Month: March 2021

@BmillsBilly You can make endless diagrams showing connections between the illustrations in some folklore books with Pre-Raph aesthetics, but I suspect the real linkage is a sense of shared imaginative grandeur.

You can make endless diagrams showing connections between the illustrations in some folklore books with Pre-Raph aesthetics, but I suspect the real linkage is a sense of shared imaginative grandeur.

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) March 3, 2021

@BmillsBilly What others see in the Pre-Raphs as imaginative bombast, a folkloric loving person might feel as connective psychic tissue to manifestation of old stories that this time are a bit more dolled up and to the nines, but are still the old stories strolling around.

What others see in the Pre-Raphs as imaginative bombast, a folkloric loving person might feel as connective psychic tissue to manifestation of old stories that this time are a bit more dolled up and to the nines, but are still the old stories strolling around.

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) March 3, 2021

@BmillsBilly And you wouldn‰Ûªt be wrong in my view, but pretty gets derided a lot and the emotional connective element that may be at the core pretty works often gets ignored in a way that makes me feel queasy. Work that makes people feel has value, even if I think it‰Ûªs all surface glamour.

And you wouldn’t be wrong in my view, but pretty gets derided a lot and the emotional connective element that may be at the core pretty works often gets ignored in a way that makes me feel queasy. Work that makes people feel has value, even if I think it’s all surface glamour.

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) March 3, 2021

@BmillsBilly However, while my work aims to gut the bucolic, work that doesn‰Ûªt is not necessarily popular for repeating the falsehood, but for giving a sense of something beyond. If you want the real reason the Venn of folklore and Pre-Raph is so big, I suspect it is that, not the prettiness.

However, while my work aims to gut the bucolic, work that doesn’t is not necessarily popular for repeating the falsehood, but for giving a sense of something beyond. If you want the real reason the Venn of folklore and Pre-Raph is so big, I suspect it is that, not the prettiness.

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) March 3, 2021

@BmillsBilly While I might find a lot of Pre-Raph trite and tepid, it‰Ûªs no different to poems in greeting cards/adored books which I feel are just ghastly, they do well because they connect. Prettiness as a shortcut to connection, but they are still connecting, delivering a sense of folklore.

While I might find a lot of Pre-Raph trite and tepid, it’s no different to poems in greeting cards/adored books which I feel are just ghastly, they do well because they connect. Prettiness as a shortcut to connection, but they are still connecting, delivering a sense of folklore.

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) March 3, 2021

@BmillsBilly Most folklorists I know are more obsessed with Paul Nash, Fay Godwin, Zezislaw Beksiãski et al, but I may not be typical of folkloric demographics.

Most folklorists I know are more obsessed with Paul Nash, Fay Godwin, Zezislaw Beksiński et al, but I may not be typical of folkloric demographics.

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) March 3, 2021

Magic is often poisoned by ink. Magic is often made sick by a desire to make it ancient. Witches who claim unbroken pedigree fantasies pale against witches who are honest enough to deal with a newfound connection to the eternality of nature. – #EmilyBanting #WitchWednesday

Magic is often poisoned by ink. Magic is often made sick by a desire to make it ancient. Witches who claim unbroken pedigree fantasies pale against witches who are honest enough to deal with a newfound connection to the eternality of nature. – #EmilyBanting #WitchWednesday

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) March 3, 2021

@FFraserP1 If you want a second breakfast, you‰Ûªll have to get it yourself.

If you want a second breakfast, you’ll have to get it yourself.

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) March 3, 2021

Some take to shore after a storm in the hope of treasures. The salt-hag walks the shore everyday in absolute knowledge of her treasures. A wave-polished pebble to tell tomorrow, bladder wrack for medicine or magical knots. Winds that whisper news. – #EmilyBanting #WitchWednesday https://t.co/2gwqLvge6W

Some take to shore after a storm in the hope of treasures. The salt-hag walks the shore everyday in absolute knowledge of her treasures. A wave-polished pebble to tell tomorrow, bladder wrack for medicine or magical knots. Winds that whisper news. – #EmilyBanting #WitchWednesday pic.twitter.com/2gwqLvge6W

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) March 3, 2021

@MariaStrutz Until the world get a bit kinder, there will be Pogles and other 10-minute tea-time suitable viewing every weekday afternoon.

Until the world get a bit kinder, there will be Pogles and other 10-minute tea-time suitable viewing every weekday afternoon.

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) March 3, 2021