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@vellatra
HELP ME FEED MY CHICKENS - COMMISSIONS OPEN!
Will close comms again if and when I get too overwhelmed so people aren’t left waiting for their art for ages, but yeah! Get some arts of your OCs and more by yours truly, and help feed some fluffy little ladies while you’re at it! Details below:
TO RETURN TO MY TREES
“The Overstory” (2019), by Richard Powers; // “Wild Fruits: Thoreau's Rediscovered Last Manuscript” (2001), by Henry David Thoreau; // Kim Novak; // Chinese Proverb; // “To the lighthouse” (1927), by Virginia Woolf; // Santosh Kalwar; // Albert Szent-Gyorgyi; // “Cosmos” (1980), by Carl Sagan; // “Timeline” (1999), by Michael Crichton
Oc question gameeee!!
- most likely to have a mental breakdown over cooking
- worst at Communicating Feelings
- most likely to get lost at the mall
- would make the best cat
- has the least trauma
Heyyyyyyy thanks for all the good questions! My brain has perished and this is (mostly) the cause of my delays 😆 Here we go!
Most likely to have a mental breakdown over cooking 1. Drackio - actually has had a mental breakdown over cooking (with a screaming baby in the background) Yayyyyyyyyy life of a newly single parent! 2. Darluca - son of the lady who made #1 for BEST cook; is the family disappointment anyway, definitely no pressure here! 🙂 3. Tina - tends toward perfectionism and also has little experience in the kitchen... hoo boy.
Worst at communicating feelings 1. Sanoj - the man never speaks at all; how can you expect feelings talks? 2. Mochrar - feelings are for sissies. Naturally he doesn't have any, besides some good healthy rage and bloodlust now and again of course. 3. Jenari - has been told her whole life that her feelings aren't as important as those of others; rarely expresses any at all. Keeps her "customer service" face active for everyone, even her closest family.
Most likely to get lost at the mall 1. Trajeda - because she's smol. Fortunately she's very good at vibe checks and would probably latch onto some nice worker adult, who can keep an eye on her until her mom comes to get her. 2. Veelia - because she's blind. She's not afraid to ask for help, either, but if she's stuck fending for herself, she has her ways of getting un-lost.... 3. Claudia - because she's oblivious and has no sense of direction at all.
Would make the best cat 1. Trajeda - major league cuddlebug, loves to play 2. Madeline - typical cat; listens to no one, is up at odd hours, constantly gets into things she shouldn't be, always comes out unscathed somehow 3. Nabikio - sneaky little gremlin, playful, relentless snuggler
Has the least trauma Oh that's really hard everybody's got trauma- 1. Hoki - hangs out with The Trees for the entire story. The end. 2. Dric, Ceami, Nosha, and Fynne - Vellatra's younger siblings who live nice cozy normal lives, and are only affected by The Plot when literally everyone else is too 3. Vexina - family is completely intact; is too distracted by the potential for discovery to be frightened of the story kickoff event, biggest Bad Events of the whole story affect others more than her
oc ranking, best gardener?
1st place: Tannufia (with honorable mentions to Madeline and Trajeda, who are learning from her) 2nd place: Kipdin (might have a weeeeee bit of an edge, being a tree guy-) 3rd place: Llevarta
oc ranking, best hugger?
Oooooo that's a tough one! I have a lot of good huggers on the roster lol. Lemme think...
1st place: Lucard (big and strong and warm and protective and tight but not too tight) 2nd place: Trajeda (tiny adorable little leg hugs because she can't reach the rest of you, but you can still very much feel the love) 3rd place: Tannufia (similar to Lucard but with comforting mama energy instead of protective dad energy)
oc ranking, best at juggling?
1st place: Tina Tied for 2nd place: Nabikio and Vexina Technically, Nabikio and Vexina can juggle more things and generally be more impressive than Tina. However, she gets first place because she can juggle by pure skill, without the assistance of airbending (like Vexina) or telekinesis (like Nabikio).
oc ranking, best cook?
Oh boy oh boy lots of asks! [kicking feet excitedly] Now to answer-
1st place: Alleava 2nd place: Vixie 3rd place: Tannufia
Vixie is actually a professional cook at an inn, in the capital city of Silen Fah. All three of these ladies are excellent at what they do, but Alleava gets the top spot for managing to make delicious and nutritious things, on a fairly tight budget, with a household size of [checks notes] nine at its peak
make me rank my OCs!
send me a quality (tallest, most flexible, best legs, most socially inept idgaf) and I’ll give you my top three OCs with that quality.
I love baking, this is beautiful :)
"Enjoy the honeymoon phase! Make the most of it! After a few years the passion will fade, it's inevitable, especially after having kids! Love takes so much work to maintain after a while but it's worth it!"
Who the heck are you to tell me how my marriage will inevitably go? I married my best friend, the love of my life, and years into it we're still passionate, and loving him is the easiest thing I've ever done. Having a baby didn't damage our relationship, if anything it made us tighter than ever. Life is beautiful, and he is even more beautiful to me, especially when he holds our sweet baby boy.
