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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You know M.R. James would have had a field day with this.
The identification of a 'smiling' object found on Holy Island in Northumberland has been confirmed by BGS senior paleontologist Jan Hennissen.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Smiling' fossil discovered in Northumberland
The unusual looking fossil is estimated to be a few hundred million years old dating to the Carboniferous period.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 19, 2026 at 2:24 PM
You know M.R. James would have had a field day with this.
I turned on Antiques Roadshow to fall asleep to and spotted an old Green Fairy colleague in the first segment 😹
February 17, 2026 at 2:58 AM
I turned on Antiques Roadshow to fall asleep to and spotted an old Green Fairy colleague in the first segment 😹
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Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking around a microscopic volvox algae colony. 🫧🐻🧪
February 13, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking around a microscopic volvox algae colony. 🫧🐻🧪
Gunning for the Best Auntie award. Everything I own is covered in glitter from the double glitter tulle underskirt (sorry not sorry to my brother and sister in law)
February 10, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Gunning for the Best Auntie award. Everything I own is covered in glitter from the double glitter tulle underskirt (sorry not sorry to my brother and sister in law)
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Spotted this during my lunch break.
February 9, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Spotted this during my lunch break.
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What I love about that six word Hemingway story, "For sale: baby shoes, never worn" is that in those few words we instantly grasp the sadness of what it is trying to tell us: the baby was so freakishly massive when it was born that it could never wear the shoes its parents had bought for it.
February 6, 2026 at 6:27 PM
What I love about that six word Hemingway story, "For sale: baby shoes, never worn" is that in those few words we instantly grasp the sadness of what it is trying to tell us: the baby was so freakishly massive when it was born that it could never wear the shoes its parents had bought for it.
A dear friend has the same problem I do finding stays for the rental/fantasy fair that fit her chest so when she's here to visit next week I'm surprising her with a pair of reversible mermaid-themed stays interlined with powermesh instead of twill to accommodate a heat-related condition 😸
January 30, 2026 at 8:22 PM
A dear friend has the same problem I do finding stays for the rental/fantasy fair that fit her chest so when she's here to visit next week I'm surprising her with a pair of reversible mermaid-themed stays interlined with powermesh instead of twill to accommodate a heat-related condition 😸
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Both the title, and entire content, of my hypothetical TED talk
I made this for @kjsoar.bsky.social back on the old site
January 30, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Both the title, and entire content, of my hypothetical TED talk
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The Signalman (Postgate, 1976)
January 29, 2026 at 11:15 PM
The Signalman (Postgate, 1976)
Apparently, I'm too cynical and paranoid, but you would be too if you'd spent most of your adult life finding out over and over and over again who people really are. Grifters and predators all the way down.
January 19, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Apparently, I'm too cynical and paranoid, but you would be too if you'd spent most of your adult life finding out over and over and over again who people really are. Grifters and predators all the way down.
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January 12, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Irish moots, how the hell do you say the name "Ossian"? I've tried looking it up in various places and a) the pronunciations vary wildly and b) the comments are all like "no, this isn't right". Help?
January 10, 2026 at 2:06 AM
Irish moots, how the hell do you say the name "Ossian"? I've tried looking it up in various places and a) the pronunciations vary wildly and b) the comments are all like "no, this isn't right". Help?
Broke a teeeeeeeny tiny bone in my wrist while packing up a rental tent while I was working at REI. It hasn't been right since.
My mom had broken the same bone in the same wrist the year previous lifting a patient's head to position them for a scan.
My mom had broken the same bone in the same wrist the year previous lifting a patient's head to position them for a scan.
What's the most ridiculous way you ever hurt yourself? I got out of the tub, skidded in water and tripped over the toilet. Ankle sprain.
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January 6, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Broke a teeeeeeeny tiny bone in my wrist while packing up a rental tent while I was working at REI. It hasn't been right since.
My mom had broken the same bone in the same wrist the year previous lifting a patient's head to position them for a scan.
My mom had broken the same bone in the same wrist the year previous lifting a patient's head to position them for a scan.
I am just a store GM standing before game publishers at large, asking for the NUMBER OF PLAYERS your game works best for to be featured prominently in your game descriptions. I need to be able to tell people how many players each session can run for🙏 Please.
January 4, 2026 at 8:39 PM
I am just a store GM standing before game publishers at large, asking for the NUMBER OF PLAYERS your game works best for to be featured prominently in your game descriptions. I need to be able to tell people how many players each session can run for🙏 Please.
