Mina Stillwater
@minastillwater.bsky.social
Author, Artist, Musician. Avid researcher of the strange & unusual & otherwise hidden; ever-evolving; human engaged in being.
#FedUpWithShutdown
I’d like to know what the families of the Senators are eating for breakfast this morning❗️
I’d like to know what the families of the Senators are eating for breakfast this morning❗️
November 6, 2025 at 1:12 PM
#FedUpWithShutdown
I’d like to know what the families of the Senators are eating for breakfast this morning❗️
I’d like to know what the families of the Senators are eating for breakfast this morning❗️
#MythologyMonday
#BookChatWeekly
“I'll make me a sound & an apparatus & they'll call it a Fog Horn & whoever hears it will know the sadness of eternity & the briefness of life."
The Fog Horn blew.
THE FOG HORN by Ray Bradbury
🖼️From 1953 movie based on “The Fog Horn”
#BookChatWeekly
“I'll make me a sound & an apparatus & they'll call it a Fog Horn & whoever hears it will know the sadness of eternity & the briefness of life."
The Fog Horn blew.
THE FOG HORN by Ray Bradbury
🖼️From 1953 movie based on “The Fog Horn”
November 3, 2025 at 12:38 PM
#MythologyMonday
#BookChatWeekly
“I'll make me a sound & an apparatus & they'll call it a Fog Horn & whoever hears it will know the sadness of eternity & the briefness of life."
The Fog Horn blew.
THE FOG HORN by Ray Bradbury
🖼️From 1953 movie based on “The Fog Horn”
#BookChatWeekly
“I'll make me a sound & an apparatus & they'll call it a Fog Horn & whoever hears it will know the sadness of eternity & the briefness of life."
The Fog Horn blew.
THE FOG HORN by Ray Bradbury
🖼️From 1953 movie based on “The Fog Horn”
October 31, 2025 at 12:01 PM
#MythologyMonday
#DavidBowie
David Bowie’s 6th album “Aladdin Sane” [1973] has a portrait on the cover of his face, painted w/a lightning bolt slashed down his forehead over to the r-side of his face, a persona he cultivated into an icon.
#DavidBowie
David Bowie’s 6th album “Aladdin Sane” [1973] has a portrait on the cover of his face, painted w/a lightning bolt slashed down his forehead over to the r-side of his face, a persona he cultivated into an icon.
October 27, 2025 at 11:47 AM
#MythologyMonday
#DavidBowie
David Bowie’s 6th album “Aladdin Sane” [1973] has a portrait on the cover of his face, painted w/a lightning bolt slashed down his forehead over to the r-side of his face, a persona he cultivated into an icon.
#DavidBowie
David Bowie’s 6th album “Aladdin Sane” [1973] has a portrait on the cover of his face, painted w/a lightning bolt slashed down his forehead over to the r-side of his face, a persona he cultivated into an icon.
October 27, 2025 at 11:46 AM
#BookWormSat
#31DaysofHorror
#31DaysofHaunting
#31DaysofHalloween
“Do devils love each other? Do they walk arm in arm in hell saying, “Ah, you are my friend, how I love you,” things like that to each other?...”
“The Vampire Lestat”(The Vampire Chronicles No.2)~ Anne Rice
#31DaysofHorror
#31DaysofHaunting
#31DaysofHalloween
“Do devils love each other? Do they walk arm in arm in hell saying, “Ah, you are my friend, how I love you,” things like that to each other?...”
“The Vampire Lestat”(The Vampire Chronicles No.2)~ Anne Rice
October 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
#BookWormSat
#31DaysofHorror
#31DaysofHaunting
#31DaysofHalloween
“Do devils love each other? Do they walk arm in arm in hell saying, “Ah, you are my friend, how I love you,” things like that to each other?...”
“The Vampire Lestat”(The Vampire Chronicles No.2)~ Anne Rice
#31DaysofHorror
#31DaysofHaunting
#31DaysofHalloween
“Do devils love each other? Do they walk arm in arm in hell saying, “Ah, you are my friend, how I love you,” things like that to each other?...”
“The Vampire Lestat”(The Vampire Chronicles No.2)~ Anne Rice
#BookchatWeekly
#Caturday
In #StephenKing’s , “Doctor Sleep,” a hospice cat, Azrael (L) [aka Angel of Death], who lives in a nursing home & provides comfort to the dying patients, is based on real-life cat, Oscar (R) w/ a similar ability who once resided in a RI nursing home.
