Simone Snaith

Love this one 🔥

Valentine's Day is a fine time for love.
It's also a fine time to sharpen your swords, disappear into the enchanted forest, and look for treasure in the mossy tombs of the old ones.
Nothing says love like a dangerous adventure done together.

#caturday sleeping beauties.

Yes, we have Snoopy sheets and a Dark Crystal blanket that don't match at all.

“Are you sure you’re safe out here? If the monster doesn’t hurt you, the neighbors might.”

“It’s a little rough, but I don’t mind it. It’s nice to be away from the city." He started to say something else and hesitated. “I’ve been living on the edges for a long time.”

#amquerying #booksky #fantasy

Be my valentine*

*person who wanders too near to my forest dwelling and is cursed to live as a tree in my front garden for a century or so

Black and white photo of a medium haired tabby cat standing up on its hind legs to peer over the seat into a white toilet in a bathroom setting.

So anyway here’s a new photo in my collection from one of my favorite genres: Toilet Detective.

Happy Valentine’s Day. #booksky

A horned, satyr-like figure blows a curved horn and brandishes a staff, his cloven hooves and sinuous tail revealing his infernal nature in Arthur Rackham’s 1898 illustration for The Ingoldsby Legends.

“Is that Poynings?—Oh, Gemini!—look at his feet!!
Why, they’re absolute hoofs!—is it gout or his corns
That have crumpled them up so?—by Jingo, he’s horns!”

(Richard Harris Barham “The Ingoldsby Legends”)

🎨 Arthur Rackham (1898)

#goldenageofillustration #bookillustration #booksky

Painting. A young girl sits in a high-backed, ornate armchair, engrossed in a large book. Beside her, on top of a pile of books, a candle burns. A ghostly figure rises from the candle and floats above her. There are other, transparent ghostly figures in the room. A black cat arches its back and hisses at them.

'Wonderland'
by Adelaide Claxton

#PhantomsFriday

Looking forward to them!

Always love Rackham's illustrations!

2 and 4...

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

Your daily fortune:
Live like a crow - wear black, be smart, make lots of noise, and just eat whatever garbage you find lying around.

Stand alone fantasy novels just hit different 👌 #BookSky 💙📚🪐

"Time spent amongst trees is never wasted time."
~ Katrina Mayer

I wish you time well-spent among the trees, my friends!

#photography #refugeinbeauty #mindfulness #mindfulphotography #contemplativephotography

the first choice is literally what Jesus would teach, i feel like i'm losing my mind

If all these rich men "regret" their time with Epstein then why didn't they announce prior to the release of the files that their names would be part of the collection? Why didn't they self-report? The answer is they are not sorry and have no regret. They are sorry and regret they got caught.

a newly born baby harbor seal pup sleeping on the sand

Get as much rest as you can ❤️

Illustration by William Morris from The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser, London, 1895. #booksky #artsky

New Mexico governor signs Immigrant Safety Act among other bills into law New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has signed four bipartisan bills into law, focusing on improving health care access, investing in statewide infrastructur

"The new law forbids counties and local law enforcement from contracting with ICE. It mandates that public bodies terminate any existing immigration detention agreements and prohibits the use of public property for federal civil immigration detention..."

kfoxtv.com/news/local/n...

I remember back when I didn't need to identify photos with traffic lights to prove I was human.

My band did a thing:

A watercolour illustration of Barnaby Rudge seated against a rough stone wall, his raven Grip perched beside him. Barnaby, dressed in patched, rustic clothing and a feathered cap, extends his hand toward the bird as if sharing a secret. Grip, the raven, stands alert, his dark form contrasting with Barnaby’s worn boots and the scattered straw at their feet. A basket and a staff lie discarded nearby, while a doorway and stone staircase in the background hint at a world beyond their quiet conspiracy. The scene is intimate, almost conspiratorial, capturing the bond between man and bird in Dickens’ Barnaby Rudge.

“The raven gave a short, comfortable, confidential kind of croak;—a most expressive croak, which seemed to say, ‘You needn’t let these fellows into our secrets. We understand each other. It’s all right.’”

(Charles Dickens “Barnaby Rudge”)

🎨 Nellie Joshua (c 1905)

#bookwormsat

“We’re River Crawlers,” Mally said with pride. “We stand apart from Old Castle and all of Wainter for that matter.”

“Aliett is not our queen,” Dornan said flatly.

“We like to think that we’re subjects of the river,” Elay added.

Quiet admiration bloomed in Signia’s heart.

#amquerying #fantasy

Aww, thank YOU! 😍 I'm so happy you enjoyed it! And the pictures are fantastic.

My YA Fantasy BETWEEN THE WATER & THE WOODS, illustrated by @sarakipin.bsky.social, sitting pretty at the
@lapubliclibrary.bsky.social. I write adult #fantasy now but I'm proud of this gem!

"A beautifully written story that feels like an ageless fable"

"Reminiscent of an old #fairytale"

#booksky

5 Jobs I've Had

*Dorm cafeteria dishwasher
*Substitute teacher
*Indie record label employee with no clear title
*Book buyer & used book pricer
*Library messenger clerk

#booksky