The Silver Eye Appreciation Week

[nerdarians]

Hey everyone! I was contacted by Laura’s sister to let y’all know that she’s putting together a little google doc to write encouraging notes to Laura for her to see at the end of the year.

Feel free to let other fans that aren’t on tumblr know about it too, I also shared it on discord.

Here is the google doc 😊

[tseappreciationweek]

Late submission for Justice - Nathan’s idea of Justice is to simply annihilate everything. This was one of the concepts I did for The Imperator Nathan Playlist on Spotify (username thelostie815). It goes with the song Natural by Imagine Dragons.

[purpleshrimp777]

@tseappreciationweek Day 6 (8/9/2025)

August 9: Kindness OR Free Day

Free Day/Kindness: I made this silly little edit back in May for my friend’s graduation so I’m posting it as my “free day”. It also serves as a little act of kindness by making and giving her a personal TSE graduation “card”.

This was such a fun week for my first time participating in TSE Appreciation Week! This year was very reflection/introspection heavy for me which I personally really appreciate and value, especially with how significant the prompts were to me and my journey so far. It was nice to relive some memories and be grateful/thankful that they happened, and this just felt this as my moment of gratitude/saying thanks to my journey. I do hope and plan that next year I’ll try to make and post more artworks to celebrate. Thank you to the Nerdarians who organized this and to Laura for making and sharing such a wonderful webcomic and community! Looking forward to the journey ahead!!

[valiantarcher]

TSEWeek 2025, Day 6 - Free Day (@tseappreciationweek) This was a watercolour sketch I did of the Novalog with a Weaver several years back. It looks rather unfinished here, but unfortunately the sketch got ruined when I inked it, so this is it.

[lover-of-the-starkindler]

TSE Week 2025 | @tseappreciationweek | Day Six - Free Day

now as an 8.5x11 printable paper doll + outfits

[lady-merian]

@tseappreciationweek day 6: Free day

“First of all, I’m not Greek. Second of all, That’s not me, THIRD OF ALL THAT’S NOT WHAT THE SIGN SAYS.”

“So…does this mean you’re not hungry for a foot long yogurt hot dog?”

[lover-of-the-starkindler]

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Day 6 - Kindness

[acatinacupoftea]

Last one! Apen and Aquil, reuniting :3

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[purpleshrimp777]

@tseappreciationweek Day 5 (8/8/2025)

Day 5 Prompt: Patience OR Adaptation

Patience: These are probably two of my favorite “romantic” scenes in TSE (although as I was rereading to find these pages, there are other really cute scenes too). The patience is for me. That if it’s in God’s plan/will for me to have a long-term partner/get married at some point in my life, I will continue to wait patiently to be able to recreate these TSE scenes with them. ❤️💞

In the more realistic, short-term, I’ll be patiently waiting until I can move into my college dorm to put this on display to decorate my room. 😍 (I also need to have patience in finding a good colored printer, bc the one I had at home did not want to print the pages the right colors today, so photo editing came in handy today lol). Thank you, Laura, for making this print available on your Etsy!

[valiantarcher]

TSEWeek 2025, Day 5 - Adaptation (@tseappreciationweek) I would love to see The Silver Eye as a homeschool play. I have no idea how one would do it, but it could be such fun. Ideally, Enel would be played by a ham and Apen by some guy really serious about acting. Berlyne would probably be the coveted lead actress role, but perhaps some of the reworking necessary to turn it into a play could provide some of the other female characters with a bit larger roles.

Alternatively: The Silver Eye as an opera. It's certainly dramatic enough!

Also, I didn't know I wanted a Lego video game adaptation until I saw @letsdrawbricks' Lego artwork, but one would be delightful.

[lover-of-the-starkindler]

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Day Five - Patience

[acatinacupoftea]

Here are Ruya and Marcus! I bet they (and us readers) will probably need a lot of patience until they are rescued ;-;

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[lady-merian]

@tseappreciationweek day five: adaptation.

I think I like it just as it is, but if it were to be adapted into anything I can most easily see it done as an animated tv series. Preferably in Laura’s style. The thing is, I think the current comic format still gives a great sense of movement so the main thing you’d gain from this would be voices and sound effects. Though Apen looking through the Silver Eye and seeing what certain things and people look like through it could have a really cool effect. So could flaming Nedarian hands and eye color shifts. I think voice casting could be tricky, and the troublesome thing about name pronunciation differences would come up so ultimately I like it as is.

[lady-merian]

@tseappreciationweek day 4: outfit

This one was the most fun. Full credit goes to @valiantarcher who not only gave me the idea to look for historical fashion outfits to draw characters in, but chose pictures and sent them to me when my wifi was down.

Two different versions of my favorite one here, and the original image

A few of the stages this one took

And some miscellaneous sketches

[lover-of-the-starkindler]

Berlyne Cosplay

TSE Week 2025 | @tseappreciationweek | Day Four - Outfit

As I was working on yesterday's paper doll outfit it occurred to me most of this iconic look from chapter 15 and 16 should be easy enough to find and put together.

ref one (concept art) | ref two (full length) | ref three (blouse) | ref four (blouse) | ref five (hem) | ref six (back full length) | ref seven (upper back)

Outfit components

black or dark gray long sleeve t-shirt (scoop neck, thumb holes)

matching leggings

green skirt (handkerchief hem)

white blouse (short puffed sleeves, deep cuff; stand or built up collar)

brown boots (knee high, front lacing)

brown corset/bustier/vest (overbust, eight panel, shoulder straps, double belts at waist)

the Silver Eye (telescope) and case (leather, shoulder strap)

My reading suggests that the skirt really is that easy--hip measurement = circumference of circle. Take the radius, add the desired length to the point, and double that. Make a square with the resulting measurement. Cut your circle in the middle and gather to a waistband. (The references say it's a four-point hem, but they also suggest it's a pretty full skirt. Not having draped anything similar I don't know if I'd add more panels or not...)

Then I ended up in the weeds trying to find tutorials on how to construct a telescope but most were more interested in putting in lenses then in discussing how to make it telescope. I just want a nice blog post circa 2013 on how to assemble the pieces...

If I wanted to be exact instead of good enough for the white blouse, dirndl blouse patterns seem promising, though my initial searches haven't turned up one with both the sleeve options and the collar I want.

Boots are probably expensive.

The most difficult piece has got to be the corset. I'm thinking invisible zipper in a side seam, and a custom fit pattern.

Yeah. Easy enough in theory!

[valiantarcher]

TSEWeek 2025, Day 4 - Outfit (@tseappreciationweek) I drew this back when we thought Melete was going to show up to rescue the Novalog crew. She should've shown up while it was sunny in the calm after the storm, and she would've been prepared for Enel's tricks this time.

[lover-of-the-starkindler]

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Day Four - Justice