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A Lurker

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Non-native English speaker; selkie appreciator; plushie enthusiast; lover of all animals fluffy, slimy and/or crawly

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A Lurker @justalurkerlurking.bsky.social · Nov 17

Just a lurker lurking. Don't expect too many posts from me. Anyway, here's a cat!

Blurry, close-up shot of a grey and white cat with dilated pupils looking out of a blue shopping bag

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Suzanne Rent @suzannerent.bsky.social · 23h

Tonight’s company. #cats

A mackerel tabby cat with brown, black, and white striped fur, big yellow eyes, and a terracotta nose.

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Kelly Jarvis @kellyjarviswriter.bsky.social · 5h

Beauty and the Beast fairy tales (ATU 425) and Selkie legends share some interesting characteristics including animal-human hybridity and themes of mingled love and loss ❤️

🎨 by Imelda Green

#FolkloreThursday #fairytale #folklore #selkies #beautyandthebeast

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AmethystDripp @amethystdripp.bsky.social · 20h

4 days until my Artist Meet and Greet! Here's some of my newest paintings even went old school an worked on a canvas.

#art #Gallery #painting #Iredesant #Selkie #Romance #canvas #star #aurora

Acrylic painting on canvas "Selkie Romance" A red haired shirtless man lifts his wife in her white Selkie coat on a rocky coast. The night sky lit with the aurora borealis carry seal spirit beyond.

Acrylic painting on canvas "Iredesant" Multi-colored stars falling from the night sky. A skirted figure stands on a beach, lit up by iredesant flames. Will they consume her or give her new life.

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Moonlight-Selkie @moonlight-selkie.bsky.social · 8h

Hello : )
I'm Moonlight-Selkie, or Selkie for short.
I'm a Digital Artist, who also dabbles a bit in writing for fun
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Art Status:
Commissions - OPEN
Collabs - Ask
Trades - Closed
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Find my commission info on my Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/moonlightsel...

Buy Moonlight-Selkie a Coffee

Become a supporter of Moonlight-Selkie today!

ko-fi.com

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Mags 🛸 @novakiart.bsky.social · 4h

the next morning, or: you go through the horrors just for your court-mandated therapist to be evil barbie (Bite Club 6/?)

- #art #oc #webcomic #biteclub #vampires #selkie

Hard cut to a new scene. Catriona is in her bathroom, wrapped in a towel as she leans over a filled bathtub. She's dunking her head into it. A conversation carries from the other side of the door:

Adelaide: Mommy!
Mr. Williams: SHH, Addy. Let's not distract Mommy while she's getting ready, okay? Catriona? C'MON.

Tight framing on Catriona's face under the water. She goes from looking peaceful, to screaming air bubbles.

Mr. Williams: The appointment is in thirty minutes.
Catriona: SCREAM

A series of three panels as Catriona seemingly gets ready. She puts lipstick on in the mirror, solemnly looks down, then looks at something out of the panel.

Voice, speaker unclear: Catriona?
Voice, speaker unclear: Catriona?
Voice, speaker unclear: Sweetie.

Over Catriona's shoulder, we see the scene has changed. Marianne stands in the doorway to her therapy office, beckoning her inside. Warm light filters out from it.

Mari: I said I was ready for you. Why don't you come inside? I think you'll find today's session particularly... productive.

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geneva @gdbee.bsky.social · 1d

Pisces, inspired by Gustav Klimt's Danae :)

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 1d

Here are some nice mushrooms

A bouquet of white oyster mushrooms grow from the side of a fallen log, their ivory caps cupped upward and washed in forest sunlight, crowded gills flowing down every side. All photos by me

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imanicv.bsky.social @imanicv.bsky.social · 1d

The chill came
and I knew it was time to harvest the memories
that gave comfort
… reflections of smiles
that drenched my heart in light
and laughter
…. so good and hearty
a fine crop
… nourishing
in its season

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imanicv.bsky.social @imanicv.bsky.social · 1d

Joy
Like summer
Too short …. magical
Then came the storm warnings
Flags by the lake of my dreams began to wave me home

So I fill my basket
with what was sweet and tart
refreshing … fulfilling
Preserve them for the spring when my heart
is ready to bloom
yet again

#poetry #poetrycommunity

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Sarah Hina @sarahhina.bsky.social · 2d

the sun slips
behind a cloud
and onto the page
rain falls

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Sarah Webb @sarahwebbwriter.bsky.social · 3d

The Irish Invented Halloween, so Where are Our Stories?

