"Need breaks on my strand;/You've gone, I am at sea./Until you resume command/Self is in mutiny."

[larryhammer]

Links of the vaguely mythic:

Eight monsters from Japanese folklore that are not very good at being dangerous. (via)

Photographs of contemporary mermaids. (via)

Disney princesses in historically accurate costumes. I do wonder why the artist choose Ming fashion for Mulan, given the legend dates back to the Six Dynasties period, a thousand years earlier. (via lost)

---L.

Subject quote from "Valediction," Seamus Heaney.