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Kathryn @kathryngrace777.bsky.social · Nov 20
Juggling reading for fun, studying for school, and *actually working* while at work is an extreme sport and art form
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"What hast thou found within the pool of dreams,
Where roses of a thousand summers blow?
What strange and lovely thing of opal gleams,
Secrets and tears and hopes of long ago?"

#SwampSunday
🎨 Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
🖋️ Annie R Rentoul
'The Crystal Gazer', an illustration from the book 'Fairyland', 1926. A winged fairy stands at the edge of a pool with lily pads. She is holding a crystal ball and gazing down. The water is at the bottom of some steps and there are grand pillars and a wall either side of the steps adorned with pink tree blossom, suggesting a house. Tall, dark trees are visible in the distance.
May 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Fairies travelling under a full moon
for #OwlishMonday

🎨Amelia Jane Murray (1800-1896)
A painting of an owl carrying two fairies. The dresses the fairies wear reflect the fashion of the 1820s. One is seated, the other is standing and holding a wand. There is a full moon top right of the scene, and some clouds at the bottom.
May 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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'The Witch in the cherry garden drawing in Gerda's boat with her crutch', an illustration by Eleanor Vere Boyle from 'The Snow Queen' by Hans Christian Andersen.

#WyrdWednesday
Illustration from 'The Snow Queen', 1872 edition. A woman in a long, black and red dress and a pointed hat stands at the bottom of a stairway by a river. She leans forward, holding onto a nearby tree for balance, and pulls a little boat with a girl sitting inside it, towards the bank with a crutch.
May 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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theasraidance.bsky.social
'Cherries of the night are riper
Than the cherries pluckt at noon
Gather to your fairy piper
When he pipes his magic tune.'
~From 'Cherry-Time', Robert Graves

🎨Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
#BookWormSat
Illustration of three winged fairies walking through a forest under a full moon. An elf-like piper is leading the way, carrying a lantern. They're being followed by some rabbits, and some small birds and an owl in flight are also accompanying them. Ink and wash, 1916.
May 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Circe
by Beatrice Offor
Portrait of Circe holding the cup of potion that she offers to Odysseus in Homer's The Odyssey . She is depicted as a young woman with long dark hair, wearing robes, bracelets, and a vine leaf headdress. Painted in 1911.
June 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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'When the last colours of the day
Have from their burning ebbed away,
About that ruin, cold and lone,
The cricket shrills from stone to stone;
And scattering o'er its darkened green,
Bands of fairies may be seen.'
~Walter de la Mare

🎨John Anster Fitzgerald
November 8, 2024 at 1:46 PM
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✨Wishing on a Star
by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
Illustration depicting a winged fairy in a long, pale pink dress. She is looking up at a starry sky. There are trees either side of her, flowers on the ground, and two hills in the distance.
March 10, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Dancing Fairies
by August Malmström
19th century oil painting depicting a moonlit landscape with trees and a river, where a large circle of fairies dance above the water. From a distance they resemble wisps of mist.
February 27, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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'The fairies have never a penny to spend,
They haven’t a thing put by,
But theirs is the dower of bird and of flower
And theirs are the earth and the sky.'
~Rose Fyleman

🎨[Detail] Fairies in a Bird's Nest
by John Anster Fitzgerald
Detail from a Victorian painting depicting three fairies sitting in a birds nest.
February 19, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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February 19, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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"The marsh marigold is considered of great use in divination, and is called 'the shrub of Beltaine'. Garlands are made of it for the cattle and the door-posts to keep off the fairy power."
~Lady Jane Wilde

🎨Ernest Townsend
#WyrdWednesday
Painting depicting a bowl shaped vase of marsh marigolds against a dark background.
February 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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'Two fairies embracing in a landscape with a swan'
by Hans Zaztka
Late Victorian romantic painting depicting two female fairies on a flowery waterside bank. One lies back amid the pink blooms, her face turned away from the other, who leans in close as though waiting for her to return her gaze, or perhaps kiss her cheek. There is a swan looking up at them, and two birds flying close together above them, their beaks touching.
February 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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'Metamorphosis of Beauty', 1907
(aka 'Water Nymph') by artist and dancer Paul Swan,
once billed 'the most beautiful man in the world'.
Painting of a water nymph rising from an agitated sea. She is painted in profile, wears gossamer-fine clothing that seems to be partly formed by the swirling sea foam around her feet and legs. She has delicate wings with red markings on them. Her hair is very long and dark, and she wears a red and gold cap.
February 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Those in the US: Remember to go to your libraries and support them.
February 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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The Fairies' Whirl
by Arthur John Black

#SwampSunday
Painting from 1910 depicting a circle of fairies dancing on a woodland pond, creating a whirl in the water. In the foreground of the painting there are yellow flowers, possibly marsh marigolds.
February 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Thank you, Canada!
February 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Books are always there to transport our minds to other worlds when we are in need of them the most. They can bring us comfort during our loneliest moments. They are truly one of the greatest things in life. 🖤
January 31, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Every time you don't buy a book from Amazon, but use a good indie store who actually values the sale & treats you & your purchase with respect, the sun shines brighter, floofy puppies gambol in fresher grass, & Jeff Bezos's piles sting for just a biiiit longer.

Sounds GREAT to me.

Buy independent.
January 31, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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call me old-fashioned but in my day boys didn’t write love letters using ChatGPT. instead they would recite Lord Byron’s “She walks in beauty like the night / Of cloudless climes and starry skies” and then add, “I made that up, just for you.”
January 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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the feminine urge to burn everything to the ground and start over in a spooky coastal town with a horrifying backstory.
January 27, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Goodnight.

The best way to contact me is to fill a human skull with acorns and vigorously shake it into the night. I will hear you eventually.
January 25, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Thinking about her
1659 painting by Elisabetta Sirani of Timoclea pushing the Thracian captain who raped her into a well.
January 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Getting a library card is punk as fuck and free!
January 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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I guess this is the year I finally understand what Marmee in Little Women meant when she said “I have been angry nearly every day of my life.”
January 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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The Shadow
by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
Watercolour illustration dressed in blue with wings to match. She is looking back at her shadow, which is cast behind her on the grass. There are trees in the background, also casting shadows, and daffodils in the foreground.
January 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM