#inspired by a xeet

[mcbride]

Other people take coffee/smoking breaks at work, I take Tumblr breaks.

#text post #inspired by a xeet #the tumblr way of doing things #i love you mutuals #and everybody on my dashboard #you keep me sane #about me #hanna.txt

[fg083nrt]

the brand of optimism inspired of all the things by a XEET

#kakuhida #kakuzu #hidan #my art #i believe that even in the depth of despair hell find a way to be like well at least whatever #naruto #akatsuki

[protoslacker]

Image from Luke Adam Hawker's Website

Over at Xitter the algorithm served up a Xeet (did nobody vet this x-name change?) from the artist Luke Adam Hawker:

3 years well spent ✍️ 🌳 📖 I have never regretted the vast amount of time I have spent drawing trees from life, I’m confident I never will. Project - The Great Trees of London 3 years down, 6 years to go.

The Xeet includes a short video of leafing through his sketchbook. It's striking that spending time among trees is so valuable. And many of us live where there are great trees to meet.

On my drive to work there are a few great trees that I zoom by and have never taken the time for. It's complicated because these trees are by suburban houses where there are no sidewalks. However I am lucky that there are remarkable trees near me I can spend time with without impediment.

Spending time with trees is a way to become more intimate with our geography and to cultivate caring for it. Great Trees Of London is a list created in the aftermath of an extra tropical cyclone which caused death and destruction in 1987.

Many places have similar lists. Thomas Parkenham wrote a book, Meetings with Remarkable Trees. The book inspired a radio program, a factoid I like because meeting with trees is not limited to sight. There's a registry of trees in Pittsburgh called The Remarkable Trees of Pittsburgh. There are five nomination categories:

Champion Trees

Witness Trees: Trees with historical and/or cultural significance

Tree of a Kind: Trees that are unique in some way (appearance, species, special story)

Giving Tree: Trees that play a key ecosystem role

Specimen Tree: Trees with exceptional structure, health, or beauty

The replies to Hawker's Xeet were full of encounters with remarkable trees, a soft reminder that time among trees is time well spent.

Trees by Joyce Kilmer

#trees #geography #home #book #roots

[fourandmoreeyes]

Fiore Iandanza has always been in love with knowledge, but as a child, they were never a fan of secrets. After they left their village to further their own education, they learned how vast the world truly was and how important secrets could sometimes truly be. Their education grew beyond the typical curriculum, and they soon gained a title honoured amongst the esoterics: “Your Kindness”,

As a tamer of common beasts and lesser known crytpids and as an exorcist that removes those and that which no longer belong, Fiore has returned to their village to find that the greatest secret has been under their nose all along.

— 𓆩⟡𓆪 —

Sanguineous Salvationis actually inspired by a tweet (a thread, actually)! Though my monster isn't a vampire, I still gained a lot of traction with this single idea. Please support OP's work or thank them somehow for the inspiration.

Inspired by tweets (I'm not calling them xeets), this is the first part of two stories and is available as PWYW now on itch.

#megane writings #short story #short fiction #original characters #original fiction #original writing #rating: T #inspired by: tweets