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Lynn Huggins-Cooper
@hugginscooper.bsky.social
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Horror maven. Thanatologist. Creative Writing lecturer at Falmouth. Author. She/her, ADHD. Views all mine...mine I say!
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I spun with my arms outstretched as the sky swirled above me.
Red and purple aurora over dark trees Red and purple aurora with white cloud bank over dark trees Red, green and purple aurora over dark trees Red, green and purple aurora over brightly golden lit stone terraced houses
November 12, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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I grew up with Ladybird books and find such pleasure and comfort in the seasonal illustrations.

‘Bonfire Night’ (1951)
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
Old Ladybird books illustration of Bonfire Night - people in a garden gathered in a circle around an open bonfire.
November 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Gothic woman in white devilish costume with wings and words 'You look happier' and 'Thanks, I stopped people Pleasing and became the weird, feral little menace I should have been all Along'
October 31, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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'Darkness took on a special feel because it was All Hallows' Eve. Everything seemed cut from soft black velvet or gold or orange velvet. Smoke panted up out of a thousand chimneys like the plumes of funeral parades. From kitchen windows drifted two pumpkin smells:gourds being cut, pies being baked.'
Owl and halloween decorations halloween decorations pumpkins and seed pods Halloween table decorations including crystal ball The halloween tree by ray bradbury
October 31, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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When you realise your chintzy coffee matches your reading choices...

#Horror #HalloweenCore #Halloween
Costa coffee cup on top of 'bog people' book with a pumpkin in the background
October 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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The time approaches...
#Halloween #ClocksChange #Horror
#DarknessFalls
Vampire woman moving the hands on a clock. Text says 'remember to move your clocks ahead one more hour closer to halloween'
October 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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5th horseman - The Big Light. 6th horseman - high or tight collars. Which horsemen would you add to the ND Nemesis herd?

#neurodiversity #ADHD #Autism
Images of 4 spectral riders in a grid labelled the 4 horsemen of the neurodivergent: loud noise, bad texture, alterations to a comfort food, change in plans
October 10, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Well, it's Creative Writing I teach, rather than English - but yep, guilty as charged...

Strewing wonderful examples and seeing students gobble them up is one of the best parts of a truly *great* job :)
October 5, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Just popping by in The Love Bus - beep! Beep! All aboard! We have the best snacks and I've been baking.
Bus striped in trans flag colours blue/pink/white. Words 'if your child is trans, your role is simple: love them louder than the workd hates them'
October 4, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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L - Let the Right One In
Y - You Are Not My Mother
N - Needful Things
N - Nosferatu
Shadow of vampire (nosferatu) on stairs - blue background
October 2, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Clipart of smiling white 'sheet ghostie' on a background of orange paint with autumn leaves and bats. Says 'me on the last day of september'
September 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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I started making Halloween bunting this evening with autumn maple leaves - so relaxing...
#DopamineFix #Halloween
Jack o'lanterns cut from leaves and mounted on vintage print Jack o'lanterns cut from leaves and mounted on vintage print Jack o'lanterns cut from leaves and mounted on vintage print
September 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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They're back...the northern lights dancing over the village below us.
#NorthernLights #AuroraBorealis
Purple northern lights over village Purple northern lights over village Purple northern lights over village
September 2, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Caroon of skeleton driving a bus full of ghosts and pumpkins saying 'next stop September'
August 31, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Spent time in good company today at the village festival. Alpaca babies!
Dark brown alpacas 2 dark brown alpacas
August 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Hoping to get time to read some of this over the weekend. What's on your tbr pile?

#Booksky
August 15, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Weirdos,assemble!
August 7, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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High winds meant my windows were in danger of being pelted by my fruit trees, so I had a mini-harvest :) Sat in my kitchen waiting to be preserved - baskets if apples and greengages :) I don't usually start doing my 'kitchen witch' act for another month at least...

#Nature #organic
August 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Work has been enjoyable, but intense this week. This weekend I'll be writing up a storm (quite literally, for my folk horror) and getting creative, making more tiny books. As so often with me, everything leads to the sea. What creative things are you doing this weekend?

#Writing #Creative #Nature
Scallop shell made into book Scallop shell made into book - open to show pages Ammonite fossil made into book Ammonite fossil made into book - open to show pages
August 1, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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I've been talking to students about the power of play and its importance in mental wellbeing. One a scale of 'quirky' to 'deeply sad' how would you judge my new paperclips (or as one of my kids called them 'paperclaps' and thus they shall evermore be known to
me at least)?

#Writers #Writing
Brightly coloured wire paperclips in dinosaur shapes
July 23, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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A moment of beauty this morning. Woken an hour and a half before my alarm by crows bouncing and shrieking on the roof, I reached for my book and went to make tea. Stood reading the splendour of Du Maurier's The Apple Tree as the kettle boiled, I was suddenly blessed by rainbows.
Book page with rainbow lights shining in it
July 18, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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There are signs it's the weekend. Home made hummus bi tahini with added black sesame, fresh coriander and shony seaweed. Now the question is, can I resist long enough to let it chill and allow the flavours to infuse? ((No))
July 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Achievement unlocked!

#OGWeirdo #Lifegoals
Classic renaissance painting of wealthy woman staring into the distance with the words 'you have to let yourself be a weird woman or you will not survive'
July 11, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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The lovely @baconetti.bsky.social is looking for a chapter - he's fabulous to work with - a top notch editor :)
Words saying: Aca-Gothic-Colleagues Got a collection on “From Hagsploitation to the New Final Women” coming to deadline for Routledge where I need 5,000 words by the end October 2025 on the following: —The Gothic and the female Black body in Ma (2019), Spell (2020), The Reading (2023) and/or other recent examples. If it’s of interest contact me asap at: baconetti@gmail.com
July 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Listening to the waves rolling up the beach. The North Sea is calm now, but who knows what coils beneath that pewter surface.

#WritingHorror
Sunset blazing orange over a grey sea. Lighthouse in the distance.
July 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM