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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
~Arthur Conan Doyle
This #BookologyThursday we celebrate with the theme:
✨Indomitable Spirits of All Kinds✨
in literature, art, and lore.
(art by Piotr Jabłoński)
~Arthur Conan Doyle
This #BookologyThursday we celebrate with the theme:
✨Indomitable Spirits of All Kinds✨
in literature, art, and lore.
(art by Piotr Jabłoński)
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Wyrdlings!
The platform that was once twitter faces the Wyrd’s final curtain this week and so we give you:
“Downfalls, Demises & It's All Over"
as this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic.
And while the Mothers of Wyrd quit * that * place, we'll still be here on Bluesky & over on Instagram every week!
The platform that was once twitter faces the Wyrd’s final curtain this week and so we give you:
“Downfalls, Demises & It's All Over"
as this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic.
And while the Mothers of Wyrd quit * that * place, we'll still be here on Bluesky & over on Instagram every week!
February 16, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Wyrdlings!
The platform that was once twitter faces the Wyrd’s final curtain this week and so we give you:
“Downfalls, Demises & It's All Over"
as this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic.
And while the Mothers of Wyrd quit * that * place, we'll still be here on Bluesky & over on Instagram every week!
The platform that was once twitter faces the Wyrd’s final curtain this week and so we give you:
“Downfalls, Demises & It's All Over"
as this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic.
And while the Mothers of Wyrd quit * that * place, we'll still be here on Bluesky & over on Instagram every week!
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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
~Arthur Conan Doyle
This #BookologyThursday we celebrate with the theme:
✨Indomitable Spirits of All Kinds✨
in literature, art, and lore.
(art by Piotr Jabłoński)
~Arthur Conan Doyle
This #BookologyThursday we celebrate with the theme:
✨Indomitable Spirits of All Kinds✨
in literature, art, and lore.
(art by Piotr Jabłoński)
February 17, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
~Arthur Conan Doyle
This #BookologyThursday we celebrate with the theme:
✨Indomitable Spirits of All Kinds✨
in literature, art, and lore.
(art by Piotr Jabłoński)
~Arthur Conan Doyle
This #BookologyThursday we celebrate with the theme:
✨Indomitable Spirits of All Kinds✨
in literature, art, and lore.
(art by Piotr Jabłoński)
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This #BookologyThursday
Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
~Arthur Conan Doyle
This #BookologyThursday we celebrate with the theme:
✨Indomitable Spirits of All Kinds✨
in literature, art, and lore.
(art by Piotr Jabłoński)
~Arthur Conan Doyle
This #BookologyThursday we celebrate with the theme:
✨Indomitable Spirits of All Kinds✨
in literature, art, and lore.
(art by Piotr Jabłoński)
February 17, 2026 at 7:15 PM
This #BookologyThursday
Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
~Arthur Conan Doyle
This #BookologyThursday we celebrate with the theme:
✨Indomitable Spirits of All Kinds✨
in literature, art, and lore.
(art by Piotr Jabłoński)
~Arthur Conan Doyle
This #BookologyThursday we celebrate with the theme:
✨Indomitable Spirits of All Kinds✨
in literature, art, and lore.
(art by Piotr Jabłoński)
February 17, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
~Arthur Conan Doyle
This #BookologyThursday we celebrate with the theme:
✨Indomitable Spirits of All Kinds✨
in literature, art, and lore.
(art by Piotr Jabłoński)
~Arthur Conan Doyle
This #BookologyThursday we celebrate with the theme:
✨Indomitable Spirits of All Kinds✨
in literature, art, and lore.
(art by Piotr Jabłoński)
After two surgeries and a scary battery of tests, #BookChatWeekly and #BookologyThursday will be returning this Thursday the 19th ❤️🩹
Thank you, thank you for your kind and thoughtful notes, they’ve meant the world to me! Ive missed you all and looking forward to being back!
Thank you, thank you for your kind and thoughtful notes, they’ve meant the world to me! Ive missed you all and looking forward to being back!
Announcement for #BookologyThursday -BookCat is out for some minor surgery and hopes to return next Thursday. Thank you, and apologies💛
February 13, 2026 at 5:02 PM
After two surgeries and a scary battery of tests, #BookChatWeekly and #BookologyThursday will be returning this Thursday the 19th ❤️🩹
Thank you, thank you for your kind and thoughtful notes, they’ve meant the world to me! Ive missed you all and looking forward to being back!
Thank you, thank you for your kind and thoughtful notes, they’ve meant the world to me! Ive missed you all and looking forward to being back!
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Announcement for #BookologyThursday -BookCat is out for some minor surgery and hopes to return next Thursday. Thank you, and apologies💛
January 20, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Announcement for #BookologyThursday -BookCat is out for some minor surgery and hopes to return next Thursday. Thank you, and apologies💛
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In Norse mythology, valkyries would take vacations from their duties by putting on magic cloaks of swan feathers, and flying around the Earth as swans. They would alight in hidden pools, take on human form to bathe, and punish any mortals who saw them there.
