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Dirt & Bone Witch. Feral. Woods. Ocean. Words. Books. The Weird. Poet. Teacher. Magpie at heart. Mother of Squirrels and Magpies. Odd, strange little thing. 🇳🇴 🐻❄️🐭 🐺 Mor til Ailo 🐺. ❤️ Kona til @hvittingen.bsky.social ♾️

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 14m

During a Mast Year for acorns, like this year, squirrels get lazy

A red squirrel with its arms raised above its head

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 20h

Squirrel of the Day for October 8, 2025 is a happy mama #sqrlpix

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 19h

Ed Simon explores Americanism in Edgar Allan Poe’s work (and the abject horrors of being buried alive).

To Haunt and Be Haunted: On the Exhumation of Edgar Allen Poe

Imagine that you’ve been buried alive. Don’t question the specifics, whether you’ve been kidnapped or unfortunate enough to fall victim to poorly trained pathologists and morticians, for either way…

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Beautiful Bizarre Magazine @beautifulbizarre.net · 18h

Don’t miss Fear to Tread, the spookiest and most beautiful exhibit on display right now through October 25th at Nanny Goat Gallery. There are over 50 new original paintings and sculptures celebrating the Halloween season!

nannygoatgallery.com/fear-to-tread/

Work shown by John Walker

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Tammy Komoff @tammykomoff.bsky.social · 18h

We almost lost the Middle-English Poem Beowulf to fire!

Buried in the private Cotton library, the only copy of Beowulf was never truly studied.

Then in 1731, a fire destroyed Ashburnham House & most of the library. In a desperate attempt to save the codex a heroic librarian flung the smoking ⬇️

A badly burned manuscript page of the poem Beowulf.

Ashburnham House, the building where the private Cotton Library was kept containing the only copy of Beowulf. It burned in 1731. Most of the books went up in flames, but a few were saved.

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Tammy Komoff @tammykomoff.bsky.social · 18h

manuscript out of a window.

While Beowulf was one of the lucky few to survive the fire, it still carries the scorch marks of that night.

It was another 55 years before a second copy of the poem was transcribed and we realized just how old and special it really is!

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Dr. Elle, Her Celestial Majesty ✨👑🌌 @abstractica.bsky.social · 1d

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Andromeda @ulveheksa.bsky.social · 23h

The tree of hearts. 🃏

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Tree with bright yellow/orange leaves against blue sky. In the tree there are large red hearts hanging. There is a white picket fence and a leaf-covered walkway. The wall along the walkway is black and has colorful images painted on it.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 1d

Honey, Harmony Holiday knows how to start a book review, listen: "James Baldwin fell in love too easily, & we are the victors feeding on the spoils of his dysfunctional longings as they mingle with his use of language in the service of divine justice."🔥🔥🔥(in the new issue of @bookforum.bsky.social)

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Daily Grail @dailygrail.com · 1d

The chemistry of witchcraft.

www.chemistryworld.com/features/fro...

From flying ointments to healing herbs: the forgotten chemistry behind historical witchcraft practices

The unusual concoctions of village witches have historically been dismissed as nonsense hocus pocus - but is this the whole story? Victoria Atkinson investigates the chemistry behind the myth and whet...

www.chemistryworld.com

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⚷ @birdheartedgirl.bsky.social · 29d

I will not adjust myself to the world.
I am adjusted to myself.

― Anaïs Nin

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 1d

An illustrated love letter to language, tucked into a delightful fable about the difficult question of how to be yourself www.themarginalian.org/2024/11/15/t...

The Dictionary Story: A Love Letter to Language Tucked Into a Delightful Fable about the Difficult Question of How to Be Yourself

“Words belong to each other,” Virginia Woolf rasped in the only surviving recording of her voice — a love letter to language as an instrument of thought and a medium of being. …

www.themarginalian.org

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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 12d

At night.

Edvard Munch; tr. Jennifer Lloyd

I lie at night and listen to my heart beating. I hear the blood roaring in my ears - it fills my head - it seethes under my skin and in the tips of my fingers and toes. My skin tingles.
How they buzz, those billions of worlds that stream along from the skin to the heart - rhythmically steered by the beating of the heart.
Billions of worlds push forward. They wish to find a path out of their confinement. Yet they have to return over and over again. It gushes in the canals of my ear - it vibrates in my limbs - those billions of worlds.
What is little - what is large - what is time?
One second between my heartbeats - and the worlds inside me have made their circumnavigation. The light from the furthest stars in the universe take billions of years to reach me.
In my cellular tissue the worlds are at work - and the inhabitants of those worlds - the starry stream in the cellular tissue - and its inhabitants - and its atoms. I shut my eyes in the darkness. It shines and sparkles inside me. The worlds give off their light - the atoms give off their light.

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Daniel Sturniolo @dansturn.bsky.social · 3d

Surround in words the howled wind
of the still to happen

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Daniel Sturniolo @dansturn.bsky.social · 11d

The past is gone and still going

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Jason Heeley @jaseheeley.bsky.social · 1d

Have you ever seen Serlng’s later series, “Night Gallery”? Each episode featured at least one wonderfully dark, strange or distressing painting. www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/ni...

'Night Gallery: The Art of Darkness' offers a private showing of Rod Serling's post-Twilight Zone series

Explore the original (and creepy) paintings commissioned for Rod Serling's follow-up to The Twilight Zone.

www.syfy.com

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 1d

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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Sean Reynard / Quentin Smirhes @seanreynard.bsky.social · 1d

This is superb too youtu.be/sxpVhp91rhQ?...

CURIOUS ALICE (1971): When Wonderland Became a PSA About Getting High!

YouTube video by Comet Cult Film Club

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Andromeda @ulveheksa.bsky.social · 1d

Your daily dose of wtf....

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Ande B @ande91.bsky.social · 1d

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 1d

Ann Radcliffe eating hard cheese right before bed to give herself nightmares, Stoker claiming Dracula was the result of a nightmare induced by a “too generous helping of dressed crab,” let’s go back to the golden age of eating incredibly rich food before bed to create horror literature

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Kettle Kittenstrudel @kittenstrudel.bsky.social · 9d

Colin See-Paynton, Tiding of Magpies, wood engraving, n.d.

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The sunny side of Franz Kafka @amschelkavka.bsky.social · Jul 16

2 slices of cake with milk.

Franz Kafka, 1916.

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The sunny side of Franz Kafka @amschelkavka.bsky.social · Aug 28

I'm going to sleep, I only want to greet you with a few strokes of the pen, my dearest, incomprehensibly beloved.

Franz Kafka, 1913.

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