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The Doctor of Spooktober Past

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Mad (ex) Scientist (Ph.D in Nanotech) IIT Bombay Camera and Beyond Perversely Subversive and Absurd I love Books, Bowie and the Beatles 📍Bombay 🇮🇳 Check my 📸 Feed https://ko-fi.com/lucidillusions | lucidillusions.darkroom.com | patreon.com/lucidillusions

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The Doctor of Spooktober Past @lucidillusions.in · 7d

📍 Pinned post for October, and a ℕ𝕖𝕨 𝔹𝕝𝕠𝕘 ℙ𝕠𝕤𝕥

ss.lucidillusions.in/blog/2025-09...

September has been somewhat cray cray, and you can read all about it on the Blog

And while at it, check out the quoted post for some way to support my work

#WritingCommunity #IAmWriting #Photography 📚💙 💕 💸

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The Doctor of Spooktober Past @lucidillusions.in · 1h

My Thursday was full of writing and getting to watch an old movie on the big screen :)

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DD/PM/25 @ddpm.bsky.social · 3h

wrote a bit today, trying to form a new habit.
next on the list of things to do is to go back to making art commissions, making a new profile for that, looking out for poeple that want that,,, aaa, baby steps

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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 3h

Stretch maybe but if someone could hook me up with a ticket for NYCC on Sunday, my kid would be very pleased.

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 2h

If there's one thing India's been good at, it's stalling/strangulating the economy with umpteen licenses, custom duties (read tariffs) on almost everything imaginable & then letting loose a bevy of indifferent inspectors to regulate it. The US should learn from India's mistakes, but it won't.

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ikckckcabod bring back llink 🎃 @katecrane.bsky.social · 2h

the kind that keep you calm when all around you things are getting worse

Battlefield Nurse

YouTube video by Diane Cluck - Topic

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The Doctor of Spooktober Past @lucidillusions.in · 1h

Good morning friends, what are you writing / photographing today?

I have a few things to edit (writing as well as photos) - but first need to figure out breakfast!

#WritingCommunity #Photography

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The Doctor of Spooktober Past @lucidillusions.in · 1h

Till later Kate.

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🧟‍♂️ Ick 🪓😱† Wight 🧛 @nickwrightdata.ntw.app · 8h

Your behavior hints
A fairly well-developed
Cognitive array.

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Though not sentient, Spot--
comprehending not--...is my
True and valued friend.

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"Tell him he is a
Pretty cat, and a good cat,
an--" "I...will feed him."

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The Doctor of Spooktober Past @lucidillusions.in · 8h

It's been a long day, going to read something and pass out.

Till tomorrow bsky

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Art by @lucidillusions.in @art.lucidillusions.in · 22h

Quick doodle (and then edited on snapseed) for tomorrow's #fridayflashfiction post that will go out to Patreon Members tomorrow.

Become a member now, and be the first to read it in your mailbox tomorrow.

https://www.patreon.com/c/lucidillusions […]

[Original post on mastodon.art]

a person standing in a dilapidated building, and sees a dark human like silhouette on the wall (it has long fingers)

the wall is showing wallpaper in certain sections, and cracks... there is a small table with dark marking on it as well.

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The Doctor of Spooktober Past @lucidillusions.in · 22h

Day 9 of #31DaysOfSpooktober

𝐀𝐧 𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫'𝐬 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐢𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫. 𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐬.

(637 words, 4 min)

#WritingCommunity #Horror 💙📚

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The Doctor of Spooktober Past @lucidillusions.in · 21h

We're back today with a perfect post for #BirdOfTheDay - let me share this eepy #Spotted Owlet from the Ranthambore Jungle, India.

#Nature #Wildlife #EastCoastKin 🪶 🌿🖌️
#PhotographersOfBluesky #Photography

Do you like #owls? check this phone wallpaper pack: ko-fi.com/s/e55940cdd6

A spotted owlet is perched and sleeping on a branch. there are more out of focus branches far back.