From Pookas to Pagan Gods, Spirits to Selkies, Irish children’s books bring spooky season back to its roots

Article by Ellen Ryan

discoveririshkidsbooks.ie/the-irish-in...

Image by Úna Woods from Have You Seen the Dublin Vampire?

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Aysha @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 1d

Yo I had some unexpected travel expenses at Cancon so please buy mine and @llewellynrose.bsky.social's comics!! there's selkies! there's devils! there's gay stuff! ko-fi.com/A200K80/shop

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Sailor Mooninite 🏳️‍⚧️🔞 @sailormooninite.bsky.social · 1d

Carpet of Flowers
Spreading Seas
Cold eyed Selkie
Vines of Vastwood
Cyclonic Rift

Used to be that bitch

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Dev Petty @devpetty.bsky.social · 1d

I was going to save this for #caturday but I felt like everyone might need it now.

A glorious yet still adorable orange cat (Troy) lays head to head with his brother, a stunning black panther (Abed) on a bed. Their heads are sweetly squished together.

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 1d

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

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Kythryne Aisling/Wyrding Studios @wyrdingstudios.com · 2d

Overheard this morning:

“Yeah, he goes somewhere else for the winter, I don’t know where, but he always comes back here every summer… he kinda keeps to himself most of the time but he’s pretty friendly, he’s a nice raccoon”

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Kristin Wyatt @kristinwyatt.bsky.social · 2d

Autumn Meadowhawk
#dragonflies #nature #photography

A lovely red dragonfly with clear wings. One of the later dragonflies you'll see in the season. They have been reported out in early November

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HaikuTsunami @haikutsunami.bsky.social · 1d

in this slow decline
as light shifts so gently down
winter takes the crown

#DailyHaikuPrompt
#Haiku #senryu #tanka

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Thomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social · 2d

gravity slips-
all my bones
applaud
#haiku #poetry

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Jack @jackalopeart.bsky.social · 2d

From my new zine Satyr: The Greene-Wood

#folklore #selkie #scotland #childballads #suleskerry #collage #zine #illustration

A collage of a seal with a human face and feet in brown ink and white gouache, with blue marbled paper. the text is the ballad The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry (child 113):
AN eartly nourris sits and sing,
And aye she sings, Ba, lily wean!
Little ken I my bairnis father,
Far less the land that he staps in.
Then ane arose at her bed-fit,
An a grumly guest I’m sure was he:
‘Here am I, thy bairnis father,
Although that I be not comelie.
‘I am a man, upo the lan,
An I am a silkie in the sea;
And when I’m far and far frae lan,
My dwelling is in Sule Skerrie.’
‘It was na weel,’ quo the maiden fair,
‘It was na weel, indeed,’ quo she,
‘That the Great Silkie of Sule Skerrie
Suld hae come and aught a bairn to me.’
Now he has taen a purse of goud,
And he has pat it upo her knee,
Sayin, Gie to me my little young son,
An tak thee up thy nourris-fee.
An it sall come to pass on a simmer’s day,
When the sin shines het on evera stane,
That I will tak my little young son,
An teach him for to swim the faem.
An thu sall marry a proud gunner,
An a proud gunner I’m sure he’ll be,
An the very first schot that ere he schoots,
He’ll schoot baith my young son and me.

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 2d

Smoking a giant cigar that’s actually a disguised stick of dynamite which blows off your head and leaves nothing but a whisp of smoke, not even once

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 2d

Best dressed couple. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Black and white photo of a young light skinned man with wavy hair, wearing a dark sports coat and tie, looking very dapper. A shorthaired black tuxedo cat is riding on his shoulders.

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Candy fae @candy-fae.bsky.social · 2d

Very late but here’s my selkie man Lev for day 19- Arctic #inktober #originalcharacter

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Annie Bellet @anniebellet.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks to long covid I get to coin flip if I'll start blacking out every time I stand up. Much of the time I just walk blindly forward hoping I won't fall. Sometimes I fall. Sometimes I fall after bending down to pet my cat.
This is just my life now.
Best avoid it pls

A large ugly bruise on a white woman's knee from falling over due to POTS caused by long covid

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Heather Costa @heathercosta.bsky.social · 3d

You do know that long COVID causes significant health problems, including literal brain damage. Each infection is like playing Russian Roulette. Do you think you could win 3 games of Russian Roulette in a row? That's what getting COVID multiple times is like.

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