Fire & Sky

Fairytales ♢ Folklore ♢ Mythology ♢ Art ♢ Music ♢ Literature ♢ Nature ♢ Horror ♢ Fantasy

[swiftsnowmane]

If you have ghosts, you have everything...

🤍 Fender (2013-2022) and Opal (2012-2021) 🤍

[oldpaintings]

Sleeping Beauty, 1864 by Bertha Froriep (German, 1833–1920)

[venndaai]

have you guys heard about the greenland shark. some crazy shit happening there.

[venndaai]

they are sexually mature at ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD.

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

ma'am you are delightfully strange and I'm privileged to share a planet with you

[fluorescentbrains]

this post prompted me to refresh my memory on Greenland Shark Facts and this detail about how they feed goes so hard

just vacuuming up their unsuspecting prey. whole !

[muffinlance]

Good news good news good news! Recent research suggests the eye parasites do NOT blind them!

Eye-opening research: Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism

Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," says the UC Ir

I <3 you a normal amount Greenland sharks

[yorksnapshots]

Wake with the Sun - Sleep with the Moon - Aim for the Stars.

At the Society of Alchemist's, York, England.

I think my favourite shop window.

[jai-pas-sommeil]

Beauty and the Beast aka Panna a netvor (1978) dir. Juraj Herz

[periodcostumefantasylover]

Janeuary Day 12: Looking Glass

[gothyween]

𝓵𝓲𝓼𝓪 ғrαɴĸeɴѕтeιɴ🩷💙📻🪓

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[pmamtraveller]

Hieronymus Bosch, Detail from “Ascent of the Blessed", 1504

[thezombiegeekinthehawaiianshirt]

[pmamtraveller]

The Little Mermaid, by Helen Stratton (1867-1961)

[pmamtraveller]

The Swan, 1915, by Hilma Af Klint

[boudicasdaughter]

rest in power, marjane satrapi. 1969-2026.

[museum-of-artifacts]

The only taxidermied blue whale in the world, 1865 CE, now housed at the Natural History Museum in Sweden. The public was allowed to enter it up until a couple was found having sex inside it; now its jaws are opened only for special occasions like Swedish election days

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[movie-gifs]

Little Women (1994) dir. Gillian Armstrong

[herpsandbirds]

[nemfrog]

I searched "eclipse 1868" on the Nemfrog page on Tumblr on a web browser. This grid came up labeled "More like this."

[ruinedchildhood]

[2000ish]