Charity shop going HARD on the haunted dolls this Halloween!

Slowly unpacking my study and filling a drawer with pressed seaweed, like a Victorian lady botanist 🌿🪸

Moving house in two days with all the essentials packed 🍄🌿🫙🪶

Huge news! 🌿✨💍✨🌿 I’m overjoyed to be marrying my love Darrick, and also exceptionally excited about this ring, which is basically a forest in ring form 🌳💍💚 It is tourmaline, peridot and diamond!

I popped into @mediamuseum.bsky.social on my way back from the festival yesterday, and was so happy to catch up with my favourite exhibit, the Pepper’s Ghost darkroom! I found this absolutely magical as a child, and still do now - there are so many throughlines between this and my work today! 🎞️✨🕷️

On my way to @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social to take part in this wonderfully weird event tomorrow! Very excited to talk creepy dolls, toys and all things spooky 🧸🕸️👁️ www.bradfordlitfest.co.uk/event/tales-...

GOBLIN HAIR 🌿💚🌿 bringing me ever closer to my final fae form 🧚🏾

A VERY long shot, but I just found a ring in Bute Park, Cardiff, in case anyone has lost one! I left it where it was #butepark #cardiff

Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉 Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace. You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.

First experiment with yarn dyeing: avocado skins and stones (which should create a dusty pink dye) 🥑🧶🌸

Just going through my saved clothes/costume/sewing inspo Instagram folder, and I CLEARLY have a colour palette 🍂🌸🍃🍑💛 …pastel autumn?

WILD GARLIC PESTO 💚🌱🌿🍋 Made with the frankly indecent amount growing in the woods by my parents’ house

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! We’re lucky to work with so many knowledgeable and inspiring contributors, many of which are here on Bluesky: @verityholloway.bsky.social @elizadearnley.bsky.social @kjsoar.bsky.social @ladyliminal.bsky.social @amalexathorn.bsky.social @melissae.bsky.social …

It's enormously hard to get people to sign petitions supporting trans people, let alone trans children, so if you're in the UK, please do sign this. Right now, trans people need all the help you can give.

Edinburgh is running out of time to meet its climate and transport goals. Running a tram-train on the Edinburgh South Suburban line would cut traffic, emissions and congestion and improve access to the city for locals. 🚋🚋🚋 Sign the petition here: www.change.org/p/reopen-edi...

This looks soooooo good 🌲🍂🦌

As a lifelong movie fan & an elder who’s been reading, writing, teaching, & talking about politics & horror for decades, I carved out some time today to compile a list of apolitical & socio-culturally neutral horror films for your viewing enjoyment.

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

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What?! The Prince Charles is an institution - please consider signing!

New online course on Friday 25 April at @freudmuseumlondon.bsky.social! 🕷️🕸️🧶🪡 Come join me and Katharine Fry for a day exploring the magical and macabre fairy tale worlds of Louise Bourgeois and Paula Rego, held to accompany the museum’s Women & Freud exhibition 🕷️ www.freud.org.uk/event/the-fa...

Hive mind, can you recommend any good recent short stories in the genres of romance or historical fiction? Looking to expand my student reading list and sure there are some good ones I’ve missed!

Best headline of 2025 so far

Very much looking forward to a dive into the haunted toybox of creepy dolls on Saturday 18 January - join me there! 🧸🕸️🦇

I'm hosting an event for SGSAH Literature+ Catalyst on Memory, commemoration and curation (Fri 24 Jan 2025, 1-5pm). Contribs: me, @elizadearnley.bsky.social, @amfoster.bsky.social, Ann-Marie Einhaus, Arunima Bhattacharya. For research students at Scot Univs. Register: www.sgsah.ac.uk/e_t/dp/liter...

“January dry, hard, glittering, cold, and the wicked naked beauty of the scraped blue skies.” —Sylvia Plath

Even in winter, the wood calls out to be walked. Its paths tell your boots to ignore the mud. Its occulted roots whisper to your bones with promises of clearings you've never encountered before. The way into it is a seduction that makes even the oldest of us young again. – #DAKilroy, 1982

Did...did a Brussels sprout write this

Pomander making this afternoon 🍊🌿🎗️

Glowing fibre optic mycelium at the Edinburgh Botanics 💚💙💜

It's beyond ridiculous that a treatment that is perfectly safe for children with one medical condition be outlawed for children with a different medical condition just because it makes some people feel icky. That's not science.

Things my 8yo bookworm said on the way to school. 1. Sometimes I get out of breath from reading 2. It’s like you’re a shape, and books can be really good, but some of them don’t fit you. Like you’re a hexagon and they’re an oblong.

I have just signed this, urging the minister to listen to trans people and reconsider. Further comments I added in the thread below.

Christmas card created c.midC20th, by George Buday, at Netherne Hospital where he was compelled live. One of many cards he designed for art therapist Edward Adamson, Buday was a professional artist & historian of Christmas cards, who had his own studio in an old summerhouse in the hospital grounds

Absolutely amazing find in the Amnesty bookshop just now - a first edition of Carols for Choirs vol. 1 🎄🎼✨ I’ve been after an old copy of these for years now, so very pleased to spot this as I walked by the window!

SO EXCITED FOR THIS 🌺🌸💐🌈💕

Glass is a ghost-holder. Its fused silica, its sodium carbonate entangles past and future. An amorphous prison for shades out of time. Of all gateways that give glimpse onto the enfolding world of spirits, none is more common in our homes nor more particular in its peculiarities. – #CJosiffe

Brambly Hedge X folk horror is basically my personality

The rain will stop. 🌈

This sounds incredible! So very up my spooky street 🌿🖤🍂

Guardian + Observer journalists on strike 4th and 5th Dec. They’re fighting to stop selling off profitable Observer to loss-making Tortoise Media website and to defend jobs. Union members ask we support and not repost Guardian stories on strike days. Solidarity with NUJ strikers.

Brilliant work by @xghorror.bsky.social

A wintry #magiclantern slide

Don't look at the reflection 🍂

ANNOUNCEMENT! The next hosted #FolkloreThursday will be held here on Bluesky! Join us and our hosts here on 19th December for a day of festive folklore fun! (Image: Nova Scotia Archives)

i am super biased here because i am an academic and would like to continue to be one *but* i do feel there comes a point where you have to ask yourself what the point of ‘the economy’ is if it doesn’t support education or healthcare or the arts or housing or food or water and utilities

Day 2 of #HooklandChristmasTree decoration. We gently take the Master of Moss from box. He’s old and fragile, made from twig, clay and clumps of Moss gathered on Barrowcross. We find him a respectful place on the tree and hope he sleeps the season. His waking would be terrible.

After dark in the library 🩷🌚

Mulled apple juice for the Christmas tree lighting ceremony 🍊🫚✨ One of the priests came into the kitchen as I was making it and said, “You’re like a witch stirring her cauldron”, and I was like, yes, that is very much the vibe I’m going for here

First Sunday in Advent at St Peter’s 💜🕯️🌿