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“The Bhean-Nimhir, the Nighean Imhir… the Serpent Woman, the Daughter of Ivor-“ […] Then he remembered an old tale of the isles, and his heart sank, because the tale was of a woman of the underworld who could suck the soul out of a man through his lips…

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2022-07-14

“The music of white dances softly around
The soft silence & blue are bound
Purple is calm, the sound soft & sweet
The color lightness of a rainbow is a hypnotic beat
In yellow, the silence is loud
While red is a yell, robust and proud”

~ Jennifer Betts


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2022-07-14

Some people think that there are no fairies. But it is a wide world, and plenty of room in it for fairies, without people seeing them; unless, of course, they look in the right place.

Charles Kingsley 
The Water-Babies

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2022-07-14

"Out yonder, under the shining vault,
among men the saying goes: "Man, be thyself!"
At home here with us, 'mid the tribe of the trolls,
the saying goes: "Troll, to thyself be-enough!" (Ibsen)

🎨 Kittelsen

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2022-07-13

All the world will be your enemy…But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.

—Watership Down, Richard Adams✨

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2022-07-13

'A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.'
-Jean Rhys

🎨Edmund Dulac

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2022-07-12

Hi i’m rachel elliott, author-illustrator of the graphic novel THE REAL RILEY MAYES about a fifth grade girl who has a celeb crush on a female comedian

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2022-07-12

"... and then I shut my eyes, and put my hands over them and whisper the word, and the Alala comes. I only do this at night in my room or in certain woods that I know, but I must not describe them, as they are secret woods." (Arthur Machen)

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2022-07-12

Shona MacDonald, llustration of 'The Cat and the Moon' as part of the book 'The Moon Spun Round' a collection of poetry by W. B. Yeats, edited by Noreen Doody, and published by the O'Brien Press, 2016.
https://t.co/9lTtwGwNZI

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2022-07-11

The Bed-Time Book, by Helen Hay Whitney, 1907. by Jessie Willcox Smith, one of America’s most popular & prolific children’s

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2022-07-10

those calvin and hobbes where he does visual parody blew my mind when i was about 14 hahaha

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2022-06-28

when i was a kid, some of the first books i read were PEANUTS strip collections. i loved how there were noisy panels and silent panels.
https://t.co/mckObmQIcP

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2022-06-28

I'm Gillian Goerz, author/illustrator of the Shirley & Jamila graphic novel series (the 2nd book just won a Doug Wright Award!). I'd love to see illustrators get the same listings/creator credit as authors, especially in library cataloging.

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2022-06-21

A1: I'll go with Ozy from Ozy & Millie! He's never identified as such in the comic, but Dana Simpson has since said that although the term "agender" didn't exist at the time, she had written him as an agender character.

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2022-06-20

Top-notch MG sci-fi graphic novels: AQUANAUT by and the SPACE BOY series by

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2022-06-14

Hello Though M9 Girls does not deal with LGBT themes, our Pink Starlight is bi. Golden seems to be demisexual. Their sexuality was not relevant in Season 1, but it plays a part in Season 2's shoujo drama!

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2022-06-13

A3: I don't remember for sure, but it may have been Moonstruck.

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2022-06-13

A4) I'd actually like to see more completely ridiculous books—books such as Fortunately the Milk. Pure silliness and escapism

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2022-05-31