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⭒💫 bryanna | 36 | ontario 🍁⭒

[batwingsbee]

My writing!

After 10 years, I finally feel okay about posting more original writing.

Read Between the Last Light HERE (for free, on Inkitt)

Synopsis: Grad student Morana vanishes through a cave in Crete and wakes in a moonlit realm ruled by a deadly and beautiful queen. There, the Warden - bound by sacred vows - can't stop wanting the woman he's dreamed of for years, while the queen's lover turns court politics into a dangerous game.

Also check out my original vampire story, The Last Blood of Winter, HERE!

Synopsis: In famine-stricken 1854 Scotland, Senna Bethune discovers her family has hidden a deadly secret for centuries: she is the last descendant of the First Vampire. When the Court of the First Blood finds her, Senna is drawn from her home of Bethune Hall into the ancient power of Dunscaith Castle. Protected by Keir, the king’s feared executioner, she must navigate horror, bloodline politics, and dangerous desires. As war and hunger reshape the human world, Senna must decide whether vampire-kind deserves salvation... or extinction.

[metamorphesque]

Boromir, The Horn of Gondor by Donato Giancola

[majestativa]

With a magic spell, she imprisons the […] muse of desire.

ANURADHA MAHAPATRA (অনুরাধা মহাপাত্র) — The Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry [Eds. Vinay Dharwadker & A.K. Ramanujan], transl. by Jyotirmoy Dutta & Carolyne Wright, (1995)

[gemsofgreece]

Hermoupolis, Syros, Greece by Kostas Bouk.

[elegantstyletastemaker]

“The French called this time of day “l’heure bleue.” To the English it was “the gloaming.” The very word “gloaming” reverberates, echoes—the gloaming, the glimmer, the glitter, the glisten, the glamour—carrying in its consonants the images of houses shuttering, gardens darkening, grass-lined rivers slipping through the shadows. During the blue nights you think the end of day will never come. As the blue nights draw to a close (and they will, and they do) you experience an actual chill, at the moment you first notice: the blue light is going, the days are already shortening, the summer is gone.”

— Joan Didion, Blue Nights  (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)

[letthemysterybe]

1987

[jacindaelena]

Dunscaith Castle by nichbrand

[dopescissorscashwagon]

Winter snow on Black Mount, Scotland

📸 by damianshields.com @damianshieldsdotcom

[domjordanillustration]

lonely watchtower, collage

[cma-modern-european-art]

Walking Panther, Antoine-Louis Barye , 1831, Cleveland Museum of Art: Modern European Painting and Sculpture

Size: Overall: 7.7 x 14.3 cm (3 1/16 x 5 5/8 in.) Medium: bronze

https://clevelandart.org/art/1981.224

[haciaelmar]

wanderings | Mamiya RB67 | expired Fuji NPS 160 | 2025

[archaeoart]

Temple of Jupiter, Baalbek, Syria, circa 1870.

[almavio]

Wingate Paine (1915 - 1987), Mirror of Venus, c. 1966

[cma-drawing]

Design for a Hand Mirror, Félix Bracquemond , c. 1900-1902, Cleveland Museum of Art: Drawings

Size: Sheet: 18.6 x 13.7 cm (7 5/16 x 5 3/8 in.); Framed: 62 x 45 cm (24 7/16 x 17 11/16 in.) Medium: ink on paper

https://clevelandart.org/art/2009.11.3

[kitsunetsuki-deactivated2026051]

David Hamilton - from the book La Danse (1974)

[talkgentlytome]

[speakingparts]

Shadowland by Jacob Howard