#a bride's tale

[tired-reader-writer]

Just some screencaps I took to take as reference for having a feel on how things will look and stuff (for Wolfpack AU) from the manga Otoyomegatari!

#otoyomegatari #a bride's story #a bride's tale #wolfpack au #winds of wolfsong #references

[andyblackveil]

Andy Biersack in Attend the Tale - A Mini Documentary (x)

#andy biersack #andy black #black veil brides #gif #rock #emo #revenge #quotes #attend the tale

[pyre-the-ren]

I love you, media and music based on folklore, mythology, and old stories passed on from generation to generation. I love you, people who take these sorts of things “too seriously” and begin genuinely analysing what’s generally overlooked as a silly story. I love you, people who both romanticise these stories and point out the very real horror that lies in a lot of them. I love you, people who refuse to let the stories and folklore important to their culture fade away, even when for hundreds or even thousands of years people have attempted to erase their history and culture. I love you, people who reclaim their people’s stories and tell them from the mouths of those it originally belonged to. I love yo

#fairytale #fairy tale retelling #d20 neverafter #Irish folklore trilogy #hades game #corpse bride #princess kaguya #kirikou and the sorceress #into the woods #hadestown #percy jackon and the olympians #crow the legend #the black cauldron #and so many more

[weirdlookindog]

Virgil Finlay - Bride of the Lightning

(Weird Tales - January 1938)

#virgil finlay #bride of the lightning #weird tales #pulp art #illustration #horror art

[freckles-and-books]

These are three of my favorites reads this year, and they all feel like they’re in conversation with each other. Each deals with fairytales in ways that go beyond mere retellings, and each one has stunning prose that really made me fall in love.

#books #fairytale retelling #juniper and thorn #ava reid #the last tale of the flower bride #roshani chokshi #the salt grows heavy #cassandra khaw

[diioonysus]

vintage illustrations + my tattoo list

#is from a bride book but the art is by john r neill #arthur rackham udine #also john r neill #from the 1914 book of shakespeare midsummer night's dream by i think william heath #it's by robert anning bell #the curiosities of kissing by alfred fowler but not sure if he's the artist #is in greek theatre costumes by iris brookes #in the book the golden fleece and the heroes who lived before achilles and the artist is willy pogany #in the book fairy tales by hans christian andersen and the artist is charles robinson #in line and form by walter crane #in the book kitchen maid and the artist is j. b. partridge #in the book the tale of lohengrin knight of the swan and the artist is willy pogany #in the book by john keats but idk the artist #in the book illustrators of montmartre by emanuel frank #in the book early poems of william morris #in the book the eve of st anges and artist is edmund h garrett #in the book home theatricals made easy or busy happy and merry #in the book the illustrated london instructor #in the book songs for little people and artist is h stratton #from alfred tennyson's poems and artist is eleanor forescue brickdale #artist is gerhard munthe #in arthur rackham's wagner ring cycle: the valkyrie #tiburtijnse sibille by jan luyken #by peter behrens #by shigeru hatsuyama #in the book devises heroiques by claude paradin #in the book price list of magical apparatus and illusions from 1884 #in arthur rackham's ring cycle: valkyrie (this is my newest tattoo i got!!) #in scapel: the 1911 year book of the woman's medical college of pennsylvania #in the child world by artist c robinson

[asteria-of-the-stars]

‘You seem to be enjoying the fruits of my labour that came to me too young’ - Paris Paloma, The Fruits.

Alicent Hightower and Viserys Targaryen, House of the Dragon // Hozier, Swan Upon Leda // Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale // Paris Paloma, Labour // Joanna Russ, The Female Man

#I’m in my feelings #through his child bride he finally gets what he wants #with absolutely no regard to her personhood #just as he had always done #web weaving #mine #alicent hightower #viserys targaryen #house of the dragon #margaret atwood #the handmaids tale #paris paloma #labour #Hozier #Swan upon Leda #Joanna Russ #the female man #girlhood #womanhood

[velvet-pumpkin]

Me: I'm not that into blondes.

Also me:

#I'm lying to myself #jj maybank #steve rogers #captain america #peeta mellark #jack dawson #heath ledger #finnick odair #westley #william thatcher #obx #outer banks #hunger games #princess bride #avengers #a knight's tale #titanic #give me that friends to lovers

[the-nation-of-today]

Everything has been about showing people that they were wrong

#black veil brides #bvb #andy biersack #andy bvb #guy of all time 🖤 #bleeders #attend the tale #maeve.gif #baby's first gifset????? #nothing crazy fancy here just trying to get my bearings #so please be nice lmao

[rowanrabbit]

There was once a beautiful princess who was engaged to a prince from a faraway land. The match was arranged from their birth, and the princess’s whole young life was spent preparing for the marriage. But when she finally met the prince, only a week before their wedding, she found him intolerably arrogant and cruel.

