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C.W. Reeve
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Author of weird tales & folk horror, co-host of #WyrdWednesday. Killing me won't bring back your apples (He/Him) 👻

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C.W. Reeve @cwreeve.bsky.social · Oct 21
A drabble from me for Halloween, on the theme of '13'! This is my first swing at one of these & I'm really happy with how it came out. Thanks to @ratbaglit.bsky.social for publishing it. Them rats are good folk!

#Horror #Drabble #Horrorwriting
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Thanks to @cwreeve.bsky.social for the last round!

@prairiebones.bsky.social is gleefully sacrificing her time to repost your stories, art, and other media about...well...sacrifices!
a fire pit with a lot of rocks and fire coming out of it
ALT: a fire pit with a lot of rocks and fire coming out of it
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November 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM
cwreeve.bsky.social
For decades, until 2010, someone appeared at Edgar Allan Poe's grave in Baltimore before dawn on Jan. 19, his birthday.

The mysterious visitor (aka The Poe Toaster), who was never identified, would leave behind three roses & a half-filled bottle of cognac as a tribute to the writer

#WyrdWednesday
A blurry, black and white photo of a man in a hat kneeling at a headstone.
November 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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1/3 A Dutch folktale from just across the border with Belgium tells of a young girl haunted by her father's ghost. His pale, tormented face and pitiful cries reveal that he is trapped in purgatory.

#WyrdWednesday
Painting of souls in purgatory, people standing in flames with a big eye watching them. Attributed to António Joaquim Padrão, 1765-70.
November 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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ruinsofdespair.bsky.social
In Goethe's version of the Faustian pact, the sacriface ought to give you pause:

If you ever come across a moment in life so beautiful that you wish it never to end, the devil will claim your life and soul.

#WyrdWednesday #romanticism #books #booksky
It is, in practice, Marguerite who ends up paying the price of her life for indiscretions of Faust, but her soul is spared. Image: Faust and Mephisto in prison, colored lithograph by Joseph Fay 1846
November 26, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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theghostmonk.bsky.social
Was King William II's death while hunting in the New Forest, #Hampshire, an accident, murder - or was it a pre-Christian god-king human sacrifice made to ensure fertility to the land and future prosperity to the people, as has been suggested? (But by whom I've forgotten - Murray?).
#WyrdWednesday
An illustration or woodcut showing a man collapsing against a tree in a forest with an arrow protruding from his chest. In the background we can see a stag heading out of frame to the left and the small figure of a bowman who may have been aiming for the deer - or not.
November 26, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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wyrdwednesday.bsky.social
Good morning, wyrdlings! @cwreeve.bsky.social here, a bit late but all present, correct and in one piece...

This week's #WyrdWednesday theme:

'Sacrifices, Offerings and Selfless Acts!'

SHOW ME THE WYRD!
a cartoon of a bear with no face sitting at a table with a lot of food .
ALT: a cartoon of a bear with no face sitting at a table with a lot of food .
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November 26, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
when trying on pants, do this in the store. then tell the sales associate "the menswear guy told me to do this."

IG mr.funkys0ul
November 25, 2025 at 10:17 AM
cwreeve.bsky.social
The temperature has dropped so much, we can now play that classic winter game: Is It Wet, or Is It Cold?
November 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Film noir atmosphère for the Parisian subway

#art #dark #b&wstreetphotography #bwphotography #humansOfBluesky #streetphotography #urbanphotography #paris #france #monochrome
Black and white photograph of a steep staircase in an urban transit setting, framed by metal railings and overhead beams. Fluorescent lights cast dramatic shadows, emphasizing the geometric lines and depth. The perspective draws the eye upward, evoking movement, solitude, and architectural rhythm.
November 25, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Roller derby implies the existence of roller nottingham
November 25, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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wyrdwednesday.bsky.social
Join us this #Wyrdwednesday for our topic:

'Sacrifices, Offerings and Selfless Acts!'

Serve us up your tantalizing tales from history, myth and lore about ravenous deities and grand gestures both good and evil!
November 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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### 🏊‍♀️ Verlassenes Schwimmbecken mit Puppe (Farbe) Dieses **Farb-Foto** zeigt eine ungewöhnliche und leicht unheimliche Szene in einem **leeren, historischen Schwimmbecken**. Die Aufnahme erfolgte aus einer erhöhten Perspektive, wahrscheinlich von einem Sprungbrett oder dem Beckenrand. Die Beckenwände und der Boden sind mit **türkisblauen und grauen Mosaikfliesen** bedeckt. Auf dem Boden sind **dunkle Schwimmbahnen** eingezeichnet. Die Szene ist dunkel und nur spärlich beleuchtet. In den beiden linken Schwimmbahnen reflektieren **leuchtende, neonfarbene Lichtstreifen** (pink, blau, orange), die von außerhalb des Bildes stammen und dem Bild eine surreale Note verleihen. Im oberen linken Bereich des Beckens steht eine **nackte, hautfarbene Schaufensterpuppe** aufrecht auf dem Beckenboden. Die Puppe blickt auf den Betrachter und wirkt in der menschenleeren Umgebung sehr deplatziert. Die Umgebung vermittelt den Eindruck eines **verlassenen oder stillgelegten Ortes**.
November 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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sushi53.bsky.social
ok. dude. what kind of arby's has the kitchen down a set of stairs??? and it's all wooden too? kinda weird for a restaurant this canNOT be osha certified... just building up my complaint list atp
November 22, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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well done, everyone 👏🔨
Microsoft Al CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows Al backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" By Zac Bowden published 7 hours ago Mustafa Suleyman says people that are unimpressed with Al's capabilities are mind blowing to him, after recent backlash around Copilot and Windows as an agentic G5;
November 20, 2025 at 10:30 PM
cwreeve.bsky.social
The Haunted Room, Painted at a Farmhouse on Exmoor

