#asphodels

Branched Asphodel - Abrótea-de-primavera (Asphodelus ramosus)

Carnaxide/Portugal (18/01/2025)

They are largely associated with death and in greek mythology there's the asphodel meadows where most ordinary souls are sent to live. They also often appear with persephone. There are a few different types, and at least white, yellow and pink ones. They also have alkaloids that are harmful to sheep etc, but they lose toxicity in summer because they dry

Here are asphodelus ramosus and asphodelus aestivus

Attack on Titan's Levi and Petra.

(Also uploaded at deviantart by my username safirefate)

I ship 'em. It's probably never going to be canon (there are hints tho *winkwink*), but I ship 'em. Seriously, it's such a tragically beautiful pairing, I absolutely love it.

The flowers are Asphodels btw. In flower language, it means "my regrets follow you to the grave". I had used these same flowers in a fanfic from a different fandom as well, but I believe it fits this pairing too. If you are familiar of Levi's character, the concept of choices and regrets is very important to him. He prefers to live life without regrets, however he was definitely hit hard with the lost of his original squad, and in the anime they had put particular attention to Petra and his reaction towards her death, therefore hinting that SOMETHING must be going on between them...again, not canon, but we diehard Rivetra fans can only assume and dream, right? If he did regret something once in a while, not being there to save her and his team would be one of them. 

PS. Yeah yeah, asphodels dont exactly look like that, but I wanted them red to mirror her spilled blood. It was originally roses, but that's overrated. K? K.

Side note: Due to life in general after becoming a veterinarian (hurrah), I haven't exactly been as 'creative' as before. It's been 2 years actually since I last drew something, or at least completed it. This is the result after my creativity hiatus. I'm glad it didn't turn out so bad...I had thought lack of practice might make me rusty but I guess I did well, maybe a tad bit better than what I initially thought (although with the coloring part, I had to reacquaint myself with Photoshop again). I apologize if there are bits of coloring/editing mistakes...time was not exactly on my side while I was working on this. But I like how it turned out in the end, and I hope you did too.

I'm hoping to find more time to get back into art, maybe hop back into writing fanfictions as well. I'll see to it.

the weight of that hammer is nothin compared to weight of our sins

flower portrait for daishi! i feel like i should know your tumblr why isn’t it coming to me..... but anyway, yes this is the same yellow from the other one, it just worked so well i had to use it here too * v *

Thank you so much!