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The folklore sketches // some of my favourite lyrics from each folklore song, accompanied with a pencil sketch ✨

For the lover album I made a journal page representing each song, for folklore I found a pencil sketch fitting! Thank you @taylorswift for writing such incredibly beautiful songs, here’s my part of passing on stories 💕

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#folklore #taylor swift

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folklore (redesign) — in honor of 3 years of whims, dreams, fears, and musings

#this is so prettt #folklore #taylor swift

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Ok but so many fairytales are about the kindness of strangers? Like the huntsman in Snow White and the woodsman in Red Riding Hood and the prince and the nomads and the little old women in The Snow Queen (Gerda survives solely and only from the kindness of strangers, no other reason) and the countless old women who help princes along their paths? Anyway what I'm trying to say is that fairytales are often meant to be cautionary, but even as they warn children about bad behaviour, they also tell them that there is warmth and protection even from strangers, and the non-cautionary ones are so full of strange kindnesses, of the idea that if you are good and polite and just then the world will be good and kind and just back. And it's just... This is what people have fundamentally believed for centuries, this is what, more than anything, they have wanted to tell their children. That when you are out and lost and cold in the world, you are not alone.

#fairytales #folklore

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“Fairy tales — the proper kind, those original Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen tales I recall from my Eastern European childhood, unsanitized by censorship and unsweetened by American retellings — affirm what children intuitively know to be true but are gradually taught to forget, then to dread: that the terrible and the terrific spring from the same source, and that what grants life its beauty and magic is not the absence of terror and tumult but the grace and elegance with which we navigate the gauntlet.”

— Maria Popova, “The Importance of Being Scared: Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Fairy Tales and the Necessity of Fear”

#fairy tales #essays #quotes #maria popova #folklore #on literature #fav