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36, it/its || expect friends at the table fanart, cloudy skies, and mediocre watercolors (mostly safe for work, adult art is here: @adoringswarm.bsky.social)

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Jack Emmett Taylor @jackemmett.art · 20/09/2026
Hey, it's my birthday today 🎉 and I've decided I want to draw more characters! I'm incentivizing you with a chunky 20% off so def give it some consideration! Sale goes til Friday. I genuinely love rendering out beloved OCs (and designing ones that don't have a solid look yet!) vgen.co/CesiousBlue
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arp: insect rights activist @arparparp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
not to brag, but for dinner we had roast vegetables.. three varieties of eggplant, two types of tomato, red peppers and basil.. all from our garden! and it was delicious! and we tried the pickles my partner made from our cucumbers and they’re so goddamn good i can’t even tell you…
a recent picture of our garden!
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rosa @humanmorph.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
when i started my Sangfielle relisten I planned to do an ink drawing like this per arc... here being character creation and the The Ground Itself game (though, looking at the episode list, the drawings are technically in the wrong order lol)
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arp: insect rights activist @arparparp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
after spending a few hours at my table saw today I’m finally confident i know why my estranged father (who loved woodworking but never once wore a mask in his shop as far as i know) died of lung cancer lol
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<3 @hellavarawr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I had such a good time tuning in! Found the archive is already up here: floyd.wcbn.org/listen/index... under “LOCAL_MUSIC_SHOW_with_rotating_hosts-2026-09-09-2100“ if you missed it!!
floyd.wcbn.org
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arp: insect rights activist @arparparp.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
hello friends(atthetable)! i’m very late in getting organized this year but do you want to do another #fattpinupweek? www.tumblr.com/fatt-pinups/... #friendsatthetable
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💬 0  🔁 18  ❤️ 18 · Prompt suggestions for FatT pinup week · woah now, is it september already???? sorry about that folks: is there interest in a 2026 FatT Pinup Week at the end of October? if eno…
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arp: insect rights activist @arparparp.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
people hate making decisions & i love it. if i could get myself to dress professionally and pick a binary gender to adhere to at work i think i would be very successful. if this is hubris i’ll never find out because i hate sleeves and pants and can’t motivate myself into cosplaying a business person
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arp: insect rights activist @arparparp.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
just got home from camping! it’s almost a full day’s work to get there and haul everything in and set up or tear down but nobody touched our space again and i saw SO many beautiful caterpillars and it stormed really hard last night but we stayed dry so anyway i think i legally own that land now
clover and warren square off on the bank of a streamwarren poses like a mermaid on a rock in the streamfig looks out onto the stream from a fern covered bank
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arp: insect rights activist @arparparp.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
an update: turns out it *is* a struggle doing two jobs at once (because i am still doing my normal job) but otherwise this is going fantastic?! satisfying to get confirmation that yeah i was right when i thought i’d be good at this 🥲 (this: acting as a bridge between business ppl and the lab)
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arp: insect rights activist @arparparp.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
you ever get to a place with your mental illness where you avoid things you love because you’re afraid your brain will associate them with the poor state it’s in? yeesh.
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arp: insect rights activist @arparparp.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
also it was this ding-dong’s first birthday today 💖🎉
my huge son drapes across my partner on his backwarren on mulch near the garden beds, theoretically looking at the camera but his eyes are completely obscured by his hair
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arp: insect rights activist @arparparp.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
maybe someday soon i’ll stop fixating on bones and attach some of the cannons i’ve been keeping in our freezer for weeks now
katonya sculpture work in progress from tonight. her head is attached to her ribs and spine, which has had an armature frankensteined into it
picture of a sculpted buffalo rib cage held up to show how it had been carefully sliced in half and hollowed out to fit an armature inside once i realized it would need one..
later that night, the rib cage seated on its new wire body, which is anchored onto an upside down plant saucer. she sits on top of a small stack of lunch-break-watercolors, on my very messy side table before the armature, katonya’s parts sit amongst an assortment of cannon shapes
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arp: insect rights activist @arparparp.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
the monkeys paw has curled and for the next 12 weeks i get to do the job i was excited to apply for months ago that ended up being fake (the position was created for a specific person.. and that person (working remote) was hiding being very pregnant)
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guccigarantine.bsky.social @guccigarantine.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I have a hc that Elena knows a bunch of partner dances from her time working in the mega dungeon tavern and Veile never had much opportunity to dance growing up let alone with anyone so Elena teaches her :3
A digital drawing of Veile and Elena dancing.
