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i feel like a lot of fandoms pride themselves on being gayer than the source material but have they considered being less racist and less misogynistic than the source material as well . could be revolutionary

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Make an effort

Anyway, Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides) Area: Native to North America

#never not salty that the League of Their Own reboot didn't get another season #despite everyone claiming to want stories about queer women and queer women of color #trees of north america

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The Tree of the Virgin Mary

(Ficus sycomorus)

Area: Egypt

#Did you relate to Mother Mary the movie or growing up were all your friendships normal #Toxic yuri at its best #Shout out to everyone who ever had an insane homoerotic situationship before they understood 1) how gay they really were 2) boundaries #tree #trees of africa

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mabel dont look now but there’s a weird old guy heading our way

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Western Hemlock

(Tsuga heterophylla)

Area: Pacific Northwest and also the BC interior

#The Western Hemlocks are growing on the nurse stump there!#Trees of north america

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Keplar Fern Glade - Robyn Lichtfield

New Zealand , b. 1958 -

Oil on linen , 38 x 31.87 in. 96.52 x 80.95 cm.

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Silver fern/Ponga/Punga (Alsophila dealbata) Area: New Zealand

#not a tree #plants of oceania

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#Happy Labor Day to Shrek I guess

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So, this scene is specifically a fuck off to famously anti-union Disney. But it goes beyond the dialogue. Look at Puss on Shrek's shoulders. Puss's movement is counter balancing Shrek's so that he stays up there. It's a lot of movement, a lot of animation, for a character who isn't talking. Every time they have to animate that feather in his hat, that's extra work, extra care, extra money, and that's just one element of the work, there. The animators could have chosen to put Puss on Donkey- look at Donkey's relatively small amount of movement compared to Shrek or Puss. But they didn't, they put him on Shrek's shoulders and they animated him. Why might they do this as a fuck-you to Disney? Well. Disney is not only anti-union, they are cheap as fuck. There's a lot of recycled rotoscoping in Disney movies in the 1970s because they were cheaping out on the process so they didn't have to pay rotoscopers. There are probably other examples, but, they recycle their own work a lot, and I assume most Tumblrinas have probably seen that video of the scenes from Robin Hood and Jungle Book and 101 Dalmations directly compared with scenes from Snow White and several animated cartoons that the rotoscoping was taken from. The reason that Don Bluth left Disney to start his own company (not Dreamworks, but, this is the example that I have) was because on The Rescuers, there were a lot of examples of the whites of eyes not being painted in- you can see it a LOT with Bernard, especially in action sequences. Don was told that the reason for this was that it was too expensive. He thought it looked like what it is, unprofessional and unfinished for a company that's allegedly got Disney money and Disney quality, so he went off and did the math and was like, "It doesn't cost shit." And Disney told him to shut up and stop colouring in the whites of the eyes. So he left. And you can see the kind of "needless" art he did in movies like The Land Before Time and The Secret of NIMH where there's a LOT of attention to detail in the art and in the animation.

We're seeing the same thing here with Shrek and Puss. While talking about union protections for union workers, in a nod intended to stick it to Disney, they are showing animators, "Look. We didn't need to animate this scene like this, you know this. But we did. We spent the money. We're pro union and we didn't cheap out."

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Swamp Cypress (Taxodium distichum) Area: Southeast United States

#fun fact shrek 2 is unironically my favorite movie #idgaf #trees of north america

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i just became a brand ambassador for a 1,000 year old sacred grove

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Mountain Home Grove!

Located in the Giant Sequoia National Monument in California. This tree is named Oliver Twist!

#trees of north america

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Vine Maple

(Acer Circinatum)

Area: Pacific Northwest

#trees of north america

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textures and colors of the bark of Methuselah the coast redwood

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Methuselah the Giant Sequoia

(Sequoiadendron giganteum)

Area: Giant Sequoia National Monument in California

#trees of north america

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*guy who doesn't know anything about sports and has never cared about sports in his life* hey did you know womens professional baseball is returning after 70 years and the games are going to be streamed for free on youtube and the season starts august 1st

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Tifway 419 Bermudagrass (one of the most common turf grasses used in baseball stadiums) Cynodon dactylon ssp. ? Area: Widespread. Not actually native to Bermuda

#please watch the WPBL guys #also the bermuda grass wikipedia page is worth a read if you're into that sort of thing #pretty short too #domesticated plants #not a tree