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Hope Anna/ H.A. Brand

@hopeanna.bsky.social

writer • naturalist • professional yapper 🌈 Insta: hopeanna.writes Read about my bog facts and book reviews! https://bogsbaby.substack.com

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Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social · last wk.

I am going through Bram Stoker’s earliest notes on DRACULA today - they include a list of the powers and features of the Count (then named “Wampyr” before Stoker stumbled on “Dracula”), many of which are never elucidated in the book…

• panters cannot pant hım; looks like someone else (38b)
• insensitive to music (38b)
• despises death and the dead (38b)
. is affected only by relics that are older than he is (38b)
• can create evil thoughts in others, banish good ones, and destroy will (38b)
• cannot be photographed; photographs come out black or like a skeleton corpse (4, 38b)
• can tell if bodies are dead or alive (4)
• sees man semingly dead and says "no" (4)
• has to be brought or carried over threshold. Dracula visits an asylum where he stumbles on the threshold (4, 16)
• named "Count Wampyr" (1)
• can determine and prove if people are sane (24)
green taper with blue flame in Count's house (43va)

Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 8mo ago

'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.' Photograph by Daniel Ibanez

a shot of a god botherer in a car, next to him on the passenger seat is a skull in an ornate box

Hope Anna/ H.A. Brand @hopeanna.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ok bsky: I am searching for a cover illustration artist for my upcoming project! Seeking someone with experience illustrating nature/naturalist scenes! The project is an eco-gothic set in the N.C./VA swamp. Please drop your portfolio or website if this sounds like your jam! #booksky #coverartists

AM Sutter @amsutter.com · 3w ago

Want to read a ton of amazing stories (and mine!)? Flame Tree Publishing is putting Folklore and Horror up for preorder. Catch it now for 25% off!

Hope Anna/ H.A. Brand @hopeanna.bsky.social · last yr.

I am, admittedly, a phone #birder and I often find myself feeling frustrated by that. I love Merlin but how much am I losing being beholden to it?

Bird-Watching Is Better When You Unplug

Technology has made it easier than ever to quickly find, identify and record birds. But to truly appreciate feathered friends, consider unplugging

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Hope Anna/ H.A. Brand @hopeanna.bsky.social · last yr.

I’m proposing a new kind of snail girl spring, one that better reflects that snails are monsters and medieval marginalia was right to be afraid. #snails #naturalist #snailgirlspring #gastropod

snail girl spring

tips on withstanding fascism from your friendly garden gastropod

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Nicole 🪲@fossilforager.bsky.social · last yr.

who let bee flies be so cute 🌸

An illustration of a bee fly! It’s a very fuzzy fly with a long proboscis and big dark eyes. It has two semi transparent veined wings. It is posed against a light purple background.

Kree Sullivan @kreesullivan.bsky.social · 2y ago

MAD MAX meets FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST A Grieving Smuggler🚚 A Fugitive Mage🔮 A Turncoat Huntsman🗡 The Heist of their Lives My debut novel, BLACKBLOOD, is releasing April 1. It's up for preorder on Amazon and B&N and is available to add on Goodreads now 🖤 #YouDeservepIt #ya #f #p

The cover of the novel BLACKBLOOD by Kree Sullivan, surrounded by arrows pointing to its tropes: found family; enemies-to-???; blood magic; blood drinking; blood!; unapologetically feral lesbians; unapologetically feral enbies; one apologetically feral cis man

Teenage smuggler, Armina, never intended to inherit the Blackblood, a truck loaded with illegal magical artifacts. But when tragedy strikes, leaving her in charge with only her irritable ex-girlfriend for company and with the magic-hating Huntsmen on her tail, she's determined to follow in the footsteps of her murdered Captain.

When Armina discovers a fugitive mage hiding aboard her truck, dripping their black blood, she can't ignore their pleas for help. The mage desperately wants to rescue their mother from the Huntsmen's headquarters in the Western mountains, a mission Armina knows is doomed to fail, but one she can't ignore.

As they tear across a dust bowl wasteland toward the dark spires in the west, secrets from Armina’s past come into view, lit by the blinding headlights of the roaring truck.

Secrets that could endanger the mission, the truck, and her splintering found-family in the process.

Clay McLeod Chapman @claymcleod.bsky.social · 2y ago

👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️• @anna.reads.horror 💀 2025 HORROR is looking GOOD 💀🔥🖤 I can’t believe there’s this many good books coming out already, can I quit my job and read full time please?! QOTD: Which 2025 releases are you excited for?

Hope Anna/ H.A. Brand @hopeanna.bsky.social · 2y ago

Seeking turkey week alternatives that are appropriate in a health care communications setting

Hope Anna/ H.A. Brand@hopeanna.bsky.social · 2y ago

I have written so many emails today including the line “happy turkey week!” kill me

Hope Anna/ H.A. Brand @hopeanna.bsky.social · 2y ago

I have written so many emails today including the line “happy turkey week!” kill me

Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 2y ago

I love how there’s a whole subgenre of horror right now where the premise is that it would inherently be terrifying if someone had a basement.