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arp: insect rights activist @arparparp.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
falling prey to temptation and playing with details that will be altered or obscured before i’m done, as is my nature
WIP of clay Katonya: a water buffalo skull with sharp teeth, a buffalo rib cage (rough shape) with individual vertebrae, and a variety of cannons to eventually attach to her
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arp: insect rights activist @arparparp.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
katonya… i cannot draw her (yet), but tonight i remembered .. i have other powers! tomorrow maybe i’ll figure out how the heck to visualize a canon on her 😈
clay sculpture of a water buffalo skull modified to have sharp teeth, from the left
same sculpture from the frontfrom behind the right sidefrom the right
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arp: insect rights activist @arparparp.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
💞i love you, rock that is tall enough to be a table while i’m submerged in the stream.💞 🙏save me from heatstroke, rock that is tall enough to be a table while i’m submerged in the stream.🙏
my lunchbreak setup before i started painting; a palette and extra watercolors in a little tin sit with my bag and water bottle on a rock just tall enough to be dry in a calm deep spot in the stream i frequent. a flower has been wedged between that rock and another to keep it still and in water for referencethe same setup as before, but at the end of my lunch break. i’m holding up a painting of the flower (common soapwort)
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arp: insect rights activist @arparparp.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
💞i love you, rock that is tall enough to be a table while i’m submerged in the stream.💞 🙏save me from heatstroke, rock that is tall enough to be a table while i’m submerged in the stream.🙏
my lunchbreak setup before i started painting; a palette and extra watercolors in a little tin sit with my bag and water bottle on a rock just tall enough to be dry in a calm deep spot in the stream i frequent. a flower has been wedged between that rock and another to keep it still and in water for referencethe same setup as before, but at the end of my lunch break. i’m holding up a painting of the flower (common soapwort)
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arp: insect rights activist @arparparp.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
maybe it’s time for a marielda relisten… one episode per week on thursday so i can pretend it’s fresh… marielda had already aired when i started listening to fatt, so i’ve only ever listened to it straight through! curious if drawing it out will change the flavor at all
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arp: insect rights activist @arparparp.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
approximation of a cloud i saw last week
a cumulonimbus cloud at sunset, most of it blue and low contrast with a portion high enough in the sky to catch a blast of sunlight and reflect it throughout the rest of the cloud
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arp: insect rights activist @arparparp.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
approximation of a cloud i saw last week
a cumulonimbus cloud at sunset, most of it blue and low contrast with a portion high enough in the sky to catch a blast of sunlight and reflect it throughout the rest of the cloud
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arp: insect rights activist @arparparp.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
☁️
wip of a cloud painting
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arp: insect rights activist @arparparp.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
today’s is simple but i love this specific plant and endured a surprising variety of biting insects to paint it so,
a picture of a watercolor painting of a spiderwort flower held up next to the spiderwort  model, taken earlier todaya photo of the same spiderwort from last week. it’s growing in a shallow section of a stream and in this photo it’s raining
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arp: insect rights activist @arparparp.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
two days, two painting sessions in a stream cut short by a sudden afternoon storm, and three bee balm paintings
yesterday’s lunch break setup of painting supplies on a rock in the stream i frequent, a painting of a bee balm flower that rests against the rocktoday’s lunch setup on a different rock with a different bee balm and a new painting of the bee balmtoday’s bee balm in a glass held precariously by a bendy phone holder thing, i’m holding up a third bee balm painting, this one having taken more than my usual lunch hour
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arp: insect rights activist @arparparp.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
two days, two painting sessions in a stream cut short by a sudden afternoon storm, and three bee balm paintings
yesterday’s lunch break setup of painting supplies on a rock in the stream i frequent, a painting of a bee balm flower that rests against the rocktoday’s lunch setup on a different rock with a different bee balm and a new painting of the bee balmtoday’s bee balm in a glass held precariously by a bendy phone holder thing, i’m holding up a third bee balm painting, this one having taken more than my usual lunch hour
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rosa @humanmorph.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
i'm back home. linoprint time : ) i found these small squares of colored paper & really wanted to print on them. ideally on both sides with different prints but we'll see. enjoy my simple #sangfielle scene #friendsatthetable
two small square linoprints on yellow paper picturing a simplified landscape: a cliffside in the foreground looking down on a train passing in the distance and mountains on the horizon
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rosa @humanmorph.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
after i finished that & it turned out nicely i went "wow it's cool i can work that small. i can probably do anything(?)." & made this. quite happy with it. shoutout, as always, to the best #sangfielle arc, What Happened at Bell Metal Station #friendsatthetable
4 small linoprints on red squares of paper picturing red zephyr - many cables are coming from the front of the train & are going in different directions, vaguely forming teeth and an eye. behind it is a full moon in the sky. the last print is printed at a slant.a small linoprint on red squares of paper picturing red zephyr - many cables are coming from the front of the train & are going in different directions, vaguely forming teeth and an eye. behind it is a full moon in the sky.a small linoprint on a red square of paper picturing red zephyr - many cables are coming from the front of the train & are going in different directions, vaguely forming teeth and an eye. behind it is a full moon in the sky. this print is printed at a slant, as if the red zephyr is rearing back.
