"They used to come to her at dusk, the girls of old Riga, quick breath and their hands trembling. A ribbon, a ring, a lock of hair—tokens of envy, of love turned bitter, of fates better left undone.
“Juglena, craft me a charm to make Anna’s Juris come to me!”
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Painting title: Forest Music. Painting of a ghostly figure in the woods.
She plants the forest, pours the flood:
Life's poor day I'll musing rave,
And find at night a sheltering cave.
-Robert Burns
🎨Jules Pierre van Biesbroeck
“I am all astonishment.”
(Jane Austen)
🎨 Nobertine Bresslern-Roth
#owlishmonday
An illustration depicting a young woman, dressed in white, whose hand is clasping the black veil covering a picture. She is looking away from the picture, however, toward another woman who is clutching at her arm fearfully. The illustration is labeled "Engraved by R. Rhodes from the original picture by M. Craig" and beneath is the caption "THE VEILED PICTURE."
Frontispiece to the 1802 bluebook adaptation of Ann Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho, published by T. Plummer as:
THE VEILED PICTURE; or, The Mysteries of Gorgono,
The Appennine Castle of Signor Androssi.
A Romance of the Sixteenth Century
#MorbidMarch
An example of the surreal, enigmatic, dreamlike art of Gertrude Abercrombie. 'The Queen' depicts a woman with long dark hair, wearing a blue gown with a long train, and a crown. She carries a sceptre/wand. She is standing in a bare room with a dark red floor, her gaze turned towards us. Perched on a ledge behind her is an owl, who holds up the end of the train in its beak.
"Surrealism is meant for me. I am a pretty realistic person but don’t like all I see. So I dream that it is changed. Then I change it to the way I want it."
~Gertrude Abercrombie
🎨 The Queen, 1954
#OwlishMonday
“The Doubtful Guest Came Seventeen Years Ago.”
🎨 Edward Gorey
Wyrdlings!
Some things are set in stone. Or wood. Or bone. You name it, since this week:
"Carvings, Inscriptions & Writings on the Wall"
is our #WyrdWednesday topic – so, tell us tales of wyrd bas-reliefs, strange runes on artefacts and otherworldy hieroglyphs found in deep dungeons!
There is something in the water that comes with the season.
Elemental spirits wake from their hibernation when the ice begins to melt.
And so, we go out to meet one in Latvia today, in our 2nd #darkspringtide story - read it below!
🎨 Lois van Baarle
The end is here! Of both book and beer. Full review of @gregoryamato.bsky.social’s Fallen to Fury over at Goodreads if you wish to read it. Overall: a great end to a great series, highly recommended! And drink a beer, too, because you should.
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There is swelling sorrow in the plain, but will the sable ravens, as 6th century Welsh poet Aneirin called them, will they go hungry?
Our 1st #darkspringtide story brings us to the banks of the river Dee and the borders of Gwynedd in the early Middle Ages on St David's Day-read it below!
🎨 Safavie
📸 stock photo of Rosalind
"It was a lover and his lass,
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
That o'er the green corn-field did pass,
In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding;
Sweet lovers love the spring"
'As You Like It' (1599)
#ShakespeareSunday
“Lay her i' the earth:
And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
May violets spring!”
(“Hamlet” 5.1)
#shakespearesunday
🎨 Friedrich Heyser “Ophelia” (1900)
"She was the Princess Angora — a cat transformed by the Ogre-witch into a flawless vision of loveliness.”
(Les contes de Perrault / continués par Timothée Trimm)
🎨 Henry de Montaut
#bookwormsat #goldenageofillustration #booksky #bookillustration #caturday
GIANT cat-like creature on planet surface being observed by a spacesuited man.
#BookWormSat mischief-makers you say?
Allow me to introduce you to Coerul.
The Voyage of the Space Beagle, by AE van Vogt, 1951 UK 1st, cover artist not attributed. #booksky
Simpkin sat upright on a chair holding a cup of tea ready for the tailor who is lying in a draped four poster bed with whole sheets and striped covers. Illustration.
