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pinespittinink · 2 years

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🌿🌲In the Deep of the Trees 🌳🍃

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audience: adult (explicit violence and sexual content) genre: high fantasy pov: dual third person limited, present tense rep: pansexual characters, asexual character, mental illness, agoraphobia

🌿 SUMMARY 🌿

When an expedition of deep delvers led by their spade Adrianna returns to the opulent tree-dwelling forest court of Palatruza, they arrive with a strange new flower brought from below. Sabine, an in-tune of the trees, seeks to divine the flower's secrets, but her pupil, Harmonia, cannot help but feel that the flower is a danger to all of Palatruza.

Meanwhile, Titus, an advisor within the court, is seeking an upper hand, ever climbing the ladder toward his ambition, fueled by his hunger for power and dominion. As the flower’s malignant properties begin to show, Titus realizes he can use it as an advantage toward his goals, but when the flower is destroyed, Sabine is determined to obtain a replacement, regardless of the danger and budding consequences.

🌾 SETTING 🌾

The world of In the Deep of the Trees is known as the Viridian; an unending forest of titanic height that appears to cover the world indefinitely. The people of The Viridian live in vertically stacked societies—courts and settlements—built in tiered structures upon the trunks and branches of the trees themselves. The lowest social class are the serfs, who live among the roots upon the forest floor. The trees of the Viridian grow packed together, leaving very little visible sky. They range from the size of giant sequoias to colossal class, some reaching the same size as the Erdtree in Elden Ring.

The floor of the Viridian is split far and wide by mammoth trenches and crevasses, a system known as the deep. Lush, dark, and verdant, the deep is the greatest uncharted territory of the Viridian. What little light penetrates all the way to the floor (and it is very, very little) disappears entirely upon a descent into the deep. Bioluminescent plants grow there in abundance, and deep delvers rely on belaying to navigate the steep vertical terrain. Of all the courts, Palatruza exists the closest to the edge of the deep, and its deep delvers make the most frequent descents, but even they only explore the topmost zones.

🌱 CHARACTERS🌱

Sabine 🐱

An enigmatic recluse of Palatruza’s court, Sabine is an in-tune of the trees, a diviner who is the first to know of any ails within the ecosystem of Palatruza. She studies botany, toxins, and medicines, analyzing the plant specimens brought up from the deep. A year or so before the story begins, Sabine made a solo descent for the sake of her research. She came back to Palatruza changed, an enameled veneer over her personality, and does not speak of her time in the deep to anyone.

Titus 🩸

Born amid the serf class on the Viridian floor, Titus climbed up toward power, rising into the court of Palatruza and never looking back. While he feigns altruism, his ambitions have never abated. He is hungry for greater power and authority, seeking to wear the glove of the Left Hand of the Heartwood, and take the seat of the High Chancellor herself, and he will use whatever means he deems necessary to attain his goals.

Harmonia 🌺

The sole child of High Chancellor Lialaci and Ormarie the Heartwood Priest, Harmonia is a pupil of Sabine, studying the flora of the deep. Mostly nonverbal, Harmonia is prone to disassociation and daydreams, and spends her idle time painting. She feels an innate, unexplainable draw to the deep, though she is forbidden by her mother to leave Palatruza for any reason.

Cyril 🍵

The shy, anxious Lotus-Keeper of Palatruza, Cyril suffers from intense agoraphobia and never leaves the den and grounds he is charged with the care of. Sabine is his closest friend and most frequent visitor, occasionally offering new insight on her botanical studies.

Adrianna 🛡

Boisterous and proud, Adrianna is the favored spade of the court, lauded by Palatruza. She has led multiple delving expeditions, a famed explorer of the deep, returning often with treasures and foreign oddities. The flower she brings back from the deep upon her most recent descent is unlike anything that has ever been brought to Palatruza before.

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#writeblr #writing community #writeblr community #writers on tumblr #wip intro #in the deep of the trees #my edits #WHOO BOY THIS WAS A DOOZY #me: i gotta explain the setting or nothing will make sense #think of the courts like caras galadhon except they just keep going higher and higher and higher #anyway #titus kills people #sabine has cats #cyril has a crush on a visitor to the lotus pool

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amberluvsbugs · 3 months

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Outer Wilds

I recently had the pleasure of finishing Outer Wilds for the first time and it is truly something I will never forget. What I would give to play this game for the first time again...

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Close-ups and process are down below.

#outer wilds #Hearthian #dark bramble #Sun station #quantum moon #giants deep #Brittle hollow #Hourglass twins #the interloper #timber hearth #Sun #Space #trees #eye of the universe #My persona #Campfire #smoke

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maureen2musings · 4 months

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#Canadian Rocky Mountains #Alberta Canada #mountains and trees #deep blue #photo art #curators on tumblr

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pensieriinvadenti · 3 months

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Favorite moment of the day ✨

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yourgaydads · 1 month

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one of your duties as major arcana is taking lesser nightmares out for walkies. (previously)

#the corinthian #glob #deep red #ditty doll #dreaming workplace au #the sandman silliness #my comic #my drawing #i can't draw trees or grass #let's set this in a park #why people don't draw backgrounds or people from the chest down #sometimes he gets a nose

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capricioussun · 2 years

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Okay I’m definitely thinking about it too much but in Toby’s sexyman fanfic, he mentions Sans’s brother entered him in the contest, and that said brother didn’t know what it was actually for. He doesn’t actually say Papyrus, and I can’t stop thinking about the fact “Sans’s brother” is never named in deltarune and the theory that deltarune Sans’s brother isn’t Papyrus and I’m definitely thinking about it too much but why does he keep shying away from saying Papyrus

#it’s not that deep it’s not that deep #Toby wouldn’t do this to us would he? would he???#and now I’m thinking about the eggs behind tree thing again and the other theory that Gaster is Sans’s brother in dr what does it mean what #does it MEAN #sunny with clouds #H #I’m just sitting here like that Ben affleck with the cigarette pic i need to STOP

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gummi-ships · 8 months

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#kingdom hearts #kh1 #sora #deep jungle #my gif #quite pleased by how this loops #did you know the track that plays during the tree sliding segments is called “Holy Bananas!”

