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Mad (ex) Scientist (Ph.D in Nanotech) IIT Bombay Camera and Beyond Perversely Subversive and Absurd I love Books, Bowie and the Beatles 📍Bombay 🇮🇳 Check my 📸 Feed https://ko-fi.com/lucidillusions | lucidillusions.darkroom.com | patreon.com/lucidillusions
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The Doctor of Spooktober Past @lucidillusions.in · 6d
📍 Pinned post for October, and a ℕ𝕖𝕨 𝔹𝕝𝕠𝕘 ℙ𝕠𝕤𝕥

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September has been somewhat cray cray, and you can read all about it on the Blog

And while at it, check out the quoted post for some way to support my work

#WritingCommunity #IAmWriting #Photography 📚💙 💕 💸
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Anuradha Sarup @anuradhasarup.bsky.social · 1h
It was a treat! To see the Great Bustard (Otis tarda)in Bratislava recently.

At first backlit and far away, the air haze was too high. Then one flew right towards us.

A lifer. My #977th #birds species as I work towards a 1000! Kid me is so excited! :D

Conservation status: Endangered
A Great Bustard flying in front of wind mills A Great Bustard flying on a blue sky. A Great Bustard flying on a blue sky. A Great Bustard flying on a blue sky.
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 1h
@dbcurren.bsky.social , @heathermoandco.bsky.social , @canadianerrant.bsky.social and I are starting up hostilities in the #WaroftheRoses again. Here were some really cute pink ones on Symington on Sunday.
A very tall, 8 foot rosebush with four pink blooms behind. It is a house with gray brick and a front porch with an easy chair. Detail of two of the pink rose blooms that are fading a bit, and have white with a gray wood slat balcony in the background
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The Doctor of Spooktober Past @lucidillusions.in · 3h
Something for #WhiskersWednesday

#Mammals #Photography #Wildlife #Nature #ClassicMono #SciArt #EastCoastKin
a black and white photograph of a tigress staring at the photographer. there is grass (dry) all around.
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M. Huw Evans @ilorien.bsky.social · 1d
Homeward Books’ Kickstarter for J.M. Sidorova’s The Witch of Prague is live!
Please come check it out, contribute if you’re so inspired, and spread the word.
Thank you!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hom...
Homeward Books: The home for books without a home
Splendor over mediocrity. Stories for the hot bath & the cold plunge. Defying the constraints of genre & delving deep into your heart.
www.kickstarter.com
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 3h
My friend @ilorien.bsky.social is helping start a new small press for singular fiction that defies the 'constraints of genre'--if that sounds interesting to you, and you have some time & money to spare, take a look and considering supporting them:
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M. Huw Evans @ilorien.bsky.social · 1d
Homeward Books’ Kickstarter for J.M. Sidorova’s The Witch of Prague is live!
Please come check it out, contribute if you’re so inspired, and spread the word.
Thank you!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hom...
Homeward Books: The home for books without a home
Splendor over mediocrity. Stories for the hot bath & the cold plunge. Defying the constraints of genre & delving deep into your heart.
www.kickstarter.com
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The Doctor of Spooktober Past @lucidillusions.in · 3h
Something for #WhiskersWednesday

#Mammals #Photography #Wildlife #Nature #ClassicMono #SciArt #EastCoastKin
a black and white photograph of a tigress staring at the photographer. there is grass (dry) all around.
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The Doctor of Spooktober Past @lucidillusions.in · 3h
bsky search is wobbling. thanks bsky.
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Kaushani Mufti @padfootblack25.bsky.social · 4h
Hey #DVArt !

I'm an Illustrator/Animator from Mumbai, India looking for Kidlit and Middle-grade iddle-grade work, especially a few covers.
#PB #MG #WFH #comms
#DVpit #DVPit
💌 - [email protected]

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The Doctor of Spooktober Past @lucidillusions.in · 3h
This is super cool.
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 6h
It’s kinda hilarious how even with unequal exchange with the global south the capitalists are just so greedy that it doesn’t work. Oh well. Anyway
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The Doctor of Spooktober Past @lucidillusions.in · 12h
Day 8 of #31DaysOfSpooktober

𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐚 𝐠𝐞𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐲, 𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞. 𝐇𝐞'𝐬 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐬.