#Caturday
In #StephenKing’s , “Doctor Sleep,” a hospice cat, Azrael (L) [aka Angel of Death], who lives in a nursing home & provides comfort to the dying patients, is based on real-life cat, Oscar (R) w/ a similar ability who once resided in a RI nursing home.
October 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
#BookchatWeekly
#Caturday
In #StephenKing’s , “Doctor Sleep,” a hospice cat, Azrael (L) [aka Angel of Death], who lives in a nursing home & provides comfort to the dying patients, is based on real-life cat, Oscar (R) w/ a similar ability who once resided in a RI nursing home.
#Caturday
In #StephenKing’s , “Doctor Sleep,” a hospice cat, Azrael (L) [aka Angel of Death], who lives in a nursing home & provides comfort to the dying patients, is based on real-life cat, Oscar (R) w/ a similar ability who once resided in a RI nursing home.
October 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
#governmentshutdown2025
Why not put some funds from the $1m-a-plate dinner in the offering plate towards the U.S. citizens who rely on #SNAP to put food on their table? It’d go a long way towards establishing a nomination for theNobel Peace Prize in 2026 for humanitarian deeds
Why not put some funds from the $1m-a-plate dinner in the offering plate towards the U.S. citizens who rely on #SNAP to put food on their table? It’d go a long way towards establishing a nomination for theNobel Peace Prize in 2026 for humanitarian deeds
October 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
#governmentshutdown2025
Why not put some funds from the $1m-a-plate dinner in the offering plate towards the U.S. citizens who rely on #SNAP to put food on their table? It’d go a long way towards establishing a nomination for theNobel Peace Prize in 2026 for humanitarian deeds
Why not put some funds from the $1m-a-plate dinner in the offering plate towards the U.S. citizens who rely on #SNAP to put food on their table? It’d go a long way towards establishing a nomination for theNobel Peace Prize in 2026 for humanitarian deeds
#wyrdwednesday
Nina Dobrev, as vampire “Katherine Pierce,” attends a #masquerade ball [#TheVampireDiaries S2/E7] trying, once again, to impersonate “Elena Gilbert”, as she awaits the delivery of the moonstone from the Salvatore brothers, who plan to kill her.
Nina Dobrev, as vampire “Katherine Pierce,” attends a #masquerade ball [#TheVampireDiaries S2/E7] trying, once again, to impersonate “Elena Gilbert”, as she awaits the delivery of the moonstone from the Salvatore brothers, who plan to kill her.
October 22, 2025 at 11:48 AM
#wyrdwednesday
Nina Dobrev, as vampire “Katherine Pierce,” attends a #masquerade ball [#TheVampireDiaries S2/E7] trying, once again, to impersonate “Elena Gilbert”, as she awaits the delivery of the moonstone from the Salvatore brothers, who plan to kill her.
Nina Dobrev, as vampire “Katherine Pierce,” attends a #masquerade ball [#TheVampireDiaries S2/E7] trying, once again, to impersonate “Elena Gilbert”, as she awaits the delivery of the moonstone from the Salvatore brothers, who plan to kill her.
#FairyTaleTuesday
The featured film shots of Lake View Cemetery (Seattle, WA), the cemetery used in “The Crow” [1994] is also the place where actor Brandon Lee is now buried due to his untimely demise while filming the movie.
R.I.P. Brandon Lee 💔
The featured film shots of Lake View Cemetery (Seattle, WA), the cemetery used in “The Crow” [1994] is also the place where actor Brandon Lee is now buried due to his untimely demise while filming the movie.
R.I.P. Brandon Lee 💔
October 21, 2025 at 10:16 AM
#FairyTaleTuesday
The featured film shots of Lake View Cemetery (Seattle, WA), the cemetery used in “The Crow” [1994] is also the place where actor Brandon Lee is now buried due to his untimely demise while filming the movie.
R.I.P. Brandon Lee 💔
The featured film shots of Lake View Cemetery (Seattle, WA), the cemetery used in “The Crow” [1994] is also the place where actor Brandon Lee is now buried due to his untimely demise while filming the movie.
R.I.P. Brandon Lee 💔
#31DaysofHalloween
#31DaysOfHorror
#Caturday
Black cats make perfect witches’ familiars, perhaps stemming from Ancient Egypt when the black cat was seen as the protector of the home from evil spirits who would bring good luck to those who cared for them.
