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#### A Sonnet for Stoot's Paper Tree

So clearly I need more sleep and you lovely lovely people need to stop encouraging me to do things involving Glitch and rhyming.
I've been working on Ancient Lands-related badges lately, not just the bandits and dust traps but also quion completion and paper trees, and I noticed for the first time how most of the paper trees in the Ancient Lands have names, and they're all named for Stoot: Stoot's Ninth Paper Tree, Stoot's Paper Tree the Third, etc. (Maybe it's new or maybe I just never noticed.) There's even one in Xangala on Hazy Gate 6 called Stoot's Own Paper Tree. So I decided to write him and it a thank-you note. I left it at the tree, of course, but since people actually seem to like my craziness and I loved the poetry-off that happened last time, I figured I'd post it here, too.
To Stoot's Own Paper Tree
We thank thee, laden down with paper rolls
For those few sheets you carefully give up
As we pass by, those few of us who hold
Along our normal flight to pay you what
Is due to you: a gentle-handed pet;
A thorough watering with sweetest dew;
And only then should we attempt to get
A tiny paper harvest off of you.
Sometimes we're forced to pass as swift pursuit
Of fearsome Bandits leads us to depart
But we return in time to tend your root
When time we have for paper-centric art.
I thank you, paper tree on which I dote,
For fruit on which I write this grateful note.

Posted 9 months ago by Random Ghost | Permalink

### Replies

- Sweet! love this!
  Posted 9 months ago by natsumi | Permalink
- Pretty awesome!
  Posted 9 months ago by JesusOfSuburbia | Permalink
- Someone took my note!
  I'm secretly hoping it was stoot. Probably not.
  When the overwhelmed wears off maybe I'll put down some more.
  Posted 9 months ago by Random Ghost | Permalink
- Love it!!
  Posted 9 months ago by Monkeygirl♥ | Permalink
- Thank you! Well done!
  Posted 9 months ago by Brib Annie | Permalink
- Awwwww :)
  I actually named all of them by hand since I noticed everyone else was in such a rush to find dust traps that they were not getting named.
  Posted 9 months ago by stoot barfield | Permalink
- That faint high-pitched noise was me squeeing slightly.
  I dunno, I kind of feel like it's apropos for the paper trees to have special names, since they act very differently from normal trees. Plus paper has all that lovely blank-canvas symbolism in a game that's about imagination.
  Plus I love the idea of the trees retaining names from the days of the Glitch ancestors. Which gives me an idea. Muahahaha.
  Posted 9 months ago by Random Ghost | Permalink
- *sniff* [wipes away a joyful tear] That...was...bee-yoo-tee-ful!
  Posted 9 months ago by Dahlia DreadNaught | Permalink
- Wow, good to know that, stoot.. that is sweet :) Did you name all the other trees in AL like Juju bait, Gutenberg and Bookaholic, or was it only just the stooty trees?
  Posted 9 months ago by natsumi | Permalink