#A Poison Tree

[branwendaughterofllyr]

Live footage of me writing

[aifsaath]

A Poison Tree by @branwendaughterofllyr

bigger version of the pic to be found HERE.

[ask-glory-haddock-and-others]

who’s your favorite poet/what’s your favorite poem?

A Poison Tree by William Blake

[princessofmistake]

Ero adirato col mio amico,

Dissi la mia ira, la mia ira finì;

ero adirato col mio nemico,

non la dissi, la mia ira crebbe.

E l’ho bagnata di timori,

notte e giorno con le mie lacrime,

e le ho dato il sole di sorrisi

e dolci ingannevoli astuzie.

Ed è cresciuta sia di giorno che di notte,

finché ha portato una mela luminosa;

ed il mio nemico la vide risplendere,

e seppe che era mia.

E penetrò nel mio giardino

quando la notte aveva velato il cielo;

nella mattina lieto vedo

il mio nemico steso morto sotto l’albero.

[godistrans]

A Poison Tree by William Blake

I was angry with my friend;

I told my wrath, my wrath did end.

I was angry with my foe:

I told it not, my wrath did grow.

And I watered it in fears,

Night & morning with my tears:

And I sunned it with smiles,

And with soft deceitful wiles.

And it grew both day and night.

Till it bore an apple bright.

And my foe beheld it shine,

And he knew that it was mine.

And into my garden stole,

When the night had veild the pole;

In the morning glad I see;

My foe outstretched beneath the tree.

This is one of the poems that inspired the main threat in Devil May Cry 5, a giant tree made by Urizen whom is also a reference to William Blake's poetry.

[linusjf]

William Blake: A Poison Tree

The artist and poet William Blake, who lived in Hercules Road — a portrait by Thomas Phillips (1807). (Photo credit: Wikipedia) A Poison Tree I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I water’d it in fears, Night & morning with my tears; And I summoned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles. And it grew…

[mr-craig]

I love this poem, and also the musical setting of it by North Sea Radio Orchestra… of which I did a cover:

(The NSRO original is here as well.)

A Poison Tree

by William Blake

I was angry with my friend; I told my wrath–my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe; I told it not–my wrath did grow, And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears, And I sunned it with smiles And with soft deceitful wiles, And it grew both day and night ‘Til it bore an apple bright, And my foe beheld it shine, And he knew that it was mine– And into my garden stole When the night had veiled the pole; In the morning, glad, I see My foe outstretched beneath the tree.

[martyncrucefix]

Ian Brinton reviews 'Between a Drowning Man'

Here is Ian Brinton‘s recent review of my new Salt collection, Between a Drowning Man. It was first published by Litter Magazine in January 2024. The invitation at the opening of these two remarkable sequences of poems by Martyn Crucefix emphasises both ‘difference’ and ‘ambiguity’, an ‘othering’ which hones attention rather than dulling it. Divided into two sections, Works and Days (forty-nine…

[daelynnxx]

some old designs from last year !! in order - brindleflame, cougarclaw, springflower

[marlynnofmany]

This is genius. Off to search the kitchen for new character names.

[branwendaughterofllyr]

OMG you’ve seen Elisabeth! I don’t know much about Austro-Hungarian history, but Elisabeth is such a fascinating character! That musical also really suits Alyssa, especially with how you depicted marriage as a tomb in chapter 8. In my country (I’m Asian), back in the day, brides would prepare burial clothes as part of their wedding preparations. It was a way to prepare for the unknown day of their husband’s death, but when I learned that as a kid, I thought, "Marriage really is like death!" It seems Alyssa is thinking something similar to what I did as a child lol To her, marriage is a threat, a compulsion on women, and honestly, considering the Targaryens, she’s not wrong. I don’t really like the Baelon-Alyssa pairing (sorry if you do!), and I think Alyssa barely had any real choices in her life. She was always the property of a Targaryen prince. I hope to see more of this Alyssa someday in A Poison Tree!

Oh gosh, I’m so sorry I took so long to answer this, I’ve had this sitting in my drafts for ages now. I took a bit of a break from both tumblr and my fics, which was nice but I’m back now.

Yeah, I really like both the musical Elisabeth and I think Sissi is an interesting historical figure herself, and I enjoyed Brigitte Hamann biography a lot. I think there’s a lot to the way life for a woman ended in a way when it came to getting married, it’s kind of the end of the line in some ways, and I love the detail from your culture about brides preparing funeral clothes, it’s so final and somewhat ominous? Especially if you ended up married far away before modern communication and transportation, you might be pretty much cut off from your family and prior life. I think Alyssa has picked up, both consciously and subconsciously, on all this, and Targaryen women in particular end up unhappy in marriage, it seems.

(I usually refer to Baelon’s Alyssa as “Alyssa T” for clarity. To distinguish from my Alyssa, haha)

I think partly why Baelon and Alyssa T are so popular is they are easy to romanticize because Alyssa T dies so young. She’s only 24 or so, and she dies before most of the succession crisis kicks off, and before their marriage can truly be tested by time and also family problems that comes with raising kids and being part a feudal monarchy.

Like think about how Jaehaerys and Alysanne might be perceived if Alysanne had died that young. That would be before the Saera scandal, before Daella’s death in childbirth, before Viserra’s death, before Jaehaerys continued to impregnate Alysanne into middle age against her wishes (and citing their mother who died in childbirth in her forties!!!! As a reason to keep doing it!!). They had a very intense romance when they were young, and it likely would still be intact as the great Targaryen Romance if Alysanne had died before all their later troubles. I would even argue that Alysanne and Jaehaerys are much romantic than Alyssa T and Baelon, considering their tragic childhood and later elopement against the wishes of pretty much everyone. (I think that Jaehaerys and Alysanne were intensely trauma bonded as children, considering that they were left all alone with their mother for years on Dragonstone and then in exile while Rhaena and Viserys 0.5 were both else where and then later dead, and their romance sprang from this intense bond, as it was the only way they knew how to conceptualize it with the normalization of incest in their family and there was the threat of separation by marriage hanging over them). Alyssa and Baelon are kind of thrown together because they are close as children, and really groomed to be in love. And then Alyssa dies before any of the major issues of JaeJae’s late reign really appear. We have no idea if she would have supported Baelon or Rhaenys as heir, if she would have supported her husband or gone against him, how she would have handled Viserys and Daemon’s marriages, how she would have dealt with Aemma or Rhea. And who’s to say if she would have supported Rhaenyra as heir, she very well may have supported Daemon as heir and built a faction for him at court. How would she have handled exhaustion from back to back pregnancies over two decades, the death of a child, or even menopause? She dies so young, it easy to chalk their marriage up as a happy and romantic one without any major problems because none have had time to appear. Alysanne and Jaehaerys were happy once too.

And this isn’t even getting into the bare glimpses of Alyssa T and Baelon’s personalities, which are pretty mixed in my opinion. I’m really not a fan of how both of them treated Vaegon, after Jaehaerys ordered Baelon to make him into a proper man, which Baelon did and even used Alyssa to shame Vaegon for not being masculine enough by having his sister come and mock him for not putting up a fight against her.

I’ll actually say that I’ve got a Baelon flashback planned for the next chapter that I’ve had in mind for ages that’s inspired heavily by this very incident with Vaegon. Baelon seems to have very much been his father’s enforcer, which doesn’t exactly endear him to me, and both of his canonical surviving children were pretty dysfunctional, which suggests some issues there, grieving widower or not. (And at some point, I think I will have my Alyssa reflect on the life of Alyssa T, as their lives take more and more similar trajectories with their marriages to second sons, but I don’t have anything concrete thoughts there.)

[melsun7]

Pov Thalia when she comes back to consciousness and the guy who was supposed to be her best friend turned to Kronos, committed numerous crimes (including POISONING HER TREE)

[wyervan]

Knock knock, Valentines from the slasher guys 💌

🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

idk i think they like u or smth ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) they just show it kinda weird ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

last one’s a touch suggestive 🫠

[levia-san]

Fanart I started for a billboard promo in fall, then missed the deadline, took too long to draw fall trees, then changed them into plum blossoms feat snow for winter themed 79, then missed that deadline and finally finished it a few days ago

Time management is my passion.

uuuh happy qijiu everyone

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Anyway check this out-

The amount of serotonin blinking qijiu gave me is embarassing because otherwise I would've never done this

[faceless-dude]

/precolour scribbles in reblogs/

I wanted to draw this, like, since August 💀

Thanks for indirectly kicking my butt to this, @prostoelji

Mush-o'-Shrooms Sonic 💀

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