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RENEWAL A Green Man found on church buildings can signify regeneration or renewal; branches or vines may sprout from the mouth. Such carvings are also a powerful reimagining of the eerie or uncanny; a human face dominated by leaves 🎨Bamberg Cathedral #GothicSpring
Kawaii dark fantasy black cat with chubby cheeks, enormous glowing crimson eyes, and soft midnight fur. Growing from its back and head are several cursed crocus flowers in deep blood red and dark purple, their stems curling like vines around its body. The flowers pulse with a faint red glow. Tiny petals fall as the cat moves, turning to ash on the ground. Sitting on an ancient stone windowsill in an abandoned cottage, moonlight streaming through broken glass. Expression: sweet, purring, doesn't understand why the flowers won't stop growing. Style: Creepy-cute dark fantasy, cursed familiar aesthetic, gothic kawaii, soft moonlight against shadowy cottage, bittersweet adorable. Textures: soft fluffy fur, delicate flower petals, crumbling stone, moonlight dust. Hues: deep black fur, crimson and purple crocuses, glowing red eyes, silvery moonlight. --ar 4:5
Kawaii dark fantasy crocus spirit with pale cream-white skin, chubby cheeks, and enormous glowing crimson-red eyes with tiny slit pupils. Long hair made of delicate crocus petals in deep blood red and dark purple, with a single white stripe. Tiny thorny vines wrap around their arms like jewelry. Sitting inside a giant cursed crocus flower that glows with faint red light, the petals dripping with what looks like dew but shimmers ruby. Behind them, a misty graveyard at twilight. Expression: innocent, doesn't know they're cursed, just happy to bloom. Style: Creepy-cute dark fantasy, cursed flower aesthetic, gothic kawaii, soft crimson glow against misty darkness, hauntingly adorable. Textures: soft petals for hair, smooth porcelain skin, dripping ruby dew, misty graveyard stones. Hues: pale cream skin, deep crimson petals, dark purple accents, glowing red eyes, silver moonlight. --ar 4:5
Kawaii dark fantasy ghost child with translucent pale grey skin, chubby transparent cheeks, and enormous gentle crimson eyes that flicker like dying embers. Wearing a tattered white dress stained with faint red at the hem. Floating above a field of cursed crocuses, each flower glowing soft crimson, each petal holding a tiny shimmering memory orb. In their hands, a small watering can made of a cracked acorn, pouring not water but soft red light onto the flowers. Expression: peaceful, ancient, tenderly caring for each cursed bloom. Style: Creepy-cute dark fantasy, ghost gardener aesthetic, melancholic kawaii, soft crimson glow against misty field, hauntingly beautiful. Textures: translucent ghost form, delicate flower petals, shimmering memory orbs, cracked acorn can. Hues: pale translucent grey, soft crimson flowers and eyes, misty whites, deep twilight purples. --ar 4:5
Kawaii dark fantasy crocus spirit with pale cream-white skin, chubby cheeks, and enormous glowing crimson-red eyes with tiny slit pupils. Long hair made of delicate crocus petals in deep blood red and dark purple, with a single white stripe. Tiny thorny vines wrap around their arms like jewelry. Sitting inside a giant cursed crocus flower that glows with faint red light, the petals dripping with what looks like dew but shimmers ruby. Behind them, a misty graveyard at twilight. Expression: innocent, doesn't know they're cursed, just happy to bloom. Style: Creepy-cute dark fantasy, cursed flower aesthetic, gothic kawaii, soft crimson glow against misty darkness, hauntingly adorable. Textures: soft petals for hair, smooth porcelain skin, dripping ruby dew, misty graveyard stones. Hues: pale cream skin, deep crimson petals, dark purple accents, glowing red eyes, silver moonlight. --ar 4:5
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Image is a limestone sculpture from 5th century BCE showing Helen of Troy being born.
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Image is from the "Tacuinum Sanitatis," a medieval handbook on health.
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Just as people used to inform their bees of a bereavement, the same courtesy was shown to favored plants. A little scrap of black cloth would be fixed to the stem so they could grieve rather than pine away waiting for the person who would not return. art Elizabeth Keyser
GHOSTLY & VAMPIRIC BRIDES image from La morte amoureuse (The Deathly Lover), 1836; Mihály Zichy - A kísértetek órája (The Ghost Hour), 1880 #GothicSpring
UNDEAD WEDDNG In 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' (1992) Lucy Westenra is buried in her bridal gown; thus she undergoes a death wedding awakening as the bride of Dracula; the Victorian mourning gown itself uncannily resembled a bridal dress in reverse, complete with veil #GothicSpring
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'Apple tree, apple tree, hide me,
So the old witch can't find me
If she does she'll break my bones
And bury me under the marble stones'.
(From 'The Old Witch: Joseph Jacobs/art William Wiesner)
GHOULISH GARDENS Step inside a 500 year old gothic garden via the mouth of a mythical #monster reclaimed by nature. The Garden of Bomarzo, or The Villa of Wonders is in Viterbo, Lazio; created in the 1600s in the valley below the Castle of Orsini #GothicSpring
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FAIRY BRIDE In 1915 Frances Evering & Dotty Buchanan married in full fairy garb. A decadent nod to the power of the fae #GothicSpring #FairytaleTuesday
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