#horror fairy tale

[zegalba]

Alexa Demie in Fairy Tales (2020) Photography: Petra Collins

[cicadako]

The Swan Maiden

Act I: The Swan

Interlude

[alicenpai]

the girl from the other side ✨ this series gave me hope a million times but simultaneously shattered my heart into the same amount of pieces </3 (flower symbolism under cut)

sticker sheet for anime north 🍀🥧🖤🤍

SPOILERS AHEAD

forget me not - obvious reference to the Black Children and how they eventually forget who they are as they near the end of their "life cycle".

white clover (in coffin) - white clovers typically symbolize innocence.

4 leaf clover - like I wrote in a previous post on my Witch Hat Atelier seasons piece, the 4 leaf clover symbolizes luck and good fortune. Like Coco, Shiva to her loved ones is a symbol of fortune, though to the Inside Kingdom, a symbol of misfortune.

sunflower - typically symbolize strength and warmth, a fitting flower for Shiva, the light illuminating Teacher's dark past.

nasturtium - another flower symbolizing strength, and has strong ties to the "victory" after battle. apparently soldiers used to don them as a sign of a long battle won. fun fact they are also edible (don't take my post for nutritional advice please) (ill probably write a bit more on this topic when my head is more clear)

[newwavesylviaplath]

[prokopetz]

One of my favourite genres of Tumblr post is people RPing as fairy tale creatures who hate their jobs. Like, you'd assume the Bone-Thief of the Dark Forest at least enjoys taking people's bones, but no, apparently they get paid to do this. In what currency does a bone-stealing phantom of the deep woods get paid? What do they spend it on?

[horror-aesthete]

Over the Garden Wall, 2014, dir. Patrick McHale

SE01E001 The Old Grist Mill

[w0rld0fbeauty]

[deyeryrey]

𝙷𝚒𝚍𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚂𝚎𝚎𝚔

[ethanmaldridge]

The Green Man. From my graphic novel The Pale Queen, on shelves now.

[valerieandherweekofwonderz]

Vlastimil Harapes as the Beast in Panna a netvor / Beauty and the Beast (1978) dir. by Juraj Herz.

[descendinight]

Pumpkins and scissors ✦30min 草图

[cruelnemothesis]

[oliviarampaige]

“The Singing Bone”

Day 8 - Grimm

Long have I lain beside the water.

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Grimm's Fairy Tales - art by Arthur Rackham (1909)

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Necromancer Red Riding Hood by Iren Horrors

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[asyayordanova]