Kind Scorpio

I'm only here for #Strellacott

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[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

Your Sunday Poem ☀️

'Such Silence'
by Mary Oliver

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@PeixeElton And then... MARRY ME 🫠🙌

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The Swan-Knight ❤️ #CormoranStrike

[PARSIFEL @Parsifel1]

The Tale of Lohengrin, Knight of the Swan

[Ireland's Trees & Mythology @Tree_Folklore]

"And so they lived happily together for 300 years, in the land of Tír na nÓg" 💕

The first time I heard of Tír na nÓg, the land of enteral youth and beauty, was in Titanic when a mother, realising that she couldn't save her children as the ship sank, tucked them into bed and told them the tale of Niamh and Oisín 🪄

Inhabited by the Tuatha Dé Danann, those who lucky enough to reach Tír na nOg will never grow old and spend their days singing, feasting and just...being happy.

🎨 'Land of the Ever Young' by Arthur Rackham

[Kind Scorpio @KindScorpio5]

@MeansB4Motive Me too... It's an unpopular opinion I think, but I would love if they could have a child together (I know, not very plausible)... What a force of nature that little one would be!

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Beautiful creatures 😍

[Nature In Focus @NatureInFocuss]

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

[MedievalistMatt @medievalistmatt]

Just perfect

[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

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

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@MrMagspie 😞 "trans children"

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#Strellacott

[𝑨𝒓𝒕 🎨 @_ArtMuseum]

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

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@AllanBlackburn5 @bookshouse1 😭🙏

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

[Jim Beattie @JimBeattie18]

Moonlight in Naples
Ivan Aivazovsky.

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

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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.

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@Betsynet1 @easily_remedied Very good observation!

[RomanticCanvas 🎨 @RomanticCanvas]

The Harvest
Robert Zünd

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@GingerBriq I love this scene 🥲

[Gustave Moreau @gustave_moreau]

Fairy and Griffon #artbots #moreau

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@PeixeElton 🥹

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

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Open pursuit you said? 🤭 #Strellacott

[🖤 @_Shivam_says]

The Bear thought it was a hug 😭