#tundra tooth fairy

[shiftywing]

#there were more these are just my faves #wof #wings of fire

[landwriter]

honestly would love to hear more about twinflower if you felt like sharing? :)

I have been drafting this ask response on and off for over a week because I want everyone to love twinflower as much as I do thank you for your patience uh I mean yes! I do feel like sharing! thank you for enabling me! make yourself a cuppa and get comfy. it's Gloam's Natural History Hour, and here is everything you should love about the twinflower

Let us begin with the Latin name: Linnaea borealis. But first, it was Campanula serpyllifolia. Let me explain.

Twinflower is a small and unremarkable evergreen plant that nonetheless captured the heart of one of the world's most influential scientists in the eighteenth century. Species Plantarum is best-known for containing the first consistent use of binomial nomenclature (genus and species), but it was also there that Carl Linnaeus described twinflower for the first time.

It is a creeping subshrub that grows along the ground, with green and glossy shallow-toothed oval leaves about the size of dimes. Blooms come from delicate hairy stems that have unfolded themselves to the comparatively towering height of two or so inches above the ground. They are pinkish-white, nodding, and look like the sort of thing you'd imagine a fairy lives in. As you might suspect from the name, they grow in pairs. Some three centuries after Linnaeus first described it, one Mark C. in the comments of a 2013 blog post described the fragrance as "a delight to the most jaded sniffer".

In portraits, he is often found holding it. (Linnaeus, not Mark C.) He dearly loved it. But he could not name twinflower after himself: at first, it was classified in a different genus, and besides, it was poor taste. What's a guy to do?

Become acquainted with a wealthy Dutch botanist, Gronovius, son not of preachers and peasants but classical scholars, who would name it for him in his honour. Naturally. In gratitude, and advocacy for such acts of commemorative botanical naming, Linnaeus wrote in Critica Botanica:

It is commonly believed that the name of a plant which is derived from that of a botanist shows no connection between the two...[but]...Linnaea was named by the celebrated Gronovius and is a plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space — after Linnaeus who resembles it.

He would go on, of course, to receive fanmail from Rousseau. Contemporary Goethe would later write: "With the exception of Shakespeare and Spinoza, I know no one among the no longer living who has influenced me more strongly."

Lowly Linnaeus himself chose borealis, for Boreas, the Greek god of the north wind; and indeed it grows where the north wind blows, in a great circumboreal ring around the globe, from semi-shaded woodlands in southern British Columbia (hello), to tundra and taiga in Sweden and Siberia. You can find the same blooms in China and Poland and Minnesota. It's as old as glaciers. In Poland and other European countries it is in fact protected as glacial relict, and you can find it isolated at high elevations far south of its range, where it was left behind in the Pleistocene.

And now it is Linnaea borealis.

When Linnaeus was ennobled twenty years later for his services to botany, zoology, and medicine, he put the twinflower on his coat of arms. Some references use hedging (pun intended) language to describe their relationship: he was 'reported to be fond'. It was 'rumoured to be a favourite.' Bullshit, I say. He was in love. Anyone can see it.

One final etymological point of interest: his surname is itself borrowed from nature. After enrolling in university, his father had to abandon his patronymic last name and create family name. A priest, he created the Latinate Linnæus after linden - the great tree that grew on the family homestead.

And so from Latin and nature sprung the name, and not a generation later, unto Latin and nature it had returned. A name crafted of whole cloth in homage an enormous tree now describes the genus of a plant that tops out at three inches tall and has flowers smaller than your thumbnail.

In spite of this, its uses are myriad. A common name of twinflower in Norwegian, nårislegras, translates to corpse rash grass, for its use in treating skin conditions. It can be made into a tea to take in pregnancy or provide relief of menstrual cramps. Scandinavian folk medicines use it for rheumatism. Humans have made it into teas, tinctures, decoctions, poultices, and even administered its therapeutic properties via smoke inhalation. And then there is its persistent and widespread use in filling our hearts: lending itself century over century and season over season to mankind, to a coat of arms, a poem, a photo, a fond memory—

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Woodnotes I, says this of twinflower and the man it's named for:

He saw beneath dim aisles, in odorous beds, The slight Linnaea hang its twin-born heads, And blessed the monument of the man of flowers, Which breathes his sweet fame through the northern bowers.

Art is subjective, but I will happily admit I prefer this passage, from Robert of Isle Royale, on the website Minnesota Wildflowers:

My wife and I encountered Linnaea borealis in the last week of June 38 years ago on Isle Royale. We now live in Vilas County in northern Wisconsin and were happy to find a large patch of Twinflowers growing under the sugar maples, balsam fir and hemlock on our property there. This is now very special to us and we await their flowering each June around our anniversary.

