Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

C.W. Reeve

@cwreeve.bsky.social

2K followers 1.7K following 910 posts

Author of weird tales & folk horror, co-host of #WyrdWednesday. Killing me won't bring back your apples (He/Him) 👻 cwreeve.com

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

C.W. Reeve @cwreeve.bsky.social · Oct 31

"Do you come here often?"

My short story 'Nico, in Velvet' appears in this month's issue of Mobius Blvd Magazine. It's an update on a classic urban legend, so if you think that sounds like your bag you can pick up a copy here - www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...

#horror #horrorwriter #shortstory

A tall glass filled with a clear liquid sits on a wooden bar top.

1 17 54

Reposted by C.W. Reeve

Signe Maene @signemaene.com · 15h

1/3 According to a Flemish folktale, bokkenrijders or buckriders, who were said to be thieves, ghosts, or sometimes even witches, and rode through the sky on the backs of goats in Flanders and the Netherlands, had stolen the Queen's laundry.

#WyrdWednesday

Art from Affiche: "De Bokkenrijder of het skelet." Opdrachtgever: Het Hollandsch Tooneel. Shows a buckrider riding through the sky. Castle in the far distance. Clouds.

1 11 33

C.W. Reeve @cwreeve.bsky.social · 17h

Ooh, I've not heard of this. It looks interesting!

Reposted by C.W. Reeve

C.W. Reeve @cwreeve.bsky.social · 21h

Orpheus, entering the underworld in order to bring Eurydice back to the world of the living.

#WyrdWednesday

🎨 - 'Orpheus Enters the Gate to Hades' by Taylor Miles Lockett

A figure in a white toga passes through a dark, autumnal scene, possibly a graveyard, and heads for a large doorway set in stone.

1 10 32

C.W. Reeve @cwreeve.bsky.social · 18h

Drop something SKELETAL

An image of a skeletal horse and human side by side. The horse is rearing up while the human reaches for its mane.

1 7

Reposted by C.W. Reeve

Wyrd Wednesday @wyrdwednesday.bsky.social · 19h

Bluesky seems to be having some issues with showing us posts for #WyrdWednesday this week. Must be gremlins in the machine!

Rest assured, we will find them! And when we do, we will repost them, by Jove!

a man in a star trek uniform is laying on a bed with his head on a pillow

ALT: a man in a star trek uniform is laying on a bed with his head on a pillow

media.tenor.com

1 10

Reposted by C.W. Reeve

The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 20h

In 'Stories Of Other Worlds' by George Griffith (Pearson's Magazine Jan-June 1900), the Earl of Redgrave takes his new bride Lilla on an inaugural flight round the solar system in his gyroscopic spaceship. On the Moon they find the remnants of an ancient civilization.
#WyrdWednesday #scifi #sci-fi

A man and a woman in outfits like those of deep sea divers examine ape-like skeletons at the foot of a pyramid.

1 7 30

C.W. Reeve @cwreeve.bsky.social · 21h

Orpheus, entering the underworld in order to bring Eurydice back to the world of the living.

#WyrdWednesday

🎨 - 'Orpheus Enters the Gate to Hades' by Taylor Miles Lockett

1 10 32

Reposted by C.W. Reeve

nicola @gleanniucha.bsky.social · 1d

Please, if good television matters to you, repost or repackage this video until everyone you follow has seen it

#televisionmatters

4 76 110

Reposted by C.W. Reeve

The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 22h

Adventurers descend where no-one has descended before, into 'The Maracot Deep', where they encounter monstrous crustaceans, bizarre fish and millions of plastic microbeads (alright, I made that bit up). From the serialisation in The Strand, 1927, of Arthur Conan Doyle's novel.
#WyrdWednesday

A monster lobster attacks a diving bell while a weird-looking fish swims away.

7 32

C.W. Reeve @cwreeve.bsky.social · 22h

Understood, thanks for the heads up.

Reposted by C.W. Reeve

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 23h

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 23h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

43 220 1K

Reposted by C.W. Reeve

The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 1d

A cave in a hill near Haselor was believed to contain an iron chest full of treasure secured by 3 locks and guarded by a cockerel. One intrepid treasure-seeker found his way to the chest only to be ripped apart by the guardian before he could open the 3rd lock.
#WyrdWednesday

Drawing in monochrome of a grumpy-looking cockerel

2 6 30

Reposted by C.W. Reeve

Era una noche oscura y tormentosa @manuelabennet.bsky.social · 23h

Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no man has gone before!

