Anachronistic Fairytales

if two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it
Ernest Hemingway

ponderful:

Thomas Edwin Mostyn (1864-1930), Flora

ponderful:

Thomas Edwin Mostyn (1864-1930), Flora

(via lacriniere)

guinilde:

Young woman with rose, József Rippl-Rónai

guinilde:

Young woman with rose, József Rippl-Rónai

guinilde:

Stained Glass Window of the Phone booth in Cafe Japan, József Rippl-Rónai

guinilde:

Stained Glass Window of the Phone booth in Cafe Japan, József Rippl-Rónai

“Cinderella and the prince
lived, they say, happily ever after,
like two dolls in a museum case
never bothered by diapers or dust,
never arguing over the timing of an egg,
never telling the same story twice…”

—   Anne Sexton
Comtesse Desegun
Virginia Sterrett

Comtesse Desegun

Virginia Sterrett

Cinderella
Agniezka Szuba

Cinderella

Agniezka Szuba

Cinderella
Kinuko Y. Craft

Cinderella

Kinuko Y. Craft

After the Dance
John William Waterhouse, 1876
Waterhouse Sunday!
Cat-Skin
bluefooted
Catskin
Kay Nielsen

Catskin

Kay Nielsen

“The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because forseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.”

—   Cicero

Princess Swan

Marina Bychkova

Enchanted Doll