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The Last Rose of Summer

When true hearts lie withered / and fond ones are flown O who would inhabit / this bleak world alone?

#art #my art

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Hi guys! The nominations for the Realm Makers awards start in 2 days.... I'm not sure if you have to actually have 3 different whole nominations to participate but if so well wouldn't it be nice to form a ticket with someone. haha. But no... it does have to be books you've actually read.

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Good news; I've got the State Fair arts director interested in hosting a digital category, but he wants me to direct him to some additional resources on how the different categories of digital artwork might be incorporated into a State Fair, and I really have no idea what to cite. :X Of course I have loads of suggestions (entries by email. Display via projector slideshow. etc) but I can't just cite my own expertise. Does anyone know what other fairs do this already?

#or like idk a scholarly article for the uninitiated #or a news article idk #is there anyone out there actually explaining to a grandpa the difference between a digital painting a 3d render and a photomanip or is tha #just something assumed to be common knowledge

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My apologies to everyone who received an email with 284 visible recipients. Outlook doesn't warn you when you're about to do that sort of thing.

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Fascinating.

Is that why Edgar Allen Poe names his protagonist's dead wife that he's obsessing over in The Raven "Lenore".

(So famously that the trope of obsessing over a dead wife is now called "The Lost Lenore")

It doesn't surprise me THAT much the romantics got into this because "refusing to move on from the dead" is basically the foundation of Gothic literature. This is usually transposed more metaphorically though into "grief will turn you into a shell of who you once were and drag you toward the grave if you don't move on from the past". But there are the obviously hubristic and more sci-fi applications regarding literally fighting death to the point of raising the dead.

I guess basically that my conclusion is it's Older Than They Think. I love it when I find out that basically all modern and recent literature genre conventions have genesis in folktale and myth

What is the "Lenore" folk song?

Take what I say with a grain of salt because I've only read a few of the ballads and one paper about them (which I would love to link, if only it was in English), but, in general it seems to have been a folktale/folksong widespread in the area of Germany and Poland that the Romantics in both countries latched on to and made their own versions of.

Tw: slight horror and implied demonic activity in the summary.

To recount the story (I'm roughly basing it on the polish ballad by Adam Mickiewicz which I know best), it begins with a girl (in other versions named Lenore), who receives news her lover is dead in some war or other. Her family wants her to get over him; the girl fights this. First she mopes, then she blasphemes, then she meets up with a witch of sorts, who promises to being her lover back.

Cue a rider with horse arriving at the gates in the dead of the night. The girl runs away with him. They ride a long whiles (at this point several comments tend to be made on how "the dead ride fast", or asking the girl if she's not afraid), the rider three times asking Lenore to throw away her prayerbook, cross/crucifix and rosary (I think these three, in the polish version at least, but anyway, religious objects) because they impede him in some way. In a striking display of lacking in genre-awareness (or even awareness of basic spiritual realities, I'd say), the girl sees nothing alarming in this, and follows through with his demands. Pursuant to which, they arrive at their destination, which to her surprise turns out to be a graveyard. Fire flashes from inside the rider and he takes the girl into the grave, the end.

#literature #folktale #edgar allen poe #lenore

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in general if an author (indie or otherwise) offers somewhere to buy their books that isn't Amazon, youuuuuu should take that option.

whether it's gumroad, smashwords, bookshop, or something you've never heard of.

everyone uses amazon because everyone uses amazon, it's ubiquitous because it's ubiquitous, if you're selling books you need to sell them through amazon to reach a general audience

but literally any other website is better for the writer than amazon; amazon is so big that the guys running it know they can screw everyone over

so if an author gives you another option, please take it

you'll be helping them more than you know

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Oh here it is!! Ahh tumblr's being strange!

Indeed! :) :) :)

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you BOOP miette? you BOOP her head with you paws? oh! oh! love for mutual! love for mutual for One Thousand Years!!!!

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HERE COMES THE BOOP TRAIN!

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Bleeding Hearts

#my art #flowers #blood #tw blood

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Reblog to let your followers know that they’re safe from jumpscares/screamers/etc from you on April 1st but they are NOT safe from getting boop’d like an idiot amen

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yes I figured this out. this is why the things that normally help swelling, like elevation (standing/sitting) and cold temperatures help.

IM GOING TO PUNCH A HOLE IN SOMEONES CAR

#tumblr is being sort of weird right now and is prefenting me from reblogging certain things to main #it's too persistent to think I'm just blocked by op like usual

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Rb for larger data set yadda yadda

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What does booping do

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me booping my moots on tumblr circa march/april 2024

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#THIS. IS. WHAT. A. MERMAIDS. SPINE. SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO #no more fish knees

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Progress

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