#31DaysOfHorror
#Caturday
Black cats make perfect witches’ familiars, perhaps stemming from Ancient Egypt when the black cat was seen as the protector of the home from evil spirits who would bring good luck to those who cared for them.
October 18, 2025 at 9:58 AM
#31DaysofHalloween
#31DaysOfHorror
#Caturday
Black cats make perfect witches’ familiars, perhaps stemming from Ancient Egypt when the black cat was seen as the protector of the home from evil spirits who would bring good luck to those who cared for them.
#31DaysOfHorror
#Caturday
Black cats make perfect witches’ familiars, perhaps stemming from Ancient Egypt when the black cat was seen as the protector of the home from evil spirits who would bring good luck to those who cared for them.
#31DaysOfHalloween
#31DaysofHorror
#Caturday
Human evil lurks & seeps down through the ages.
On 6/13/1233, Pope Gregory IX issued a ludicrous but official document “Vox in Rama.” In it “black cats were declared an incarnation of Satan.”
#31DaysofHorror
#Caturday
Human evil lurks & seeps down through the ages.
On 6/13/1233, Pope Gregory IX issued a ludicrous but official document “Vox in Rama.” In it “black cats were declared an incarnation of Satan.”
October 18, 2025 at 9:57 AM
#31DaysOfHalloween
#31DaysofHorror
#Caturday
Human evil lurks & seeps down through the ages.
On 6/13/1233, Pope Gregory IX issued a ludicrous but official document “Vox in Rama.” In it “black cats were declared an incarnation of Satan.”
#31DaysofHorror
#Caturday
Human evil lurks & seeps down through the ages.
On 6/13/1233, Pope Gregory IX issued a ludicrous but official document “Vox in Rama.” In it “black cats were declared an incarnation of Satan.”
#31DaysofHalloween
#31DaysofHorror
#Caturday
“The Black Cat” [1934 film loosely based on the classic by Edgar Allan Poe], about a Satan-worshipping architect who holds a newlywed couple captive, popularized psychological horror by using a continuous 🎶musical score emphasizing eerie sounds.
#31DaysofHorror
#Caturday
“The Black Cat” [1934 film loosely based on the classic by Edgar Allan Poe], about a Satan-worshipping architect who holds a newlywed couple captive, popularized psychological horror by using a continuous 🎶musical score emphasizing eerie sounds.
October 18, 2025 at 9:55 AM
#31DaysofHalloween
#31DaysofHorror
#Caturday
“The Black Cat” [1934 film loosely based on the classic by Edgar Allan Poe], about a Satan-worshipping architect who holds a newlywed couple captive, popularized psychological horror by using a continuous 🎶musical score emphasizing eerie sounds.
#31DaysofHorror
#Caturday
“The Black Cat” [1934 film loosely based on the classic by Edgar Allan Poe], about a Satan-worshipping architect who holds a newlywed couple captive, popularized psychological horror by using a continuous 🎶musical score emphasizing eerie sounds.
#31DaysofHorror
#31DaysofHalloween
Mama Cecile & Papa Justify are hoodoo practitioners in the film “The Skeleton Key.”
Violet Devereaux:
“All that circle there protects is you…from leaving… We've been waiting for you, Caroline. Waiting for you to believe. It doesn't work if you don't believe.”
#31DaysofHalloween
Mama Cecile & Papa Justify are hoodoo practitioners in the film “The Skeleton Key.”
Violet Devereaux:
“All that circle there protects is you…from leaving… We've been waiting for you, Caroline. Waiting for you to believe. It doesn't work if you don't believe.”
October 18, 2025 at 1:25 AM
#31DaysofHorror
#31DaysofHalloween
Mama Cecile & Papa Justify are hoodoo practitioners in the film “The Skeleton Key.”
Violet Devereaux:
“All that circle there protects is you…from leaving… We've been waiting for you, Caroline. Waiting for you to believe. It doesn't work if you don't believe.”
#31DaysofHalloween
Mama Cecile & Papa Justify are hoodoo practitioners in the film “The Skeleton Key.”
Violet Devereaux:
“All that circle there protects is you…from leaving… We've been waiting for you, Caroline. Waiting for you to believe. It doesn't work if you don't believe.”
#31DaysOfHorror
#31DaysOfHalloween
“The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her.”
#31DaysOfHalloween
“The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her.”
October 18, 2025 at 1:21 AM
#31DaysOfHorror
#31DaysOfHalloween
“The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her.”