A final note. Twinflower requires genetically different individuals to set seed and reproduce sexually. This is known as self-incompatibility. Thus the plants in those isolated spots - old glacial hideouts, or places with fragmented plant populations like Scotland - only reproduce clonally. Let us end with imagining a plant that has not reproduced with another for millennia, but instead carries its line on its own back, and survives by creating itself over and over again, in a genetically identical colony that grows with wet summers and shrinks with dry ones; that briefly blooms every June, lifting its flowers high above itself, a hundred tiny beacons that will be answered only by its own voice; and there, too far for pollination, but a distance you or I could travel in minutes, is its nearest partner, doing the same thing, across an impossible void that looks to us as nothing more than a gap between one part of the woods and the next. Yet it is L. borealis, named for a man named for a tree, that is capable of looking out across generations of humankind walking fragmented pine woodlands and the ghostly southern border of the Laurentide ice sheet, and seeing nothing more than the gap between one seed-set and the next.

Let us end with imagining a tiny plant, and ourselves beside it, loving it for hundreds of years, even smaller.

#asks #botany #plants #twinflower #Linnaea borealis #an essay #that i have put my whole heart into #read it? #or don't but go sit in nature for a bit #and marvel at it all til ur chest hurts with love #that's the takeaway i'm going for here anyway #about me #outside the cabin #my writing

[hutaoscoffinn]

Head in hands

Rika SFW imagine/hc/whatever youre vibing with right now; a GN! Reader. Reader gets cold, how does Rika keep them warm? Holding hands? Lap cuddles? MOTHER BEGS FOR FLUFF

This made me squeal bc this is SO FUCKING CUTE HELLO AHHHHHHHHHHHHH I’m so in love with Rika that piece of shit (affectionate)

Warnings: none, its super fluffy, tooth rottenly fluffy even, Rika is a massive simp because as she should be, gn! Reader, this is so fluffy and cute ohmyGOD

Character: Rika of the Elite 4

Requests: OPEN

Well it’s starting to get colder so its no shock that you get cold sometimes

Rika usually doesn’t mind the cold, sticking to her usual button up with the sleeves rolled up and dress pants no matter what the weather is

Cmon she wore that at the 8th gym which was in the literal mountains like woman hoW

But when you and Rika start dating she immediately notices how you’ll start shivering in the cold, teeth chattering as the cold air seeps into your bones

So, Rika starts wearing a blazer to pass off to you whenever you get cold during the cooler seasons

Its a thick blazer, good quality that smells like her and as soon as she notices you shiver she’s wrapping it around you

This usually takes place in public settings when she has to keep up professional appearances and can’t get too affectionate with you

In private however?

Rika will be all over you

She’s a teasing shit so she will turn down the air to make you cold so you’ll cuddle up to her

And as soon as you start inching your way over to her, she swoops you up in her arms and settles you against her chest or in her lap

She’ll start kissing your cheeks and forehead as she hugs you tight, wrapping a blanket around you both or carrying you to bed so she can hold you nice and close

If you like hot chocolate or prefer hot coffee, tea, or even just warm milk she will make it for you as you two settle down to cuddle

Rika definitely enjoys this little strategy of turning down the temperature in your apartment at night too

That way, throughout the night she can hold you close and enjoy the affection you give her as you continue to cuddle up against her, seeking her warmth

If you ever do catch Rika’s little scheme of keeping your apartment cold and say something to her, she will brush it off as keeping the heat bill down

Despite the fact that the apartment feels like a goddamn tundra in the summer but Rika is more than happy to pay extra for the AC bill if it keeps you snuggled against her

Another one of Rika’s ways to keep you warm is to let you wear her shirts, sweaters, jackets, hoodies, ect

You name it she lets you wear it

She will probably even buy larger clothes to wear not only because she likes oversized clothes cmon have you SEEN how her button up hangs off her? But because she wants you to look adorable in her clothes as well

It doesn’t matter how tall, short, or what weight you are, Rika will get clothes that fit you comfortably and then wear them so that they smell like her before she passes them off to you to keep you warm and enjoy

This tactic especially helps when Rika has to do business for the Pokémon league which may keep her out of the house for days at a time

When she does have to leave, she will make sure you have plenty of her clothes and blankets to snuggle up to while she’s gone so that she can keep you warm even when she’s away~

Paldea was getting colder again as the fall and winter months settled across the vast land. It felt as though the frosty, winter mountain cursed the land to be covered in a hellish cold and you were sick of it. You had already gotten more than enough of the cold when you traveled that god forsaken mountain during your gym circuit when you traveled all over the damn thing to take on two gyms and fight Team Star’s fairy squad.

Which led to now, you gripping a fluffy blanket around yourself as your teeth chattered together thanks to what felt like frost covering your body. You hear a low chuckle behind you and you don’t even have to turn around to know who would dare take humor in your torture.

“Its not funny Rika. Stop laughing,” you huff, annoyed with your partner’s amusement at your devastating situation. You’re ready to curse at her when she laughs louder before you find yourself being pulled into a pair of warm arms.

