Beth Winter 🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺🇵🇱🇺🇦
bwinter.bsky.social
Beth Winter 🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺🇵🇱🇺🇦
@bwinter.bsky.social
Books, cats, Takarazuka and other musicals. Warsaw, Poland. She/her or zie/zir. yukinojou.tumblr.com
Feminist festival (with speeches, choral performance and a one act play) in Lublin in 1925. @myalchod.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
When museums and Bluesky collide. @adapalmer.bsky.social the only copy of the printed Sforziad signed by the illuminator says hi! (Yes, I told people to look it up in Inventing The Renaissance.)
November 29, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Oh look a pseudo Roman statue. Why is he wearing a crop top? Okay, sluttiest Roman emperor... Why does my brain say Hadrian?

(It's Hadrian. No idea how my brain made the connection. Except the six months I spent basically living in the Louvre as a kid.)
November 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
TWO FREAKING MONTHS.

Got my Mouse 😸😸😸
November 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
See what I have to put up with
November 18, 2025 at 11:02 AM
See, this way you can admire Percy without being in danger of his seat stealing wiles.
November 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Extra variations on the motto of The Wee Con by @amuseoffyre.bsky.social - KWZ Złota Kaczka golden ink and a spiky Textura blackletter from Mira Calligraphia Monumenta.
October 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Sparkly version!
October 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Very curious what KWZ Syrenka will look like in a fountain pen - it's freaking spectacular in dip pen.
October 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I had tegaderm just give up two hours after application on my wrist tattoo. My artist said to just apply saran wrap, chany every four hours during the day (sleeping through the night is fine) and gently wash and disinfect during changes (octenidine). It healed fine - that was two years ago.
August 2, 2025 at 5:29 PM
what perfect album came out when you were 16?
July 26, 2025 at 12:48 PM
July 14, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I have finally given in to enamel pins.
July 9, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Warsaw can be awfully pretty sometimes. I remember when this bit was an industrial wasteland, now it's gone from Fallout to Star Trek.
June 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
New toy! Small Polish pen maker and visual artist Jan Smaga of Wiland Pens released a budget resin version of the already cheaper than his usual, ebonite Wiland Popularne, and I finally decided on a colour. (Not ruling out buying an ebonite version later because gorgeous colours too)
May 22, 2025 at 6:38 AM
It's 26c in the middle of April. My aircon is disconnected because renovations. Current mood:
April 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The importance of having the right angles. Same cat, within 24 hours.
April 14, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Ooh finally found it - actual Mucha painting of a (post) battle scene, Grunwald: histmag.org/grafika/2021...
April 12, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I have managed to get through twenty years of musical fandom without hearing a single note of Wicked Act Two. This is no longer the case and yeah, proper live production of it is thrilling. Maria Tyszkiewicz absolutely killed it as Elphaba.
April 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Nemo is back from three weeks of weight loss retreat (aka living with my mum and her diabetic old lady cat who's also on a vet ordered diet), and he's under 8 kg finally. I didn't weigh him at his heaviest but that's at least a kilo less than his maximum. Steroids suck.
March 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Cat grooming is less popular here and thanks to you I knew it existed and got my cat's butt shaved when he was having trouble grooming due to steroid weight gain. He's so much happier when clean!
March 30, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Those five minute watercolour tutorials are lies. Lies, I tell you.

(7 hours on this onion in two sessions.)
March 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM
In contrast to Percy the hysteric, Mousesack has been pronounced perfectly healthy. And opinionated. He gave the vet a whole lecture!
March 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Same cat...
March 18, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Percy had a tooth removed two days ago. Percy didn't come to feed last night or this morning, and I had to drag him out from under a bed.

Percy has now been diagnosed with hysteria because there's Nothing Wrong With Him.

(Apart from fever, which cats can get from being hysterical stressballs.)
March 14, 2025 at 11:22 AM