[acadicus]

To win this heifer, tell me about something they do that makes them feel more connected to nature!

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Owner: raven [烏]
Name: alex
Gender: heifer

Ends August 23 at approximately noon Eastern time.

[BiscuitTheDog]

Username: BiscuitTheDog
Name: Elmore (goes by Elm)
Gender: heifer
Collar: white with a smol mushroom and butterfly in her eye color
Prompt:
Elmore was surrounded by nature, even as a young child. She'd often go out to the forest near her home with her best friend Pinecone, and the two of them would just sit and unwind, taking in the beautiful flora and fauna around them.
One of Elm's favorite things to do that made her feel in-touch with nature was butterfly catching. Butterflies quite often frequented the woods where Elm and Pinecone went, and the two never left without spotting at least one butterfly flitting through the trees.
Elmore found butterfly catching relaxing, in a way- one could just sit there, still as a log, and wait for a butterfly to possibly find you a nice perch to rest on. It was wonderfully surreal.
Or one could creep through the unkempt grasses, watching carefully, anticipated to see the bright orange or green or sometimes even blue flash of delicate wings- and when one caught sight of the butterfly, they'd come forward, quiet as a crawling jaguar, and scoop the insect from the air. After marveling at the beautiful Lepidoptera's beauty, it was only kind to let the little insect go and watch as it flies away in awe. This way was more "cool and fun" (in Pinecone's words) than just sitting and waiting. Elmore didn't have a preference, for she just loved to watch the butterflies flap-flap-flap in their elegant, jittery movements.
Something about it made Elm feel very at peace with herself.

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(the prompt was previously a really long one (700+ words) but i wasnt feeling it so i wrote it differently with the same general idea)

[Rescue2001]

Username: rescue2001
Name: Hemlock (Named after the Hemlock Varnish mushroom)
Gender: heifer
Collar: surprise me (something mushroomy might be nice though)
Prompt: Hemlock loves to take naturally grown plants from where ever she is at and will either make something to eat with them or else she will study them. She use to actually go mushroom hunting with her mother up until she passed. She still loves going mushroom hunting for it brings back good memories of her mother and also gives her time to just enjoy nature. She loves to study the more poisonous and pretty mushrooms, she studies all new plants she finds that way she knows whether they are poisonous or not. Her place in the barn is covered with different plants, the calfs really love the ones that glow at night.

[fleurs]

Username: lillibeth,,
Name: Andalina
Gender: Heifer
Collar: Your choice
Prompt: Andalina has always had a strong liking for nature. She loves spending time outdoors and basking in the sweet rays of Mother Nature. While many heifers enjoy the view of bulls, Andalina enjoys the natural view. Her best friends are sparrows and ants, while her greatest enemy is "timbermen". Growing up, Andalina's love for nature was not as strong as nowadays. As a young cow, the sweet heifer was obsessed with playing 'Realm of Butters', a virtual game. The game was so addicting, that Andalina never paid much attention to the world around her. She preferred fighting virtual dragons than helping stop the world's pollution. And her favorite song was the RoB theme tune instead of nature's sweet hymns. Whilst Andalina's passion for gaming grew strong, a simple butterfly inside her barn taught her where the true beauty laid. Putting down her gaming console and club-sodas was one of the best things Andalina could have ever done. Instead of seeing her with foaming bubbles at her lips and eyes dripped in dread, the other cows at the farm now see Andalina with wild poppies woven in her fur and a sparrow perched on her backbone. Whenever Andalina gets the familiar urge for a console and sodapop, she takes a deep breathe and travels to Nygarila, a place where only true descendents of Mother Nature can go. She'll take some time to remember how pleasant it is with electronics, and perhaps even find a butterfly or two to light her path back into nature.

[eli sunday]

Usern4me: Bug Soup
N4me: Kinoko
Gender: Heifer
Coll4r: red with off white spots (like 4 stereotypic4l c4rtoon mushroom)
Prompt: wip!

[duskze]

Username: DuskzeHedgie
Name: Monica
Gender: Female
Collar: Burgundy
Prompt: Every day she goes out on nature walks, trying to identify all of the flora and fauna she can find. She also always picks at least one tree to simply lean against (gently!), close her eyes, and try to imagine what life must be like for that tree. How the wind feels, what small animals they shelter with their branches, and what kind of water they'd find with their roots. It's incredibly relaxing and she feels much more at peace after experiencing nature.