#31DaysOfHalloween
“The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her.”
#31DaysOfHorror
#31DaysOfHalloween
The Church of the Dead are no longer worried about how long the sermons are, nor whether they are late for Sunday dinner. They only await the passing of time that never arrives.
✍️MStillwater
🖼️ “Church's Inhabitants” by Dieter Jäschke
#31DaysOfHalloween
The Church of the Dead are no longer worried about how long the sermons are, nor whether they are late for Sunday dinner. They only await the passing of time that never arrives.
✍️MStillwater
🖼️ “Church's Inhabitants” by Dieter Jäschke
October 18, 2025 at 1:13 AM
#31DaysOfHorror
#31DaysOfHalloween
The Church of the Dead are no longer worried about how long the sermons are, nor whether they are late for Sunday dinner. They only await the passing of time that never arrives.
✍️MStillwater
🖼️ “Church's Inhabitants” by Dieter Jäschke
#31DaysOfHalloween
The Church of the Dead are no longer worried about how long the sermons are, nor whether they are late for Sunday dinner. They only await the passing of time that never arrives.
✍️MStillwater
🖼️ “Church's Inhabitants” by Dieter Jäschke
#TFTEOTW
The shackles fell away. They weren’t real. I know that now. So, here I am - walking away from the lies towards the light that’s peaking around the corner. If you ever come lookin’ for me, that’s where I’ll be - in a place called Peace.
🖼️Peaceable Kingdom~Edward Hicks
The shackles fell away. They weren’t real. I know that now. So, here I am - walking away from the lies towards the light that’s peaking around the corner. If you ever come lookin’ for me, that’s where I’ll be - in a place called Peace.
🖼️Peaceable Kingdom~Edward Hicks
October 17, 2025 at 3:26 PM
#TFTEOTW
The shackles fell away. They weren’t real. I know that now. So, here I am - walking away from the lies towards the light that’s peaking around the corner. If you ever come lookin’ for me, that’s where I’ll be - in a place called Peace.
🖼️Peaceable Kingdom~Edward Hicks
The shackles fell away. They weren’t real. I know that now. So, here I am - walking away from the lies towards the light that’s peaking around the corner. If you ever come lookin’ for me, that’s where I’ll be - in a place called Peace.
🖼️Peaceable Kingdom~Edward Hicks
#31DaysofHaunting
#31DaysofHalloween
The “Grim Reaper” as Death coming to reap one’s soul upon passing surfaced circa 19th C. Though the robed skeleton holding a scythe isn’t the only death escort. There are many kinds of psychopomps (e.g. spirits, angels, deities, demons or even birds & animals).
#31DaysofHalloween
The “Grim Reaper” as Death coming to reap one’s soul upon passing surfaced circa 19th C. Though the robed skeleton holding a scythe isn’t the only death escort. There are many kinds of psychopomps (e.g. spirits, angels, deities, demons or even birds & animals).
October 17, 2025 at 11:47 AM
#31DaysofHaunting
#31DaysofHalloween
The “Grim Reaper” as Death coming to reap one’s soul upon passing surfaced circa 19th C. Though the robed skeleton holding a scythe isn’t the only death escort. There are many kinds of psychopomps (e.g. spirits, angels, deities, demons or even birds & animals).
#31DaysofHalloween
The “Grim Reaper” as Death coming to reap one’s soul upon passing surfaced circa 19th C. Though the robed skeleton holding a scythe isn’t the only death escort. There are many kinds of psychopomps (e.g. spirits, angels, deities, demons or even birds & animals).
#31DaysofHaunting
#31DaysofHalloween
A Wraith is a type of undead creature w/a history of sorcery or black magic during its lifetime & are the result of something that went wrong during spell-casting. At times responsible for omens of death or for draining one’s life force.
🖼️James Churchill
#31DaysofHalloween
A Wraith is a type of undead creature w/a history of sorcery or black magic during its lifetime & are the result of something that went wrong during spell-casting. At times responsible for omens of death or for draining one’s life force.
🖼️James Churchill
October 17, 2025 at 11:43 AM
#31DaysofHaunting
#31DaysofHalloween
A Wraith is a type of undead creature w/a history of sorcery or black magic during its lifetime & are the result of something that went wrong during spell-casting. At times responsible for omens of death or for draining one’s life force.
