"Speaking of livers," the Unicorn said. "Real magic can never be made by offering up someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back. The true witches know that." - Peter S. Beagle, "The Last Unicorn" 🎨John William Waterhouse #BookWormSat

"We had 'strayed,' as the Swede put it, into some region where the risks were great.... Where the frontiers of some unknown world lay close about us. It was a spot held by the dwellers in some outer space, a sort of peep-hole whence they could spy upon the Earth." - Algernon Blackwood, "The Willows"

'Beware! beware! of the Black Friar, Who sitteth by Norman stone, For he mutters his prayer in the midnight air, And his mass of the days that are gone.' – Lord Byron recounts in 'Don Juan' (1824) his own encounter with the Black Friar of Newstead Abbey, his ancestral home. #BookWormSat

Centre-left politicians everywhere, STOP DOING THIS! I don’t want my taxes cut! I want my taxes SPENT! On stuff! For me! I can’t hire nurses or build trains. But my taxes can! Yes, raise taxes on the rich, but don’t cut mine!

'The spirit-world around this world of sense Floats like an atmosphere, and everywhere Wafts through these earthly mists and vapoursdense A vital breath of more ethereal air.' -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 🎨Arnold Böcklin #BookWormSat

‘Certain houses, like certain persons, manage somehow to proclaim at once their character for evil.‘ ~ Algernon Blackwood. Since it is Algernon Blackwood’s birthday tomorrow, #BookWormSat Inc will take this opportunity to embrace the supernatural in literature. Do you dare to join us? #GothicSpring

Here's a throwback: In 2024, my local comics group @cloudscapecomics.com asked its members to make one-page comics for an exhibition. Here's the one I did, showcasing how the group was always giving advice and helping each other out

Cloudscape’s submission to the People’s AI Consultation is thoroughly well worded. If you’re a Canadian cartoonist: check this thread, DM jam for the letter and the form to add your signature/support. (Or if you’re a Cloudscape member, review/sign on their Discord) Deadline changed to March 23!

Cat sketches! #artpost

No Democrat should be talking about tax cuts. They should be talking about executing Elon Musk for treason and seizing every dollar he has.

Okay in all seriousness though, the taste of large swathes of the public are increasingly odd and we don’t talk about it enough. A lot of people don’t seem to like movies, music, books…they like podcasts that are just…commentary. No narrative. No artistic expression. Just people giving takes. Why?

Heeeeeeeeyyyy, guess who wants to regulate This Fucking Guy™️ into oblivion, maybe tell your friends in California’s 72nd district to get involved in my race www.kluweoc.com

Junji Ito’s IN OLD RECORDS adapted for audio feat. Poppy & Shoko Nakagawa Junji Ito's classic short story "In Old Records" has been adapted for a vinyl-only audio drama by Ryan Cady. It's now on Kickstarter.

"It was falling upon every part of the lonely churchyard on the hill.... His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead." - James Joyce, "The Dead" #BookologyThursday

"The thing exhibited an atrocious determination to thwart me. It was with me in the church - in the reading desk - in the pulpit - within the communion rails. While I was reading to the congregation, it would spring upon the open book and squat there." - J S Le Fanu, 'Green Tea' #BookologyThursday

MISTRESS OF THE SEAS (Gilling & Sharp, 1974) A hot-headed convent girl falls into a life of piracy when her buccaneer lover is murdered by the British Navy.

"The Earth is going to be married, and this is her bridal dress," whispered the turtle doves to each other.... "Nonsense!" growled the wolf. "I tell you that it is all the fault of the Government, and if you don't believe me, I shall eat you." - Oscar Wilde, "The Star Child" #BookologyThursday

Join us this #BookologyThursday as we start our St. Patrick’s Day celebrations with the theme: 🍃Irish Literature and Culture🍃 …in literature, art, legends, and lore. 🎨Brian Froud

Sorry I'm late folks!! New theme is spring flowers. With your floral legends, vernal blooms, wildflower patches, early-flowering art, & plant life deities. Share a #legend #folklore #quote #fairytale #poetry #film #art #mythology 💫 #LegendaryWednesday

In Scottish folklore, selkies are intelligent seals who often become fascinated by human life. They can remove their seal skins to temporarily become beautiful men and women, and will have romances with the local humans. However, eventually all selkies return to the ocean. #FairyTaleTuesday

In British folklore, when King Gorlagon discovered his wife was having an affair, she used sorcery to turn him into a wolf. The king kept his intelligence, but was hunted as a beast for years. After he regained his human form, Gorlagon told his story to King Arthur. #FairyTaleTuesday

Gil Kane and John Romita covered Amazing Spider-Man 138 (1974). One of my earliest Spidey’s, when I was 8. The cover about gave me nightmares.

