#a thousand flowers

[tintenschreiber]

165 - In December's Embrace

And in December, What more to remember And love is everywhere In this world, It is hidden from me And my ideas. You take the hunch, And I the punch.

Being loved. Is it so important, Not so much, I guess. Should I bounce high As I am counting sheep, Where is love, And where is it To keep? Hold me tight, So I can believe My words. Hold me, and I am yours.

craiyon.com

[rijinks]

Flowers of Two Thousand Years (Part 2)

[[Part 1]] You may need to have read The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned to understand the following 9 pages:

The next update will be the last one.

[shrews-art]

White chrysanthemums for grief, lavenders for devotion 🌸

[heyhollow]

Fellas, is it gay to bandage up your best bud in your bedroom after he got into a fight?

I'm so ill about them rn-

[debellatis]

something something cat of dreams

Now makes pair with my dog hob

[scr1mps]

Animal crossing guys. Welcome to my twisted mind

[bamsara]

I'm going to have to break up with my tax lady, aren't I? :(

[foodcreation101]

Mid-autumn Teochew Style Flaky Mooncakes 🐇🥮🌸

MILK COCONUT 🥛🥥

EARL GREY 🍃🍵

MATCHA SALTED EGG 🍵🥚

[franzias-cave]

leader great at unifying fractured movement; bad at parenting 

[abirddogmoment]

I call this series "beautiful photos I took in direct sunlight and then couldn't edit so I applied a Lightroom preset and called it good enough" because sometimes that's just how she goes

[tintenschreiber]

161 - A Christmas Wish

What do I want for Christmas?, I asked myself And the only thing That came into My mind Was spending undisturbed time With you, Listening to music, Warming coffee And the softness Of dancing voices Hovering in the room.

Your hand in mine And I am peaceful Like never before. Just one moment Now And forever.

craiyon.com

[rijinks]

Flowers of Two Thousand Years (Part 1)

Marius-centric comic. The following 9+ pages are closely based on Prince Lestat and The Vampire Lestat. (CW for violent imagery including a vampire turning)

to be continued

I initially didn't plan to spend THIS much time on this part of Marius' Story in TVL; the concept of this comic is to show some parts of Marius' life with the connecting theme of flowers, in quick succession.

Not sure how many pages the rest of the comic will have since I keep adding stuff.............. will probably take awhile.

[[Part 2]]

[sylvrndoodles]

practicing book cover designs by redesigning some existing book covers!

I really love this series, the fantasy setting is so whimsical and the characters are so endearing ( ˙꒳​˙ )

[lyss-sketchbox]

I have. Somehow. Run out of sweet flowers. How does that even happen.

[krmayerillustration]

“O ye of little faith, if you have a modicum of faith the size of a mustard seed, tell the mountain to move and it shall move.”

In each blooming heart, a pearl waits to be moved. Etsy

[lazycranberrydoodles]

I hate to ask but who is hua Chang

Hua Cheng is the deuterantagonist of the Chinese web novel Heaven Official's Blessing! It's a historical fantasy novel about gods and ghosts and cultivators (xianxia) by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu. It's also a gay romance (danmei). The main themes are destiny, love, and what it means to be a good person. It has a comic version (manhua) and one-soon-to-be-two seasons of animation (donghua).

He's an 800+ year old ghost who has a sentient sword made from his own dismembered eye, runs a city, turns his enemies into blood rain, creates silver wraith butterflies and has been devotedly worshiping/pining after his god, Xie Lian, his entire life. This book is the longest hyperfixation I have ever had. So I think it's pretty good (understatement of the century).

I can and have written essay length rants about him but here is a paragraph i wrote a while back about my favorite things about him, to sum up:

His gender probably. The way he looked fate in the eyes and said “fuck you, old man” and built a highly successful life of his own. How he is so fucked up but still hyper-competent. How all his strength comes from love. How his devotion changed as he grew up but never wavered. The way he is kind but not nice. His infodump swag.