Bevan Thomas
@bevanthomas.bsky.social
Author, editor, and teacher of creative writing, speculative fiction, and comics. Thinker of strange thoughts. Member of Cloudscape Comics. MFA in Creative Writing from UBC.
Ukko is a god of the sky, weather (especially thunder), and the harvest in Finnish paganism. Though often invoked in myths, he rarely appears. Modern sources frequently call Ukko the king of the gods, though that may be an error caused by comparing him to the Greek god Zeus.
#MythologyMonday
#MythologyMonday
December 29, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Ukko is a god of the sky, weather (especially thunder), and the harvest in Finnish paganism. Though often invoked in myths, he rarely appears. Modern sources frequently call Ukko the king of the gods, though that may be an error caused by comparing him to the Greek god Zeus.
#MythologyMonday
#MythologyMonday
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Disturbing graves is an effective form of divination, if done right.
But if done wrong, the dead will make their displeasure known in no uncertain terms.
#germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory #magic
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Summoning_of_the_Dead
But if done wrong, the dead will make their displeasure known in no uncertain terms.
#germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory #magic
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Summoning_of_the_Dead
The Summoning of the Dead
wiki.sunkencastles.com
December 29, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Disturbing graves is an effective form of divination, if done right.
But if done wrong, the dead will make their displeasure known in no uncertain terms.
#germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory #magic
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Summoning_of_the_Dead
But if done wrong, the dead will make their displeasure known in no uncertain terms.
#germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory #magic
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Summoning_of_the_Dead
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✨It’s that Bacchus time of year✨
This hazy time between Saturnalia and the New Year has me a bit befuddled - much like this depiction of Bacchus! Hope these days are treating you well.
#MosaicMonday #AncientRome
This hazy time between Saturnalia and the New Year has me a bit befuddled - much like this depiction of Bacchus! Hope these days are treating you well.
#MosaicMonday #AncientRome
December 29, 2025 at 7:25 AM
✨It’s that Bacchus time of year✨
This hazy time between Saturnalia and the New Year has me a bit befuddled - much like this depiction of Bacchus! Hope these days are treating you well.
#MosaicMonday #AncientRome
This hazy time between Saturnalia and the New Year has me a bit befuddled - much like this depiction of Bacchus! Hope these days are treating you well.
#MosaicMonday #AncientRome
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Greetings, Myth Lovers! Join us for the theme: STORMS, GALES & WINDS. Tell us a myth that features strong winds of any kind and use the hashtag #mythologymonday for boosts. If joining from #bluesky: follow @ap.brid.gy so we can interact with your posts. See […]
[Original post on thefolklore.cafe]
[Original post on thefolklore.cafe]
December 28, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Greetings, Myth Lovers! Join us for the theme: STORMS, GALES & WINDS. Tell us a myth that features strong winds of any kind and use the hashtag #mythologymonday for boosts. If joining from #bluesky: follow @ap.brid.gy so we can interact with your posts. See […]
[Original post on thefolklore.cafe]
[Original post on thefolklore.cafe]
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"Prompt Thieves in the Al Art Community"
AI sloppers (is that a term?) crying that their prompts are being stolen is more beautiful than anything AI could produce
December 29, 2025 at 1:16 AM
"Prompt Thieves in the Al Art Community"
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I do not want AI in my house.
I do not want AI to generate a blouse.
I do not want it in my games
I do not want it to win fame.
I do not want it, to be fair,
Because I do not want it anywhere
I do not want AI to generate a blouse.
I do not want it in my games
I do not want it to win fame.
I do not want it, to be fair,
Because I do not want it anywhere
I don't want gen AI in my browser.
I don't want gen AI in my PC.
I don't want gen AI in my art.
I don't want gen AI in my games.
I don't want gen AI in my music.
I don't want gen AI in my movies.
I don't want gen AI in my books.
I don't want gen AI in my cart.
I don't want gen AI in my LIFE.
I don't want gen AI in my PC.
I don't want gen AI in my art.
I don't want gen AI in my games.
I don't want gen AI in my music.
I don't want gen AI in my movies.
I don't want gen AI in my books.
I don't want gen AI in my cart.
I don't want gen AI in my LIFE.
I don't want gen AI in my browser.
I don't want gen AI in my PC.
I don't want gen AI in my art.
I don't want gen AI in my games.
I don't want gen AI in my music.
I don't want gen AI in my movies.
I don't want gen AI in my books.
