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According to J.M. Barrie's "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens", fall is the time when the little people weave their summer curtains from skeleton leaves.
Arthur Rackham beautifully illustrated this scene in what is probably one of his most inspired works.
#FairyTaleTuesday
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach, "Sphinx with Undine" (1902)
The two ladies, stone and flesh, are looking at the sea and who knows which kind of conversation they might be having.
#SymbolistSaturday
Today's writing progress:
🖖spent two hours figuring out the 1702 equivalent of "we're being hailed";
🕺💃almost forgot it takes two to tango, so I fixed it;
🗡️a side character has a thing called tesák, which is a sword but means 'fang' and no one will explain it.
#amwriting
🖼️Frederic Leighton, "Idylle"
...and a nice evening to you all.
Today's writing progress:
🐉my main character's father talked about the many problems he has to face for being... my main character's father, basically;
🦇paid a little homage to Andrzej Sapkowski;
🔥for the first time in forever, fire isn't that bad.
#amwriting
"On the outside we look proper and prim,
but we battle nobility's ill-advised whim:
shameless and shining, we always ask why,
for what cooks in our cauldron could call down the sky".
S.J. Tucker, "Song of the Witches"
#LegendaryWednesday
How do you kill the hydra? Well, it depends.
Burning the neck to prevent regeneration is a recent version featuring additional help: the storyteller is trying to explain why labors were originally 10 and now we count 12. Sorry, Heracles: this one doesn't count.
#FaustianFriday
In Tolkien's notes, the Mountains of Tiranny were created by Morgoth in order to conceal his fortress Angband. When the Dark Lord was defeated, Eärendil slew Ancalagon the Black and the great dragon crashed upon these mountains, destroying them.
🖼️Manuel Castañón
#WyrdWednesday
Today's writing progress:
🍎my main character and his father had a deep conversation about apples, so I had to research ancient varieties and connect myths and God how I love writing;
⏲️we're two minutes to midnight;
🪶the Poet finally knows everything.
#amwriting
Today's writing progress:
🕯️did a brief research on the mythology of fireflies, because my main character needed to shed some light and he doesn't know how to breathe fire (yet);
👻finally had a chat with the ghost;
🍄spoke ill of some mushrooms.
#amwriting