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Emma Reid
@emusingemma.bsky.social
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An artist, illustrator, crafter (and now voice actor?!) who once met Johnny Ball while dressed as a giant caterpillar. Neurodivergent. She/her
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One of the few bits of my Higher English course I enjoyed, when studying this WH Auden poem led to closely examining Bruegel’s paintings including this one!
MUSÉE DES BEAUX ARTS About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters: how well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along; How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting For the miraculous birth, there always must be Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating On a pond at the edge of the wood: They never forgot That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse Scratches its innocent behind on a tree. In Brueghel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.
November 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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It had to be done..,
Man with fork holding up hand grumpily, followed by man with fork holding up a finger with a smile, à la drake meme
November 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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I drew my favourite book, Tam Lin by Pamela Dean, including elements of the story like yarrow and lavender plants, books flying out the window, the bust of Schiller, the tunnels, and the main character Janet.
Illustration of red brick building, with red haired girl wearing green, reading Tam Lin. Tunnels under the building read “abandon hope all ye who enter”. Books fly out the windows, including Liddell and Scott, and hovering in the sky are the bust of Schiller, bagpipes, and a metal bed frame with pink blanket.
November 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Saw this cross-stitched picture in a charity shop today @clonehenge.bsky.social
Cross stitch of Stonehenge. Golden yellow stones and a purple sky
November 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Reminded me of these lists I made of the place names here in Fife that amused me!
Ashes Coup-my-horn Badfish Cow's Hole Bads Cradle Rock Baldastard Craiglumphart Basket Rock Croftangry Baspard Hill Crumblie Hill Baw Hills Cuffabout Benthead Cult Bessie's Bogs Cumming Lands Binn Cunninghole Black Saline Daft Burn Bloodyfoot Devil's Burdens Boggy Plantation Dispute Bank Boghall Dodhead Bogie Downie Well Bogie Wood Drinkbetween Boglily Easter Cash Bogside Egypt Bogwells Fiddlers Hall Boreland Foodie Bottomcraig Foulbutts Boulder Foulhugger Bourtreebus Ghoul's Den Bowstard Loch Gladshole Breadless Gomorrah Plantation Briery Bush Green Scalp Browndod Haghazard Brownie's Chair Hairyholes Plantation Bungs of Cassingray Hoch-ma-toch Rocks Catlug Hog Layers Chatterstanes Hole Cleaver Hot Pot Coarse Hill Hunger Emout Cock-ma-lane Jock's Hole John Blyth's Belt Skelpie Law King of the Moors Skiddy Hill Kittlenaked Sodom Lickerstane Sprattyhall Liquorstane Stalker Hill Long Shank Stand Alane Macedonia Standing Head Maiden's Bed Stankhill Mars Rocks Sure as Death Bank Mounthoolie Swallow Craig Mourn House Thank Rock Mournipea The Clink Muckle Hill The Hard Muttonhole The Middens Nakedfield The Pile Nannie's Knowe The Pillow Nevethy-endereth The Trenches Pan's Goat The Wilderness Paradise Tongues of Clatto Peesweep Unthank Phantassie Villa Cospatrick Pillars of Hercules Violet Pleasants Washer Willy's Pluck the Crow Whirly Kips Plunkie's Farm Wind and Weather Poachers' Clump Poffle of Strathkinness Reckit Lady Bank Redslap Risky Burn Seaside Shambleton Hill Shankery Shirtbare
November 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Jack O’Neill from Stargate saying “we’ll… it’s because of… magnets”
November 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Honestly thought this was sanitary towels v period pants
Picture of a smooth white curved object on left, and undulating purple form on right. Below it says “style vs comfort” and below that the name of the video is “I built the world’s comfiest mouse”
November 9, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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This one certainly had eerie vibes!
Lundin Links Golf Course, with three tall standing stones, one almost human in form
November 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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And then I started doing my ironing and this top was the first thing I picked up!
Sleeve in stripes of burgundy, forest green, mustard, dusky pink, white, and pale blue
November 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Me, I’d go for something like a soft pink, mustard, and forest green!
Burgundy background with lines of hearts in pink, mustard, green
November 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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I feel my pulse quicken and my boobingtons do palpitate most mightily
November 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Well, #botober #botober2025 may be over, but my niece and nephews had me continuing the conceptual illustration theme with this pizza pumpkin!
Pumpkin with pepperoni eyes and a dripping cheese tongue (it’s not puke, honestly!)
November 1, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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31. Orenge gelatin hourse
I reckoned orenge was a yellowy orange, and a hourse was a house shaped like a horse! (And I dreamed about horse-drawn hearses last night - was that connected? 🤣)
#botober #botober2025
A wibbly wobbly orange horse shaped like a Dala horse, with highlights to show it’s made of shiny jelly. The space under its legs is filled with a red door, and in its body are two windows. The curtains in them have patterns based on the painted designs on Dala horses
October 31, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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30. Add blender. Shell

