Agaricus xanthodermus. The prefix “xantho-” is Greek for “yellow.” The yellow staining effect is really apparent in this mushroom

pokemon AU doodles featuring xan's parents' vaporeon

Konstantin Resch by Xanthos Georgiou

Christopher Le Brun (British, 1951) - Xanthus (1981)

tried to oppose the godlike powers of a turbulent river and got myself concussed. got dragged down stream & kept getting my ass obliterated by the current and the small stones along the river bed

The Capitol AU Baird Family 🕊️

Featuring Lucy Gray „all my of my family members are dead“ Bai…Snow, I have no chill ✨

A few side facts

Olive Pine (15) was the middle child of the three Baird siblings and definitely the more mature one, you couldn’t leave Brody green (17) alone especially not with two apple tall Lucy Gray

Munchkin Lucy Gray was a runner and possibly the first official member to wear a rope as kiddy leash

Adelynn Blue was the stricter parent, capable of instilling fear in her two children with just a single glare—except for little Lucy Gray, who seemed immune to it. Some might argue that she inherited that trait later on for her own fledglings. On the other hand, Vincent Yale was a more relaxed father, keeping an eye on the kids being was always ready to step in when necessary.

While inheriting her mothers dresses, the guitar came from her daddy

Lucy Grays Aunt Lorelei Maroon was not married at the time and kept the family name Baird. Her soon to be husband was killed by peacekeepers when she was pregnant with Maude Ivory. She lost her life shortly after Maude Ivory was born due to sickness and infection.

(Little fun fact: The Banjo Clementine is playing in the District AU was owned by Lorelei Maroon and gifted by Maude Ivory )

Barb Azure married her Gal down the road, and together they raised a daughter who tragically lost her parents at the tender age of three. Unfortunately, both Barb Azure and her partner passed away prematurely. Barb Azure succumbed to a lung disease at the age of 40, while Emily passed away at 55 from what was termed "old age." Josie Mink, who never married, succumbed to an untreatable heart disease like her mother at the age of 40.

In this household, we eagerly embrace the "Maude Ivory is Katniss's Grandma" theory, adding depth to the rebellion storyline, like a hidden family feud. Lucy Gray, unaware of her grandnieces, lost touch with Maude Ivory after her marriage, setting off on her own journey without saying goodbye. Lucy Gray meets Katniss for the first time at the Summer Ball after the victor tour, with a second meeting after the rebellion's success.

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Lucy Gray passed away at the age of 95, peacefully in her sleep. A decade after the public execution of her husband, Coriolanus Snow, marking her as the final Baird to depart from Panem 🥀

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If there are official names that I changed or got wrong my deepest apologies! I didn’t found or remembered them qwq

I got tired of shading this halfway through 😭Anyways imagine a world where AZ and Lysandre had an actual conversation with one another while AZ was locked away in his Illegal Holding Facility 😔 the observer is what AZ calls Zygrade in the comics so I'm pretending it's just a canon thing.

Another name for this comic is "AZ gets yelled at" !? sorry 💔 I like the idea that AZ's little brother was frustrated rather than just jealous, though of course his way of handling it was a bit extreme, trying to do a coup d'etat and dragging Kalos into war. Normal fight between brothers.

Fun fact: I HC that AZ has an older stepbrother (two actually, though one died before AZ became king) but he (still!) hates the guy and went out of his way to avoid mentioning him here. That particular brother is Korinna and Gurkinn's ancestor.

Sweet baby Draco doodle

From Harry Potter and the House of Slytherin, TRMILY by @minks-country-club 💜💜💜

I love Uncle Rick. He's a great dude (I think lol). But I will NEVER forgive him for how he wrote Achilles in The Last Olympian. If you know, you know.

desperately in need of ancient greece themed color-by-numbers where all the colors are things like "wine-dark" and "violet-tressed"

Achilles Hair is?

Homer described Achilles' hair as ξανθός/xanthos

But what does that mean?????????

Yellow Varieties

Welcome to this the sixth entry in Cool Colours. Yellow is wonderful and represents rather a unique case in this series' exploration. To look at the word at first glance, you would be forgiven for thinking that our word yellow has no links to Latin whatsoever. You would be both right and wrong, however. There is a link and a rather neat and unusual one. The word yellow is more closely connected to German 'gelb'. But it doesn't look like that either, you say. So, here is a brief glimpse at this lovely colour name's history. It stems primarily from the early German word 'gelwaz', to which the Italian 'giallo' is also related. Both stem ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European (henceforth PIE) word 'ghel-' which meant 'to shine'. Now PIE, is now widely believed to have been an early, now extinct language, from which most European languages and Sanskrit were all born. Now, here comes the Latin link. Latin is also descended from PIE and its word for pale yellow, helvus, comes from the same parent stem as German 'gelb'. So, it is linked to the word, it is just a relative that evolved slightly differently. Also, if you read the Latin helvus, pronouncing the 'v' as a 'w' (as many argue it should be) the connection with our 'yellow' becomes clearer.

Our trip through the colour yellow does not stop there. I have three further Classical terms for yellow for you that bequeathed us words in English. Let us start with Latin.

Have you ever read that you should get more of the vitamin Riboflavin (B2) in your diet? Well, the 'flavin' part of the word comes from the Latin flavus, meaning 'yellow', often a golden or reddish shade of yellow. 'What's a vitamin got to do with 'yellow'?' ,you ask. Well, the flavins are a group of organic compounds, from which Riboflavin is derived, and their colour is, you've got it, YELLOW. They are very important to life. So green might be life, but it appears yellow is, too.

Could your hair be described as 'fulvous'? No, it does not mean it is voluminous (full-vous, get it? Never mind). Again, this rather old-fashioned and probably forgotten word comes from another Latin word for 'yellow', this time fulvus, which denotes a brownish, tawny yellow. It was often used to describe lions.

Lastly, can I ask you if your daffodils betray a xanthic hue? So, we head over to the ancient Greeks for our penultimate yellow word of today. The Greek word ξανθος (xanthos) could denote hair that was blonde or even auburn, so again it can denote a reddish gold.

Crocus is our final shade today. Now, we see crocuses that are pink, blue, and yellow, but Greek word (κροκος) originally referred to the saffron plant, which yields a famous rich yellow colouring. There is even rather a sweet instance of it being used in a Greek text to describe the colour of egg-yolks.

The bright, cheerful colour yellow therefore, not only has a great etymological (i.e. word family) history, but it also has many different variations in Classical terms. EGG-sellent! Okay, there's a reason I'm a classicist not a comedian. I hope you enjoyed this instalment. See you on the next one.

the boys do fur/feather maintenance

Some character turnaround sheets !

I finished yva' and xanthos sheets a long time ago but I decided to put it all together along with the orginal concept art !

It's so werid to see how months changed my artstyle LOL

Yva and xan both were very important to zagreus at one point or another in his long life .

One was a mentor , a brother to him .

The other was his perception of what love was .

They are both long gone ,

All but remains is the heart of the fallen prince.

I hope to be able to draw them together soon !

Love them sm !

Nereid monument

* Xanthos, Lycia

* built in circa 390 BCE

* Also known as Tomb of Arbinas (king of Xanthos)

* British Museum

London, June 2022

(getting ass tossed down the riverbed) Im sorry (the raging current rises against me) I shouldnt be slaughtering all these people (getting trapped in mud) Maybe coping with my grief through killing with reckless abandon wasnt the best idea