30 The Tailor of Gloucester when Simpkin came back with the pipkin of milk! Simpkin opened the door and bounced in, with an angry "G-r-r-miaw!" like a cat that is vexed: for he hated the snow, and there was snow in his ears, and snow in his collar at the back of his neck. He put down the loaf and the sausages upon the dresser, and sniffed. "Simpkin," said the tailor, "where is my twist?" But Simpkin set down the pipkin of milk upon the dresser, and looked suspiciously at the tea-cups. He wanted his supper of little fat mouse! "Simpkin," said the tailor, "where is my TWIST?"
A little more Beatrix Potter for #BookWormSat today and naughty, mouse-loving Simpkin.
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Photograph of a cottontail rabbit
"All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you - digger, listener, runner.... Be full of tricks, and your people shall never be destroyed."
- Richard Adams, "Watership Down"
#BookWormSat
Front cover of the book 'Jennings goes to school' (Collins, 1957) with a school master in academic gown looking over his shoulder at a pair of boys, one (Jennings) talking excitedly to a more cautious looking boy with glasses (Darbishire), with more school boys in the background.
#BookwormSat 'Fossilised fishhooks!'
Some of my favourite books growing up with their dry humour, clever puns and wordplay, were the series following the irrepressible Jennings and his best friend Darbishire getting into all sorts of scrapes, hijinks and misunderstandings at Linbury Court School.
Illustration depicting a group of fairies dancing around a tree, a 'fairy ring' of mushrooms partly visible at their feet. There is a full moon, and a bat is in flight in the distance.
"Come away while the moon's in the woodland,
We'll dance and then feast in a dairy."
~W. B. Yeats
🎨Florence Harrison
#BookWormSat
Alice confronts the Cheshire Cat in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." Illustration by John Tenniel.
"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat. "We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."
- "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
#BookWormSat
#BookWormSat
"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
William Goldman - The Princess Bride
Gollum sitting in a boat by Ferguson Dewar (1964)
Gollum is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy world of Middle-earth. He was introduced in the 1937 fantasy novel The Hobbit, and became important in its sequel, The Lord of the Rings. Gollum was a Stoor Hobbit of the River-folk who lived near the Gladden Fields. 🧵
#BookWormSat
Heathcliff Under the Tree Fritz Eichenberg (American, 1901–1990) 1943 Wood engraving on cream Japanese paper
Heathcliff is a fictional character in Emily Brontë's 1847 novel Wuthering Heights. Owing to the novel's enduring fame and popularity, he is often regarded as an archetype of the Byronic hero, or the tortured antihero,
#BookWormSat 🧵
Painting of the three witches around a cauldron, sadly no Graymalkin…
‘I come, Graymalkin.’ ~ First Witch, Macbeth, Shakespeare. 🐈⬛ #BookWormSat
🖼️ Daniel Gardner, 1775.
In memory of dear Frodo, one of literature's most heroic and noble cats - Asmodeus #BookWormSat
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"Some people see a magic trick and say, ‘Impossible!’... And then there are the ones who stay awake, running through the trick again and again, looking for that skip in perception... who won’t rest until they’ve mastered that little bit of mystery.”
—Six of Crows, Leigh Bardugo
#BookWormSat
“The easiest way to steal a man’s wallet is to tell him you’re going to steal his watch. You take his attention and direct it where you want it to go... They can’t be looking everywhere at once."
—Six of Crows, Leigh Bardugo
#BookWormSat
"Rich men want to believe they deserve every penny they've got, so they forget what they owe to chance. Smart men are always looking for loopholes. They want an opportunity to game the system."
—Crooked Kingdom, Leigh Bardugo
#BookWormSat
“Puss became a personage of great importance.”
(From “Old Time-Stories told by Master Charles Perrault”, trl. A.E. Johnson)
🎨 W. Heath Robinson
#bookwormsat #goldenageofillustration #booksky #bookillustration #caturday
One mischief always introduces another.
Daniel Defoe
#BookWormSat 🐈
Pan plays his flute while Chloe is returned to shore by her pirate kidnappers.
The god Pan can be a trickster when provoked. In the tale of ‘Daphnis and Chloe,’ Pan deliberately frightens the pirates who have kidnapped Chloe with terrifying noises. In response, the pirates ‘ran to arms, and called upon their invisible enemies to appear.’ #BookWormSat
🎨Marc Chagall
