Something feral for #ForestFriday 🌿🦇

ForestFriday! I love this new hashtag 🖤🪻

AnnaLois@annalois36.bsky.social · 3w ago

It's #ForestFriday folks! As the temperatures continue to bake us and the ground, the trees are starting to show signs of struggle. Hope we get a few days of gentle rain soon to revive them. Join us today or check out the feed to bring nature to you.😊 Further info below ⬇️ #EastCoastKin #ECK

Crawling back to social media after the last two years were eaten by academia feels weird — I have 0 idea what to do. Long story short: they censored my PhD thesis to the point where I refused to defend it, I quit my job as senior lecturer in law, and currently I’m on self-care vacation. Hi! 🍷

I’m yet to return fully as I’m a bit overwhelmed with everything going on in the world on top of my own life being a mad carousel of unforeseen events, but thank you everyone so much for your kind words! I missed you too guys 🪻🖤🪻 Hope to come up with something interesting to post soon! Cheers!

GHOULISH GARDENS Step inside a 500 year old gothic garden via the mouth of a mythical #monster reclaimed by nature. The Garden of Bomarzo, or The Villa of Wonders is in Viterbo, Lazio; created in the 1600s in the valley below the Castle of Orsini #GothicSpring

This will now take place on 20 May at 1.30. You can still find details on the site below!

Coffin Boffin@coffinboffin.bsky.social · 5mo ago

LITERATURE RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES Join me for a free online talk on 25 March at 1.30 ‘The Luck of the Ningyō: Japanese human-fish Yokai and the rise of the fake museum mermaid’ Abstract & joining instructions below. All welcome. www.opengravesopenminds.com/events/liter...

#MementoMoriMonday #WorldOptometryDay Death and the Doctor, carved ivory spectacle case, c. 1500 The doctor holds a pair of eyeglasses in one hand and with the other seeks to stay Death's scythe. wellcomecollection.org/works/bqx6zzue #TheVictorianBookoftheDead

Artist: Tijana Lukovic @tijanadraws.bsky.social

Next Tues! Virtual! Free! Let's talk about our favorite spectral women of NYC! Trailblazers, sensitives, reformers & more... A great #WomensHistoryMonth AND #WomenInHorror Month offering thanks to @untappedny.bsky.social! #WiHM

Leanna Renee Hieber@leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 5mo ago

It's #WomensHistoryMonth AND #WomeninHorror Month, so let's talk about these intersections with @untappedny.bsky.social 3/24 6pmEST! Join this FREE illustrated virtual talk hosted by yours truly + Andrea Janes, founder of @boroughsofthedead.bsky.social RSVP: www.untappedcities.com/spectral-wom...

In Scottish lore, the Bean-nighe (Fairy Woman) was found in all the lonely places washing the linen of those about to die. If a person caught her unawares, she would tell them all what would happen after life. But if she saw them first, they lost the power of their limbs... 🎨Brian Froud #MorbidMarch

New release for March ~ Moss Medicine: Indigenous Wisdom and Modern Pharmacology by Robert Dale Rogers A comprehensive illustrated guide to bryophytes Also explains how bryophytes have environmental benefits, such as in remediation of our increasingly polluted planet #Booksky

Headless ghosts, colorful lights dancing around cypress knees, burial mounds for Giants... These are only a few of the tales from the Okefenokee Swamp. The dark, tannic water flows in my veins. #SwampSunday #Okefenokee #folklore #WitchSky

Known as "Murder-Logs," the American alligator is a staple of Southern rootwork. Their paws & teeth are prized in luck magic—not just for power, but for the dark, resilient energy of a creature that has survived since the dinosaurs. Truly the ancient guardians of the Okefenokee. #SwampSunday

Behind every sweet scent in the swamp lies a deadly secret. Pitcher plants and Butterworts don't just grow; they wait. Their energy is as cunning as their design—a reminder that in the Okefenokee, even the flora has an appetite. #SwampSunday #Okefenokee #WitchSky

To walk among Cypress knees is to walk through a living cathedral. These woody protrusions anchor the trees in the shifting muck of the swamp, embodying a deep, grounded resilience. They are the bones of the wetlands, weathered and wise. They are the Ancestors. #SwampSunday #Okefenokee #Animism

#ShakespeareSunday #WorldDayforWater #WorldWaterDay Who pass'd, methought, the melancholy flood With that grim ferryman which poets write of, Unto the kingdom of perpetual night. Richard III The Death-Boat of Heligoland, E. Goodall, 1837 Yale Center for British Art #TheVictorianBookoftheDead

In Chinese lore, the “apricot grove” (杏林) became a sacred metaphor for healers through the legend of Dong Feng of the Three Kingdoms. Refusing payment, he asked only for apricot trees from the cured. The grove flourished, over 100,000 trees strong, feeding the hungry with golden fruit. 1/2

Cauls (pieces of the birth membrane) were rare and highly prized by mariners who bought them for quite high prices. They were believed to protect the owner from drowning... 🎨Alma-Tadema #MorbidMarch

Dream of the Ghost Narwhale 🤍 #animalMarch #KleineKunstklasse

#WorldWaterDay 💧 The Stench is Unbearable | Clark's Inspection of Bridgend 📝 A blog post about the fear of disease, filthy housing conditions, and a desperate need for a water supply 💧 hellohistoria.substack.com/p/the-stench... #Wales #History

The Stench is Unbearable | Clark's Inspection of Bridgend.

On the 4th of June 1849, two petitions were sent to the General Board of Health on behalf of the inhabitants of the hamlets of Lower Coity and Lower Newcastle – what we now know as Bridgend Town Centr...

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#MythologyMonday Familiar spirits & devilish imps by @willowwinsham.bsky.social Owning familiars, or supernatural spirits, was common among accused witches in England, from Margaret Ley of Liverpool to some of the more famously accused witches of history. www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/stories/fami...

FAIRY BRIDE In 1915 Frances Evering & Dotty Buchanan married in full fairy garb. A decadent nod to the power of the fae #GothicSpring #FairytaleTuesday

Charles Keeping (1924–1988), “Lucy Westenra” Illustrations to ‘Dracula’ by Bram Stoker (1988)

I finally managed to log in! So, are we still here? What are we doing now? How’s everyone?

Devendra P. Varma, in The Vampire in Legend, Lore, and Literature, records a chilling 18th c. case from Sikkim: Princess Pedi Wangmo bled her half-brother, Chador Namgyal, to death, then drank his blood. Some believed she returned as a vampire after execution 🩸 #folklore #vampiresweekly

Endangered pink river dolphins face a rising mercury threat in the Amazon!Fernando Trujillo a #VoiceforWetlands directs the Omacha Foundation, a conservation group focused on aquatic wildlife & river ecosystems and leads health evaluations of river dolphins. Read more: apnews.com/article/amaz...

Endangered pink river dolphins face a rising mercury threat in the Amazon

Scientists in Colombia’s Amazon are capturing and testing endangered pink river dolphins to monitor mercury contamination from illegal gold mining and deforestation.

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Stephen is referencing one of my life's greatest achievements, when I was walking New-York-fast in New Orleans (read: PRETERNATURALLY FAST), dressed in Gothic Victorian regalia. Teenager elbows friends as I strode past & murmurs "Oh my God. That... was a LEGIT. Vampire."

Stephen Blackmoore@stephenblackmoore.com · 10mo ago

ANYTHING FOR YOU LEGIT VAMPIRE

Spooky season approaches, babies. Photo: Niko Pekonen

What's the point of owning intellectual property if we're the ones who have to opt out? What makes these asses so special?

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 10mo ago

Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.