“❝He remembered the way love had burned through him like a flame under glass, grasping outward, devouring what air it had left before it choked. How he hated it; desperately he had tried to keep it burning.❞ ──𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐡 𝐍𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫, These Violent Delights.”

Rusalka is a water-dwelling nymph who appears in the shape of a beautiful woman. There are many obvious links between the Rusalki and the mermaids of Celtic myths. Both are beautiful, sexually libe…

a swamp elf, perhaps

Another photo from our meetup! I love all the details you can find by the side of the stream :) Model: Kristina Nikitina

“Leshachikha’s themes are earth, nature, harvest, birth, and protection. Her symbols are leaves and seeds. A Goddess who sometimes appears as a Slavic forest, a wild animal, or a leaf…

Ivy covered fairy forest nymph