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Day 4: Departure

"The Violet Path cursed damn place it is. My sister and her friends do not know I have been investigating it in my spare time, nor do I want them to. Though that sneaky Viera is getting close to figuring it out. For now, it is wise for me to depart before I am caught"

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my girl wronged by the narrative, my girl haunting her own story, my girl dead in the first act, my girl the blank in between the lines, my girl the phantom of the past the apparition of the future

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Ｗｉｔｃｈ

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things to ask yourself when designing a female character:

how much blood is she covered in

are her eyes filled with madness

can she rip things to shreds with her fingernails

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[ID: a floral lace doily on a grey background. the phrase "sometimes I feel very evil" has been added to it in white thread.]

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𝔻𝕠𝕞𝕚𝕟𝕒𝕟𝕥 𝕠𝕗 𝕊𝕙𝕚𝕧𝕒

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“And girls need cold anger. They need the cold simmer, the ceaseless grudge, the talent to avoid forgiveness, the side stepping of compromise. They need to know when they say something that they will never back down, ever, ever.”

— Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (via liquidlightandrunningtrees)

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Night Tide (1961)

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Woman feeding her poultry while holding under her arm the distaff and spindle with which she has been spinning.

📚Luttrell Psalter (1320-1340), British Library, 4213, fol. 166v

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_42130_f166r

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Victorian crow divination witch aesthetic for @crowandcrescent

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not to vagueblog but some of you are clearly experiencing dragon madness

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Natalia Drepina

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junkbook collage✨️

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To be eaten and to be married to the god might not be so different.

C. S. Lewis, from ‘Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold’