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tomsbrown.bsky.social
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January 10, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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hiddenbritain.bsky.social
+ SCHOOLS IDENT CLOCK // RABIES SIGN +

Made these in Dec as Xmas gifts for a couple of good friends. Both were very pleasing to make so I've popped a small batch in the shop, available to pre-order for shipping in Feb. Short run and only available for a limited period.

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January 9, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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bexrollsdice.bsky.social
Anxiety is killing me at the moment.
Just jumped out of bed and ran back to the shop because I couldn't remember locking the door. I had. I just couldn't remember doing it, and that set me off.
Third time this month.
December 27, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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bexrollsdice.bsky.social
Does anybody in the #boardgame #ttrpg community have any recommendations for places to get boardgame components and boxes produced?
I'm UK based, and would prefer to avoid crazy postage/customs/tariff charges if possible.
January 5, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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k8lister.bsky.social
Yes, hello? I don’t think 2026 is working properly. I’d like to cancel my free 5 day trial please.
January 4, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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romgothsam.bsky.social
Romancing the Gothic organises free talks every Saturday all through the year!

Our talks are open to all, happen at two different times (usually) so people can join us from different time zones, and are free (though donations welcome to support the programme)

This year's programme below!
December 15, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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spookshow71.bsky.social
I like to have stuff like this on when I’m working, so why not get your 2026 off to a wonderfully eldritch start?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3eu...
Tristwch y Fenywod (Wales) - S/T (Album 2024)
YouTube video by Rites of Pestilence
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January 1, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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hookland.bsky.social
The stream that begun high on the moor rushes to meet its salt dissolution. It has carved the ghost soil, collected its tithe of stories for the King-Under-the-Sea. If you've ever wondered how he knows so much of our doing inland, it is because each river and brook is a spy.
January 1, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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tomsbrown.bsky.social
Reader, I coloured it.
Bracketed by gothic arch topped windows through which we see flying vampires, a frame, topped by drapery , a knight helmet and sword. Within the frame a spider with a human face weaves a noose. Pencil and watercolour wash with chalk and white paint, coloured digitally.
January 1, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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hookland.bsky.social
What the cunning folk of Hookland do on #NewYearsEve - year-walking. May your troubles not cross the threshold of midnight. May blessings walk down the lane to meet you in the coming year.
Year Walking Many countries have a living folk tradition of being able to see into the future at certain times of the year. In Sweden, it is known as Årslång – year walking – and it is practised at Christmas and New Year’s Eve depending on the village. Practitioners are said to go into a deep trance where they encounter various supernatural beings who will challenge them with riddles and tasks. If successfully completed, the beings will then allow a glimpse of events that will happen in the coming year. Strangely, the cunning folk of Hookland also use the term year walking for some forms of divination. Whether it is fairly safe to dismiss some folklorists claims that the shared names shows that the Hookland type of omen walking has clear ties to the Swedish via Danish invasions is a matter I shall not decide. There are both signifiant similarities and differences between the same named practice. For a start, year walking in Hookland is not restricted to only Christmas and New Year’s Eve – dates far too arbitrary, far too tied to calendar convenience for the county’s cunning folk. The practice is also undertaken at the quarter days and other old festivals such as St. Lazarus Eve when the worlds of the living and the dead are known to rub against each other.
December 31, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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hookland.bsky.social
From the Hookland A-Z of Influences AKA Growing Up Weird. M is Misty: #Misty #Comics #Hookland
Misty When I was a boy, you weren’t allowed girls’ comics. Gender demarcation lines policed by playground beatings, newsagents refusing to sell them and much motherly fretting about future sexuality. I still read them. Especially Spellbound and Misty. I found and devoured orphan issues in the doctor’s surgeries and hospitals that were constant childhood territory. They transformed fear-soaked waiting rooms into true Gothic ground. As with all good education, I had no idea they were schooling me in subversion of genre, the architecture of horror or how terror bleeds across the fluid borders of transgression. Misty was mistress of teaching terror exists in making reader interpret space between panels, in them becoming complicit in constructing narrative. Memory cheats, tells you stories scared through shock endings. The true lesson was omission and obscuration are fear motors. I hope I learnt that well.
December 30, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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cjfaraday.bsky.social
I seem to have woken up in 1529…
Screenshot of a Telegraph article with the headline “The King is a better Christian than the Pope and Archbishop”
December 29, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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mariastrutz.bsky.social
A final set of bookmarks from a few years ago, featuring the Ghost Bear of Hookland, the blue Owl of Hookland (also called the 'Holland Owl' by Hookland archeologist @kjsoar.bsky.social) a swan skull surrounded by fossilized sea urchins and a Hookland Crow
#BookmarkoftheDay 🖤🐾🤍
a bear with a crescent moon and stars in the background reflected in waters below, a swan skull and fossilized sea urchins marked with five pointed stars, an owl perched on a post with a windmill and clouds in the background, a strutting crow with flowers in the background reflected in the water of a pond below. Linocuts, black and white, Maria Strutz
December 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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hookland.bsky.social
I had a dream, a Black Fathom Faith dream that I saw the King-Under-the-Sea. He wore an armour forged from sunken battleships, a crown whose points were the prows of claimed vessels, each with their carved figureheads still screaming salt prophecies. I woke broken. – Claire Ember
December 23, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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mariastrutz.bsky.social
Another set of bookmarks from a few years ago,
featuring the Ghostbear of Hookland following the Hum, the Empress Eel with Marsh Ape in the background, a sea serpent, a scarecrow/ dudman and some Hookland otters (Lutra Lutra Hooklandi)🌒
#BookmarkoftheDay @hookland.bsky.social
a set of five bookmarks featuring a sea serpent, a bear walking upright amidst pylons, with their reflections; an eel amidst white water lilies with an apelike figure in the background amongst reeds, a crescent moon in the sky; a scarecrow in a field with birds flying overhead. Three otters with a boat and the sea in the background. Linocuts, black and white, maria Strutz
December 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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mariastrutz.bsky.social
Fox and Crow 🦊🐾🖤
#BookmarkoftheDay
#FoxFriday
Three identical bookmmarks on top of each other. A fox in profile facing right, a crow in profile facing towards the fox. A crescent moon and stars between and behind them. Linocuts, black and white, Maria Strutz
December 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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weird-wiltshire.bsky.social
Quite a lot of folklore surrounds the humble mince pie.
My biggest takeaway- eat 12 mince pies on different days, in different houses throughout December. Each pie provides a month of good luck for the following year!
I need to eat eight more… 🎄🎄🎄
#christmas #mincepie
December 20, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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sculptedreef.com
🪸🎨🐙 Handcrafted Coral + Octopus sculpted from poly clay

