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Nimue Brown

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Books, Druidry, Music, Steampunk. One of Jessica Law's Outlaws. Also whimsy and weirdness. https://druidlife.wordpress.com/ and https://hopeless-maine.co.uk/

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Nimue Brown @nimueb.bsky.social · Jan 8

I don't automatically follow back, I think follow for follow back is a waste of everyone's time. If I think you're relevant to my interests, I'll follow back. I'm fussy because I want to read things that interest me and to engage with people I have things in common with.

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Nimue Brown @nimueb.bsky.social · 9d

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Autumn colour
Shows ghostly
My crunching boots
Reveal sweet decay
Imply bright hues
Lost, remembered, imagined.

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 9d

#StandingStoneSunday
The Long Stone near Minchinhampton. At over 7ft high and full of holes and depressions this a fascinating site. Many gifts and offerings are left on it - see photographs below - and I have a request for help with a research project.

A standing monolith in a meadow. There are many holes through the stone and cavities in the surface.

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💀Skulls and Sheets👻 @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 10d

An attempt at a ghostly mari

A semi transparent cloaked mari going diagonally across a black rectangle

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Nimue Brown @nimueb.bsky.social · 11d

I can very much recommend tree sniffing for Druids. druidlife.wordpress.com/2025/10/24/d...

Druidry and sniffing trees

(Nimue) I’ve spent today at Westonbirt Arboretum. It’s a popular place at this time of year as people visit to see the autumn leaves.. Some of the trees in the collection were so dramat…

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Nimue Brown @nimueb.bsky.social · 13d

Things I am rubbish at and need to learn. Health, mental health and being gentler druidlife.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/l...

Learning to yield

(Nimue) For a person with an interest in Taoism, I’m really not great at knowing when to yield. I’ve been too willing to go along with what other people wanted, and in other wys I&#8217…

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Nimue Brown @nimueb.bsky.social · 13d

my brilliant father share new fiction every week

Hopeless Maine @hopelessmaine.bsky.social · 14d

The fog lay upon Hopeless that morning like a particularly damp quilt hopeless-maine.co.uk/2025/10/21/t...

The Accordion That Cried - Hopeless Vendetta

It ain't over till the cursed accordion stops playing... or something. Reggie Upton and Pyralia Skant investigate a musical problem.

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Nimue Brown @nimueb.bsky.social · 13d

I have the first draft of a folk-against -fascism mumming play!

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Suna Dasi @sunadasi.bsky.social · 13d

So it did! And it's bonkers we went from Best New Band to being in Best Band category at all. Bonkers, but thrilled. Thanks as ever to all #Prog Magazine Readers who voted, the Prog Magazine team & our dear cheerleaders @progzilla.com (Still your fault @mikewhitfield.bsky.social 😊)

#Progrock #Music

EBB @ebbband.bsky.social · 16d

This happened, even though it's 9 months later now

"Holy Bloody Moly! Thanks so much to all who voted for us in the Prog Mag's readers poll!
We're THRILLED to be included in the Best Band category alongside such absolute prog legends!"

#music #readerspoll #progmagazine #progrock #artrock #thankyou

Prog Magazine Readers Poll 2024 results, published in Febr 2025.
Best Band category features the excellent Solstice at no 1.

EBB come in at 10, followed by
9. Marillion
8. David Gilmour
7. Jon Anderson
6. Focus
5. Dream Theater
4. Opeth
3. Frost
2. Big Big Train

Suffice to say we 'holy shit'ted our way through this list of stellar artists. Blown away to be part of it.

Anna, Nikki, Erin and Suna peeking out from behind an opened edition of Prog Magazine with surprised and happy eyes!

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Nimue Brown @nimueb.bsky.social · 13d

this brings back fond memories of The Drag King in Yellow.

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Nimue Brown @nimueb.bsky.social · 14d

Today have been putting Shakespeare in a mumming play, and talking about co-writing.

Nimue Brown @nimueb.bsky.social · 14d

I've read this one and can recommend it.

John Reppion @johnreppion.bsky.social · Oct 2

If you're interested in ghosts and monsters and folklore, @pauljholden.com and I did a book which you should probably buy
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Fascinating Folklore

- A compendium of comics and essays - Crafted by the masterful minds of two comic world luminaries, John Reppion and PJ Holden, Fascinating...

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Nimue Brown @nimueb.bsky.social · 15d

What does it mean to communicate well? One for people on the bard path especially. druidlife.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c...

Communication as virtue

(Nimue) One of my recent audio books was about the history of Humanism. This raised the concept of good communication as a virtue, which struck me as being relevant for the bard path. The logic of …

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Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 15d

pagan mysticism, faith and quantum physics
You know, small subjects to start writing a book about...
#paganisum #mystisicm #pagansky #blog #blogsky
#amwriting #writer

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The Quantum Pagan an Introduction

Last week, because I don’t have enough to write, I started work on a project that has been kicking about for a few years. While it may never see the light of day, as it is in part a personal …

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Nimue Brown @nimueb.bsky.social · 18d

Druidy, blindness and standing stonrs druidlife.wordpress.com/2025/10/17/e...

Encountering standing stones

All standing stones seem to me to invite touch. The careful placing of hands on rock has always been part of how I respond to these ancient sites. Touching and tracing the contours with affection a…

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Nimue Brown @nimueb.bsky.social · 19d

thank you! I'm still brewing a lot of thoughts about folk horror and archaeology, so I'd love to be able to share that at some point.

Nimue Brown @nimueb.bsky.social · 19d

it was all very sudden and dramatic, I wes ill, went blind... there have been ops, I'm a bit better but pretty messed up, annoyingly.

Nimue Brown @nimueb.bsky.social · 19d

thank you. I can't figure out how to get the chat on here big enough that I can read it, unhelpfully!

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Nimue Brown @nimueb.bsky.social · 19d

Alongside this madcap project there are novels, poetry collections and Druidry books in my shop , all with pagan and animist elements. ko-fi.com/O4O3AI4T/shop

Visit Nimue Brown's Shop!

I've opened a shop. Come take a look!

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Nimue Brown @nimueb.bsky.social · 19d

I have realised that as a person who can barely see I'm going to have a harder time of it making my stuff accessible for other people with different issues - as reading for a talk is now nigh on impossible, producing a text script for one is a bit more awkward for example. I shall learn.

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 20d

If anyone wonders whether people care about at accessibility at conferences, I'll point out that my post on accessibility at the conference immediately has more responses than conference post itself.

Make your stance loud and clear.

Also... actually make your conference accessible.

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Nimue Brown @nimueb.bsky.social · 19d

I am going to happen to you :-)

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Nimue Brown @nimueb.bsky.social · 20d

If you've followed me and I know you but I've not followed you back, please wave. I've been offline for months due to blindness (still can't see much) and I may have missed people. If I don't know you but you want to fix that then pleasealso wave.

Nimue Brown @nimueb.bsky.social · 20d

Druidry and blindness druidlife.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/c...

Connecting with the land

(Nimue) This is a recent photo of Keith and myself on Rodborough common – a hilltop near our home. It was the first time I’d tried walking up there since the vision loss. I can’t …

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Katherine Soutar @kateartist.bsky.social · 20d

#inktober day 14 'Trunk'

The memory of an Oak is written within
Unseen til death
Memories of
sunrise and sunset
hard winters
dark summers
gentle rain
plenty and drought
More changes than our memory ever holds
And now
We trace those years with our fingers, touching history we can only imagine

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Nimue Brown @nimueb.bsky.social · Jan 28

thank you. I am having a tough week, but also having that grief response of just wanting to hug the living close while I can.