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Whatters2

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I'm curious about a lot of things. Never enough books. Love b&w photography and art. Oh, and by the way, I have a thing for lighthouses. NO POLITICS 🚫

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Whatters2 @whatters2.bsky.social · Dec 1

This space is not for politics, so if that's what you post, please don't bother following me as I will block.

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The Hermit of Everything @hermiteveryday.bsky.social · 4h

He was once a jolly good fellow but not all of us said so. We knew he wandered at unearthly hours but we never judged, twitched curtains, gossiped. We all had our own ways but he was the only one carrying a box into the forest at midnight…

#vssdaily fellow
#vss365 unearthly

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

Some paths we walk alongside phantoms. Some paths we march with pylons. No lane is empty of companions. Each journey is spirited. We travel with ghosts – both those of place and the ones from our past that we always carry with us. – #DAKilroy

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Friends of Lister Lane Cemetery (KAVS) @listerlanecem.bsky.social · 2h

#31DaysOfGraves Day 16: Obelisk
Grave monument with obelisk at Lister Lane Cemetery. This marks the burial place of former tailor and draper Adam Lowe, who died in 1883, aged 87. Interred with both his wives, Bathsheba, who died in 1848, aged 54 and Mary, died in 1882 aged 69.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 5h

Folklore has it that any avatar of the Queen of Owls becomes her eyes. Every carved effigy, every tempera icon is part of intelligence. A thousand wooden spies whisper our secrets to her. – #CLNolan

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Whatters2 @whatters2.bsky.social · 3h

How are you today? 👋🪦

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Friends of Lister Lane Cemetery (KAVS) @listerlanecem.bsky.social · 3h

Good day all.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 7h

Morning.
🖼️ Edith Holden

Amid the leafless thorn the merry Wren, When icicles hang dripping from the rock,
A pes her perennial lay
Even when the flakes
Broad on her pinions fall,
She lightly fliee
Athwart the shower
and singe upon the wing."
James Graham •
172.
Wren
(Sylvia troglodytes) and
Hedge Sparrow (Accentor modulares)

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 7h

Rook, unknown artist.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 7h

Fox and Mallard, Bruno Liljefors, 1912.

Fox chasing mallard in field by water, painting.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 6h

Hello Thursday.
🖼️ Lily Seika Jones

Painting, titled Naiad, depicts a large frog with detailed, prominent eyes, partially submerged in a pond filled with lily pads and white water lilies.
Above the frog, several long, wooden or carved objects hang from a bare tree branch, suspended by twine. Some of these objects resemble seed pods, while others appear to be carved into shapes, including one that looks like a small face. The background shows a misty marsh with bare trees and tall grasses.

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Guillermo Esteves @allencompassingtrip.com · 18h

Red fox with a fresh kill, Grand Teton National Park. December, 2022.

📷 Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR
🎞 600 mm – 1/500″ – f/8 – ISO 4000
🏷️ #NationalParks #RedFoxes #Photography #Wildlife

A red fox staring towards the camera. In front of him, a dead mouse it had just hunted and killed. It's standing between a snow bank and the side of a house during a snowstorm. Its left ear is partially torn.

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Dave Krantz @weskrantz.bsky.social · 17h

good morning

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 16h

Protect those tiny toe beans. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Black and white photo of a light skinned woman in a light colored dress and apron and hair bonnet, standing outside and cradling a tiny shorthaired tabby kitten to her chest.

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#Whistpr Daily Word @whistprword.bsky.social · 14h

A daily word prompt meant to inspire any type of creativity.

Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! Alt text on images appreciated.

Tag your post: #whistpr

Word for October 16, 2025: #GRID

#WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity

Digital painting of a hawkfish, a fish that is white with an orange grid-like pattern along its body and a long nose swimming in fanciful teal-colored water.

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Charlotte Strawbridge @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social · 9h

Fox could get a little overwhelmed with the things life threw at her. She was the first to admit she found it hard to keep it all in perspective.
She was learning to take time away from everything when she felt that way.
She wasn’t hiding.
When she was ready she’d reconnect.

https://www.charlottestrawbridge.co.uk/product-page/taking-time

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Hollow Crown Fans 🎃 @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social · 12h

This weekend's #ShakespeareSunday theme: HALLOWEEN! 🎃👻🦇

a pumpkin with a face carved into it is lit up

ALT: a pumpkin with a face carved into it is lit up

media.tenor.com

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vssdaily @vssdaily.bsky.social · 16h

The #vssdaily #prompt for 10/16/25 is #fellow

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 9h

And this morning the Shed is a back tattoo of a shed riding a motorcycle in flames…

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 20h

#31DaysOfHalloween #Gothtober

A vintage Halloween greeting card featuring a witch flying in a skeletal "aeroplane" that is being pulled by a large, grinning pumpkin. A black cat is sitting behind the witch in the plane. In the background, a crescent moon with a face is visible, and three owls are flying towards it.
The card has text that reads:
Top: "Hallowe'en Greeting"
Bottom: "'Tis Hallowe'en and I'm here again from the man in the Moon in an Aeroplane My charms are new and right up to date Go tell by the Cards your fortune and fate."

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Whatters2 @whatters2.bsky.social · 19h

Goodnight Hookland. Dream deep.

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

Goodnight from Warlewaste Hall, haunted by all the lives casually snuffed out to provide the taxidermy trophies hanging on its walls. Goodnight from Britannia Habard, sitting on the steps of her caravan and smoking an extra pipe for purposes of tephramancy. Goodnight from Hookland.

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

The witch knows water as spirit carrier, knows it as resonator between our bodies and enfolding otherworlds. Whether gifted as puddle in lane or hollow of felled tree, scrying mirrors are everywhere. Her fluid auguries suffer no drought. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

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Signe Maene @signemaene.com · 1d

According to a Flemish folktale, a man was walking his two dogs at night when all of a sudden he saw a cat. He threw a stick at the cat because he suspected the animal was a witch. Five minutes later, he found himself surrounded by hundreds of cats who threw mud at him.

🎨 Boris Groh
#WyrdWednesday

Artwork of six cats staring at something or someone in the night. There's a dog or wolf behind them with bared teeth. Black with yellow eyes. Night.

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Joe McCartney @mccartneyjoe.bsky.social · 1d

In 'Trick or Treat' (1952), Witch Hazel spies Donald tricking his nephews, so to even the odds she brews up a potion that has inanimate objects chasing after Donald, turning the tables for once on the dastardly duck.
#WyrdWednesday #WaltDisney

Three ghosts, a witch, and four ducks on this Disney poster.

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 1d

Deadwood is not dead

Mycena inclinata, the oak-stump bonnet cap

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