the literary tramp

ialu:

yiqing yin haute couture s/s ‘13 (detail)

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noshuns:

this is what i wanna be when i grow up

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saveflowers1:

Art by N.C. Wyeth (1922) cover from from LADIES HOME JOURNAL magazine.

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leanan-sidhe:

A melanistic serval

valleyofstrangers:

Arthur Rackham, Daphne, illustration (1921) for John Milton’s Comus

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Mythology Picspam → Brigid

Bride of the earth, sister of the faeries, daughter of the Tuatha de Danaan, keeper of the eternal flame. In autumn, the nights began to lengthen, and the days grew shorter, as the earth went to sleep. Now, Brighid stokes her fire, burning flames in the hearth, bringing light back to us once more. Winter is brief, but life is forever. Brighid makes it so.

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soyouthinkyoucansee:

 Florence Small

The bride, 1900

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pada-viya:

“The Animal Bride or Bridegroom in folk tales represent the wild within each one of us. They represent the wild within our lovers and spouses, the part of them that we can never fully know. They represent the Others who live unfathomable lives right beside us — cat and mouse and coyote and owl; and the Others that live only in the dreams and nightmares of our imaginations. For thousands of years, their tales have emerged from the place where we draw the boundary lines between animals and human beings, the natural world and civilization, women and men, magic and illusion, fiction and the lives we live. Those lines are drawn in sand; they shift over time; and the stories are always changing…..”

— from Married to Magic: Animal Brides and Bridegrooms in Folklore and Fantasy

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