Helen Rees
@catsandteabooks.bsky.social
Interested in medieval mystics, disgust, Dante, and horror films. Wannabe medievalist. Mainly cat pics. she/they
📍York
📍York
a few months ago I wrote a silly article about how to read performatively, and read so much in that week that I now go to cafes and hope people comment on how smart my book choices are. also gives me a chance to test hot chocolates around York.
December 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
a few months ago I wrote a silly article about how to read performatively, and read so much in that week that I now go to cafes and hope people comment on how smart my book choices are. also gives me a chance to test hot chocolates around York.
the rees-lawton tree is up!!! Accompanied by mina, who will almost certainly be it's downfall (and a few of my fave baubles)
December 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
the rees-lawton tree is up!!! Accompanied by mina, who will almost certainly be it's downfall (and a few of my fave baubles)
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LOTS of people still go to the movies! it's not their fault you spent a quarter of a billion dollars on one film and you need them all to see it three times for it to make a profit. spend less!
December 6, 2025 at 7:48 AM
LOTS of people still go to the movies! it's not their fault you spent a quarter of a billion dollars on one film and you need them all to see it three times for it to make a profit. spend less!
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I think Transactual put it best (in reference to the girl guides) and now Labour too:
"There is no problem being solved here, only harm being done."
All to appease the right, who hate them anyway - shame on them.
"There is no problem being solved here, only harm being done."
All to appease the right, who hate them anyway - shame on them.
December 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I think Transactual put it best (in reference to the girl guides) and now Labour too:
"There is no problem being solved here, only harm being done."
All to appease the right, who hate them anyway - shame on them.
"There is no problem being solved here, only harm being done."
All to appease the right, who hate them anyway - shame on them.
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Fascism is not an electoral project. It does not need to win at the ballot box. It does not need majority support. It does not care about democracy. It doesn't even care about society. It only recognises a blunt racial animus of violence.
Stop treating fascists as if you can defeat them by voting.
Stop treating fascists as if you can defeat them by voting.
December 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Fascism is not an electoral project. It does not need to win at the ballot box. It does not need majority support. It does not care about democracy. It doesn't even care about society. It only recognises a blunt racial animus of violence.
Stop treating fascists as if you can defeat them by voting.
Stop treating fascists as if you can defeat them by voting.
Thinking I might show @ielawton.bsky.social my favourite Christmas movie tonight (Crimson Peak, this is also my favourite movie generally, it has snow in so I'm calling it a Christmas movie) and get mad when he inevitably doesn't like it. Follow me for more tips on keeping a relationship fresh.
December 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Thinking I might show @ielawton.bsky.social my favourite Christmas movie tonight (Crimson Peak, this is also my favourite movie generally, it has snow in so I'm calling it a Christmas movie) and get mad when he inevitably doesn't like it. Follow me for more tips on keeping a relationship fresh.
every day I get closer to smashing my phone up and never touching it again why is humanity ruining art with these stupid metal boxes 😭 Sarandos, I hate you and your idiot son ❤️ can't wait to go to the cinema out of spite (and bc I genuinely love my local cinema) tomorrow afternoon.
December 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
every day I get closer to smashing my phone up and never touching it again why is humanity ruining art with these stupid metal boxes 😭 Sarandos, I hate you and your idiot son ❤️ can't wait to go to the cinema out of spite (and bc I genuinely love my local cinema) tomorrow afternoon.
trying gingerbread oreos and these are genuinely vile :(( a tragedy!!!
December 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
trying gingerbread oreos and these are genuinely vile :(( a tragedy!!!
Appreciation post for AWDREY at the cold war bunker i work in!!! This is the final one in the UK, she's based on lightning detectors from Nevada and a problem was she kept thinking lightning strikes and fireworks were nuclear bombs. I love her more than anything in the world.
December 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Appreciation post for AWDREY at the cold war bunker i work in!!! This is the final one in the UK, she's based on lightning detectors from Nevada and a problem was she kept thinking lightning strikes and fireworks were nuclear bombs. I love her more than anything in the world.
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What they took from us 😓
'Tis the season!
