#sakura branch

[solarys-art]

budding branch

[huariqueje]

Cherry Blossom  -  Nataliia Krykun

Ukrainian , b.  1988  -

Acryl op canvas ,  150 x 150 cm.

[nixsmis]

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[nutbreadys]

Happy Yato Day!! 🎉🎉

[puppyeared]

valentines day pkmn wip ^_^

[mokutone]

wooooooow naruto thanked him :) maybe naruto doesn't hate him. maybe.

maybe theyre even.

😳 friends

[crystal-linity]

daytime moon…

with the Sakura branches waiting to bloom…

お月さま

まだ咲かない桜の樹々と

[trippingthemoonlightfantastic]

Love Is In the Air

Watercolor on Cotton Paper

2023, 30"x 22"

Pink Cherry Blossoms

[tanuki-kimono]

Romantic silky shine for this soft kimono, with embroidered cherry blossoms branches in lilac and silvery hues

[completeoveranalysis]

[1]

Chapitre 209 - The Demon King and The Puppet

Get in losers we’re going to Outo!

We’re back in the sequence of revisiting family bonding moments in the previous arcs, and to my surprise and great delight this one isn’t a Syaoran and Sakura one but Syaoran and Kurogane! I thought these were a recap montage of the Syaoran/Sakura relationship over the journey, but maybe it’s a recap of Syaoran himself? Our son the clone Syaoran and all the nice moments he’s had on over the arcs we spent together? 

And why would they do that unless they wanted us to hurt us very badly with it? 

They’re either being very sentimental or someone might die, so time to turn up the Suspicion dial for the survivability of all our characters!

Either way, the splash text reads: In order to avoid losing everything, I wanted to become strong, like that person…

IN WHICH WE HAVE A CLEAR THROUGH-LINE BETWEEN KUROGANE AND SYAORAN? BOTH GAINING STRENGTH FOR THE SAME REASON? AND IT GOING OUT OF CONTROL FOR BOTH OF THEM?

For Kurogane his trauma led him down a path of increasing violence where he didn’t value life as much and just wanted to kill people to get stronger. For Syaoran his soul broke so he was forced to follow his clone programming and killed presumably WAY MORE people than even Kurogane could ever have dreamed of, leaving countless worlds devastated in the name of “protecting Sakura” and retrieving the feathers. 

Dark parallels dark parallels!

But eventual misuse of power besides, the splash text sounds like it’s from Syaoran’s POV as he remembers admiring Kurogane’s strength and how he wanted to protect people like Kurogane does. And it’s the past tense that makes it so interesting - as if his soul is awake after all, and he’s thinking back on his memories with the Tsubasa family through this final confrontation. 

Which is only fanning my hopes that he’s planning a ruse and whispered to Lava Lamp to play along. And even more tragic that to sell the ruse he had to MASSIVELY STAB Lava Lamp, absolutely wreck Fai and Kurogane until they were too injured to stand, and kill countless clones. 

So, like. A convincing ruse to say the least!

And we haven’t even talked about the image! Kurogane and Syaoran back to back in Outo! Kurogane holding his sword and Syaoran mirroring his pose but holding wet clothing instead! The matching white top and black pants of their different outfits! Kurogane smiling as he explains and Syaoran listening attentively!

While they stand under a Sakura tree. 

Which (like in the Hanshin cover) is an accurate detail to the setting they were in! The park this training took place in had a Sakura tree in it, but here a branch of the tree is visibly cutting them off from each other. Which makes me want to scream in how appropriate that is - because even here, in Syaoran’s memory, the presence of ‘Sakura’ (and the clone programming that makes him focus on the feathers) is cutting him off from the connection he remembers forming. Despite their bond the Sakura tree is in his way from actually reaching Kurogane - just like his missing soul would have wrenched any feelings for his family away from him, and here in the final battle his need to follow Evil Wolverine’s orders keeps him from even speaking to his family, even if he DOES remember their bond. 

WHICH IT SEEMS LIKE HE MIGHT. 

[cataclysmicamomile]

I got major Outer Science vibes from the latest chapter of Wind Breaker... Those snakes...

[lachoco]

Blooming Cherry Branch Photo Print

[team7-headquarter]

The Hokage sensei — Future Hokage student pipeline goes like this:

⠀

(1) HASHIRAMA — (2) TOBIRAMA

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ |

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ (3) HIRUZEN⠀⠀⠀* ( FUCK DANZO )

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀¦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ |

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Jiraiya⠀⠀(5) TSUNADE

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀|

⠀⠀⠀(4) MINATO

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀|

⠀⠀⠀(6) KAKASHI

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀|

⠀⠀⠀(7) NARUTO⠀ ( Shadow Hokage Sasuke )

⠀

Conclusion: if you're not the student of a Hokage, you won't become a Hokage. Unless you are a brother or like a brother to the current Hokage, in which case there's some possibility.

[hi-technique]

[quotablefanfiction]

Touya sat at the kitchen table, triangulating between a medical text, a cookbook, and a book of magic. Cooking for Yue was more difficult than your average menu planning.

Feeding magical constructs can get complicated (chp. 1)

Sweet and Spicy by Branch (AO3) Card Captor Sakura – General/Teen – Kinomoto Touya/Tsukishiro Yukito/Yue #Post Series #Drama #Romance

Touya keeps trying to draw Yue out, and Yue wrestles with his fear of losing again.

Part 8 of the Bamboo, Pine and Peach series (AO3)

[coffee-with-a-stranger]

Cherry Blossoms at Branch Brook Park in Newark, NJ