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Petra Pavlíková
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Nature lover, forest worshipper, folklore enthusiast, and story-teller from the edge of the woods. Always lost somewhere between reality and tales. 🌿
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Petra Pavlíková @elsinor.bsky.social · Feb 28
Some of my Oak Tree Tales, tiny illustrations and stories connected with an oak. The alt text includes also the stories.

In a garden on the edge of a city once stood an oak. 🌿
#OakTreeTales
A photo of an iPad lying on a table. The Procreate app is open, showing a watercolour illustration of two oak leaves and an acorn. On the table around the iPad are dry oak leaves and several acorns. Oak Tree Tales In a garden on the edge of a city once stood an oak. Some people walked by and never even noticed the tree. But those who did, oh, those who did, they all saw a very different tree, and along with that came many different stories. The oak evoked memories of places long forgotten, loves lost, scars half healed, a lot of little joys overshadowed by the daily realities, and many other wonders both beautiful and scary. Digital watercolour illustration depicting a large oak leaf on the left and a boline (druidic sickle) on the right. In between are a small acorn and a smaller oak leaf. Oak Tree Tales - Druidess Once a young woman walked by the oak. She was deep in thought, lost in her troubles and pain. She couldn’t understand why, but she stopped and stared at the tree in awe. Something in her stirred. Slowly, familiar feelings accompanied by memories started to appear. And then, all at once, she could remember everything. Her present troubles and pain seemed meaningless and were quickly forgotten. She saw herself in another lifetime, and she knew who she was then and now. Who she always has been. Druidess. Digital watercolour illustration depicting a fox against a backdrop of three large oak leaves. Oak Tree Tales - Fox It wasn’t only people who found the oak irresistible. Many animals were drawn to it as well. Each dawn and twilight, a fox from the nearby forest could be seen admiring the oak’s beauty. Digital watercolour illustration depicting a yellow pansy on the left and an oak leaf on the right. Oak Tree Tales - Pansies The old man noticed the oak from afar, and each step towards it brought his childhood memories closer. He was once again a little boy in his granparents’ garden, sitting under the old oak, and reading his beloved book about fairies whose favourite flowers were pansies. The echo of times of safety and happiness brought some warmth to his old bones. He smiled.
elsinor.bsky.social
#BookWormSat

"Erl-King will do you grievous harm.
...
The Erl-King lives by himself all alone in the heart of the wood in a house which has only the one room. His house is made of sticks and stones and has grown a pelt of yellow lichen."
Angela Carter
Picture shows misty forest during colder months with several birch trees standing in the foreground.
November 15, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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savebutterflies.bsky.social
A project to restore ancient forests in the Scottish Highlands is significantly boosting moth biodiversity, a Butterfly Conservation study has found. 🌳

Read the full story 👉 buff.ly/AyKPh6e

📷: Patrick Cook, Sarah Wanless
#MothsMatter #TeamMoth
Sunlight shining through mature trees in a woodland, with an understory of new growth and bilberry covered in dewy cobwebs Two ecologists opening a moth trap in woodland Pebble Prominent moth resting on a lichen-covered rock A small brown and white moth called Catoptira permutatellus resting on a lichen-covered rock
November 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
elsinor.bsky.social
It's a perfect misty morning for taking pictures of lichens. :)
In the picture, I have on my palm two tiny twigs covered in lichens. Under my hand is lawn covered with colourful fallen leaves.
November 2, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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hellohistoria.bsky.social
#Halloween 🎃

The Yew was regarded as the gentle guardian of the dead 💀

It was formerly revered so much in Wales that to cut it down was considered an act of desecration, while to burn any part of it was looked upon as sacrilege 🔥

#Wales #History
October 31, 2025 at 8:35 PM
elsinor.bsky.social
#BookWormSat

"Darkling I listen; and, for many a time
I have been half in love with easeful Death"
John Keats
Picture shows a book of poems by John Keats open on the page with Ode to a Nightingale with the Darkling I listen line being visible. My hand keeps the book open. I wear dark nail polish and a moth ring.
November 1, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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dov.bsky.social
There is almost nothing in Tolkien as pervasive as his love for the small and vulnerable, for the meek and the gentle. These are not the values of these thugs and they do not have any claim to them.
October 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
elsinor.bsky.social
Autumnal garden :)
Picture shows garden lawn with moss, some grass, and clover. There are quite a few fallen leaves.
October 26, 2025 at 12:22 PM
elsinor.bsky.social
#BookWormSat

In Czech and Slovak folklore, vodník is a male water spirit. He looks human and can survive outside water if his clothes are wet. He tricks and drowns people, then keeps their souls in teacups underwater. Vodník is also the main character in one of the ballads by Karel Jaromír Erben.
The picture shows the book Kytice (A Bouquet of Folk Legends), a collection of ballads based on folkloric themes by the Czech romantic writer and folklorist Karel Jaromír Erben, opened on the page where the ballad Vodník begins. It also shows an illustration by Míla Fürstová that depicts Vodník and his human bride underwater.
October 25, 2025 at 1:50 PM
elsinor.bsky.social
Artemis and Hekate by @nikitagill.bsky.social :)
Picture shows a smooth collie sniffing a copy of the book Hekate by Nikita Gill.
October 23, 2025 at 11:21 AM
elsinor.bsky.social
#BookWormSat

