#the candle flame

[zegalba]

Vladimir Kush: burning in a candle flame (2000)

[chasingrainbowsforever]

~ Jewel Tones ~

[spookyfresa1997]

my eternal flame

via digital diary by spookyfresa1997

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Solidarity by Annie Porter

[persephonediary]

No Flame Burns Forever, Alex Stoddard

[witchrealms]

(x)

[artdunk]

candlehead

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

chinese daoshi道士/taoist make magic weapons (this one is coin originated hundres years ago) with strong power to drive away evil spirits

[heartnosekid]

day 12 of @deadboystims’ 300 follower event: a stimboard of my favorite season!! autumn is absolutely unequivocally my favorite season, though i have had a huge soft spot for spring lately!

🍁-🍄‍🟫-🍁 / 🍄‍🟫-🍁-🍄‍🟫 / 🍁-🍄‍🟫-🍁

[elizabugz]

[scoutingthetrooper]

x

[red-pencil]

A concept I did for a BlueSky studios project. These creatures were elemental magic users, who had a connection to nature. I thought it would be fun if they treated the elements as companions who had personalities of their own.

[chasingrainbowsforever]

~ Brown and Green ~

[triflesandparsnips]

Accidentally started rereading Northanger Abbey, and was sudden reminded all over again that Jane Austen is, in fact, fucking hilarious.

NA is her parody/satire of Gothic novels at the time, and she starts the book by choosing violence-- she describes the "tragedy" of the main character, Catherine Morland, a girl Determined to be a Heroine even though ALL ODDS are against her: she has a sane father who doesn't lock up his daughters, a healthy mother who didn't die in childbirth, no preternatural talent for music or drawing through which to reveal her Deepest Soul, and-- most shockingly of all-- absolutely zero love interests for whom she can wander the hills mourning their starcrossed fates until she wastes away from the sheer Sentimentality of it all.

But don't worry! She's got this FIGURED OUT. She KNOWS why she has not yet found her TRUE LOVE:

There was not one lord in the neighbourhood; no—not even a baronet. There was not one family among their acquaintance who had reared and supported a boy accidentally found at their door—not one young man whose origin was unknown. Her father had no ward, and the squire of the parish no children.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

(SPOILER: She is introduced to a mysterious young man who lives in an ABBEY, which everyone knows means he has a DEEPLY MYSTERIOUS SECRET PAST and is maybe a TRAGIC HERO or even a ROMANTIC MONSTER and either way this is IT this is Catherine's TIME TO SHINE she is going to get a good grade in DOOMED LOVE, a thing that is normal to want and--)

(...meanwhile Henry Tilney-- an ordinary guy who never expected "get cast as the Hero in some Grand Gothic Romance" to show up on his bingo card-- starts wondering when exactly he started finding Catherine's attempts to locate bloody daggers in his linen closet charming.)

[icewindandboringhorror]

I made a few new wax seal stamps out of clay (like the ones I did for my worldbuilding stuff forever ago), this time just of random symbols that I thought might look good done in the style of painting over the raised part of the wax or etc. :0c Some of them aren't carved deep enough to really show up that well, but overall they worked okay for being clay lol

[zegalba]

Alex Stoddard: No Flame Burns Forever