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arp: insect rights activist @arparparp.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
i know we all know google sucks now, but as of this morning its only date filters are WITHIN the past year or less??? even in the advanced search settings i’m not seeing any options to view results BEFORE a date?? am i blind?
a screenshot of google’s advance search, showing the simplified and extremely limited date range filter: past hour, past 24 hours, past week, past month, or past year.

i couldn’t find any other date filtering options..
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arp: insect rights activist @arparparp.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
proud of everyone for surviving 6 hrs of my driving on unmarked and unmaintained forest service roads (without cell service in pitch darkness) because the no-motor-vehicles-allowed “road” we’ve been taking to our secret campsite for years was finally physically blocked and we had to find another way
my partner sitting in the passenger seat of our prius (proven off road vehicle). Warren looks out the back seat window and you can see the makeshift divider that separates him from clover. fig isn’t visible, but he’s in the trunk. a lumpy roof storage thing is strapped to the top of the car.
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arp: insect rights activist @arparparp.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
my son is undergoing a transformation…. puberty sure is wild
warren about to chase a ball, his torso, front legs, neck, and face have been shaved. his butt and back legs remain long and fluffy, and the top of his head and ears are also still long.warren returning with a ballwarren on another return trip, he appears to be pleased with his new hairdoHUGE butt
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arp: insect rights activist @arparparp.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
aaaugh - thank goodness for the online guides*, or i'd never have made it past this level! it feels like i've been staring at this loading screen for almost a year.... #friendsatthetable #perpetua (*and @mrmarielda.bsky.social, who colored the Little Snail and its occupants)
a loading screen for the Redolencia level of Perpetua; the little snail splashes across the boarder into Redolencia. behind the little snail is a pixellated field colorpicked from Zelda Ocarina of Time, Redolencia is fully rendered in bright colors. 

on the second story of the little snail, Jonathan braces against the balcony and looks over the side. Below him, Nicky tries to keep a pot of soup from spilling in the sudden drop. on the back deck, Elena falls and Veile reaches to help catch her, peeled potatoes falling spilling around them.

the image is surrounded with a simple boarder and the text "PERPETUA" "Chapter III: Journey to the Bay, Pt. 1" across the top and "Celestial Echo Redolencia Loading.........." along the bottom
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arp: insect rights activist @arparparp.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
aaaugh - thank goodness for the online guides*, or i'd never have made it past this level! it feels like i've been staring at this loading screen for almost a year.... #friendsatthetable #perpetua (*and @mrmarielda.bsky.social, who colored the Little Snail and its occupants)
a loading screen for the Redolencia level of Perpetua; the little snail splashes across the boarder into Redolencia. behind the little snail is a pixellated field colorpicked from Zelda Ocarina of Time, Redolencia is fully rendered in bright colors. 

on the second story of the little snail, Jonathan braces against the balcony and looks over the side. Below him, Nicky tries to keep a pot of soup from spilling in the sudden drop. on the back deck, Elena falls and Veile reaches to help catch her, peeled potatoes falling spilling around them.

the image is surrounded with a simple boarder and the text "PERPETUA" "Chapter III: Journey to the Bay, Pt. 1" across the top and "Celestial Echo Redolencia Loading.........." along the bottom
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arp: insect rights activist @arparparp.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
gotta double check that this isn’t actually ten times darker than i thought it was on my work computer but then maybe…. maybe this is done???
cropped preview image of a saturated landscape with a border and the text “celestial echo Redolencia Loading………” on top
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arp: insect rights activist @arparparp.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
my creative drive is still not talking to me but we Are at least going to have a fantastic garden this year! (if you’re in the pittsburgh area and want vegetables let me know..! we accidentally started more than we can plant, even after digging out the back of the yard)
a hole i dug in the back of the yard today to finish filling our raised beds. hard to tell, but it’s at least three feet deep! i had to dig a step into it  to get back out and hoist dirt into our wheelbarrow. note the gate between the barrow and the hole… required to keep the puppy out of itdelivering dirt to the last raised bed. my partner is putting in eggplants and clover watches in the background, flat on the driveway to keep coolclover-view of the dog pool and my partner watering some potted plants next to the first set of raised beds we put up this yearmy flower garden built up around an old stump, fenced in using clippings from the trumpet vine that i finally got around to trimming
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arp: insect rights activist @arparparp.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
thinking about him..... 💞🐀💞
from august 2022; a close-up cropped image of chine (from Friends at the Table, season 7, Sangfielle) smiling down at It (their sort-of-baby)the full version of the same image, chine sits among some trees, patiently showing It how to tie macrame using some thin rope or twine and a stick for a frame.an alternate version of the same picture,  where chine has a huge bushy beard that's been tangled up with burs an twigs. the baby is a little more scrunched up, partially obscured by the beard.
