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Dirt & Bone Witch. Feral. Woods. Ocean. Words. Books. The Weird. Poet. Teacher. Magpie at heart. Mother of Squirrels and Magpies. Odd, strange little thing. 🇳🇴 🐻❄️🐭 🐺 Mor til Ailo 🐺. ❤️ Kona til @hvittingen.bsky.social ♾️

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scare-ah 🕸️ @sarahmillswrites.bsky.social · 9h

Yes, cold air.

Please, come in through the window.

I have been waiting a long, long time for you.

🍁 💨 🪟 🍂

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 14h

A peacock in the garden this afternoon

A peacock butterfly—mostly red, with a large 'eye' motif of pale blue and yellow on each wing—on an orange flower

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Steve McKerrall @photosteve.bsky.social · 15h

For this #ThursJay, a Steller’s Jay with a tasty snack
#birds #jays

A Steller’s Jay sitting on a small branch against a light yellow background.

A Steller’s Jay on a large branch holding a light green colored fruit in its bill.

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Dr. Elle, Her Celestial Majesty ✨👑🌌 @abstractica.bsky.social · 20h

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Virginia Woolf — Nikoleta Sekulovic, 2024
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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 22h

Emily Dickinson

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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 16d

‚stone or not,
the moon is still that much of a living thing‘

Louise Gluck, Love in Midnight

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Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · 16h

Portal 🪞✨

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Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken @papawoof.bsky.social · 19h

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 1d

The wood is a constant promise to the witch. It whispers of magics, wild harvest and omens to be found on its paths. It never breaks it oaths to her. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 1d

Laura Venita Green on how learning Italian improved her writing in English: “By reading other cultures widely, we can start to see that there truly are countless ways to tell a story.”

A Cross-Genre Trek: How Translation Improved My Debut Novel

When I was thirty-eight years old, in late 2017, it began to feel inexcusable that I was living out my entire life in the typical American fashion: speaking a single language. After all, I spent si…

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Dr. Elle, Her Celestial Majesty ✨👑🌌 @abstractica.bsky.social · 1d

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Dr. Elle, Her Celestial Majesty ✨👑🌌 @abstractica.bsky.social · 23h

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Be near with the trees so they can teach your soul that every time the winds of change comes all you have to do is to sway.

— Juansen Dizon

art: Árvore da vida [Tree of Life]
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 1d

And this morning the Shed is a mirror maze, with faces turning like autumn leaves…

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Andromeda @ulveheksa.bsky.social · 21h

This translation of a recipe. 😅
I saw this elsewhere and I cackled. Best read aloud.

Chicken kofta with a unique way and a dangerous spicing that will make you taste a whole new time.
I used in it :
A kilo of chickens and their farm
Two medium onions (look in the oil or butter first, and it tastes much better)
Hanging from the garlic
Parsley
4 Food Hangers in Coincidence
Egg
And a spoonful of: Salt-pepper-smoked paprika-curry
And the oven enters the shelf at a temperature of 180 degrees to level
For the thieves :
Mint fresh
A box of yogurt

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 21h

During a Mast Year for acorns, like this year, squirrels get lazy

A red squirrel with its arms raised above its head

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 1d

Squirrel of the Day for October 8, 2025 is a happy mama #sqrlpix

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 1d

Ed Simon explores Americanism in Edgar Allan Poe’s work (and the abject horrors of being buried alive).

To Haunt and Be Haunted: On the Exhumation of Edgar Allen Poe

Imagine that you’ve been buried alive. Don’t question the specifics, whether you’ve been kidnapped or unfortunate enough to fall victim to poorly trained pathologists and morticians, for either way…

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Beautiful Bizarre Magazine @beautifulbizarre.net · 1d

Don’t miss Fear to Tread, the spookiest and most beautiful exhibit on display right now through October 25th at Nanny Goat Gallery. There are over 50 new original paintings and sculptures celebrating the Halloween season!

nannygoatgallery.com/fear-to-tread/

Work shown by John Walker

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Tammy Komoff @tammykomoff.bsky.social · 1d

We almost lost the Middle-English Poem Beowulf to fire!

Buried in the private Cotton library, the only copy of Beowulf was never truly studied.

Then in 1731, a fire destroyed Ashburnham House & most of the library. In a desperate attempt to save the codex a heroic librarian flung the smoking ⬇️

A badly burned manuscript page of the poem Beowulf.

Ashburnham House, the building where the private Cotton Library was kept containing the only copy of Beowulf. It burned in 1731. Most of the books went up in flames, but a few were saved.

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Tammy Komoff @tammykomoff.bsky.social · 1d

manuscript out of a window.

While Beowulf was one of the lucky few to survive the fire, it still carries the scorch marks of that night.

It was another 55 years before a second copy of the poem was transcribed and we realized just how old and special it really is!

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Dr. Elle, Her Celestial Majesty ✨👑🌌 @abstractica.bsky.social · 2d

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Andromeda @ulveheksa.bsky.social · 1d

The tree of hearts. 🃏

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Tree with bright yellow/orange leaves against blue sky. In the tree there are large red hearts hanging. There is a white picket fence and a leaf-covered walkway. The wall along the walkway is black and has colorful images painted on it.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 2d

Honey, Harmony Holiday knows how to start a book review, listen: "James Baldwin fell in love too easily, & we are the victors feeding on the spoils of his dysfunctional longings as they mingle with his use of language in the service of divine justice."🔥🔥🔥(in the new issue of @bookforum.bsky.social)

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Daily Grail @dailygrail.com · 2d

The chemistry of witchcraft.

www.chemistryworld.com/features/fro...

From flying ointments to healing herbs: the forgotten chemistry behind historical witchcraft practices

The unusual concoctions of village witches have historically been dismissed as nonsense hocus pocus - but is this the whole story? Victoria Atkinson investigates the chemistry behind the myth and whet...

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