BraceOfPeacocks
@braceofpeacocks.bsky.social
I write nonfiction and produce the Bowerbird podcast (Oscar Wilde and the curated identity; on haitus) as A Scholar of No Importance, fiction as K. Wilder and I wrangle game designers for Unicycle Games as myself.
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Your annual reminder that the Victorians (and earlier) used to play a Christmas game called Snapdragon where you had a big dish of burning brandy and you had to fish raisins out of it without combusting yourself
November 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Your annual reminder that the Victorians (and earlier) used to play a Christmas game called Snapdragon where you had a big dish of burning brandy and you had to fish raisins out of it without combusting yourself
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People got pissy with me in in the late-2010s for saying I dislike it when players dump a bunch of backstory on me in the first session, so I made a whole-ass system where, in order to tell your backstory, you have to slowly kill your character over 12-15 sessions.
November 19, 2025 at 12:40 PM
People got pissy with me in in the late-2010s for saying I dislike it when players dump a bunch of backstory on me in the first session, so I made a whole-ass system where, in order to tell your backstory, you have to slowly kill your character over 12-15 sessions.
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Incidentally, flu deaths plummeted in winter 2020.
I wonder what people were wearing over their faces that helped stop the spread. I guess we'll never know; the practice appears lost to time.
Incidentally, flu deaths plummeted in winter 2020.
I wonder what people were wearing over their faces that helped stop the spread. I guess we'll never know; the practice appears lost to time.
A mutation in the flu virus means this year’s flu season is expected to be a bad one, potentially even worse than last year’s record-breaking season. www.huffpost.com/entry/severe...
Experts Are Sounding The Alarm On This Winter Virus — Here’s What You Should Know
It's currently starting to hit the United Kingdom and is also popping up in Canada and Japan.
www.huffpost.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Incidentally, flu deaths plummeted in winter 2020.
I wonder what people were wearing over their faces that helped stop the spread. I guess we'll never know; the practice appears lost to time.
Incidentally, flu deaths plummeted in winter 2020.
I wonder what people were wearing over their faces that helped stop the spread. I guess we'll never know; the practice appears lost to time.
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#CovidIsntOver. I had a contact tracing call last Monday. I’m up to date on boosters & I’ve tested clear twice since then, in part due to masking and/or social distancing, & I could do better. I have family with Long Covid. I lost two family members to Covid. With the CDC gone, why take the risk?
I get why a lot of non-disabled people want to pretend respiratory illnesses don’t exist, but as we’re coming up on another event I can’t safely attend, I encourage you to just THINK about wearing a mask at events - or at least on the train/ plane there, where there’s probably no reason not to
November 14, 2025 at 5:07 AM
#CovidIsntOver. I had a contact tracing call last Monday. I’m up to date on boosters & I’ve tested clear twice since then, in part due to masking and/or social distancing, & I could do better. I have family with Long Covid. I lost two family members to Covid. With the CDC gone, why take the risk?
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I love church kneelers and always look for them when I go churchcrawling. I think they are such a wonderful piece of folk art. I was particularly happy to see this delightful trio of guinea pigs in Alberbury church. 💚
#folklore #folkcustoms #history #churches #Shropshire #churchkneelers
#folklore #folkcustoms #history #churches #Shropshire #churchkneelers
November 13, 2025 at 6:02 AM
I love church kneelers and always look for them when I go churchcrawling. I think they are such a wonderful piece of folk art. I was particularly happy to see this delightful trio of guinea pigs in Alberbury church. 💚
#folklore #folkcustoms #history #churches #Shropshire #churchkneelers
#folklore #folkcustoms #history #churches #Shropshire #churchkneelers
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Now's the time of year where my freelance work slows to a crawl and some of my Startplaying #ttrpg campaign sessions begin getting postponed or wrapping up.
If you're looking for someone to run a new system for you and friends or a writer for your project this winter. Hit me up!
If you're looking for someone to run a new system for you and friends or a writer for your project this winter. Hit me up!
November 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Now's the time of year where my freelance work slows to a crawl and some of my Startplaying #ttrpg campaign sessions begin getting postponed or wrapping up.
