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

"I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free; and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed?" 📖 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 🖼️ Ramon Casas #BookWormSat

"Amazonian" women continually find ways to break taboos, defy opinion, survive the injury and wounds which follow, heal their hurt, and even withstand over decades the social and professional ostracism meted out to rebels and other non-conformists. --Norma Lorre Goodrich-- #BookWormSat 🖼️ E E Rand

A profile shot so we can all enjoy the magnificence of whiskers worn by the Floof Queen #Caturday

After today's show, you'll be the most interesting guest at dinner with *fascinating* tidbits about the history of tableware. For example, the fork was originally viewed as sinful, but then pasta got involved. 😈 Get the details and be the life of the Thanksgiving party! 🎧 pod.link/173429229

In black-and-white films, the enterprising set designers made the perfect snow out of corn flakes painted white ... hehe, frosted flakes ❄️❄️❄️ #WyrdWednesday

Wyrdlings! In the bleak mid-November grey light made us give you: "Novembre Noir - Black & White, from Games of Chess to White Snows, Black Ravens and Whisky Blends" As this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic. Tell us something that’s monochrome from folklore, myth or pop culture.

New cheetahs 🐆♥️ nationalzoo.si.edu/webcams/chee...

Requesting that someone figure out how to change the calendar to make #Caturday have more hours

#Bright by night ♡ Clontarf, North Dublin #Blueskyartshow #photography #cityscape #seascape #Ireland #moonlight

Question One of the Great #HouseholdLore Publication Day Quiz! Of Roofs and Attics. Bonus folklore: thatchers used to 'sign' their work with bespoke finials so everyone could see who'd thatched what. #WatkinsWisdom #Folklore #Booksky #Crafts #PublicationDay

Those two friends that are always fighting... A video of a rat catching and biting a bat raises many questions : Goats and Soda www.npr.org/sections/goa...

squirrel friend getting their winter fluff on Have a good weekend everyone 😘🖤🍂

Accessible explanation of recent legal events, and also a reminder a court order is not required to fund SNAP during the shutdown, this is a choice

I know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do not hate Those that I guard I do not love; W.B. Yeats 🖼️Étienne Léopold Trouvelot #BookWormSat

Just a cat who is very much not spoiled

I traded my pants in for the racing snail and have no regrets

I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not

A very specific form of divination is watching the configuration of moths around fire #WyrdWednesday 🖼️ Dancing in the Flames by Gyoshū Hayami

Penny for the guy, you Wydlings? With Bonfire Night falling on #WyrdWednesday, we go one better and give you: “Burn, Baby, Burn!” As this week’s topic. Let’s hear some fiery stories from lore, myth, lit and history!

Sale at redbubble! Up to 50% off everything www.redbubble.com/people/forgo... #art #fairytale #illustration #Victorian #tshirt #ChristmasGiftIdeas #decor #greetingcards #Christmas #gifts #giftideas #wallartforsale #preraphaelite #homedecor

"Plainly, there's something within me that's ready to believe in life after death. And it's not the least bit interested in whether there's any sober evidence for it." 📜Carl Sagan 🎨 by Karen Vaughan #BookWormSat

Happy 🐇🐇 #Caturday

i take a nap surrounded by books filled with women who are not dead but could be (if the body was the only place to live) --Alexis Pauline Gumbs-- 📖From the afterword of The Gilda Stories 🎨Abigail Larson #BookWormSat

To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings. To Know the Dark🌑Wendell Berry 🖼️ Zdzislaw Beksinski #PhantomsFriday

I’ve said this before but white guilt is useless. I don’t want people to feel guilty for things they had no part in, and guilt easily curdles into resentment. But everyone regardless should feel an obligation to correct injustice, especially if you somehow benefit. bsky.app/profile/mich...

Looking forward to what I trust will be a special #PhantomsFriday this week since it very conveniently falls on #Halloween. I'm looking forward to seeing some new contributors here (or at least feeling their unearthly presence). If not, I shall go and sulk in my coffin! #ghosts #folklore #hauntings

Here are the winners of Jezebel's 2025 Scary Story Contest. Read at your own risk! www.jezebel.com/10-spine-chi...

