Cottage in the Woods
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🌙 Joel. Reviewer, poet, artist, chef, and Forest Monster from Wellington, NZ (he/him)
Poems in Takahē, Poetry NZ, Turbine, Tarot, The Spinoff, Semaphore, Aotearoa Yearbook, Eunoia Review, and Stone Circle.
2nd place for the 2025 Muriel's Journey Prize.
Poems in Takahē, Poetry NZ, Turbine, Tarot, The Spinoff, Semaphore, Aotearoa Yearbook, Eunoia Review, and Stone Circle.
2nd place for the 2025 Muriel's Journey Prize.
Demons are selfish in bed and can't cook and will string you along just to steal your broadband password. It's all you need to know.
October 17, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Demons are selfish in bed and can't cook and will string you along just to steal your broadband password. It's all you need to know.
This isn't about "moods" this is about quality. The chihuahua will plow the fields with tiny, tiny plows. You will need a goat for milk, and the goat may or may not be a bedeviled familiar. But either way, the mac and cheese will taste incredible.
October 17, 2025 at 5:50 AM
This isn't about "moods" this is about quality. The chihuahua will plow the fields with tiny, tiny plows. You will need a goat for milk, and the goat may or may not be a bedeviled familiar. But either way, the mac and cheese will taste incredible.
We dated for 2 years.
No, really.
No, really.
October 17, 2025 at 5:44 AM
We dated for 2 years.
No, really.
No, really.
Acadian meat pie, the tourtiere. It takes like home and winter and fireside dinners drinking whiskey and regretting the past a little.
October 17, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Acadian meat pie, the tourtiere. It takes like home and winter and fireside dinners drinking whiskey and regretting the past a little.
Boxed mac and cheese is the work of the devil, you must make the pasta, the cheese, the flour from scratch. Everyone knows a good mac and cheese recipe begins at Imbolc, with the planting of wheat seeds in hallow fields.
How are you at raising livestock?
How are you at raising livestock?
October 17, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Boxed mac and cheese is the work of the devil, you must make the pasta, the cheese, the flour from scratch. Everyone knows a good mac and cheese recipe begins at Imbolc, with the planting of wheat seeds in hallow fields.
How are you at raising livestock?
How are you at raising livestock?
quiche #1 - spinach, spring onion, tomato, some kind of old cumin gouda, and garlic.
quiche #2 - asparagus, wild fennel, spinach, feta, and red onion.
quiche #2 - asparagus, wild fennel, spinach, feta, and red onion.
October 17, 2025 at 3:15 AM
quiche #1 - spinach, spring onion, tomato, some kind of old cumin gouda, and garlic.
quiche #2 - asparagus, wild fennel, spinach, feta, and red onion.
quiche #2 - asparagus, wild fennel, spinach, feta, and red onion.
Lucy Morgan is a *checks notes" tv critic, and not a historian
October 15, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Lucy Morgan is a *checks notes" tv critic, and not a historian
Weird how people only talk about America, Scotland, England, and *maybe* Germany with witch trials, when they happened throughout Europe and Eastern Europe and Scandinavia
October 15, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Weird how people only talk about America, Scotland, England, and *maybe* Germany with witch trials, when they happened throughout Europe and Eastern Europe and Scandinavia
"The state, after all, then to a greater extent, now to a lesser, was made up of men. And there is a reason they never went wizard-hunting"
Not only is this misinformation—but the term 'wizard' in this context gives me the ick, as if the writer is summoning JK Rowling with a bit of bone and blood.
Not only is this misinformation—but the term 'wizard' in this context gives me the ick, as if the writer is summoning JK Rowling with a bit of bone and blood.
October 15, 2025 at 11:16 AM
"The state, after all, then to a greater extent, now to a lesser, was made up of men. And there is a reason they never went wizard-hunting"
Not only is this misinformation—but the term 'wizard' in this context gives me the ick, as if the writer is summoning JK Rowling with a bit of bone and blood.
Not only is this misinformation—but the term 'wizard' in this context gives me the ick, as if the writer is summoning JK Rowling with a bit of bone and blood.
Also when you take into account who the accusers were (women tended to accuse women, and nen tended to accuse other men) it changes the presuppositions a lot.
October 15, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Also when you take into account who the accusers were (women tended to accuse women, and nen tended to accuse other men) it changes the presuppositions a lot.
Yeah, in Northern France
October 15, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Yeah, in Northern France
Isn't a small proportion still tens of thousands? It is a lot more than "none".
And in many countries in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, men were more likely to be accused of witchcraft than women. Russia, Estonia, Norway, Normandy, Iceland, etc.
And in many countries in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, men were more likely to be accused of witchcraft than women. Russia, Estonia, Norway, Normandy, Iceland, etc.
October 15, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Isn't a small proportion still tens of thousands? It is a lot more than "none".
And in many countries in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, men were more likely to be accused of witchcraft than women. Russia, Estonia, Norway, Normandy, Iceland, etc.
And in many countries in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, men were more likely to be accused of witchcraft than women. Russia, Estonia, Norway, Normandy, Iceland, etc.
Least favourite soup flavour? Like, which one is so bad you'd pour it on your enemies?
October 14, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Least favourite soup flavour? Like, which one is so bad you'd pour it on your enemies?