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The harp, symbol of is said to have been invented by the goddess of music, inspiration & dreams, Cana Cludhmor, after she realised the wind on a beach drifting through a whale’s skeleton created beautiful music.

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The nursery rhyme, Mary Had a Little Lamb was a true story. In 1815, nine-year-old Mary Sawyer had a little lamb that followed her to the one-room schoolhouse, Redstone.

Fellow student, John Roulstone, wrote the famous poem about the event for Mary.

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2023-03-17

When Celtic Finn Mccool sailed with his men their ship reached a mysterious island that was as beautitul as dangerous.

Birds were singing and in the dark forest was a well with a curiously wrought drinking-horn.

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2023-03-16

'Out with you upon the wild waves, children of the king!
Henceforth your cries shall be with the flocks of birds.'
-Joseph Jacobs, The Fate of the Children of Lir.

🎨P.J. Lynch

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2023-03-16

"And when the owl stirred, a fine dust
fell from its wings. I was
silent then. And felt
the owl quaver."
(from "The Owl" from Arthur Sze)
🎨Teagan White

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2023-03-13

A4: Unprovoked murder, kidnapping, force feeding dodgy looking meat to protagonists https://t.co/qOpiMvH5WK. That being said there is an argument to be made Gwen isn't evil but is insane to the point of being unaware of her own actions.

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A2. many things can work for designing villains personally I select a specific theme that represents a societal Ill. In Ice Cream Truck Of Doom the villains are literally the Fast Food Nation and they are run by an insane serial killer.

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Darklings!

Sam, one's other favourite cat, chose Frank Dean's "Irish Coast" (c 1890) for Conrad the Crow's background in this week's wallpaper to fly over while we collect tales from the insular Celts together with & this week!

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2023-03-13

What you go searching for and what you find aren't always the same.

—Andrew Michael Hurley

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2023-03-09

"A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing." (Bret Harte)

🎨 Teagan White

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2023-03-09

"That poor little ugly duckling
Went wandering far and near
But at every place they said to his face
Now get out, get out, get out of here
And he went with a quack and a waddle and a quack."
🖼️Theo van Hoytema / 📔Andersen /🎵 Danny Kaye

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2023-03-07

Just finished a fun romcom arc w/ some Pride & Prejudice tie-ins!

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2023-03-07

'Have the birds come back, my darling.
The birds from over the sea?'
-Alice Cary

🎨Natasha Newton

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2023-03-07

"A Light exists in Spring
Not present on the Year
At any other period –
When March is scarcely here" (Emily Dickinson)

🎨 Leon Spilliaert

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2023-03-06

A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.

~Neil Gaiman
art by Julianna Bíbor

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2023-03-06

"For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn."
(Walter de La Mare)

🎨Félix Buhot

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2023-03-06

Avoid the moor in those hours of darkness when the powers of evil are exalted.

~Arthur Conan Doyle

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2023-03-04

You build a character, a shell, and if you build it right, something comes to live inside it.

~Elizabeth Hand, Illyria
art John William Waterhouse (1903)

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2023-03-04

Adults are just obsolete children…’
—Theodor Geisel
aka Dr. Seuss (1904-91)

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2023-03-03

“Yea—for a dream.
Last night methought I saw
That maiden Saint who stands with lily in hand
In yonder shrine." (Tennyson)

🎨 Schiavoni (1841)

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