Here's A Second Little Watercolor Sketch! I Liked The Sabine One So Much I Decided To Draw Satine Too,

i love you because i know you

lily of the valley • 3x5 in • gouache

cowboy kanera auu

slowly working thru my kanera backlog,, i need to draw more of these designs i like em

Okay, okay, maybe The Queen's Thief crew in a SW au? Your choice on who!

HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE this was my sister's idea (ALSO I ALMOST FORGOT @aslansjedi has also written a super fun TQT in Star Wars au! Check it out here):

The Senate building was in an uproar. In times such as these, that wasn’t totally unprecedented. Usually it meant that Senator Organa or Senator Mothma had just delivered a speech that the more Empire loving representatives were losing their minds about.

This time, however, people were rioting over the results of the first vote on Sounis’s sovereignty. And also the second, which had occurred after the king, here to attend the vote, had had the doors barricaded. The second vote had gone in his favor—but the audacity of him commanding the Senate into voting his way wasn’t what was causing the chaos.

In the middle of all of this, Attolis Eugenides—husband of the queen of the planet Attolia, Queen’s Thief of Eddis (some said former. Others were far wiser), strolled through the halls of the Senate building. He was followed by a posse of flustered attendants, all of whom were trying to talk to him at once.

“Your Majesty—”

“I don’t think it’s wise—”

“Please, Your Majesty—”

The king ignored them all, as he often did. Looking decidedly regal in his embroidered and elegant garments, he stalked up to a door guarded by two stormtroopers. One of them stepped forward as if to stop him, but was skewered by a look that made him back down hastily.

The door hissed open, revealing a small sitting room. Far from the nicest in the Senate building, it was out of the way and held a tall man, sitting in a chair, having coffee. He looked up, and the look on his scarred face was startled, but pleased. Sitting at the same table was a woman with short hair and a smile a man would die to earn, but she was not the object of the king’s attention. The king of Sounis was.

Gen cocked an eyebrow at him as the door hissed shut behind him. “You shot the Emperor?”

“You gave me the gun,” Sophos protested.

Early bumblebee/ängshumla, and Buff-tailed bumblebee/mörk jordhumla. Värmland, Sweden (June 3, 2022).

Small hands,

Wrapping hope in a box

That will never

be opened.

Fingerprints left in clay

That crumbles as it dries to dirt beneath the tires of a car already gone;

Life written in streaks of purple glue,

Secret writing fading faster than I can read,

A story no one will ever

Care to decipher.

Small feet

Waiting by the door unsure;

uncaring if they are going in or out

Because the cold is just cold

And they don’t know yet how hard

That it can bite

That life will be

One day

When the car that picks them up is their own

And the ground beneath their boots is a foundation

Built and broken

By those they followed into

adulthood...

And one day

Those Feet,

Frozen by the cold

And by boots grown too small,

Will walk back to the schoolhouse doors that no longer fit them,

And Those Fingers

Will let go of still small hands

And

Pray

That Someone

Still knows how to wrap up hope.

Thanks Snips! I’ve never done this before, but let’s see how it goes:

Favorite color: Blue. Any sort of blue, really, but the best is a bright clean blue that’s just a little on the green side.

Listening: currently, my worship music playlist, which very heavily features Rich Mullins.

Reading: Out of the Silent Planet, by C. S. Lewis. His whole space trilogy is just so good!

Craving: There’s a specific sort of dumpling that is made one of the countries that I grew up in that I can never make since they need to be steamed and I don’t have a steamer. I’m always in the mood for those.

Coffee or Tea: Tea. Always. Especially black tea with milk and sugar.

Sleeping: Somehow, I’ve had time recently for a ton more sleep than I normally get, but my days are so busy that I’m no less tired. :|

Place to Visit: Ironically, I’m sort of a home body. I miss my Central Asia. I’d go back any day.

I don’t really know how the tagging works, but how about…. @kanerallels and @fictionadventurer?

Here and Now Questions

tagged by @the-funtime-autocrat

Favorite Color: pink 🌸🩷🌸 💓🌺💖🌷🪷💮

Listening: Zeki Müren- Sana Muhtacım (I can't stop listening I've been singing this all day)

Reading: A Turkish crime novel called "Beyoğlunun En Güzel Abisi"

Craving: Pizza

Coffee or Tea: Coffee ☕☕☕

Sleeping: 6-7 hours if I'm lucky, I have trouble sleeping these days.

Place to Visit: probably my aunts house which it is in another city. But I really would like to visit Kazakhstan, I have this friend there I want to see.

tagging: @iliyarambles @not-easily-conquered @straynoahide @jester-to-the-king @sayonaramisa

A snippet from my WIP for the "slice of life" alternate option:

Sabine closed her eyes and let it all sink into her skin. The sharp tang of the food on her tongue. The similarly sharp smell of the streak of paint she knew was still there, unnoticed, on Ezra’s collar. The cool metal of the tabletop beneath her fingertips. The curved edge of her plate. The rustle of movement and laughter all around her, Ezra’s fingers pressed against hers (I can always count on you) and the sound as he whispered in her ear, “It’s like home, isn’t it?”

I have no idea who else is doing this game, so I'm going to tag anyone who wants to join in and hasn't yet!

Let’s play the:

Here’s your open invitation. 😁 If you’re seeing this post and you have a current WIP for Sabezra Week, then you can play the Sabezra Week Tag Game!

It’s really simple:

Reblog this post

Add a WIP snippet of any kind

Tag at least one Sabezra Week friend

Post

That’s it! We can’t wait to see what you’re up to!

As always, if you have any questions, Ask Us Anything!

Feeling accomplished today because I managed to take this picture from Harry Potter Order of the Phoenix:

And adapted it to create my own toad cable pattern!

If anyone is aware of any existing cable patterns that look like frogs or toads, please tell me. I would like to compare, and perhaps tweak mine some more.

Coby Whitmore - Girl by a Lagoon

Had a kindergartener walk up to me today and ask me why I always wear the same thing. Now I’m going through my entire closet of “teacher clothes” in my head, trying to figure out if I somehow wore the same outfit this day last week by mistake.