my mind

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Some of my favourite photos of my cat, tofu

https://www.instagram.com/jang_dooboo/

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Artist Elaine Thi shot her self-portrait on a Nintendo 3DS (2026)

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The Marion Times, Kansas, September 29, 1898

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Bracelet, 1890.

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Sometimes you really gotta decide for yourself it's the last time the universe gonna teach you that same lesson

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I feel, I suffer, I am happy, I am moved. Only my enigma interests me. More than anything, I search for myself in my great void.

Clarice Lispector, from A Breath of Life

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Written for Alexa Chung by Alex Turner.

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Tianhao (Chinese,b. 1994)

The nocturnal scent keeper, 2025

Oil on canvas

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Perfume lace vial necklace by @middaia

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On the creation process from my emails with the designer:

“Any lace piece I use real vintage lace that I found in flea markets in really limited stocks. The lace burns during the process of casting the piece in silver, which means I can’t never reuse the same piece/pattern, so all the lace creations are unique and cannot be recreated identically”

[undinesea]

From the maw of night, a form coalesces, a phantom kin to both memory and enigma. Twin stars ignite within the abyss, eyes that pierce the velvet curtain, leading me down into the spiraling catacombs of my soul.

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Elves, Faeries, Spirit Work and European Animism Masterlist

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I do not personally endorse all these sources, read skeptically and cross-reference at your discretion. These are, however, all sources I personally use, with varying levels of trust.

Books, Articles, Etc

Elves in Anglo-Saxon England : Matters of Belief, Health, Gender and Identity - Hall

Glosses, Gaps and Gender: The Rise of Female Elves in Anglo-Saxon Culture - Hall

The Evidence for maran, the Anglo-Saxon "Nightmares" - Hall

Folk-healing, Fairies and Witchcraft: The Trial of Stein Maltman, Stirling 1628 - Hall

Getting Shot of Elves: Healing, Witchcraft and Fairies in the Scottish Witchcraft Trials - Hall

Myths and symbols in pagan Europe : early Scandinavian and Celtic religions - H.R. Ellis-Davidson

Swedish Legends and Folktales - Lindow

Trolls : an Unnatural History - Lindow

County Folk-lore - GB Folklore Society

Welsh Fairies - Mhara Starling

Superstitions of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland - Campbell

Scottish Folk-lore and Folk Life - MacKenzie

Collected words of Eleanor Hull

The Denham Tracts

The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies - Kirk

The Certainty of the World of Spirits, to which is added the Wonders of the Invisible World by Cotton Mather - Baxter

Gods and Fighting Men - Lady Gregory

Survivals in Beliefs among the Celts - Henderson

The Aryan Household, Its Structure and Its Development: An Introduction to Comparative Jurisprudence ; Chapter II: the house spirit - Hearn

An Encyclopaedia of Fairies - Briggs

Northern Mythology: comprising the principal popular traditions and superstitions of Scandinavia, North Germany, and The Netherlands - Thorpe | vol 2 | vol 3

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[strangeoctober]

I find it interesting that people talk and write about fairies these days like they're these horrible, Machiavellian monsters that you mustn't ever risk dealing with. Even saying your name near them will forever put you in their thrall, forever! (Or something to that effect) But when you dig into the folklore, you find countless stories of fairies just getting dunked on in just the daftest ways.

I've been reading "The Lore of Scotland", by Jennifer Westwood and Sophia Kingshill, and when I noticed this trend, I started taking count of who wins in fairies vs. human confrontations. I'm only about a fifth through, and while it's not clear cut, the humans are winning by three points!

By way of example, let me tell you one of my favourite stories so far. Once upon a time, a young woman was abducted by the fay and carried away to a fairie mound. There, she was placed in the arms of the great fay giantess who ruled those halls. "I've got you now!" said the giantess, "I'm going to hold you as tight and as close as vine on tree, forever more!" Certainly in a pickle, the young woman considered her dire situation and simply replied, "I wish it was shit you were holding." The fay giantess was so completely appalled and disgusted by the coarse manner of the young woman that she let her go immediately and had her taken back to her home.

Not only do I find this really funny, I enjoy the fact that even centuries ago, the forthright manner and direct problem solving of Scottish women was well established.

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Oh ok so it turns out ive been borrowing grief from the future ! it turns out ive been preparing to lose the things i love rather than basking in the light of them while they last. Maybe i should nt do that

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