Yes, We Have Seen Them. And We Still Think They Are Majestic, Beautiful, Quirky, And Will Most Definitely

This is amazing, sign me up?

Barnes and Nobles is gonna start serving food and alcohol.

Everybody’s cracking jokes about how it’s a desperate attempt to stay relevant in the age of Amazon.

But you know what? Props to them. This is exactly what Blockbuster didn’t do. At no point was Blockbuster like “Hey, movie rentals aren’t the lucrative enterprise they once were. Perhaps it’s time we become known for our cheesy garlic bread.”

These are really cool and they give me a lot of conceptual story ideas.

Fantasy Cities by Florian Moncomble

This is beautiful, @jenny-jinya you just earned another follower.

CW: animal death

People have asked for more interactions between Life and Death. Life is bringing so much color into my comics haha <3

Just beautiful, I would read a graphic novel like this. Love the scenic concepts, especially the water tree with merfolk-esque creatures living inside it. Amazing!

Art by Arina Shimolina

On Portals and Trees...

So, the general consensus I’ve found concerning lore with trees and portals concerns faefolk! This made a lot of sense to me actually, as I’ve always associated this concept with the fae. There are more natural structures (like faerie rings) that once a mortal steps into or passes through, they are thus thrusted into another realm unlike our own. I found in a post on the internet that “an entrance to the faerie lands can be found at the trunk of a tree.” With that, many people often leave offerings to the fae at their favorite trees, usually an oak or hawthorn tree. Hawthorn trees are especially important to the Celts and the lore concerning fae folk. (I may make a post about this later because it was interesting). I also found other folklore of odd structures made from trees, and people claiming they are portals to the devil and whatnot. Nonetheless, people are seemingly fascinated but fearful of these structures, and consider them portals into other realms and a nexus of supernatural occurrences. Trees in a span of mythology and humanity are hubs of knowledge and creation, so the origin of these myths and folklore are not unusual.

Sources; https://www.paganspath.com/meta/faeries.htm

https://backpackerverse.com/heres-why-locals-call-the-devils-tree-a-portal-to-hell/

Beautiful cover on a true classic

Book of the Day

“The Metamorphosis and Other Stories” by Franz Kafka

The Nursery Rhyme Book by Andrew Lang, illustrated by Debra McFarlane . The weather was actually nice enough to take outdoor pictures!! Do you guys take pictures outside? . . . #thenurseryrhymebook #andrewlang #foliosociety #debramcfarlane #bookcover #bookcoverdesign #daisy #daisies #booksandflowers #outdoors #nature #flowers #floral #nurseryrhymes #kidlit #childrensbooks #love #bookstagram #instabooks #book #bookphotography #bibliophile #reading #booklover #bookphoto

Bigby Wolf - Sean Gordon Murphy

Just a little lichen lad saying hello...

Good quote, would make a good illustration/tattoo concept

“Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.”

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Neil Gaiman

My favorite book quote that I am prone to misquoting.