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“Don’t let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful.”

— Astrid Lindgren

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My friend's cozy little kitchen in Finland.

9th of July, 2023

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Ulrike Schanz

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emily duffin

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there’s always time to love // watercolor, gouache & ink on paper

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you can be both an ethereal faerie dream girl and a horrid little dirt gremlin creature. the duality of woman

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Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands

But the reality is that one would have to be an utter idiot to marry one of the Folk. There are perhaps a handful of stories in which such a union ends well and a mountain of them in which it ends in madness or an untimely and unpleasant death. I am also, of course, constantly aware of the ridiculousness of my being the object of a marriage offering by a faerie monarch.

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“I learned that just beneath the surface there’s another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper. I knew it as a kid, but I couldn’t find the proof. It was just a feeling. There is goodness in blue skies and flowers, but another force - a wild pain and decay - also accompanies everything.”

— David Lynch

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spent most of today copying one of my favourite scenes from emily wilde’s encyclopaedia of faeries into my reading journal

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I don't need someone to match my freak; I need someone to complement my freak. Accentuate and accent my freak. Plus, we gotta diversify our freak portfolio here -- combine our efforts to cover the greatest amount of freakage instead of seeking freak redundancy.