#the silver branch

[healerqueen]

"'You're lucky,' he said. 'You're wonderfully lucky. Most of us can only break things.'"

— The Silver Branch, Rosemary Sutcliff

When I was in school, one of my art teachers used to say “this world needs more creators. There’s more than enough destroyers in the world today.”

Just a reminder, if you create anything–art, writing, food, machines, ideas, equations, knits, tools, gardens–the world needs you.

[camilla-denniston]

Academia Historical Fiction Recommendations

The Silver Branch, by Rosemary Sutcliff: Light Academia; Medicine; Spring; Roman Britain; 3rd century

Two on a Tower, by Thomas Hardy: Romantic Academia; Astronomy; Summer; England; 19th century

The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco: Dark Academia; Philosophy; Autumn; Italy; 14th century

Laurus, by Eugene Vodolazkin: Chaotic Academia; Medicine and Theology; Winter; Russia; 15th century

[cultivating-wildflowers]

"When there is nothing else to do, go to sleep; it passes the time."

Rosemary Sutcliff, The Silver Branch

[dimsilver]

Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Silver Branch is like “And the weak things of the world God has chosen, and the low and despised, and the wingless eagle and the lost legion and the timid surgeon…and the court fool and certified Weird Guy who wears a tail” and I just

[marivanilla05]

In the middle of exams so here are just some higher quality versions of my last sketches!

(There will be no context for Menelaus dressed as a seal and Helen doing drugs. If you know, you know.)

[sunberies]

Lowkey forgot the context of which I drew this, something something Poppy takes Rosie after the twt fight??? I’ll probably make another post about that, I’ve got some ideas

Close up ⬇️

Ok bye bye

[sukiiwake]

Doodled my faves one night while listening to black hole sun haha🦭

[thegothicalice]

🔮💕

[missescalientee]

You mentioned Branch is a lot more u in the AU he went with JD & Jade

Will this sweep Poppy off her feet perchance? 👀

To me Branch is always the one who falls first in every universe, their friendship and his crush would start in movie one and he’d be hardcore flirting and she just doesn’t notice because of everything going on

They would meet around the time OG Branch would’ve come to rescue her

At some point I'll clean these up and line them but I've been having entire arm issues so we got sketches rn

Things aren't all cupcakes and rainbows with the two of them, even with Branch not being gray he still harbors some worry and sadness which would end up being a point of conflict

Not shown to great extent here but his inability to see "the silver lining" would become a moment of conflict for them in place of singing killed my grandma

Also what Lief is doing during all of that:

He gets sent back to trolls village to help them hide from the Bergens while Poppy is away!

[chasingrainbowsforever]

" Winter’s Dream” ~ By Dream Nature

[ginhaku125-offical]

Random ass Pokémon-OC memes I made for the fun of it

[modcroissant]

"You'll just be nothing but a simple little pathetic tree, Vanilly."

{ Note made by Butter Roll Cookie }

{ "It is better to not anger any of the beasts who carries the flowers and pollen with them, because once you do, you'll become part of their garden." }

[cultivating-wildflowers]

really subtle naming choice there, Ms. Sutcliff.

[mus-xpart-a]

i absolutely ADORE @skylooms design for silver so i drew him

i love the way u color the most, the many vibrant colors and substitute for pure white look so lovely <3 <3 <3

[sunberies]

Baby Babbles

Ok a happier post! :3

After Branch sings to Rosie, SHE starts to sing, and BOY does she sing

She starts singing in the middle of the night too, can’t stop her

Branch loves it though, he won’t stop her from singing just cause he’s not singing

Though he only lets her sing in the bunker, not outside, too dangerous

[genderqueerfuri]

Apostle of Destruction Jeanne is causing quite a stir at this year's GR⚡️D GALA!

Don't call her Mahoro unless you want her to come after you with her sword.

(crossposted on twitter here)

Keep on reading to see my design inspirations for this year's gala and closeup shots of the details (Abaranger spoilers ahead!):

The main inspiration for this year's fit come from two designers/collections:

Hassidriss's Burning Shadows A/W 2019 Collection for the dress

Miss Sohee's S/S 2025 Collection for the puffy sleeves and long train!

I went through a few different design concepts when brainstorming for Mahoro's outfit. Initially I wanted to do something on the bridal end, but eventually I ended up with something more demonic. Given what happens with Mahoro in Abaranger, I thought the fallen angel/hellfire vibe was appropriate.

Fire is obviously a huuuge part of this design. I wanted to really emphasize the destructive, all-consuming nature of it-- This fire doesn't just burn bright and hot, it reduces everything around it to soot and ash. That image of Mahoro in the Abaranger opening surrounded by flames lived rent free in my head:

Anyway, on to the details!

Starting with the bottom half of the design: Fire, fire, fire! I used red, orange, and yellow beads for the flames on the dress. The train has a darker red to black ombre to show the soot that comes with burning, with a red bead lining at the bottom and red and black beads scattered to look like floating ash particles.

There's a lot going on with the top half here:

I wanted to pay homage to Jeanne's original design, so I took inspiration from her corset-laced cutout pants and put them here as waist cut-outs. I also made the neck wrap in an X/cross shape since that's very prominent in her original outfit

Speaking of the neck/arm wrap thing, that was originally meant to be green as a reference to Dezumozorlya (and his awful vines, eurgh), but the colors clashed too much. Still, I wanted a reference to his vines, and to suggest that Jeanne was being bound and constrained by an outside source.

Coincidentally, changing the neck/arm wrap to black and gold means that it's also colored in Asuka's color scheme :)

Dezumozorlya's brainwashing mark thing was made into a gold beaded accent

Pointy sharp earring because she's a pointy sharp character. The design is supposed to resemble black sludge oozing over a yellow crystal, because corruption/fallen angel vibes

Lastly, I gave her these green beading details at the wrist ends of both sleeves, mostly because I love AsuMaho and wanted to incorporate the promise bracelet somehow :)

Anyway, that's it! idk how to end this so uhhhh. If you made it all the way to the end, I hope you liked my little write up. I'm very normal about Mahoro and Asuka. If you haven't watched Abaranger, do so at your own risk <3