🎨Annie Stegg
#FairyTaleTuesday
🎨Annie Stegg
#FairyTaleTuesday
January 20, 2026 at 5:30 PM
In Norse mythology, valkyries would take vacations from their duties by putting on magic cloaks of swan feathers, and flying around the Earth as swans. They would alight in hidden pools, take on human form to bathe, and punish any mortals who saw them there.
🎨Annie Stegg
#FairyTaleTuesday
🎨Annie Stegg
#FairyTaleTuesday
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Charles Keeping's illustration for 'The Foghorn' by Ray Bradbury.
#RayBradbury #Bradbury #CharlesKeeping #sci-fi #scifi #sciencefiction #monster #dinosaur
#RayBradbury #Bradbury #CharlesKeeping #sci-fi #scifi #sciencefiction #monster #dinosaur
January 19, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Charles Keeping's illustration for 'The Foghorn' by Ray Bradbury.
#RayBradbury #Bradbury #CharlesKeeping #sci-fi #scifi #sciencefiction #monster #dinosaur
#RayBradbury #Bradbury #CharlesKeeping #sci-fi #scifi #sciencefiction #monster #dinosaur
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They glide, like phantoms, into the wide hall;
Like phantoms, to the iron porch, they glide;
…
And they are gone: ay, ages long ago
These lovers fled away into the storm.
John Keats, 'The Eve of St. Agnes' 1819
#booksky #poetry #romanticism
Like phantoms, to the iron porch, they glide;
…
And they are gone: ay, ages long ago
These lovers fled away into the storm.
John Keats, 'The Eve of St. Agnes' 1819
#booksky #poetry #romanticism
January 20, 2026 at 7:30 AM
They glide, like phantoms, into the wide hall;
Like phantoms, to the iron porch, they glide;
…
And they are gone: ay, ages long ago
These lovers fled away into the storm.
John Keats, 'The Eve of St. Agnes' 1819
#booksky #poetry #romanticism
Like phantoms, to the iron porch, they glide;
…
And they are gone: ay, ages long ago
These lovers fled away into the storm.
John Keats, 'The Eve of St. Agnes' 1819
#booksky #poetry #romanticism
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“Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow”
(T.S. Eliot)
🎨 Marc Potts
Earth in forgetful snow”
(T.S. Eliot)
🎨 Marc Potts
January 20, 2026 at 11:05 AM
“Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow”
(T.S. Eliot)
🎨 Marc Potts
Earth in forgetful snow”
(T.S. Eliot)
🎨 Marc Potts
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January 20, 2026 at 2:11 AM
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“St. Agnes' Eve—Ah, bitter chill it was!”, John Keats wrote in 1819 and since today is the day, we take a look at the divinations made by unwed girls on that liminal date and, like the poet, feel the past creep up on us, in our 14th #winterfolklore tale. Quite literally.
Read it below!
🎨 Millais
Read it below!
🎨 Millais
January 20, 2026 at 6:18 AM
“St. Agnes' Eve—Ah, bitter chill it was!”, John Keats wrote in 1819 and since today is the day, we take a look at the divinations made by unwed girls on that liminal date and, like the poet, feel the past creep up on us, in our 14th #winterfolklore tale. Quite literally.
Read it below!
🎨 Millais
Read it below!
🎨 Millais
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Dear #booksky #poetry people who know about such things, I would like to read Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil, but because I am stupid and only know English I have to read it in translation. Is there a recommended one or are they all much the same?
#bookchatweekly
#bookchatweekly
January 19, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Dear #booksky #poetry people who know about such things, I would like to read Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil, but because I am stupid and only know English I have to read it in translation. Is there a recommended one or are they all much the same?
#bookchatweekly
#bookchatweekly
Announcement for #BookologyThursday -BookCat is out for some minor surgery and hopes to return next Thursday. Thank you, and apologies💛
January 20, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Announcement for #BookologyThursday -BookCat is out for some minor surgery and hopes to return next Thursday. Thank you, and apologies💛
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In celebration of today's New Moon
A fox curled up and dreaming of the moon 🦊🌑🌿
#NewMoon #FoxMoon #FoxoftheDay
A fox curled up and dreaming of the moon 🦊🌑🌿
#NewMoon #FoxMoon #FoxoftheDay
January 18, 2026 at 3:24 PM
In celebration of today's New Moon
A fox curled up and dreaming of the moon 🦊🌑🌿
#NewMoon #FoxMoon #FoxoftheDay
A fox curled up and dreaming of the moon 🦊🌑🌿
#NewMoon #FoxMoon #FoxoftheDay
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'Hamlet' by Gustave Mossa. Yorick clearly had more than a big personality.
#ShakespeareSunday #Shakespeare #booksky #weirdart #artksy
#ShakespeareSunday #Shakespeare #booksky #weirdart #artksy
January 18, 2026 at 3:23 PM
'Hamlet' by Gustave Mossa. Yorick clearly had more than a big personality.
#ShakespeareSunday #Shakespeare #booksky #weirdart #artksy
#ShakespeareSunday #Shakespeare #booksky #weirdart #artksy
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“Here Scylla bellows from the dire abodes,
Tremendous pest, abhorr’d by man and gods!”
