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Laura Garrison
@pickleboots.bsky.social
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chaotic swamp goblin
Art https://www.lgarrison.com/
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Neat! I first encountered “Man-size in Marble” in this collection—it’s pretty solid, and of course the illustrations are a delight.
cover of Edward Gorey (edited & illustrated) collection of ghost stories, The Haunted Looking Glass
November 7, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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So excited for this one. 🐦‍⬛
Poster for Author Studies course with green-tinted photo of EAP in background with “enchanted garden enthusiast,” “mercurial languisher,” and “s-tier poet” in black bars across his face, with the letters spelling Edgar Allan Poe capitalized and the rest in lowercase.
October 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Found the perfect sticker for my new travel mug.
navy travel mug with body-horror jellyfish creature sticker on it
October 20, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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This set of lunch notes brought to you by Ed Emberly and my incredible wit.
five simple marker drawings of unicorns and unicorn-adjacent equine variants (moonicorn, spoonicorn, balloonicorn, cornicorn)
October 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Delighted with this order from @lydiajeanart.bsky.social—and the bonus Halloween postcard and vinyl stickers were a fun surprise!
colorful postcards, sticky notes, and stickers arranged with some books on a desktop; many feature creepy-cute stylized cryptids, including Mothman and Bigfoot
October 7, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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I just handed this assignment to twenty-two people. (At least this month has better weather than Smarch . . . )
Photo of a printed sentence study assignment with the improbable date of Octember 3, 2025 at the top.
October 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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A good morning:
photo of HOME TO STAY! THE COMPLETE RAY BRADBURY EC STORIES with color art of an astronaut and a woman and boy with a retro-futuristic cityscape in the background; also in frame are a candle, a bookmark, a notepad, and a pen
September 19, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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All evidence points to BUNNICULA . . .
A small, pale pumpkin with two neat holes in the flesh at an angle, as would be made by a vampiric rabbit.
September 15, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Inspired to make this after taking an infuriating survey about how I use genAI at work, WHICH I EXTREMELY DON’T.
cut-paper art: purple background, bright letters reading MAKE ART, NOT SLOP with the letters of “slop” floating in a puddle of orange barf spewed from a robot
September 10, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Love this idea! I love Michael Sowa and either horror or fabulism.
potatoes and other sentient vegetables on a cobblestone street with a two-story building on the corner pig jumping off a dock into a pond boy looking in mirror with duck on his head a couple in bed in the morning with a spider on the wall above them
August 29, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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New construction-paper bookmark design for my American Gothic course to accompany the hand-sewn syllabus, with nods to the novels from Shirley Jackson, @sgj.bsky.social, @silviamg.bsky.social, @stephenking.bsky.social, and Michael McDowell we will read for class.
colorful cut-paper art with amulet/cup of stars in the night sky; Hill House with a ghost, a spider, and bricks dissolving into dripping blood; Loteria cards (la sandia, la pera, la maceta); a planchette; the key to Room 217; a wasp; a vine snapping like a topiary lion’s tail; an elk antler; a ceiling fan; yellow and orange mushrooms and green moss booklet-style syllabus for American Gothic with a haunted forest cover and laminated bookmarks with colorful cut-paper design —some are fanned out to show different quotations on the flipside from Jackson’s HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE, Jones’ ONLY GOOD INDIANS, King’s SHINING, McDowell’s AMULET, and Moreno-Garcia’s MEXICAN GOTHIC
August 20, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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These look like a big piece of popcorn.
A cluster of three white mushrooms with crackly tan tops and a human hand for scale; the smallest is about the size of a teacup; the largest, a dessert plate. The hand is not severed; the picture is cropped above the wrist.
August 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Our neighbors hired this crew to clear the weeds out of their yard, and every kid on the block thinks this is the Best Day Ever.
A sweet goat with sort of a Black Phillip thing going on, facing the camera and eating grass. Goats of many sizes and colors (and a few sheep) behind a flimsy wire fence in my neighbor’s yard.
August 2, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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#Aughost
construction-paper art of a ghost hovering in the night sky above a crooked mountain house
July 31, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Reading THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS with my daughter, and we are enjoying the art by @mouseguard.bsky.social as much as the story itself.
cover of Kenneth Grahame’s THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS, illustrated by David Petersen; Toad is on the steps of Toad Hall looking dashing in a red jacket and yellow waistcoat while Badger, Rat, and Mole look on disapprovingly Mole and Rat rowing past Toad Hall Badger in a baggy dressing gown addressing Mole and Rat in front of a fireplace with a kettle warming Toad disguised as a washerwoman
June 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Good morning from this floofy dragon.
close up of gray cat with green eyes and contemplative expression
June 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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I think Mr. Toad is parked at my neighbors’ house.
Old-timey convertible red-orange car-truck vehicle parked on suburban street.
June 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Perhaps I had a small role in that same series? (Wish I could remember why I’m not wearing shoes in this scene . . . )
A smiling toddler with very little hair stands on a large tree stump in a clearing like an offering to some obscure woodland deity; she is dressed in a white shirt and high-waisted pink pants, but her feet are ominously bare, presumably to keep her from running away.
June 1, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Making a Mothra card for my dad’s birthday, because he is awesome.
Construction paper art of Mothra flying over a city at night.
May 23, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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John Oliver and the @lastweektonight.com folks are going to rebrand my hometown’s minor-league baseball team, so for the first time in my life I am experiencing excitement related to sports news. GO [AWESOMELY STUPID NAME TBD]!
John Oliver holding a bat in the most adorably awkward way in front of a mock-up of the Erie Seawolves field and scoreboard.
May 22, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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My kid had a similar theme at her birthday party . . .
six kinds of pringles organized according to the visible light spectrum
May 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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wandering around
on a sunny May morning
spotted little guys
yellow leaf with brown markings that look like a cute bear face ladybug pupa(?) on green leaf
May 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Not sure when this went up, but seems reasonable for indoors.
Handmade sign taped to wall reading “speed limit 5 miles per hour” with creative spelling (p-u-r and l-i-m-b-e-t-t)
May 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Pleased to be the first person someone thinks of when we need snacks for a haunted-house-themed retirement party.
pan of brownies decorated like a mossy graveyard meringue ghosts
April 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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A film that takes place where you’re from.
The Oneders (later the Wonders) from THAT THING YOU DO! (1996, dir. Tom Hanks)
April 16, 2025 at 6:13 PM