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benevolenterrancy · 10 months

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I just got to the tree scene at Lotus Pier. It's a really good thing that Lan Wangji has excellent reflexes because his husband has zero impulse control

#mdzs #wwx #lwj #wei wuxian #wei ying #lan wangji #lan zhan #wangxian #jiang cheng #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #my art #had to pause reading to go draw this because wwx just. impulsively plummeting from the top of a tree made me laugh so hard #also the illustration that went with that scene? 👌#four books deep and still nothing but relentless mutual pining i'm going to die

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genericpuff · 5 months

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what people assume i'm thinking while i'm working on rekindled: "GRRR I HATE LO AND RACHEL!!! I HATE HER SO MUCH!!! THIS WILL SHOW HER AND HER FANS! THIS WILL SHOW ALL OF THEM! I HOPE RACHEL SEES THIS AND CRIES!!!"

what i'm actually thinking while i work on rekindled: "man i'm having a great time working on this but i can't wait to be done with this panel that's driving me nuts. i wonder how i can get that cool splatter effect rachel did in S1. bright colors make brain go brrrr. i can't wait to get to the part where hades clowns on himself. oof i'm hungry, i need to figure out what to have for dinner tonight. oh look, an 11 hour retrospective on the simpsons-"

#fr i'm vibin' y'all i'm having a great time #ppl see me joke about rekindled being a spite project and just automatically assume i'm SEETHING the whole time i'm working on it #i wouldn't waste time working on something purely out of hate y'all lmao #it's easy to cling to the idea that i hate lore olympus with a blind seething passion due to what i get up to here #and it undoubtedly makes for the easiest explanation that doesn't require any nuance #but i promise you that i still have a lot of love for how LO used to make me feel and what it meant to me once upon a time #i wouldn't be trying so hard to make it emulate the style of S1 to begin with if i didn't love it deep down lol #you're just on an LO critical blog so ofc a lot of what you're gonna see is LO critical stuff LMAO #don't miss the forest for the trees pls <3 #i didn't even include all the times i'm sitting there drawing thinking 'i wanna play video games i wanna play video games i wanna play vid-#lore rekindled #self post

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hylialeia · 1 year

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the more I read and re-read other fantasy, the more impressive asoiaf becomes to me in its unabashed embrace of the darkness in its characters' POVs. and I don't mean in the "edgelord grimdark" way that so many people (wrongly) ascribe to it, or even in the "historical accuracy" way that so many people use to defend it. I mean more in the way it actually aids in the immersion of the world and story.

other fantasy series will relay the events and the world through their characters, sure, but I never realized just how censored they feel in comparison to asoiaf. things happen, characters feel a certain kind of way about them and relay that to me-the-reader. then they do things, plot happens, etc. sometimes it's quite compelling, even! but in asoiaf, I-the-reader am a brain parasite. the characters think thoughts they would never tell me. I see their worst impulses, their immediate instincts, their intrusive thoughts. a lot of it is unsavory, but it's done in such a way that it all feels deeply real and true to life.

in asoiaf, the characters are not telling me the story; I've invaded their internal dialogue am drinking it in through their biased yet genuine perspectives. I feel less like a reader and more like a ghost that's possessed them through the page. and I think that's the thing that the sets the series apart from others for me

#of course to sell that you also need to have compelling characters and action and worldbuilding that aids the immersion #but the deepness of that pov is unmatched to me. not even 1st person stories capture it #no one in priory of the orange tree is being honest with me they're relaying the story and sometimes revealing vulnerable truths #but asoiaf. tyrion wouldn't tell me half this shit. I'm hacked into his brain #asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #asoiaf meta

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pinespittinink · 2 months

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From @samplewriting

Emerald, Lapis, Jasper

Emerald: Which of your characters is hardest to write?

I don’t anticipate any of them being particularly hard to write, but Sabine is perhaps the most nuanced to portray correctly. She has a very particular manner and personality that I’m going to be meticulous about.

Lapis: What makes your antagonist 'the bad guy'

In the Deep of the Trees doesn’t have a traditional antagonist; there’s a malignant force, and while Titus is one of the protagonists (it could be argued that he is the main protagonist over Sabine, but we’ll see how that unfolds), he is very firmly a villain, which I don’t believe can be equated easily to antagonist in this case. He has adversaries, but morally they are usually in the right. Titus is deeply dark on the morally grey scale; he frequently utilizes blackmail on his opponents and has zero qualms about killing people to keep them quiet and out of his way.

Jasper: What is your antagonist's greatest strength / weakness

Titus’s strength is his ability to read people. He is incredibly perceptive and has a eidetic memory which he uses to his advantage throughout his machinations in court. His weakness, insofar as character, is his temper and insecurity or rather shame about his roots.

Sabine is too self-sufficient and capable to be a weakness of his, though he would do just about anything for her and absolutely has a trigger finger when it comes to anyone else dealing with her affections.

💎 Gemstone Writer Asks 💎

#samplewriting #thank you!#asks #in the deep of the trees #oc: Titus

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hyombus · 10 months

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Sitting with Takofuusen 7/23/23 - 7/25/23