Lorien Quattrocchi
@lorieniq.bsky.social
🇨🇦She/her.
I like books, old houses, human rights. Also: memes, sharp tools, co-ops, art, SCA / D&D / geekery, my geeky kids, British murder. Gravel roads. Medievalists. Neurospicies. Lefties.
Dislikes: fascists, hypocrites, lists.
I like books, old houses, human rights. Also: memes, sharp tools, co-ops, art, SCA / D&D / geekery, my geeky kids, British murder. Gravel roads. Medievalists. Neurospicies. Lefties.
Dislikes: fascists, hypocrites, lists.
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Happy New Years to everyone unless you’re a conservative voter, then please close your eyes 65 percent and read my message to you in the picture below.
January 2, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Happy New Years to everyone unless you’re a conservative voter, then please close your eyes 65 percent and read my message to you in the picture below.
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Happy New Year to all! Let’s smash some fashy faces in 2025!
January 1, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Happy New Year to all! Let’s smash some fashy faces in 2025!
Now when will the dang teenager wake up?
December 25, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Now when will the dang teenager wake up?
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Congratulations to the Stick of the Year, a "majestic" piece of driftwood from Vancouver Island, B.C. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Wood you believe it? B.C. man wins hotly contested Stick of the Year contest | CBC News
A piece of driftwood from Vancouver Island has narrowly won the title of "Stick of the Year" in an inaugural contest that saw thousands of votes cast for competitors from around the world.
www.cbc.ca
December 20, 2024 at 8:52 PM
Congratulations to the Stick of the Year, a "majestic" piece of driftwood from Vancouver Island, B.C. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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look here's a no-paywall article and there's a video www.bbc.com/news/uk-wale...
December 23, 2024 at 5:06 PM
look here's a no-paywall article and there's a video www.bbc.com/news/uk-wale...
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Erebor - watercolour and acryla gouache
One of my Tolkien series, featuring a very tiny Bilbo Baggins...
🌟Prints🌟
One of my Tolkien series, featuring a very tiny Bilbo Baggins...
🌟Prints🌟
December 10, 2024 at 7:06 PM
Erebor - watercolour and acryla gouache
One of my Tolkien series, featuring a very tiny Bilbo Baggins...
🌟Prints🌟
One of my Tolkien series, featuring a very tiny Bilbo Baggins...
🌟Prints🌟
The dog is nervous.
December 11, 2024 at 6:14 AM
The dog is nervous.
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Cyberstuck 😝
December 10, 2024 at 5:56 PM
Cyberstuck 😝
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Feeling a bit unsparkly so drew a tiny mouse for day 10 of #artadventcalendar
December 10, 2024 at 1:29 PM
Feeling a bit unsparkly so drew a tiny mouse for day 10 of #artadventcalendar
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Another thing I made this year. Pigeon history!
December 10, 2024 at 3:07 PM
Another thing I made this year. Pigeon history!
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I wanted to do this before PAXU, but this is as good of a time as any. Here are some of my favorite fellow item creators.
go.bsky.app/wDh85x
go.bsky.app/wDh85x
December 10, 2024 at 3:54 PM
I wanted to do this before PAXU, but this is as good of a time as any. Here are some of my favorite fellow item creators.
go.bsky.app/wDh85x
go.bsky.app/wDh85x
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This needs to be said, loud, and often.
November 25, 2024 at 5:20 PM
This needs to be said, loud, and often.
Oh goodness!!
Another great lineup from @histfest.bsky.social! HistFest is the best and most diverse history festival in the UK, run by the one and only @rebeccarideal.bsky.social. Check it out!
Don’t forget to grab your online tickets to Medieval Fest!
In-person tickets have sold out, but you can still join us online on Sat 7 Dec for a day of exciting talks, with Michael Wood, Janina Ramirez, Raksha Dave, Helen Castor, Nathen Amin & more!
Book now (£15)! histfest.org/medievalfest/
In-person tickets have sold out, but you can still join us online on Sat 7 Dec for a day of exciting talks, with Michael Wood, Janina Ramirez, Raksha Dave, Helen Castor, Nathen Amin & more!
Book now (£15)! histfest.org/medievalfest/
November 25, 2024 at 6:56 AM
Oh goodness!!
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"Our Lady of the Bunnies" is one of my Sighthound Saints and went to live with a friend. She was a lot of fun to paint.
November 24, 2024 at 8:54 PM
"Our Lady of the Bunnies" is one of my Sighthound Saints and went to live with a friend. She was a lot of fun to paint.
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I know for my own experience of making and wearing Tudor/ renaissance head dresses that hair plaiting makes a difference to how they sit and how easy they are to wear.
The Tudor Tailor has a lovely video about this.
youtu.be/Jck3TSP-svo?...
The Tudor Tailor has a lovely video about this.
youtu.be/Jck3TSP-svo?...
Tudor hair lacing
YouTube video by The Tudor Tailor
youtu.be
November 25, 2024 at 6:12 AM
I know for my own experience of making and wearing Tudor/ renaissance head dresses that hair plaiting makes a difference to how they sit and how easy they are to wear.
The Tudor Tailor has a lovely video about this.
youtu.be/Jck3TSP-svo?...
The Tudor Tailor has a lovely video about this.
youtu.be/Jck3TSP-svo?...
The little known and under appreciated Chihuahua defence, practiced by the Spanish masters 😂
November 24, 2024 at 10:03 PM
The little known and under appreciated Chihuahua defence, practiced by the Spanish masters 😂
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Optimist: the cup is half full
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
Hagiography: The cup, which by the devil's wiles had been wickedly chipped, was by the wondrous power of the man of God, as we truly believe, restored to wholeness with praise to Our Lord Jesus Christ, for the confounding of the paga
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
Hagiography: The cup, which by the devil's wiles had been wickedly chipped, was by the wondrous power of the man of God, as we truly believe, restored to wholeness with praise to Our Lord Jesus Christ, for the confounding of the paga
November 24, 2024 at 6:32 PM
Optimist: the cup is half full
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
Hagiography: The cup, which by the devil's wiles had been wickedly chipped, was by the wondrous power of the man of God, as we truly believe, restored to wholeness with praise to Our Lord Jesus Christ, for the confounding of the paga
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
Hagiography: The cup, which by the devil's wiles had been wickedly chipped, was by the wondrous power of the man of God, as we truly believe, restored to wholeness with praise to Our Lord Jesus Christ, for the confounding of the paga
This Maggie cat is hard to take a good photo of but today the diffuse winter light prevailed.
November 24, 2024 at 8:36 PM
This Maggie cat is hard to take a good photo of but today the diffuse winter light prevailed.
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One of my favourite poems.
November 23, 2024 at 7:56 PM
One of my favourite poems.
It’s a very interesting theory to explain the phenomenon.
finally a reasonable take
November 24, 2024 at 8:04 PM
It’s a very interesting theory to explain the phenomenon.