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Other work of the Ladybird artists. Winter scene Artist: SR Badmin

A year and a day later, I'm remembering that I never returned to this thread. Perhaps, in this subsequent new year of 2026, I can come back and complete it

**Top Ten Images of the Year · #9 of 10** Light and shade: the sacristy door at the Queen of Holderness — St. Patrick, Patrington, Yorkshire.

We're into 2026 here, so a very Happy New Year to my Bluesky pals. May your year be one of health and hope and happiness 🎆

Other work of the Ladybird artists. ‘Tower of London’ Artist: Ronald Lampitt

Tonight, the answer is staying up to read

Just the usual welsh singing, festive undead horse

Hello, six thousand Bluesky followers!

Despite frequent remonstrations from digital archivists, Persephone never accepted that she could not photocopy a whole book in one go.

At that stage of late December in my family household when opening the fridge prompts a large cheese box to tumble dangerously towards me

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 22 Durham Cathedral Artist: SRBadmin

Oh, how I miss my Durham

Winter Sunlight, Diggle, Saddleworth, painting by John McCombs, b.1943 (Saddleworth Museum).

Normal widows: Please give me and my family the space and peace to grieve Erika Kirk:

The Bonehorse of Hookland #BookmarkoftheDay @hookland.bsky.social

Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky; seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone; nine for Mortal Men doomed to die; one for the Dark Lord on his dark throne. But they were, all of them, deceived, for on the fifth day of Christmas my true love gave to me: FIIIIIVE GOOOOLD RIIIIINGS

A Swan, about 1270 (Franco-Flemish The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Ms. Ludwig XV 3, fol. 41)

Someone's made off with the last of my Christmas fruitbread. It was stollen!

The world no longer makes sense, fuckwits are in charge of everything and the internet is even further on with its mission to ruin people’s brains forever. As an ameliorating factor, however, it definitely felt like there were far more butterflies around this year than there had been for a while.

This is silly and probably unfair to the people of Hebden Bridge, but the first thing I always associate with the name of that town is this absolute classic, photographed at a mini-library in a nearby village (photo not my own):

December, in my memory, is white as Lapland, though there were no reindeers. But there were cats. Patient, cold and callous, our hands wrapped in socks, we waited to snowball the cats... 🖊 Dylan Thomas - A Child's Christmas in Wales #BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly 🎨 James Ensor, Winter Painting

A perfect little ice crystal formed on the surface of our coffee ice cream

Wherever you are today, however you're celebrating, we wish you a very Merry Christmas! 🎄 📸: Tom Hard

How festive! ⭐🎄🎁

For Christmas Day an early medieval gold foil cross found in Andelfingen, dating 7th c. AD. Gold foil crosses were purpose-made for burials, they were sewn on the veil that covered the deceased. They are regarded as one of the earliest Christian symbols in southwestern Germany. MERRY CHRISTMAS🎄🎅

A Christmas Eve snap of Orion, the Hyades, and the Pleiades

Mary & Joseph arriving at the inn in Bethlehem, where there is no room. OTD year zero, here in a woodcut from 1551.

The Harold Godwinson is on the tree!

Happy Winter Solstice / Christmas from the land of the Durotriges! We're going to close the hillfort gate for a couple of days, so take care out there and see you all soon All together now: "After all there's only one more multivallate Iron Age enclosure till Christmas" #HillfortsWednesday

25th: Merry Christmas 26th: Bilboxing Day 27th: Samwise Samedi [Then darkness took me, and I strayed out of thought and time, and I wandered far on roads that I will not tell] 31st: New Year's Evenstar

Clear Winter Night by Carol Collette.

The other day I typed "gods" in a post and my phone autocorrected to "god's". Silenced by the monotheistic agenda!

Design for a Chandelier with Sixteen Candles 1632, by Isaak Ehe (Met Museum) It'd be nice for the festive season.

Using genAI to create 'art' is ludicrous and pretty grim at the best of times, but applying it anywhere near the words and worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien is utterly heinous, and entirely antithetical not only to the thematic foundation of his work, but also to the life of creativity and artistry he led

The Queen of Owls for Day 22 of #ArtAdventCalendar and for #OwlishMonday A little piece of #Hookland to mark the passing of the longest night of the year.

This is how the orcs of Mordor felt when Samwise Gamgee was loose in their tower

It's time! Behold the Christmas hedgehog! From Verdun, Bibl. mun., ms. 0107, f. 008. Our thanks as always to @etreharne.bsky.social who found her.

Train reading ft. @dannybate.bsky.social

Winter Landscape with Church, Caspar David Friedrich, 1811.

Too much of the Odyssey discourse misses the point that it isn't about the designs being 'ahistorical' or 'inaccurate' (especially in a story about gods and monsters), it's about creating something stylistically interesting and immersive, with layers of meaning and reference and artistry

Something lovely for the weekend! A 1,800 year-old Roman glass flask shaped like a mouse! Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️ 📷 by me www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #Archaeology

Suddenly realising that Gandalf's participation in The Lord of the Rings is basically the trope of an old man with a long and dangerous career agreeing to One Last Job Before Retirement

Throwback to my anatomy-meets-art piece: 'Heart of the Sea' 🌊❤️. A larger wall hanging heart, it's decorated in barnacles, wrapped in tentacles and even features a little starfish. Made in the summer two years ago (and has since sold), it seems appropriate to share on this sunny day! #SciArt

So impressively awful and tasteless that I almost find it compelling. Really puts the 'kitsch' in 'kitchen'

It turns out the abyss was actually staring at someone it knows behind me. Embarrassing.

Roses are red, All's fair in love and war,

'Farm on a Hillside,' (1914) is a superb piece of pictorial design by John Nash. He typically used trees to articulate space and unify a painting in an overall pattern; the clarity of drawing and controlled use of colour add to this painting's appeal.

What stunning raven stones!

Philosophy wishes you a peaceful night BL Royal MS 6 E IX; Convenevole da Prato, Carmina regia; c.1335 CE; Italy (Tuscany); f.27r