#nymphaea's whispers

[winternymphaea]

george balanchine; jewels third act 'diamonds'

[stardust-in-my-mind-blog]

sterling animus

I share my psyche with Odysseus

and he loves me as his Penelope

in this modern age of peace

he often sees the world as a lotus-eater

though I know he doesn't miss war

I laugh at his melancholy

grind nymphaea caerulea into cannabis and dried rose petals

light my sweet incense

tell him to breathe in the offering

together we become the wild oracle

when I am alone he embraces me

like a phantom of the opera he tells me

what awaits me when life is done with me

where we will go and what we will do

sometimes I think he's impatient for me

but I tell him I have far too much

still yet to do before leaving this body

least alone show the world the poetry

he whispers in my mind to write

besides you he is my favorite muse

he says I am his favorite holy ghost

and gives me the wisdom of Carl Jung

when my mind has me in a chokehold

and I'm convinced my spiritual calibration

and eccentric habits are a liability

he's a jealous sort

but often warms to the worthy

his presence makes those that seek to hurt me uncomfortable

for my wit becomes his sword

his dark wings rise from my shoulders

the wind of them tossing my scarlet hair

his fire lights the steel blue of my eyes

his energy warms my blood and flesh

and gives my intellect a sudden and sharp

violent sort of curiosity

my protector is not keen to war

but he does relish it

aren't I lucky to hold such a shadow?

[heartofspells]

Snippet Sunday

(shhh, it's Sunday somewhere. could be here. how would you know?)

Thanks for the tag, @fonkeloog (also i will be diving into that doc every time you add something new to it after that snippet because my god, my heart)

We've been working on some (non-romantic, please don't get excited) Prongsfoot as a gift, yes we have. It's currently finished but I have no idea when it's coming because it's a companion to something else. Until then, have this!

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Sirius stops in front of him suddenly, his features morphing into something wrathful. "Say something!" he snaps viciously.

"Oh fuck," mumbles James, his eyes lifting slowly. Sirius deflates with it, understanding coursing through him, shoulders drooping as he drops to the bed beside James. "Fuck. You're bipolar."

Sirius shakes his head in denial, but James turns to face him, reaching out, hands gripping firmly around his upper arms, and Sirius goes still.

"You're bipolar, Sirius," he utters, recognition still dawning like a new day. "All the crashes, the addiction, the running off nothing for days and days, bolting away from us, always seeking more…fucking hell, you're bipolar."

"No," denies Sirius, but his voice is a whisper, resignation in his tone, heavy and thick. He falls forward, face pressing into his palms. "Fuck," he moans.

James reaches for him automatically, pulling Sirius into his arms with ease and grace, Sirius not resisting as he collapses into his embrace.

"It's fine," says James a bit robotically as everything settles into perfect place, his tone steadily shifting as he adjusts, seeing it for what it is, all that it means. "It's okay, Pads. You're okay. We can do this, you and me. Always you and me."

Tagging: @spikybanana @greenvlvetcouch @nymphaea-auri @soloorganaas @mooncat457writing @sweetpeasandlilies

[isleofmisfitmuses]

Instead of singing to my muse, pls write a cute thing of Nymphaea singing to lil Kieran maybe? ^^

    Nymphaea looked down at the small toddler with his head in her lap, a content smile on her face as she ran a hand through his color shifting hair. There was so much she wished she could give to this precious gift that the man who had claimed her as his own had given her. Yet they were both fated to stay here, his toys until he tired of them and broke them at the first moment he could find an excuse. She would settle instead for giving him as much of herself as she could in the time they had to ensure that he didn’t get broken in this cruel court. For if they could not have a lifetime she wanted him to be happy with what they did have. 

    She started humming to him almost without thinking of it. Music was something most faeries were fond of and nixies were far from an exception to that. 

    “Loo-li, loo-li, loo-li, lai-lay                                                                              Loo-li, loo-li, loo-li lai-lay.”

    “Lay down your head and I’ll sing you a lullaby                                            Back to the years of loo-li lai-lay                                                                            And I’ll sing you to sleep and I’ll sing you tomorrow                                        Bless you with love for the road that you go.” 

    “May you sail far to the far fields of fortuneWith diamonds and pearls at your head and your feetAnd may you need never to banish misfortuneMay you find kindness in all that you meet.”

    “May there always be angels to watch over youTo guide you each step of the wayTo guard you and keep you safe from all harmLoo-li, loo-li, lai-lay.”

    “May you bring love and may you bring happinessBe loved in return to the end of your daysNow fall off to sleep, I’m not meaning to keep youI’ll just sit for a while and sing loo-li, lai-lay.”

    “May there always be angels to watch over youTo guide you each step of the wayTo guard you and keep you safe from all harmLoo-li, loo-li, lai-lay, loo-li, loo-li, lai-lay.”

    “Loo-li, loo-li, loo-li, lai-layLoo-li, loo-li, loo-li lai-layLoo-li, loo-li, loo-li lai-layLoo-li, loo-li, loo-li lai-layLoo-li, lai-lay.”

    She sighed happily, the rhythmic breathing of her son giving away that the song had in fact done what it was intended to do. “You are so very precious my little dark one,” she whispered, staying still so as to not disturb the young nixie.

[traitorwhoyoulove]

A friend of mine is new to The 100 and asked me to recommend some fics that I’ve enjoyed. As per usual for me, I ended up with a much longer list than expected and I decided to share here. This is nowhere near all of the fics that I’ve fallen in love with, but I would definitely recommend checking out some of these awesome stories. I didn’t tag authors in this solely because I’m lazy and didn’t have time to look everyone up, but all credit goes completely to them and they are amazing.