If you're looking for someone to run a new system for you and friends or a writer for your project this winter. Hit me up!
If you're looking for someone to run a new system for you and friends or a writer for your project this winter. Hit me up!
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On that note,
November 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
On that note,
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+++ 'Bram' Stoker, the author of Dracula, was born on this day, the 8th of November 1847, in Dublin. +++
Tonight in Whitby, we will be raising a glass of the red stuff! V''''V
#bramstoker #dracula #gothichorror #otd
Tonight in Whitby, we will be raising a glass of the red stuff! V''''V
#bramstoker #dracula #gothichorror #otd
November 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM
+++ 'Bram' Stoker, the author of Dracula, was born on this day, the 8th of November 1847, in Dublin. +++
Tonight in Whitby, we will be raising a glass of the red stuff! V''''V
#bramstoker #dracula #gothichorror #otd
Tonight in Whitby, we will be raising a glass of the red stuff! V''''V
#bramstoker #dracula #gothichorror #otd
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Leila's Hair Museum, the most unusual attraction in Independence, Missouri, closed in September. Thanks to the founder’s granddaughter, the massive collection of wreaths made out of human hair is finding new homes at museums across the country.
A Missouri hair museum was the only one of its kind. Its unusual collection is being saved
Leila's Hair Museum, the most unusual attraction in Independence, Missouri, closed in September. Thanks to the founder’s granddaughter, the massive collection of wreaths made out of human hair is finding new homes at museums across the country.
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November 3, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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![Star Trek The Next Generation scene. Pic 1: Crusher stands alone in a large storage room filled with many plastic bagged dead bodies laying on tables. Pic 2: Close up on Crusher looking serious, closed caption reads: [SHEET RUSTLES]
Pic 3: Camera shot further out, showing three of the bagged bodies now sitting straight up behind Beverly.
Picture 4: View panned out even further to show the larger room and all bodies previously laying flat are now sitting straight up.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:i6ocendj65mmddfndihajsky/bafkreib7ce5swsmdvht36taguqxo7byvcrld3hfmidty2u3ay6npidvloe@jpeg)
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Happy Halloween!
Keep a close eye out today for witches being driven around the countryside by their root vegetable chauffeurs in a hollowed out marrow car.
Keep a close eye out today for witches being driven around the countryside by their root vegetable chauffeurs in a hollowed out marrow car.
October 31, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Happy Halloween!
Keep a close eye out today for witches being driven around the countryside by their root vegetable chauffeurs in a hollowed out marrow car.
Keep a close eye out today for witches being driven around the countryside by their root vegetable chauffeurs in a hollowed out marrow car.
I'm getting my antique furniture that's been in storage since we had to flee the old house delivered today and I'm so nervous about the state of it after 2 years. To say nothing of the feelings that have been dredged up.
A frivolous example of which is how much I miss cheap Midwestern antiques.
A frivolous example of which is how much I miss cheap Midwestern antiques.
October 29, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I'm getting my antique furniture that's been in storage since we had to flee the old house delivered today and I'm so nervous about the state of it after 2 years. To say nothing of the feelings that have been dredged up.
A frivolous example of which is how much I miss cheap Midwestern antiques.
A frivolous example of which is how much I miss cheap Midwestern antiques.
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Yes please.
How to Hibernate.
Scanned by us from the 1952 book Animal Fair, by the Provensens.
It’s time.
Scanned by us from the 1952 book Animal Fair, by the Provensens.
It’s time.
October 26, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Yes please.
I like the colors of this Lively Ghosts dress I thrifted but found the length/shape kind of lackluster so with the power of some ribbon and blanket binding I hid some ribbon channels on the inside with the stitches concealed in the black stripes and now I can bustle front and back to my liking!
October 23, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I like the colors of this Lively Ghosts dress I thrifted but found the length/shape kind of lackluster so with the power of some ribbon and blanket binding I hid some ribbon channels on the inside with the stitches concealed in the black stripes and now I can bustle front and back to my liking!
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Mindlessly hung my towel on the back of the door last night. Woke up at 2am, saw this in the dark and almost shat meself.
October 22, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Mindlessly hung my towel on the back of the door last night. Woke up at 2am, saw this in the dark and almost shat meself.
