#forest navigation

[buckets-and-trees]

Cedar Trees

a collection of Royal AU stories centered around a King Steve Rogers and Queen!Reader

You came into this betrothal to Steve Rogers, King of York, with no illusions to the situation – yours was a marriage to ensure the continuation of many generations of alliance and peace between your respective kingdoms. It was your duty as the second-born. Very early, however, you learn what your royal union truly means to you both, and it's more than either of you expect.

Content Warnings: [check individual parts for their respective warnings] politically arranged marriage, reluctant pining, SMUT (rough fucking, vaginal intercourse, oral – female receiving, fluffy fucking, nipple play)

AUTHOR NOTE: The setting for this is a semi-Georgian era in a loose version of a North America based in no reality, only aesthetic and general royal protocols of the time.

ADDITIONALLY: I actively and eagerly accept questions about this AU as well as requests - asks I can get to fairly quickly, requests may take me longer. I know their general story, but I have no agenda for a plot for them, so I'm willing to fulfill requests based on what people would like to see in this couple's story.

ORIGINAL FOUNDATION PIECE: Fire Burning From a Cedar Tree

Release Order:

Fire Burning From a Cedar Tree [3.4k]

The Thrill of Knowing How Alone We Are [1.2k]

Cold Hands, Warm Hearts [1.3k]

A Shift in the Morning Routine [1.1k]

Chronological Order:

The Thrill of Knowing How Alone We Are

Fire Burning From a Cedar Tree

A Shift in the Morning Routine

Cold Hands, Warm Hearts

Extras:

what if Cedar Trees was also an omegaverse?

your first winter holidays as Queen in the kingdom of Brooklyn

ask re: kinks and physical intimacy

Resources:

Collection Cover by me

Divider by @firefly-graphics / #evansyhelp

#steve rogers #cedar trees au #steve rogers x reader #king!steve rogers x reader #king!steve rogers #royal au #steve rogers royal au #steve rogers x female reader #steve rogers fanfic #steve rogers fic #steve rogers smut #steve rogers fluff #steve rogers fanfiction #steve rogers x y/n #steve rogers x you #setlist of stories #female reader #forest navigation

[reasonsforhope]

"In an unprecedented step to preserve and maintain the most carbon-rich elements of U.S. forests in an era of climate change, President Joe Biden’s administration last week proposed to end commercially driven logging of old-growth trees in National Forests.

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, issued a Notice of Intent to amend the land management plans of all 128 National Forests to prioritize old-growth conservation and recognize the oldest trees’ unique role in carbon storage. 

It would be the first nationwide amendment to forest plans in the 118-year history of the Forest Service, where local rangers typically have the final word on how to balance forests’ role in watershed, wildlife and recreation with the agency’s mandate to maintain a “sustained yield” of timber.

“Old-growth forests are a vital part of our ecosystems and a special cultural resource,” Vilsack said in a statement accompanying the notice. “This clear direction will help our old-growth forests thrive across our shared landscape.”

But initial responses from both environmentalists and the logging industry suggest that the plan does not resolve the conflict between the Forest Service’s traditional role of administering the “products and services” of public lands—especially timber—and the challenges the agency now faces due to climate change. National Forests hold most of the nation’s mature and old-growth trees, and therefore, its greatest stores of forest carbon, but that resource is under growing pressure from wildfire, insects, disease and other impacts of warming.

Views could not be more polarized on how the National Forests should be managed in light of the growing risks.

National and local environmental advocates have been urging the Biden administration to adopt a new policy emphasizing preservation in National Forests, treating them as a strategic reserve of carbon. Although they praised the old-growth proposal as an “historic” step, they want to see protection extended to “mature” forests, those dominated by trees roughly 80 to 150 years old, which are a far larger portion of the National Forests. As old-growth trees are lost, which can happen rapidly due to megafires and other assaults, they argue that the Forest Service should be ensuring there are fully developed trees on the landscape to take their place...

The Biden administration’s new proposal seeks to take a middle ground, establishing protection for the oldest trees under its stewardship while allowing exceptions to reduce fuel hazards, protect public health and safety and other purposes. And the Forest Service is seeking public comment through Feb. 2 (Note: That's the official page for the proposed rule, but for some reason you can only submit comments through the forest service website - so do that here!) on the proposal as well as other steps needed to manage its lands to retain mature and old-growth forests over time, particularly in light of climate change.