[raven [烏]]

Username: raven [烏]
Name: alex
Gender: heifer
Collar: any of these!!
Prompt:

Alex has always been one with her surroundings. In fact, Alex was in love. Not with anyone in particular but rather, a place. The south-east of France is home to one of the most famous lavender fields in the world. To Alex, lavender was "blue gold".

Blue gold had calming properties. It was the sort of herb you would like to have in your home as decoration or as an aromatic air-freshener of sorts. For Alex, blue gold seemed to have a wonderful effect on her. With each breath she took in those lavender fields, she felt all the tension in her chest begin to subside. The colour of lavender was something between a light purple and a deep blue. It was beautiful, to say the least.

Perhaps keeping them in her home would help her feel closer to nature, and to that wonderful field of lavender flowers? Alex began to collect and cultivate many varieties of lavender, each one unique in its own way. Indoor gardening was a surprisingly enriching experience, having plants live right in the comfort of your own home. She was able to tend to them regularly, giving them just the right amount of sunlight, water and shade they needed. She truly was wealthy, having so much blue gold and such a deep connection to nature.

[Cactologist]

Username: Cactologist
Name: Chanterelle (Elle)
Gender: Heifer
Collar: To match eyes with a mushroom theme
Prompt:
"The trees called to me, urging me to abandon what I knew and vanish into the oncoming night..." - Maggie Stiefwater

Chanterelle lived and breathed the arts. Music, poetry, visual art, she consumed it all. Even more so than that, though, she lived for the notion of nature. She was born and raised in the city, as far from nature as one can be, but the thought of it still drove her. The city was screaming with a wish to be heard, running with a wish to achieve, clawing with a wish to be seen. It was isolating although it was crammed tight, dead although it was so lively. Don't get her wrong, Elle loved the city, she really did. She loved the opportunities it presented and the endless stream of individuals to meet, but she needed something more, or perhaps something less.

All her life she had heard rumors of the wonders of nature, mere whispered stories from those who claimed to have seen it. Every day Elle wondered if such a place could really exist beyond the fairytales she was so fond of, but her wonderings never exceeded that, at least until today. For the first time in the span of Elle's life, the mutterings of nature were on everyone's lips, both in awe and fear. "The wall is cracked..." "Tall, rough brown things, with green stuff at the top..." "I swear I saw something small fly through the air, something alive..." "Don't worry, it'll be fixed by tomorrow..."

All day, Elle's heart raced in her chest, tugging her one way while her brain held her where she was. By sunset, though, she had made her decision. A true city girl, she had been listening to her mind all her life, but now it was time to follow her heart for once. She was tired of the constant struggle, the hustle and bustle, the future that looked just like the past. As she slipped into the darkness beyond the hole in the wall with nothing but a few books and her hunger for something new, she felt no fear. She would live on her own with nature alone to guide and comfort her, and for the first time she would be truly alive. The city would forget her soon enough, that girl that was swallowed up by the unknown, just as they would forget any slivers of the wilderness they had seen through the crack. Hopefully, if she was lucky, she would soon forget the city, too, as she had no wish to return to the past. Everyday she would wake with only one goal, to become even closer to nature, and let her heart lead her to achieving it.

[Synerie]

Username: Berricuda
Name: Shimeji
Gender: heifer
Collar: eye color with lil spots like a spotted mushroom cap !
Prompt:

putting down a teensy mark on this doll :o

[DeadlyArcana]

Username: Alhena
Name: Frankie
Gender: heifer
Collar: color scheme of these babies!
Prompt: From a young age Frankie knew she was more in tune with the spiritual side of nature and herself. A lot of her friends didn't believe her, calling her a witch and a fake. However, Frankie took pride in this and it urged her to look more into wicca and to delve deeper into forming a spiritual connection with deities that she could ask to guide her through life. Through doing this, Frankie periodically goes on walks through local forests, and will find secluded spots to meditate and feel more connected with nature. She will sometimes bring her crystals with her from home and place them around her, forming a protective circle but also inviting nature deities to help her find peace and guidance.
She also has a knack for searching for fairy circles on her walks and loves to document them in a journal and their location, often enough she will go back and visit them to see if the fairy's had moved on or were still close by.