according to my app an early buttercup, that's the first time I've seen those bluebells out here 🤩

Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

The origin of the modern slang term 'to yeat' something (probably).

I think I can rule out a career as a nature photographer 🤣💗
Hope you're having a good weekend 🌞

two bud vases of purple and white violets on top of a dresser

💜🤍Violet Season 🤍💜

Charlotte wishing everyone the best weekend 🪺💗🌻

A cute tabby cat curled inside of a shark bed

#Caturday Check In:
Still the cutest baby✔️

A painting of a Gothic monastery window

It is a most noble ruin, of immense size, and full of beautiful and romantic bits; there is a legend that a white lady is seen in one of the windows.

#BookWormSat

📖Dracula by Brom Stoker
🖼️ Carl Gustav Carus

I will make sure to take my phone with me tomorrow ☺️🌸🌺

I'm with you on that, I love wildflowers!! Lol, be good and don't overexert yourself no matter how hard it is 😆

Really hoping you're feeling better 🫂

Perfect weather--not too cold to be outside, but cool enough it won't be too busy at the new (to me) forest preserve I want to explore 😄

A grotesque skull with bloodshot eyes and skeletal hands peeking through the pulled back mosquito netting over some unsuspecting people we cannot see

The Phantom of Kohada Koheiji by Katsushika Hokusai popping in to say "Hi!" this #PhantomsFriday

Link to history of legend/artist:
getdailyart.com/en/18453/kat...

Learn about Robin Hood, Peter Pan, and the Green Knight in my essay, “The Green Man and His Friends: Harbingers of Spring in Folklore and Literature” published in The Fairy Tale Magazine’s gorgeous Wildwood Issue! 🍃

www.fairytalemagazine.com/post/wildwoo...

#GreenMan #Robinhood #peterpan

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Good morning!

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A spectral woman in white plays a piano in a parlour, while a shocked man looks on.

Spirit at the Piano, by George Roux circa 1885.

#PhantomsFriday

A black and white illustration of a forest. there is a couple standing before a circular break in the trees showing a clearing with more trees.

According to lore, any lone tree is attractive to fairies, but the most irresistible combo is oak, ash, and hawthorn trees, called the fairy triad. One should be especially wary of venturing into a forest featuring this trio of trees.

#FolkloreThursday
🎨Edmond Hédouin

I knew I could trust you 😄

The Voynich/Cipher manuscript.
Is it a herbal almanac written in code? Is it a joke so old we can't get the humor? An invented astrological language? Does it hold the mysteries of the universe? No one knows! But it sure is fun to look at.
#WyrdWednesday

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if I wrote recipes I would always adjust the yield amount to account for the fact we are going to eat at least two cookies worth of dough per person baking

From The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
🖼️Migishi Kōtarō

A painting of multiple butterflies

"Buckle down, Winsocki, go and catch a falling star. Clay still lies, but blood's a rover, so I should be called kill-devil all the parish over."

... You know better than to expect a butterfly to know your name. All they know are songs and poetry, and anything else they hear.

#WyrdWednesday

A painting of a young girl creating a canvas and then drawing flowers onto the world. the text overlaid reads: all the beauty in this world, that is destroyed, oh, you are so brave, to keep making more.

Happy World Art Day🎨🖌️💓

A circular painting of a woman in medieval -looking dress holding the head of a nearby unicorn in her lap

Unicorns were usually thought of as male creatures until the publication of Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn.
#FairyTaleTuesday
🖼️Susan Seddon Boulet

Do you love classic literature? We do. Do you want to discuss literary adaption, critical theory, and Kate bush? We do! Do you love gothic literature? Come join us! Abstracts are easy going and due by May 15th as long as they are on topic 🖤✨📖📚
(Link below!)

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A photo of clouds, dense in some spots, rays of sun shining through in others.

-In Wonder-

I look up and see,
women in floating gowns,
women riding dragons,
women flying by on broomsticks.

I am glad
there is someone
who could tell me
what clouds are made of.

But for awhile,
I'd like to wonder.

really, it's okay, to confuse the terms of things like tarts/pies or dragonflies/damselflies in casual conversation (excluding little kids from this because, first of all it's adorable, but also, being pedantic is how children learn)

A beautiful illustration of three women and a waterfall: one is holding a lily that a unicorn is sticking its horn into and two are floating on their backs with only their heads and necks visible in the foreground.

An ethereal painting of a woman in a dress that matches the sky behind her, there are stylized trees next to her she's standing on a cliff with the ocean in the background. She is gently. holding the muzzle of a softly glowing unicorn in her hand.

Art and hope in honor of #NationalUnicornDay
(I am late, but I don't think unicorns conform to deadlines either 🦄🖤)

First Image: Michael Hague
Second: Susan Seddon Boulet

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