Happy Holidays, Cursiell_4!
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go_exchangeThis cute art/fic was created from a prompt submitted by Cursiell_4!
Recipient: Cursiell_4
Rating: G
Characters: The Them
Warning: N/A
Notes: All the writing in this gift was kindly composed by my talented friend ThestralsNest on AO3 (http://archiveofourown.org/users/ThestralsNest) who had come to my aid in my hour of completely forgetting how rhymes work. It grew into a much bigger project than I had first planned, but we had fun with it, and hope you do too!
-Your Secret Creator
Language Assistance (kindly provided by the creator)
A thankful demon indeed,
One that offers more than a weed.
But even thankful-er is the child,
Who saw the gift and smiled.
The tiny sprout was delighted,
For it had thought itself blighted!
“Far be it from me to grouse.
So long, old master, you really were a louse!”
Adam Young that day had to make a decree;
What kind of tree should the sprout grow up to be?
A grapevine, a pear or perhaps a fig?
Or let Pepper, Wensleydale and Brian decide the nature of the sprig?
“What a queer little tree!”
“A malus pumila, an apple tree, you see.”
“Hmm, I hope its fruits are tasty.”
“Cor! Let’s plant it you three!”
Alas for such a wee tree, the blush was soon off the rose,
A houseplant doesn’t know cruel Nature’s throes!
“Oh crocus, woe is me!
I’m wilting! I can never be tall and pretty!”
(Now don’t be scared for our leafy friend,
This is far from being the end.
Adam Young knows a thing or two,
He won’t let your mood go blue.)
Pepper and Brian brought water and a wind screen,
While Wensleydale and Adam minded the roots unseen.
And because the Them cared a whole awful lot,
The heartened tree grew! Believe it or not!
Tallerer and prettierer the tree grew every year,
And its crown went up, up, up without a veer.
Until three of the Them wondered a bit frownily:
“If we climb up, up, up will we reach the Heavenly City?”
Adam pondered for you understand,
Trees live longer than Man (that’s ineffably planned).
He bit an apple and the juice was sweet.
He answered the others in the next beat:
“We have whales in our oceans;
We have apples in our tree;
I say Earth is good for now,
Heaven and Hell will have to agree.”
(And far Up Above, angels huffed round:
“We shan’t be tempted by something so earthbound!”
And far Down Below, demons looked up screaming:
“Dangly roots have no place on our ceiling!”)
Recipient: Cursiell_4
Rating: G
Characters: The Them
Warning: N/A
Notes: All the writing in this gift was kindly composed by my talented friend ThestralsNest on AO3 (http://archiveofourown.org/users/ThestralsNest) who had come to my aid in my hour of completely forgetting how rhymes work. It grew into a much bigger project than I had first planned, but we had fun with it, and hope you do too!
-Your Secret Creator
Adam and the Apple Tree
Language Assistance (kindly provided by the creator)
A thankful demon indeed,
One that offers more than a weed.
But even thankful-er is the child,
Who saw the gift and smiled.
The tiny sprout was delighted,
For it had thought itself blighted!
“Far be it from me to grouse.
So long, old master, you really were a louse!”
Adam Young that day had to make a decree;
What kind of tree should the sprout grow up to be?
A grapevine, a pear or perhaps a fig?
Or let Pepper, Wensleydale and Brian decide the nature of the sprig?
“What a queer little tree!”
“A malus pumila, an apple tree, you see.”
“Hmm, I hope its fruits are tasty.”
“Cor! Let’s plant it you three!”
Alas for such a wee tree, the blush was soon off the rose,
A houseplant doesn’t know cruel Nature’s throes!
“Oh crocus, woe is me!
I’m wilting! I can never be tall and pretty!”
(Now don’t be scared for our leafy friend,
This is far from being the end.
Adam Young knows a thing or two,
He won’t let your mood go blue.)
Pepper and Brian brought water and a wind screen,
While Wensleydale and Adam minded the roots unseen.
And because the Them cared a whole awful lot,
The heartened tree grew! Believe it or not!
Tallerer and prettierer the tree grew every year,
And its crown went up, up, up without a veer.
Until three of the Them wondered a bit frownily:
“If we climb up, up, up will we reach the Heavenly City?”
Adam pondered for you understand,
Trees live longer than Man (that’s ineffably planned).
He bit an apple and the juice was sweet.
He answered the others in the next beat:
“We have whales in our oceans;
We have apples in our tree;
I say Earth is good for now,
Heaven and Hell will have to agree.”
(And far Up Above, angels huffed round:
“We shan’t be tempted by something so earthbound!”
And far Down Below, demons looked up screaming:
“Dangly roots have no place on our ceiling!”)
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Date: 2017-12-14 05:24 pm (UTC)I can't believe that plant called Crowley a louse lol. He probably deserved it.
I especially love "And because the Them cared a whole awful lot / The heartened tree grew! Believe it or not!"
Also I'm dying the demons look like grinches XD
I love that the tree grew up to heaven but Adam decided not to climb it anyway! That fits both Seuss and Good Omens wonderfully :)