"But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me." ~ Madeleine Miller #FairyTaleTuesday 🎨Jungsuk Lee

Zinaida Portnova took the lives of more than 100 Nazis by poisoning their food at just 16 years of age. She was captured by the Gestapo and while being interrogated, she disarmed the Nazi detective and shot him in the head. In her attempt to escape, she executed 2 more Nazis.

"Whenever I'd get a call for a Twilight Zone, my agent would say, 'Well, I'll get a script and send it to you,' and I'd say, 'I don't need it. If it's the Twilight Zone, I want to do it!'" — Lamont Johnson, director of eight TZs, including "The Shelter" and "Nothing in the Dark"

#HBD to American film director GEORGE CUKOR, #BTD in (1899-1983). “You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn it all in school.” #film #Movies #movie #MovieMonday #filmmakers #Filmmaking

The Odyssey is an ancient epic Greek poem by Homer, which tells of Odysseus (or Ulysses) and his adventurous return home after the Trojan War. This epic 'road trip' contains adventure and fantasy as he encounters gods and mythical creatures. #FairyTaleTuesday #FairyTaleTuesday

🖼 Oldest-known manuscript fragment of the Odyssey, produced in Ptolemaic Egypt during the 3rd century BC. 🖼 "Circe Enticing Ulysses" Angelica Kaufman, 1786. 🖼 Film poster "Ulyssses", 1954. 🖼 Classics Illustrated issue 53, Alex Blum, 1964. #FairyTaleTuesday #FairyTaleTuesday

#FairyTaleTuesday The only way to travel when one’s fairy wings are tired. 🎨 Frances Tyrrell #SummerHoliday #SummerVacation

Nøkken is a shapeshifting water-horse in Norwegian lore. Those mounting the 'horse' will be taken on a perilous journey, finally into the watery depths, to drown #FairytaleTuesday #folklore #norway art: Jonny Andvik

#FairyTaleTuesday #FairyTaleFlash In the early summer days, as one hundred and fifty knights rode from Camelot on the Quest of the Sangreal, King Arthur wept, knowing the world had changed forever. buff.ly/4GwJBfR

Quick! Who's your favorite #fairytale #Illustrator ? No wrong answers. Here's mine: Arthur Rackham (with John William Waterhouse as my fav Pre-Raphaelite so maybe wouldn't really be called an illustrator but I love him anyway?). ❤ #GooseGirl #FairyTaleTuesday

Good day, dear Bibliophiles🍃 art by Jane Crowther

Good morning ☀️ Happy #TerrorTuesday Wishing everyone an incredibly terrific glorious day! Much love! #HorrorFam 🤘🏼🪓💀🖤⛓️😈🫶🏼💋🔪🩸

Good morning! The pretties came! You should check their stuff out ☕️ Standby for many pictures 🧵 1/3

In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy’s journey isn’t just along a yellow brick road. It’s a path back to herself. Brains, heart, courage, and home. Fairy tales often send us far just to find what was inside us all along. #FairyTaleTuesday

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Never #rook This simple pawn 'Neath King & Queen Still, life goes on Now, move withdrawn There is no play A checkmate takes The game away While knight's astray An armored tool Erratically He plays the fool Emphatically I break the rule The board bereft His castle left #vss365

In this classic tale by the Brothers Grimm, a donkey, a dog, a cat, and a rooster are driven from their homes by ungrateful masters. United in misery, they join forces and set off for Bremen Town to become musicians. #FairytaleTuesday 🧵

Pooh sat down in the middle of the stream. The sun was so delightfully warm, and the stone, which had been sitting in it for a long time, was so-warm, too, that Pooh decided to go on being Pooh in the middle of the stream for the rest of the morning. ~A.A.Milne #summer