there is a world of difference between a wraith-like shadow and a real girl.
— Shirley Jackson, The Birds Nest
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Yesssss, orange cat paw badge achieved before sleep! 🐾🐾🐾
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If she took any pride in anything, it was in the fact that everything about her was neat, and distinct, and right in a spot where she could see it.
Shirley Jackson, excerpt from The Bird’s Nest
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Francis
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Elizabeth Jane Gardner Bouguereau (American, 1837-1922)
The Birds Nest, 1889
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randomly got inspired to do this little painting of a hummingbird on her nest! done in just under 2 hours :>
please reblog if you enjoy! <3
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may the gods protect you, small and ridiculous creature
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Hoooo boy. It's finally finished. This only took me eight months to paint. T.T
Disco Elysium is soooo good y'all; I feel like I'll never give it the credit it deserves.
I'm not even sure it's finished, but I'm just going to set this down now, though.
Clip studio paint and a ton of downloaded watercolor and acrylic brushes.
Let me know if you want me to pull out any closeups or anything
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when she looked at her hands she thought there were worms on her fingers, working their way in and out and between and over, wet and cold, and she put her hands under her pillow and closed her eyes and held her mouth tight shut to keep the worms out, and screamed silently in her bed.
— Shirley Jackson, The Birds Nest
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How many boops can a magpie boop, when a magpie is at work?
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where the living, engrossed daily with the fragments and soiled trivia of the disagreeable past, or the vacancies of space, kept a precarious hold on individuality and identity,
Shirley Jackson, excerpt from The Bird’s Nest
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Jude
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Crows and Magpies Are Building Nests with Anti-Bird Spikes
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