Wyrdlings! It’s Douglas Adams’ 74th birthday and we take you to all the nice ones, with: “Wyrd Travelogues and Going Places Wynderful" as this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic. Don’t Panic! Come, gather and tell us tales of journeys into the unknown, from myth, lore and lit!

Using a Star Trek gif, post where you’re at right now.

They're only sorry because they got caught.

An excellent episode of Factually with @adamconover.net that does an excellent job explaining the war in Iran. #Iran #Factually #AdamConover #RezaAsian youtu.be/ZMwNzTRqzjM?...

Lares were deities in Roman mythology that guarded specific places, such as a road, field, town, etc. A domestic lar protected a house. Its presence and blessing was required at all important family events; the lar’s statue was even placed at the table during family meals. #MythologyMonday

This is just misogyny. To an almost cartoonish degree.

The fact that one of the most interesting versions of Captain Hook is probably from the 90's Fox's Peter Pan & The Pirates, is kind of crazy. HA they went hard with his dialog....man I haven't seen this in 20 years.

"Then, one evening, beneath a sky of storm-lit gold, Faronika the Fish rose from the dark waters. Her scales flashed like lightning, her voice rolled like distant thunder. "Skuša! Iglica! Mečarica! Haul you nets! Leave them, leave them be!" www.tumblr.com/whatthecrowt...

incredible that he manages to triangulate the one position that will please literally nobody

According to an English legend, when St. Dunstan was working as a blacksmith, the Devil asked him to shoe his horse. However, Dunstan instead nailed the shoe to the Devil's hoof. He only released him when the Devil swore to never enter a house with a horseshoe nailed to the door. #MythologyMonday

Discover Germany's haunted lakes! #mythologymonday https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Category:Lake

Read the tale of the Dread Pirate Störtebeker - Scourge of the German Seas! #germany #folktale #folklore #pirate https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_St%C3%B6rtebeker_Saga

Make like Snorkmaiden and step outside today, some of us are getting a short reprieve from the winter with some warmer climes! Who else can't seem to wait for spring? #MoominMonday

Either/Or Bandit - existentialcomics.com/comic/645

Carter: also firefly was strangely white considering the supposed in-universe Chinese cultural hegemony Whedon: ok maybe but Whedon: consider this Whedon: it was feminist! Carter: i'm getting to that

Whedon: c'mon guys Whedon: why all the hostility? Whedon: you all loved firefly! Angela Carter: there's been Carter: a reassessment Whedon: what Whedon: no! Carter: almost a referendum, if you will

Joss Whedon: greetings whedonistas and whedonistos! Clive Barker: who're you? Whedon: i'm Whedon: i'm joss whedon! Whedon: c'mon, you remember me! Whedon: i was everyone's woke 90s bae! Barker: hm doesn't ring a bell

New post: Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? (No. No it can't. Come on, now.) davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/can-ai-rep...

If Dolly were to give a press conference and announce she has a surprise, and then tear off her human skin to reveal herself as Trogdora the Burninator, about half of Bluesky (Yr Hmbl Crrspd't included) would immediately swear fealty to her and join whatever crusade she was leading.

friends, I have brought you a gift

It's real.

Thanks to Mirthful Marie Severin for the memories, on this #InternationalWomensDay!

It’s cool that this generation gets to find out the answer to “what would you have done when we started interning the Japanese?” and “what would you have done when we invaded Vietnam?” and “what would you have done in Watergate?” all at the same time.

Rachel Pollack was a science fiction, fantasy, & comic book writer, as well as a teacher and Tarot expert. She is most known to comic fans for her work on the Doom Patrol. #InternationalWomensDay #InternationalWomensDay2026

THE IDIOT (Akira Kurosawa, 1951) Kurosawa’s epic adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel will be streamed in its original two-part 265-minute director’s cut.