Okay, Okay, Maybe The Queen's Thief Crew In A SW Au? Your Choice On Who!

Been playing with watercolors lately. Here's a little sketch of Sabine for you all.

Bright Morning - Kaoru Yamada 

Japanese , b. 1975 -

Oil on canvas

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

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

Completely useless information, but I just discovered that Obi-Wan's name could be a good fit for the song Eleanor Rigby.

General Kenobi

Greets his opponents with charm

And a smug "Hello There"

And incredible hair

General Grievous

Gets out his lightsabers--

Four, just to step up his game

Then goes up in flames

Somebody please help me make a fitting chorus.

“Anakin is a normal, good kid. And how does somebody who is normal and good turn bad? What are the qualities, what is it that we all have within us that will turn us bad?” -George Lucas

What if I showed you the worst version of yourself?

Who would you be if you’d followed a different path?

The one where you'd sought power in the face of powerlessness?

Or allowed the desire to prove yourself feed your ruthlessness and cunning?

Until your vanity proclaimed that the ends justified the means?

What if greed had become your creed?

Or your sense of duty blinded you?

What if fear strangled you into complacency? Into apathy?

Or pride wielded the weapons of your self-righteousness?

What if grief and anger consumed you?

Who would you be?

Ariyoshi Kondo | 1826-1840

by 下班后的阳仔 on xiaohongshu

absolutely wild how our view of self is always going to be so colored by our internal life that others can perceive us in ways that take us by surprise

Every once in a while, I look through the collection of Children's books that I have inherited from my parents and grandparents, and remember again what gems some of them are. I looked today at my favorite fairy tale book from my childhood, and thought I'd share some of these amazing illustrations here, because they absolutely deserve the appreciation:

These illustrations are by Janet and Anne Grahame Johnstone, and I have always adored their work. The detail! The imagination! I could go on and on...