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Phoenix Guide to Strange England: #Hookland. Run by David Southwell #Hauntology Re-wilding #Folklore #FolkHorror #Psychogeography #LandscapePunk Re-enchantment Is Resistance

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 1m

Study commodification has an awful lot to answer for.

hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 7m

Proper.

hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 11h

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 · 16h

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 · 17h

Persactly so.

hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 17h

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

hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 20h

Touch. Don’t climb.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 21h

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 · 22h

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 · 23h

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

hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 23h

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.

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

Goodnight Moley.

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

Goodnight. May your sleep be a balm.

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

Goodnight. Rest well.

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

Goodnight Caroline. May sleep be a friend to you tonight.

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

Goodnight. Rest well.

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

As a tenet of the Black Fathom Faith, it is always more than one. Goodnight Samantha. Rest well.

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

The washing away of sins by those of the Black Fathom Faith always seems to encourage monstrous behaviours. Goodnight Mando.

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

There is a huge intersection between British people who want to go back to Imperial and British people who are terrible towards immigrants. British people who actively like metric are broadly pro-European and not rascist shithouses.