Just a rec to watch this film because it's a classic, but also for the divine costuming and Angela Lansbury is in it 👗🤍

"The same thing we do every night, Pinky."

Not sure what this normies stuff is about but if you haven't noticed nice ladies do a lot of the activist work in this country and have since the abolitionist movement, you maybe should.

So many beautiful ones, but I think my favorite line from Shakespeare will always be: This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. #BookWormSat 🖼️George Hendrik Breitner

‘But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restor’d and sorrows end.’ ~ Shakespeare’s Sonnet 30. @racheldeering.bsky.social here for the rest of #BookWormSat and our Bardish foray into #ShakespeareWeek 🖼️ The Sonnet, William Mulready, 1839.

Happy #Caturday

No matter the weather. She was always there, always ready, always on time, like only the truly mediocre are. From Mona Awad's novel All's Well referencing Shakespeare's play All's Well That Ends Well #BookWormSat 🖼️Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

Good morning🧜‍♀️ Today only, 25% off classic #tees www.redbubble.com/people/forgo... #sale #tshirt #art #illustration #vintage #fairytale #victorian #gifts #giftideas #tshirts #clothing

doesn't have a job, doesn't do house care, yet still is too exhausted to get up for her own toy and will cry until I bring her one

Four-leaf clovers grow where fairies tread... I'll seek a four-leafed Clover In all the Fairy dells, And if I find the charmed leaf, Oh, how I'll weave my spells! --S. Lover-- Artwork: Clovers by Raphael Kirchner #BookologyThursday

A dress, of various colours and fury-like with varied garb, is put on by her; and her locks removed, her features are revealed, and, bristling, with wreaths of vipers her hair is fastened round. A description of the Thessalian witch from the Pharsalia by Lucan #BookologyThursday 🎨Liiga Klavina

if you shake up bugs in a jar they'll fight each other instead of noticing the hand shaking them I would hope we would have more sense

Best friends

In a Russian tradition called "curling the birches" young women would set out with picnics and ribbons to decorate and celebrate the fertility of trees first budding in spring on a day called Semik. They would then send that energy into their own crops. #LegendaryWednesday 🖼️Alphonse Osbert

Ghost Pipe is a rare flower with hardly any pigment. If you happen upon one, consider yourself lucky--I am forever hopeful of encountering!!-- If prepared correctly, the plant is rumoured to relieve eye trouble and general pain. #WyrdWednesday 📸 Peggy Easterly

Feel free to roast me for not knowing this, but are these scenes really all from the same show 🤣 Are they just reusing the same set? What in the staircase is going on?

Legends behind the rumor about bats getting tangled in long hair: Embarrassed about their naked wings and trying to cover up. Bald due to some strange disease, so out of jealousy they try to infect others. Just another excuse to make women afraid to go out at night. #MythologyMonday 🦇

in tandem,the skirt someone-who-will-remain-nameless actually slid out of just so her cat would not have to get up

making a homemade pie crust is not as difficult as I thought it would be and it tastes sooooooooo much better #SmallVictories

Final day for Sale at redbubble: 25% off everything! redbubble.com/people/forgo... #art #illustration #vintage #fairytale #victorian #homedecor #InteriorDecoration #giftideas #tshirts #wallart #posters #fineart #illustrationart

just reversed-image search what this was and there must be a whole colony of bats hibernating in this split tree 🖤🦇

Misty hills, tinged by the Sun, opened and fell away, a river flashed, a forest lay like a green-furred beast. There was a valley, walled in by tall towers of rock, carpeted with flowers at its bottom. -Tanith Lee- 📖 Night's Master 🖼️Harald Sohlberg #BookWormSat

Hope that laundry you had to get up for was worth it, because now I'm going to stare at you like this for 3 hours 😽 #Caturday

"Bluebell Web" 🎨 Tuesday Riddell

St George does his stuff in this illustration by Nikolai Kalmak, 1916. #BookologyThursday #dragon #folklore #legend #myth

"My lord, that is the way of men, and it always has been. if you would offer your sword only to God--" He laughed, harshly and scornfully, and the rest of my words dissolved in my throat. "God's swords are the bloodiest of all," he said. "And the most dishonest." Marie Jakober #BookologyThurday

