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Wyrd Britain @wyrdbritain.bsky.social · 2h

Today's Wyrd Britain birthday honours go out to artist, author, and occultist Ithell Colquhoun.
#ithellcolquhoun #stewartlee
wyrdbritain.blogspot.com/2025/10/stew...

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Bela Lugosi's Sad @thewillowtea.bsky.social · 1d

Revisiting this gloomy slab of dungeon doom today. Transmissions from the edges of existence, of fractured mirrors and decay and broken things.

hedgerows.bandcamp.com/album/isle-o...

#dungeondoom #gloomymusic #dungeonsynth

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Isle Of Grief And Suffering, by Hedgerows

4 track album

hedgerows.bandcamp.com

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Ziri, Doe Sorceress 🦌 @pretendeer.bsky.social · 1d

Rendered and uploaded the video today, see you all at the premiere

Ziri, Doe Sorceress 🦌 @pretendeer.bsky.social · 13d

It is finally happening! The first ever VIRTUAL DUNGEON CRAWL will premier in just a few weeks!

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Bela Lugosi's Sad @thewillowtea.bsky.social · 6d

not everyone lives their dreams. please report back.

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Bela Lugosi's Sad @thewillowtea.bsky.social · 6d

the dream

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Andrew B. 🇨🇦 @andrewdoppelganger.bsky.social · 7d

Way to go @mothership.bsky.social !!! Love to see this!

From the Mothership RPG discord

We will be rejecting 3PP license applications for creators who publish AI art or text in their modules.

If you proceed to do this and get away with it and later we find your work contains AI art or text you risk being banned from publishing for Mothership for life.

Do not use AI art.

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Bela Lugosi's Sad @thewillowtea.bsky.social · 7d

It's time for a rewatch

#childrenofthestones #britishtv #weirdwatching

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Crossroads: A US Folk Horror Zine @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · Aug 21

Call for Proposals!

"Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States" is a new zine exploring folk horror from an American perspective.

Read on for details about our first issue...

A yellow cross inside a circle against a black background. The letter C is in the upper left quadrant and the letter R is in the lower right

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Bela Lugosi's Sad @thewillowtea.bsky.social · 8d

so, it has come to this...

October.

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Bela Lugosi's Sad @thewillowtea.bsky.social · 8d

heckin yes, what lovely news 🥕

Bela Lugosi's Sad @thewillowtea.bsky.social · 12d

thebarrowfolk.bandcamp.com/album/songs-...

Three songs for the lonely tree I watched for two weeks in Zealand this summer.

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Bela Lugosi's Sad @thewillowtea.bsky.social · 16d

eastern quoll, please.

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 18d

LONELY WATER (1973): Legendary child-frightener, and one of the most influential and effective PIFs ever made. Donald Pleasence's voice helped lower the number of child deaths by drowning and opened the door to the scary, deadly PIFs of the 70s & 80s. A folk horror film condensed into 90 seconds.

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 19d

That last line is one of the absolute single scariest things to me and that it was said with such casual happiness is even more disturbing.

Not distressing.

Full tilt disturbing.

Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 20d

imagine relying on AI to write your bio and then having the nerve to say you're witty and full of personality

Anderson felt her bio was authentically her even if it was written by a chatbot. “My bio is 100 percent in alignment with my true personality,” she told me. “I don’t have a filter. I’m very witty. I’m full of personality.” Nor did she think using ChatGPT reflected the “bare minimum energy” she loathed. “It took me an hour and change to drill down my bio to be that good,” she explained. “I had to edit it, edit it, edit it down. I have to keep talking to it.” On the other hand, she admits that ChatGPT has sapped her motivation to write a first draft of anything herself, even though she minored in writing in college and described herself as a “wordsmith.” “I’m gonna be honest with you: Once you use ChatGPT, you don’t want to think for yourself anymore,” she said.

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nonclassical @nonclsscl.bsky.social · 26d

Celebrating the legacy of Daphne Oram, a pioneer in electronic music, with six innovative artists reimagining her work.

Experience 'Vari/ations – An Ode to Oram' at the Barbican on Dec 4 2025. A night of performances and sonic exploration. #DaphneOram #Barbican

www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

Vari/ations – An Ode to Oram | Barbican

A vibrant celebration of past, present and future in electronic music. Six of today’s most exciting sonic innovators offer a resonant testament to the radical imagination of Daphne Oram.

www.barbican.org.uk

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Bela Lugosi's Sad @thewillowtea.bsky.social · 24d

people in Tasmania often say that if they were ever to see a Thylacine, they wouldn't tell anyone. It's 89 years since the last confirmed sighting, but the sentiment is solid.

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Bela Lugosi's Sad @thewillowtea.bsky.social · 27d

mentally here

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tamquam @toutovlepo.bsky.social · 29d

Translating “Hwæt” as “okay so like..”

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Bela Lugosi's Sad @thewillowtea.bsky.social · 28d

I can't wait to be 49.

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · Sep 1

I'm sorry, but genetic engineering is getting out of hand.

Abercrombie and Fitch bag with ripped male torso and bottom half of face. A cat in the bag gives top half of face.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · Aug 30

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Bela Lugosi's Sad @thewillowtea.bsky.social · Aug 28

As someone whose music felt very awkward under the broader dungeon synth banner, I appreciate artists forging a different, more nuanced path.

daily.bandcamp.com/lists/fantas...

tldr; listen to Fogweaver and Flickers From The Fen. Fantasy synth is a light against the gloom.

#fantasysynth

Exploring the Mystical Realms of Fantasy Synth

Brighter and more emotional than its cousin dungeon synth, this is music for epic quests.

daily.bandcamp.com

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Vandus @vandus-ds.bsky.social · Aug 27

Just a reminder to any aspiring artists out there. Art has little no barrier to entry, even in the digital realm

Gimp is a free photoshop alternative

Blender is a free Maya alt

Davinci Resolve - free* video editing

Inkscape - free vector art

Krita - free drawing/painting and 2d animation

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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · Jul 29

britain used to be a proper country (would air hallucinatory queer antifascist folk horror on the BBC at primetime)

Cover art for Penda's Fen, directed by Alan Clarke, written by David Rudkin

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Bela Lugosi's Sad @thewillowtea.bsky.social · Aug 4

I'm going to be a lot more scarce on social media in the coming weeks. a lot of heavy stuff is happening in the offline world and I need to focus my energy there.

I'm sorry if you're waiting on me for something, I promise to get back to you as soon as I can. it's not you, it's me.

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