Kind Scorpio

I'm only here for #Strellacott

[Kind Scorpio @KindScorpio5]

🥲

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

Your Sunday Poem ☀️

'Such Silence'
by Mary Oliver

[MedievalistMatt @medievalistmatt]

Just perfect

[Kind Scorpio @KindScorpio5]

Beautiful creatures 😍

[Nature In Focus @NatureInFocuss]

This little bundle of joy is having so much fun replicating the dip-dip sequences exactly after mom

[Kind Scorpio @KindScorpio5]

The Swan-Knight ❤️ #CormoranStrike

[PARSIFEL @Parsifel1]

The Tale of Lohengrin, Knight of the Swan

[Nurse, Midwife, & Moonlover @MidwifeMoonlove]

We didn’t get this in Sark, can we please see it in Sleep tight Evangeline, my Strike deserves it, please @jk_rowling

[Kind Scorpio @KindScorpio5]

@NicklessPamela Ohh! Do you recommend it then? I know nothing about it but just from the trailer it looks very good!

[Kind Scorpio @KindScorpio5]

@MrMagspie 😞 "trans children"

[Kind Scorpio @KindScorpio5]

#Strellacott

[𝑨𝒓𝒕 🎨 @_ArtMuseum]

Detail : At the Swan Lake, by Hans Zatzka (1859-1945)

[Kind Scorpio @KindScorpio5]

@AllanBlackburn5 @bookshouse1 😭🙏

[Kind Scorpio @KindScorpio5]

I may set a goal of (re)posting (at least) one Aivazovsky a day 🤭

[Jim Beattie @JimBeattie18]

Moonlight in Naples
Ivan Aivazovsky.

[Kind Scorpio @KindScorpio5]

@IrisThinksMeh A true heroine's journey if ever there was one 🥰

[Kind Scorpio @KindScorpio5]

Such a beautiful, deep and complex fairytale and the art is masterful, yes 🙏❤️

[the pantomathwar @pantomathwar]

As a child, I was fascinated (more than fascinated )by this book, "Vasilisa the Beautiful."

It wasn't just that it impressed me. It was that the illustrations were beautiful... so beautiful... I was emotionally attached, embarrassingly attached, bound to the book like a friend.

For a long time, I read it daily. Really daily , the same pages, the same lines. It was like a little obsession.

The illustrator was Ivan Bilibin (1876–1942), a giant, in my humble opinion. He was painting folklore. Born in St. Petersburg in 1876, he studied under Ilya Repin. But he wasn't interested in the city , he was interested in fairy tales. He went north, to the villages, to the forests. He studied the frame as much as the image.

Bilibin's pages are truly beautiful. Clear, ornamental. Even the borders.

He was doing something Russians call "bylina " an epic repeated as song. Around 1900 he began illustrating Russian fairy tales for children: The Tale of Tsar Saltan, Vasilisa the Beautiful, The Firebird, The Feather of Finist the Falcon.

It wasn't just books. He worked on stage design for Rimsky-Korsakov, for Diaghilev, for the Ballets Russes.

After 1917, exile. First Egypt, then France. He returned in 1935, worked on stage sets, taught. He died in 1942, during the siege of Leningrad.

I still have the book.

[Kind Scorpio @KindScorpio5]

@Betsynet1 @easily_remedied Very good observation!

[RomanticCanvas 🎨 @RomanticCanvas]

The Harvest
Robert Zünd

[Kind Scorpio @KindScorpio5]

@GingerBriq I love this scene 🥲

[Gustave Moreau @gustave_moreau]

Fairy and Griffon #artbots #moreau

[Kind Scorpio @KindScorpio5]

@PeixeElton 🥹

[Kind Scorpio @KindScorpio5]

@GingerBriq We want easily remedied cuddles, please and thank you 🥲

[Kind Scorpio @KindScorpio5]

Open pursuit you said? 🤭 #Strellacott

[🖤 @_Shivam_says]

The Bear thought it was a hug 😭

[Kind Scorpio @KindScorpio5]

@MikeInWales2021 Wait! She said something about people in bathrooms for Sleep Tight Evangeline, didn't she? 👀😂

[Kind Scorpio @KindScorpio5]

Trust the plan #Strellacott

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Everything happens at the time it should, in the way it should…

[Kind Scorpio @KindScorpio5]

@GingerBriq Never!! 🙅😂

[Kind Scorpio @KindScorpio5]

@Anne_O @AllanBlackburn5 We can only hope, at this moment 🥲🙏

[Kind Scorpio @KindScorpio5]

All the readers of the Cormoran Strike series, to the protagonists:

[The sunny side of Franz Kafka @AmschelKavka]

Oh, darling, it's high time to stop and kiss.

Franz Kafka, 1912