Even as a wee lass I dressed like an 80 year old man (I’m the one in the red pants pulled up to my armpits.)

Here's a bevy of perfume reviews that I wrote last year but never shared very widely. I… did not like them 🤣

Scent of the day: Maison Crivelli Iris Malikhân. A decrepit lightning bolt locked in a dusty crypt. A phantasmagoric zoetrope shapeshifting, powdery, leathery, metallic, vegetal, austere, sophisticated. Moscow Art Theatre witch-queen mid-transformation, glamorous and gloomy, enigmatic and unsettling

I've been writing this blog post, a love letter to Andy Kehoe’s art for the past week and was thrilled to finally finish it and post it on my blog yesterday. The work is about bearing witness without flinching, about standing present to both beauty and devastation. unquietthings.com/here-at-the-...

Hell yeah.

first self of the year y’all

What's your "why can't your be normal!?!" specific affliction/brand of unhinged? Mine is perfume reviews (featuring several reviews from @bpal.bsky.social current Yule collection.)

My reviews for @bpal.bsky.social’s Yule collection are live on the blog tonight: spectral encounters, Wes Anderson fairy tales, extremely fuckin haunted dolls, Thomas Dambo’s wooden trolls and more! Plus giveaway details for every single fragrance reviewed! unquietthings.com/black-phoeni...

first bath of the year scalding water, boiling toes i prepare for hell

What anchored you, or made your ordinary days less ordinary this year? What did you collect, fixate over, become fascinated with? unquietthings.com/needful-thin...

Needful Things of 2025: Friday night whiskey with Alice Coltrane, spite-fueled exercise routines cherry-picked from insufferable fitness influencers, and the unglamorous pleasure of things bought in bulk. And loads of other stuff! unquietthings.com/needful-thin...

help I made the mistake of asking about space wolves

The final Trinkets & Treasures newsletter of 2025 is currently winging its way to your inbox! This month: books about bodies and hunger, a perfume like bandaged amber and bitter cardamom, and a collection of lovely little things unquietthings.myflodesk.com/unquietthings Images by Terra Keck

Everything is deeply discounted for your deflated post-holiday wallets AND every purchase will come with a mini-set of my Postcards For Freaky Little Guys!

A final bid for your bookish attentions before the year ends! I have got some wondrous titles over in my little Pango bookshop, poetry and fairy tales, weird nonfiction, strange art, and stories encompassing all of the horror and ecstasy of life! pangobooks.com/bookstore/gh...

The Late Winter installment of Stacked is live with 25+ book reviews! Featuring: cannibalism as love language, vampire revenge in 1970s Portland, and influencer culture garbage! Have you read anything lately that made you feel things (good, bad, unhinged)? unquietthings.com/winter-end-o...

I like to keep a store of “secret chocolate” scattered throughout the pantry for us to eventually forget about and rediscover when we need it most. Extra-extra bougie stuff. A gift from the house to us: a replenishment of the secret chocolate stash!

𝘗𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘨𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘥 𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘮𝘢𝘴… A wintry ritual, the annual retelling of The Hooded Congregation with shadowy illustrations by Chris Van Allsburg, as seen in the Time Life Enchanted World: Ghosts book. unquietthings.com/the-christma...

My latest column for @ruemorguemag.bsky.social is out now! Wherein I explore finishing Sarah Maria Griffin’s novel Eat The Ones You Love, narrated by a carnivorous orchid plotting to devour its beloved florist... and, of course, my immediate urge to acquire tiny potted predators of my own.

Scent of the day: Arcana Wildcraft Knights Templar. Patchouli’s resinous weight. Cedar’s clean wood, crisp structure. Musk as polished leather, warm metal on skin. Incense smoke, insubstantial, immersive; a binding emblematic and allusive. A study in control/compliance, rendered in resin & wood.

Scent of the day: Nos Republic Cor Serpentis is pallid astral berries translated through the cellular mimicry of a creature from beyond the stars, who's only ever known the pale juice of celery. Gellid minerals, wibbly, rocky aspic. Lavinia Whateley, but in a story wholly her own…

Last night I dreamed I discovered I was a magical girl and my power was “lucky chaos” and I wrote a book about it called A Delight of Wreck and Ruin (in the dream I was worried people would confuse it with an Otessa Moshfegh title, but upon waking it’s totally different!)

Amongst three sisters there is no insult that cuts so deep as when one sister accuses you of acting like the other sister. Ex. “Ugh! Why would you say that? You sound just like [redacted]!”

On this magical day of darkness and dreams: How To Wear The Winter Solstice. I update this each year to include an additional ensemble as a sort of inspirational, aspirational little ritual. Here’s a link to a gallery of almost 20 years worth of wintry wardrobe! unquietthings.com/how-to-wear-...

Scent of the day: Escentric Molecule 01 + Cistus. Frozen smoke, crystallized vapor. Cedar’s skeletal wood, stripped. Lemon peel frozen mid-curl, acid on ice. Amber trapped sap frilled and shivery-bitter. Glacial cold, moonlit silver sheen, hushed, absorbed by snow.

