Rabbit, Rabbit

"YOU HAVE IT!!" (iykyk) One of the lines from the 3-book collection of folklore and urban legend inspired stories, perfect to tell in a dark room with a flashlight shoved under your chin. 📚 Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark collected by Alvin Schwartz & illustrated by Stephen Gammell #BookWormSat

#Caturday offering of flowers, candy, and !!!!🌞feets🌞!!!!

Currently listening to this biography of Mary Putnam Jacobi (very much recommend!) and the more things change ...

view outside my window of the squirrel who scams me out of peanuts every morning

TODAY, January 29 at 2:00PM ET, we’re doing a free talk called “Experiencing King Arthur’s Cornwall” for The Great Courses! Register here: www.thegreatcoursesjourneys.com/liveevents #greatcoursesjourneys #carterhaughschool #arthurian #folklore

Tucked herself in

An example of why I believe Serwer is the most brilliant political writer of this era. If you don't have time for the entire article right now, at least read the last paragraph.

🐆Break (They're in Den 2)

The quotes from current and former ICE/DHS officials are notable and offer a glimmer of hope Gilf link 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...

Holy shit. Like Tiananmen Square levels of bravery.

I haven't been online much due to ongoing health issues & work deadlines - but I want to send my love and solidarity to friends & publishing colleagues in Minnesota, and their communities. Below is a useful "How to Help" list compiled by sff writer Naomi Kritzer. naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...

Long, very worthwhile read ⬇️ www.bbc.com/news/article...

you can't reason people out of cruelty that they revel in

Perfect #Caturday TailCurl 🦝❣️

When the silver lines grouped themselves into form and being, it was a if lustrous spirits danced airily a ghost dance of joy, now flashing for an instant into vivid life, now paling and fading into silver mist that still retained their gracious contours. -Edna Worthley Underwood- #PhantomsFriday

Do join us during the #FolkloreThursday hashtag day break for this FREE ONLINE event this February!

I would like some type of review system where there is a spoiler strictly for whether or not the pet/animal featured prominently in the story makes it to the end.

Soft words and a safe place to sleep; a woman's hand in his hair; a last, wrinkled apple cut carefully in half and savored by candlelight, in the dead of winter--all worth more than power ... Marie Jakober 📖The Black Chalice 🖼️Johannes Vermeer #BookologyThursday

"I don't think they've ever been hungry," she said. Empathy and compassion are requirements, not afterthoughts,for justly holding any increment of power.

One day sale! 30% off Classic Tees: www.redbubble.com/people/forgo... #art #illustration #vintagevibes #victorianart #fairytale #tshirts #sales #wearableart

"On this day in history was born a professor. Not an ordinary, university or college professor, nor yet a professor of maths or sciences, he was a writer and dreamer, and that means comfort"

Happy New Year 🖤✨ and Rabbit Rabbit 🤍🫂 🎨Wendy Andrew

Spooky things I'd like to share: The haunted Willard Library has 24/7 ghost cams 👻🎥 www.willardlib.org/children-s-r... It is possible to buy a virtual tool of the Winchester Mansion 😮🏰 winchestermysteryhouse.com/tours/

You can buy all our books on Lulu here, with all profits donated to conservation projects by the Wildlife Trusts www.lulu.com/spotlight/an...

Remember if YOU think the year is already over, The Pequod sails out of Nantucket on Christmas and sets the tone for the most chaotic, mesmerizing, and absolutely monstrous year yet. It is NEVER too late to take on a giant white whale and…bring the whole crew to ruin! 🐳 ⛵️ ✨ 😭 #melvillemonday

An evocative winter image by my Dartmoor neighbour Virginia Lee:

....I prepared to sit down and amuse myself by singing carols, all alone; regardless of Joseph's affirmations that he considered the merry tunes I chose as next door to songs. Emily Brontë 📖 Wuthering Heights #BookWormSat 🖼️Jan Steen

Comment period for these are coming to an end. These will gut the ESA. - www.regulations.gov/document/FWS... - www.regulations.gov/document/FWS... - www.regulations.gov/document/FWS... - www.regulations.gov/document/FWS... #endangeredspeciesact #ESA #wildlife #nature

Not impressed by the guest spot this #Caturday

From that Christmas Eve Grosse was a changed man ... The persecuting presence of the specter became more and more constant; and wherever the poor lawyer went, there was the aged man at his side. The Ghost of Rosewarne by Robert Hunt #PhantomsFriday 🖼️Kay Nielsen

Some lore claims the Otherworld is the simultaneous opposite of the one we live in, meaning most there are left-handed. This led to the belief left-handed people are actually visitors from the Otherworld. (NB Left-handed people are awesome either way!) #WyrdWednesday Art: M.C. Escher

And I dream in my waking dreams, and deep in the dreams of sleep. Fiona MacLeod. 📖Linked 🖼️Edmund Dulac #FairyTaleTuesday

Artus Scheiner, from 'The Golden Princess'. #fairytale #fairy #goblin #fantasyart #illustration

A wonderful conference. I'll be presenting. www.nsrgathering.org/about.html

"I was only going to say that heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy." 📖Emily Brontë #BookWormSat 🖼️Clausen

At the back of the drawing were some lines of writing ... Saint Bernard, who puttest devils to flight, pray for me most unhappy. I saw it first on the night of Dec. 12, 1694: soon I shall see it for the last time. I have sinned and suffered, and have more to suffer yet. Dec. 29, 1701. #BookWormSat

Star-shaped Epiphany cookies, piparkakut, can be used to make wishes. Hold a cookie in one hand, and use a digit from the opposite hand to break the cookie into three pieces: eat them before another word is said and your wish will come true. #FolkloreThursday

The love of a bone dog, she thought, bending her head down over the paw again. All that I am worth these days. Then again, few humans were truly worth the love of a living dog. Some gifts you could never deserve. 🦴 T. Kingfisher 🦴 📖 Nettle & Bone 🖼️Frank Bramley #BookologyThursday

I was a little bit ill on Friday, and totally forgot I'd set up an exhibition for Krampusnacht! It features the video I made of last year's trip to watch the Krampuslauf in Welschnofen (Nova Levante), South Tyrol, in northern Italy near Bolzano. www.spatial.io/s/DeeDeeChai...

Squirrel break

Icicle crop is coming in well this year

"Magic = art + connection."⁠ ⁠ -Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman, The Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic⁠ #carterhaughschool #folklore

Oh, forgiveness. So powerful, a blade that can slice away rot so a wound doesn't fester. But take care that instrument isn't weaponized, twisted into the wound, leaving only you with the pain. Joy McCullough 📖Enter the Body 🖼️ Attributed to Charles Robert Leslie #BookWormSat

I envy people who have the willpower to keep their pets out of their bedrooms #Caturday

Merry Krampusnacht!🌲 by Margaryta Yermolayeva #Krampusnacht #Krampus

For academic friends researching fantasy and mythic/folkloric literature:

Best hot chocolate and winter book recs? #writingcommunity ☃️📚🖋️✨