a swamp that makes sense, watercolor - made with NightCafe Creator https://t.co/jSn9afqjAi via
I had a bad cold for a full week now and start to miss leaving the house. Also, why does AI always show swamps with trees?

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Absolutely love my new research logo designed by - combines my love of swamps, bogs and tundra beautifully. Thank you so much Melisa.

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We won't have story-based Image Generation at launch, but two separate browser tabs (one for each character) + a third for your story should let you illustrate your tales quite easily!

The protagonist is trapped arguing in the swamps with his sassy traveling companion.

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Night is my sister, and how deep in love,
How drowned in love and weedily washed ashore,
There to be fretted by the drag and shove
At the tide's edge, I lie —

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay


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Undine by Baron de la Motte Fouque (1811), about a water nymph that marries a man and gains a soul (& the weight of such feelings) only to be betrayed. Illustrations by Arthur Rackham (1909)
➡️🎧 My song "The Spirit of Water" https://t.co/3edntRZCKX

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"The Buried Moon" is an Fairytale included by Folklorist J. Jacobs in "More English Fairytale" in which the a
Moon falls on a bog and is trapped by a falling tree so she stops rising. Here a haunting illustration for it drawn by Edmund Dulac (1916)

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All sprouts shot up from the deep bottom. Everything living arose. A profusion of water lilies spread out as if it were a woven carpet, and lying on it was a sleeping woman, young and beautiful.


🗨️H.C. Andersen
🎨 Elenore Abbott

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Jenny Greenteeth or Ginny Greenteeth is a figure in Lancashire folklore is described as a nasty water hag with green, skin, long hair & sharp, teeth. Jenny hides beneath duckweed in ponds, she would try to drown folks dragging them into the water then eats them.

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In the Solway Firth, a mermaid fell in love with a sailor whom she rescued when his ship ran aground. She slipped a gold ring on his finger and promised to return, but after many years, he died, alone.


: Arthur Rackham

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According to East Slavic folk-beliefs, September 18 is the day to force Kumokha (the representation of deceases and fever) to go back into the woods.

Thin and pale, it’s said, she loves gazing at her reflection in water...



🌙Pete Martin

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While most of the green-haired, red-capped and musically gifted merrows, the mermaids populating the waters around Ireland, appear benevolent, there are some in the English Channel that are anything but.

Those lure men to the water with their songs and eat them

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Luceat 0.12 ETH🤍

https://t.co/qbDVvjjrOv

Incredible ability to keep its purity even in the muddiest lakes and swamps. A pure and delicate flower, growing through the mud and silt and opening towards the sun🤍

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Luceat 0.12 ETH🤍

https://t.co/qbDVvjjrOv

Incredible ability to keep its purity even in the muddiest lakes and swamps. A pure and delicate flower, growing through the mud and silt and opening towards the sun🤍

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Comm for and her friend!

These swamps are dangerous! Blood sucking leeches aren't the only things to worry about anymore. Now you gotta worry about the environment leeching away your mind! Serving the swamp and dragging down others to share your fate...

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Vintage menu art
from Cunard R.M.S. Aquitania, 1925
by A.K. MacDonald

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There are many tales in of frog brides. In these stories, magical frogs take on human form with the goal of marrying a human man. They look just like regular women, only they tend to be quite frail and often don't have the strength to do many...

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Want more Selki? Why not check the following:
1. Sarah Webb's 'One Spared to the Sea' ()
2. Bear Pettigrew's () 'On the Rocks'
3. 's 'The Girl from the Sea'
4. 's 'The Blue Salt Road'

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