I don't want gen AI in my cart.
I don't want gen AI in my LIFE.
I don't want gen AI in my PC.
I don't want gen AI in my art.
I don't want gen AI in my games.
I don't want gen AI in my music.
I don't want gen AI in my movies.
I don't want gen AI in my books.
I don't want gen AI in my cart.
I don't want gen AI in my LIFE.
December 28, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I do not want AI in my house.
I do not want AI to generate a blouse.
I do not want it in my games
I do not want it to win fame.
I do not want it, to be fair,
Because I do not want it anywhere
I do not want AI to generate a blouse.
I do not want it in my games
I do not want it to win fame.
I do not want it, to be fair,
Because I do not want it anywhere
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011 - Silver Surfer
Julie Bell - who, with her husband Boris Vallejo, would later paint all the cards in the last Marvel Masterpieces set of the 90s - with an evocative Silver Surfer.
#TradingCardADay #MM2 #SilverSurfer #JulieBell
Julie Bell - who, with her husband Boris Vallejo, would later paint all the cards in the last Marvel Masterpieces set of the 90s - with an evocative Silver Surfer.
#TradingCardADay #MM2 #SilverSurfer #JulieBell
December 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
011 - Silver Surfer
Julie Bell - who, with her husband Boris Vallejo, would later paint all the cards in the last Marvel Masterpieces set of the 90s - with an evocative Silver Surfer.
#TradingCardADay #MM2 #SilverSurfer #JulieBell
Julie Bell - who, with her husband Boris Vallejo, would later paint all the cards in the last Marvel Masterpieces set of the 90s - with an evocative Silver Surfer.
#TradingCardADay #MM2 #SilverSurfer #JulieBell
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Christmas can't be bought in a store
December 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Christmas can't be bought in a store
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"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep."
Shakespeare, " The Tempest"
Painting : "Jacob's Dream" by William Blake.
#ShakespeareSunday
#FreeTheme
#TheTempest
#WilliamBlake
Shakespeare, " The Tempest"
Painting : "Jacob's Dream" by William Blake.
#ShakespeareSunday
#FreeTheme
#TheTempest
#WilliamBlake
December 28, 2025 at 11:26 AM
"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep."
Shakespeare, " The Tempest"
Painting : "Jacob's Dream" by William Blake.
#ShakespeareSunday
#FreeTheme
#TheTempest
#WilliamBlake
Shakespeare, " The Tempest"
Painting : "Jacob's Dream" by William Blake.
#ShakespeareSunday
#FreeTheme
#TheTempest
#WilliamBlake
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Here is my opinion.
Black Canary is one of the best heroes in comics.
She has style, wit, honor, integrity, empathy, and an infallible sense of devotion to doing the right thing.
She will kick your ass if you need it, and then offer you a hand up off the ground.
No one else quite like her.
1/
Black Canary is one of the best heroes in comics.
She has style, wit, honor, integrity, empathy, and an infallible sense of devotion to doing the right thing.
She will kick your ass if you need it, and then offer you a hand up off the ground.
No one else quite like her.
1/
a woman in a superhero outfit is screaming with her mouth open
ALT: a woman in a superhero outfit is screaming with her mouth open
media.tenor.com
December 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Here is my opinion.
Black Canary is one of the best heroes in comics.
She has style, wit, honor, integrity, empathy, and an infallible sense of devotion to doing the right thing.
She will kick your ass if you need it, and then offer you a hand up off the ground.
No one else quite like her.
1/
Black Canary is one of the best heroes in comics.
She has style, wit, honor, integrity, empathy, and an infallible sense of devotion to doing the right thing.
She will kick your ass if you need it, and then offer you a hand up off the ground.
No one else quite like her.
1/
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"Canadas too big with too much empty space between major cities" yeah man that means the train can go faster and straighter. Thats like.... what you want in high speed rail
My whole life we’ve been told that The US is simply too big to have high speed rail
December 28, 2025 at 1:26 AM
"Canadas too big with too much empty space between major cities" yeah man that means the train can go faster and straighter. Thats like.... what you want in high speed rail
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CASTLE
"Double Cross-Over" (Season 5, Episode 25)
Alexis Castle (Molly C. Quinn) earns an internship with the law firm Truman-Mann & Associates and is assigned to shadow the firm's lead investigator, renowned sleuth Veronica Mars (Kristen Bell), much to the delight of her father (Nathan Fillion).
