Spring has sprung. Unfortunately, so has everything else.

Some people see rain and think flowers. Hard Mode sees rain, wilted blooms, and a suspicious increase in funeral arrangements.

APRIL SHOWERS BRING MAY FUNERALS takes one of spring’s most relentlessly optimistic sayings and gives it the appropriate correction. Beneath a vintage umbrella hang three thoroughly defeated flowers, turning a cheerful seasonal proverb into a beautifully gloomy little forecast.

It’s not pessimism. It’s seasonal pattern recognition.

Part of the Hard Mode IRL SOFT REALM™, this design combines antique botanical illustration, Victorian ornament, muted florals, and dry gallows humor. It has the charm of an old seed-packet label from a garden where absolutely nothing good happens after the rain.

Details

• Original Hard Mode IRL artwork
• APRIL SHOWERS BRING MAY FUNERALS banner typography
• Antique umbrella with three wilted hanging flowers
• Muted olive, aged cream, and dusty plum palette
• Vintage botanical and seed-packet-inspired composition
• Fine engraved linework and subtle weathered texture
• Decorative old-world floral border
• Part of the Hard Mode IRL SOFT REALM™ style
• Made for goth gardeners, gloomy romantics, folklore lovers, introverts, and anyone suspicious of cheerful sayings

Every garden has a season. Some are just more funeral-adjacent than others.