(Homer, “The Odyssey”, trl. Alexander Pope)
🎨 @mgzd42
Tremendous pest, abhorr’d by man and gods!”
(Homer, “The Odyssey”, trl. Alexander Pope)
🎨 @mgzd42
January 18, 2026 at 5:01 PM
“Here Scylla bellows from the dire abodes,
Tremendous pest, abhorr’d by man and gods!”
(Homer, “The Odyssey”, trl. Alexander Pope)
🎨 @mgzd42
Tremendous pest, abhorr’d by man and gods!”
(Homer, “The Odyssey”, trl. Alexander Pope)
🎨 @mgzd42
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The Korrigan are the Little People of Brittany. Anger them and you might be in for a very, very long winter stroll.
Our 12th #winterfolklore story is another cautionary tale, this time from the famed Forest of Brocéliande – read it below. At your own peril.
🎨 Serge Lassus
Our 12th #winterfolklore story is another cautionary tale, this time from the famed Forest of Brocéliande – read it below. At your own peril.
🎨 Serge Lassus
January 18, 2026 at 6:01 AM
The Korrigan are the Little People of Brittany. Anger them and you might be in for a very, very long winter stroll.
Our 12th #winterfolklore story is another cautionary tale, this time from the famed Forest of Brocéliande – read it below. At your own peril.
🎨 Serge Lassus
Our 12th #winterfolklore story is another cautionary tale, this time from the famed Forest of Brocéliande – read it below. At your own peril.
🎨 Serge Lassus
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An old postcard of one of the gigantic 'resonant' stones of the Menec complex at #Carnac. This looks like a huge recumbent to me, but I'm sure at least one of you will know whether it's actually a fallen menhir. I guess Pierre refers to St Peter 'the Rock'.
#StandingStoneSunday #Neolithic
#StandingStoneSunday #Neolithic
January 18, 2026 at 12:06 PM
An old postcard of one of the gigantic 'resonant' stones of the Menec complex at #Carnac. This looks like a huge recumbent to me, but I'm sure at least one of you will know whether it's actually a fallen menhir. I guess Pierre refers to St Peter 'the Rock'.
#StandingStoneSunday #Neolithic
#StandingStoneSunday #Neolithic
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One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
~C.S. Lewis
🎨 Thomas Cooper Gotch (1904)
~C.S. Lewis
🎨 Thomas Cooper Gotch (1904)
January 18, 2026 at 9:06 PM
One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
~C.S. Lewis
🎨 Thomas Cooper Gotch (1904)
~C.S. Lewis
🎨 Thomas Cooper Gotch (1904)
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Good day, dear Bibliophiles✨
🎨Franklin Booth (1874-1948)
🎨Franklin Booth (1874-1948)
January 18, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Good day, dear Bibliophiles✨
🎨Franklin Booth (1874-1948)
🎨Franklin Booth (1874-1948)
Good day, dear Bibliophiles✨
🎨Franklin Booth (1874-1948)
🎨Franklin Booth (1874-1948)
January 18, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Good day, dear Bibliophiles✨
🎨Franklin Booth (1874-1948)
🎨Franklin Booth (1874-1948)
Happy #WinnieThePoohDay 🎈
Time for a delicious smackerel from my vintage Pooh Cook Book to celebrate author A. A. Milne’s birthday #OTD (1882)
#BookChatWeekly
Time for a delicious smackerel from my vintage Pooh Cook Book to celebrate author A. A. Milne’s birthday #OTD (1882)
#BookChatWeekly
January 18, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Happy #WinnieThePoohDay 🎈
Time for a delicious smackerel from my vintage Pooh Cook Book to celebrate author A. A. Milne’s birthday #OTD (1882)
#BookChatWeekly
Time for a delicious smackerel from my vintage Pooh Cook Book to celebrate author A. A. Milne’s birthday #OTD (1882)
#BookChatWeekly
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"The day she was buried..., I said to myself - 'I'll have her in my arms again! If she be cold, I'll think it is this north wind that chills ME, and if she be motionless, it is sleep.'"
- Emily Brontë, "Wuthering Heights"
🎨Fritz Eichenberg
#BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly
- Emily Brontë, "Wuthering Heights"
🎨Fritz Eichenberg
#BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly
January 17, 2026 at 3:39 PM
"The day she was buried..., I said to myself - 'I'll have her in my arms again! If she be cold, I'll think it is this north wind that chills ME, and if she be motionless, it is sleep.'"
- Emily Brontë, "Wuthering Heights"
🎨Fritz Eichenberg
#BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly
- Emily Brontë, "Wuthering Heights"
🎨Fritz Eichenberg
#BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly
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Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
Jane Austen
#BookWormSat
#BookChatWeekly
Jane Austen
#BookWormSat
#BookChatWeekly
January 17, 2026 at 9:40 AM
Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
Jane Austen
#BookWormSat
#BookChatWeekly
Jane Austen
#BookWormSat
#BookChatWeekly