Madeleine D'Este
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Madeleine D'Este
@madeleinedeste.bsky.social
Writer. Reviewer. Podcaster.
Dark Mysteries are my thing.
Black Soil White Bread out on 10 June 2025.
Aurealis Award & Shadow Awards nom'd.
https://madeleinedeste.com/
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Happy book birthday to me!

Black Soil White Bread is available (here in Aust at least).
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Craving a slice of Melbourne-set folk-horror?
Dig in, friends.

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Hi, my friend, comedian and creator of this meme passed away. To honor her memory, if you ever share this goofy ass meme, please credit Tiana Miller, most people never did. Pour one out for a legendary shitposter, people 🌈
December 7, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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December 7, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Christmas has become the dominant festival in the Western cultural calendar, but echoes of the pre-Christian past can still be found across the continent. www.bbc.co.uk/travel/artic... #Folklore
Four of Europe's most fascinating pre-Christian winter festivals
Christmas has become the dominant festival in the Western cultural calendar, but echoes of the pre-Christian past can still be found across the continent.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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This was just too good not to migrate it from #lemmy
h/t: https://lemmy.today/u/[email protected]
December 7, 2025 at 12:46 AM
My reply when anyone asks 'what are you doing for Xmas?'

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December 7, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Nearly 80% of early films created at the beginning of the 20thc were made in colour and one of the first careers in film production for artistic women was hand painting in film-colouring workshops #WomensArt
December 6, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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I just can’t believe Doctor Who would do something like that.
December 4, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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December 5, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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December 4, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Public service announcement
December 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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December 4, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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The change is coming, Melbourne.

Geelong (red line) just dropped 13 degrees in 10 minutes.
December 4, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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📣 THIS WEEKEND! 📣 SYDNEY AUSTRALIA 📣

For any horror fans in Sydney, this weekend is the Oddities and Curiosities Expo. As usual, I will be there with the Slashic Horror Press titles! There are plenty of books, so why not come and have a look?
December 4, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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With alt text
December 4, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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And yet here I am, because it's less Orwellian than Meta 😜
December 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Someone will I’m sure.
December 4, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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December 4, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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For no particular reason I made a Phil Collins meme.

#meme #musicmeme
December 3, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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December 3, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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Tag yourself, I'm the dude thinking about dinosaurs
December 3, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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He's cinema's Morrissey.
Ironic really, that Tarantino keeps putting his foot in his mouth
December 3, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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We do. We do sometimes be like that. #authorsky
December 3, 2025 at 3:37 AM