“I would rather marry the devil,” she said to herself, and that night, a devil appeared at her bedroom window.

He swept into the room on a gust of air and stood there as tall as the ceiling, a great big beast with long sharp claws and teeth, wide leathery wings and a tail that whipped back and forth with feral excitement. He fell to his knees on the floor before her, and took her little hands in his.

“I’ve come to steal you away,” he said.

“To where?” demanded the princess.

He scooped her up in his enormous arms. “To my castle,” he said with his fangs at her ear.

He took her to the open window and launched back into the night, catching the air with his powerful wings and carrying the princess away.

They flew through the night for many miles, until they came to a beautiful palace carved from soft white stone, its spiraling towers gleaming with moonlight against the dark mountains. They went in through a tall tower window and landed in a bedroom decorated with dark wood and soft white silks. The devil laid the princess down on a soft bed, where she fell asleep.

The next morning she woke up alone in the beautiful room, and waited for the devil to come to her, which he did before long.

“How did you know that I wanted you last night?” she asked.

“The devil always comes when he is called,” he replied. “I’ve brought you here to make you my bride, lovely one. Will you accept?”

“I will accept,” said the princess, “but only if you court me according to the customs of my people.”

“Tell me what I must do,” said the devil.

“On the first night,” said the princess, “you must bring me a beautiful jewel.”

“It will be done,” said the devil, but just then, there came the sounds of a commotion outside. They went to the window and saw an army of a hundred men at the castle gates, led by the cruel and arrogant prince.

“He’s come to take you back,” said the devil.

“Don’t let him,” said the princess.

“Yes, my lady,” said the devil. He spread his wide wings and flew down from the tower window to meet the men at the gates. All day long, the princess watched through the window as they did battle. The human men were no match for the devil’s terrible claws and teeth. By sunset he had driven them all away. The princess was glad, but she saw that he’d had no time to collect any jewels for her.

“Where is my jewel?” she asked coyly, when the devil returned to her room.

“Here it is, beautiful one,” said the devil. In his hands was a perfect round orange that he’d plucked from a tree in the garden, with a dark green leaf still attached. He peeled it open in his great claws to reveal the segments of soft flesh, faceted and sparkling like gems. The princess was delighted, and she allowed the devil to feed her the soft sweet slices.

He returned to her the next morning, ready for his second task.

“What next, my lady?” he asked.

“On this second night,” said the princess, “you must serenade me with a beautiful song.”

“It will be done,” said the devil, but just then, there was another great commotion at the castle gates. They went to the window and saw that the prince had returned with an army of a thousand men.

“So many this time…” said the princess.

“I won’t let them take you,” the devil said to her. He leapt out the bedroom window and flew down to face the army of men. All day long, the princess sat at the window and watched the ferocious battle taking place. This time the devil summoned mighty winds full of dust and hale, and jets of fire that shot up out of the earth, and he cut through through shields and armor with fiery swords. By the end of the day, he had driven the army away yet again. The princess was very impressed, but she knew he’d had no time to tune his instruments or practice his songs.

“Where are your instruments?” she asked, when the devil returned to her room.

“Let me take you to them,” he said, and gathered her up in his arms. He leapt out of the window with her—a thing the princess was somehow getting used to—and they flew away from the castle, to a hidden gorge tucked between two mountains, where a little winding brook burbled through a meadow of soft grass spotted with trees.

The devil set the princess down on her feet in the grass.

“I see nothing,” she said.

“You must listen,” said the devil.

She listened, and she noticed that the chuckling babble of the brook was almost like a soft little song, and the crickets hidden in the grass all around were rubbing their legs together like bows on strings, like a tiny little orchestra. And when the wind blew, it whooshed deeply through the walls of the gorge, rustling the leaves of the trees, and every so often an owl hooted too. It was as lovely as music, and they stood together listening for most of the night, until the devil carried her back to the bedroom so she could sleep.

He returned to her the next morning. “What must I do next?” he said.

“This is the final night of our courting,” she said, "and you must prepare a grand feast.”

“It will be done,” said the devil. But they both listened for the telltale sounds of swords and marching feet, and heard them, and going to the window they saw that the prince had arrived at the gates once again, leading an army of ten thousand men.

