I just finished ALL THE MURMURING BONES by A.G. Slatter, which despite it's name was not a necromancer novel, more a mix between fairy tale and gothic fantasy with steampunk elements. The very mix of elements obscured the plotline and felt unsatisfactory, as if the author drew them from a hat.

Also, if you're interested in the subject of fiction inspired by traditional fairy lore & ballads: @profrmaslen.bsky.social, @ngjeannette.bsky.social, @ellenkushner.bsky.social and I did a talk about this at the British Library a while back, with music from Sam Lee. youtu.be/pF_mr0ETyQA?...

Rachel Ayers highlights six of the many fine retellings of the fairy ballad Tam Lin. I was honoured to publish @pameladean.bsky.social's extraordinary Tam Lin in the Fairy Tale Series (Tor Books), and I'm delighted to see it listed as one of the greats. It truly is. reactormag.com/a-knight-to-...

Katherine Soutar, contemporary English artist and illustrator, known especially for her interpretation of folk tales and folklore #womensart #FolkloreThursday

“Do not ever put off doing something you want to . Travel, go back to school, quit the bad job, leave unproductive relationships. *Be a bit selfish because no one is going to grant you what you don’t feel you deserve. Know your worth.*”

Why do these words make me think of Emily in Paris? 🤔

Finally getting down to read BABEL by R.F. Kuang. Oxford has always been magical to me. "Imagine a town of scholars, all researching the most marvellous, fascinating things. Imagine quiet, solitude, and a serene place to think." We all have our Eden.

Biking home after work, feeling chilled, picked up @hollyblack.bsky.social new book Thief of Night from my local indie bookshop on the way. Now I'm cosy in bed under my duvet, early night with a book and a whisky is the best remedy for a head cold, right? #ThiefOfNight #books #HollyBlack

Whose yodeling do you like better?

How very Narnia of beavers to join the resistance. Where do the rest of us sign up?

Nothing is ever stopping me from buying myself some flowers for the weekend kitchen table. It's such a simple way to bring beauty into life.

meanwhile costco was all “DEI is good and we’re keeping it, fuck you” and they’re now basically printing money

We're at the point where the Trump does something worse than Watergate daily, often multiple times a day. And none of it makes news; it's just normal now.

anyone have leads on resources for trans folks (esp youth, esp mental health/crisis support) specifically in or near Syracuse, NY? asking for my stepmom who is helping a friend mobilize a brigade of support for a struggling grandkid

Tolkien's little-known original art for the first edition of The Hobbit, published on this day in 1937 www.themarginalian.org/2011/11/01/a...

To celebrate the success of the new (most gifted) womensart book: 'Reframing Women Printmakers" www.waterstones.com/book/reframi... Sundays are all about your favourite artists working in print!

'Southbank Puddles' linocut by contemporary UK printmaker and artist Alexandra Buckle #womensart

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Whenever you meet kids, take a minute and look into their eyes and smile. Encourage them. Teach them that the world is a warm place, their place. I had an excellent exchange with a 2-yearold across a pair of grocery bags this afternoon that made me smile for a long while. 🙂

“Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.” On Mary Oliver's birthday (she would have been 90 today), her abiding advice on writing: www.themarginalian.org/2019/01/14/m...

Local #Dartmoor #Devon #WestCountry folks: Come join us for a magical, funny, and folkloric event, The Great Chagford Mumm-Off. The evening is hosted by Celebrating the Earth, a series of nature-inspired gatherings held regularly in Chagford. For more information: www.facebook.com/groups/63043...

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ME: I feel like I’m starting to spiral THERAPIST: well, we’ve talked about the five steps you should take to… ME: I know I know. Find one thing I can pet, one book I can buy, one dumpling I can eat, one leg I can shake, and one season of Murder She Wrote I can binge THERAPIST: what

It seems obvious but surely this Kennedy person thinks he's auditioning for a role as supervillain in a Marvel movie? (Dr Doooooom)

Some photos from Alpe di Suisi in the Dolomites where we went hiking in July. And a Sunday Door for @pineylonesome.bsky.social to brighten their day 💙💚🩵

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

Beautiful 1860s Victorian butterfly, which was used to store small packets of sewing needles on the underside of the wings. This was a collaboration between a London-based drapers company and a sewing needle manufacturer. On exhibit at Tatter Blue, a Brooklyn textile museum. IG tatterbluelibrary

Perspective.

They’re doing all this to prevent people from MEMORIALIZING A MASS SHOOTING

media should start calling these executive vibes today’s executive vibe is: wishes he could control voting

Just enjoying the dynamism of English modernist Cyril Power’s linocut ‘The Tube Station’ (1932)

Aren't country lanes brilliant? the-villager.ghost.io/once-upon-a-...

live your life so the mere POSSIBILITY of your death doesn't unite people in a way we haven't seen since 9/11

Detail from Common and Golden Carp, Ohara Koson, 1935.

My four favourite facts about the cockchafer beetle: 1. It's called a cockchafer beetle. 2. It’s also sometimes known as a “billywitch”. 3. It’s unusually loud and clumsy by beetle standards and bangs into lots of things when it flies into your house by mistake. 4. It looks like this, close up.

I just got home after watching #Materialists in a movie theatre and started thinking about self-worth, love, and our need for intimacy on the way home. Lucy is a matchmaker, trying to juggle clients with very specific ideas about what they want and what they "deserve" in a partner.

Happy birthday to award-winning actor Sebastian Stan, and may he have another great year in front of him! #HappyBirthdaySebastianStan

‘Frankenstein in Romania’: Sebastian Stan Set to Star in Film That Radu Jude Is Writing

They recovered over 180 bullet shells at the CDC. Debris from shattered glass is still being cleaned up. I am completely stunned at how quickly the news cycle has moved on. This was an act of terrorism targeting public health experts, and the response seems to be a collective shrug.

This breaks my heart. This is sexual harassment. This is traumatizing. TERFs and transphobes and everyone “just asking questions” for “women’s safety” (this happened to a cis teenager) should be ashamed for the rest of their lives. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

Born on this day #BOTD, Tove Jansson (9 Aug 1914-2001), Finnish artist and creator of the Moomin book series #womensart

When you wanted to go on a walk but not THAT long of a walk and now you believe you deserve the good chair

i'm pretty sure if you expressed this sentiment to a medieval monk they would hold a heresy trial

Both of my parents were immigrants. Like other immigrants they came ( mum from Ireland, dad from Australia) for the opportunities America offered. The minute we, for any reason, begin to think of ourselves as ‘better’ than the most impoverished immigrant, we are morally lost

Pavillin de Thé, 2012 by Lisbon based artist Joana Vasconcelos #womensart

Today is August 6, 80 years since a nuclear bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Every year 9PM this evening, my Grandma brought me to the riverside, where Women For Peace launched origami lanterns while the Cathedral bells boomed over our town. She's gone, but not the memory. We're here. We remember.

The reason it’s so powerful is that it turns /your body/ into the factory that makes the drug. It’s so exciting that the US not working on it will be seen as one of the biggest self-owns in history.

mRNA tech is some of the coolest, most powerful, most promising scifi shit humans are currently doing. They are being investigated to help with cancers, autoimmune diseases, M.S., stroke recovery, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and high cholesterol.