Whispers of Moonlight and Melancholy (thanks beefolco)

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A whimsical, dreamlike, and melancholic painting in the style of Edward Gorey depicts a muted landscape dominated by an orange sky with a large, full moon at its center, slightly obscured by distant, jagged, dark gray mountains and faint white stars. The foreground on the left features a dilapidated old wooden cabin with a gabled, thatched roof and a small dormer window, nestled on a grassy knoll. A weathered wooden staircase leads down from the cabin towards a dark, still body of water, which reflects the moon and the surrounding landscape with a hazy, yellowish-orange glow. To the left side of the cabin, a large, leafless tree with stark, dark branches frames the scene. In the middleground, a lone figure in a dark coat walks across a rustic wooden bridge spanning the water, heading towards the right. Numerous white butterflies flit around the scene, with one prominently in the top right corner, several clustered near the bottom left, and one above the bridge in the middle right. White birds with long, elegant necks soar gracefully over the water; one is in the bottom left, another in the bottom right, and a third appears to be gliding towards the top center. The bottom corners of the image are adorned