🖼️James Churchill
#31DaysofHalloween
A Wraith is a type of undead creature w/a history of sorcery or black magic during its lifetime & are the result of something that went wrong during spell-casting. At times responsible for omens of death or for draining one’s life force.
🖼️James Churchill
#31DaysofHorror
#31DaysOfHalloween
I waited at the altar
& still I stand & wait
As my gown’s train endlessly drifts
Tripping my callous lover w/each departing step he takes
Bruising his lying bended knee
As my eternally jilted heart breaks.
Poetry✍️MStillwater
🖼️”I Waited” Kim Myatt
#31DaysOfHalloween
I waited at the altar
& still I stand & wait
As my gown’s train endlessly drifts
Tripping my callous lover w/each departing step he takes
Bruising his lying bended knee
As my eternally jilted heart breaks.
Poetry✍️MStillwater
🖼️”I Waited” Kim Myatt
October 17, 2025 at 11:38 AM
#31DaysofHorror
#31DaysOfHalloween
I waited at the altar
& still I stand & wait
As my gown’s train endlessly drifts
Tripping my callous lover w/each departing step he takes
Bruising his lying bended knee
As my eternally jilted heart breaks.
Poetry✍️MStillwater
🖼️”I Waited” Kim Myatt
#31DaysOfHalloween
I waited at the altar
& still I stand & wait
As my gown’s train endlessly drifts
Tripping my callous lover w/each departing step he takes
Bruising his lying bended knee
As my eternally jilted heart breaks.
Poetry✍️MStillwater
🖼️”I Waited” Kim Myatt
#wyrdwednesday
Claims of the use of black magic & pacts w/the devil have caused witch-hunts throughout history. From Circe & her poisoned wine to remedies for healing, the magic potions created in the cauldron have always been synonymous with the witch archetype. “Abracadabra”
Claims of the use of black magic & pacts w/the devil have caused witch-hunts throughout history. From Circe & her poisoned wine to remedies for healing, the magic potions created in the cauldron have always been synonymous with the witch archetype. “Abracadabra”
October 15, 2025 at 10:05 AM
#wyrdwednesday
Claims of the use of black magic & pacts w/the devil have caused witch-hunts throughout history. From Circe & her poisoned wine to remedies for healing, the magic potions created in the cauldron have always been synonymous with the witch archetype. “Abracadabra”
Claims of the use of black magic & pacts w/the devil have caused witch-hunts throughout history. From Circe & her poisoned wine to remedies for healing, the magic potions created in the cauldron have always been synonymous with the witch archetype. “Abracadabra”
#FairyTaleTuesday
Vampire Spike, one of the main characters in the series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, is both a villain & an anti-hero. Spike had a long-term intimate relationship with his maker, Drusilla, but eventually became a romantic interest of the highly conflicted Buffy.
Vampire Spike, one of the main characters in the series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, is both a villain & an anti-hero. Spike had a long-term intimate relationship with his maker, Drusilla, but eventually became a romantic interest of the highly conflicted Buffy.
October 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
#FairyTaleTuesday
Vampire Spike, one of the main characters in the series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, is both a villain & an anti-hero. Spike had a long-term intimate relationship with his maker, Drusilla, but eventually became a romantic interest of the highly conflicted Buffy.
Vampire Spike, one of the main characters in the series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, is both a villain & an anti-hero. Spike had a long-term intimate relationship with his maker, Drusilla, but eventually became a romantic interest of the highly conflicted Buffy.
#FairyTaleTuesday
In Sumerian lore, Lilitu” [aka Lilith] is a winged demon-goddess w/clawed feet as an owl; the first & most feared of vampires. Lilith first appeared in the Epic of Gilgamesh inhabiting the Huluppu tree.
In Sumerian lore, Lilitu” [aka Lilith] is a winged demon-goddess w/clawed feet as an owl; the first & most feared of vampires. Lilith first appeared in the Epic of Gilgamesh inhabiting the Huluppu tree.
October 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
#FairyTaleTuesday
In Sumerian lore, Lilitu” [aka Lilith] is a winged demon-goddess w/clawed feet as an owl; the first & most feared of vampires. Lilith first appeared in the Epic of Gilgamesh inhabiting the Huluppu tree.
In Sumerian lore, Lilitu” [aka Lilith] is a winged demon-goddess w/clawed feet as an owl; the first & most feared of vampires. Lilith first appeared in the Epic of Gilgamesh inhabiting the Huluppu tree.
