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🎃🦇👻April👻 🦇🎃 @squooshiebunny.bsky.social · 14h

I simply ADORE her! 😍🥰

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WOLFSKULLJACK @wolfskulljack.bsky.social · 14h

We call this stance ‘polite hamster hands’.
Also my hamster is called Tanuki Racocoonie and everything she does is amazing

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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 1d

A literary Iguanodon at the Earth Sciences Library. Do any other libraries have dinosaurs or other antediluvian creatures carved into the furniture?

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Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 21h

We love our shape-shifting, color-changing squid wizards in Coral City 🧙‍♂️🦑🔮🦑🧙 #reefsquid #caribbeanreefsquid #squid #cephalopodsofcoralcity #cephalopod #chromatophores #colorchange #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

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🎃 blayne 🎃 @ewhag.com · 21h

will never understand the need to blow leaves off the grass. like peeling the cheese off a pizza. buddy, you're missing the point.

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 23h

fiction is a safe space to think of unsafe things

if you feel it's messing you up, step away. don't assume it's messing everyone up and you need to eradicate it because you caught a case of the feel-bads from something. go sit with that and think about why instead of pissing in everyone else's cheerios.

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Kimberly Parsons @kimberlyparsonsart.bsky.social · 1d

Take note: this is a very reckless way to hang decorations 🍂

Reckless for #inktober
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Thing on thing for #dailycreating
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Leaf for #peachtober

#artyear #artsky #ink #kidlitart #illo #art #illustration #drawing #artist #creepycute #halloween #blacklineart #cat #mouse #bird #jackolantern #witch #bat

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Paul Lê @paulle.bsky.social · 1d

I still have this page bookmarked.

The headline reads "How to swaddle a baby bat like a burrito" and the photo shows three bats swaddled. One is sucking on a pacifier.

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🎃🦇👻April👻 🦇🎃 @squooshiebunny.bsky.social · 1d

Never know when this might come in handy 🤷‍♀️

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Arizona Bat Rescue 🦇 @azbatrescue.bsky.social · 1d

Nearly all grown up! Hard to believe those little naked chicken nuggets are almost adults! 🦇

#bats #arizona #wildanimals #cuteanimals #wildlife #babybats #babyanimals

2 photos. Top photo shows 3 furless, tiny bat pups in a hand with a blue glove on. Bottom photo shows 3 furred and larger pups in a hand with a blue glove on.

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Emory @emory-f8.bsky.social · 1d

Additional Facts:

Here's one of the souling songs they sang.

Would you like seeing costumed children singing this song in front of your house or would it creep you out?

#Victorian #Halloween #folklore #spooky #souling #history

youtu.be/VY6LYfc5bZ4?...

Souling Song - English Folk Song

YouTube video by Patriotic Archive

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Emory @emory-f8.bsky.social · 1d

Also:

Here's an image of the souling cake.

Would you like one? 😋

#Victorian #food #Halloween #Samhain #folklore #spooky #history

It shows a photograph of soul cake. It's thick, covered in sugar, and bearing a cross.

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Emory @emory-f8.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know?

In the Victorian era, people still practiced the old custom of souling on All Hallows’ Eve.

Poor children went door to door at night, singing haunting “souling” songs in exchange for soul cakes.

Each cake was said to help release a soul from Purgatory.

#Victorian #history

It shows a photograph of children dressed in Halloween costumes.

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🎃🦇👻April👻 🦇🎃 @squooshiebunny.bsky.social · 1d

Kinda don't blame you 😁

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🎃🦇👻April👻 🦇🎃 @squooshiebunny.bsky.social · 1d

"I'm not answering my phone right now. I'll call you back if it seems appropriate."

Wonder if I could get away with this message on my work phone...

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🎃🦇👻April👻 🦇🎃 @squooshiebunny.bsky.social · 1d

Day 8: Don't Answer the Phone

Mr. Harrigan's Phone (2022)

#31DayHorrorChallenge
#NOFSPodcast.com/Halloween

Prompt list for 31 Day Horror Challenge.

Movie poster for the film Mr. Harrigan's Phone. A boy has his ear to the ground in front of a headstone. The tagline says "some connections never die".

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🎃🦇👻April👻 🦇🎃 @squooshiebunny.bsky.social · 1d

Ugggghhhhhhh...
Figures 🙄

The words FIRST TO DIE in white font on a black and red background.

