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Liv
@livlingborn.bsky.social
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A coven of three - me, myself and I.
Posts in English and Swedish.
Artist, book lover, cat slave - with a fondness for vintage horror, gothic literature and folklore.
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If you see this, post something pink 🦄🐷
June 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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I'm not dead, I'm just crafting.
June 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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It's #Caturday
Photo of a black cat squinting into the camera. The text on the photo says *silently judging you*. Photo by Liv Lingborn, model Bella.
May 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Apparently this is the only Easter Bunny I've drawn in 15+ years. Happy Easter and all that! 🐰 💚
A drawing of a weird pink easter bunny among flowers and mushrooms. Art by Liv Lingborn, 2010.
April 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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#NationalUnicornDay you say?
Remember, unicorns are basically dickheads prancing around, waiting for virgins to show up. Just saying. 🦄
A drawing of a smiling creepy pink unicorn with sharp teeth, running on a rainbow. Stars and clouds on a blue sky in the background. Art by Liv Lingborn, 2017.
April 9, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Oh, there's more where that came from...
April 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Ah, yes... Poirot the Playboy Detective - always keen on a closer look at the details. Solving the mystery hands on.
Really?

Support cover artists.
Fuck AI.
#BookchatWeekly
AI generated book cover of Agatha Christie's The missing will. Depicting Poirot fondling a femme fatale in a red dress.
April 2, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Every day is #Caturday around here. 🖤
A photo of a fluffy black cat with intense yellow/green eyes.
March 29, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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It was unhinged, and amazing. 😂
March 28, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Sleeping Beauty
Illustration by Hans Arnold (1925-2010)
#WyrdWednesday
Illustration of a castle room overgrown with roses. A prince is standing at the top of a stair, looking down on a sleeping princess on a bed. Art by Hans Arnold.
March 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Plans for the week.
A vintage looking childrens book cover with a sweet looking girl in a dress out walking with her black kitten. The title says: Doing shady shit with my cat. (Artist unknown.)
March 10, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Catfish or purrmaid? 🖤

(15th century art)
#SwampSunday
15th century illustration of a creature with a fish body and a cat's head.
March 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Artists!
It's Women in Horror Month.
Show me your monsters. 🖤

#WiHM
#Art
#Horror
#WomeninHorrorMonth
Brides of Dracula - Three black portrait silhouettes of female vampires with their open mouths full of sharp teeth, on a solid red background. Art by Liv Lingborn, 2024.
March 4, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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A small treat for #SwampSunday. 🖤
Illustration from the Swedish children's book "Tomtebobarnen" by Elsa Beskow (1874-1953)
An illustration depicting four children with red mushroom hats and Grey clothes, playing around a woodland pond. Lots of moss roots and stones surrounding them. There's a family of toads beside them and one of the children is riding a bat. Art by Elsa Beskow.
March 2, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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A vintage illustration of a 50's housewife with a cup of hot beverage, with a text that says : "I can't believe it's WWIII season already... I still have my pandemic decorations up."
February 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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"I practiced detachment. I learned how to look cheerful while under the table I stuck a fork onto the back of my hand. I became a virtuoso of deceit."

Les Liasons Dangereuses - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741-1803)
#BookologyThursday
#BookchatWeekly
#BookSky
A movie still from Dangerous Liasons. Glenn Close and John Malcovich, leaning into each other whispering.
February 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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#WyrdWednesday
Morgiana (1972) directed by Juraj Herz. Based on a novel by Alexander Grin.
A gothic horror melodrama with poison, sibling rivalry and costumes to die for. 🖤
#FashionGoals
February 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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"Mom, I want to watch Rosemary's Baby."
"We have Rosemary's Baby at home."
Film poster of Apartment 7A - prequel to the iconic horror movie Rosemary's Baby. A dark silhouette of a dancer on a gradient green background, with a sinister looking gothic apartment building looming over the female figure.
February 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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If "Midsommar" was made in 1965 and featured in Vogue.
Folk horror - but make it flowers.
🌸🌼🌺🏵️

Model: Jean Shrimpton
Photo: Bert Stern
#WyrdWednesday
A fashion photo of a beautiful woman looking straight ahead, with an elaborate headdress made of flowers. A fashion photo of a beautiful woman glancing at you over her shoulder, with an elaborate headdress made of flowers.
February 19, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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"How beautiful she looked in the moonlight! Shy and strange was the look with which she quickly hid her face in my neck and hair, with tumultuous sighs, that seemed almost to sob, and pressed in mine a hand that trembled."

Carmilla (1872)-Sheridan Le Fanu
#BookologyThursday
#BookchatWeekly
#BookSky
Digital drawing of a pale white-face woman with tentacle-like red hair dripping blood, on a stark black background. Blood dripping from her darkred mouth, eyes closed. Art by Liv Lingborn, 2019.
February 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Reader, we devoured it.
(and it was delicious.)
A photo of the remnants of a cake, decorated with sugar paste flowers.
February 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Happy book birthday!! 🖤
"At THE BOTTOM OF THE GARDEN" by @camillabruce.bsky.social is out today. If you're looking for a dark whimsical with an evil guardian, young orphans coming into strange powers and lots of ghosts - this is the book for you. 🖤
And we made cake.
(wich we will now devour)
A photo of a white cake, decorated with a picture of a black raven on dark cyan background. Surrounded by sugar paste flowers in black and purple with lots of pale green leaves and some pale white bones.
January 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Happy Merry Whatever you choose to celebrate, or not.
✨ 🖤 ✨
#GothicAdvent
An illustration of the Virgin Mary with an alien worm like creature in her arms. Art by Liv Lingborn.
December 24, 2024 at 11:28 AM
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Me facing 2025
Vincent Price looking fierce and pissed off, holding four cats in his arms.
December 21, 2024 at 5:33 PM
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Julkänslan.
December 21, 2024 at 8:52 AM