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You have to be in it for the love of the game. You have to be obsessed. If you let a bot do your research for you, your bloodline is weak, your ancestors are ashamed, and you will not survive the winter.
October 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
You have to be in it for the love of the game. You have to be obsessed. If you let a bot do your research for you, your bloodline is weak, your ancestors are ashamed, and you will not survive the winter.
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The painting of me that I hide in the attic because it reflects my sins still looks fine. Looks just like me. Even though I ate both halves of that kitkat yesterday.
October 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The painting of me that I hide in the attic because it reflects my sins still looks fine. Looks just like me. Even though I ate both halves of that kitkat yesterday.
I gotta buy a back brace/posture brace. I'm trying to finish darning this sleeve and I'm sore as hell from sitting like a shrimp 🍤
October 16, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I gotta buy a back brace/posture brace. I'm trying to finish darning this sleeve and I'm sore as hell from sitting like a shrimp 🍤
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Australian witch and artist Rosaleen Norton was devoted to the god Pan, whom she believed ‘is the spirit whose body — or such of it as can be seen in these four dimensions (the fourth being time) — is the planet Earth.’ #WyrdWednesday
October 15, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Australian witch and artist Rosaleen Norton was devoted to the god Pan, whom she believed ‘is the spirit whose body — or such of it as can be seen in these four dimensions (the fourth being time) — is the planet Earth.’ #WyrdWednesday
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🔪Welcome to the Genziana Hotel🏔️
Crowdfunding for my gothic horror mystery rpg is live! Investigate the hotel, meet unnerving guests and creepy staff, find dreadful clues, answer horrible questions and discover what happened to Marga, the boyish girl with the wild curls.
Crowdfunding for my gothic horror mystery rpg is live! Investigate the hotel, meet unnerving guests and creepy staff, find dreadful clues, answer horrible questions and discover what happened to Marga, the boyish girl with the wild curls.
The Girls of the Genziana Hotel by Hendrik ten Napel - Gamefound
Play as chambermaids in a 19th century alpine hotel investigating the disappearance of their friend.
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October 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
🔪Welcome to the Genziana Hotel🏔️
Crowdfunding for my gothic horror mystery rpg is live! Investigate the hotel, meet unnerving guests and creepy staff, find dreadful clues, answer horrible questions and discover what happened to Marga, the boyish girl with the wild curls.
Crowdfunding for my gothic horror mystery rpg is live! Investigate the hotel, meet unnerving guests and creepy staff, find dreadful clues, answer horrible questions and discover what happened to Marga, the boyish girl with the wild curls.
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J is for M R James from my #folkhorroralphabet series.
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#BLOCTOBER2
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#BLOCTOBER2
October 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
J is for M R James from my #folkhorroralphabet series.
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#BLOCTOBER2
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#BLOCTOBER2
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The French-language edition of Brindlewood Bay is crowdfunding!They are at nearly 400% funded, with 5 days remaining in their campaign. Check out the campaign if you game in French, or if you know someone who would be interested, let them know about it! www.gameontabletop.com/cf5531/brind...
Brindlewood Bay (Storyline)
Crowdfunding: Brindlewood Bay (Storyline)
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October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The French-language edition of Brindlewood Bay is crowdfunding!They are at nearly 400% funded, with 5 days remaining in their campaign. Check out the campaign if you game in French, or if you know someone who would be interested, let them know about it! www.gameontabletop.com/cf5531/brind...
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October 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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We're at $3,152 out of $15k and that's amazing! We have just been conditionally approved for a new apartment pending background checks and we're steps closer to getting our family in track to leaving DC! Please share this wherever you can and thank you so much!
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Donate to Wes & Bran's Urgent Move: A Fresh Start Needed, organized by Wesley Franks
Hello and thank you for taking the time to read this. It feels like more … Wesley Franks needs your support for Wes & Bran's Urgent Move: A Fresh Start Needed
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September 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
We're at $3,152 out of $15k and that's amazing! We have just been conditionally approved for a new apartment pending background checks and we're steps closer to getting our family in track to leaving DC! Please share this wherever you can and thank you so much!
gofund.me/6ae338dd2
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