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 2d

Richard Scarry: Fury Road

A Richard Scarry illustration of a skeleton-bone dragster being driven by a little mouse

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𝖙𝖔𝖔𝖙𝖍 🦷🌿 @toothandbranch.bsky.social · 5d

The first and last are still available!
The other two have found their place in the cosmos ♡💫

Four adoptables sharing the same base, each with a different design. All have antlers, tiger heads and bodies, blank glowing eyes, and snakes for tails.

The first, Lunar Body, has a coat that reflects the night sky; a deep indigo filled with stars. Wispy white stripes mark its back and thighs. Down the center of its face are large moon phase markings. The antlers have three tines each; a white mote hovers in one crown on either side. Its tail is a red cobra with the same blank white eyes as the tiger.

The second, titled Dark Star, has a light brown coat with dual coloured striping with a darker head and extremeties. A thin four-pointed star mark sits between its yellow eyes. Its antlers are hooked like talons, singed black with only the tip of each tine, of which there are ten, left raw. A prominant eye shaped mark spans the chimera's shoulder. Its tail is a striped snake based on a black headed python. Adopted.

The third, titled Eclipse, has a moss green coat with pale tan stripes and a reddish underbelly. Some of the marks seem to flow into one another. Down the center of its face is a marking in the shape of a barbed sword. Its pale antlers twist elaborately, coiling like snakes; they darken to black toward the roots and tips. A tiny eclipse has manifested where two tines meet, straight above its head. Its tail is a moss-and-tan-coloured snake with pale green eyes. Adopted.

The fourth, titled Dawnbreak, has a mottled coat that reflects the sky; toward the head and rear, the cloud-like patterns darken to a stormy shade of deep indigo, whereas toward the front legs, the colour warms to those of sunrise, becoming more saturated and bright. Thin, wispy white markings decorate the chimera's body. Its antlers bear a pearlescent sheen; they are a swooping shape with many points, meeting toward the back where between them hovers a mote of sunlight. This chimera's tail is a snake with a dark opalescence to its scales. Both heads have pale red eyes, faintly aglow.

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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 1d

"Vasilisa the Beautiful" is the Russian tale of a girl abused by her stepmother, her only friend being a magic doll from her late mother. The doll helps her complete chores and later aids her when she's sent on an errand to the home of the feared witch Baba Yaga. #LegendaryWednesday

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 1d

“There are just a lot of rumors flying around. But I figured if you heard it from me, you’d know that I was okay,” Dolly Parton said in a new two-minute video posted on Instagram. “I’m not ready to die yet. I don’t think God is through with me. And I ain’t done working.” https://to.pbs.org/4hc1DXB

'I'm not dying': Dolly Parton responds to concerns about her health

Late last month Parton postponed her first Las Vegas residency in 32 years, citing “health challenges.”

www.pbs.org

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 1d

Our release for @peculiarityshop.bsky.social was a wild success. Half the items were gone by day one. I still have three weeks to Halloween and spooky stuff I'd love to move.

20% off.

LGBTQIA+ staffed and owned!

www.peculiarityshop.com/halloween2025
www.peculiarityshop.com/nightborne

HALLOWEEN 2025 PECULIARITY SHOP

General Halloween goodness fromThe Peculiarity Shop.

www.peculiarityshop.com

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🎃🦇👻April👻 🦇🎃 @squooshiebunny.bsky.social · 1d

Ugggghhhh I'm so jealous!!!
It's pleasant today, but not for long.

Im So Jealous Jealous GIF

Alt: A pink Jello mold on a white plate has a frowny face. The caption says "I'm a little jelly".

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Marie/LittleBirdOfParadise @canarylittle.bsky.social · 1d

Three cuties now available on my website 🖤❤️🧡

They were a bit fiddly to make but they also are very cute, so well worth the few needles poking my fingers I guess 😅😄
littlebirdofparadise.bigcartel.com/product/hall...

#MHHSBD #bsnm #textileart #folkArt #WitchSky #outsiderart #art #handmade

A little witch textile doll in the foreground. She has a big smile and a pointy black hat.
In the background we see a tiny pumkin colour doll with a purple dress and a tiny vampire girl with a red cape.

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🎃🦇👻April👻 🦇🎃 @squooshiebunny.bsky.social · 1d

Dangit, Freida!! You had us all terrified 😅
That's ok.
Dolly deserves all the love and all her flowers anyway 💜🦋
Love and light to the Queen of Tennessee, always!

Action News 5 @actionnews5.com · 2d

‘I didn’t mean to scare anyone’: Dolly Parton’s sister clarifies her prayer request t.ly/rMjdV

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