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Terri Windling

@terriwindling.bsky.social

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Writer, editor, artist, folklorist. Winner of ten World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Award (for The Wood Wife), the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFWA Solstice Award. Wanderer of the deep, dark forest of story in language and paint. Dartmoor (Devon, UK)

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 3d

"How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but in oneself? There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light." - Barry Lopez

Photograph: Lottie, our young brown spaniel, at the edge of the Dartmoor woodland behind my work studio. Light shines under the old wooden gate leading out to the hills beyond.

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Paul Zimmerman @paulczimmerman.bsky.social · 22h

If you’re an archaeologist and have never done Skype A Scientist, I urge you to give it a try. It’s a lot of fun!

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22h

Here I am. Once again. I'm out of archaeologists.

We matched 576 groups w/archaeologists, leaving 13 groups unmatched. This brings me pain! We've never run out of scientists like this before. 598 requests for one category is A LOT. But still.

Archaeologists 🥺
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

Skype a Scientist gives you the opportunity to connect with students and the public around the world.

www.skypeascientist.com

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 5h

While it can't and shouldn't be compared to Tom Holland's Lip Sync masterpiece, the Netherlands-based CDK dance company's take on Somebody I Used to Know by Goyte is another video I keep returning to when my spirits need a lift.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=REPP...

CDK - Somebody That I Used To Know by Gotye

YouTube video by Sergio Reis

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Rob Maslen @profrmaslen.bsky.social · 2d

In May this year I had a conversation with Graham Foster about Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan (1946), which he recorded for his brilliant podcast Ninety-Nine Novels. Here it is!
www.anthonyburgess.org/podcasts/nin...

Ninety-Nine Novels: Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake - The International Anthony Burgess Foundation

In 1984, Anthony Burgess published Ninety-Nine Novels, a selection of his favourite novels in English since 1939. The list is typically idiosyncratic, and shows the breadth of Burgess’s interest in fi...

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 19h

Today, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin opens at AA Gallery in London! Curated by Sarah Shin and Harriet Jennings, the exhibition presents a selection of Ursula's maps, including some that have never been exhibited before.

A photo of the entrance to The Word for World exhibition, with two banners hanging vertically down outside the doorway to a brick building with white-paned windows. A row of bicycles are parked in front. The banners are purple and white and say the name of the exhibition and Ursula K. Le Guin's name.

A cord-wrapped rock rests on a vivid blue background next to a map of and program for The Word for World exhibition.

A stack of copies of The Word for World book, which shows the title in vivid blue against a black cloth cover.

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, Charles. The two projects I'm working on are worth it, and I've got some "away time" planned in a couple of weeks to look forward to. 🙂

Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 1d

Lottie sleeps on the studio sofa, snoring softly as I work. I can't rest today (deadlines, deadlines), so I've outsourced this job to her.

Photograph: Lottie, a young brown Sprocker Spaniel, sleeps on the sofa in my work cabin, snuggled against a blue Morris blanket. A reproduction of a medieval French tapestry hangs on the wall behind her.

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote this quite a few years ago now. CW: what you'd expect. richarddsmyth.com/2020/11/03/o...

Sarah Owen MP @sarahowen.org.uk · 2d

Today marks the start of Baby Loss Awareness Week.

This year, it comes as the UK is about to pass a law guaranteeing the right to bereavement leave for miscarriage, making us one of only 4 countries in the world to offer it.

My heart is with everyone who experiences the heartbreak of baby loss.

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 1d

That's a beautiful and heartbreaking piece, Richard. Thank you for sharing it. I have too many friends who have gone through this as well, the depth of their grief too often unacknowledged by the world around them.

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Annie Worsley @annieworsley.bsky.social · 2d

The stones of Calanais... brooding, magical, other-worldly... a remarkable place especially on a wild Hebridean day.

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Marina Benjamin @marinabenjamin.bsky.social · Sep 4

Always a joy to work with Jay Griffiths. Her unique understanding of our relationship to nature shines through this essay. @aeon.co
aeon.co/essays/why-w...

Why we should tune into the orchestra of the animal world | Aeon Essays

Listen to the boundless sounds of nature, the great animal orchestra, whose songs imbue the world with fresh meaning

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 1d

Only one, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. Class of 1974.

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What a gorgeous setting! I'm glad it went well.

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Steve Toase @stevetoase.bsky.social · 1d

I'm trying to get some writing done, but this morning we had seven magpies and two jays feeding in the garden. It felt like I was in a Charles de Lint novel, and honestly, it's very distracting. However, it bodes well for my corvid army.

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning from me and Lottie, Charles. We hope you have a good weekend.

Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, on the path leading into the woods.

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Thank you. 🙂

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What a lovely photo!

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Nicolette Jones @nicolettejones.bsky.social · 2d

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by author/illustrator Holly Surplice from her first novel The Horse Dreamer, set in the Outer Hebrides. A girl dreams up a horse who helps her through grief. Merryn & her horse are conjured with a wild inky navy blue line. Chicken House 9 Oct. @chickenhousebooks.bsky.social

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 2d

"It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses." - Charles de Lint

Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, on a path through the green and rust and golden magic of the Devon hills.

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Prof. Dimitra Fimi @dimitrafimi.bsky.social · 2d

I’m teaching a seminar on “Constructed Languages in Fantasy Fiction” in a couple of weeks, in which #Tolkien will feature heavily, for a course in our new Masters in Global Communications. This is for my students + everyone fascinated by conlangs + artlangs!
dimitrafimi.substack.com/p/creating-i...

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 2d

This is a perfect description of @jedediahberry.bsky.social's wonderful book The Naming Song.

It’s Alive! Barker @kellylink.bsky.social · 2d

y'all, this book is the one if you love magic, revolution, and words—imagine Miyazaki & Russell Hoban & the Bread and Puppet Theater all hanging out together

Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 2d

1) bookshop.org is offering free shipping today
2) The Naming Song is just out in paperback
3) bookshop.org sells many other excellent books, some with trains, some without
4) I was driving alongside a train for a minute yesterday and it was awesome
5) Thank you

bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 2d

... And here's another fine novel retelling another classic fairy ballad from the Scottish border country:

The image shows the cover of Ellen Kushner's novel Thomas the Rhymer, posted by Simon Spanton (‪@simonguy.bsky.social‬). He quotes this passage from the book: "The beauties, the antlered, the winged ones, all awash in their sea of blue light...I thought, God help me, seven years of this, and this the first night...I tried to think of Meg and Gavin, but the blue light came between me and my image of their hearth fire, and blurred the sun on the hillside."

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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 3d

After her second husband’s passing, Jane Goodall headed into the forests of Gombe for a little bit of peace. What followed was “a flash of ‘outsight’” that would buoy her for decades to come.

In the Forests of Gombe - Orion Magazine

"How should the mind that can contemplate God relate to our fellow beings, the other life-forms of the world? What is our human responsibility?"

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 3d

Good heavens, could Ollie be any cuter?

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 3d

Dog Sees the Spirits, 1960 by artist and printmaker of Inuit heritage Kenojuak Ashevak #WomensArt

Print featuring a black stylised dog looking up to purple animal ghost-like creatures which float above it

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