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Nimue Brown

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Books, Druidry, Music, Steampunk. One of Jessica Law's Outlaws. Also whimsy and weirdness. https://druidlife.wordpress.com/ and https://hopeless-maine.co.uk/

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Nimue Brown @nimueb.bsky.social · Jan 8

I don't automatically follow back, I think follow for follow back is a waste of everyone's time. If I think you're relevant to my interests, I'll follow back. I'm fussy because I want to read things that interest me and to engage with people I have things in common with.

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Nimue Brown @nimueb.bsky.social · 14h

What does it mean to communicate well? One for people on the bard path especially. druidlife.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c...

Communication as virtue

(Nimue) One of my recent audio books was about the history of Humanism. This raised the concept of good communication as a virtue, which struck me as being relevant for the bard path. The logic of …

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Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 15h

pagan mysticism, faith and quantum physics
You know, small subjects to start writing a book about...
#paganisum #mystisicm #pagansky #blog #blogsky
#amwriting #writer

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The Quantum Pagan an Introduction

Last week, because I don’t have enough to write, I started work on a project that has been kicking about for a few years. While it may never see the light of day, as it is in part a personal …

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Nimue Brown @nimueb.bsky.social · 3d

Druidy, blindness and standing stonrs druidlife.wordpress.com/2025/10/17/e...

Encountering standing stones

All standing stones seem to me to invite touch. The careful placing of hands on rock has always been part of how I respond to these ancient sites. Touching and tracing the contours with affection a…

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Nimue Brown @nimueb.bsky.social · 4d

thank you! I'm still brewing a lot of thoughts about folk horror and archaeology, so I'd love to be able to share that at some point.

Nimue Brown @nimueb.bsky.social · 4d

it was all very sudden and dramatic, I wes ill, went blind... there have been ops, I'm a bit better but pretty messed up, annoyingly.

Nimue Brown @nimueb.bsky.social · 4d

thank you. I can't figure out how to get the chat on here big enough that I can read it, unhelpfully!

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Nimue Brown @nimueb.bsky.social · 4d

Alongside this madcap project there are novels, poetry collections and Druidry books in my shop , all with pagan and animist elements. ko-fi.com/O4O3AI4T/shop

Visit Nimue Brown's Shop!

I've opened a shop. Come take a look!

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Nimue Brown @nimueb.bsky.social · 4d

I have realised that as a person who can barely see I'm going to have a harder time of it making my stuff accessible for other people with different issues - as reading for a talk is now nigh on impossible, producing a text script for one is a bit more awkward for example. I shall learn.

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 5d

If anyone wonders whether people care about at accessibility at conferences, I'll point out that my post on accessibility at the conference immediately has more responses than conference post itself.

Make your stance loud and clear.

Also... actually make your conference accessible.

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Nimue Brown @nimueb.bsky.social · 4d

I am going to happen to you :-)

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Nimue Brown @nimueb.bsky.social · 5d

If you've followed me and I know you but I've not followed you back, please wave. I've been offline for months due to blindness (still can't see much) and I may have missed people. If I don't know you but you want to fix that then pleasealso wave.

Nimue Brown @nimueb.bsky.social · 5d

Druidry and blindness druidlife.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/c...

Connecting with the land

(Nimue) This is a recent photo of Keith and myself on Rodborough common – a hilltop near our home. It was the first time I’d tried walking up there since the vision loss. I can’t …

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Katherine Soutar @kateartist.bsky.social · 5d

#inktober day 14 'Trunk'

The memory of an Oak is written within
Unseen til death
Memories of
sunrise and sunset
hard winters
dark summers
gentle rain
plenty and drought
More changes than our memory ever holds
And now
We trace those years with our fingers, touching history we can only imagine

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Nimue Brown @nimueb.bsky.social · Jan 28

thank you. I am having a tough week, but also having that grief response of just wanting to hug the living close while I can.

Nimue Brown @nimueb.bsky.social · Jan 28

they always make me think of a much appreciated ancestor who had one in her garden.

Nimue Brown @nimueb.bsky.social · Jan 28

If you can support someone, or something in a small way, that's a good choice. Keeping people going and keeping good things happening makes a difference. druidlife.wordpress.com/2025/01/23/c...

Creativity – keeping it real

(Nimue) At the point where I started doing Patreon, I was in a rough place. I’d had some massive blows to my confidence as a creator. I was working a number of not very creative part time jobs, and…

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Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · Jan 28

This! And adding: Don’t forget about local action. It’s much easier to see the results of your work on a local/community scale vs. a national scale. Doesn’t mean national action isn’t important, but if you’re feeling dismayed because “nothing makes a difference,” that’s much less true locally.

Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · Jan 28

I'm just going to (re)post this whenever I need to remind myself. Maybe it'll help you too?

1. Focus on things in your control & take ONE action there.

2. Limit your inputs. You can't help if you're paralyzed.

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Nimue Brown @nimueb.bsky.social · Jan 28

I have started reading this - albeit slowly because my brain is still being a bit weird (in a specific eyesight way, the rest of it is normal weird.)

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Nimue Brown @nimueb.bsky.social · Jan 28

Times are hard, but care and friendship still make worlds of difference. Hugs to anyone who wants or needs them. I'm here for whatever I can usefully do. Let's keep weaving those threads of hope.

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C. M. Rosens @cmrosens.com · Jan 28

The Day We Ate Grandad: Spend time with a terrible pansexual disaster doing awful things while being judged by a mythological prophet

An otherworldly family drama with tentacles & cosmic horror for fans of MERLIN and THE CALL OF CTHULHU.

#HorrorBooks #BookSky 🌈📚😱🩸📚💙

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Three possible futures. Two versions of the apocalypse. One chance to save the world.

Content Notes A-Z: Addiction and sobriety (drugs, but also literal addiction to a romantic partner) ADHD symptoms that aren’t diagnosed or acknowledged, characters themselves are unaware they exhibit...

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Nimue Brown @nimueb.bsky.social · Jan 28

Back when I was doing this I'd already started feeling it wasn't worth the effort of engaging, and I think things have only got worse since then. I think Simon has to, but probably not anyone else.

Nimue Brown @nimueb.bsky.social · Jan 27

This is a difficult subject, and what looks credible on the surface does not always turn out to be true. druidlife.wordpress.com/2025/01/27/t...

The Credible Victims

(Nimue) While the idea that we should listen to victims is a good one, the odds are high that you won’t always be clear about who the real victim is. In situations of longstanding abuse – be that b…

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Nimue Brown @nimueb.bsky.social · Jan 27

probably would, yes!

Nimue Brown @nimueb.bsky.social · Jan 27

I've really enjoyed the ones I've read so far, he has a knack for capturing a setting in a few key details and an evil sense of humour that I deeply admire.

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Nimue Brown @nimueb.bsky.social · Jan 27

He's an excellent writer.

Steven Savile @stevensavile.bsky.social · Jan 27

A funeral with no body. A military operation that doesn't exist. And a truth worth killing for.

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#newbook #feedthestarvingauthor #booksky #writingcommunity #thrillers #ebook

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