What if we just left it all behind and lived together in a big ol rainbow castle? 🌈

Just finished reading The Before Midnight Scholar, a Chinese erotic tale from 1640ish ...and it's hilarious crack. The author starts by saying: this is a morality tale but you smut fiends won't read anything without p0rn so I put in heaps of p0rn but imma lecture u about it later 😂🤣 #booksky

A Dictionary of Fairies: Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies, and Other Supernatural Creatures, Katharine Mary Briggs, 1976.

I love using science in writing to explain fantasy elements. My current fave: selective perception + psychological schotomata = we just don't *see* Vampires and werewolves. It explains how monsters suddenly appear... they were there all along. You just don't notice until the teeth snap together XD

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the countess #horriblegirls

When the féth fiada, the Irish fairy mist, appears it may be worth making a loop with some rushes. When you gaze through the loop you will see the fairies that hide in the fog ❄️☁️

So many ND people I know have a great love of vampire stories. Something about the haunted 'other' forced to watch the world from a distance - part of, yet apart from, humanity. I always loved these often sad and romantic tales - and they helped me to see myself as beautiful in all my difference ❤️

Is there anything better than the smell of an old book, with thick, heavy paper and oil marbling on the inside cover?

But seriously, how do you pick just 2-3 coffee table books? What if your guest is into the same weird underworld myths that you are and you never find out because you went with fae folk, Dinotopia & a sword book with pretty pictures? What if the other books find out?!

"Jack turned his eyes to the low rafters and prayed for divine intervention. He wasn't expecting angels, mind. A bolt of lightning would have done just fine."

Flamboyant Vampire OC is having A Time.

For you and I
We thrive in echoes
And meditate
On scars.
But I will not cut you
Just to know
I am forever written on your skin.
For you talk in ink
And I am only tapestry
Fearful
Of being undone.

#mythology #poetry

Defeat, my Defeat, my deathless courage,
You and I shall laugh together with the storm,
And together we shall dig graves for all that die in us,
And we shall stand in the sun with a will,
And we shall be dangerous.

OC inspiration for a breathless ball of reaction. Excerpt - Defeat by Kahlil Gibran.

I ask you: How could anyone summon the strength to not be a writer when these are the tools of our trade? 😍