Back When I Was Younger, I Used To Just Have This Ability To Stop Nightmares, Dead In Their Tracks. It

Back when I was younger, I used to just have this ability to stop nightmares, dead in their tracks. It got to a point, where, if I was having a nightmare, I’d just realize “wait a minute, this isn’t something that happens in real life. I bet I’m dreaming,” and I would just try REALLY hard to open my eyes. Like, even if they felt open in the dream, I would try opening them even more, and it usually forced my eyes open irl, which would wake me up from the nightmare. Idk how I ever lost that ability, but sometimes I think about it, and wish I still could.

listen one of the major reasons i care so much about Arundinaria is that she's gotta be legit the most exciting rising star in the evolutionary world.

Flowering plants emerge like 100mil years ago, proceed to become the baddest bitches on planet earth with hundreds of thousands of species found in every environment.

from this lineage emerges the GRASS which, using the simple technologies of "Grow leafs from the bottom so the tops can get eaten and you can just keep a-goin'" and "Not die when stepped on" become the undisputed masters of the sunny and arid regions

From the lineage of the GRASSES. Emerges a grass that decides to step up its game and invent WOOD to become some sort of fucked up tree. This grass is known as WOODY BAMBOO and it kicks everybody's ass.

The woody bamboo is mostly thriving in Asia, but around 2mil years ago, a bamboo got LOST AS FUCK and accidentally went to NORTH AMERICA. It turns out the south-eastern part of North America is a downright luxurious climate for a bamboo and so the bamboo actually evolved into its own genus.

However, there was an ICE AGE that froze a bunch of North America and the bamboo was forced to a tiny edge of the Gulf Coast. Fortunately, the bamboo made a mutualistic symbiosis with HUMANS, which used controlled burning to create its ideal habitats in exchange for using the stems for a super-strong, versatile, flexible, water resistant material for literally everything. So basically it spread all throughout the Southeast of North America and formed its own habitat type, a bamboo forest environment known as a CANEBRAKE.

It's native North American bamboo, y'all. It's been reduced to 2% of its former extent and a lot of people don't even know it exists.

This plant is going places we can't let this shining streak of weird-ass plants with ideas just strange enough to work collapse because of a freak colonialism incident

Arundinaria gigantea my absolute beloved

a story with that cyberpunk theme of “are you really human if you modify your body to gain power“, except the body modification is just strength training.

It's Wet Beast Wednesday

should i post this

8 journal pages from a fantasy adventure

I've done these as a test to see what an entire book could look like ✨

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