“One Night Cough Syrup” from the 1930s, which contained cannabis, morphine, chloroform, and alcohol! In 1934, the FDA ruled that the claims of the cough syrup's therapeutic properties were misleading, and remaining stock was destroyed.
#skystorians #medhist #science 🧪
“One Night Cough Syrup” from the 1930s, which contained cannabis, morphine, chloroform, and alcohol! In 1934, the FDA ruled that the claims of the cough syrup's therapeutic properties were misleading, and remaining stock was destroyed.
#skystorians #medhist #science 🧪
December 4, 2025 at 11:17 AM
What they took from us 😓
Baby girl is learning about war crimes ❤️
December 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Baby girl is learning about war crimes ❤️
I love visiting vegan and vegetarian restaurants and being able to eat everything on the menu!!!! I love being in big cities!!!! Petition to bring mildreds to the north 😭😭
November 30, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I love visiting vegan and vegetarian restaurants and being able to eat everything on the menu!!!! I love being in big cities!!!! Petition to bring mildreds to the north 😭😭
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"She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting."
O is for Owl Service from my linocut #folkhorroralphabet inspired by the 1967 novel by Alan Garner which he adapted from Welsh folklore. There’s a television series from 1969 which holds up surprisingly well.
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November 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
"She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting."
Thinking about this picture as my lovely cat Mina attacks my arm. Who needs parasitic lampreys when you have a 6 month old kitten!!
The head of health services in the United States, letting parasitic lampreys bite his arms for some godforsaken reason.
November 23, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Thinking about this picture as my lovely cat Mina attacks my arm. Who needs parasitic lampreys when you have a 6 month old kitten!!
my cat is obsessed with watching the tap and I think she's figured out how to turn it on 😭 i keep coming into the bathroom to it running
November 21, 2025 at 11:33 PM
my cat is obsessed with watching the tap and I think she's figured out how to turn it on 😭 i keep coming into the bathroom to it running
went off bluesky for 10 months to read Infinite Jest and live it out by becoming irreparably addicted to instagram (the true entertainment). i am better than everyone else on this app.
November 7, 2025 at 5:16 PM
went off bluesky for 10 months to read Infinite Jest and live it out by becoming irreparably addicted to instagram (the true entertainment). i am better than everyone else on this app.
Using my new moka pot this morning to make coffee!! Very excited to have yet another way to make my favourite drink.
January 11, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Using my new moka pot this morning to make coffee!! Very excited to have yet another way to make my favourite drink.
Trying to convince my boyfriend to go on a date to Whitby with me this week (we are going to see nosferatu tonight and I love themed dates) and everything I say to convince him just makes him let out pathetic little sounds of horror :((
January 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Trying to convince my boyfriend to go on a date to Whitby with me this week (we are going to see nosferatu tonight and I love themed dates) and everything I say to convince him just makes him let out pathetic little sounds of horror :((
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back in york taking like a thousand pictures of myself the minute the fog lifts and the sun comes out ❤️
December 29, 2024 at 11:16 AM
back in york taking like a thousand pictures of myself the minute the fog lifts and the sun comes out ❤️
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Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures! These sewing #needles were made from animal bones some 15,000 years ago. Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start. Form follows function! 🧵1/2
🏺 #archaeology
🏺 #archaeology
December 18, 2024 at 11:28 AM
Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures! These sewing #needles were made from animal bones some 15,000 years ago. Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start. Form follows function! 🧵1/2
🏺 #archaeology
🏺 #archaeology
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Nosferatu isn't out until January 1 in the UK, so please no spoilers for a remake of a movie that came out in 1922 that I have seen, based on a book that came out in 1897 that I have read. thanks
December 25, 2024 at 10:47 AM
Nosferatu isn't out until January 1 in the UK, so please no spoilers for a remake of a movie that came out in 1922 that I have seen, based on a book that came out in 1897 that I have read. thanks
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My interest in vampires is obvious enough that my dad gave me these 😍 can't wait to watch and rewatch nosferatu and read about it (and then tell all my friends and family fun facts they will not care about) <33
December 25, 2024 at 1:53 PM
My interest in vampires is obvious enough that my dad gave me these 😍 can't wait to watch and rewatch nosferatu and read about it (and then tell all my friends and family fun facts they will not care about) <33