🎨 by Alfred James Munning, circa 1950

#PhantomsFriday
A woman sits on a four poster bed, mouth agape in horror as a pale apparition points at her. On the floor, a man looks up in shock.
November 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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This drawing by John Hookham from Harry Price's 'Poltergeists Over England' is intended to illustrate that poltergeist activity often centres round young girls. But I find it an especially creepy image. One can almost imagine the girl turning round to welcome it...
#PhantomsFriday #ghost #ghosts
Drawing of a little girl seated at a mirror and tying bows in her hair. Behind her looms an ominous shadow. Presumably the girl can see it in the mirror but seems weirdly unconcerned.
November 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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"I'm trying to get beyond the world of appearances to something more absolute". Using a monochrome palette, artist Alan Reynolds went under the surface of the landscape and into its soil, evoking what he experienced as the spirit of place #WyrdWednesday
Keeper of the Dark Copse II (1951-1952). Silhouettes of trees and vegetation are highlighted by the whiter or lighter 'auras' around them. Some are almost anthropomorphised or resemble the chimeras of folk horror images. The Keeper is a mysterious, solitary, possibly ghost-like figure, its light colour standing out against the dark copse. Apparently 'dualistic' traits make up a picture that might be complete, but one that is also unending ...
November 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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cwreeve.bsky.social
The castle of Düsseldorf is said to be haunted by a white lady. According to legend, a duchess named Jakobine & her lover were murdered by her jealous husband. Her ghost was alleged to be seen before a series of fires which plagued the castle.

#WyrdWednesday
A lady dressed in white points at a gentleman who backs away in fear.
November 19, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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you fucking what
rianjohnson.bsky.social Rian Johnson @rianjohnson.bsky.social · 8d
Am I a hypocrite for wanting this after giving a hard no to muppet knives out
kenplume.bsky.social Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 8d
Okay, I'm making my case for the only Muppet I want to see on Broadway right now...
November 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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theghostmonk.bsky.social
In 'The Black Hands' by Albert Bigelow Paine (Pearson's Magazine, 1903), a white American wakes up to find his skin has turned black. His fiance rejects him and he experiences racial prejudice first-hand. A clumsy device perhaps but well-intentioned and no doubt controversial in 1903.
#WyrdWednesday
the scene is an early 20th Century drawing room and the people in it are in the dress of the period. A man with black skin reaches out imploringly to a seated woman with white skin, who is recoiling in horror. The caption reads: "Oh," she burst out, "but not this! Not this! Don't! Oh please don't touch me!"
November 19, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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This isn’t “efficiency” it’s an ideological shift towards a Little England university system.

Nottingham is set to become the only Russell Group university with no modern languages or music degrees.

48 courses on the line. We’re fighting it.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...
University of Nottingham considers axing language and music degrees
Total of 48 degrees could disappear from Russell Group institution, with falling revenues and rising costs blamed
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November 19, 2025 at 11:26 AM
cwreeve.bsky.social
The castle of Düsseldorf is said to be haunted by a white lady. According to legend, a duchess named Jakobine & her lover were murdered by her jealous husband. Her ghost was alleged to be seen before a series of fires which plagued the castle.

#WyrdWednesday
A lady dressed in white points at a gentleman who backs away in fear.
November 19, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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The Nine Lives Causway and Eel Marsh House from The Woman in Black. Unpublished illustration.
A black pen and printing ink Illustration of a muddy and damp causeway track winding across an estuary. A horse & cart with two people on it is making its way across the track towards the misty and looming shape of a large Victorian house situated on a small island. Weak winter sunshine reflects on the waters surface, a heavy sky above the scene. Gloomy, forbidding and atmospheric.
November 19, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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ruinsofdespair.bsky.social
In Finnish mythology the sacred white Swan of Tuoni swims in the black river of the underworld.

#WyrdWednesday #folklore #epic #Kalevala
In this cropped detail of a painting by Akseli Gallen-Kallela, 1897, the Swan observes from a safe distance the grieving mother and the dead body of her son, Lemminkäinen, on the shore of the river of Tuoni.
November 19, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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wyrdwednesday.bsky.social
Good morning, wyrdlings! Welcome to this week's wyrdly monochromatic #WyrdWednesday!

This week's theme:

"Novembre Noir - Black & White, from Games of Chess to White Snows, Black Ravens and Whisky Blends"

@cwreeve.bsky.social here, show me your wryd! 👻
a black and white photo of a man hanging from a clock on a building .
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November 19, 2025 at 8:56 AM