“Let them take me back,” said the princess, looking over the vast army. "You'll be hurt."

“Don’t be afraid,” said the devil, “for I cannot be felled by mortal men.” He went out through the window and flew to meet the oncoming army. And as he flew he grew, twenty feet tall, fifty feet, one hundred, one thousand feet tall, until he landed on the battlefield with a thunderous crash, towering over the terrified army. Many men turned and fled right then. But the arrogant prince would not be dissuaded, and he led the remaining men against the beast. Their swords and arrows were practically useless, their horses were wild with terror, and their morale drained away like sand through a sieve.

The battle finally ended in the evening. The prince had limped away in secret, defeated for the final time. Many men lay dead, while those still living scattered into the mountains. The devil slowly returned to his original size, lying down in the dirt among the dead, unharmed but exhausted from his great transformation. The princess left the palace and went to him, and took his large clawed hand in hers.

“Forgive me, lovely one,” he said, “for I have prepared no feast for you.”

“No?” asked the princess, looking around. Hundreds of ravens had descended upon the battlefield, already tearing into the fresh corpses, and wolves and lions were emerging from the woods to join them. “I think the feast is already under way,” said the princess, “and the guests are enjoying it very much.”

The devil laughed wickedly at that. “I think you might be a bit of a devil yourself,” he said. They were married on the next evening, and they are still living happily to this day.

#short story #fairy tale #exophilia #stolen bride #demon x human #demon boyfriend #monster boyfriend

[tired-reader-writer]

Even more Otoyomegatari screenshots!!

#otoyomegatari #a bride's story #a bride's tale

[bookcub]

Best Books of 2023

I've already written quite a bit about these books and have a tag #best books of 2023 where I also include my honorable mentions, so here is a rapid fire of my best books of the year!

The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi

The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen

Little Thieves by Margaret Owen

The Daevabad Trilogy by S.A. Chakraborty

Kindred by Octavia Butler

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual's Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J Brown

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty

Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo

The Feast Makers by H. A. Clarke

The Mirror Season by Anne-Marie McLemore

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

They Called Us Enemy by George Takei

Painted Devils by Margaret Owen

Sisters of the Neversea by Cynthia Leitich Smith

The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker

#best books of 2023 #the last tale of the flower bride #the magic fish #little thieves #the daevabad trilogy #kindred #spinning silver #refusing compulsory sexuality #the adventures of amina al sirafi #the scapegracers #family lore

[lepetitdragonvert]

Die Schlangenbraut/ The Snake’s Bride

1894

Artist : Heinrich Vogeler

#heinrich vogeler #king snake #roi serpent #bride #fiancee #fiancée #knight #princess #princesse #fairy story #fairy tale #vintage illustration #old illustration #bird #oiseau #vogel

[starmocha]

Me reading a YA novel: girl you don't need him

Me watching a romance movie: girl you don't need him

Me talking with my friends: girl you don't need him

Me playing an otome game: so I am in a polyamorous relationship with at least 4 different fictional men currently because I refuse to choose one

#me af #mr love queen's choice #mlqc #love and deepspace #sss several shades #several shades of sadism #seven hotties all my husbands #once upon a fairy love tale #oriental bride of the emperor #swd blood in roses #swd lost alice #kissed by the baddest bidder #otome game #otome hell #lbr #that number is so much higher than 4 lmao

[everythingunderthesky]

Mizu, trying her best to express deep feelings of admiration towards another: I WILL CUT THINGS IN HALF FOR YOU!

#blue eye samurai #Blue Eye Samurai Mikio #The tale of the ronin and the bride spoilers #Blue Eye Samurai spoilers #Blue Eye Samurai Mizu #meme #'bein silly #trade offer meme #my art #The Tale of the Ronin and the Bride #I had to pause The Tale of the Ronin and the Bride in order to make this in a fit of delight #no spoilers pleaaaaase #(I know from context it ends badly but y'know) #Also I am aware it was probably some kind of soup + salad dish! #I just got caught in the sillies when I saw Mizu enthusiastically chopping carrots and stuff to impress him

[freckles-and-books]

My favorites from the first half of 2023!

There weren’t a lot of standouts until the end of May/beginning of June when I read The Salt Grows Heavy, The Last Tale of the Flower Bride, and A Marvellous Light in a row. I’m hoping for a great second half to the year though.

#books #cheddar the cat #book recs #shubeik lubeik #catwoman lonely city #bea wolf #the salt grows heavy #a marvellous light #the last tale of the flower bride