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David Haraldson

@lostdiarist.bsky.social

Professional Alter Ego. Manc. Psychogeography, deep maps, hauntology, zines, games, music, art, photography, sci-fi, & horror—& any gubbins that sheds new light on old places. (He/him) Was LostDiarist & MrBlipvert on the Bird Site. GPA, NJ, & VT

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ARBco ➫ GenCon@j-k.games · 4d ago

In our little cottage industry, stereotyping Romani as thieves and witches in TTRPGs continues, sometimes under a thin fantasy veneer, sometimes with full slurs involved. It needs to called out more often than it is.

Dr James Peate@jamesepeate.bsky.social · 4d ago

Today is Roma Holocaust Memorial Day. Around 500,000 Roma & Sinti people were killed by the Nazis in the Porajmos. There was no state given to them after the war. Commemoration of their suffering is often diminished or forgotten. Racism towards Romani people across Europe remains acceptable.

David Haraldson@lostdiarist.bsky.social · 2w ago

Now I just need someone to release an edition of Ludvík Ráza's Tajemství Ocelového mesta (The Secret of Steel City) with English subtitles! Or Silas!

Robin Baker@robinalexbaker.bsky.social · 2w ago

1/2. If you grew up in the UK in the 60s and 70s, it's time to face one of your childhood traumas... THE SINGING RINGING TREE (1957) and other terrifying fairy tales produced by East German studio DEFA, are released on Blu ray next week with a 2nd volume out in Oct eurekavideo.co.uk/movie/into-t...

Simon Spanton@simonguy.bsky.social · 4w ago

Any conversation about contemporary British fantasy and folklore that doesn't include Hookland is fatally flawed. It's an essential part of the landscape.

hookland.bsky.social@hookland.bsky.social · 4w ago

As promised to link to my first actual Hookland book. It is only small, but covers a lot of the ghost soil. If enough of you buy it and like it there will be a Volume Two. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068598123 It will also be available in an actual bookshop soon.

The coverplate of the book HOOKLAND FRAGMENTS VOLUME ONE by David Southwell featuring a picture of the Ghost Bear of Hookland by Maria Strutz and the following blurb: I firmly believe David Southwell’s Hookland to be one of the great imaginative achievements of our age. One that will one day be spoken of the way Lovecraft’s Mythos is now. Hookland is the folklore of the county that exists on the edge of our vision, an unseen but sensed Britain that is at once familiar and strange. It is the land just to the left of where we live. David’s work is made even more remarkable by his open invitation for all to come and play there. Though of course visitors to Hookland must be wary, the county exacts its price from us all. – R.J. Barker, award-winning author of bestsellers such as The Bone Ships and Gods of Wyrdwood. As a visitor I am more frequently in Hookland than the barrows and chalk downs of my childhood. – Roger Clarke, best-selling author of A Natural History of Ghosts. Hookland is gold standard eldritch world building. – Ian Simmons, Fortean Times news editor. This a shimmering place of deep time, cold wars, old gods and ever renewing mysteries.The heartland and home county of the restless and the outsider, a lamp glow to welcome the lost, a pole star for those who dare to step into the dark and follow its glorious glowing ghostlight. – Rose Ruane. Artist and writer of Birding and This Is Yesterday. Hookland has been called many things. Psychic shrapnel embedded in place. A re-wilding of folklore. The English Eerie told in strange fragments. According to its creator David Southwell, nothing in Hookland is made up, just remembered differently. Hookland Fragments Volume One offers both an introduction to Hookland and an exploration of its agenda of re-enchantment as resistance.
dj rozwell@djrozwell.bsky.social · 4w ago

Has the internet come up with a name for the whole "retro hauntology setting + impossible geometry + some kind of institute or corporation + hazmat suits" vibe? Like half life, scp foundation, portal 2, routine, control, obviously backrooms.

Sarah Cole@irny.bsky.social · 4w ago

I should really be promoting this campaign more actively, but I feel as if my every move is being touched by some vast, inescapable, unfathomable, unearthly, burning horror. Anyway, if you prefer your horrors in the less visceral medium of TTRPGs, take a look: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/p...

THIS BLIGHTED ISLE at the ENNIES Emporium!

Over hill, over dale; a creeping chill, a twisting rail… System-neutral adventures in modern horror from the British Isles.

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Koot Hoomi@koothoomi.bsky.social · last mo.

William Burns. Ghost of an Idea: Hauntology, Folk Horror and the Spectre of Nostalgia. Headpress. 2024] I finished reading William Burns' book yesterday. Well-written and approachable; by that, I mean the ideas and concepts aren't lost in a swamp of jargon. #hauntology

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