#botober #botober2025
A jug blender with a large spiral shell filling the jug, and some water to the halfway level. The markings on the control are I, II, and an image of a shell. The background is waves and splashes
October 30, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Had a very cool dream two nights ago
We were Blake's 7. Amanda was Jenna, Jill was Cally, I was just me, and there were Blake and Gan. Our ship was like serenity and I'd got it for us. It was massive inside though. Blake and Gan had got infected with something that caused a glowing reddish orb above the head which started the size of a marble and grew massive and weakened the person til they died. We were on a backwoods planet (equivalent to earth in the 90s). I realised a university attached to a museum would have the antidote. We looked up the phone book to see where it was. Luckily it had a 3D model map inside, but the layout was very confusing as Jenna and I walked through. We stole coats and hats from the cloakroom to disguise ourselves. Eventually we found the biological sciences section of the museum which adjoined the biology labs. We hid from scientists, stole the antidote, dumped the coats and hats, and strolled out the gates as the police drove in. We got back to the ship and administered the antidote to everyone (there was a whole classroom of children and their teacher too) Gan (who was also called Peter) didn't believe he was cured, as the glowing orbs didn't show up in mirrors and he didn't believe us. We left him to it, and returned to the main area of the ship, finding snacks along the way like chocolate brownies and tablet.
October 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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29. Small calling cheese

#botober #botober2025
A wedge of holey cheese standing in grass that’s as tall as it is, holding a yellow striped flag full of holes and a golden megaphone, and shouting “I don’t Brie-lieve it!”
October 29, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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28. 1 teaspoon flup

#botober #botober2025
A pink, gloopy, sparkly, shiny substance heaped up in and dripping from a silver teaspoon
October 28, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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27. 1 cup sliced dish

#botober #botober2025
A white mug with blur pattern at top and bottom, filled with sea pottery pieces, all of which are the edges of plates, which are also white with blue patterns
October 27, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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26. Pepper towels
A damp paper towel is the cure for just about any ailment in a Scottish school!
#botober #botober2025
A red pepper, in front of which is a pile of blue-green paper towels with a pepper texture on them
October 26, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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My bathroom makeover is making progress! Still need to remove lots of masking tape and add my shiny new toilet seat 😄
White tiled wall with very pale stripes along the edges of which is yellow masking tape. On the wall is a pink cabinet with gold mirror on top, a large art deco style mirror, and a dark brown stained shelf above the sink
October 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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25. 6 slices soup

#botober #botober2025
6 red and white soup cans a la Andy Warhol. Each is sliced in half diagonally
October 25, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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24. Leanwhile
#botober #botober2025
A female cucumteragus leaning on a post with a clock on it
October 25, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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23. Rub the bog
I reused part of a previous year’s Botober drawing, Gleaming Toads!
#botober #botober2025

Drawings may grind to a halt for a bit as I’m in the middle of a DIY project!
A gleaming gold toilet being polished with a cloth by a giant hand
October 23, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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22. Spoonfur pie

#botober #botober2025
A scotch pie with a serrated spoon
October 22, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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21. Cucumteragus
He’s a strange cucumber guy!
#botober #botober2025
Illustration of a lumpy cucumber guy with ruddy cheeks, with his hands on his hips, wearing a jaunty green hat with a pink flower on. He’s leaning at an almost 45 degree angle. One of the lumps accidentally fell in a suggestive place between his legs and two others form his ears
October 21, 2025 at 12:46 PM