Speaking of willows. There's a species of willow. Salix herbacea. Known as the Dwarf Willow. And this thing. IT ONLY GROWS 1-6 CENTIMETERS TALL. IT'S KNOWN AS "ONE OF THE SMALLEST WOODY PLANTS" BECAUSE ITS A TREE THAT DECIDED TO BE 1 CENTIMETER HEIGHT
i do unironically think the best artists of our generation are posting to get 20 notes and 3 reblogs btw. that fanfic with like 45 kudos is some of the best stuff ever written. those OCs you carry around have some of the richest backstories and worldbuilding someone has ever seen. please do not think that reaching only a few people when you post means your art isn't worth celebrating.
messy sketch on the phone because it was the only thing I could draw on😞 I haven't drawn on my phone for a long time, so you can see a lot of mistakes here BUT I DON'T CARE guys I enjoyed the process.
fucking love when I'm on a call with someone and they start to do a little errand or go somewhere else and they say "and you're coming with me" like. absolutely I am let's go on an adventure I've been spirited away
Curious about your thoughts on moss? Personally i love it because it's green! and soft! and often a little damp! and there's a specific tree i used to sit under as a kid just to listen to birds and sink my hands into the moss and it's such a peaceful memory
it's soft! it's green! it's 300 million years old! it's one of the bryophytes which are close to what the very first plants to ever grow on Earth's land were! they have a multitude of uses! their lifecycle is the reverse of what most of what we think of as "plants" have! if you catch them at the right time you can see their sporophyte stage too and the different types of mosses all look unique! the closer you get to it the more it looks like a mini forest! it's lovely! it's like an encouragement to marvel at how strong and resilient things can be even when they're tiny! it's soooooooo nice to touch! it comes in different shapes and arrangements! it's friend shaped! it's fun! i love moss.
those are my thoughts on moss. for very, very, VERY wonderful thoughts on and education about moss, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND reading Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer from your local library or on the Internet Archive!
sometimes the moral of the story really is just "you cannot go back and what happened to you is going to be with you for the rest of your life. but it's still going to be okay" huh