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Claribella @claribella.bsky.social · Nov 11

Meet Harry & Stan, feline goth brothers bravely seeing off the ginger cat from next door

Feline brothers Harry (all black) & Stan (tuxedo) heroically guarding the patio flowerpots

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Claribella @claribella.bsky.social · 4h

Sisters & Kylie

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Neneh Cherry & Ofra Haza

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Colchester Museums @colmuseums.bsky.social · 3d

This silk mourning dress, c.1876, was designed for the strict rituals of Victorian grief. Made of black silk, it has beaded cuffs, tassel trim, and a pleated skirt. Decoration was permitted, but only in black.

Front view of a black Victorian mourning dress with a high collar and long sleeves, fitted closely through the bodice and flaring into a floor-length skirt. The bodice fastens with a row of large, shiny black buttons and features a pointed waistline. Beaded embellishments adorn the sleeve cuffs and the hem of the bodice, from which hang black beaded tassels. The skirt is gathered and full, with a wide pleated section at the hem. Displayed on a mannequin against a grey gradient background, the dress appears to be made of a lustrous fabric, possibly silk or satin.

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Claribella @claribella.bsky.social · 3d

The Charlottes & Cud

Claribella @claribella.bsky.social · 5d

Sonic Youth only

Claribella @claribella.bsky.social · 6d

Stone Roses & Tracy Chapman

Claribella @claribella.bsky.social · 6d

As a treat to myself after a difficult week, I've been listening to the autobiography of the talented @kathyburke.bsky.social. Witty, perceptive, funny and honest. Love it ❤️

Listen to A Mind of My Own by Kathy Burke on Audible. www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0F449MVN...

A Mind of My Own

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. 'This is a book about being raised as a feral, motherless child; starting work at 17; immortalising several of this country’s most endearing catchphrases; t...

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Claribella @claribella.bsky.social · 6d

House of Love & 14 Iced Bears

Claribella @claribella.bsky.social · 8d

My flatmate in Croydon called them Cheese Eaters

Claribella @claribella.bsky.social · 8d

Morrissey & Bananarama

Claribella @claribella.bsky.social · 10d

The same thought has crossed my mind. Nursing elderly parents jointly with my brother: late 70s/early 80s. Dad has advanced Alzheimers, Mum is his prime carer. Old age can be heartbreaking 💔

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Claribella @claribella.bsky.social · 11d

Aztec Camera & Voice of the Beehive

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Chris Lovegrove 💙📚 @calmgrove.bsky.social · 11d

'Mrs Dalloway' by Virginia Woolf, reviewed for the #1925Club. #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-mrs

Fear no more: #1925Club

Virginia Woolf in 1927, aged 45. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf: The Definitive Edition, edited by G Patton Wright, introduction by Angelica Garnett. Vintage Books, 1992 (1925). Oh! thought Cl…

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Claribella @claribella.bsky.social · 11d

Untypical Girls

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 11d

'Before William Wordsworth’s imagination had wandered, lonely as a cloud, and before John Keats’s nib had quivered with notions about nightingales, a Black woman named Phillis Wheatley was circulating a treasury of nature-inspired verse in London.'

Phillis Wheatley, the first Black nature poet | The Observer

Enslaved as a child, the 18th-century writer became the first published Black woman – and a pioneer of nature poetry whose legacy still inspires

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Claribella @claribella.bsky.social · 12d

Tracy Chapman & Jane Wiedlin

Claribella @claribella.bsky.social · 14d

The Sugarcubes & Tanita Tikaram

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Cardiff Music History / Hanes Miwsig Caerdydd @cardiffmh.bsky.social · 14d

31 years ago today

Manic Street Preachers at Cardiff Astoria, 20th October 1994

Photos by Owen Davies

#manicstreetpreachers #astoria #caerdydd #cymru #cardiff #wales #cardiffmusichistory

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Victoria Haddock @vickyhaddock.bsky.social · 15d

English embroiderer and Pre-Raphaelite artist's model Jane Morris was born #OnThisDay in 1849. It is believed that the embroidery of intertwined floral sprays for this c. 1878 blue silk bag with a metal mount was designed and worked by Morris. V&A collection. #fashionhistory

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 15d

"[Kipling] told me that in his own part of Sussex he had noticed a sharp division between benevolent lands and tracts of the countryside which seemed maleficent. 'There is a wood, he told me, 'which is full of a sense of ferocity and evil, secretive and menacing.'"
- R T Hopkins
#Hookland #Kipling

Illustration by Mervyn Peake from an edition of the tales of the Brothers Grimm. It shows a child in a creepy, gnarly wood and she is looking back over her shoulder as if she has realised something is following her.

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Claribella @claribella.bsky.social · 17d

The Associates

Claribella @claribella.bsky.social · 17d

Soft Cell

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Paine Proffitt @paineproffitt.bsky.social · 20d

A few new gothic-y pieces for October 🖤🖤🖤

#mabsdrawlloweenclub2025 #beautifulbizarre

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Claribella @claribella.bsky.social · 19d

Yazoo

Claribella @claribella.bsky.social · 20d

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