'tis the fairy

tired ghoul. too old to be here. covered in cobwebs. ask

[house-of-neptune]

Late 15th century French chest via Met Museum

[cryingonthefreeway]

nastymagazine

[rosieandthemoon]

gold & shell, circa 1900

[7pleiades7]

A Nymph Beside a Pool (1910) by Reginald Grenville Eves RA (British, 1876 – 1941), signed and dated top right ‘R. G. Eves / 1910’, oil on canvas, 132 cm (51.9 in) x 101.6 cm (40 in), Private Collection

[oldpaintings]

Nymphea, c.1890 by Arthur Wardle (English, 1864–1949)

[mermaidenmystic]

♡ ♡ ♡

[funstealer]

Maison Margiela A/W 2026

[love-for-carnation]

The Unicorn in Captivity (from the Unicorn Tapestries) (detail), 1495-1505. South Netherlandish. The red-flowered plant that appears to the left of the blue iris, just outside the Unicorn’s enclosure, is a carnation, a doubled garden form of the clove pink.

[unusual-suspects]

x

[louisegluck]

Marina Tsvetaeva, tr. by Elaine Feinstein from, “No one has taken anything away.” [ID in alt text]

[nixscriptum]

on spring.

[greengableslover]

It's a secret garden. Secrets are safe with me.

THE SECRET GARDEN (1993) dir. Agnieszka Holland

[rosieandthemoon]

19th-century French oracle deck, originally printed by B.P. Grimaud

[afaerytalelife]

Spring ‘Magnolia Blossoms’ Stained Glass Window.

[nocnitsa]

Dazed and Confused, March 2013.

[fragrantblossoms]

Nickolas Muray. Muriel Stuart, Anna Pavlova Ballet, circa 1920's.

[enchantedbook]

"Poet’s Tomb" by Rihards Zariņš, 1913.

[postcard-from-the-past]

Pageant Queens of the 1923 Carnival in Valence, Dauphiné region of France

French vintage postcard