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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 1h

Ultimately, magic is about relationships and these always involve an intimate context.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 2h

Thank you.

hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 2h

Trees shed in slow striptease. Hedges offer berry buffet. Shadows stretch towards the coming of cold of twilight. Even the quietest lanes parade their phantoms. This is autumn whispering its last summer memories. This is autumn edging towards the season of the dead. – #CLNolan

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 3h

The impulse is cave-old, the formulation into rituals which are translated into current practices often has a comparatively recent – if we can accept long-dead city states as comparatively recent - lineage. Intent is first fire, the clothing that intent wears less so.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 4h

This is the way of wonder!

hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 4h

Magic itself often dissolves common demarcations of time, but the praxis of accessing magic itself is rarely devoid of historicity. Yep, we are telling tomorrow with nephomancy, but the form of looking around corners with clouds is at least 2,000-year old.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 4h

Children map by wonders. They know each tree a Wood Sprite lives in, know every chimney that's home to a Soot Sprite. Field to forest, hight street to industrial estate, they hold an inner chart of strangeness. To remember those maps is to be re-enchanted. – Joanna Vickers, 1982 #VOH

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 7h

Magic always exists in a cultural context because believers in it are never free from their point in time and space. Yet the cultural context of magic also comes from distant places and periods. We embrace this paradox to explore practices that are simultaneously modern and cave-old. - Dr. M. Benn

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 7h

Study commodification has an awful lot to answer for.

hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 8h

Proper.

hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 19h

Goodnight from Eleanor Alloway, wondering how she has managed to lose four hours just by crossing Bickerley Common. Goodnight from Susie Pepperdine, dreams thumping to the heartbeat rhythm of the thing that dwells below Padwick Farm’s dew pond. Goodnight from Hookland.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 1d

The Hum summoned us to march the electric ley of the land. Transmission tower to transmission tower, it called us onwards. Each pylon a portal deeper into its mysteries. To follow The Hum was to be transformed by it. – Tattoo Labyrinth Dave #VOH #WrydWanderings

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 1d

Persactly so.

hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 1d

It isn’t as bad as the change to the 1960s version.

hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 1d

Touch. Don’t climb.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 1d

The Long Neolithic lives as a sense of wonder. It sits in distant fields and summons us to not only witness its stone persistence, but to engage with its slow release of mystery. Its power bends not only the landscape, but our sense of story. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 1d

Only bother with the James Whale version from 1932. The 1960s version features Dartmoor and bombs … sigh.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing is more haunted than the English seaside out of season and this is a glorious thing.

hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 1d

Are you going to watch The Old Dark House next?

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 1d

For those that like the seaside sinister with its haunted promenades, cursed piers and cadaver gulls, Brighthaven may be a worthy destination. - J.B. Priestley

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 1d

Goodnight Heather.

hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 1d

Goodnight Whatters. Rest well.

hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 1d

Once we were forced out it was demolished and a Halfords was built on the site. It cannot be a happy store.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 1d

And yes, I did used to squat in a cinema.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 1d

Goodnight. Rest well.