Rika settles you in her lap, tugging your form tight against her body. She adjusts the blanket around you both and a small smile forms on her lips as you nuzzle your face into the crook of her neck, cuddling closer to her warmth.

“Better?” She asks with a small hum, amusement present in her voice that you choose to ignore in favor of soaking in your girlfriend’s warmth.

“Mmm much better.”

Rika’s chuckles softly before she presses a sweet kiss to your temple as she begins to rub your back lovingly.

“That’s it, just let me keep you warm, my angel.”

Reblogs are always appreciated <3

#coffinn.writes #coffinn.requests #rika x reader #pokemon Rika #Elite 4 Rika #elite four Rika #pokemon Rika x reader #rika imagine #rika headcanon #elite 4 rika x reader #elite four rika x reader #gn reader #fluff #this was so goddamn cute #i love Rika so much my WIFE #she’s perfect what can I say

[cursed-wof]

If you sow a field with dragon's teeth and water it with blood, you reap an army of skeletons

(Tundra Tooth Fairy conspiracy??)

and you can grind the skeletons up and bake bread

#cursed wof #wof #wings of fire #tundra tooth fairy

[wofworld]

Tundra: does anyone know if there’s a real life Hunger Games I could enter my son, Winter, into? He needs a hobby, preferably one with a very high mortality rate.

#abridged quote from @nick.tiff on TikTok #love that account #anyways #wings of fire #wof memes #wof #wings of fire memes #wof funny #wings of fire stuff #memes #winter wof #tundra wof #tooth fairy is tundra #tundra tooth fairy #winter wings of fire #wings of fire incorrect quotes #fandom incorrect quotes

[kausbrai]

WoF as out-of-context wikihow images

Turtle:

Swordtail:

Sundew and Bumblebee (bumblebee is the cat):

Clay:

Hawthorn:

Ochre:

Sky:

Heath:

Peril:

Tundra (non-tooth fairy):

Tundra (tooth fairy):

#wof #wings of fire #turtle wof #swordtail wof #sundew wof #bumblebee wof #clay wof #hawthorn wof #ochre wof #sky wof #heath wof #peril wof #tundra wof #tundra tooth fairy

[inkblots-and-rainbows]

TUNDRA TOOTH FAIRYYYYYY for @cursed-wof thank you for permission to draw uwu

my record for longest gone without wheezing while drawing this was one minute

#tundra tooth fairy #tooth fairy tundra #tundra fairy tooth #xD doing the thing #tundra fairy #tundra tooth #tooth fairy #tundra wof #wof #wof art #art #doodles #sketchy sketchy sketchy #wings of fire #drawing

[ryita13]

Can you imagine the flashes of abject terror that Hailstorm must've had whenever he had to be around Tundra and he remembered that she was literally wearing ripped out Skywing teeth as a casual accessory.

Hyperventilating Hailstorm: "Oh.. oh shit, that could be me. Is that why I'm here?"

Hailstorm *trying to calm down*: " Wait... no, that's right. I'm an Icewing... I'm an Ice. Wing. And that's my mother, she wouldn't do that to me. ...right?"

Hailstorm: ....

Hailstorm: "NO! FUCK THAT IT'S STILL SCARY!"

#wof #wings of fire #hailstorm wof #tundra wof #wof headcanons #incorrect wof #wof incorrect quotes #Today on Tundra Tooth Fairy and Hyperventilating Hailstorm

[shiftywing]

instead of peacefully coming to take your teeth while you're sleeping tundra tooth fairy shows up like this:

#tundra tooth fairy #wof #wings of fire #tundra

[your-everyday-wof-fan]

reblog this post if your blog is a safe place for tooth fairy tundra fans

#tooth fairy tundra

[drippywing]

tundra tooth fairy 😏

what is up with that huh

#tundra #teeth #teeth mention #icewing #ask #wings of fire

[wasteteeth-beanjuice]

I dissapear from the wof community for a few days to finish book 14 and now tundra is a tooth fairy????

#wings of fire #wof

[theforsakenprince]

I look away from the wof fandom for 2 seconds and come back to whatever the fuck tundra tooth fairy is

#I have... questions #wings of fire #wof #tundra

[cursed-wof]

What if tundra had toes on her necklace instead of teeth.

Think about that.

toendra tooth fairy

#cursed wof #tundra tooth fairy

[wofworld]

Kinkajou, after getting injured for the sake of plot convenience for the 100000000th time: If my body is going to crack like a glowstick every time I move, the least it could fucking do is glow

#I haven’t posted a real meme in forever #so here #have an old draft #wings of fire #wings of fire memes #wof memes #wof funny #wings of fire stuff #wof #memes #kinkajou wof #wings of Fire kinkajou #kinkajou #tooth fairy tundra #tundra tooth fairy

[kausbrai]

tundra tooth fairy

#wof #wings of fire #tundra tooth fairy #tundra wof