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Colette Willis @colettewillis.bsky.social · 1h

We’re currently hiding in the car 🥲

A terrified-looking Dalmatian cross dog in the back seat of a car.

Colette Willis @colettewillis.bsky.social · 2h

Currently sitting in the car in the dark with hysterical dog because it’s the only place he doesn’t bark at them. He’s on two different sedatives. At this rate I will be too.

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Hi, it's Abject Terror. Yep. @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · Dec 25

I sleep with a bat under my bed in case someone breaks in and wants to learn about echolocation

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Colette Willis @colettewillis.bsky.social · 1d

Change one letter, ruin a candy

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 1d

Change one letter, ruin a candy

Bitterfinger

Auston Habershaw @aahabershaw.bsky.social · 1d

Change one letter, ruin a candy.

S&Ms

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 2d

Manannán Mac Lir - son of the sea, ancient warrior, powerful sea god, and member of the Tuatha Dé Danann in Irish mythology - commands the sea on a stormy day 🌊

Prints are available here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

Illustration of Manannán Mac Lir stretching a hand out over a stormy sea towards a currach. The print is overlaid on a photo of a stormy sea.

#Art #BlueskyArt #Ireland #SpeirGorm #SpeirGhorm #TraditionalArt #HandDrawn

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Colette Willis @colettewillis.bsky.social · 3d

Using AI slop to illustrate your posts really undermines your message.

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Colette Willis @colettewillis.bsky.social · 4d

I should never have doubted 🙏

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Colette Willis @colettewillis.bsky.social · 4d

But, and I know this is not the main takeaway here, NOT ALL THOSE KEYS ATE FACING THE SAME WAY. Is it a metaphor or is the artist a psychopath, what is reality anymore.

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Colette Willis @colettewillis.bsky.social · 5d

I HOWLED

Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 7d

I was looking up the Cliff Richard Wuthering Heights and found some clips. I laughed so hard I cried and have not stopped laughing. A clip. I really tried not to laugh. The boat remains a mystery.

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Colette Willis @colettewillis.bsky.social · 5d

Because Finn McRedmond

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the ghost of pony pony huckabuck @spindlypete.bsky.social · 8d

check out this absolutely terrifying ancient babylonian lullaby

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What is the oldest lullaby or nursery rhyme that...
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As far as the earliest we know of, it's another Babylonian tablet, about 4000 years old and most often known as Little Baby in the Dark House. We don't have the music for it, but again, the BBC article has a good go at describing some commonalities of the music that tends to accompany lullabies, so that might inspire you.
The rough translation for that Babylonian lullaby, by the way, is:
Little Baby in the dark house
You have seen the sun rise
Why are you crying?
Why are you screaming?
You have disturbed the house god.
'Who has disturbed me?' says the house god.
'It is the baby who has disturbed you!
'Who scared me?' says the house god.
'The baby has disturbed you, the baby has scared you, making noises like a drunkard who cannot sit still on his stool.
He has disturbed your sleep!
'Call the baby now, says the house god.
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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 7d

There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion. Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made. ~Edgar Allan Poe

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RedruM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 7d

ME: What’s the first rule of bite club?
DRACULA: Is it biting?
ME: That’s right, Dracula, it’s biting.
RATTLESNAKE: [quietly to himself] I was gonna say biting.

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Colette Willis @colettewillis.bsky.social · 8d

I’m just sitting here doing the Nathan Fillon meme. Everything is meaningless.

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Colette Willis @colettewillis.bsky.social · 8d

That’s so cool Sylvia!

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Colette Willis @colettewillis.bsky.social · 9d

God that has cheered me right up!

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Trish Byrne @trishyb.bsky.social · 10d

I mean, leaving babies out in the woods because you thought the fairies had swapped them for demons used to be a rural
pursuit too, but we managed to move on from that.

Virgin Media News @virginmedianews.bsky.social · 10d

🗣️ “If a fox is being ripped limb from limb and is dying a slow and agonising death - how can you say you abhor animal cruelty?”

🗣️ “These are rural pursuits and have been for many, many years.”

Heather Humphreys discusses her support for fox hunting and hare coursing.

#TheBigInterview

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Colette Willis @colettewillis.bsky.social · 11d

“Oh Perry,” I sigh as you run away, clutching your book to your chest, “oh what will become of you?” Joints creaking, I heave myself upright and head to the general store to get you a barley sugar stick and a spool of cobalt blue silk thread. You are my only nephew, after all.

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Colette Willis @colettewillis.bsky.social · 11d

Why, Peregrine,” I’d say, clucking as I bend down to see more closely, “you’ve got bilberry juice on your good lace collar!”
You’d fix me with a steely stare. “No, aunt,” you’d say. “That is not bilberry juice, it’s an embellishment. And this, you’ll find, is my second-best lace collar.”

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Colette Willis @colettewillis.bsky.social · 11d

Apparently Dalmatians were often used as circus dogs…

Half-Dalmatian dog yawning widely while perched on a step stool in front of a French door

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Colette Willis @colettewillis.bsky.social · 11d

I would have screamed the place down!

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Colette Willis @colettewillis.bsky.social · 11d

Fascinated that one of the worst Irish accents is from an Irish actress, who delivers working-class Dublin pronunciation with a D4 intonation, if that makes sense. Amazing.

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Colette Willis @colettewillis.bsky.social · 12d

Yeah we have Gatsby blue in the sitting room which I do like but I want that shot of cobalt…

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Colette Willis @colettewillis.bsky.social · 12d

I’m always in search of the perfect blue. That’s gorgeous.

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