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In all seriousness, if anyone knows any queer-friendly writing/social groups around North London please let me know, every one I've found so far either imploded or had weird vibes
Seeing there's a queer online writing group I can actually reach 🙂
Seeing it's on Discord 😭
Seeing it's on Discord 😭
January 3, 2026 at 1:51 PM
In all seriousness, if anyone knows any queer-friendly writing/social groups around North London please let me know, every one I've found so far either imploded or had weird vibes
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We are entering peak flu season, and a new variant is spreading quickly across the country, driving a sharp rise in illness and hospitalizations. https://to.pbs.org/45BmT4l
Why the flu season is so bad and how you can protect yourself
We are entering peak flu season, and a new variant known as subclade k is spreading quickly across the country, driving a sharp rise in illness and hospitalizations. Public health officials say this c...
to.pbs.org
January 3, 2026 at 4:00 AM
We are entering peak flu season, and a new variant is spreading quickly across the country, driving a sharp rise in illness and hospitalizations. https://to.pbs.org/45BmT4l
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Happy New Year. Bring this energy to 2026.
January 1, 2026 at 12:16 AM
Happy New Year. Bring this energy to 2026.
Signed up for a second non-credit course! Gonna take a super basic grant writing 101 type course along with my admin professional cert course. I am going to get a big girl job this year, I swear to god. I can't stay at the game store.
December 31, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Signed up for a second non-credit course! Gonna take a super basic grant writing 101 type course along with my admin professional cert course. I am going to get a big girl job this year, I swear to god. I can't stay at the game store.
Working retail in NYC always makes it feel like I'm cheating at these somehow but: I once sold Dame Helen Mirren a truly fascinating number of travel-sized bug lotions when I worked at the REI in SoHo. To this day, I wonder where she went after that purchase that she needed that much bug lotion.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 30, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Working retail in NYC always makes it feel like I'm cheating at these somehow but: I once sold Dame Helen Mirren a truly fascinating number of travel-sized bug lotions when I worked at the REI in SoHo. To this day, I wonder where she went after that purchase that she needed that much bug lotion.
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"Whenever five or six English-speaking people meet round a fire on Christmas Eve they start telling each other ghost stories. Nothing satisfies us on Christmas Eve but to hear each other tell authentic anecdotes about spectres"
Jerome K. Jerome, 1891 #PhantomsFriday #BookChatWeekly #GothicAdvent
Jerome K. Jerome, 1891 #PhantomsFriday #BookChatWeekly #GothicAdvent
December 19, 2025 at 8:57 AM
"Whenever five or six English-speaking people meet round a fire on Christmas Eve they start telling each other ghost stories. Nothing satisfies us on Christmas Eve but to hear each other tell authentic anecdotes about spectres"
Jerome K. Jerome, 1891 #PhantomsFriday #BookChatWeekly #GothicAdvent
Jerome K. Jerome, 1891 #PhantomsFriday #BookChatWeekly #GothicAdvent
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December 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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The soles of the damned return!
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
More than 400 leather hobnailed boots, thought to date back to the 19th Century, have been found.
www.bbc.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The soles of the damned return!
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Looking for someone to do a talk on the "romance of graveyards" - why our gothic hearts love them so much, any tales regarding love, death & cemeteries, etc.
It’s for Writing the Occult: Love & Death which is, naturally, on 14 Feb. All online. Kicks off 1pm UK.
writingtheoccult.carrd.co
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It’s for Writing the Occult: Love & Death which is, naturally, on 14 Feb. All online. Kicks off 1pm UK.
writingtheoccult.carrd.co
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Writing the Occult: Events
All about the
writingtheoccult.carrd.co
December 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Looking for someone to do a talk on the "romance of graveyards" - why our gothic hearts love them so much, any tales regarding love, death & cemeteries, etc.
It’s for Writing the Occult: Love & Death which is, naturally, on 14 Feb. All online. Kicks off 1pm UK.
writingtheoccult.carrd.co
🧵⬇️
It’s for Writing the Occult: Love & Death which is, naturally, on 14 Feb. All online. Kicks off 1pm UK.
writingtheoccult.carrd.co
🧵⬇️
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"Woe to those who have not cleaned their houses - it is said that the Schnabelperchten will cut open their stomachs with long scissors and empty the rubbish into them" ✂️
December 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM
"Woe to those who have not cleaned their houses - it is said that the Schnabelperchten will cut open their stomachs with long scissors and empty the rubbish into them" ✂️
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Advice to all writers from my most fucked up character.
December 10, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Advice to all writers from my most fucked up character.