom, who experienced an entire world’s worth of ectoplasm condensed as a singularity, at the exact time of his death? Whose strength only grows and begins to exceed every limit they previously thought possible?

If a ghost was as strong as him… could it mimic a human perfectly? Down to a molecular level?

Could it, in its desire to fill an obsession… trick its own fake mind into thinking it was still human? Or half-ghost?

[pennamepersona]

Correspondence Plaque Earrings

[evermoredeluxe]

“and you! love! the! game!”

- The Eras Tour in Vancouver, CA (N3) on December 8, 2024 (x)

[tangoslime]

I told you I was gonna make something special before beginning the instruction booklet :)

[reviewsdefinitionofsatisfaction]

Billionaire threatens teenager trying to hold her accountable for harm done to planet:

This is Taylor Swift

[fluo-skeletons]

what if

[tswiftupdatess]

Taylor Swift with Tree Paine backstage at the GRAMMYs!

(February 2, 2025)

[jonathantaylorthomas]

Bo$$

[joshuamj]

The Magnus Protocol 3 - Putting Down Roots

[evermoredeluxe]

keleighteller: Romy and Michele (and Tree) take the globes ❤️

[petrichara]

Hmm thinking about old friends. I still do my lipstick the way you taught me, look for your face in every crowd, start to tell a story and feel your name die in my mouth. No amount of anger erases the way we hid in the trees as kids, how you’d run to the door hands full with my favourite sweets. Your smile is my picture of happiness, name the first I learned to write.