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ruth e. hale
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A photo of a peaceful white and black cat perched on top of a person’s thigh as they crouch in a snow field with a hoe.
November 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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autumn autumn autumn
A selfie of me sitting outside with a cat on my lap.
September 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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before #PrideMonth is over I need y’all to see this drawing my fandom friend did of me with my #nonbinary imaginary friends gang 💛🤍💜🖤

#Merlin #Loki #GoodOmens #art
A greywash comic lineart drawing of four figures walking and each bearing a nonbinary pride flag. They are the characters Merlin from the BBC TV show, Loki from the MCU, Crowley from Good Omens, and the user.
June 22, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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solstice sunset on Skye at 10:30pm
A photo of a soft purple sky with a bright shock of red where the sun is setting over a grassy moorland.
June 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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sea loch therapy
A photo of a person smiling submerged in dark water with sea kelp.
June 20, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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cats just fundamentally get the on your period binging doomed old man yaoi vibe (we’re rewatching Interview with the Vampire)
A photo of a cat cuddled up under a person’s arm in bed with a laptop playing TV.
May 31, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Thor coming to protect the land
A child’s drawing of Thor holding his hammer with a blazing sun above and an energetic cloud below.
May 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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we’re working toward a Saxon land protection charm on the next new moon. Thor’s rune, ᚦ thorn, will be our defense and channeling agent, as Mjölnir is used in defense and to channel lightning. the charm requires Thor-hallowed water dripped onto a small reconstruction of the land and its inhabitants.
A photo of a rune book open to the page on ᚦ thorn. Behind it is a plan for a land protection spell drawn onto a large sheet of paper.
May 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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lived long enough to become my parents’ worst nightmare from the ‘90s (queer occult aunt reclaiming her pre-Christian ancestry and teaching other people’s children about the moon) #pagansky #witchsky
A photo of a table spread with a homemade moon phase chart and other educational materials. A left hand is outstretched showing two silver rings with a triskellion and a mushroom skull design.
May 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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goatherd? I hardly know her
A selfie of a person smiling in a sunny pasture with goats grazing.
May 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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I’ll miss you daffodils but cuckoo calls and Beltane fire say summer is here
A selfie of a person smiling and holding three distinctive daffodils.
May 2, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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fanart given to me by a seven-year-old after the tale of Mjölnir stolen by the giant Thrym in which Thor goes undercover as bridal Freyja with a veil on and Loki shapeshifts into his handmaiden and does all the talking to recover it
A child’s drawing of a woman with the word “Loki” written above it.
May 2, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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meant this to be a corresponding middle finger permanent wear ring to the one I’ve kept on my left hand for over four years, but it fits my ring finger better. married to the Old Religion now, or something.
A photo showing a shiny silver ring band with a triskele design on a right hand ring finger. The left hand in the background has a silver ring on its middle finger.
April 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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subtle cosplay will get me out the house every time
A person taking a mirror selfie wearing a grey sweater over a red shirt and a headscarf. A photo from BBC Merlin with similar clothing elements.
April 12, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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I just know a coastal walkway hates to see me coming with a peanut butter banana sandwich in my backpack and no place to be
A photo of a person standing in front of the sea wearing walking clothes and a headscarf.
April 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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new procrastination activity dropped: illuminating medieval recipes as I try to cook them from the Middle English instructions
A sketchbook page showing a recipe for Buttyrd Wortys in an illuminated manuscript style.
April 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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quatrain for rutabaga: you with alias of neep and swede / who appears to be harvested by DS Lite / will join my garden annals indeed / and in broth with tattie be my favorite bite
A photo of four rutabaga in a garden bed. A photo of a hand holding two freshly dug rutabaga over a a garden bed. A photo of a peeled and cut rutabaga on a cutting board. A photo of a bowl of soup with chunks of rutabaga, carrot, potato, and leaves of collard greens.
March 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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professional greenhouse mouser
A selfie of a person in gardening clothes smiling next to a white and black cat inside a polytunnel.
March 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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parsnip has got to be one of the best peasant crops. still producing outside in March from the previous season and only sweeter for the winter frost, full of fiber and micronutrients, flavorful and filling from the starchy carbs, can prepare it any way you’d eat a carrot or a potato.
A photo of a hand holding several dirty parsnips above a cutting board with a peeler and one cleaned parsnip. A photo of an iron pan with simmering diced parsnips.
March 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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binge-watching Merlin not in a big fucking nerd who wasn’t allowed to watch TV in this era kind of way but rather in a cool, smart, “In popular culture” section of my Religion degree dropout studies kind of way
A photo of a laptop with the 2008 BBC series Merlin pulled up on a counter next to lit candles and a teapot. On the shelf below are five books related to Druids, magic, runes, British and Norse mythology, two crochet dolls, a tobacco pipe, a knife, and a mug full of red, green, yellow, and black candles.
March 7, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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same as it ever was
A selfie of an adult with short hair and facial piercings holding a long tobacco pipe in their mouth and wearing a yellow waterproof jacket. An old photo of a child smiling and wearing a yellow raincoat by the ocean.
March 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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poem for the NZ DOC hut warden I had a sex dream about in a bunk room with 40 strangers after you gave a really informative lecture about invasive mammals introduced to Aotearoa by Europeans
Enjoy immediately rabbits brought to solve the problem of shipwrecked sailors to solve the rabbits, little mercenaries with mouths full of teeth: apex predators the size of cucumbers so cute until they smile one cup of boiling water two hands pressed into thick brown moss 80 million years interrupted when stoat tastes flightless bird and can't hibernate anymore every day is mast year: the hunger never quits four months to find a renegade hedgehog now poison Weet-Bix rains from the sky she only swam to Resolution Island took a turn around the sound but thank te atua for mistletoe back on beech trees
March 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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every translation of the “Lokasenna” I read catches me off guard in a new way. heart eyes @ my sissy god 🔥
Njorth said: "It is a small matter whether women sleep with their own men or others'. But it's a surprise to hear such a sissy god talking here, when he's borne children." Loki said: "Silence, Njorth. You were sent from the west as a hostage for the gods. The daughters of Hymir used your mouth as a urinal, and you've tasted plenty of piss." ! :o
February 28, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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picks from Lighthouse Radical Bookshop which was really nicely stocked and organized. it’s such a pleasure to support independent booksellers.
A photo of a hand holding two books outside on the street in front of a red door. The books are called 1) Trans Femme Futures, and 2) The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth.
February 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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starting my British mythology/folklore/pagan religion research era while I’m ‘home’ in the UK. I was specifically looking for Blood and Mistletoe at Foyles but flipped through its neighbor The Land of the Green Man by @profcarolyne.bsky.social and had to grab it too. so excited to get into it.
A photo of a hand holding two books with green covers near a bookshelf: 1) Blood and Mistletoe by Ronald Hutton, and 2) The Land of the Green Man by Carolyne Larrington.
February 18, 2025 at 9:11 AM