Do you know why the Frankenstein monster is green? The incredible makeup artist Jack Pierce mixed a greenish color that would show up the perfect unsettling shade of gray in black and white films. As color films eventually became the norm, the green stayed. #WyrdWednesday

For this #FairyTaleTuesday 🖤 before Halloween, must restate my opinion that Cinderella is an autumn fairytale because there are pumpkins, costumes, and even haunted trees in some versions 🍂👸🏻🎃 🖼️Fausto Zonaro

Wyrdlings! With Halloween looming large over us this week, it's time for our annual #WyrdWednesday Spooky Spectacular! Bring us ghosts, goblins, and ghouls; witches, werewolves, and will-o'-the-wisps!👻🧙‍♀️🧟‍♂️👿

17th century (I think) woodcut of a witch. I don't know whether it was supposed to be scary at the time it was printed but it's adorable now. #witch #witchcraft #folklore #Halloween #cats

If cats seem extra sleepy the day after Halloween, it may be, according to Scottish lore, because they were busy magically carrying witches to their grand celebrations the night before. 🎨 Sarah Conradsen #FolkloreSunday

There should be a series called The East Wing where every episode is just rubble sitting there with occasional rats darting around.

Sale ending soon - 25% off everything: redbubble.com/people/forgo... #art #illustration #vintage #gifts #fairytale #tshirt #posters #wallartforsale #Christmas #ChristmasGiftIdeas #Victorian #greetingcards #preraphaelite #giftforher #giftforhim

Well, there is still an hour of day, And long the brightness of the West Will light us on our devious way... From the poems of C. Bell (Brontë) #BookWormSat 🖼️Léon Spilliaert

‘Mother of beetles, only unclench your hand: I’ll fly through the candle’s mouth like a singeless moth.’ Witch Burning, Sylvia Plath. Tomorrow, we celebrate all the ghosts, ghouls, monsters, vampires, bats, witches of literature ~ all are welcome for this spectral #BookWormSat 🦇

Getting those serious thoughts out of the way before nap time this #Caturday

All the wild witches those most noble ladies, For all their broom-sticks and their tears, Their angry tears, all gone. --W.B. Yeats-- #bookwormsat 🎨 Konstantin Makovsky

I think a lot of my mutuals would enjoy this game 🏺⚡

“The beauty of our system is that it isolates everybody. Each person is sitting alone in front of the tube, you know. It's very hard to have ideas or thoughts under those circumstances. You can't fight the world alone.” ― Noam Chomsky, 1992 doc "Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media")

#phantomsfriday tomorrow and it would be great if a few more followers of a #FolkloreThursday disposition would care to join in with some ghostlore. In addition, ghostly art, literature, poetry, info on haunted sites (and more) are always welcome. Perhaps take a peek at @phantomsfriday.bsky.social.

The power of stories lies in their ability to access the deep layers of the psyche, providing a mirror to our inner world. – Marie-Louise Von Franz

In honor of #NoKingsDay I had to share this gem by Czech artist Cyril Bouda. Be safe, everyone! 🎨 Cyril Bouda #NoKings #wethepeople #theemperorsnewclothes #hanschristianandersen #speakup #speakout #speakyourtruth #fairytales #folkloreandfairytales

Happy October!🎃 ————————— #grimmsbery #witchart #gothicart #mystic #artist #digitalart #happyoctober #illustration #art #artwork

Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling, Give me autumnal fruit ripe and red from the orchard, Give me an arbor, give me the trellis'd grape, Give me fresh corn and wheat, give me serene-moving animals teaching content. ✍🏼 Whitman 🎨 @grimmsbery.bsky.social #BookWormSat

'Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away; Lengthen night and shorten day; Every leaf speaks bliss to me Fluttering from the autumn tree.' -Emily Brontë Tomorrow #BookWormSat celebrates autumn! Join us! 🍂

Eleanor Johnson's new book, Scream With Me, examines how the rise of feminism was reflected in horror movies. “Even from the most hardcore, pro-life standpoint, you cannot root for Rosemary to keep that pregnancy,” she told Jezebel. www.jezebel.com/horror-movie...

I am getting this look because I sneezed