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"Come away, O, human child!
To the woods and waters wild
With a fairy hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping
Than you can understand."
- William Butler Yeats

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2022-09-25

‘Her lips began to scorch,
That juice was wormwood to her tongue,
She loath’d the feast:
Writhing as one possess’d she leap’d and sung,
Rent all her robe, and wrung’ Goblin Market,
Christina Rossetti.

here for the darkening hours of a horror

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2022-09-24

“It is said that in Ulthar,..., no man may kill a cat; and this I can verily believe as I gaze upon him who sitteth purring before the fire. For the cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Cats of Ulthar

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2022-09-24

🚨 ATTENTION BOOKWORMS 🚨

I was wondering how a 'bookworm' is described in other languages 📚🐛

For example, I live in Poland and the locals use the phrase 'mól książkowy' which translates as the rather wonderful 'book moth'..! 😀📘🦋

Any other examples, friends?

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2022-09-24

“There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe”

Castellan of Otranto and father of the Gothic novel Horace Walpole was born 1717

🎨 Susanna Duncombe (c1800)

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2022-09-24

‘Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.’
Montaigne, The Complete Essays.
🖼️ Hebe, Carolus-Duran.

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2022-09-18

‘There is a faculty in man that will acknowledge the unseen. He may scout and scare religion from him; but if he does, superstition perches near.’
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, The Haunted Baronet and Others: Ghost Stories 1861-70.

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2022-09-18

It had become a glimmering girl
With apple blossom in her hair
Who called me by my name and ran
And faded through the brightening air.

'The Song of Wandering Aengus'


🖼️'Boreas',1903

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2022-09-18

Happy from my all-time favourite disasters 💜✨

Shy, anxious bookworms and the extroverted chaos entities who love them is a *highly* underrated dynamic, I promise. https://t.co/9KL620qZOr

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2022-09-16

just some little bookworms

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2022-09-15

hey hey bookworms!! 📖

i was in charge of making some of ‘s emotes!~ thank you so much for commissioning me! 💫💜

★ ★

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2022-09-12

"So they journeyed together, following the fleeing darkness into a wind that tasted like nails. The rind of the country cracked, and the flesh of it peeled back into gullies and ravines or shriveled into scabby hills."

- Peter S. Beagle
🎨 by Tore Billing

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2022-09-11

“The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed & rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth. These protruded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

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2022-09-10

‘He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest…things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles.’ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings.

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2022-09-10

I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.

Daphne duMaurier
Rebecca



artist not named

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2022-09-10

Third-grade fractions don't have to be overly complicated.
𝗕𝘂𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 👇
https://t.co/UOwGvSAdPe
Visit: https://t.co/rxSy4QkzOy

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2022-09-09

The story of a princess — possibly a fairy with power over animals — whose disappearance has a profound effect on a family. Alvan Fisher, "#MerrimackRiver Landscape" "Regional Literature" https://t.co/yAB80aF0Uo

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2022-09-04

'Our legends of witchcraft & sorcery are very poor, and in some of these,...,the witch is evidently a fairy.The reason of this is not that the belief in witchcraft is extinct among the Basques,but because it is so rife.'Wentworth Webster,Basque Legends🎨Isaac Levitan

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2022-09-03

There is a blessing in the air,
Which seems a sense of joy to yield
To the bare trees, and mountains bare,
And grass in the green field.

~ William Wordsworth

🎨 Finelia Grace


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2022-09-03

"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water"

~ Rabindranath Tagore

🎨 Rembrandt

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2022-09-03