where you tend a rose, a thistle cannot grow

Stell | Catholic

[weirdvintage]

“The Birthday Cake” by Harry Whittier Frees, 1914

(Source: Library of Congress)

[depsidase]

[huariqueje]

By the rampart - Simon Bang , 2019.

Danish , b. 1969 -

Acrylic on canvas , 130 x 130 cm.

[sometimes-im-a-ballerina]

Yume Okano La Bayadere, Polish National Ballet photos by Remy Lamping

[prokopetz]

I enjoy a joke about fucked up German fairy tales as much as the next nerd, but it's genuinely striking how often the source for the really fucked up stuff turns out to be "yeah, this is only in the Brothers Grimm version and doesn't appear in any extant oral tradition, and we're like 80% sure they added it themselves". To a large extent it's not German fairy tales that are fucked up, it's two specific German dudes.

[thelovers-thedreamers-and-me]

in retrospect we probably should have given the fairy tale writing to the Brothers Happy instead

[redlipstickresurrected]

Toril Brancher (Norwegian, b. Oslo, Norway, based South Wales) - Photography

[johannestevans]

Children near a magical wood catching bugs and their family are like. Please do not catch pixies and small fae and bring them into our home. They are sentient and they are intelligent

And the kids are like "but they get into our bug traps" and "we didn't catch him he followed us home"

And their parents are like. Please i do not believe that 6 fucking pixies smuggled themselves into our garage on the underside of your bicycle saddle and then set up shop in the old dolls house. These are living beings they're not toys it's not kind to treat them like this

And the kids are like we are NOT treating them like anything you said we're not allowed to trap them and they always get into our traps so we always run away when they see us and then they follow us and get inside our backpacks and stuff

And the parents are like

Stop lying!!!

And then they set up wildlife cams and not only can pixies apparently do all of that and are very desperate to hang out with these human kids (who have fun life-sized toys and are covered in wonderful things like glitter and are a free source of fresh bugs and pop tart crumbs)

But they can also like. Fully just pick locks and shit.

Setting up little cameras and having to come to terms with the fact that not only are these small fae initiating every interaction with the kids but have also taken their cat's side in the war against pigeons and keep riding it into battle

[doccyuk]

The fae quickly realise the camera is a camera, and just as quickly invent silent movies

Each intertitle card has been crafted from words cut out of other writing, so a piece of paper looking like a ransom demand states "BuT Hoo wil SAVE the Dams3l?" is pulled away to reveal a doll tied to train tracks

[holly-warbs]

purple variations

[starwarmth]

if i post anything personal it will be gone in 15 minutes. it’s like burning letters

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

~ Florence Harrison, "So the prince was tended with care" from Christina Rossetti: Poems (1910)

via internet archive

[hexjulia]

wanting to vent a bit/being worried about privacy will have you posting like i'm dealing with issues and problems. situations have happened to me. and there are emotions i'm experiencing about this. or not. gotta keep 'em on their toes.

[kosmogrl]

stop being nosy

[04k96]

[starwarmth]

i get distinctly european when i’m pissed

[starwarmth]

if i had chocolate cake everything would be okay

[annabelle--cane]

you know I think I WILL bet on myself for a change [is mysteriously losing dog shaped]

[frostedmagnolias]

A Christian Dior couture by Marc Bohan debutante gown

c. 1964

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