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Albyon Absey’s Geographical Almanac @albyonabsey.bsky.social · Oct 17

The A-Z’s newest #fantasy #ttrpg location has arrived.

A tribute to a much missed & very special little girl, featuring contributions from creators Bonus Action, Fluffy Folio, and Griffon’s Saddlebag

Discover & explore
www.albyonabsey.com/folio2/mollyoddsonfloops

(Reposts much appreciated!)

Mollyoddsonfloops - Toy Shop of Many Wonders

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Albyon Absey’s Geographical Almanac @albyonabsey.bsky.social · 18h

“The most lavish of them all, the Aberdeen Bestiary, which dates from around 1200, was once owned by Henry VIII.

Now, the University of Aberdeen has digitized the text and made it freely available to readers online.”

www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary/

The Aberdeen Bestiary

The Aberdeen Bestiary - MS 24

www.abdn.ac.uk

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 7d

Timeline cleanse.

Newspaper clipping, 1906.

A newspaper clipping from 1906 that reads: "Noisy, Hungry Frogs Sadden Farmer's Life. They scare his cattle and they also eat his flannel shirt."

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Madeline Potter @madelinepotter.bsky.social · 7d

Tune in to listen to a podcast made live at the Bradford Lit Festival, with me discussing my book, ‘The Roma’, with the brilliant Damian Le Bas:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxq9...

S4: E7 - The Roma: A Travelling History

YouTube video by Bradford Literature Festival

www.youtube.com

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Albyon Absey’s Geographical Almanac @albyonabsey.bsky.social · 9d

Clematis Vitalba - or Old Man’s Beard - always lovely to see at this time of year.

The grey-white wispy seeds of the Clematis Vitalba - or Old Man’s Beard - stretching off along a hedgerow, a bright blue sky illuminating the greenery of a warm autumn day in southern England.

Albyon Absey’s Geographical Almanac @albyonabsey.bsky.social · 10d

Tree-mendous!

Albyon Absey’s Geographical Almanac @albyonabsey.bsky.social · 10d

Should we give it a name? No, I think knot. Knot today.

An amalgamation of knots in a large piece of drift-wood, all together looking very much like a scrunched up pair of eyes above a pursed and withered mouth.

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Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤 @thoughtpunks.com · 10d

Come explore a large random selection of forever open source #TTRPG resources, from games to SRDs to art and more!

thoughtpunks.com/ope...

#OpenSource #TabletopGames #IndieGames

Open Source TTRPG Resources

Here's a collection of forever open licensed tabletop roleplaying games and resources. Borrowed from and inspired by the Forever Open Source RPG game jam series. Example Open Licenses Creative Commons Zero ("CC0"). Release your work into the public domain. The most open license. Creative Com

thoughtpunks.com

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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 10d

☞☞ Hands-on reading ☜☜

The manicules in #rarebooks are fantastically diverse. Some are tiny & discreet, others take up half the margin; some have flowing sleeves, or even little faces.

They’re glimpses into the personality of readers/scribes highlighting passages worth reading.
#bookhistory 💙📚📜

Detail of a manicure and a little face gesturing towards the handwritten text of a manuscript in gothic script written on parchment. The man depicted seems angry. The manicure has a sleeve

A manicule with a stretched sleeve drawn in red in the margins pointing towards a text in Gothic script written on parchment

A manicule used to highlight a rubricated section title in a medieval manuscript written in gothic script on parchment

A very large vaguely drawn manicule pointing towards text in gothic script written on parchment

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Albyon Absey’s Geographical Almanac @albyonabsey.bsky.social · 11d

Slug foamly soaking the tall grasses shimmer
Thorned berry needles ‘pon cloud sifted glimmer

Worm eyed and fox-bit thine autumn provoked
Such mulched bramble thickets embracing the oak

Albyon Absey’s Geographical Almanac @albyonabsey.bsky.social · 11d

The temple of ashen embers, where struck a monstrous fire sent from the heavens to spew its molten vengeance upon the godless hordes who once gathered there.

Somewhere within those walls it waits, turning the charred pages of the last remaining grimoire, parched with the thirst of a thousand years…

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Dr David Clarke @davidwclarke.bsky.social · 14d

Patricia Crowther, High Priestess of wicca, author and teacher, has died at the age of 97 in Sheffield.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Patricia Crowther, known as UK’s oldest witch, dies aged 97

Wiccan high priestess’s 1970s BBC radio series is credited with helping to popularise modern witchcraft

www.theguardian.com

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Owen Davies @odavies9.bsky.social · 14d

The Haunted Bridge. A mystery to solve ... I have this postcard called "The Haunted Bridge" but cannot identify it. It's described as a British beauty spot. The card was posted from Nottingham, early 20thc.

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Albyon Absey’s Geographical Almanac @albyonabsey.bsky.social · 14d

Gather round, in careful wonder, and seek there'pon the sound
Of rumblings and tremors born deep beneath the ground.