Hot take: young couples need to shut the boomers up when they start with this crap, because that is not a given, it never had to be, and romantic love is a beautiful thing that you get to share with the best person on earth just for you. You decide how your love goes together, nobody else decides it for you.
"after a few years the passion will fade"
Spoken like a quitter. Imma be even worse in 10 years.
@shenzi-hemlock
You. You get it. I went through hell to get to this beautiful man. I thought I would be dead long before I ever saw his face. And now, looking back, I'd do it all again if I knew it would bring me back to him. He's worth it all and more, and every day he is more precious to me than the last.
the worst part about grief is that it feels like the world should be horrendously earth shatteringly changed, and to an extent it IS but its also the same. to everyone else it's just another tuesday. the world moves on. you have to go grocery shopping.
Digging through RD supports over at Serenes Forest. For some reason royals and other characters with titles are much more likely to be adressed with unique support lines. An odd choice, but it does give us some fun unique lines between people who otherwise wouldn't talk to one other.
Olintingen - Allgreens
All Greens are green in every way - rounded maple-shaped leaves (except in autumn of course when they usually turn yellow), bark, flowers (three petals, look a bit like Easter lilies), fruit (large, perfectly round, taste and texture of pears), even the seeds. The only variance is the shade of green. They’re dioecious, meaning there’s a difference between male and female trees. Only females produce fruit, but they won't do it without a male to pollinate them. Even non-silturen can tell which is which by the way their flowers grow (females have single large blooms while males have clusters of smaller ones), and the texture of their bark (males are a little more rough-and-tough).
Inside the fruits can be found a single nut - other than being green and having no cap, they look just like acorns. Olinting silturen have pale green skin and straight, usually blonde hair. They’re slightly more common than the other varieties, in a nod to being the only variety for awhile.
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Went to try to do this and Holly hell it error 404d me several times. Fucking google
It literally won't let me. So many people are going to turn it off that it crashed the page
I also had trouble clicking the link, for some reason copying it and pasting it into a new browser tab worked better for me.
Retanidoen - Starseeds
Starseeds look a little like giant carrots! They have orange wood - the bark is especially bright - and they have long, dark green leaves that look like blades of grass. They do not produce fruit, but they are prized for their sap, which can be boiled down and made into a delicious syrup, much like the sugar maple’s.
Starseeds have seeds shaped like stars! Who would have guessed! Each seed has four papery little “blades” on it, kind of like a maple seed wing, and they’re known for spinning like helicopters on their way from the tree’s branches to the ground. Damaging the wings has no effect whatsoever on the viability of the seed.
Due to “pale orange” looking very like Caucasian “flesh color”, Starseed silturen are one of the more human-looking varieties, although their great height, pointed ears, black markings, and of course the males’ horns, should be plenty of tip-off that they are still silturen, to anything more than a passing glance. Their rut scent is reminiscent of maple syrup.
Lalanayen - Songleaves
Songleaves are light brown wooded fruit trees. Their leaves, laid out flat, are a basic smooth-edged almond shape, but they curl up on themselves and make little “pipes” that whistle when the wind blows through them. Different sized leaves of course produce different tones, so a little grove of songleaves makes for an amazing, harmonious natural woodwinds section - literally.
Songleaf flowers look very much like apple blossoms. White, five petals, possibly with a little blush of pink on them. The resulting fruits are apple-sized, red, shaped and textured like blueberries, and have a flavor like raspberries.
Songleaf silturen are, like the Starseed ones, more human-looking than most of their kind, with lightly tanned skin. Their incorrect stereotype involves having good musical talent, either with their voices or with picking up instruments. (Many do, but that's true of silturen in general since they have centuries to practice, and music is kind of important to their culture.)
Hifkatalen - Scentwoods
Scentwoods are known for their bark’s “spicy” smell - detestable to most insects, but generally very well-liked by people. For this reason, chests, closets, bread boxes, and other household containers that bugs are especially unwelcome in, are often made of this dark brown wood. Their leaves are heart shaped, dark green, and carry the same smell as the wood. Sometimes they're used in colognes or potpourris, but their most common use is as an invigorating tea, which has a mild amount of caffeine.
Scentwood flowers are small, fuzzy yellow things that grow in tight clusters. Since insects hate the smell of this tree, the flowers are given a wide berth by the usual pollinators, and must instead rely on the wind. The blossoms eventually develop into little olive green fruits, each containing a single seed about the size of a chocolate chip. The fruit is horribly bitter, even when ripe, and is a bit astringent too, like a green banana. Most people don't eat them at all, but some enjoy the energy boost - a single one of these “trembleberries” has the same amount of caffeine in it as two or three cups of coffee, depending on ripeness.
Scentwood silturen are dark brown, like Black humans, but not so dark that their actually-black markings cannot be seen. They tend toward tightly curled hair, and are almost never blonde. They have a faint scent about them that matches their tree, which lingers even outside the rut season (which is when a siltur's hormones will spike and bring out a fragrance that is hopefully attractive to potential mates - what scent depends on the type of siltur). They have a reputation for being more hyper than other varieties, but this is once again a misconception.
