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Brother Gregor never spoke and often spooked the neophytes with his appearance, but he was a gentle soul and a phenomenal cook and knew more ways to prepare a fish than the abbot knew hymns

#brother gregor for sainthood

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#the bones. are tired. #so is everything else #also i just want to say i am digging your webcomic concept

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FLEUR DE LYS-SHAPED BOOK OF HOURS, in Latin, use of Rome (Paris, c. 1553). Illuminated manuscript on paper.

180 x 80mm. i + 117 leaves, each page with 24 lines written in a 'roman' hand in black ink within a liquid gold border in the shape of a half fleur de lys, spaces infilled with liquid gold fronds on blue or red grounds, line-fillers and one- and two-line initials of the same colours, eleven lobe-shaped miniatures. Nineteenth-century brown morocco gilt, semé with fleur de lys, doublures of red morocco gilt, edges gauffered and gilt (upper cover detached). [Christies Auction House, 2006 catalog]

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happy "everyone forgets that icarus also flew" monday. i want to throw up !

#a chesterton reference? #in a random poem? #it's more likely than you think #poetry

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another thing i love about psych? the sheer amount of times they remixed their own theme song to fit the theme of an episode

#the best #psych

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NaPoWriMo #30: A triolet and a quatern

The prompt was "a poem that starts at the ending of something and works backward to the beginning". I really wanted to write about a story with a tragic ending and the beauty along the way, but instead all I could come up with were refrains about the subject that I worked into these poetry forms.

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Is the story not worth telling If there's sorrow at the ending? If the journey is compelling Is the story not worth telling? Those whose days with life were swelling Could not know the doom impending Is the story not worth telling If there's sorrow at the ending?

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If at the end the hero fails Does it destroy the other tales? Are there not moments of glory Though a failure ends the story?

We still care for those first details If at the end the hero fails. The sorrow, striving, hope and love Before the doom falls from above

Worth much more than the final win Or failure from his fatal sin (If at the end the hero fails From following forbidden trails)

Are all the virtues so hard-won That linger when the tale is done What's beautiful and true prevails If at the end the hero fails

#napowrimo 2024 #poetry #and with that: success! #it seemed fitting to make my 30th poem one about endings #i still want to write a few more before the month's end but it feels good to have offically 'finished'

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reblog for sample size !!

#calico

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reblog and put in the tags if you had to be stuck in one month forever which one you would choose. i think i’d pick september

#i'm sure i've answered this before #but may #no question #the one month of lovely weather #a world so bright your eyes ache from the beauty #blooming trees blue skies and everything so green and blue and yellow #it's perfect

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He wears your grandad's clothes

#:D #wonderful fantastic superb #so happy this exists #milo murphy's law

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Narnia Lacquer Box by Vera Smirnova

Artwork found here.

#woah #artwork #the chronicles of narnia #c.s. lewis

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The beauty of the whole ''don't tell the reader things, let them make things up" philosophy is if I'm not telling readers things, I don't have to make them up. Unless I want to.

#you. you get it. #adventures in writing #awesomebutunpractical

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Yuri Pimenov - Lyrical Housewarming (1965)

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Marie Egner (Austrian, 1850-1940): Breaking waves in Istria (via Dorotheum)

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Look, it's basic science. If the fairies don't paint the flowers with their tiny little paintbrushes full of dewdrops and rainbows, they won't attract pollinators and there will be famine. Do you want famine, Bob?

Suddenly struck by the need for a story about a Victorian lady naturalist who studies those cutesy Victorian flower fairies, but like, as a completely dead-serious scientific endeavor--just because they're adorable and feminine and impossibly twee doesn't mean they're not a vital component of the ecosystem, Bob.

#adventures in writing #laura ingalls wilder would be having so much fun with this right now