If the Forest Service were to put in place nationwide protections for both mature and old-growth forests, it would close off most of the National Forests to logging. In an inventory concluded earlier this year in response to a Biden executive order, the Forest Service found that 24.7 million acres, or 17 percent, of its 144.3 million acres of forest are old-growth, while 68.1 million acres, or 47 percent, are mature."

-via Inside Climate News, December 20, 2023

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Note: This proposed rule is current up for public comment! If you're in the US, you can go here to file an official comment telling the Biden administration how much you support this proposal - and that you think it should be extended to mature forests!

Official public comments really DO matter. You can leave a comment on this proposal here until February 2nd.

#united states #us politics #conservation #climate change #sustainability #forests #old growth forest #national forest #carbon emissions #climate action #climate crisis #forest service #biden #biden administration #public comment #good news #hope #it took me soooo long to hunt down the actual public comment link #by which I mean like 10 minutes but like #that's too long! especially considering I am way better at navigating language and bureaucratic websites like this #than A LOT of people #why tf can't you just comment on the Official Website For Public Commenting? #aka regulations.gov #baffling #anyway the good news is I did find it so pls do go ahead and submit a comment if you can

[vdearest]

– seattle: day 1, abby – meeting lev and yara

#lev tlou #yara tlou #seraphites #tlou2 #the last of us part 2 #abby anderson #tlou2 photomode #tlou2 spoilers #the forest scene is sooooo stressful but i love the dynamic lights so it's fine <333 #i fucking hate the big fight after it though‚ i dislike the games dodge mechanic and rarely use it so it was tough to navigate for me #also i forgottt how long the first day is for both of em??? like damn there is just MORE #but it's fine i love abby's storyline #vens tlou journal

[on-a-lucky-tide]

I just got home from two days in the forest with a group of former soldiers. I made fire, chopped wood, caught and cooked my own dinner, and slept under the stars. I love camping, but this was a whole new level of experience.

And now I can't help but imagine Geralt setting up a "reconnect with nature" type bushcraft camp at Corvo.

#rawr wanders #they were all wounded during conflict #the company was set up by John who only hires ex-army people #can you imagine though? #lambert teaching knife use carving and friction fire lighting #eskel does hunting trapping and using an axe #coën does navigation using the sky and the forest and knot-tying #vesemir teaches foraging and weaving with natural fibres #geralt runs the camp teaches about lore and horses #the biggest nerd #aiden joins and they begin to teach archery because if he kept interfering with lambert's knife lessons #he was gonna get stabbed #lovingly

[auutumn]

if eris' 12 hounds don't like you, eris doesn't like you. it's that simple.

#eris vc: the vibes are off what can i say :/ #no but befriend them. you'll earn his trust immediately. #tbd. #more on them later. they're specially bred for autumn. elegant yet deadly. eris has trained each one individually. #very much based on myths of hellhounds. #they are the only companion capable of expertly navigating through the trickery of autumn's lands & fields & forests.

[prototypelq]

Coral Highlands are gorgeous. I absolutely adore that the lowest forest level is made up of dead coral, it is such a neat little detail.

In other news - finally met The Fluffy Boi!!!

#that green corridor shot turned up so nice I love it #new locations in this game make me genuinely giddy there are so many funky and niche little things to find #this location is a nightmare to navigate through though I ran in circles for about an hour #this is another great example mhw is the game that avatar fans actually want #i dunno i get a lot of avatar vibes from the forest and now the highlands are very much avatar2 vibey and i love it #i still haven't gotten over the fact that the lower forest level is made up of dead coral that detail speaks so much to me #mh world #monster hunter world #mhw #...I really need to turn that fps overlay off lol

[poisonedprose]

nav ! - 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄 𝐈𝐒 𝐀 𝐕𝐄𝐋𝐕𝐄𝐓 𝐂𝐑𝐎𝐖𝐁𝐀𝐑

carrd - masterlists - reqs

fandoms i write for !

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stranger things alice in borderland the goldfinch all of us are dead the last of us resident evil call of duty: mw

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tags i use + meanings !

