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Love to read, cook & bake, film photography, the supernatural, and the macabre.

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Rachel @mango5.bsky.social · May 22

Reading low reviews of a book I loved and thought highly of

#booksky 💙📚

Photo of Doctor Evil from Austin Powers saying, "You just don't get it, do you? You don't."

Rachel @mango5.bsky.social · 20h

I’m so pleasantly surprised at how funny Faust by Goethe is. Mephistopheles is quite sassy.

#booksky #faust 📚💙 💙📚

MEPHISTOPHELES.
Don’t ask for the impossible! I need at least two weeks, and more, to ferret out an opportunity.
FAUST.
Had I but seven hours’ peace, I should not need the devil’s help to seduce that darling creature.
MEPHISTOPHELES.
You’re talking almost like a Frenchman now; there is no need to be discouraged. What good is easy consummation? The pleasure is not half so keen as when you first must clear your way through sundry growth and thickets. Mold your moppet, knead her into shape, as you have read in those Italian stories.

EVENING (He places the box in the wardrobe and clicks the lock shut.)
Away from here! Let’s hurry— so we may bend the sweet young thing to your wish and heart’s desire. You stand there with a sad expression like a student entering the lecture hall, as if before you in gray majesty stood Physics and Metaphysics in person! Away from here! (Exits.)

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Jon Bilous @jon.framer.art · 1d

Nathan's Famous, Coney Island

Prints: https://jon.framer.art/s/image/70372?source=bluesky

Nathan's Famous neon signs at night in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York

Rachel @mango5.bsky.social · 1d

Really enjoying Faust by Goethe!!

#booksky #books 💙📚
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Photo of a Bantam Classics edition of Faust: First Part by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Rachel @mango5.bsky.social · 1d

Recent film shots! I used a Franka Solida I with Lomo 200 film pushed a stop 🍁

#believeinfilm #autumn #photography

Photo of an old mausoleum in a cemetery against a blue sky. The trees have autumn colored leaves, and the moon is still visible in the sky

Rachel @mango5.bsky.social · 2d

Hahaha thanks. I have had cases where I almost gave up on books several times only to absolutely love them in the end!!! Not the case here. I really gave it the old college try 😂 I think my threshold for gnarly stuff in books is high now as well because I felt nothing reading this… 😗

Rachel @mango5.bsky.social · 2d

I most certainly have! It’s pretty incredible to be so moved by a piece of writing

Rachel @mango5.bsky.social · 2d

Love that for you!!

Rachel @mango5.bsky.social · 2d

200 pages into The Troop by Nick Cutter and I’ve officially given up on it getting any good 😢 maybe if I was a teenage boy but alas, I must move on…

#booksky 💙📚 📚💙

Rachel @mango5.bsky.social · 2d

Recent film shots! I used a Franka Solida I with Lomo 200 film pushed a stop 🍁

#believeinfilm #autumn #photography

Rachel @mango5.bsky.social · 2d

Recent film shots! I used a Franka Solida I with Lomo 200 film pushed a stop 🍁

#believeinfilm #autumn #photography

120 color film photo of plant life in a cemetery

Rachel @mango5.bsky.social · 2d

Awesome. I really loved The Door by her

Rachel @mango5.bsky.social · 4d

What are you reading??

Rachel @mango5.bsky.social · 4d

The Troop by Nick Cutter!

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Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · 6d

My painting GREAT PLAINS STORM

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 5d

almost hidden in a discoloured, rolling, and oftentimes tumultuous and bursting sea

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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 6d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 5d

Frank Frazetta shirtless outside in an armchair, posing with his palette and the original art for the Fire & Ice poster. Behind him Eleanor Frazetta poses in a bikini on a Honda dirtbike.

Rachel @mango5.bsky.social · 5d

I love her work and how she promotes like a better relationship with death. I’m not quite there yet myself though haha I like to learn about it all

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scottsphoto.bsky.social @scottsphoto.bsky.social · 6d

Just scanned this one in. I don't think it needs a lot of work but wanted to share it. Thought it turned out pretty good.
Ektar 100 4x5, Intreid 4x5, Fujinon 150mm

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#BookSky moderator 💙📚 @booksky.club · Aug 26

new blog post on the #booksky blog! 📚💙

How To Get the Most Out of Your Time on BookSky ( with tips for readers and writers!) ⤵️

How to Get the Most out of Your Time on BookSky

The BlueSky thread I did about this a while back was quite popular, so I wanted to expand on it and update it with some new recommendations for you. 1) Be really, really generous with your hearts/rep...

Rachel @mango5.bsky.social · 6d

I finished reading The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells! Another book that left me feeling quite odd; conflicting feelings light and dark. Thoroughly enjoyed it! #booksky 💙📚 📚💙

“Martians discharging Heat-Rays in the Thames Valley” illustration by Henrique Alvim Corrêa

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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 7d

how to erase holodeck history

Rachel @mango5.bsky.social · 8d

I’ve read Carrie! I liked that one best so far, I think.

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 8d

Top Withens (1977), by Fay Godwin

Black and white photograph by Fay Godwin, looking up a slope to a ruined house on the Yorkshire moors, with two trees standing near it on the left, under a cloudy, dramatic sky.

Rachel @mango5.bsky.social · 8d

Just finished my second read by King. Poor doggy :(
This actually made me feel soooo icky and I mean that in a positive way. Also mad. Positively grimy!

#booksky 💙📚 📚💙 🩸📚

Cover of Cujo by Stephen King