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Thomas S Brown

@tomsbrown.bsky.social

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Illustrator, performer, walker of the hills at dusk, lunatic. I get paper dirty professionally. As it is said in Hookland, Re-enchantment is resistance. Pro EU, passionately anti fascist. https://thomassbrown.com/

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 18h

Hello, #Portfolioday! Illustrator in love with books here.
Soon to be illustrating the work of Lord Dunsany. I have the best publishers and authors, would love to work with you in 2026. thomassbrown.com

Cathedral in a Marsh at night. Fey creatures rise with marsh light over their heads.

Fey creature in a border of plants and flowers. Unseelie on the right side.

Autumn apricot orchard heavy with fruit. A path leads to a dark shed which emits strange green smoke.

Cover art for nira by Thomas sniegoski and Jeannine acheson. A female contemporary wizard looking figure in a vintage style pub, surrounded by entities with a fox raven hybrid on her shoulder.

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 6h

Goodnight to us all.

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

Goodnight from Trudy Blake, hearing the rumbling of spectral mammoths coming from the Once-Was-Ice of Blackford Down. Goodnight from Sophie Morley, puzzling the graffito: ‘THE FAERY TITHE IS DUE’ blossoming on the railway arches of Weychester. Goodnight from Hookland.

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 9h

This

Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 1d

Want a fast and easy way to make your Indigenous Peoples Day impactful for years to come?

I made this list of 100+ Indigenous Voices who post daily about our lives, our truths, and our fight. Easily auto-follow all 🪶

Come honor these beautiful Native voices!

Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 12h

I am going to have such a large whiskey when we pass the Tories! I'd better keep it handy at this rate!

CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 12h

110,000 🤩

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 13h

The Green surge is breaking limits! 😲

Together, we can make hope normal again! 💚

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 13h

Pleasure, and what a welcome message.

Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 13h

My Londoners?

hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 13h

Would Hooklanders in London exile like to hear me talk in an East End pub about the origins of the county and its folklore next year?

Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 13h

I would travel for that

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 15h

Woooo!!!!

Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 15h

....and going to a good home!

Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 16h

Words by @taliskimberley.bsky.social

TIN WHISTLE

And here is my dear pocketful of holes!
A journey-spell together we will find.
Let others follow, if they like the tune
This piper has left all the gates behind.

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 16h

Thread-
Tin Whistle
13th of the #Emberlings of Oct.
Originals £35 (plus post) each, in UK because people should be able to afford human art.
Message or reply to claim. First come, First served. She is A5. All will be collected in a book with words by @taliskimberley.bsky.social. #witchsky

Witch on a winding cliff path playing a whistle in the moonlight. Behind her, acorn headed creatures dance.

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 17h

That should be nearly enough!
If you are at all like me, it will mostly be the three days before.

Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 18h

Oh! Wish I could!! Have a brilliant time!

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 1d

You... Ate it ?

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 1d

Goodnight to us all.

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

Goodnight from the production line at the W&W Biscuit factory at Hook, where all the gossip is about Elsie Bow being outed as a witch in the News of the World. Goodnight from Ged Walms. nursing a headful of terrors after walking through Mantel Woods. Goodnight from Hookland.

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 1d

At least ten phone numbers in the internal rolodex.

Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 1d

Mostly better now. Just slowed me down a bit.

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 1d

Green Grandmother of Hookland for you today. New witch tomorrow as I was ill and underslept. This means that you will get two witches on Samhain, though!

Cowled elderly figure in the brambles, brambles emerge from their robe and mouth.

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 1d

Eek!

Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 1d

Love this!

Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 1d

Bloody.... YES!!!!!!

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

A new week - and a new huge milestone!

@greenparty.org.uk now have 100,000 members!!!

We are absolutely on track to next overtake the Tories - let's make hope normal again!

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 2d

Goodnight.

hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 2d

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.

Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 2d

And she has found a good home.

Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 2d

This is the stuff that gives us meaning so, it's a good sort of relationship.

Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 2d

Pleasure!!