The strength of the sensitive – E.M. Forster on the personal and political power of empaths and the relationship between democracy and creativity www.themarginalian.org/2024/10/31/e...

Dinner time... From: "Our Farm. The troubles and successes thereof" Story by F. W. Pattenden - Illustrated by Louis Wain, ca 1888 #cats #caturday #kitty #art #vintage #victorian #louiswain #farmlife

‘All Animals are equal but some are more equal than others’ the new mantra of the corrupt pigs after they take over Animal Farm in George Orwell’s work #wyrdWednesday @wyrdwednesday.bsky.social

The Bayeux Tapestry, a 70 meter long medieval masterpiece created by artisan women, is actually an embroidery in crewel (wool yarn) on a linen ground. Depicting the Norman conquest of England, it was made in the 11th century & will be displayed at the British Museum this year. #WomensArt

The Green Knight, preparing to battle Sir Beaumains 🎨 N. C. Wyeth #illustration (1922) #Arthurian #myth

Welp 2026 is off to a start. Stop your doomscrolling and look at sky puppies.

Coyotes have a way to shut up loud-mouths that humans cannot unfortunately emulate.

Less than a month left to submit your abstract for our Special Issue on 'Situated Resistance & Hope in the Everyday'. Submit now before the holidays! https://resistance-journal.org/call-for-papers/situated-resistance-and-hope-in-the-everyday/

Along with Ms. Good, we're also mourning the loss of America. #policestate #brownshirts #roguenation

Winter solstice blessings and yay to the returning light 🌞🌞🌞

Carol Singing Christmas Cats - by Louis Wain, ca 1927 #Caturday #music #Christmas #cats 🐾

The Green Knight, preparing to battle Sir Beaumains 🎨 N. C. Wyeth #illustration (1922) #Arthurian #myth

"The dragon flew out and caught the #queen on the road and carried her away". 🐉 #FairyTaleTuesday 🎨 Arthur Rackham, The Allies Fairy Book, ca 1916 "The Nine Peahens and the Golden Apple"

#CallForPapers H-Announce is a moderated one-way distribution network for events, conferences, calls for papers, calls for publication, programs, workshops, sources of short-term funding, fellowships, and news. #CallsToSubmit #academia networks.h-net.org/h-announce

Three Little Gnomes around their campfire. - by Johnny Gruelle, ca 1919 🏕️ #fairytale #art #folklore #Yule #fairies #gnomes #elf

A Christmas Ball at Catville 🐈 Louis Wain, ca 1909 #Caturday #cats #christmas #festive #holiday #dancing #vintage #illustration #anthropomorphic #party

Blue Ice Lake Wonish Anne Savage 1935

Protect yourself. Protect others if you're able. Protect all creatures, great and small. Protect crumbling ruins and standing stones for elves and fairies. Protect bogs, marshes, and misty moors for wandering witches, wayward spirits, and all of the horrors shambling in the gloom.

Carol Singing Christmas Cats - by Louis Wain, ca 1927 #Caturday #music #Christmas #cats 🐾

#Fairytaletuesday Two examples of Frost Giants, who originated in Norse mythology before migrating to Slavic folklore. They represent winter in all its primal & oft fatal magnitude.

Here’s a twist - many old British churches feature the “Green Man” (a decidedly pre-Christian figure) in the decorations. This catch-all spirit was probably slipped in by the carvers rather than requested by the clergy! #folklore #greenman #WyrdWednesday More at:

Gravity & the Cat 🐈‍⬛ Jane Crowther #WyrdWednesday

“An old woman and the devil placed bets to decide which of them was more skilled at sowing discord and creating sorrow.” Is the most believable sentence I’ve ever read in a folktale. #folklorethursday

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Archaeoethnologica: Daughters of the Sun - Book / Filhas do Sol - Livro +INFO in: archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/12/filh... #Archaoelogy #Prehistory #neolithic #megalithic #eneolithic #iconography #sculpture #Iberia #Europe #womenfigurines #books #openaccess

It’s been a year since The Folklore of Warwickshire began to strut its stuff on this platform. A big thank you to everyone who has followed me, liked, reposted and generally joined in. Here’s to another year of local lore. 🥂💀🎃🧚🧙‍♀️🧜‍♀️👿🦕🎄🥂

The Middle English term elferingewort ("elf-ring"), is said to be "a ring caused by elves' dancing". Similarly, Scandinavian lore states #fairy rings are burned into the ground by the dancing elves, & we humans might want to avoid them! 🪄 #FairyTales #Folklore #art

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

old man yells at country

The 20 greatest Jane Austen characters On the 250th birthday of one of English literature’s greats, our critic picks Austen’s top creations, from Mr Collins to Anne Elliot #BookchatWeekly

Rob Reiner wearing a hat knitted by his daughter, Romy.

There is so much for which to remember Rob Reiner. In my family, we have long treasured this one bit he did with Carroll O'Connor on "All in the Family." It has always made me laugh, no matter how many times I've watched it. And we all could use a good laugh these days

The menhirs in the stone circles do more than pin our sense of the Long Neolithic to the moor. They pin legends to the land. Anchor generations of storytelling. Lithic libraries that endure in both physical place and the imagination. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

Gertrude Mackay’s vintage 1913 #Recipe for ‘Apple Ginger’ 🍎 Yum. #foodie #yule orchardnotes.com/2025/12/04/g...

Many of you responded to our Nature Briefing call asking about their favourite presents that first got you interested in the research. So what are the top gifts that shaped people’s career in science? By Anne Marie Conlon 🧪 #AcademicSky www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

A charming #Egyptian figurine of a hedgehog, made of faience, dating ca 1900 BC, from Thebes, #Egypt. The Egyptians associated hedgehogs with rebirth. On display at Neues Museum Berlin 📷 me 🏺

#standingstonesunday #isleoflewis

“To kiss the lips is to drink water.” — Marina Tsvetaeva . . . This poem appeared in Words Without Borders, 2005. Shared here with deep gratitude.

Cat naps on #Caturday. 🐾

Thoughts of a wood witch… #witchsky

The folklore of Hookland has every mist, every fog, as danger. Tales of it eating certainty, as a warping infection of the land. Stories of sentient fogs, of even a mist on the common providing a cloak for the Hoarse Hag to walk abroad. – Lou Kemp, Hookland artist, 1981

Even in winter, the wood whispers to tramp its paths. Its Sprites and Woodwose may sleep through days demanding our heaviest coats, but its mysteries do not. Bare branches scratch the low sky and still its mysteries sing. We walk for wonder. We walk for cold magics. – #EmilyCBanting, 1981

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Nearly 80% of early films created at the beginning of the 20thc were made in colour and one of the first careers in film production for artistic women was hand painting in film-colouring workshops #WomensArt

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Where Artists and Texts Meet Are you a book artist or take inspiration from literature? Submit for an upcoming exhibit, deadline 4 Jan 2026. All details via: www.curatorspace.com/opportunitie... #books #literature #library #art #bookart #exhibit #libraries #bookartist #archive

here are some upcoming submission calls to think about during any quiet moments over the next few weeks. More info at - sixtyoddpoets.substack.com/p/submissions

Your daily horoscope. Today you will feel like a thrift store book: dog-eared, with a creased spine, and patiently awaiting a chance to enthrall someone new.

by Edward Gorey