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Countess Sappho
@countess-sappho.bsky.social
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Senka• History & Folklore• Writer, horror and dark romance• Diasporic Slav• Butch• Closed Triad🏳️‍🌈 she/her 30+

⭐No nazis in Valhalla⭐

(all art by my wife @blastedcat0w0.bsky.social )

https://senkaheksum.carrd.co/

https://senkaheksum.substack.com/
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Countess Sappho @countess-sappho.bsky.social · Nov 8
Introducing my my sapphic folk horror novella here: Draugr of the Danube! Set in the late Viking Age along the Danube River and in the Viking Rus

🪓Butch Viking MC
🩸Slavic Vampire
⚡️Mythology
🕯️Seidr
🥀Grief & Acceptance

Carmilla ★ Interview with the Vampire ★ The Northman
Photograph of statues in a cemetary, a woman lying with her eyes closed, head resting in another woman's lap. The sitting woman kisses the forehead of the one who is laying. Text in the foreground reads "There is a danger in empathising too much with a creature whose motives are beyond your comprehension"
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fnwave.bsky.social
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'The City of the Dead' (1960) B&W still of a man talking on a telephone Sam: Yes I am alone, except for the devils in my brain
December 13, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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oddoblivion.bsky.social
December 14, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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katyaandyourdad.bsky.social
My heart omg
December 14, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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gwenckatz.bsky.social
I drew this when I was dealing with insurance and turned it into a print for fun. Apparently other people feel the same way.

I only made like 10 so grab one if you want one.

www.etsy.com/listing/4421...
A wolf eating a bunch of dudes with the caption "Eat All Suits"
December 14, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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countess-sappho.bsky.social
Inordinately obsessed with Fyrkat Grave 4. What this article incorrectly labels "owl pellets" are actually manually rolled bits of bone, fat, ash. Whose bone and ash? I think about it every few days.

Also, she probably ATE them.
en.natmus.dk/historical-k...
A seeress from Fyrkat?
Woman's grave from Fyrkat. The woman was buried with unusual grave goods. A wand, poisonous henbane and jewellery. Perhaps a seeress?
en.natmus.dk
December 13, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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aowna.bsky.social
|| #VGenComm Fullbody #12 ||

For @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social ! 💙

|| #art #commission #digitalart ||
Fullbody painting of a woman. She's white, with short brown hair, grey eyes, and dressed in modern clothes (jeans, boots, black tshirt, and brown leather jacket). She's holding an expandable security baton in one hand and wiping blood from her lips with the other.
December 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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sorenhaxan.bsky.social
the only pill at the gas station that actually works
a mock up of packaging for the beast blood pellet from bloodborne done as one of those sketchy gas station pills
December 13, 2025 at 9:27 PM
countess-sappho.bsky.social
I love having a captive audience (both my partners have been subjected to unsolicited Behind the Scenes of The Northman info dumps while trapped in the car with me)
December 14, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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sarakas.bsky.social
The Constant Lady, is that you? @caitlinstarling.com #TheStarvingSaints
July 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
countess-sappho.bsky.social
Inordinately obsessed with Fyrkat Grave 4. What this article incorrectly labels "owl pellets" are actually manually rolled bits of bone, fat, ash. Whose bone and ash? I think about it every few days.

Also, she probably ATE them.
en.natmus.dk/historical-k...
A seeress from Fyrkat?
Woman's grave from Fyrkat. The woman was buried with unusual grave goods. A wand, poisonous henbane and jewellery. Perhaps a seeress?
en.natmus.dk
December 13, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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anninosart.bsky.social
🩸🦇
November 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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madeleinefjall.bsky.social
✨🕯️ Here in our dark house, walking with lit candles in her hair, comes Santa Lucia 🕯️✨
image of Lucia with candles in her hair, holding another candle between her hands. Her eyes are glowing. She's wearing a lucia gown inspired by photos from late 1800s
December 13, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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mimimaruuu.bsky.social
🐝
December 13, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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nataliedecorsair.bsky.social
It's Mari Lwyd season
Mari Lwyd is asking "you want sum rhyme?", referring to a meme
December 11, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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clericofthevoid.bsky.social
Guess the tarot card ✨
Partially colored sketch of Kye, cropped to just show her head and shoulders. She is upside down, glaring, her dark brown short hair floating around her. She has pale eyes and tan skin with light scars up her neck and chin.
December 12, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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megglesart.bsky.social
♡
December 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
countess-sappho.bsky.social
My mother in law brought makeup for my daughter and, long story short, you still have to take me seriously even if I have glitter on my face
December 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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yoshiyoshitani.bsky.social
Becoming A Monster
Part 2 of 3
#art

Join my patreon to get this set and see how it's made
▶️ www.patreon.com/c/yoshiyoshi...
Becoming a Monster part 2
December 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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blastedcat0w0.bsky.social
2023 -> 2025

#WerewolfWednesday #werewolf
December 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
countess-sappho.bsky.social
AI is never going to replicate the things I write because I hyper fixate on the weirdest, most niche historical details. It's like a treasure hunt through my bibliography.
December 10, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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riengray.bsky.social
I do this intentionally with the Out of True books (including pulling words from English that haven't been used regularly for a few hundred years) because I think it makes them more immersive as fantasy stories.
jpbrammer.bsky.social JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 7d
I think it would be fun if writers who love language started intentionally writing more strangely as AI flattens written "content" into a mono-voice. it would cool I think if writers responded by focusing their individual efforts on cultivating a really unique voice that's hard to copy
December 9, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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sarah-clowder.bsky.social
*clangs pans* Free preview on my shop! Try out this f/f/nb today! Or share it with someone who may be interested!
sarah-clowder.bsky.social Sarah Clowder (she/they) @sarah-clowder.bsky.social · Nov 12
Fools Rush In is available on my shop!

💖 Bisexual lead
🎉 Polyamory end game
🔮 Cool sword
♥️ Processing trauma
🪆 Found family
🎭 Enemies to lovers

A free preview (70+ pages) is also available.

📚 sarahclowder.com
🏷 payhip.com/SillyGooseInk
A marketing graphic with a soft pink background and faded foliage. The main text reads: You have called us and we wish to respond, but you are tainted. We can give you what you desire. Do you accept? Followed by a broken heart gem. The bottom text reads: Available in paperback and ebook. Free preview available at sarahclowder.com The cover, at the center and to the left, is for Fools Rush In by Sarah Clowder (art by Amanda Robin @robinade ). It features an older elf woman sitting slouched in a red chair with a ruby necklace. In one hand, a goblet of wine is spilling into a grinning puddle, the other holds a sword with the same broken hearted gem as the graphic.
December 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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sleepyrogue.bsky.social
anti ai, pro hag
Text reads: USE AI? No thanks. I'd rather get my misinformation from the local swamp hag.
December 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
countess-sappho.bsky.social
Listening to this cover and thinking about the time Carmen convinced someone to pose as her boyfriend to see if it would dissuade Ksenia (it did not). Poor fuck had no idea what he was signing up for. youtu.be/iqDatCPC438?...
December 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
countess-sappho.bsky.social
Recently acquired a bag of military patches, mostly WWII. There's some wild stuff in there! My favorite is this one, for the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF). Based in London, they oversaw the planning for Normandy.

Rainbow, flaming sword, anti-fascist. What's not to love?
Color photograph of a patch on a black wood table. The patch is shaped like a shield with a gray bar at the top, then bands of red, yellow, green, and blue. Below it is a long sword with red flames around it.
December 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM