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wizardhill.bsky.social
Seán
@wizardhill.bsky.social
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Irish fantasy writer and wizard enjoyer. Posting from the dungeons deep beneath Planet Dracula in the Carpathian Galaxy.
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This is one of the most beautiful images to ever exist and if you don't think so I will destroy you #WizardWednesday
(art: Robert John Wolfenden)
Image of a wizard in red robes and pointed cap with forked staff, he points to a circle through which shines a star. The wizard is standing in a densely packed and detailed room full of magical and spiritual paraphernalia: a domed room whose ceiling bears a yellow globe, astrological symbols, stars, and a magical tree flanked by esoteric writing. The room itself has skulls, masks, many various types of vases, ewers, carafes, and more, pots and cauldrons, cubes, astrolabes, books, scrolls, a frog, a cat, candles, and more. The floor bears a pentacle whose limbs and body contain magical symbols and sigils surrounding by arcane script. Beyond the room lies, in the silhouette of a warm dusk, standing stones, a pyramid, and a full moon.
November 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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ooohohohohhoheheheheheeoeoeoeheheheheoeoeoeeo look what arrived
Glass bottle in the shape of a skull full of vodka
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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You may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like #carlofans
lil illustration of the red wizard carloman in his crimson robes, silver-gold beard, and staff with a serpent coiling up its length, an orange gem is held in the serpent's mouth at the top, done by @jasminefayeart microsft paint illustration of the red wizard carloman in his crimson robes, silver-gold beard, BUT FUN FACT, this was done before the form of his staff was set down, making this the first and most primordial carloman art rather detailed illustration of the red wizard carloman in his crimson robes, silver-gold beard, and staff with a serpent coiling up its length, an orange gem is held in the serpent's mouth at the top, done by @aowna
November 24, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Carloman has the head of an ageing rocker from the glory days: pure chrome dome emerging from a mass of silver-gold
the red wizard carloman by aowna here on bluesky!!
November 24, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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*ten thousand divine trumpets sounding in unison*
same pic as below but the balls says yes ooooohoahoahoaohaohohohohohohohoh
November 23, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Just making sure real quick
screenshot of a magic 8 ball website with me asking DO I HIT THE CONFIRM ORDER BUTTON FOR THE DAN AYKROYD CRYSTAL SKULL VODKA
November 23, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Me supping my favourite raspberry juice from the Dan Aykroyd crystal skull vodka bottle
illustration by Louis Raemaekers of a skeletal figure in large grey robes enthusiastically quaffing from a very large glass goblet the size of a head filled with a red liquid, presumably blood. The drink is spilling down the front of the skeleton's robes and onto the ground, making an incredible mess, but it's okay, because the skeleton is having a really good time.
November 23, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Took a break from bookmark clean up to watch Robert Eggers' 2008 adaptation of Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart

20 minutes long, on Vimeo, confirmed as always having been goated
an extremely old, pale, long-bearded man in shabby night dress loosely hangs from a bed, one arm drooping down, the room is in a hazy half light A figure sits at a table obscured by a tall wooden beam in the middle of a frame, the scene is dark and lit by a light source hidden by the beam amidst a pale, flat lighting, a man in old fashioned dress stands to attention beside an extremely old, decrepit figure in a wheelchair wearing a red hat and coat, there is a mural behind them both that faded and cracked almost beyond recognition of a forest and lake a figure carries what a suspiciously human shaped object down a set of wooden steps, the scene is lit solely by a dust sepia light from the top of the steps
November 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Mad mouldering king of an unending dark age. He wields a ceremonial scimitar designed to hack open flesh. The crown comes from the all but forgotten golden age.

#art #myart #fantasy
Pen illustration of a king in loose tunic, wide but bare belt, tall spiked crown, ragged flowing beard, and short wide bladed curved sword
November 20, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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Wizards. Wednesday. These things just go together, and have done so, since time immemorial. Indeed, the very last moment of time before cosmic dissipation will be a #WizardWednesday
(art: Gilbert Williams)
A ghostly, ethereal, translucent wizard holds up a white lantern and bears a star-topped staff. Within and around the wizard are stars and constellations against a navy sky. The wizard stands atop a short bluff which seems to bear the carven image of a peaceful face. In the left foreground are silvery candles and orbs. It is a wonderfully cool, peaceful image.
November 19, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Forgot to say I watched The Number 23 last night!

It was fine. Fun idea that gets very awkwardly twisty near the end. Not as moody as it could have been. Left little impact tbh. Couldn't help but think that the pseudo-noir inserts were far more interesting than the main narrative lmao.
Shot of a second hand book store hallway lined with bookshelves, at the end is another with a single red book facing outwards completely black image with a single vertical shaft of dark orange light illuminating part of a blood-streaked face A woman stands in the middle of a bare, dirty room illuminated solely by red light, the walls are covered in strange scrawls, books, a few candles, and a mattress Shot of a cemetery seen from above, many shafts of hazy light break through the trees illuminating the shaded area
November 18, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Kilkea Castle, little medieval graveyard on hotel grounds, had a mermaid, a monkey, it was great
Stone carving of a mermaid covered in lichen, trust me she's there Stone carving of a weird dog or monkey running
November 18, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Literally just in a medieval graveyard looking at this shit right now
Shot of a castle through scraggly winter trees covered in ivy
November 18, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Top E Nomine tracks that get me feeling like this pic

1. Mitternacht
2. Das Omen
3. Vater Unser
4. Das Bose
5. Deine Welt
probably parodical poster for the catholic priesthood of a priest in simple black cassock with cross and rosary, wearing black sunglasses, the whole thing is done up to look like the matrix poster
November 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Lookit yous! Literally a triangle!
November 14, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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SAME
1,935 unread emails babey
November 14, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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#SFFCHAT
4. From this week's Shadows & Sorcery, in which the red wizard Carloman pulls out all the stops against a terrible threat.
Night may have been falling, but Carloman called the Sun back from its wandering to the far lands for just a moment. He bid it warm the winds, and the Firstborn Flame to send its embers on them, too. And in response, a golden, red-gleaming force joined the gale and charge, streaming down the tomb steps, filling the air with rushing points of living red.
November 14, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Why does she look like she has human length arms here😭
Pic of my calico cat on my lap but her front leg and fur is up in such a way and that makes it look really long
November 13, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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Who tf want to command and compel the forces with me on this #WizardWednesday
(art: Benito Gallego)
a wizard in black robes and black conical hat with a silver crescent, muscled arms upraised, beard HUGE, standing before a glowing orb held up by a coiled tentacle ending a hand, beside the wizard is a sheathed sword, some kind of green container, and a tall red vial, the background is reddish brown stone and a grate
November 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Convincing you to read my fantasy flash fiction publication by the entire first entry. Share yours if you want.

From the practically primordial Edition Zero of Shadows & Sorcery.
Frontier Shrine When men began to rise from death, they were taken and sent out into the unexplored realms of the continental interior. There they wandered and eventually settled, beyond life and humanity. But alas, their curse followed them and took root in the earth, creating sparse lands of tireless winds and ashen mountains. The Undead venerated no gods of living men, gods who had abandoned them, but were desperate to hold fast and minimize their suffering. So they held communion with whatever forces they could beckon in the cold lands, building grim shrines of cyclopean stone and carving faceless idols, wherein dwelt things with no names, who began to demand vile offerings. The Undead could not be destroyed, but for every reanimation, they retained less and less of their corporeal forms. Their zeal for sacrifice, in exchange for promised powers and reinstated life, but rarely delivered, ultimately created a land of hollow ghosts. Eventually, the Frontier was all but abandoned and only the darkly curious would venture out into the sere wastes. Those who returned whispered fearfully that whatever the Undead had called down still remained in the deserted frontier, a place now home only to a race of enslaved phantoms.
November 12, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Watched Demon City Shinjuku (1988)

This is pure A N I M E. I'm trying to articulate what is it about 80s/90s OVAs that grabs me in a way much modern anime doesn't. Animation quality? The stylistic sensibilities of the times? It's hard to define. But it's SO FUCKING COOL, EVERY SINGLE TIME.
shot of a red lit city sundered by two massive glowing cracks, a massive bolt of lightning descends from a colossal black cloud into toppled skyscrapers a man and woman stand before multiple large screen bearing an older woman's face, she's demanding, angry, and wears round red glasses shot a menacing man's face in deep shadow with strong, striking rim lighting and a tall red collar a man stands atop a stone mount in which is embedded a curved sword lit by a single ray of light, a collapsed building serves as a background
November 12, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Second in what may be a series of heinous, hideous witch knights, given leave by their murderous liege lord to immerse themselves in foul sorcery towards the end of a decades long civil war

#art #myart #fantasyart
Pen drawing of an armoured warrior in spiked pauldrons, ribbed breastplate, tattered peaked hood entirely covering the head, and bearing a mace with very long spikes
November 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Drew a nasty filthy impromptu wretch. This guy sounds like the worst kellersynth demo you've ever heard.

#art #myart #fantasyart
Messy pen drawing of a withered being in curling spiked, horned armour, one arm has far more armour and carries a massive battered sword, the other has a wand, the dark warrior also wears a frayed pointed cap
November 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Some little weapons from a ballpoint pen
Seven weapons drawn in black ink, two swords, one long and one curved, two axes, a halberd, a spear, and a mace with four flanges for a head
November 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Sick wizard fight snippet + spoilers for next week's Shadows & Sorcery

#fantasy #darkfantasy #flashfiction #amwriting
The red wizard Carloman and the vampire then engaged in a magician's battle. If the dragon was the bloody claw and gnashing fangs of the Dark, the vampire was its suffocating grip and leeching maw. Dragons commanded powers of darkness with force and cruelty, vampires compelled with malice and venom. They were the archsorcerers who whispered shadow magicks to gnostics in places of ruin and death, and for every spell and soul under its control, the lust and gluttony which had festered in their life, and bloomed in the grave, was enflamed anew, and they were granted the power to further feed it. Arcane words of light and fire and breath, fragments of Manatarian Sun mantras, Minosmirii hymns of glory, calls for the passage of the titan Macha Cannoc who is C'noch of the Earth, the setting of the Serpent's Coils--each one was met with wordless invocations of eternal darkness, of lightless caverns and their biting chill, of the sunken grave's creeping miasma, of the dark beyond the stars which flays the shackles of the material world, the slither and grasp of the demon, and the crushing weight as of a great hand not upon the flesh, but upon the soul. Carloman's eyes flared burnished gold and the vampire's grew to points of absolute black.
November 8, 2025 at 4:27 AM