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Tamsin Wilson

@tamsinwilson.bsky.social

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She paints, she draws, she rarely talks about herself in the third person. Stone botherer. Oil painter. No AI.

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Tamsin Wilson @tamsinwilson.bsky.social · Feb 6

Wassail WIP - Green man jacket 26/01/24. Drawings of common leaves from England & Jamaica on fabric patches.

Here's to thee, old apple tree,
That blooms well, bears well.
Let's have hat fulls, and cap fulls,
And three bushel bag fulls,
And little heaps of apples under the stair.

Was hail!!

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Tamsin Wilson @tamsinwilson.bsky.social · 1h

Portal 6. Somewhere in Cornwall.

Colour portrait photo from inside a dark cave. The floor is covered in sand and there are footprints in it. The irregular stone walls are wet and shiny. In the middle is the entrance to the cave, an uneven natural rocky archway leading to a beach. The cave is so dark that the outside is over exposed and bright.

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Tamsin Wilson @tamsinwilson.bsky.social · 1h

Oops, I can't count clearly... portal 6! Unless this portal is inside the other portal maybe. 😅

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Tamsin Wilson @tamsinwilson.bsky.social · 17h

Portal 5. Trying to summon the fog back again with this image. Took this photo last winter in the dreamy perpetual fog. If this place isn't haunted I'll eat my hat. #phantomfriday Croxden Abbey

Portrait black and white photo of an arched church window in a ruined stone wall. Through the window, which is taken at an angle, are more of the ruined stone walls and arches and a bare winter tree. They are slightly obscured by the fog.

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 2h

Gazing in awe & wonder 😮

Inside the spectacular Little Woodbury house at @butserancientfarm.co.uk where the great soot-blackened roof stands without central posts

An incredible family house from Late Iron Age Britain

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📷 My own, Sept

Duncan & Miles inside a roundhouse gazing up at the roof

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Owen Davies @odavies9.bsky.social · 13h

A folklorist sees the modern far-right trigger motifs and reads it like a folk tale of distraction ... #vegans #tampons #toilets #NationalTrust. So simple. Don't be a sucker. See through it.

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Tamsin Wilson @tamsinwilson.bsky.social · 16h

Found a report in a 2005 paranormal database pdf. Looks like you've got company!

Screenshot of an account of ghost sightings. Text reads

Robed Figures
Location: Croxden (Staffordshire)
Croxden Abbey
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Both nuns and monks are reported to silently glide over these ruins during the warm nights of the summer months.

Tamsin Wilson @tamsinwilson.bsky.social · 17h

Can't fault a ghost monk sighting! A classic. Ooh good catch. Multiple phantoms ✅

Tamsin Wilson @tamsinwilson.bsky.social · 17h

Portal 5. Trying to summon the fog back again with this image. Took this photo last winter in the dreamy perpetual fog. If this place isn't haunted I'll eat my hat. #phantomfriday Croxden Abbey

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Cecil Sharp House @cecilsharphouse.bsky.social · 20h

Read all about last weekend's Black British Takeover in the Morning Star's ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review of the event.

'A day truly celebrating the commonality of folk music and its links with the struggles of working people the world over.'

Black folk takeover

Black British Folk TakeoverCecil Sharp House★★★★★Despite folk music’s association with protest there is a perception that its performers and audiences are overwhelmingly white. However folk music is r...

morningstaronline.co.uk

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Gabrielle Kent @gabriellekent.bsky.social · Jul 15

Whaaaat? I checked the WeTransfer terms for myself and this really is in there.

Jonathan Emmett @jonathanemmett.com · Jul 15

If you're in the publishing community and have been using WeTransfer to share work with publishers and others, but don't want your work exploited by AIs without compensation, YOU NEED TO STOP USING WETRANSFER!

#CopyrightAndAI

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Tamsin Wilson @tamsinwilson.bsky.social · 1d

I'm making time to read it in the next few days. Ti's the season.

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Tamsin Wilson @tamsinwilson.bsky.social · 1d

#phantomsfriday

Tamsin Wilson @tamsinwilson.bsky.social · 3d

Spooky book time

Landscape colour photo of two second hand books on an electric blue background. Murders Myths and Monuments of North Staffordshire by W. M. Jamieson, and Haunted England by Christina Hole.

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Tamsin Wilson @tamsinwilson.bsky.social · 1d

This is a great fact.

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Aya Vandenbussche (she/her) @hiyaaya.bsky.social · 1d

The university of Oxford is older than the Aztec empire. However, unlike the university of Oxford, the Aztec empire is the only pre-modern civilisation that provided education for both boys and girls.
Things I learned from reading Eric. #Discworld #terrypratchet 📚💙🪐📚
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What I Learned From Eric

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 1d

Castle ruins lit by spotlights. A broad sway of cloud covers the sky.

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Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · 1d

Portal 🪞✨

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 1d

I'm continuing to stockpile Professionally Defaced copies of Tales Accursed ahead of the next drop on Halloween, but this sheet ghost phantom copy I made last night is currently available in the shop if anyone wants it...
👻 slipperyjack.bigcartel.com

Title page of Tales Accursed a Folk Horror Anthology with pen illustration of a sheet ghost.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Angeline Morrison @angelcakepie2.bsky.social · 2d

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5 Stars in The Morning Star for the Black British Folk Takeover at @cecilsharphouse.bsky.social ! Huge thanks to Steve Johnson & all the love 🖤 Read it here: morningstaronline.co.uk/article/blac...

Black folk takeover

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Hedley Thorne @hedleythorne.bsky.social · 2d

St Catherine's Hill iron age fort, with the Saxon city of Winchester behind.

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 2d

A great article from Rachel, who really understands the heart and soul of Dad’s work.

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HALLOWEIRD @johnnymains.co.uk · 2d

Today on the BBC Archive youtubes, I have mostly been watching THE GHOST HUNTERS from 1975.

Strange goings on, indeed. Benson Herbert is a one.

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1975: Meet THE GHOST HUNTERS | Classic BBC Documentaries | BBC Archive

YouTube video by BBC Archive

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Fawnlorn @fawnlorn.bsky.social · 2d

I’m excited to share my finished Skeleton mask! I made the t-shirt too and I love how spooky they turned out. This is the first of a few Halloween pieces I’ve got planned this month. 🎃 #sculpting #sculpture #folklore #skullmask #skeletonmask

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Aya Vandenbussche (she/her) @hiyaaya.bsky.social · 3d

When I was doing my MA, my tutor did not want to approve my dissertation because he did not like Terry Pratchett (it was about Feet of Clay and the Golem, amongst other things). I changed my tutor, got a distinction, and was published in an academic journal.The snobbery of it infuriates me.

DiscordianKitty⭐ @discordiankitty.bsky.social · 3d

Pratchett's books are some of the most intelligent, insightful and well-written literature of our time. The idea that it's not appropriate for adults is such an unbelievably shallow take it actually manages to outdo the Kemi Badenoch thing.

Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 3d

My probably-get-me-banned-from-Bluesky take is that a 45 year old woman saying her favourite author is Terry Pratchett is embarrassing for everyone concerned

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P. Puck @peapuck.bsky.social · 4d

Helmets of Fliffmellington

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