"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness"
John Keats
Photo shows misty forest during autumn. The forest floor is covered with fallen leaves, but there are still some leaves left on the trees as well.
October 18, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Reposted by Petra Pavlíková
signemaene.com
If you would like to learn more about Flanders's witches, something witchy has appeared on Kickstarter! 🌙 Consider aiding us in spreading these tales across the four winds.
It means the whole world to us!

kck.st/492NqKt
The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Old Flanders
An illustrated short story collection inspired by witch folklore from Flanders
kck.st
October 17, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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bookwormsat.bsky.social
'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! 🍂
Art by John Atkinson Grimshaw. Painting of a woman walking on a path. Bare trees, house in the distance, dark colours. Night.
October 17, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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europeangreens.eu
🎉 GREEN WIN! The Czech Greens (@zeleni.cz) are back in the Parliament for the first time since 2010!

Congrats to Gabriela Svárovská & Irena Ferčíková Konec.

💚 They will fight for greener & fairer solutions for the people of Czechia & we can’t wait to see it!
The Czech Greens are back in the Parliament
October 6, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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kalaelizabeth.bsky.social
Dragon Age and Mass Effect have never been perfect, but they have ALWAYS been at the forefront of progress of representation in video games. From queer romances, queer characters to trans identities and exploration of gender and identity. Infuriating that we have to worry about this changing.
September 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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trickweekes.bsky.social
Buyers: So your games... guns and football, yes?

EA: Mmhmm, mmhmm, mostly guns and football, yep.

Buyers: No gay stuff? No politics we're not going to like?

EA: Haha, definitely not! Hey, could you give me one sec? I just need to shut down a studio real quick.

kotaku.com/report-saudi...
Saudi Arabia & Other Investors Nearing $50 Billion Deal To Buy EA
The massive deal might be announced officially as soon as next week according to sources with knowledge of the situation
kotaku.com
September 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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mallaichte.bsky.social
a good story, you don’t really write. it was always there. you just uncover it.

#dragonage ✧ #art
An illustration of Varric Tethras from the Dragon Age game series. He is sitting at a table, writing in a book with a large quill - behind him are four large colourful stained glass windows, each one depicting characters and scenes from the four main Dragon Age games; Origins, 2, Inquisition, and The Veilguard.
September 25, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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voiceofobrien.bsky.social
Oh it’s on. <3
September 23, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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blynxart.bsky.social
I'm accumulating a collection of tiny mushrooms growing on other tiny things #mushroommonday #fungifriends
September 22, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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savebutterflies.bsky.social
Here's something to brighten your Monday 💛

The comical-looking Canary-shouldered Thorn has pale orange-brown wings with scalloped edges, allowing them to blend in perfectly with the autumn foliage.

📷: Kate Reece, Iain H Leach, Will Langdon
#MothMonday #MothsMatter
A bright yellow fuzzy moth with feathered antennae, facing directly at the camera while perched on a branch Canary-shouldered Thorn moth resting on a lichen-covered branch Canary-shouldered Thorn moth doing an excellent impression of the autumn leaf it's resting next to on a branch, against a black background
September 22, 2025 at 9:46 AM
elsinor.bsky.social
I kinda love Nish Kumar.
September 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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nikitagill.bsky.social
The idea that there is a PRO FASCIST RALLY happening in London right now, with lead white supremacists speaking at it, goes to show just how much these violent people have been coddled by white centrists and liberals. They were told their ideas had value and they SHOULD have platforms.
September 13, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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imadifferentbird.myatproto.social
Nothing says "radical feminism" like submitting to a machine programmed by the worst men in the world to lie to you.
September 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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theotheralice.bsky.social
‘Often when I imagine you,
your wholeness cascades into many shapes.
You run like a herd of luminous deer,
and I am dark;
I am forest.’

📚Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Hours, Book I
📷 mine

#BookWormSat #poetry #forests
The German original: Oft wenn ich dich in Sinnen sehe,/ verteilt sich deine Allgestalt;/ du gehst wie lauter lichter Rehe/, und ich bin dunkel/ und bin Wald. Forest. Tall beeches. The sun shining through the foliage.
September 6, 2025 at 10:55 AM
elsinor.bsky.social
#BookWormSat

"There once was a forest in the north of Spain, so old that it could tell stories long past and forgotten by men."
Pan’s Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro and Cornelia Funke
The photo shows the book Pan’s Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro and Cornelia Funke lying in the forest on a moss-covered piece of wood. The book is open at the beginning of the first chapter.
September 6, 2025 at 10:55 AM