"Double Cross-Over" (Season 5, Episode 25)
Alexis Castle (Molly C. Quinn) earns an internship with the law firm Truman-Mann & Associates and is assigned to shadow the firm's lead investigator, renowned sleuth Veronica Mars (Kristen Bell), much to the delight of her father (Nathan Fillion).
December 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
CASTLE
"Double Cross-Over" (Season 5, Episode 25)
Alexis Castle (Molly C. Quinn) earns an internship with the law firm Truman-Mann & Associates and is assigned to shadow the firm's lead investigator, renowned sleuth Veronica Mars (Kristen Bell), much to the delight of her father (Nathan Fillion).
"Double Cross-Over" (Season 5, Episode 25)
Alexis Castle (Molly C. Quinn) earns an internship with the law firm Truman-Mann & Associates and is assigned to shadow the firm's lead investigator, renowned sleuth Veronica Mars (Kristen Bell), much to the delight of her father (Nathan Fillion).
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THE TANGLEWOOD
(Terence Fisher, 1967)
A desperate young widow (Susan Denberg) hires famed occult investigator Thomas Carnacki (Peter Cushing) to investigate the haunted forest which surrounds her newly inherited estate in Nottinghamshire, which has a reputation for "devouring wayfarers".
(Terence Fisher, 1967)
A desperate young widow (Susan Denberg) hires famed occult investigator Thomas Carnacki (Peter Cushing) to investigate the haunted forest which surrounds her newly inherited estate in Nottinghamshire, which has a reputation for "devouring wayfarers".
December 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
THE TANGLEWOOD
(Terence Fisher, 1967)
A desperate young widow (Susan Denberg) hires famed occult investigator Thomas Carnacki (Peter Cushing) to investigate the haunted forest which surrounds her newly inherited estate in Nottinghamshire, which has a reputation for "devouring wayfarers".
(Terence Fisher, 1967)
A desperate young widow (Susan Denberg) hires famed occult investigator Thomas Carnacki (Peter Cushing) to investigate the haunted forest which surrounds her newly inherited estate in Nottinghamshire, which has a reputation for "devouring wayfarers".
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SO, you want to network but don't know where to begin.
1. DON'T. Make friends instead
2. It's not about what they can do for you
3. Famous people are just people first
4. If you do have to gush, don't just say 'i love your work' , pick one thing and say why. Open ended compliments are awkward
1. DON'T. Make friends instead
2. It's not about what they can do for you
3. Famous people are just people first
4. If you do have to gush, don't just say 'i love your work' , pick one thing and say why. Open ended compliments are awkward
December 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM
SO, you want to network but don't know where to begin.
1. DON'T. Make friends instead
2. It's not about what they can do for you
3. Famous people are just people first
4. If you do have to gush, don't just say 'i love your work' , pick one thing and say why. Open ended compliments are awkward
1. DON'T. Make friends instead
2. It's not about what they can do for you
3. Famous people are just people first
4. If you do have to gush, don't just say 'i love your work' , pick one thing and say why. Open ended compliments are awkward
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DER JANUSKOPF (F. W. Murnau, 1920)
A man becomes obsessed with a marble bust of the Roman god Janus in this unlicensed German adaption of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'. Starring Conrad Veidt, Margarete Schlegel, and Bela Lugosi.
A man becomes obsessed with a marble bust of the Roman god Janus in this unlicensed German adaption of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'. Starring Conrad Veidt, Margarete Schlegel, and Bela Lugosi.
March 4, 2025 at 3:02 AM
DER JANUSKOPF (F. W. Murnau, 1920)
A man becomes obsessed with a marble bust of the Roman god Janus in this unlicensed German adaption of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'. Starring Conrad Veidt, Margarete Schlegel, and Bela Lugosi.
A man becomes obsessed with a marble bust of the Roman god Janus in this unlicensed German adaption of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'. Starring Conrad Veidt, Margarete Schlegel, and Bela Lugosi.
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THE FEAST OF WALPURGIS (Robert Siodmak, 1944)
Deranged aristocrats (Lon Chaney Jr. and Louise Allbritton) invite a coterie of friends, enemies, and rivals (including Evelyn Ankers, Robert Paige, Cedric Hardwicke) to a Hexennacht celebration that quickly devolves into madness.
Deranged aristocrats (Lon Chaney Jr. and Louise Allbritton) invite a coterie of friends, enemies, and rivals (including Evelyn Ankers, Robert Paige, Cedric Hardwicke) to a Hexennacht celebration that quickly devolves into madness.