(387 words, 2 min read)

#WritingCommunity #Horror #ReaderSky #FlashFiction #31DaysOfHalloween
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The Doctor of Spooktober Past @lucidillusions.in · 11h
A close up of Red-Wattled Lapwing for #ColorADay theme: #RedWed

#Nature #Wildlife #EastCoastKin #Birds 🪶 🌿🖌️ #PhotographersOfBluesky #Photography
Close up of a bird, with red beak, and a black tip. it has red color wattle, black cap and neck, white area behind the ear and also the chest. wing is mustard-ish in color. the bird has red eyes and black pupil
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The Doctor of Spooktober Past @lucidillusions.in · 4h
that's a pretty cool idea, and of course, you never know when you might need to kill your darlings.

*fingers crossed*
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The Doctor of Spooktober Past @lucidillusions.in · 10h
There she was, smiling, upside down.
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Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 20h
‘Six words or _fewer_.”
A meme. There’s a skull at the top, followed by the words ‘WRITE A HORROR STORY IN SIX WORDS OR LESS’
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The Doctor of Spooktober Past @lucidillusions.in · 5h
You could take some inspiration from the sperm whale and the bowl of petunia - but it sounds like a fun chapter in the making just because of the perspective.
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The Doctor of Spooktober Past @lucidillusions.in · 5h
Done with the cut, and shared it...

Now just looking through a story I wrote the first draft of last night, and I'm quite liking how it is going

I wanted to share one of my favourite parts for #WiPWednesday #WritingCommunity #IAmWriting

I should write- up a @patreon.com post discussing this story
The visible Me, would have stood by the coffee machine, trying to look busy but unimportant, waiting for a chance that would never come. But, invisible, I simply reached out. My fingers passed through the warm, humid space where the
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The Doctor of Spooktober Past @lucidillusions.in · 5h
Even I don't have a single short story where I used it, and I do like this word, I feel like I need to put it as a prompt for me to write a flash fiction involving dungeon.

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The Doctor of Spooktober Past @lucidillusions.in · 5h
Lots of prison and jail in the vibes department...
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The Doctor of Spooktober Past @lucidillusions.in · 5h
Going with the vibes (prison instead of dungeon), and sharing #WIPSnips of a short story I'm working on.

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
And the air, which he had thought to be cool and fresh, was a lie. The scent of damp earth was the smell of the damp, stony floor, and the metallic tang was not old blood, but fresh. He had escaped into a shared prison, a ghost among others, all of them trapped.
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The Doctor of Spooktober Past @lucidillusions.in · 5h
Going with the vibes (prison instead of dungeon), and sharing #WIPSnips of a short story I'm working on.

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
And the air, which he had thought to be cool and fresh, was a lie. The scent of damp earth was the smell of the damp, stony floor, and the metallic tang was not old blood, but fresh. He had escaped into a shared prison, a ghost among others, all of them trapped.
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The Doctor of Spooktober Past @lucidillusions.in · 6h
Lol. I remember staying up to watch it. 🥲
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 6h
This movie always reminds me of how, when I was in school, the Indian HBO channel showed ads for it with every beheading included, and then censored all the beheadings when they actually aired the movie.
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SLEEPY HOLLOW (1999, Tim Burton)
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SG @silverlightgal.bsky.social · 13h
Right now, it is said that Chota Matka is recuperating after injuries from a recent vicious fight. Fella is unstoppable, I guess.

If you're keen to learn more about him and the other beasts, head over here:

Bloodline of Tadoba Tigers: Episode 2

youtu.be/bIEfMbtoVQg?...

#wildlife #tigers #Tadoba
BLOODLINE OF TADOBA TIGERS | CHOTA MATKA | MAYA | WAGHDOH | MATKASUR | EP-2 | TADOBA TIGER RESERVE
YouTube video by Rohan Travel Stories
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The Doctor of Spooktober Past @lucidillusions.in · 6h
Boosting to #DesiWatch
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Patrick Monaghan @pkmonaghan.bsky.social · 11h
Guru Dutt’s Bombay Noir and Anguish Regarding the Emergent Urbanity

Column By:
Damayanti Ghosh, High on Films

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Guru Dutt's Bombay Noir and Anguish Regarding the Emergent Urbanity
Guru Dutt’s Bombay noir captures urban angst, lost dreams, and the pain of a city shaping lives in shadows and longing.
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 10h
Hello from Mumbai where Keir Starmer is meeting India’s prime minister Modi tomorrow with a huge business and culture delegation.

This is the road from the airport - imagine around 1000 of each of these signs along the entire motorway into town
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