“Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.” ― Charles Baudelaire

In the forest dark and deep
Where friends of friends have gone to sleep
Away from hill and walk and park
But in the forest deep and dark
Under mushroom lives the troll
Who sucks the life out of your soul
And leaves you when you then return
Unsatisfied with leaf and fern
And forest beauty, wanting more
Until you lie beneath the floor.
 
--Siwel Goerr (1945- )

Reality escapes her.
 
Eveil Et Desespoir
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BacmKiXC8gc

Top Art & Expression Sets for Feb 21st, 2013
http://www.polyvore.com/top_art_expression_sets_for/collection?id=2311488
 
Because...y'know, it can be beneficial to one's health from time to time. Surrender is a beautiful thing.
Assemblage 23 - Let Me Be Your Armour.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ampn-5hcZg

Reflected Horror
 
From that sky, bizarre and livid,
Distorted as your destiny,
What thoughts into your empty soul
Descend? Answer me, libertine.
 
— Insatiably avid
For the dark and the uncertain,
I shall not whimper like Ovid
Chased from his Latin paradise.
 
Skies torn like the shores of the sea,
You are the mirror of my pride;
Your vast clouds in mourning
 
Are the black hearses of my dreams,
And your gleams are the reflection
Of the Hell which delights my heart.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdtJ_BTmDVM
 
Dedicated to the ethereal @wintermoon and her fr0stbitten ;) sets that make the Australian summer heat seem less oppressive.

Reaper - Altum Silentium
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHXfjlkEA-g
 
The bird guise of the Valkyrie is that of the raven, long associated with death and magic. The name Valkyrie means “chooser of the slain;” the face and form of the Valkyrie are the last thing a person sees before death. Valkyries are psychopomps who lead the soul to the afterworld.
 
The Valkyrie represents that part of us that is unafraid of the dark places; she can lead us into and through them. She reminds us that seeds germinate in the darkness, that sometimes we need darkness in order to grow.
 
(Thank you for the input, m'Love)

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
-Edgar Allan Poe

Created for a competition before I realised it was invite only >.>