The rattling foundations,
the tumblings of dust,
That harken t'wards a creature there thricely shod in rust.

Its master begoggled
and bound to such sparks,
Black powdered incendiaries to blast through the dark.

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 24d

so, as some may know, I'll be doing an online course this coming October - 4 sessions on the myth of the dark ages and how we can know a messy medieval world

well, delighted to announce that now you can get 50% OFF your registration!

link below -->

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Online Course Dispelling the "Dark Ages"

Get 50% off registration - exclusive to subscribers

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Three Ravens Podcast @threeravenspod.bsky.social · 15d

Grab your scythe, your nut-brown bowl, and keep an eye on the Farmer's Daughter, as on this month's Forgotten Melodies bonus episode we're talking all about Harvest Songs - in particular, We Gets Up In The Morn, John Barleycorn, and The Barley and the Rye! 🖤

Listen now, wherever you get your pods!

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Albyon Absey’s Geographical Almanac @albyonabsey.bsky.social · 17d

www.albyonabsey.com/folio2/qalld...

Qalldeevert - the Arcane Explosivist — Albyon Absey's Geographical Almanac

A free strange & fantastical location for your fantasy TTRPG - from Folio 2 of Albyon Absey's Geographical Almanac

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Albyon Absey’s Geographical Almanac @albyonabsey.bsky.social · 17d

This is definitely the perfect video for you, Keith! Enjoy!!

youtu.be/ZjQj5GRwLSY?...

101 Things to Do in TOKYO 🇯🇵 Hidden Spots Revealed

YouTube video by Abroad in Japan

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Stone Club @stoneclub.bsky.social · 17d

Its here!

The first ever Ancient Times, our new zine covering everything stone related and beyond.

This issue contains French Megaliths, Daniel Gumb, Flint, Stonehenge, Druids and more!

40 pages of stone-mania.

Copies will be shipped in October.

stoneclub.bigcartel.com/product/anci...

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Albyon Absey’s Geographical Almanac @albyonabsey.bsky.social · 17d

Time for tea

Several tea pots placed along the pavement edge, each filled with a small, green shrubs, all enjoying the sunshine of a bright autumn day.

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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 17d

Some of the fabulously ornate Victorian wallpaper at Brodsworth Hall, near Doncaster 🤩

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Albyon Absey’s Geographical Almanac @albyonabsey.bsky.social · 17d

Post £1 through their letterbox cello-taped to a note/song request?
(In all seriousness, I feel your pain - my neighbour seems to be tunnelling their way into the murky depths below in their renovation attempts)

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Irina Manea @shieldofskuld.bsky.social · 17d

Hoping to be able to run this class in November!
If you know anyone interested in pre-Christian religions, please do share :D blackberry.signumuniversity.org/space/module...

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Ida Tolgensbakk @idatolgensbakk.bsky.social · 18d

Call for abstracts! Special issue of the journal Arv – Yearbook of Nordic Folklore. We invite articles that study changes in the interaction patterns between human beings and beings that are more than human. #folklore #academicsky #monsterstudies

Metamorphosis – Studies in changing relations between people and supernatural beings
Call for abstracts: To a special issue of the journal Arv – Yearbook of Nordic Folklore, we invite articles that study changes in the interaction patterns between human beings and beings that are more than human. Supernatural beings come in many sizes and shapes, from the largest dragon to the tiniest gnome. As variable are their attitudes, inclinations and habits, and their relations with the human world, ranging from indifferent, to beneficial, to deeply malevolent. What is more, this gamut of variability, including shapes, inclinations and human relations, is subject to historical changes. While the concept of metamorphosis is applicable to many aspects of monster studies, for instance to how supernatural beings may have the power to alter their appearances, or to how their origin stories may contain mythical alterations, or to how they can disturb and change the fate of a person who happens to cross their path, the title for this publication marks the specific intention to orchestrate analytical close encounters with significant changes in the human/monster interaction patterns, when you for instance can see that people start describing supernatural beings in different genres, sorting them in different categories, experiencing different kinds of encounters with them, or placing their images in different locations and on different objects. We want articles that use a range of research strategies for describing, exploring and interpreting these kinds of changes and leave you at liberty to apply the theoretical and methodical approaches that you prefer. This whish for methodical and analytical plurality is motivated by how the supernatural beings themselves are multi-faceted and moldable, and on the assumption that no single approach can hold them.
Abstract deadline: December 15th, 2025. Abstracts (250–500 words) should include: working title, description of source materials and …

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Albyon Absey’s Geographical Almanac @albyonabsey.bsky.social · 18d

Oh, so is it to prevent the headstone leaning and, ultimately, collapsing?

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Emma Weird Wiltshire @weird-wiltshire.bsky.social · 18d

There are many blind houses in Wiltshire; 18th c. village lockups, used to temporarily incarcerate drunks and trouble makers.
This one is in Trowbridge. They are called this because there are no windows. Or could it also be because of the term 'blind drunk?'

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