Now that I've spent December celebrating everyone else's books, it seems only fair to mention my own! Here’s my trilogy of visual grimoires exploring magic, darkness, and wonder for occult enthusiasts, gothic souls, and fantasy world-builders unquietthings.com/buy-my-book/

If you need bookish gift ideas for collectors of strange facts and stranger passions, for friends who see magic in the margins and find wisdom in the weird, and follow mystery wherever it leads! Well, maybe you will find something here for them… unquietthings.com/a-bookish-gi...

Day 13 of my bookish gift guide… Magic Maker: The Enchanted Path to Creativity by @phantasmaphile.bsky.social explores creativity and magic as inseparable forces, all in service of making whatever it is you’re meant to make. A song, a novel, a path through this strange world.

Day 12 of my bookish December gift guide featuring books I love by authors I adore. Symbolorum: The Secret Wisdom of Emblems by Mandy Aftel. Essential for readers hungry for mystery and beauty and drawn to uncover ancient wisdom beyond linear reason, where everything in the cosmos connects.

From the archives, some inspiration for you today. unquietthings.com/motivational...

my contribution to the hallowed legacy of art and poetry

You know, even though I wrote a whole-ass book this year (details forthcoming!), I am not sure it even compares to my greatest achievement of 2024, which involved making a meme from the remnants of a dumb dream I had, wherein someone told me to "do a care bear thing about it."

Every December at Midnight Stinks, I host a little giveaway for my Patrons as a way to clear out and clean up my massive stash of perfume samples, vials, and testers I have accumulated throughout the year. Guess what! It's that time again! www.patreon.com/posts/145915...

Day 11 of my bookish gift guide... Visual Alchemy: A Witch's Guide to Sigils, Art & Magic by @ltzwitch.bsky.social Essential for those who sense they have art and magic in their souls but don’t know how to begin, for those ready to discover that the doing itself is the thing, the work, the spell.

Like, this fucking guy is DEAD AS HELL and he is still compelled beyond the grave, beyond reason and rationality, to explain shit to you. This fucking guy.

Scent of the day: Epichron Nightchild. Forest floor moss, rooty, dark, and creeping, peeled away in damp handfuls, exposing Xenolithic scars. Green-earth-smoke, untranslatable incantations carved on bronze, the owl cries, the wolf howls, the gods laugh like thunder, that kind of thing.

Day 10 of my bookish gift guide. Murder Ballads: Illustrated Lyrics & Lore by @katyhoran.bsky.social. For readers drawn to darker threads of folk tradition, for those who want their music history served with cultural critique and gorgeous art, and who understand how tragedy and myth become song.

Chexmixomancy: divining the future by rummaging through the charred and broken bits of Brazil nuts, pretzel rods, and Giardetto detritus at the bottom of the Christmas tin. The future is probably hypertension.

“Is that the —“ “—the school lunch pizza recipe from the 1988 Quantity Recipes For School Food Service? Yeah, it is.”

The Art of Darkness now has a German-language edition: Die Kunst Des DUNKLEN. Wow that title goes so hard.

Day 8 of my bookish gift guide featuring books I love: Death’s Garden, Revisited: Personal Relationships with Cemeteries edited by @morbidloren.bsky.social. A beautiful gathering of tapophilic musings, essential reading for basically everyone with a human body and a mortal lifespan.

@thewolfinlace included my Postcards For Weird Little Guys in her list of weekly favorites over on Instagram and it made my whole dang week! If you’d like to grab some too, you can find them here! unquietthings.com/buy-my-book/

Believe it or not I really did significantly downsize the contents of this perfume cabinet…

What does it look like when the boundary between self and other becomes porous, when we dwell intimately in the life of another?Today on the Unquiet Things blog: Chie Yoshii's luminous language between two beings and moments between souls. unquietthings.com/dissolution-...

Day 7 of my gift guide featuring books by authors I adore: The Magical Writing Grimoire by @lisamariebasile.bsky.social, essential for writers who sense there's magic in the marks they make, for anyone who understands that writing is communication with a mystery deeper than readership.

Scent of the day: Regime des Fleurs Blood Spider Orchids is an intensely sugared cinnamon and autumn fruit compote, with a bit of brooding, jasmine-y burlesque sultriness. Big Titty Goth Girlfriend harvest spice simmer pot.

Day 6 of my bookish gift guide… Witch Hunt by @kristenkorvette.bsky.social Essential for witches seeking their lineage, for travelers who want their history alive with magic and fury, and for anyone who’s ever wondered how persecution becomes liberation becomes tourist attraction becomes revolution

I rarely keep anything I knit for myself, but this shawl is extra good. I think it shall be mine. Shawl be mine! Heh.

Day 5 of my bookish December gift guide, featuring books I adore: Lapidarium by Hettie Judah. A wunderkammer feast for the senses, for readers who want their geology served with soap opera drama, and for those who need weird rock facts to lodge in their brain like a wayward pebble in their shoe.

Day four of my bookish December gift guide… Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin by @libraryatnight.bsky.social Essential for death-positive weirdos, and readers possessing morbid curiosities!