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! ★₊˚✧ vira . ; important blog or personal things

! ✵₊˚✧ thots . ; vira speaks!! someone tell me to shut up

! ✭₊˚✧ reblogs . ; it speaks for itself

! ✉₊˚✧ mailbox . ; used when i answer an ask

! ♱₊˚✧ cuties . ; my lovely mutuals!

! ☁︎ ₊˚✧ anons . ; my lovely anons!

! ♡ ₊˚✧ st . ; stranger things things

! ♠ ₊˚✧ aib . ; alice in borderland things

! ✴ ₊˚✧ tgf . ; the goldfinch things

! ☣ ₊˚✧ aouad . ; all of us are dead things

! ☢ ₊˚✧ tlou . ; the last of us things

! 𖦹 ₊˚✧ re . ; resident evil things

! ✪ ₊˚✧ cod . ; call of duty things

! ✿₊˚✧ more . ; used for other fics from fandoms i don't write for and things that dont have a clear tag

! ☆₊˚✧ dont get sad get even . ; used for anything taylor swift

! 🗡₊˚✧ all hail vampire king ; will be used for anything related to 'the vampire king'

! ❀₊˚✧ vira's forest adventure - 500 follower event

! ☪₊˚✧ vira's blood bath - 1k follower event

! ꕤ ₊˚✧ vira's listening party - 1.5k follower event

#navigation #! ★₊˚✧ vira . #! ✵₊˚✧ thots . #! ✭₊˚✧ reblogs . #! ✉₊˚✧ mailbox . #! ♱₊˚✧ cuties . #! ☁︎ ₊˚✧ anons . #! ♡ ₊˚✧ st . #! ♠ ₊˚✧ aib . #! ✴ ₊˚✧ tgf . #! ☣ ₊˚✧ aouad . #! ☢ ₊˚✧ tlou . #! 𖦹 ₊˚✧ re . #! ✪ ₊˚✧ cod . #! ✿₊˚✧ more . #! ☆₊˚✧ dont get sad get even . #! 🗡₊˚✧ all hail vampire king #! ❀₊˚✧ vira's forest adventure #! ☪₊˚✧ vira's blood bath #! ꕤ ₊˚✧ vira's listening party

[yuridovewing]

tbh why did they even pick gray wing as a protagonist rather than tall shadow or wind runner. i mean i hate wind runner but i think she would have offered a more interesting perspective than "some guy who we are supposed to think is soooooo so smart just fucks around for six books hating women and sobbing about how his brother is soooo sad so please dont hate him for murdering and abusing people"

#actually. depending on the tone. povs can be clear sky (villain povs can be really interesting and i do think his rationale in book 3- #can get interesting as in like. how abusive people justify their actions. the thing is you also have to have them be refuted) #thunder (someone born in the forest to that abuser and tries to navigate this all at a young age) #tall shadow (someone who also came from the mountains and you can make her friends w clear sky at first bu they grow apart as #she also assumes leadership and inherits it and deals with the stress (i mean they basically have gray wing try to be leader anyways.)) #and maybe wind runner (loner cat who is pulled into this system and tries to navigate it and ultimately assumes power) #actually yeah maybe river ripple too bu five povs would be a lot. he can be the guy against all this #but in trying to build an alternative he gets sucked in #i wonder how many of dotc's problems stem from no female protagonist as well

[heaven-dope]

kind of a big fan of how unintentionally opposite soleil is to lili

#so like. where would i even begin. it was a complete accident but really fun it turned out this way and im thinking about it now #really interesting to me how lili likes to teach and soleil likes to learn. #how one is arrogant and one is humble #and lili holding onto the concept that he will leave the life of a fighter while soleil is hellbent on becoming one #lilis a city boy and sol is a forest child #super fun what they choose to learn with lili picking to achieve perfect mastery of things hes skilled at #while sol is extremely curious and will learn things theyre inherently poor at just for the experience #2 mind vs 0 mind. #how they navigate society - one being absolutely dogshit clueless with the other being incredibly politically savvy #and it just keeps on fucking going im not even done but i need to sleep im just thinking about it at 3am. sorry #sorry sorry. their friendship is just really cool to me! despite having so many opposite traits they get along great #talk tag

[buckets-and-trees]

Field Guide to Forestry

We just hit another follower milestone, so since there are way too many of you around for me to put this off any longer, how about I officially let everyone know who I am and what you'll find around here...