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The Doctor of Spooktober Past @lucidillusions.in · 21h

A kitten is here,
with criminal intentions,
"pounce and interrupt!"

Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 21h

Small tabby tripod
Rolling in the summer sun -
Hark! Aeroplane ears!

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 1d

Ew ew ew just for an ad for one of those AI assistants in which a woman asks it to write a haiku about her cat.

You can’t write a 3 line, 17 syllable poem about your cat?????

What is being alive for if not writing tiny little poems about your cat??!!

Add this to my joker file. Good lord.

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The Doctor of Spooktober Past @lucidillusions.in · 18h

Met a pretty lit spood while waiting for the bus.

#invertebrate #photography #nature #spider 🖌️🌿

A spider with red and white colors, sitting on the underside of a lead with rust coloration.

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Architectural Digest India @architecturaldigest.in.web.brid.gy · 16h

6 nostalgic Hindi films that perfected the architecture of dark opulence

From Guzaarish’s candlelit decadence to Tumbbad’s crumbling grandeur, in these nostalgic hindi films redefined dark opulence in design.

www.architecturaldigest.in

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News X @news-x.bsky.social · 15h

Malayalam film #Haal denied CBFC cert! 🎬💔 A scene w/ beef biryani & dialogue mentioning "dhwaja pranamam" & "Sangh" are cited as reasons. Makers call demands "strange" & "unjustified." 🤔 #FilmCensorship #KeralaCinema

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Cha @chabdpointcom.bsky.social · 1d

❤️ Les derniers Shah Rukh sont sur le blog :
blog.chabd.com/2025/10/08/d...

Dis-cor-dia

Et revoilà un trio de Shahrukh pour les vignettes de Dis-cor-dia, avec les films Don, Om Shanti Om et Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi.

blog.chabd.com

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The Doctor of Spooktober Past @lucidillusions.in · 9h

Just call it banger for the little ones lol

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Onorah @onorah.bsky.social · 21h

Next on my live-posting book rambles is Haunting Adeline. Not normally my jam (too much gratuitous violence and romanticising red flags) but it was in last year’s Goodreads top 60 and I set myself a reading challenge to read all 60, so here we are, 26% in. I would have DNFd if not for the challenge.

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SB Divya @sbdivya.bsky.social · 10h

TIL that "discombooberate" is a word (an alternative slang for "discombobulate"), and I think it's a moral imperative that I find a way to use in my WIP.

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 10h

Big fan of this weevil's color scheme, pointy snoot, and huge feet!

www.inaturalist.org/observations...

black and yellow weevil on a green leaf with long thin rostrum and very large foot pads

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Alix @capefoxalix.bsky.social · 11h

Day 9 of #birdtober is the Indian Vulture!

They were on the brink of extinction because of the use of painkillers in cattle, which caused the birds kidney failure. But the drug has since been banned so their population is now recovering slowly

#birdtober2025 #vultures #indianvulture #birds

A vector illustration of an Indian vulture in front of a large letter I. Below the letter is its english and latin name as well as its IUCN status which is critically endangered.

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Lark Morgan Lu @larkmorganlu.bsky.social · 10h

I realize when I read speculative fiction what I want is a silent hill on humanity, every tale a kaleidoscope of cruelty surfaced that society considers too normalized to disrupt politely

Anyhow I love Rivers Solomon

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🎃 Fiona "Fi" Webster 🎃 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 10h

Hungary’s László Krasznahorkai just won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature. In 2018, Nathaniel Rich wrote that Krasznahorkai writes fiction devoid of revelation, resolution, and even periods.

Gift link.

The Storyteller Who Offers No Escape

Hungary’s László Krasznahorkai writes fiction devoid of revelation, resolution, and even periods.

www.theatlantic.com

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Cendrine Marrouat @haikushack.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 12h

The Haiku Shack Magazine is looking for poetry and microfiction for its fourth issue issue. Theme: "Silence"

Complete guidelines at https://creativeramblings.com/haiku-shack-magazine/

#poetry #fiction #microfiction #writing #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers

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