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Circus Tree: Six individual sycamore trees were shaped, bent, and braided to form this.

how the hell do you bend and braid a tree

Actually pretty easy. Trees don’t reject tissue from other trees in the same family. You bend the tree to another tree when it is a sapling, scrape off the bark on both trees where they touch, add some damp sphagnum moss around them to keep everything slightly moist and bind them together. 
Then wait a few years- The trees will have grown together. 

You can use a similar technique to graft a lemon branch or a lime branch or even both- onto an orange tree and have one tree that has all three fruits.

Frankentrees.

As a biologist I can clearly state that plants are fucking weird and you should probably be slightly afraid of them.

On that note! At the university (UBC) located in town, the Agriculture students were told by their teacher that a tree flipped upside down would die. So they took an excavator and flipped the tree upside down. And it’s still growing. But the branches are now the roots, and the roots are now these super gnarly looking branches. Be afraid.

But Vi, how can you mention that and NOT post a picture? D:

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I am both amazed and horrified of nature as we all should be

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elixir

(n.) an alchemical preparation supposed to be capable of prolonging life indefinitely (elixir of life) or of transmuting base metals into gold

"Don’t expect the puppets of your mind to become the people of your story. If they are not realities..."

“Don’t expect the puppets of your mind to become the people of your story. If they are not realities in your own mind, there is no mysterious alchemy in ink and paper that will turn wooden figures into flesh and blood.”

- Leslie Gordon Barnard, WD

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promptsgalore:

Write from the perspective of a character who wakes up in a hospital with no recollection of why they’re there. 

"I always want to write about the unique pressures girls face. I want to challenge and deconstruct..."

“I always want to write about the unique pressures girls face. I want to challenge and deconstruct gender-based stereotypes and expectations. I want a girl who picks up my novels to think about those things, and if she’s experienced them, I want her to feel less alone.”

- Author Courtney Summers on feminism and her work (via badassladiesyoushouldknow)

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Illustrations by Michael C. Hayes

—Visceral Definitions by K-frances

—Visceral Definitions by K-frances

"And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words… As if..."

“And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words… As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning.”

- Alan Watts (via thecalminside)

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