Of Literary Nature

🦋 Faeries, Sprites & Malevolent Spirits: An Anthology of Classic Poetry & Stories edited by Aurora Thorne

Rating: 🌟🌟🌟/5

This small anthology explores our fascination with the ethereal creatures across centuries and cultures that we call the Good Folk. In literature and folklore they have retained an edge of danger and embodied the mysterious and magical aspects of the natural world.

This was an okay collection of fairy poems and stories, though it didn’t jump out to me. I enjoyed how at the beginning of each section there was a short story, which I enjoyed more than the poetry aspect. There was nothing wrong with the poems chosen, but I’ve read better collections.

If you’re interested in poetry, the Everyman’s Library edition of “Fairy Poems” is where I’d go. Lots of really evocative writing in that one.

If you get into white work embroidery, you might discover cutwork. And when you start doing cutwork, you might get curious about incorporating detached elements. And before you know it the fabric is gone, you are making needle lace, and there goes the rest of your week.

Buttonhole stitch - not even once.

Making unwise financial decisions at the art festival today 😌

03.06.26

Good morning!

in which murderbot is a very normal terracotta soldier and ART the dragon spirit of a chinese junk who dwells in the ship's keel. they meet in the ming dynasty perhaps, when ppl are sailing places extra willy-nilly.

*Nüwa is the mother goddess in chinese mythology, known for creating humanity from yellow clay and repairing the sky.

thank you @mutualrapport for hosting the event! original prompt below.