CHIEF FORESTER: ASPEN Elder Millennial/upper 30s, she/her

THINGS ASPEN KNOWS WAY TOO MUCH ABOUT Trader Joe's, Disney Parks, the Great British Bake Off, CBS Survivor, Harry Potter, Houseplants

IN THIS FIELD GUIDE YOU WILL FIND:

↠ Maps & Masterlists: my writing ↠ Forest Rules & Regulations: my guidelines and boundaries ↠ Visitors to the Forest: my approach to asks, requests, and tagging ↠ Upcoming Expeditions: projects I'm working on ↠ Tree Classification: my current tags ↠ Tales of the Teller: more about me and my writing

↠ THE FOREST OF FICS IN UPSTATE NEW YORK The MCU realm of my writing ↠ THE FORBIDDEN FOREST OF FICSThe Harry Potter realm of my writing Statement about me, HP, and she who should not be named/famed any longer

↠ I do not interact with minors. It's not safe in these woods.

↠ I do not consent to having my works translated or posted to other platforms. If I wanted to, I would.

↠ I will block at my own discretion. This is my forest, and I set the boundaries. Underage? Blocked. Pornbot pigeon? Blocked. Bigotted? Blocked. Rude? Blocked. Just be a reasonable human over the age of 18, and you'll be free to roam the woods.

↠ ASKS Always open. I adore asks! Send thoughts, thots, questions, gifs, pics... For now I'll take anonymous asks - as long as everyone plays nice, it'll stay that way. Asks are NEVER a bother and you can ask about anything - questions about my existing works, stuff I'm working on, fandom things, my life... I'll answer within reason (no spoilers, I'm semi-open about my life but do keep some things private, etc).

↠ REQUESTS The only thing I'm actively entertaining requests for is my Cedar Trees Royal AU collection - but even these will be fulfilled subjectively and only as I have time and muse cooperation. Periodically I may host a request fest (as I did for my 300 follower celebration or for other occasions in the future).

↠ TAGLIST At this point in the growing season, I'm not maintaining an official taglist. In the future I will probably set up a secondary/library blog as many other authors have done where you can follow and turn on the notifications. There are only so many hours in the day, explorers.

↠ BUCKY BARNES BINGO: 25-prompt challenge running April 10, 2023 through January 10, 2024 (3/25 complete) ↠ IN THE OPEN AIR: conclusion to Out of These Waters (mer!Bucky AU) ↠ DEVOUR: dark!mob boss Bucky AU (3/4 complete) ↠ THE GREAT BUCKY BAKE OFF: a Bucky x Reader episodic story with a Great British Bake Off format (coming fall 2023) ↠ ASPEN'S DARK FOREST FEST: ten-part spooky celebration with writer commentary highlighting my supernatural stories and a new darkfic (October and November 2023) ↠ ASPEN'S HOLIDAY EXTRAVAGANZA 2023: eight days of fics followed by one day of many, many fics (coming December 2023)

↠ FOREST NAVIGATION: field guide, masterlists, story collections ↠ AN ASPEN THING: when I post something more to do with me than anything fandom ↠ ASPEN MILESTONES: ONLY YOU CAN CREATE THESE FOREST FIRES ↠ ASPEN ASKS: responses to things from my ask box ↠ ASPEN IS WRITING: any commentary, sneak peaks, progress posts ↠ ASPEN WROTE SOMETHING: new story post ↠ OMG REBLOGGED THANK YOU: responding to or thanking people for reblogging my fics ↠ FIC READING: my reblogs of other people's fics ↠ MY MOOTS: flailing about or responding to one of my mutual friends

↠ HISTORY OF ASPEN I grew up in a family that was steeped in all things stories: grandparents, aunts and uncles always telling stories at family gatherings; parents read to me before bed; watching too many movies and cartoons; staying up way past my bedtime trying to sneakily keep the light on to read and read and read; playing elaborate imagination games after school with my best friends (house, princesses, orphans, dance coaches, etc). I wrote my first story in my eighth grade English class where one day in the computer lab we were assigned to write a mystery that was at least one page. I loved it. My teacher said it was good...

That summer our family moved - mere days before I started my freshman year of high school - so that fall before I made friend friends, I read a lot and I started writing. I was desperate for the next Harry Potter book to come out, so I started writing my own... the next year I learned about fan fiction on the internet and that it was a thing. I was drawn into Lord of the Rings fanfic, then I wrote a Pirates of the Caribbean fanfic, and then I went back to Harry Potter and actively wrote in that fandom for around six years.