Drabble Collections

Arkadia – HawthorneWhisperer

The Thirteenth Bunker – HawthorneWhisperer

Good Times Gonna Come – caramelle

One-Shots

Canonverse

The Stars up Above, Directionless and Drifting – simonetta

Turning Puddles into Oceans – mauraders_groupie

Watercolors – rashaka

in the silence between worlds (that’s where I’ll find you) – viansian

You’re Just Another Recovering Heart – prosciutto

A Blush of Love – marmvg

Upward Over the Mountain – storyskein

Hearts Like Ours – verbaepulchellae

Going Courtin’ – Frea_O (this whole series is really good)

Hands All Over – winterwaters

darkest of marks – importantmetaphors

just the beating of our hearts – twilightstargazer

Strong Like an Ox – LaughingSenselessly

Soap – verbaepulchellae

First and Last of Your Kind – verbaepulchellae

The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Sky Person – Chash

Inconceivable – jaegermighty

tell our stories on these walls – glowing horizons

Eight Minutes Against a Tree – crystalkei

Just Come Find Me – saem

coastal waters - saem

AU

the clockmaker (fixer of hearts) – MercuryM

subscriptions – ofhobbitsandwomen (litvirg)

In the Skylines up Ahead – prosciutto

Focal Point – grumpybell

We Are Undone by Each Other – tacosandflowers

I’ve Been Dreaming of You from the Other Side (I Know You So Well) – Chash

Then Why Am I On Your Mind? – serendipityinwords

What if we ruin it all – dropshipheroes

Facing Tempests of Dust – grumpybell

If You Don’t Believe You Better Get Superstitious – LayALioness

after the beep (i’ll tell you i love you) – emullz

filling your empty heart – alltheworldisinmyhead

Can’t Buy Me Love – kay_emm_gee

I Know That Fortune is Waiting to Be Kind – Chash

The Buddy System – Kacka

To My Favorite Scar (To All of the Stars) – prosciutto

don't go where I can’t follow – nymphaea

Under (the) Covers – HawthorneWhisperer

i will follow you into the dark – ladyfriday

Lift My Heart Up to Your Ear (you can probably hear the ocean) – LayALioness

Only the Sound of Our Breath Soaks In – LayALioness

I’d Still Stare at You – marauders_groupie

If I kiss you where it’s sore, will you feel better? – queenofchildren

like ships in the night (passing me by) – viansian

long day – crookedqueen

howl – crookedqueen

real people do – crookedqueen

It’s Called A Hustle, Sweetheart – prosciutto

neither lost nor found – gracianasi

and love, you taste like magic – MercuryM

Must Be Love (On the Brain)

Multi-Chapters

Canonverse

Love Will Come Through – monroeslittle

Meet Me In the Morning – monroeslittle

Stars in the Water, Blood On Our Hands – grumpybell

Caught in the Fire – banshee_in_the_dark

Signal Fire – CharmingPromise

Reach Out (Touch Me) – ParadiseAvenger

our starved hearts – twilightstargazer

Matched – banshee_in_the_dark

the squire – ofhobbitsandwomen (litvirg)

Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation – Quentanilien

Survivor’s Guilt – LaughingSenselessly

bound by the secrets we share - troubledpancakes

AU

Griffin’s Anatomy – Hawthorne Whisperer

No Gods, No Masters – risingdin

Sugar, Let Me Be Your Passenger – verbaepulchellae

in this house on the corner – ofhobbitsandwomen (litvirg)

Letters From Home – CallMeHux

The Odds Are Good – tacosandflowers

I Don’t Want To Be Your Friend (i wanna kiss your neck) – LayALioness

Work Songs – crookedqueen

Something Always Survives – asroarke

Home – grumpybell

water, water, everywhere – troubledpancakes

Never Say Never – selflessbellamy

Picking Up What You’re Laying Down – verbaepelchullae

How You Stay Alive – Laughing Senselessly

Prequel: How You Save a Kingdom

the world was born in smoke and fire (and so were we) – forgivenessishardforus

Call it Patience, Call it Hope – queenofchildren

The Horizon Lies Ahead – fawna

Slight of Hand – prosciutto

Weave Me A Myrtle Crown - AJRedfern

[somnolentdesolation]

"In the listless, tepid moments of waiting to do all the things I’d rather not do, all thoughts seem to be nothing but consolation - and whatever it is that levitates windlessly about each carefully drawn circle can only come from the slow frenetic thronging of black Nymphaeas.

Often I tried to lift myself, only to plunge the deeper.

In the meantime I go on and you go on and we wallow excitedly in the moss-ridden mire of so many delusions - all other efforts that we surely should have tried, all austerities, all devout, unceasing, and ernest appeals - they themselves become nothing more than secret admonitions.  We wished that our life would not be separate from a kind of prayer …

A luminescent Book of Black Hours blackly written with all the delicacies of whispers and murmurs, borne out of affectation and disaffection, delivered with all the hushed intonations on impersonality …

And after all this it seemed we were still left to twist and turn in the dark."

- Rasu-Yong Tugen, Baroness de Tristeombre, Songs from the Black Moon

[winternymphaea]

custom chainmail bridal overdress by falconiereshop on instagram ♡

[winternymphaea]

i love girls that are weird about the moon

[winternymphaea]

from 'a midsummer night's dream' by shakespeare

[winternymphaea]

butterfly leg chain by mammamiajwl

[winternymphaea]

elven circlet, by sweetelvenchestnut on etsy.

[winternymphaea]

by edmund dulac (october 22, 1882 – may 25, 1953)

[winternymphaea]

a midsummer night's dream (1999)

[winternymphaea]

blugirl fall/winter 2004

[winternymphaea]

'mother of pearl' piece by subsurface.

[winternymphaea]

pearl veil, found here (♡)