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Whatters2

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I'm curious about a lot of things. Never enough books. Love b&w photography and art. Oh, and by the way, I have a thing for lighthouses. NO POLITICS 🚫

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Whatters2 @whatters2.bsky.social · Dec 1

This space is not for politics, so if that's what you post, please don't bother following me as I will block.

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Guillermo Esteves @allencompassingtrip.com · 11h

Red fox with a fresh kill, Grand Teton National Park. December, 2022.

📷 Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR
🎞 600 mm – 1/500″ – f/8 – ISO 4000
🏷️ #NationalParks #RedFoxes #Photography #Wildlife

A red fox staring towards the camera. In front of him, a dead mouse it had just hunted and killed. It's standing between a snow bank and the side of a house during a snowstorm. Its left ear is partially torn.

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Dave Krantz @weskrantz.bsky.social · 10h

good morning

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 8h

Protect those tiny toe beans. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Black and white photo of a light skinned woman in a light colored dress and apron and hair bonnet, standing outside and cradling a tiny shorthaired tabby kitten to her chest.

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#Whistpr Daily Word @whistprword.bsky.social · 7h

A daily word prompt meant to inspire any type of creativity.

Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! Alt text on images appreciated.

Tag your post: #whistpr

Word for October 16, 2025: #GRID

#WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity

Digital painting of a hawkfish, a fish that is white with an orange grid-like pattern along its body and a long nose swimming in fanciful teal-colored water.

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Charlotte Strawbridge @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social · 2h

Fox could get a little overwhelmed with the things life threw at her. She was the first to admit she found it hard to keep it all in perspective.
She was learning to take time away from everything when she felt that way.
She wasn’t hiding.
When she was ready she’d reconnect.

https://www.charlottestrawbridge.co.uk/product-page/taking-time

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Hollow Crown Fans 🎃 @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social · 5h

This weekend's #ShakespeareSunday theme: HALLOWEEN! 🎃👻🦇

a pumpkin with a face carved into it is lit up

ALT: a pumpkin with a face carved into it is lit up

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vssdaily @vssdaily.bsky.social · 9h

The #vssdaily #prompt for 10/16/25 is #fellow

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 2h

And this morning the Shed is a back tattoo of a shed riding a motorcycle in flames…

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 13h

#31DaysOfHalloween #Gothtober

A vintage Halloween greeting card featuring a witch flying in a skeletal "aeroplane" that is being pulled by a large, grinning pumpkin. A black cat is sitting behind the witch in the plane. In the background, a crescent moon with a face is visible, and three owls are flying towards it.
The card has text that reads:
Top: "Hallowe'en Greeting"
Bottom: "'Tis Hallowe'en and I'm here again from the man in the Moon in an Aeroplane My charms are new and right up to date Go tell by the Cards your fortune and fate."

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Whatters2 @whatters2.bsky.social · 12h

Goodnight Hookland. Dream deep.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 12h

Goodnight from Warlewaste Hall, haunted by all the lives casually snuffed out to provide the taxidermy trophies hanging on its walls. Goodnight from Britannia Habard, sitting on the steps of her caravan and smoking an extra pipe for purposes of tephramancy. Goodnight from Hookland.

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

The witch knows water as spirit carrier, knows it as resonator between our bodies and enfolding otherworlds. Whether gifted as puddle in lane or hollow of felled tree, scrying mirrors are everywhere. Her fluid auguries suffer no drought. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

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Signe Maene @signemaene.com · 1d

According to a Flemish folktale, a man was walking his two dogs at night when all of a sudden he saw a cat. He threw a stick at the cat because he suspected the animal was a witch. Five minutes later, he found himself surrounded by hundreds of cats who threw mud at him.

🎨 Boris Groh
#WyrdWednesday

Artwork of six cats staring at something or someone in the night. There's a dog or wolf behind them with bared teeth. Black with yellow eyes. Night.

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Joe McCartney @mccartneyjoe.bsky.social · 1d

In 'Trick or Treat' (1952), Witch Hazel spies Donald tricking his nephews, so to even the odds she brews up a potion that has inanimate objects chasing after Donald, turning the tables for once on the dastardly duck.
#WyrdWednesday #WaltDisney

Three ghosts, a witch, and four ducks on this Disney poster.

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 1d

Deadwood is not dead

Mycena inclinata, the oak-stump bonnet cap

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 1d

This Blue Tit would like your attention, briefly.

📷 @aintright.bsky.social

A plump Blue Tit perched on a rough tree trunk, its feathers puffed up against the cold. The bird’s yellow chest looks bright and round, with a deep blue cap and white face framed by a bold black eye stripe. Its small, serious expression gives it the air of a tiny guardian of the woods. It looks as though it’s just confidently appeared in your feed.

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P J Richards @pj-richards.bsky.social · 23h

🤍🐇🤍A white or pale-coated Hare was believed to be a Witch's Familiar - or the shapeshifted Witch herself. "I shall go into a hare..." haunting words from a charm revealed by Isobel Gowdie in 1662.
#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #FolkloreThursday #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday

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Whatters2 @whatters2.bsky.social · 23h

Good morning 👋 🪦

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Friends of Lister Lane Cemetery (KAVS) @listerlanecem.bsky.social · 1d

Good day all.

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

The Fox Brides of Hookland folklore are more than a placing the witch as a transforming thing, as shapeshifting seductress. They are a powerful linking of her power to woods and wild places; they are a fear-telling of ferality, her place outside society’s rigid structures. – #EmilyCBanting #WitchSky

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Lesley Phillips @lesleyphillipsart.bsky.social · 23h

Caldey Island lighthouse

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Whatters2 @whatters2.bsky.social · 23h

#WyrdWednesday

Cat Familiar Spell

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#Whistpr Daily Word @whistprword.bsky.social · 1d

A daily word prompt meant to inspire any type of creativity.

Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! Alt text on images appreciated.

Tag your post: #whistpr

Word for October 15, 2025: #OYSTER

#WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity

Digital painting of a sea otter looking out at the viewer. It is holding an open oyster shell to reveal a pearl inside.

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Charlotte Strawbridge @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social · 1d

#WhenBeastsSpoke #Squirrel #LittleExplorer

Squirrel loved exploring and experiencing all the world had to offer.
He seemed like such a fearless little explorer, climbing higher and higher in his tree.
In fact, he was pretty scared most the time.
He just knew if you wanted the best views, you had to do the scary climbs.

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Three Ravens Podcast @threeravenspod.bsky.social · 1d

Today's #WyrdWednesday theme is Witches! 🖤

As regular listeners will know, we love a witch story, and have told loads of them.

But do you know the truth behind England's most famous witch, Mother Shipton?

If not, we have an episode all about her - and her story is pretty flippin' odd...

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