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@MaeneSigne @LizzieJarrett9 Me too :-) ... and I always feel like Figuralegoric the Goth from Astérix légionnaire when I wear my heavy, fur-padded leather coat...
@ABeaumontWriter Since the Scots all famously descend from the Egyptian princess Scota, that's, of course, the Set animal Sha she brought with her and mightly impressed her new Pictish neighbours.
"Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path, for he was as cunning as Tabaqui, as bold as the wild buffalo, and as reckless as the wounded elephant. But he had a voice as soft as wild honey dripping from a tree, and a skin softer than down.”
#Fairytaletuesday
“Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.”
Victorian novelist & poet Thomas Hardy died #OTD 1928
🖼️ John Constable "Stonehenge" 1835
"He was the first to realise the danger arising from contempt of technique... and that an ill-drawn coloured cartoon can never be the supreme achievement in art" (Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911)
Leading German classicist painter Anselm Feuerbach died #OTD 1880 in Venice
“A sad tale's best for winter: I have one of sprites and goblins” (Winter's Tale)
Well advised was who watched out during #GothicAdvent for Krampus, Belsnickel & Hans Trapp. During Twelvetide, Rauhnächte, bleak nights, even more dark things go bump in the night.
#Gothic12Tide
@bjorn_stjerne @FaustianFriday There's even an app for it now, naturally! Add-on available for most mobile payment services...
@habit_of_art Bavarian Baroque churches make me run away screaming :-) ... churches I'd worship in... ⬇️