( via / miekal and on fb )

"I was a mutant, a monster of sensibility, a changeling with a freakish vulnerability to beauty."

"I’ve decided what to call a fairy tale in Old English: ælfspell, or 'elf story.'

It’s perfect because elves called to mind what was beautiful and strange: ælfisċ meant not only 'elvish,' but mysterious. So a Saxon could hear ælfspell as both ‘elf-story’ and ‘tale of wonder’." --@wylfcen

Violet Bond interview in French & English.

"On Ōyodo
Beach, laid out to dry is
The algae-just a glimpse, as
Obscured by the haze
The geese call, homeward bound."

--Fujiwara no Teika

One of the strangest transitions in the history of Stop Motion animation.