Laura Perry
@templemom.bsky.social
Founder and Temple Mom of Ariadne's Tribe - inclusive Minoan spirituality. Polytheist, animist. Tarotist, herbalist, gardener. They/them. Profile pic is my original art. https://www.lauraperryauthor.com/
October is change. October is spirits. We walk the edge of its fields, knowing they wait for the first frost of the year to crack them and release their ghosts. - Katherine Gidding, Hookland artist, talking about her 1939 painting 'The Lip'
The Major Arcana cards and the Minor Arcana face cards in my Minoan Tarot deck are based on actual ancient Minoan works of art. I wanted it to feel like you're holding a Minoan fresco in your hand each time you draw a card. www.minoantarot.com #Minoan #Tarot #MinoanTarot #TarotSky
❣️ Thanks Katelyn Jetelina “when you see friends and family talking about the plague right now, you can remind them why investing in science and public health matters. It helps keep us safe every day; we just often don't see it.” yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/top-8-ques...
Top 8 questions about the “plague” situation
Well, “the plague” is trending on almost all social media channels now.
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The Minoans loved their incense every bit as much as we modern Pagans do. Check out the nifty kinds of incense burners they used, and peruse a list of possible Minoan incense ingredients. lauraidaeja.substack.com/p/sacred-smo... #Minoan #Pagan #PaganSky #AriadnesTribe
Sacred Smoke: Minoan Incense
Ethereal Offerings and Earthly Scents
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Greetings and good morning it’s the Wednesday wet farm rush hour
Queer romance IS resistance. It is radical to imagine happiness, and community, and joy, when people are trying to kill you, erase you, oppress you, or deny you the right to live a full life in so many ways.
A queer, autistic kid who read too much Anne Rice grew up to look up to Guillermo del Toro and Gomez Addams as goals™, so now, they write queer historical paranormal romances with lots of queer and disabled people.
DD Ward ..."Interim Pirate Queen"@ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 4d agoOkay folks of the #WritersCommunity, I have an interesting indie marketing prompt challenge... Give us your elevator pitch, for yourself! What is your author brand? How would you sell yourself?
Spindle leaf palette in October, complete with Barbie pinks:
Mary, Queen of Angels: Honouring Regina Angelorum | Angelorum angelorum.co/marian-devot...
Mary, Queen of Angels: Honouring Regina Angelorum | Angelorum
Honour Mary, Queen of Angels, through the Rosary, Seven Sorrows chaplet & Marian devotion, with a contemplative Tarot spread for discernment.
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Well, that's a hell of a thing to leave next to a statue of Joan of Arc.😏
This gets my vote for the best thing I've seen on the Internet today:
It's bonkers how "User agreements" are actually binding contracts where one party gets to change them whenever and however they wish and the other party has the options to agree or to stop using computers.
This is absolutely my stance as well so I’m sharing Madeline’s excellent thread in case anyone needs a reminder:
👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻@oldenoughtosay.com · 5d agoone thing about me that consistently seems to shock people is that I do actually believe that all people have the right to live in freedom, regardless of their race, gender, sexuality, religion, ethnicity, disability, or age. like I do actually believe that and I apply it to *everyone*
"Opera doesn't make money. Opera’s what you spend money *on*.” “But . . what do you get out of it?” “You get opera. You put money in, you see, and opera comes out,” said Salzella wearily. --Terry Pratchett, 'Maskerade'
Sam Bergman@violanorth.bsky.social · 5d agoI used to feel like half my time as an orchestra musician was spent patiently explaining, over and over, that no, orchestras have never in history paid for themselves through ticket sales; no, cutting concerts or auxiliary trumpets won't balance the books; YOU JUST HAVE TO RAISE THE MONEY.
Sika deer resting along the pavement and median strip in Nara, Japan.
I started writing this with no idea how angry I was going to become half way through when I went to check my name I got very angry, and had to take a moment to calm down Important advice to new authors included #booksky #writrrsky #amwriting #publishing #blog markhayesblog.com/2026/10/05/w...
What’s in a Name
Before I begin, let me offer some advice to writers looking to self publish for the first time. A simple piece of advice, and one I wish someone had offered me a little over 11 years ago when I pub…
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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
Dan Nguyen@dancow.bsky.social · 8mo agoVC, founder, dumbass
ALERTE: PUMPKIN WOLFE
Wolf Conservation Center 🐺@nywolforg.bsky.social · last wk.It's officially pumpkin season, which happens to be a special treat for our ambassador wolves this time of year! 🎃🐺 Although wolves are classified as carnivores, they can sometimes have an omnivorous diet. Along with meat and eggs, wolves may also enjoy fruits like pumpkins. #wolffact
#WorldAnimalDay 🦔 in Scottish language, 'urchin' is hedgehog In a creation myth, the entire world was just a big lake, and it was a giant hedgehog who brought earth in it's needles, thus creating dry land.
Fairy doors #FolkloreSunday medieval lore spoke of fairy mounds, fairy forts, and natural openings in the earth or hillsides that served as portals to an underground realm. historymedieval.com/medieval-fai...
A Long Compton woman, a reputed witch, lay dying surrounded by relatives. She begged them to leave but after hearing bangs & crashes they rushed back in to see a black pigeon fly out the window. The woman was dead and her possessions were strewn about the room. #FolkloreSunday
Swamps and bogs don't just consume; they preserve. The muck holds ancient secrets, from prehistoric sacrifices to the perfectly preserved Tollund Man. The bog is a timeless threshold between the living and the dead. #SwampLifeSunday #Ancestors #Nature #WitchSky