#WyrdWednesday

🚀 Captain James T. Kirk, Star Trek.
🖌️JJ Lendl.

1 4 13

Reposted by C.W. Reeve

Wyrd Wednesday @wyrdwednesday.bsky.social · 23h

Good morning, wyrdlings! Welcome to this week's #WyrdWednesday, with our theme:

'Perilous journeys, eerie expeditions, and voyages into the unknown!'

@cwreeve.bsky.social here. Come, take my hand, lets travel into the wyrd! 👻

a computer generated image of a glowing object in the dark

ALT: a computer generated image of a glowing object in the dark

media.tenor.com

3 8

Reposted by C.W. Reeve

C.W. Reeve @cwreeve.bsky.social · 2d

Describe your Bluesky account in a single image.

A simpsons still, showing Kirk Van Houten holding a destroyed copy of his demo cassette, featuring the vastly underrated banger 'Can I Borrow A Feeling'.

1 1 8

C.W. Reeve @cwreeve.bsky.social · 2d

If that's the worst thing you ever do, then we're cool 😊

C.W. Reeve @cwreeve.bsky.social · 2d

Describe your Bluesky account in a single image.

1 1 8

Reposted by C.W. Reeve

Wyrd Wednesday @wyrdwednesday.bsky.social · 2d

Wyrdlings!

This week we celebrate the official Vinlandic Leif Eriksson Day, so for this week's theme we hope you'll stock your supplies for:

'Perilous journeys, eerie expeditions, and voyages into the unknown!'

We sail over the edge of the horizon this coming #WyrdWednesday!

14 43

Reposted by C.W. Reeve

C.W. Reeve @cwreeve.bsky.social · 4d

#Caturday

🎨 by cellsdividing.com

(As an aside, if I ever start another band, I've always thought the name 'Feline Knife Fight' would be kinda cool. It is very unlikely I will form another band.)

A three-eyed ginger cat holds a knife in its mouth. A crescent moon waxes overhead.

1 9

Reposted by C.W. Reeve

Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 5d

I don’t know where this is from. I know that it’s a tile made with a medieval illustration. #Caturday

Medieval illustration of a cat king holding a sceptre and wearing a crown, with three other cats bowing before it on grassy landscape.

1 29 140

C.W. Reeve @cwreeve.bsky.social · 4d

That's genuinely terrifying.

Reposted by C.W. Reeve

XingWu🐉ChineseFolklore @xingwu.bsky.social · 4d

In Chinese #folklore, a cat or dog that enters your home uninvited and is kept, ushers in fortune. A fat cat? Even better.
The Yilin tells of Hu Hong, a famed diviner from Ningbo. When a wealthy family puzzled over their sudden luck, Hu Hong revealed the cause: “A cat came to you 1/2
#caturday

《異林》：寧波胡宏，精卜筮術。有一人家暴富，心疑之，宏為設卦曰：「家有狸奴走入室，筮其祥也。」曰：「然。」曰：「狸奴形必大，可稱之，得幾斤？」曰：「七斤許。」曰：「富及七載，狸奴當去。」及期，狸果去，家貧如初。

2 50 170

Reposted by C.W. Reeve

Bexhill Museum @bexhillmuseum.bsky.social · 4d

"Rough Sea, Bexhill-On-Sea.
Vieler, Photo, Bexhill."
#Bexhill #Sussex #Postcard c.1913. #Seaside #Weather #Wave #Storm #History #1910s

Black and white photograph as postcard. Wave breaking over a damaged sea wall, Bexhill-On-Sea, Sussex c.1913.

10 27

Reposted by C.W. Reeve

juux @juux.com · 5d

burn it all down
burn it to the ground

News website screenshot
[Photo: A woman is sitting in front of a fireplace. She is wearing a light brown dress and is smiling]

Taylor Humphrey says she has always been interested in baby names

Meet the woman who will name your baby — for $30,000
Taylor Humphrey, a San Francisco-based baby-name consultant, makes a living giving advice on the perfect monikers for the children of wealthy celebrity clients

37 28 160