Greek myth explains autumn through Persephone’s descent. When she returns to Hades, the earth mourns with withering leaves and barren fields. The equinox becomes her threshold between worlds. #FairyTaleTuesday Art: Walter Crane

Georgia O'Keeffe, Blue Wave Maine, 1926 #WomensArt

Today’s Canadian painting is “Sun and Wind, Georgian Bay” painted by Frederick Varley.

The Refugees, 1931 by Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka #womensart

As autumn wanes and winter deepens, the world belongs to the Cailleach, the hag of Scottish lore. She strides across the land with her hammer, shattering the green, summoning storms, and ruling until spring returns. #FolkloreSunday Art: Jane Star Weils

Across Europe, the final sheaf of harvest was treated with awe. Some burned it as offering, others dressed it as a figure and kept it until spring. In its ashes and stalks, life slumbered until rebirth. #FolkyFriday

If you are cancelling streaming services it's worth noting that we are currently living in a golden age of thrift store DVDs. Lot's of people have liquidated their collections because of streaming or because of the switch to bluray...

Yup’ik masks are expressive shamanic ritual masks made by the Yup’ik people of southwestern Alaska, and one of the most popular forms of native Alaskan art. Yup’ik Wolf Spirit Mask, 1850-75 #tribalart

Today’s Canadian painting is “Autumn at Vermillion Crossing” painted by Dominik J Modlinski.

Vincent van Gogh ~ The Starry Night Drawing #VincentvanGogh

Kimika Hara, contemporary Japanese embroidery artist #WomensArt #September

Today’s Canadian painting is “Trees in the Sky” painted by Emily Carr in 1935.

Today is Battle of Britain Day, commemorating the RAF’s decisive victory over two enormous waves of German aircraft on 15 September 1940. “Never, in the field of human conflict, was so much owed by so many to so few."

More than ever, I recommend that Americans who only speak English learn more languages, but at minimum, read news about the US written in a different language from a different country. Use google translate if you need to. You have to read about it from the outside right now

Today’s Canadian painting is “Storm Over the Fields” painted by Carl Shaefer in 1937.

Lawrie Dignan : Blue Sky Fall, October 2002

It’s Maurice Jarre’s birthday. He had an illustrious career as a film composer (Lawrence of Arabia) but I first came across him when I saw Witness. His score is exquisite but this scene, in particular, is just beautiful, with the synthesiser played by Clark Spangler: youtu.be/BL_X7GelX5Q?...

First attempt at making my own corn shock doll. They pop up all over the place. I understand that first people here generally did not adorn them with faces so I’ll leave it like that. The Europeans kinda would go a little overboard I think, but that’s just me

From Yeats, The Second Coming: "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity." Seems pertinent.

Modern stories keep returning to the forest. Think of the bear in His Dark Materials or the fox in Fantastic Mr. Fox. Even now, the forest is a stage where animal folklore comes alive again. #FolkyFriday Art by Sinch

Today’s Canadian painting is “The Cloud, Red Mountain” painted by Frederick Horsman Varley in 1927 or 1928.

Writers from Ovid to Eliot remind us that decay is not only an ending. Fallen leaves and rotting wood nurture new life. In poetry, the soil of death always carries seeds of return. #BookologyThursday Art: Piotr Stachiewicz

If you see headlines claiming NASA's found life on Mars - these are new studies of features in rocks which, if they were on Earth, look like the kind of thing caused by microorganisms. But they could very well - are most probably in fact - be caused by chemistry, not biology.

In Icelandic sagas, the draugr clawed its way from the grave to haunt the living. Not a ghost but a swollen corpse, stinking of rot, wielding the strength of ten men. Exhumation was sometimes the only way to end it. #WyrdWednesday

of all of the cable segments I am not going to watch, this is the one I am not going to watch the most

Some maps were talismans. Micronesian stick charts woven of palm and shell represented ocean swells and currents. To those who held the knowledge, the sea itself could be read like scripture. #MythologyMonday

You didn't need a video of a raccoon sitting in a bowl... But, here you go... 👀😅🤣 #bluesky #nature #animals

Insomnia: When you start seriously considering how removable arms would be an excellent evolutionary outcome for better sleeping.

Thrilled to share a new project! Some of the most haunting words are the ones never spoken. DriftLetters imagines the letters history and fate left unwritten — words of love, loss, anger, and hope. The first episode drops soon. Please subscribe and join the journey: www.youtube.com/@DriftLetters

Today’s Canadian painting is “Beach at Sunset” painted by Molly Lamb Bobak.

Goodnight from Elsie Rain, spraying sigils at Falstone’s abandoned caravan park to try and slow the evil seeping from it. Goodnight from Violet Carr, reflecting that listening to the BBC Shipping Forecast is one of the few times she doesn’t feel her synesthesia as curse. Goodnight from Hookland.

The ghost light of the theater is more than safety. Lore says it burns to keep away mischievous spirits who might otherwise perform their own plays in the darkness, leaving chaos for the living troupe. #FolkloreSunday

The forest has fangs & claws, so you should too. The forest has antlers & thorns, so you should too. The forest creates its own darkness, so you should too. The forest blooms through decay, so you should too.

Cat Moore, Northumberland based printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

The three most horrifying words in English language this week so far; “Barbecue brisket whopper “

Remains of Native American children to be returned to Oklahoma

There is a tale that Shakespeare never truly died. In some corners of Stratford, they whisper that the Bard’s ghost still lingers in playhouses, feeding lines to actors who suddenly forget their words. #FolkloreSunday

Opening Time, painting by Mal Burton. #NorthernArt

“The revolution will not be televised!” More wise words from @daviontatum on TT Take a listen. 👇🏼 #makegoodtrouble #resist #rageagainstthemachine #Pinks

#nightwalking I do love those pretty lights in the dark night

Always true I wanted to post a response in Latin as “always potatoes “ but it occurs to me. The Colombian exchange hadn’t happened yet. So “Semper potatoes”

Going home in the rain, Manchester, painting by Lita Narayan. #WomensArt #NorthernArt

Today’s Canadian painting is “A September Gale, Georgian Bay” painted by Arthur Lismer in 1921.

It’s official — I’m now “who the fuck are all of these stars on ‘Dancing with the Stars’” years old

it's time. for walking through the archways of disintegrating and yellowing greens and invoking the cloud of autumn moths (feels very cinematic)

After play practice, stopped at the public marina to get in another 1000 steps out on the pier Ok COLD! Beauty night

Nikola Tesla once proposed a giant “death ray” that could shoot concentrated energy across miles. He believed it would make war impossible by making it too destructive to attempt. Governments scoffed. Science fiction fans rejoiced. #WyrdWednesday

Today’s Canadian painting is untitled, an alpine vista, painted by Doris Mc Carthy in 2000.

nʌki\'wah Graham Greene💙 He is a son of the Great Lakes basin. This one goes out in your honor RIP 🌊🌊