Photographer: Oliver Dreßler

The Swan Maiden, from Among Gnomes and Trolls No. 2 by John Bauer (1908)

François Flameng

forest floor, 2011

listen

I have a so far 20 chapter original content book in my google drive

It’s about magick in the Viking age. It’s low/mid fantasy, involving many references to actual myth, legends and stories from the sagas and eddas of the Viking age. The gods (not marvel but OG Norse gods) occasionally join the story in Midgard.

It also has a Manacled-style enemies to lovers (or maybe lovers to enemies), slow burn and with a hopefully unforeseeable, gut wrenching twist. Definitely dark at times. Not smut and no non-con tho.

I’m plucking a flower. Do I post it, do I not, do I post it, do I not. I think I’m gonna post it.

"Exercise for 'reversing space,' which involves sitting very still, with all attention focussed in the centre of the chest, and slowly surrendering and realising that instead of looking you are being observed; instead of hearing, you are being heard; instead of touching you are being touched; instead of tasting you are food for God and are being tasted... it is most certainly necessary to seek, to ask the question; rather than pushing away the answer by chasing after it, one must ask and listen at the same time, in trust and good faith that the answer is contained in the question."

~ Reshad Feild, 'The Last Barrier'

[Ian Sanders]

by Stephen & Brett

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-breathe-

by downtofowler

The Changelings, from Cyrus Graner's Among Gnomes and Trolls 7 by John Bauer (1913)