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prompt: sycamore
His body is unyielding
under my touch
like the sycamore
to mother nature,
but just as the tree
gives into the wind,
he gave into me.
-EL
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I am learning to imagine the future:
My sycamore tree began life in the gravel at the edge of a parking lot. If trees can feel pain, that is a painful, unlucky death. I carefully dug it up and put it in a pot I made out of a disposable cup.
Hello small one. This world may be cruel, but I will not be.
I decided to take care of it, not expecting it to survive, and when my sycamore tree unfurled one tiny leaf and then another, it chiseled a tiny foothold in my terrified brain, the kind of brain that doesn't remember a world before the atomic bomb and before 9/11.
I googled the lifespans of trees. My neurons had to stretch and expand to accommodate what I learned: My sycamore tree may live five hundred years. It's hard to think something so big. In twenty years, my baby sycamore tree will be three stories tall, and the home of many creatures. In five years, my sycamore tree will be taller than I am. In one year, it will be summer.
There's this concept called sense of foreshortened future where people who have lived through trauma can't conceptualize a future for themselves because deep down they don't expect to survive, When I look forward, all I see is fire and death, melting ice and burning sky. We were raised Evangelical. All we see is Judgment Day, except there is no heaven.
But now there is a tiny gap in the wall, a crack in the door of my cell
and on the other side, I see a tree
There is, in the future, a great old sycamore tree, full of clean winds and the stir of a thousand wings. A hundred years from now. Fifty years from now. There will be forests in that world. There will be a world.
It takes courage, but we have to imagine it.
Most tree species can live in excess of three or four hundred years. I think I'm learning something. I think there are ancient voices saying hello small one, touch the dirt and the leaves, for now you are part of something that cannot die
in 2030 I will be thirty years old and the world will not have ended and there will still be hummingbirds, and we will have photos of the stars more beautiful than we can now imagine.
I planted an Eastern Redcedar; they may live nine hundred years. There will be nine hundred years. The people in that time will remember us. Maybe we will meet the aliens (hi aliens!).
I will blow out the candles on many birthday cakes in a world where there are wolves in dark forests far from home. I am learning to imagine the future. I learned recently that elk were reintroduced to the Appalachian Mountains after over a hundred years of extirpation, and that they are expanding their range.
That tiny crack I can see through now opens a tiny bit more:
Maybe elk will pass through my hometown, maybe there will be a forest where the pasture is on the high hill that I can see from my home
say it, say it, say it: ten years, thirty years, a hundred years from now
I am learning to imagine the future. There is a crack in the wall of this prison, of this machine, of this darkness, and through it, I see a tree.
Decided on a whim to redraw a frame from the Pokémon XY animatic i did 4 years ago about Lysandre! The new game announcement has me thinking about them again, and i couldn't resist a cheeky redraw :]
The most beautiful man in Kalos
I wish I had a cool caption for this. I don't. Enjoy your PerfWorld angst.
Again drawing from twitter! Did a small little gif ( ˘ ³˘)♥
Сайкамор такая милашка... а впрочем как и всегда *0*
𝙻𝚢𝚜𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎 & 𝚂𝚢𝚌𝚊𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎 (𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚊)
I know everyone and their mom has done professor amie but I don’t care
this is a shitty scan and I’m sorry
My pal Sammy told me recently that she’s having trouble drawing trees, so I made her a cheat sheet showing the major visual features of 8 common British trees. Whatever you want to learn to do, someone on the internet already knows how to do it and has made a tutorial. XD
Here's the design for PurpleFrost!Sycamore
This is one of the first designs I've thought about sooo yep!
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Edit:
I thought that maybe it'd be a good idea to link the AU explanation here to clear things up
Professor Layton - Loop Edit (I tried to do)
Hope you enjoy it!
Professor Layton Edit - Descole ‘Who are you Really?’
Hope you enjoy it!
Desmond Sycamore in a new outfit
(I'm trying to practice more on drawing full person drawings, side profile and background drawings. Also I didn’t know if the glasses or no glasses looked better!)
Hope you like it!
Happy Early Halloween!
Desmond Sycamore’s Vampire Halloween Costume!
I wanted to make some of halloween themed art for the season and made this. I might make more Professor characters dressed up.
Halloween Desmond ~ Victorian Ghost Costume
This took a little longer to finish but I hope turned out alright! (First time I had to figure out how to draw a victorian chair thought its mostly covered, but I happy with it!)
Hope you enjoy it and have a splendid autumn!
Thought I might reblog it here too since it’s Professor Layton Related.
Desmond as Howl
I wanted to draw something that would make me happy and relieve a bit of stress so I drew Desmond in one of my favorite clips clip from my favorite Ghibli movie so, here he is.
I hope you like it as well!
Posting it here to wish you a Happy Holiday!
Here is a Desmond Ornament drawing,
I couldn’t draw the Desmond as Drosselmeyer because a lot of things came up (and a bit of art block) that finally when I got the chance to draw I didn’t have the time so I hope this is alright.
There is one with background and a transparent one if you’d want. I hope you like it!
Anyway Happy Holidays and I hope you have absolutely wonderful time!