I thought I'l long sold out of my lino print they're calling KRAMPUS MUST BE APPEASED!!!, but it turns out I still have a good ten copies in the haunted cupboard. I've just made them available in the shoppe... 🔥 slipperyjack.bigcartel.com

Thanks to @bogwitch.bsky.social I have now rekindledy desire to go to Dublin... Bog Bodies AND Harry Clarke stained glass

I saw this reel on insta of a 70’s pwnco and realised this is a teenage version of the Mari Lwyd from St. Fagans!! The ears have got bigger (as what happens in old age) but same base skull

18 December 1823: Mary Anning discovers another plesiosaur skeleton at Lyme Regis, just a week after finding her near-complete specimen. This was the third to be found in the space of 9 days. It was missing its head, and the bones were pyritised, but it was purchased by her friend William Buckland.

Let me just say: Fuckers.

I saw this reel on insta of a 70’s pwnco and realised this is a teenage version of the Mari Lwyd from St. Fagans!! The ears have got bigger (as what happens in old age) but same base skull

I didn’t want to pick a favourite but in the end I put a bid on the singing Mari Lwyd, top left. All of these support great causes, get on it.

As a person who is still a novice at being alone during xmas tide (normally Ive had family with me but now am mostly spending xmas tide on my tod) I have a quandary- do I wrap the packages Ive bought for myself or do I just leave them in cardboard?

There was an advert that appeared on insta about doing a city escape activity. The Lincoln one was finding a missing crown All I could think of is M. R. James’ A Warning to the Curious

"And Tiny Tim, who did not die" = heartwarming, Christmassy. "And Tiny Tim, who would not die" = sinister, alarming.

Teaching the Nativity today Me: the three wise men brought Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh Student: Frankenstein?

Here it is with Hungry Eyes music

Apologies to any catholic followers, and I should’ve done this on St. Lucy’s day. But my brain thought I should do this. Here is St. Lucy with Little Mari, with Little Mari making a special piece of toast for her

I was wondering where the chonk was and found her in the most unlikely of places

Tomorrow! Who has tickets?

As someone who has experienced the thing that the Duke of Malborough has been convicted of, let me echo this statement

I’m excited to show you my completed Jack Frost sculpture! Jack Frost is a personification of frost, snow, ice, sleet, winter and extreme cold. ❄️

haha another Christmas pressie to myself

We’re not yet halfway toward our Pledge Drive goal for this December. If you’d like to give a gift that helps cartoonists and defends freedom of expression this Christmas you can still get involved! More info here: cartoonistsrights.org/donate

just found another *swoon*

Tomorrow night! I'll be talking about ILLUSIONS OF PRESENCE, POSSESSED, all my other British Library books, what it's like being AuDHD and trying to jump in to (and climb out of) information rabbit holes and being a literary gravedigger. Come join me! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/illusions-...

Every major news organization should be writing about how insane this is and how, if he takes this country to war (tomorrow?), it is the act of a madman.

Tomorrow night, we'll be gathering around the virtual fire for a night of spooky stories with the online book launch for ILLUSIONS OF PRESENCE! The ideal way to get into the Christmas 'spirit'... www.eventbrite.com/e/illusions-... #ghosts #ghoststories #christmas #xmas #festive #festivities

I have a Mari Lwyd, made by @skullsandsheets.bsky.social

Adore the British-themed mural in my hotel in Valletta, including: yassified Virgin Queen, Churchill with pigeon, and for some reason General Rochambeau (not very British? like really pointedly not? did they think he was Nelson? wrong number of arms for a start) in a Spitfire that says “dong” on it

i'll keep saying it: using the machine that tricks humans to generate placeholder you intend to replace is the least productive thing you could do. Stuff will slip through and you are going to waste additional resources tracking it all down

That much, not that me!

I’m doing a label at 6am and accidentally put my first name in the ‘where are you sending this from’ Apparently, Orkney doesn’t like me that me (also I kind of want to visit this place for the lols)

Not a great photographer so the colours probably kinda of out and there is more reflection than I'd like but this beauty for the charity auction @skullsandsheets.bsky.social runs arrived today and it's beyond gorgeous.

Have some Yule Chonk ASMR

The Krampus Nutcracker and his little krampette friend have joined the Icelandic Yule Cat (jolakotturinn) figurine as festive friends on the fireplace.

Keeping that Krampus Kontent going and digging out my small collection of vintage Austrian Krampuskarten. I really need to find some proper way of displaying / storing these, my earliest is postmarked 1899. Love the embossed fellas...

A vitally important book by @bschillace.brandyschillace.com that everyone should read. Prescient. Heart-wrenching. Timely. 👇

I forgot to say I was visited the other night by the 1st Slug of Christmas I fear I will be visited by 3 more and then will be forced to change my ways

Dear world, I have written a cat horror. (The cat survives, but the story is scary.) This is particularly for my Domestication readers. Please look forward to it! In the meantime, enjoy my pencil drawing of a cat.

I’m most at home doing monochrome pictures. I wish I could control my tremor more to do it manually with my ink pen on paper

An attempt at an Aubrey Beardsley Chapter illustration with a Mari Lwyd

'Here We Come a-Wassailing' linocut print combining the Christmastide Wassail and the Orchard Wassail. The latter folkloric practice is done to awaken the cider apple trees and to scare away evil spirits to ensure a good harvest of fruit in autumn. I regret not including Ian McShane.

TWO DAYS TO GO until my online ILLUSIONS OF PRESENCE talk. I'd love it if you can make it - 36 tickets sold, would love to sell 50 - only £8.83 (which includes fee). Talk is also recorded so you can watch it at your leisure (if you buy a ticket). www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/illusions-...

Daily Angel Chonk

MARI LWYD CHARITY AUCTION PART 2 A collection of postcards from @drawingdownlore.bsky.social and @anthecorollaria.bsky.social arrived for the auction @blacksmoke1033.bsky.social donated 5 enamel badges, raising money for each charity Starts at 7pm tonight! www.ebay.co.uk/usr/skullsns...

The Bonehorse of Hookland #BookmarkoftheDay @hookland.bsky.social

Came home from work to fine my yokai night parade book and my bake zori from @acodecodoll.bsky.social came in today, it's a nice surprise to come home to after a stressful day

I felt this morning that no one has made the very realistic UK Christmas song of 'Wet Christmas' rather than 'White Christmas' it does serve as a double entendre thou..so maybe thats why

Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago. His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship." He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

Light Anguirus on fire!! Spotted on eBay: a vintage Beetland candle set. Each piece is its own candle.

Anyone can become disabled. Anyone can become chronically ill. It’s not a choice. It’s not a moral failing. It’s not something you can “try harder” your way out of. You can be the healthiest person in the world & completely disabled in an instant. It’s a minority group you can join anytime.