from broken seeds, flowers bloom

[mental-magic]

I started a TikTok!! If you want daily doses of mental health, self love and care, magic, and aesthetics, give me a follow 💕 My @ is mental.magic (here's the link)

Happy New Year everyone! 💫

[mienar]

close-ups of a commission i did a while back! 🌱

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[89cats]

(by cat_by_snap)

[kakuusei]

But, I am always dreaming, even when I am awake; it is never finished.

THE LAST UNICORN (1982, Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin Jr.)

[beguines]

Mark Laver, "I'm gonna shine out in the wild silence" / "Everything looks beautiful, when you're young and pretty" / "I may never be unhappy again"

[twoweeks]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BwwBt6LDj8m

[brutalistarchitecture2]

From Jeanette Winterson's recent substack article

[tinyasafirefly]

Life was a willow…

[shittowatch]

Kedi (2016)

[userrainbows]

となりのトトロ | My Neighbor Totoro dir. Hayao Miyazaki, 1988

[nikswonderland]

tranquil day in the cottage side…

[00v]

Les films rêvés (2010) dir. Eric Pauwels

[libbyframe]

Larkspur and lilies commish

[vyvilha]

rusalki are not mermaids. stop translating the word "rusalka" as "mermaid" and stop calling rusalki "slavic mermaids". it's confusing, it's misleading, and it's simply isn't true. the association of rusalka with a western mermaid and undine began in 19th century, when russian empire poets wanted to adapt a popular western motif of a sorrowful water maid that is unrequitedly in love with a mortal man. this literature character of rusalka has nothing to do with actual rusalki folklore and cult.

rusalki are natural undead spirits that are connected to slavic ancestral worship. they don't have tails. they are not in any way connected to the sea: only lakes, ponds, and rivers. often, they're not even connected to water at all: there are forest rusalki, field rusalki, meadow rusalki, etc. they are in close relationships with their human kin: during the spring and summer, they are used in agricultural rites and are believed to help with farming and raising crops. rusalki were sacred to slavic people. the "week of the rusalki" festival, when rusalki are believed to walk on earth and visit their relatives, is celebrated to this day. to call them "slavic mermaids" is very diminutive of their actual role in slavic cultures.

[thedreamthieves]

literally parsley sage rosemary and thyme.

[niqvassieart]

Neighbour's cat being soft.

[cowpokeprose]

Folk music is wonderful because there’s bound to be a million versions of any song you love. Folk music is terrible because nobody will ever sing it right except the person who taught you the song.