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Rose Ruane

@regretteruane.bsky.social

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Artist, writer, sweetheart, battleaxe, she/her Novels This Is Yesterday & Birding with Corsair Books Rep: Becky Thomas at Lewinsohn Literary Chair of The Adamson Collection Trust: work created in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital during the C20th

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 16m

Oh this is marvellous. I can just see it - a Tales of the Unexpected shadow dancer undulating across the blinds, toe throaty strains of a trumpet.
That single strand of tinsel, fluttering beguilingly, beckoning into the darkness from the doorway, like a crimson nailed finger

Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 43m

But the glitz! The glitz!

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 2h

Sending you such love as you embark on this difficult task, cheering you on from here x

Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 2h

New bio, thank you Tripadvisor

Screenshot of a one star trip advisor review of an hotel which reads a potential death trap wrapped up in tired glitz

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 9h

Not at all, so excited for this and so pleased for you💖✨💕xxx

Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 9h

Congratulations! Ordering at once!!!

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 11h

Thanks so much for inviting me on. It’s always been a dream of mine!

Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 11h

Truly. Cannot say enough bad things about it, zero stars, do not recommend

Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 11h

A load of Tupperware avalanching out of a cupboard, then doing it again while I’m putting it back. That’s just attention seeking & spiteful even if you are an inanimate object

Perimenopause & every atom, ounce & iota of the uncomfortable, unpersoning, exhausting fuckery, misery & havoc it’s causing

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 12h

Yes! It’s absolutely extraordinary, so completely alive & in motion, madcap & screwball & witty & so singularly *hers*
Delights me as much now as it did decades ago

Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 13h

I love that that made you think of me

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 13h

Thank you so much!

Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 13h

All roads return to that right now babe💕

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 13h

Really has my old goth heart in its bony grasp!

Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 13h

I can’t wait to give these a look. You’ve done an immaculate job of hooking me on the idea - all the ingredients of something I’ll adore

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 13h

It’s a cut above the “how do you do fellow kids” stuff that The Young People usually get served, that’s for sure

Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 13h

They’re just so good, little bit dada, little bit pop, all creep and spook, divine

A book page with a collage of black and white painted bats surrounding a black and white photo of two smartly dressed white men, against a purple painted background

A book page with a collage of black and white painted witches with skulls for faces and a photo of a clown in harlequin costume, against a spattering purple painted background

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 13h

I’m sure I’ve seen it, but I’m going to seek it out now. It sounds right up my street & I wouldn’t be surprised if it turns out to be one of those things where one suddenly encounters the seismic strike of recognition - some sudden stir of the half-remembered & seen when small

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 14h

Every single one of the illustrations is a brilliant brooding exercise in evoking dread & doom.
I’d never seen his art before I picked up this book, but after an Earl E. Mayan internet odyssey I’m completely smitten

A collage painting with black and white cut out photos of human faces and a snarling Alsatian dog surrounding a white painted sheet ghost, all against a black and purple background made of paint drips suggesting a spooky wood, above which door shapes are scratched in black ink

A collage painting in which a phot of two white men, one standing wearing a cowboy hat and crumpled shirt and trousers, the other squatting wearing preppy clothes and a sailor hat, are surrounded by an ominous purple painted background, above them a black and white painted skull, to their left a black white and grey painted area which is fairly abstract but suggests tv static intermixed with shadowy branches

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 14h

No but I love everything about the idea of this - I am a total sucker for a haunted painting

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 14h

Literally your time to shine Rossybossybooingtons

Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 14h

They have but it’s well worth a second mention!

Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 14h

Lovely endpapers from The Twilight Zone, 13 New Stories from the Supernatural, Especially Written for Young People by Ron Serling, from 1963.
Unwieldy title, but each of the 13 stories begins with one of these extraordinary, atmospheric mixed media illustrations by Earl E. Mayan

Endpapers from a book The Twilight Zone 13 New Stories from the Supernatural Especially Written for Young People which has creepy monk-like hooded figures drawn in black and grey intermingled with purple skeletons against a grey and purple background and in the bottom left corner a black and white photo of an white man, probably in his 60s or 70s, balding with round spectacles which looks as if it has been torn from a photograph and stuck in

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 15h

It’s so fizzy& lively & delicious! Repeating myself, but they really always just seem like stills from an animation in the best way - as if they’ve been captured mid madcap caper and it’s so joyful.
I think much of the best illustration has that sense of being a single beat from a scene in motion

Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 15h

Totally valid!