Oh, the foolish prince is lonely

taurus: wild woods, hidden curses and fur gowns

gemini: gingerbread cottages, wildflowers, and potion vials

cancer: glass slippers, enchanted springs and gemstones

leo: sleeping dragons, secret keys and gold crowns

virgo: pressed flowers, wild hair and fairy wings

libra: ermine trim, magic mirrors and a throne

scorpio: eternal love, haunted forests and crushed velvet

sagittarius: red roses, magic lamps and a castle steeped in fog

capricorn: swan feathers, ice palaces and a string of pearls

aquarius: leather-bound spell-books, wooden cabins and mason jars

˙⋆✮ The moment they decided softness was a liability and started practicing hardness

˙⋆✮ Being told they were too much until they became not enough on purpose

˙⋆✮ The betrayal that didn't break them but quietly ended who they were before it

˙⋆✮ Asking for help once at the worst possible time and learning never again

˙⋆✮ Watching someone else get everything they worked for and being told to be grateful

˙⋆✮ The love that was conditional for so long unconditional stopped feeling real

˙⋆✮ Being made to feel small by someone they looked up to during a year they can't undo

˙⋆✮ The grief that had nowhere to go and eventually became something else entirely

˙⋆✮ Trusting completely one time and having it used against them with precision

˙⋆✮ Waiting to be chosen so long they decided choosing was weakness

˙⋆✮ The version of them that existed before a specific date nobody else remembers

˙⋆✮ Being punished for the truth enough times to become an excellent liar

˙⋆✮ The dream abandoned not by choice but by circumstances that felt like choice

˙⋆✮ Caring loudly in a room that rewarded not caring and learning the lesson wrong

˙⋆✮ The childhood that required a mask so early they forgot faces underneath are allowed

˙⋆✮ Being right about something important and being destroyed for it anyway

˙⋆✮ The moment the world showed them who it protected and who it didn't

˙⋆✮ Growing up watching kindness get punished and cruelty get rewarded and taking notes

˙⋆✮ The apology that never came and the personality built around the absence of it

˙⋆✮ Being the cautionary tale in someone else's story without ever getting their own

˙⋆✮ The door that was closed so many times they stopped knocking and started breaking in

˙⋆✮ Loving someone who treated love like a weapon until they learned to do the same

˙⋆✮ The version of events everyone agreed on that left them entirely out of the truth

˙⋆✮ Surviving something alone that no one should have survived alone

Kamel Ouali’s Grand Masked Ball – The Sun King Ball

On the occasion of the tercentenary of Louis XIV’s death, Kamel Ouali proposes a Grand masked ball on the theme of the Sun King.

A doll shop with the following advertisement on its website:

"Is your haunted doll making you lose sleep at night? Are you tired of scrubbing blood off of your walls, putting crucifixes right side up over and over again, repairing wallpapers with claw marks ripped through them, replacing dishes shattered on the floor? Then you have come to the perfect solution: get her a friend! Two (or more) haunted dolls together will keep each other company and entertained. It is generally recommended for new haunted doll owners to start with one pair to potentially eliminate the typical behaviors of a bored haunted doll.