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Bog Witch Helpline
@velvetvvitch.bsky.social
🍉 🏳️‍🌈 💜 🎃 🌱🔮 ♾
AuDHD, PTSD, ACAB
Posts in English
Based in Stuttgart 🇩🇪
Artsy, lefty, tired. Perpetually oscillating

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Whitechapel Attic
Brian Catling RA
November 16, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I set myself the goal to understand the cold war by the time I turn 40 in 2030.
The good news is that I'm well on track but the bad news that I'm now stressed AND disgustingly educated about World history and my therapist doesn't know how to help me because the world is like THAT. NOW. AGAIN.
a woman is making a funny face with the word stressed behind her
ALT: a woman is making a funny face with the word stressed behind her
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November 12, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Good morning comrades
The horrors persist
November 7, 2025 at 7:51 AM
I LOVE IT (please don't judge me, it's been a WEEK)

But yeah seriously, it's like a 83 minute long TOOL music video fever dream
Fellow f**ked up movie enjoyers! MAD GOD has landed on Prime Video! And boy, it's something! It's a gross, dystopian hellscape in the Hieronymus Bosch sense. Serious warning if you can't handle explicit body horror. It's a surreal stop motion masterpiece but checks ALL the TWs.
a movie poster for phil tippett 's mad god
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November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Fellow f**ked up movie enjoyers! MAD GOD has landed on Prime Video! And boy, it's something! It's a gross, dystopian hellscape in the Hieronymus Bosch sense. Serious warning if you can't handle explicit body horror. It's a surreal stop motion masterpiece but checks ALL the TWs.
a movie poster for phil tippett 's mad god
ALT: a movie poster for phil tippett 's mad god
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November 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Desperately needed a pick-me-up after today's Gaslighting Doctor Experience™, extra condescending Edition. Felt too guilty for the wine/giant tub of ice cream solution so opted for some shiny fairy lights instead. Not beating the "bunch of Corvids in a Trenchcoat" allegations anytime soon
November 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Have to appreciate the alluring siren call of the _mainline sewer replacement construction_ hole outside my window after a really shitty appointment with a really shitty doctor. The body wants to yeet into the sweet oblivion of improved civil infrastructure
November 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I just found out that the guy (Brian Catling) who wrote the amazingly weird & wonderful 'The Vorrh' (which I just finished & loved) also did the beautiful glass pillow memorial sculpture at the Tower. ARTISTIC RANGE boy howdy
November 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Spent my Halloween watching some Japanese classics. The famously lush 'Kwaidan' (1964) and 'Botan Doro - Peony Lanterns' (1968)

Kwaidan is an anthology of 4 famous tales & a compulsory watch for any film buff. I particularly enjoy seeing Heian Japan on screen so it really hit a sweet spot for me.
November 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Friend (angling for party plans): "Any exciting Halloween plans?"

My brother in christ, I'll get stoned, eat cake and listen to one specific Fleetwood Mac live on repeat, who do think I am
October 31, 2025 at 8:49 AM
It's all chinese propaganda of the intangible heritage kind-yes, all of them, shockingly- but GOD I love those aesthetic "how to wittle ancient chinese lipstick from scratch" videos. They really tapped into something with the formula for people being desperate for a sensory break online.
October 28, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Truth Coming Out Of Her Well To Shame Mankind In October
October 24, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Coming back from an appointment at the hospital, I stopped by the grocery store & a man collapsed in the vegetable Isle. Firestation 300m down the street so EMTs came quick. They were reanimating as I left, 2 distraught people aside, presumably loved ones.
October 24, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Howls has varying performance quality with the narrators but the variety of stories (set in different world cultures/flavours of folk horror + LGBTQ rep!) makes up for it.

His Black Tongue was a lovely, atmospheric and intermittent listen. It's a great cozy evening filler, I reccomend both!
It's spooptide so it's book season for me again. I finished His Black Tongue which I loved, jumped straight into Howls from Dark Ages trying out Spotify's new audiobook feature but was swiftly hit with listening hours limit bs halfway through 🤬
October 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
It's spooptide so it's book season for me again. I finished His Black Tongue which I loved, jumped straight into Howls from Dark Ages trying out Spotify's new audiobook feature but was swiftly hit with listening hours limit bs halfway through 🤬
October 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Been practicing painting plein air. I'm not satisfied with this one tbh but I get to spend time outside in nice environments so it's still a win.

#art #watercolor #pleinair #sketch #sketchbook
October 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Lordy, just remembered my account here exists. Maybe it's aging, I feel less and less desire to participate in social media - great stuff for an artist lol 🥲

Anyway, I'm not dead!
October 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Everyone online is banging in about The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron (it's on my list) but this is my next read. It seems a logical primer before tackling the actionable plan. Are you an #artist who's read this? What did you think?
July 15, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Finished labeling, panning, selecting & making palette Index cards. Big #watercolour, small #gouache. More essential tasks done. A few of the pans will remain mystery paints & most tubes will have to be reclaimed as time goes on but for now I got the basics covered. #art #painting
July 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
A specific hill I'm willing to die on is that the JFK jur Autism/ADHD "it's just a trend diagnosis" skeptics would get silent REALLY fckn quick if they ended up evaluating US military personnel. Much like the other cans of worms I suspect they know well but won't dare nudge open.
July 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Unclench your jaw.

Relax your brow.

Go get a drink of water.

See if you've taken your meds

Eat something.

Doesn't matter what you look like right now, i think you look amazing.

Because you do.

You're a wonderful person.

And have this. 🫂🖤 you did great today. You made it through
July 11, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Another day, another street find.

That'll be the next painting
July 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I somehow managed to severly compact the nerves in my shoulder so I can't sit down for long sessions but I'm making good progress on this in shorter stints. Next steps: adding/balancing colours & contrast, then the next stage of details in metallic Kuretake and ink

#art #watercolor #abstactart
July 12, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Whoever it is who's having a severe midlife crisis in my neighborhood right now, I hope you're ok man
June 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Ages ago I got a bunch of used watercolour supplies off Facebook for 20£. Crazy good deal. Hadn't touched my own in a long time. Now I feel a tiny, faint spark to paint again. It's an emotional process. Been cleaning up & organizing the mystery palettes & unlabeled pans. Now I'm ready to swatch.
June 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM