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Rachel Deering
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Onemorething on ABCtales, Bath Poet. First collection Crown of Eggshell pub. 2020. @BookWormSat w/ Signe Maene. Literature, art, myth, folklore, the gothic. Left wing. 🇪🇺 She/her 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Ally https://linktr.ee/rachel_deering
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · Dec 23
Please review my collection on Amazon or Goodreads if you have been lovely enough to buy it. It really helps. www.goodreads.com/book/show/21... In the Shadow of Gods amzn.eu/d/gRaCt0j
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The World is Closed. A powerful response to this week's Inspiration Point by Jane Hyphen:

It’s not safe to swim here
The water is toxic
And the sea is tangled
With everything you ever wanted

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November 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Goodnight. Early night. Very, very tired.
🖼️ The Selkie Folk, Anita Inverarity.
Two deals / selkies, one in foreground, one further in distance on stylised sea of greys and purples, seaweeds below, cliffs and cloudy moonlit sky in background, full moon,painting.
November 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Lots of Rooks coming to the garden at the moment for the last of the acorns.
Each birds takes 5/6 away at one visit & then returns. The number of cached acorns in the surrounding fields must be enormous.
It's not only the Jay who is responsible for planting Britain's Oak Trees.
#trees #corvids
November 18, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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William Morris' Violet and Columbine pattern.
A pattern that features violets and columbines among winding stems and leaves and large central sunflower design. In greens for the background and foliage, with accents of orange, yellow, and blue, red and yellow for the flowers.
November 18, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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I’m pretty sure this is my spirit animal 👍🏻
a small furry animal standing on a beach near the ocean
ALT: a small furry animal standing on a beach near the ocean
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November 18, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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Forest floor with mushrooms, Anthonore Christensen.
Painting, as described, autumnal scene.
November 18, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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Today I need a wombat.
🖼️ The Mammals of Australia. Illustrated by Miss Harriett Scott, and Mrs. Helena Forde. Sydney, 1871.
Wombat illustration in grassy landscape.
November 18, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Hello Tuesday.
🖼️ Whyn Lewis
Painting of a white hare lying down on a white hill against a white background. Looking rather as I feel.
November 18, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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Book Cover of the Day:
WHAT THE MOON SAW. AND OTHER TALES BY HANS C ANDERSEN Brown cover, gold lettering, title in blue rectangular plaque, with a large, stylized 'M' in a circular emblem. BY HANS C ANDERSEN and is written vertically on a red brick chimney from which has smoke? rising from it. A black cat is perched on the roof tiles next to the chimney. The entire design is surrounded by intricate illustrations of dark foliage, plants, and small stars. Plus a bat.
November 18, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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🖼️ Franz Marc
Two foxes, green foliage, star, sun? Painting, cubist, abstract style.
November 18, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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Autumn Rhythm, Lin Fengmian.
Twelve black birds with white rimmed eyes perched in autumn leaved tree, painting.
November 18, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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Morning.
🖼️ Rook and Jackdaw, Tunnicliffe.
Rook and jackdaw perched in a tree, illustration.
November 18, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Ah, insomnia, my old friend. Three hours last night, two tonight. How I wish I was…
🖼️ Asleep, Gordon Stewart Cameron, 1951.
Painting of a young woman with her eyes closed, appearing to be asleep. She is wearing a dark, buttoned dress with a white collar. Her arms are gently clasped across her lap. Background of browns and greens.
November 18, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Calanais, Isle of Lewis.

#StandingStoneSunday #blackandwhitephotography #Scotland
Black and white photo of the standing stones forming the circles and alignments at Callanish, on the Isle of Lewis.
October 26, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Honoured to be a part of Ghost Light Lit's stunning new issue, 'of myths & monsters'. Here is my ode to Hecate 🖤
Crossroads By Bex Hainsworth like a signature in the forest frills of an old castle and I’m thinking of Hecate goddess blessing entrances and liminal spaces witch of the way forward mistress of murderers with a smile like a knife of moon keys rust on her belt outlasting their locks a black terrier with yellow eyes trotting at her heels here is Hecate’s mark there is a decision to be made and like a poem you cannot simply stop (like a door, this opens both ways)
November 17, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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I have a book coming out very soon -

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Róisín Ní Neachtain - I, bird | Broken Sleep Books
Róisín Ní Neachtain's I, bird is a fragmented, lyrical reckoning with grief, trauma, and the porous boundary between body and voice. Structured in poetic prose and verse, the collection moves between ...
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November 17, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Goodnight.
May we all sleep safely and warmly in our setts until a new day wakes us.
🖼️ Anita Inverarity
Illustration of a badger curled up and sleeping in its sett. The badger is surrounded by plants, toadstools, flowers and ferns. In the background the night sky can be seen through the trees, with a crescent moon, stars, and small standing stones on a hill. There’s a woodpecker on the trunk of the tree on the left. A Celtic knot symbol is carved into the tree trunk on the right.
November 17, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Today's Pick of the Day is Caldwell's taut, compelling and unnerving story, 'The Day She Chose to Be Good'

Do please share on your own social media, if you like it too.
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November 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Autumn.
📷 Me
Tree branches with a few remaining autumn leaves against blue, cloudy sky, photo taken by me yesterday.
November 17, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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May Morris for Morris & Co.
Design of repeating pattern of parakeets, stylized roses, tulips, leaves, and turning stems; blues and reds and greens.
November 17, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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Autumn Leaves, Franklin Booth, 1911.
An illustration, Autumn Leaves, by Franklin Booth and published as a cover for Collier's magazine in 1911. There are three female figures caught in an autumnal wind, appearing to be women dancing as swirling leaves, perhaps fairies. They are dressed in flowing, warm-toned dresses of orange-brown. The figures are positioned in the upper portion of the image sitting on / against bare, gnarled tree branches. Below them, several individual leaves are shown falling where small trees and birds are visible against a hazy sky.
November 17, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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Dormice, Archibald Thorburn.
Two dormice on a branch, autumn leaves, one is eating, painting.
November 17, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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🖼️ Katie Scott
Botanical illustration of fungi and lichen against olive green background.
November 17, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Book Cover of the Day:
Orange cover with floral decoration, title: ‘…In A Dofficult Position’
November 17, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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🖼️ Two Red Foxes, Fang Chuxiong
Painting of two young foxes curled up side-by-side in a grassy field, one is asleep with face hidden and the other is awake looking ahead.
November 17, 2025 at 5:08 AM