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Have-a-go folklorist and writer. My new book Household Lore publishes in November! Pre-order your copy https://watkinspublishinglinks.com/householdlore and learn the secrets of your dark corners...

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🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank'nstein's Monster 🎃🕸️💀🦇 @lilithepunk.bsky.social · Jul 17

📣 Have just fondled my first copy of Household Lore & I'm totes emoshe (as the kids probably don't say any more). To get your mitts on my purple spredges pre-order here: watkinspublishinglinks.com/householdlore
#HouseholdLore #FolkloreThursday #Folklore #BookChatWeekly #Booksky #BookologyThursday 🪴🥔

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 3h

In 2021 Afghan women started an online campaign to protest the Taliban's female dress code by posting photos of what traditional Afghan clothes look like #AfghanWomen
#WomensArt

Photo of a small standing girl facing forwardsl in a purple dress with colourful embroidered details and an embroidered cap

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🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank'nstein's Monster 🎃🕸️💀🦇 @lilithepunk.bsky.social · 47m

John Actor is Monkfish...

Alex Maile @anoplogaster.bsky.social · 20h

Just a few more pieces left to glue — the monkfish is nearly complete!

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Liza Adamczewski aka the accidental ecologist @lizaadamczewski.bsky.social · 51m

9 years ago we started our little nature reserve.
Without any public funding I should add. This morning I have in ten minutes recorded all these birds on our land. I’m delighted that they have all found something to eat, somewhere to stay & somewhere to hang out for a bit on their travels

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 9h

"A collage full of nature 🌱🌷" from Gemma Matthews, contemporary embroidery artist who creates free hand pieces #WomensArt

Textile artworks show in a grid of sixteen squares all reflecting different embroidered garden flowers and plants

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 1d

Alert! Waterstones are offering 25% off preorders for How to Fake it in Society until midnight on Friday 17th!

Enter “OCTOBER25” at the checkout to redeem the offer. Exclusively available on the Waterstones website and the Waterstones app

How to Fake It in Society by KJ Charles | Waterstones

Buy How to Fake It in Society by KJ Charles from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

www.waterstones.com

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 6h

Maura Dooley visited Chris Wood's Grimm show at Scarborough Art Gallery for which I have written a series of Mortuary Rhymes, as opposed to nursery rhymes, in keeping with the Grimms' tone. She posted this catalogue last page, a suggestion why Yorkshire people are natural matches for such a project.

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 7h

A local north london charity called Akwaaba is raising money for a creative art space for refugees, unhoused ppl, and the wider community. Even small donations will make a big difference! www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding... #UKKidlit

Help raise £7000 to support a creative art space – JustGiving Crowdfunding

Iʼm raising money to support a creative art space . Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

www.justgiving.com

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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 6h

LAST CHANCE

Our How I Write series continues this Thursday with crime writer @vaseemkhanuk.bsky.social, in conversation with @radiomukhers.bsky.social.

They'll be delving into Vaseem's work and career, and offer a glimpse into his creative routine.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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Cynthia “Cina” Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 1d

Today, I'd like to say-

The Taino were the people of Borinquen. Borinquen was later renamed to Puerto Rico.

Some Taino words remain today.

Words like hurakán = hurricane, barbacoa = barbeque.

The Taino greeting is

Taino-ti

Which means - "I greet you with love because you are family."

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Kimika Hara, contemporary embroiderer from Japan #WomensArt

Pictorial embroidery of a stylised hedgehog fzcing left looking outwards with vivid green spikes, pink ears and yellow face

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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 1d

Seen on my walk today…Watkins books London, an occult bookshop since Victorian times, I’ve found some very rare treasures here.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank'nstein's Monster 🎃🕸️💀🦇 @lilithepunk.bsky.social · 2d

Excellent use of a visual there.

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🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank'nstein's Monster 🎃🕸️💀🦇 @lilithepunk.bsky.social · 2d

Oh come on! So close... #EverydayFolklore

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 2d

Over on Substack I wrote about Lithuania's literary tradition of magical realism: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Discovering the Lithuanian fantastic

Tracing a literary and artistic tradition

substack.com

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 2d

One of the things I love about London is how inconquerable it is. There's just too much of it to ever believe you'll discover it all. I first stumbled on this mosaic a few months ago, about a minute's walk from the flat I've lived in for 8 years.

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🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank'nstein's Monster 🎃🕸️💀🦇 @lilithepunk.bsky.social · 2d

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Sophie Anderson @sophieanderson.bsky.social · 2d

Sparkly paperbacks of #TheSnowGirl hit shelves soon & there is a pre-order gift of a gorgeous Melissa Castrillon print❄️ Simply send proof of purchase, from any retailer, to [email protected]🙏 Signed, dedicated copy available from @samreadbookseller.bsky.social & @bookendscarlisle.bsky.social💙

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Matthew Parkinson-Bennett @matthewpb.bsky.social · 2d

Returns from a chain bookshop have reduced our sales to a minus figure in the most important sales month of the year.

Please support independent bookshops this Christmas.

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🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank'nstein's Monster 🎃🕸️💀🦇 @lilithepunk.bsky.social · 2d

Tease.

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 2d

If you've prepared your patch properly, by now your pumpkins should be:
- humming slightly
- levitating a little
- visited nightly by dark fairies
- sinking their vines into other plants to drain them of energy
- murmering dark incantations to the elder gods

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 3d

Hello, people of North Wales!

I’m coming to Bangor on Friday to do a lovely event called Ask A Historian, where you can ask me anything about history — tickets still available. All part of Bangor’s 1500th anniversary!

And @katewilliamsme.bsky.social is there too

www.pontio.co.uk/en/events/g%...

Bangor History Festival - Pontio

https://www.pontio.co.uk/en/events/gŵyl-hanes-bangor

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 3d

Californian Morning' (mid 20thc) by US artist and printmaker Emmy Lou Packard (1914-1998) #WomensArt

Print featuring a line of different wild plants in silhouette with a singing blackbird perched in one and a dragonfly flying above, all in front of the ocean under an orange sun

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🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank'nstein's Monster 🎃🕸️💀🦇 @lilithepunk.bsky.social · 3d

The potato was rotten.

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 3d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 3d

"The chancellor approved it"