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glumshoe

do Ents reproduce by sexual intercourse or by pollination

glumshoe

But if they reproduce through pollination how can they be sure they no longer reproduce? Maybe they’re anemophilous and are wind-pollinated and if they stand in a strong enough breeze an Entwife, somewhere, conceives an Entseed.

glumshoe

oh my god maybe the Entwives were bees

you are a mad genius

glumshoe

Ok, so, we have a few options:

1.) Ents reproduce exclusively through sexual intercourse, or something close to it

OR

2.) Ents reproduce via pollination and...

a.) are dioecious, with Ents producing only male flowers and Entwives producing only female flowers, and pollinated either by wind or by animals (or by hand?)

b.) have bisexual flowers, but which are so specialized that they can exclusively be pollinated by one specific species of pollinator...

The Entwives left the forest so long ago that the Ents no longer remember what they looked like. Treebeard says the Shire sounds like the sort of place they would have loved, with its gardens and flowers and agriculture. Hobbits have folklore of giant bees, named after bumblebees. Certain flowers only release pollen to “buzz pollinators”, like bumblebees.

Could it be that the Ents—who notoriously do everything slowly—failed to evolve quickly enough to compete with agricultural crops for the time and attention of their only pollinator species? Did the Entwives dump the Ents to evolve into regular bees faster than the Ents could even consciously process? DOES SAM GAMGEE THE GARDENER’S BOY KEEP ENTWIVES?!

I think we’ve done it. I think we’ve cracked the code. (Shut the fuck up, Jirt, no one asked you.)

transfem-octopus

It’s only in the movies that the Ents cannot remember the Ent wives. In the books they’ve described as having golden hair, red cheeks, and eyes like the Ents. Meaning the Entwives probably resembled the ents in appearance.

Likewise in the books the Ents were basically tree like giants instead of giant trees. As seen below

Peter Jackson reimagined the Ents as being giant trees instead of tree like giants so returning to the original question I propose a compromise:

Treebeard from the movies reproduces through pollination by the Ent Wives who are giant bees.

Treebeard from the books fucks.

glumshoe

“Golden hair”?

“Red (butt) cheeks”?

Sounds like a rusty patched bumblebee to me.

glumshoe

muntzerism-diggerism

canineblood

Reverse Therian

radio-jupotter

#thats just the jungle book with extra steps

eixd-deactivated20150710

The rest of the space is going to be pretty pissed when they see this.

thesassycat

did you google how to take a screen shot

botanyshitposts

ndiecity-deactivated20241101

I know next to nothing about botany but the phrase “feral sunflower” is hilarious to me

cydonian-mystery

segamascott

alphauke

you can always tell how little people actually care about art based on how much they hate modern/contemporary art

alphauke

''bring back renaissance art'' I bet your ass you can't even definitively tell that movement apart from others

alphauke

"posing next to art we think we can do'' can you though. can you

bixels

>sees a post about the superiority of renaissance art.

>it's baroque.

#or from the pre-raphaelite brotherhood. looking at you all the people obsessed with Ophelia #or rococo #or even neoclassicism! but NOOOO nobody ever talks about those periods!#people just see high naturalism and instantly assume its renaissance #when absolutely NONE of these people know the difference between realism and naturalism #hint: realism is NOT for making things look realistic. its for emotional depths #NATURALISM is what people mean when they say things look ''realistic''

connor-dioda

adrian just keeps getting bigger and bigger with every passing fanart so might as well take it to its logical extreme. rocky and his skyscraper-sized gender-neutral mate-wife <3

#soon adrian will just be the entire damn planet #the core of erid is made up solely of adrian

darkandstormyranger

finally some relatable content on ig

goth-queen

whotfelsewantedtobelynnyx

I know we all know how much the rest of the Hail Mary crew would’ve loved meeting Rocky (RIP Olesya Ilyukhina you will always have a special place in my heart) but you know who we totally forget would’ve loved to meet an actual, intelligent alien?

Eva Motherfucking Stratt

Everyone forgets (especially movie fans since I don’t think they even brought it up for y’all) that Stratt wasn’t a scientist like the rest of her crew. Sure, she was definitely smart enough to understand most of what they told her, but it wasn’t her field of study. She wasn’t a biologist or a chemist or an astrophysicist, she was a historian. She was also recommended for the project because she was an incredibly talented diplomat. Canonically, she’s fluent in at least seven languages, and probably speaks several more- give her a day, and she’ll understand Eridian almost as well as Grace. The atmospheric testing, the experimentation with Xenonite, that’s all her crew. But getting to know an alien race, learning all about their language and their history and their culture? That’s her thing, right there.

TL;DR: If anyone would have been absolutely fascinated to sit down and learn about society on another planet, it would’ve been Eva Stratt. Thank you for coming to my TED talk

save-us-a-seat

i see a lot of "movie rocky was just kind of a freak after being left alone for 50 years" but what abput the far funnier option which is that he was always just a freaky fucking nudist guy and when he was chosen for the trip everyone was like "dude. no. no way. why would you put the guy who wont wear pants in the ship with us. what the hell"

#thats why his little workshop was by the engines #no one else wanted to hang out with mr nudist and it killed them

montereybayaquarium

In case you were wondering, you’re looking at a very contented cephalopod indeed! Keeping octopuses healthy means constant mental stimulation, and besides the puzzles we provide for them, the octopuses can be very curious and will seek out the attention of their staff.

Tactile enrichment like being petted, or playing tug-o-war, are opportunities the octopuses can seek out at their leisure when their staff are around!