In college I majored in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing because while I was writing fan fiction, I was also occasionally dabbling with original fiction... the dream was to be a famous writer.

↠ WHY BUCKETS-AND-TREES Buckets because I thought I'd be writing almost exclusively Bucky and Trees because Aspen. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

↠ ASPEN NOW In summer of 2022 I aggressively reclaimed HAVING hobbies in an effort to re-establish Aspen having a life outside of work. I love my career and I've worked incredibly hard to establish myself in the professional world, but... I needed to be more than just my work again.

So, again I write.

Throughout 2023 I'm participating in A LOT of challenges. In 2024 I plan to DO THE DAMN THING and write a novel. I've always intended to, but 2024 will be the year. ↠ MY WORK Primarily I'm writing MCU fan fiction - typically Bucky Barnes or Steve Rogers; but I have a short series for Namor I need to finish; I have written some pieces with Sam, Natasha, Matt Murdock, and Wanda; I have ideas in the works for Thor, Carol, and M'Baku. I've written/may write more for Sebastian Stan and Chris Evans characters. There may be some occasional Harry Potter.

I write a range of fluff, smut, and dark. Nearly all of my work has mature elements whether that's stronger language, sexual situations, or mature themes. HEED THE WARNINGS FOR EACH WORK AND DO NOT READ IT IF IT'S SOMETHING YOU DON'T LIKE. If I miss tagging something properly in the content warnings, please send me a message or an anonymous ask and let me know.

Most of my stories feature a reader insert. Reader is typically female, but when the reader is gender neutral I will designate accordingly! Striving to write an inclusive reader as much as possible, but if I stumble, please send me a message or an anonymous ask and let me know how I can grow.

#forest navigation #an aspen thing

[emperornorton47]

Green Buoy

#buoys #Navigation aid #Hancock #maine #original photographers #photographers of tumblr #hancock county #photo #digital #forest

[falderaletcetera]

well I just gave my email to who knows what shady organisation or individual but at least I'm still more careful about giving it out than my parents are.

#things i tell myself to cope with the inherent sense of danger in navigating technology in this day and age #every day i get more and more tempted to find a nice forest cave and set up a clacks tower for communication #falderal speaks

[dubmill]

Ponders End, Enfield, London; 7.6.2020

#photography #photographers on tumblr #dubmill #London #Enfield #Ponders End #England #UK #Britain #concrete #bridge #1937 #1930s #River Lea Navigation #urination spot #original photography #original photograph #walk #Ponders End to Waltham Cross via Epping Forest #2020 #07062020

[spectraltenkai]

“Did you know that you can beat this giant weed with holy water? It’s a speedrun tactic!”

#boss rushtober #wind waker #kalle demos #legend of zelda #toon link #ok but for real it took younger me three solid days to navigate the forest dungeon there #not my finest moment #whacked that weed to the next timeline after finally figuring it out #was not a happy camper being stuck in there lmao

[sulieykte]

Okay I’m here to suggest you read part 4 imagining Norm working late in the lab and wondering what the hell all that banging and scraping is coming from outside and just assuming it’s some animals getting in a scuffle because that’s what I did while writing.

#also we’re not gonna talk about any inaccuracies in describing high camp #I have to decided not to bother trying to explain or navigate it because we don’t see enough #and I couldn’t send them to the caves again #the forest would be so much easier but we’re catching up to the movie now kids #this was also going to be a two parter idk how we got here #I just know the ending and everything I write is me trying to navigate towards that #✧˖*°࿐ 𝒍𝒚𝒔 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒔

[itsmischiefdemigod79]

I wonder if Hogwarts had orientation or even maps? Like setting loose a bunch of eleven year olds (who're curious at best, adventurous at worst) in a huge-ass castle doesn't seem much like a good idea is it?

#its these little things we need to know ppl #like huge ass *magical* castle in the middle of Scotland #full of students with a literal *forbidden forest* right next to it #ur practically inviting students to be daredevils #altho i guess? the adventure of navigating the castle is only half the fun? #regrettably. nonsensically. #harry potter #harry potter au #hogwarts #hogwarts mystery #hogwarts legacy #hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry #a demigod's thoughts