Jun
19th
2013
The tree that owns itself · 2:06am Jun 19th, 2013
The Tree That Owns Itself is a white oak tree, widely assumed to have legal ownership of itself and of all land within eight feet (2.4 m) of its base. The tree, also called the Jackson Oak, is located at the corner of South Finley and Dearing Streets in Athens, Georgia, United States. ... William Jackson supposedly cherished childhood memories of the tree, and, desiring to protect it, deeded to it the ownership of itself and its surrounding land. By various accounts, this transaction took place between 1820 and 1832.
Will we get to see a tree that pwns itself?
This is... actually kind of touching.
Huh.
...I think my faith in humanity has just increased a little.
That begs to be made into a story. A courtroom drama centered around an eminent domain case in the Dunsinane Courthouse. At the end, the tree comes to testify, thus providing a neat crossover with Macbeth.
I think I've had quite enough caffeine for today. Possibly this week.
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Or, the tree could be Bloomberg, bringing suit against the Apples.... Maybe a little tougher to tie in with Macbeth, but one could write it in iambic pentameter.
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The next generation will, of course, be The Revenge of The Son of The Tree That Owns Itself.
Or Tree That Owns Itself 3: Own Harder for short.
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With Zecora as the witches!
NICE
This may be one of the most amazing things I have heard in the last month.
Sigh. If the secret to looking skinny is to surround yourself with fat people, then I must be trying to look sane, because I'm surrounding myself with crazy people
I live near the tree. It has a cobblestone street that drives right up to it. COBBLESTONE. You can see the UGA stadium from it's upper branches and hear the GA Bulldog games.
The area of Athens that the tree resides in isn't the best part sadly. It saw some bad economic downturn a few decades ago, but it has been improving steadily. There is a dedicated team of arborist that keep the tree healthy and its little plot of land clean.
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What what what!?
I thought it was obvious that this'd have to be a story about Fluttershy. The Macbeth stuff is still fine, of course—after all, Fluttershy is not of woman born.
If I had to cast, I'd probably take 1153505's idea of Zecora for the witches, maybe paired with Twilight and Trixie. Then, for the main cast:
The plot basically writes itself. FlutterDuff is a tree, and King Big Duncantosh is a major tree rights supporter. RainbowBeth wants to enslave the tree, so she murders Big Duncantosh at RariBeth's urging. Then a lot of stuff happens, everybody dies, and eventually after hours of adventure, FlutterDuff can finally retire and put down roots.
The tree that owns itself hears about what happened to its cousin, the Giving Tree. It goes on a murderous, albeit highly localized, rampage of revenge
1154067 Did anyone else find The Giving Tree disturbing? If you had kids, would you read it to them? I wouldn't. Crazy co-dependent tree.
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I approve of this Raridash.
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To answer your questions in order, "Yes" and "Hell no".
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I can't decide if I think it's insane that I would read that.