Sorry can't go to work today, my cat looks like she might be sad

Thyme is reported to have the capacity to renew the constitution of both people and animals, and the wild variety is also reputed to be a favorite plant for fairies and elves to drink from. #FolkloreThursday 🖼️Spirit of Spring by Alphonse Mucha

And also from the NYT piece: “It makes you rethink in history all those heroes,” Ms. Lopez said. “The movement — that’s the hero.”

self-awareness is an underrated quality

Wyrdlings, The day after St Pat’s is known as Sheelah's Day and falls on #WyrdWednesday, so we give you: "Goddesses, Heroines & Female Saints" as this week’s topic! Come and tell us tales of the Brighids, Jeanne d’Arcs and Walburgas from myth, lit & lore!

doesn't look very guilty that I caught her eating the cardinals peanuts

give me local nurseries, give me the woman at the farmers market who eyes me suspiciously as she answers my questions and looks like she sells me her plant babies despite her better judgment

‘The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.’ ~ Peter Straub @racheldeering.bsky.social here for the rest of a very supernatural #BookWormSat #GothicSpring 🖼️ Forest Ghost, Ladislav Mednyánszky, 1890.

He realized how little he knew of this world, but he knew this: If you could love someone, you possessed a soul. -Alice Hoffman- 📖 The World That We Knew 🖼️Howard Pyle #BookWormSat

Here's how green it gets! #chicagoriver #stpaddysday

That glass bottle is toast #Caturday getdailyart.com/en/25497/hen...

Folklore & Women: The power of folklore in reclaiming female stories #online #workshop #folklore #event #women #folklore www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/folklore-w...

The Ghost of a Flea by William Blake The inspiration behind this painting is rumored to be Blake's assertion that fleas are inhabited by the souls of men who behaved in the same bloodthirsty manner in life. #PhantomsFriday

"... then the old and holy figure of Romance, cloaked even to the face, comes down out of hilly woodlands and bids dark shadows to rise and dance, and sends the forest creatures forth to prowl..." (Lord Dunsany) 🎨 Sidney Sime #bookologythursday #booksky #bookillustration

And she was killed. The way that people are. A little piece at first then all at once. Deirdre Sullivan 📖Tangleweed and Brine 🎨Karen Vaughan #BookologyThursday

*reminder, finding moments of joy is not a betrayal of compassion 1) Surprise weather: warm enough to watch the sunset from my deck w/ wild bunnies & 🍷, then treated to non hazardous pretty snow, what's next? 2) My dress has patterns reminiscent of The Unicorn Tapestries 3) As always, this dork

“Sweet, in opening spring, to trace upon the hill-side, otherwise gray and bare—to trace, I say, the oldest paths by their streaks of earliest green. Sweet, indeed, I can’t deny” — the piazza tales, Herman Melville #melvillemonday #naturesky #bloomsky #literature

Happy International Women’s Day to all you gorgeous goddesses!

In East of the Sun and West of the Moon in the familiar beastly husband trope, the heroine's father gives her to a bear who ends up being a prince. Once she sees his true form, she must complete an elaborate quest to end his enchantment. #BookWormSat Art: Kay Nielsen www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30973

The word “tattoo” has two distinct meanings, with two distinct etymologies. The first, meaning skin art, comes from Polynesian. The second, meaning a military drumbeat, comes from the Dutch.

if you're in a daylight savings time area, don't forget to spring ahead tonight

"The framing by which I came to understand the struggle for Black liberation and equality in America — and the ways to address it — was shaped, in part, by Jackson’s voice and his actions," Alden Loury writes of the Rev. Jesse Jackson.

“It finally happened! After months of feeding them, a crow left me a gift.” “Omg, what is that?” “It’s #jewelry, a ring. Isn’t it wonderful? Why do you look like that?” “There’s a finger attached to it.” “Relax, it’s ok” “How is it ok?” “A little dish soap ought to loosen it.” #vss365

Just a cat, and her banana, wishing you the best #Caturday 🍌😺