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All I want for Christmas is a Dragon

24 Tuesday Dec 2013

Posted by Elisabeth in just for fun

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anne stokes, christmas, christmas tree, dear santa, dragon, dragons, elf, presents, stocking, yuletide greetings

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Artist: Anne Stokes

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Happy Mother’s Day!

12 Sunday May 2013

Posted by Elisabeth in Special Occasion

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dragon, mary morrison, mermaid, mother, mother's day, nobody knows but mother, poetry, unicorn

Nobody Knows but Mother

by Mary Morrison

How many buttons are missing today?

Nobody knows but Mother.

How many playthings are strewn in her way?

Nobody knows but Mother.

How many thimbles and spools has she missed?

How many burns on each fat little fist?

How many bumps to be cuddled and kissed?

Nobody knows but Mother.

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How many hats has she hunted today?

Nobody knows but Mother.

Carelessly hiding themselves in the hay—

Nobody knows but Mother.

How many kerchiefs willfully strayed?

How many ribbons for each little maid?

How for her care can a mother be paid?

Nobody knows but Mother.

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How many muddy shoes all in a row?

Nobody knows but Mother.

How many stockings to darn, do you know?

Nobody knows but Mother.

How many torn little aprons to mend?

How many hours of toil must she spend?

What is the time when her day’s work shall end?

Nobody knows but Mother.

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How many lunches for Tommy and Sam?

Nobody knows but Mother.

Cookies, apples, and blackberry jam—

Nobody knows but Mother.

Nourishing dainties for every “sweet tooth,”

Toddling Dottie or dignified Ruth—

How much love sweetens the labor, forsooth?

Nobody knows but Mother.

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How many cares does a mother’s heart know?

Nobody knows but Mother.

How many joys from her mother love flow?

Nobody knows but Mother.

How many prayers for each little white bed?

How many tears for her babes has she shed?

How many kisses for each curly head?

Nobody knows but Mother.

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Dark Dragon

17 Wednesday Apr 2013

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dragon, fantasy art, medieval, monster

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Posted by Elisabeth | Filed under fantasy art

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Monster Makeover

04 Monday Feb 2013

Posted by Elisabeth in just for fun, mythology

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aliens, demons, dragon, fallen angels, makeover, merfolk, nice, vampires, werewolves, zombies

I was thinking and I realized that most of the monsters and mythical creatures formerly considered to be inherently evil, have recently undergone a change of image, mostly due to writers looking to do things that hadn’t been done before. Some of them I can understand, others I never would’ve guessed.

Dragons

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Just take a look at the story of St. George or the Norse Fafnir—dragons used to be bad. Period. Feasting on maidens, hoarding gold, and incinerating brave young knights used to be routine for your average reptilian fiend. But with the rise in fantasy writing, dragons have become more reasonable and in some cases, even docile.

Vampires

Way back when, if you got turned into a vamp, you got turned wicked. You’d start feeding on the innocent and corrupting them in every way, wreaking havoc until some obliging Van Helsing put a stick through your chest. However, thanks to Angel and Edward Cullen, being a vampire is now socially acceptable. Heck, there are people who would sell their souls to get fangs.

Merfolk

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According to tradition, mermaids were always dangerous, lurking the in water, awaiting some hapless soul to drown. But over the last century, mermaids have changed their public appearance, doing helpful things like rescuing drowning princes and locating silver chalices for pirates in the Caribbean.

Fallen Angels

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This is one of the more surprising ones. Fallen angels are, by definition, fallen and therefore not good. But lately there has been an upsurge in various paranormal romances in which the love interest is a disgraced member of the heavenly host.

Werewolves

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Like vampires, werewolves were formerly labeled as 100% awful. However, Sam Roth of Shiver and Munroe from Grimm are certainly lovable specimens of their kind.

Zombies

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Now here is one I honestly never thought I’d see change. Under what circumstances does a rotting corpse with a fetish for brain-eating become a good guy? Nonetheless, if books like Warm Bodies are any indication, even the zombie can switch sides.

Aliens

Once upon a time, aliens only came to our little piece of the universe to pillage and plunder our resources or enslave humanity. Nowadays, they can be more humanitarian. The Vesturions from A.M. Hargrove’s Guardians of Vesturon series being among my favorite examples. (You gotta love good-looking, honorable, monotheistic, chaste aliens in black leather, don’t you? Okay, so some people might not think all that is hot, but I really do. I’ve said before that I’m weird, right?)

Can you think of any other “monsters” that have undergone makeovers? Which is your favorite? Do you disagree with them turning nice?

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