August 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
THE FEAST OF WALPURGIS (Robert Siodmak, 1944)
Deranged aristocrats (Lon Chaney Jr. and Louise Allbritton) invite a coterie of friends, enemies, and rivals (including Evelyn Ankers, Robert Paige, Cedric Hardwicke) to a Hexennacht celebration that quickly devolves into madness.
Deranged aristocrats (Lon Chaney Jr. and Louise Allbritton) invite a coterie of friends, enemies, and rivals (including Evelyn Ankers, Robert Paige, Cedric Hardwicke) to a Hexennacht celebration that quickly devolves into madness.
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Tots & pears.
December 27, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Tots & pears.
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‘The night is darkening round me,
The wild winds coldly blow;
But a tyrant spell has bound me
And I cannot, cannot go.
The giant trees are bending
Their bare boughs weighed with snow.
And the storm is fast descending,
And yet I cannot go.’ ~ E Brontë #BookWormSat
🖼️ Pekka Halonen
The wild winds coldly blow;
But a tyrant spell has bound me
And I cannot, cannot go.
The giant trees are bending
Their bare boughs weighed with snow.
And the storm is fast descending,
And yet I cannot go.’ ~ E Brontë #BookWormSat
🖼️ Pekka Halonen
December 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
‘The night is darkening round me,
The wild winds coldly blow;
But a tyrant spell has bound me
And I cannot, cannot go.
The giant trees are bending
Their bare boughs weighed with snow.
And the storm is fast descending,
And yet I cannot go.’ ~ E Brontë #BookWormSat
🖼️ Pekka Halonen
The wild winds coldly blow;
But a tyrant spell has bound me
And I cannot, cannot go.
The giant trees are bending
Their bare boughs weighed with snow.
And the storm is fast descending,
And yet I cannot go.’ ~ E Brontë #BookWormSat
🖼️ Pekka Halonen
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Dean Marney: i got one!
Marney: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the Christmas tree that ate my mother
Marney: don't worry, it's gentle enough for a child
Marney: but fucked up enough that you'll remember it as an adult
Marney: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the Christmas tree that ate my mother
Marney: don't worry, it's gentle enough for a child
Marney: but fucked up enough that you'll remember it as an adult
December 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Dean Marney: i got one!
Marney: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the Christmas tree that ate my mother
Marney: don't worry, it's gentle enough for a child
Marney: but fucked up enough that you'll remember it as an adult
Marney: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the Christmas tree that ate my mother
Marney: don't worry, it's gentle enough for a child
Marney: but fucked up enough that you'll remember it as an adult
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Charles Dickens: [throwing open window] You boy! what day is today?
Victorian moppet: oy, what day is it? why, it's the week after Christmas, sir!
Dickens: the week after Christmas???
Dickens: jesus christ
Dickens: what a fuckin fiasco
Dickens: i bet this is hans Christian Andersen's fault
Victorian moppet: oy, what day is it? why, it's the week after Christmas, sir!
Dickens: the week after Christmas???
Dickens: jesus christ
Dickens: what a fuckin fiasco
Dickens: i bet this is hans Christian Andersen's fault
December 27, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Charles Dickens: [throwing open window] You boy! what day is today?
Victorian moppet: oy, what day is it? why, it's the week after Christmas, sir!
Dickens: the week after Christmas???
Dickens: jesus christ
Dickens: what a fuckin fiasco
Dickens: i bet this is hans Christian Andersen's fault
Victorian moppet: oy, what day is it? why, it's the week after Christmas, sir!
Dickens: the week after Christmas???
Dickens: jesus christ
Dickens: what a fuckin fiasco
Dickens: i bet this is hans Christian Andersen's fault
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Charles Dickens: hey it's Christmas!
Dickens: you know what that means!
Clive Barker: Christmas was last week, man
Dickens: it means
Dickens: what?
Dickens: no no that can't be!
Dickens: you know what that means!
Clive Barker: Christmas was last week, man
Dickens: it means
Dickens: what?
Dickens: no no that can't be!
December 27, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Charles Dickens: hey it's Christmas!
Dickens: you know what that means!
Clive Barker: Christmas was last week, man
Dickens: it means
Dickens: what?
Dickens: no no that can't be!
Dickens: you know what that means!
Clive Barker: Christmas was last week, man
Dickens: it means
Dickens: what?
Dickens: no no that can't be!
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
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December 27, 2025 at 6:40 PM