Sven (@ephemeral) • Collective gay friends app

Sven @ephemeral

Belgian medievalist based in the Northern Netherlands. 🦊 Poly and partnered, open to anything if we get along. 😸

This masquerade was the bees knees!

An old favourite

Masquerades disclose the reality of souls.

Moments like these, it suddenly dawns on me that I didn’t imagine this whole board game design adventure; it’s all real! If all goes as planned, Monstrum will be published next year. 🥹

What looking around on the apps feels like

Nerdy work in progress

Boardgame fun with friends

Let them have cake!

Let the finest years of my life commence! 🎂

Oops I Did It Again (Impulsively Purchased a Plant at the Garden Centre)

The moon knows all my secrets

Phantasmagoria in Groningen

I am sometimes a fox, and sometimes a lion.

It seems peaceful enough now but this place was actually a battlefield - where I was besieged by hordes of mosquitoes 🦟

Now who would like their fortune told? 🔮

“I could live there all alone, she thought . . . No one would ever find me there, either, behind all those roses, and just to make sure I would plant oleanders by the road. . . . People will come to me to have their fortunes told, and I will brew love potions for sad maidens.”

Et in Arcadia ego

Natura Artis Magistra (Els Otten)

Into the Celtic Garden

“Butterflies are self-propelled flowers.”

What if we went into the secret grotto... haha, just kidding... unless...

Today is World Lion Day. 🦁 From medieval bestiaries to Ming statues, to the Lion King — something seems to fascinate us about imagining the lion as a symbol of power, strength, and leadership, and as a fierce and devoted guardian.

a little something cobbled together from my current junk mail folder

“Animals have an independent mental capacity of memory and they can, in the singing nightingale, in the darkest night, sense the longing of the beings who listen.” – Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert