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Today I am obsessesing over the covers of E. R. Eddison's "The Worm Ouroboros" and later Zimiamvian Trilogy illustrated by native midwesterner Barbara Remington. Just an absolutely phenomenal house style for Ballantine Books.

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My friend rweithy was showing me some vintage book illustrations from Cyril Bouda and there was one in particular that was of an alligator and it inspired me to make this. c:

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did you know that the English words druid, trust, truth, betroth, and truce all share a root word with “tree”? this reflects the longstanding spiritual and symbolic significance of trees in many European cultures

a hand drawn diagram of a tree showing the many words that come from the root word of ‘tree’

The Twin Cities grassroots response to the police murders of Jamar Clark, Philando Castile, George Floyd, Dolal Idd, Daunte Wright, and Amir Locke were a huge part of the reason we were prepared to fight back against the ICE occupation this winter. We've spent over a decade building solidarity.

zeDotenator 🏳️‍🌈✴️🌹@zedotenator.net · 4w ago

Philando Castile was killed 10 years ago today during a traffic stop by St Anthony PD officer Jeronimo Yanez. He was legally armed, informed the officer, complied fully, and was shot in front of his girlfriend and her daughter in the car. Philando was 32 years old. Black Lives Matter.

i’m so glad i caught one of his last solo shows a few years ago while traveling in france. fittingly, that show was sharing a gallery with the graduating class of the art school of aix en provence. a master of childlike curiosity, size, simplicity, form, space, colour. rip David Hockney

Got a really cool book today! Published in 1890 with a handwritten flower record from 1902, and even some pressed leaves that I assume are from about that time. It’s meant to be a botanical guide for children. So many great illustrations in it.

Book cover for “The Fairyland of Flowers” by Mara L. PrattInterior of book with a very old leaf pressed within the pages. The page is slightly discolored where the leaf has been. Flower record for 1902, handwritten one one of the pages, noting April and May bloom times. Illustration of a sweet fern.