#the rusalka

[alocalfrogart]

When you come to be sensibly touched, the scales will fall from your eyes; and by the penetrating eyes of love you will discern that which your other eyes will never see.

[arianwells]

The Dark eyed Rusalka is a river spirit that tempts the unwise into the waters of the River.

[ID: a digital image of the Rusalka, one of the Luminaries, from the waist up. She’s a brown skinned woman, with extremely long dark hair that go under the water where she’s standing. Her eyes are dark, she’s smiling lightly and looking slightly to the left, seemingly calling someone. There’s a red ribbon on her neck and it’s possible to see light scarring under the ribbon. She’s holding the end of the ribbon in her hand and the end of the ribbon drifts away from her. It’s possible to see the outlines of her wings behind her. She isn’t wearing anything. There are a few green leaves in her hair. The water she’s standing in is light blue and green. The background is light green and blurred. end ID]

[queercore-curriculum]

[ID: An image of a Luminary card for The Rusalka. The card is 12 cm long and 7 cm wide, with rounded corners. On the card is a black-and-white illustration of a woman who is submerged in water up to her eyes. Beneath the illustration, “The Rusalka” is typed in a sans serif font.]

[rai-knightshade-art]

I think I'm starting a new drawing series where I draw water spirits from around the world that specifically fall under "pretty but dangerous and likely to drown you". So far, from back in 2019 I drew Arion as a (masc) Rusalka, and this week I've drawn a Nøkken/Fossegrim/Neck/they're common throughout northern Europe so they've got a lot of names. Lyrics on the Nøkken piece come from Fairytale by Alexander Rybak cause it just seemed fitting.

[brokehorrorfan]

The Siren will be released on DVD on January 28 via Dark Sky Films. No Blu-ray is planned. The 2019 fantasy-horror film has drawn comparisons to The Shape of Water and The Lure.

They Look Like People writer-director Perry Blackshear reunites with actors Margaret Ying Drake, MacLeod Andrews, and Evan Dumouchel for the film, which was originally produced under the title The Rusalka.

No special features are listed. Love will haunt you in the the trailer below.

Tom (Evan Dumouchel) is a mute man from a sheltered, religious background who is haunted by the childhood accident that cost him his voice. While on a retreat at a lake house, he meets Al (MacLeod Andrews, whose husband drowned in the lake-one of many mysterious deaths there.

The area is marked by a local legend of a lovelorn spirit who haunts the surrounding woods and drowns anyone she encounters. The legend proves all too real when Tom encounters the beautiful creature. Drawn to her immediately, Tom knows he has found his soulmate in the seemingly human Nina (Margaret Ying Drake), who must battle to repress her demonic instincts when she feels the same toward him. Meanwhile, Al, possessed by vengeance, circles the pair, getting ever closer to tracking down the monster that destroyed his happy marriage.

[alocalfrogart]

*wip* i’m thinking about miss the rusalka prefall. i’m thinking about angel of justice. i’m thinking about justice being blinded. i’m thinking about scales over eyes. i’m thinking about the loss of innocence. i’m thinking about giant women. i’m thinking about armored throats. i’m thinking about living a life of righteous flame and being reborn in cursed water. i’m thinking

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