#ArtYear #Art #Coral #ArtGallery #MarineLife #Invertebrates #InverteFest #ArtAdventCalendar 🦑🐡
A mixed media artwork featuring handcrafted corals made from tiny glass beads. An octopus sculpture depicting the species Caribbean Reef Octopus can be seen on top of a tea cup.
December 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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k8lister.bsky.social
“I know what you’re thinking: “she’s not hurting anyone, Kate. Let her breastfeed her bulldog in peace if it makes her happy.” But the problem with many of these doting pet owners is that they often expect other people to buy into the anthropomorphic fantasy as well.”

inews.co.uk/opinion/gent...
Gentle parent your dog away from me please
Keep your dogs on a lead, keep your cats out of my work emails, and keep them all away from my Eccles cakes
inews.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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mariastrutz.bsky.social
The Long Fox of Hookland,
carved into chalk below the grass and soil
#BookmarkoftheDay
three identical bookmarks side by side. Figure of a seated fox looking to the upper left, sitting between two upright staffs. two crescent moons and a full moon in the sky. A hillscape behind the fox, below hedges and a round pond with the moons reflected within. Linocut, black and white, Maria Strutz,
December 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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hookland.bsky.social
The witch is a threshold creature. Wood's tangled border, shore's salt-line blur. For at the feral edges of the land her magic is mighty. The fluid boundary of the marsh offers reflected nephomantic glimpses, a rush of whispered wisdom. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky
December 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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mariastrutz.bsky.social
I have placed a few sets of Hookland Bookmark on my online shop.
* Please note, these are for UK shipping only *
I am hoping to print more bookmarks in the New Year and ship them internationally then.
www.maria-strutz.co.uk/product/book...
a set of four bookmarks, Queen of Owls, Bonehorse, Long Fox of Hookland Hill figure, Hookland otter amongst White water lilies. Linocuts, white and black, Maria Strutz
December 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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tomsbrown.bsky.social
I have drawn a thing.
The god Pan looks out over an industrial landscape with smoke pouring into the sky from factories and Mills. Closer to us, cracked and crumbling walls begin to give way to weeds and wildflowers growing in the cracks. In the foreground, wild roses. Pencil drawing with watercolour wash and White paint and chalk.
December 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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spookshow71.bsky.social
derelict stardrive jump-start

#digitalart #scifi #rpg
A figure in a spacesuit tries to get the massive alien stardrive machinery to start up
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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xingwu.bsky.social
In ancient China, the most feared witchcraft didn’t come from spells. It came from cats. #folklore #caturday
Cat Ghosts (猫蛊) were believed to devour victims from within, siphoning their life and fortune to a hidden master. Sorcerers bred and sacrificed cats to unleash these unseen predators, 1/2
During the Sui Dynasty's peak (581-619 AD), the practice of raising cats for cursing became so widespread that the imperial court had to create special exile zones for practitioners. Following a shocking case where royal family member Dugu Tuo cursed the empress herself, these supernatural criminals were banished to border regions, creating unique cultural exchanges that influenced local folklore for centuries to come.
November 22, 2025 at 2:02 PM