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arp: insect rights activist @arparparp.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
y’all i learned SO much about steam engines tonight in an effort to avoid painting fluffy clouds coming out of the little snail… there’s a lot of water in there, and its not where i thought it went..!
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arp: insect rights activist @arparparp.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
sigh…. at least i gave into trust issues and kept my sfw and nsfw art on separate accounts more or less from the start here. do you think the pendulum of time will swing back before the remains of the online communities i loved completely dissolve?
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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 30/05/2026
If you have nsfw set to "hide" I implore you to set it to "warn". You still won't see anything except for a blurred post Otherwise once they roll out account-wide adult content labeling a whole lot of people including me are going to disappear from your timelines, even our sfw text posts
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arp: insect rights activist @arparparp.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
was excited to see my spiderwort blooming, so i set up a little shelter with my poncho strung between the fence and a step ladder and foolishly used watercolors in the rain (painting a flower in the rain: also not smart, the water really weighed it down & changed the lighting)
spiderwort painting held up in front of my flower garden, taken in haste with a foggy phone camera because Warren was seconds away from leaping on me and destroying my shelter.. abruptly ending my painting sessionspiderwort bloom before the raincloseup of a painting of a spiderwort flower, visibly splattered with rain
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arp: insect rights activist @arparparp.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
flood warning notifications on my phone constantly the past few days but all we’ve got so far is “stream reaches its typical depth for the first time this year” (it’s still been raining often enough to make ppl complain but it’s not raining Enough (in Volume) for spring imho)
quick painting of a forgetmenot and the hint of some buttercups where the water barely touches them
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Gen Vee 👻 @generallygenvee.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
“Oh buddy, I don’t think that’s Duvall…” For @luketaluketa.bsky.social for #secretsamol here are some little vignettes of It's adventures with Chine around the wastelands of Sangfielle. Maybe if It didn't nap the day away Chine would be able to get a good night's sleep! @friends-table.bsky.social
Three small illustrations embedded in a larger illustrations, showing the adventures of a baby worm dragon and a shrew-manA close up of the baby worm dragon trying to catch fireflies from a tree branch while the shrewman tries to sleep under a big hat. The scene is lit with firelightBlack and white illustration of a worm dragon baby hissing at a radio, sleeping in a backpack and trying to catch fish from a river
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arp: insect rights activist @arparparp.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
do you think if terapine have to worry about their algae hair getting enough water?
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arp: insect rights activist @arparparp.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
had to get my car fixed today and didn’t want to pay for a ride so i wandered around the woods behind the mechanic’s shop and found some good flowers to paint all day
watercolor painting of two clusters of white flowers and their toothy leaves (virginia waterleaf;  Hydrophyllum virginianum)
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arp: insect rights activist @arparparp.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
had to get my car fixed today and didn’t want to pay for a ride so i wandered around the woods behind the mechanic’s shop and found some good flowers to paint all day
watercolor painting of two clusters of white flowers and their toothy leaves (virginia waterleaf;  Hydrophyllum virginianum)
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arp: insect rights activist @arparparp.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
i love spring..!
a creek side covered in forgetmenot and buttercup flowersa quick painting i did of one of the forget-me-nots held up to the flowera closeup of curling sprigs of small blue flowers, the newest blooms are pink
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arp: insect rights activist @arparparp.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
hi mom :’)
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arp: insect rights activist @arparparp.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
for a moment brnine thought they’d finally done something right, but then they realize they’re still alive #friendsatthetable || (an extremely belated) #secretsamol for grace <3
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arp: insect rights activist @arparparp.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
they're in Redolencia now
a cluster of the plant featured in the photos of the quoted post have been painted onto an ongoing WIP
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arp: insect rights activist @arparparp.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
yesterday it rained off and on, and i loved being out in it 💞 listening to it all around, seeing the bugs come out from hiding afterwards, and the glittering drops of water on the leaves..!!
the bank of the river opposite the cabin where we stayed. large rocks jut out into the water, roots and plants climb the dirt that goes down into the water a low angle of the forest floor, showing the bright white water droplets covering the broad leaves of the plants in the foreground 
a closeup of a cluster of plants (maybe Jeffersonia diphylla) - smooth green leaves with two lobes each, scattered with large water droplets a younger bunch of the same plant, a single large drop of water cradled at the center of the largest leaf
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arp: insect rights activist @arparparp.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
did a lot of very mediocre paintings on my trip (too distracted by The World to put too much attention into painting), but also spent a few hours last night on this pawpaw flower that turned out alright <3
watercolors, a painting of a flower, and the flower itself held in place with a bag clipcropped image of the same painting. a dark brown-red flower with a green center attached to a stick with four bright green young leaves on the end of it.
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