E.K.'s Journal of Stuff

Hyacinths symbolize jealousy, a desire for forgiveness, joy, and sincerity, depending on the flower color. Yellow hyacinths are linked to jealousy, purple flowers mean you're seeking forgiveness, and blue hyacinths are tied to sincere care.

"Hey wait a minute, E.K.," you might be saying, "where's prompt #5?" Well, I wanted to do art for it and am like 45% done with the lineart, but I'm back in my native country for a week and, like a dummy, I forgot to bring my drawing tablet, so that's gonna have to wait. So! I've decided to go ahead with prompt #6 anyway because I already had an idea for what I wanted to do with it.

Anyway! Hyacinth! One of my current favorite webcomic characters is Hyacinth Lavande from Leif & Thorn by erinptah.


(You can reblog this one on tumblr btw.)

She is Thorn's teen goth niece with a strong interest in social justice. There are a lot of ways a character like this can go wrong, regardless of an author's own political leanings, but Erin pulls it off so well, it kind of blew my mind! I genuinely didn't expect to like Hyacinth as much as I did, yet here we are! Let's see what's so neat about her.

( Let me tell you about my blorbo. )

In the language of flowers, the bluebell is a symbol of humility, constancy, gratitude and everlasting love.

I had some drabble ideas, related to the symbology of today's prompt, but I didn't really feel like writing today. I looked up bluebells on Wikipedia for ideas and found out they're called Hasenglöckchen in German, which translated literally translates to "rabbit's small bell". So, I decided to draw a cute bunny with a bluebell bell around its neck!



I haven't practiced my inks enough and I haven't used pencils for coloring in ages—since I mostly do that digitally nowadays—so it's a bit wonky, but I'm happy with it! :3

Iris: They can represent faith, hope, courage, wisdom and admiration.

I'll admit, I'm not super into poetry. There's poems I like, sure, but it's not something I actively seek out, and I don't think about the ones I've read often. Furthermore, the poems (and art in general) I like tends to be more on the darker side, so not very likely to fit the above-linked prompt. Oh, and I prefer reading longfic, so drabbles are a total no-go.

But still, I wanted to think of something, for a little extra challenge. I was wracking my brain for several minutes, when a memory finally floated up from somewhere deep inside my mind. It was a soundbite of a man, voice both tired and full of hope, saying "But when I close my eyes I see a world where we all work together. And it's so. Fucking. Beautiful." That, my friends, is the final line of The Sufferer's Final Sermon by Justin Briner.

( Let me tell you about it. )

Hope you also learned something new today! You can pull it out as obscure nerd trivia at your nerdy parties aka DnD Discord server voice chats. Feel free to leave a comment, maybe share your own weird nerd trivia.