Nimue Brown
@nimueb.bsky.social
Books, Druidry, Music, Steampunk. One of Jessica Law's Outlaws. Also whimsy and weirdness. https://druidlife.wordpress.com/ and https://hopeless-maine.co.uk/
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@nimueb.bsky.social
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I don't automatically follow back, I think follow for follow back is a waste of everyone's time. If I think you're relevant to my interests, I'll follow back. I'm fussy because I want to read things that interest me and to engage with people I have things in common with.
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Please enjoy this song from @nimueb.bsky.social It’s been a part of my Samhain celebrations for years now.
youtu.be/utE06CspBC4
youtu.be/utE06CspBC4
Samhain song
YouTube video by Nimue Brown
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November 1, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Please enjoy this song from @nimueb.bsky.social It’s been a part of my Samhain celebrations for years now.
youtu.be/utE06CspBC4
youtu.be/utE06CspBC4
Great event in Stroud. (I sang).
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November 9, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Great event in Stroud. (I sang).
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Autumn colour
Shows ghostly
My crunching boots
Reveal sweet decay
Imply bright hues
Lost, remembered, imagined.
Autumn colour
Shows ghostly
My crunching boots
Reveal sweet decay
Imply bright hues
Lost, remembered, imagined.
October 26, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Autumn colour
Shows ghostly
My crunching boots
Reveal sweet decay
Imply bright hues
Lost, remembered, imagined.
Autumn colour
Shows ghostly
My crunching boots
Reveal sweet decay
Imply bright hues
Lost, remembered, imagined.
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#StandingStoneSunday
The Long Stone near Minchinhampton. At over 7ft high and full of holes and depressions this a fascinating site. Many gifts and offerings are left on it - see photographs below - and I have a request for help with a research project.
The Long Stone near Minchinhampton. At over 7ft high and full of holes and depressions this a fascinating site. Many gifts and offerings are left on it - see photographs below - and I have a request for help with a research project.
October 26, 2025 at 9:57 AM
#StandingStoneSunday
The Long Stone near Minchinhampton. At over 7ft high and full of holes and depressions this a fascinating site. Many gifts and offerings are left on it - see photographs below - and I have a request for help with a research project.
The Long Stone near Minchinhampton. At over 7ft high and full of holes and depressions this a fascinating site. Many gifts and offerings are left on it - see photographs below - and I have a request for help with a research project.
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An attempt at a ghostly mari
October 25, 2025 at 8:41 AM
An attempt at a ghostly mari
I can very much recommend tree sniffing for Druids. druidlife.wordpress.com/2025/10/24/d...
Druidry and sniffing trees
(Nimue) I’ve spent today at Westonbirt Arboretum. It’s a popular place at this time of year as people visit to see the autumn leaves.. Some of the trees in the collection were so dramat…
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October 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I can very much recommend tree sniffing for Druids. druidlife.wordpress.com/2025/10/24/d...
Things I am rubbish at and need to learn. Health, mental health and being gentler druidlife.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/l...
Learning to yield
(Nimue) For a person with an interest in Taoism, I’m really not great at knowing when to yield. I’ve been too willing to go along with what other people wanted, and in other wys I’…
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October 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Things I am rubbish at and need to learn. Health, mental health and being gentler druidlife.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/l...
my brilliant father share new fiction every week
The fog lay upon Hopeless that morning like a particularly damp quilt hopeless-maine.co.uk/2025/10/21/t...
The Accordion That Cried - Hopeless Vendetta
It ain't over till the cursed accordion stops playing... or something. Reggie Upton and Pyralia Skant investigate a musical problem.
hopeless-maine.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 12:49 PM
my brilliant father share new fiction every week
I have the first draft of a folk-against -fascism mumming play!
October 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I have the first draft of a folk-against -fascism mumming play!
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So it did! And it's bonkers we went from Best New Band to being in Best Band category at all. Bonkers, but thrilled. Thanks as ever to all #Prog Magazine Readers who voted, the Prog Magazine team & our dear cheerleaders @progzilla.com (Still your fault @mikewhitfield.bsky.social 😊)
#Progrock #Music
#Progrock #Music
This happened, even though it's 9 months later now
"Holy Bloody Moly! Thanks so much to all who voted for us in the Prog Mag's readers poll!
We're THRILLED to be included in the Best Band category alongside such absolute prog legends!"
#music #readerspoll #progmagazine #progrock #artrock #thankyou
"Holy Bloody Moly! Thanks so much to all who voted for us in the Prog Mag's readers poll!
We're THRILLED to be included in the Best Band category alongside such absolute prog legends!"
#music #readerspoll #progmagazine #progrock #artrock #thankyou
October 22, 2025 at 9:24 AM
So it did! And it's bonkers we went from Best New Band to being in Best Band category at all. Bonkers, but thrilled. Thanks as ever to all #Prog Magazine Readers who voted, the Prog Magazine team & our dear cheerleaders @progzilla.com (Still your fault @mikewhitfield.bsky.social 😊)
#Progrock #Music
#Progrock #Music
Today have been putting Shakespeare in a mumming play, and talking about co-writing.
October 21, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Today have been putting Shakespeare in a mumming play, and talking about co-writing.
I've read this one and can recommend it.
If you're interested in ghosts and monsters and folklore, @pauljholden.com and I did a book which you should probably buy
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Fascinating Folklore
- A compendium of comics and essays - Crafted by the masterful minds of two comic world luminaries, John Reppion and PJ Holden, Fascinating...
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October 21, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I've read this one and can recommend it.
What does it mean to communicate well? One for people on the bard path especially. druidlife.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c...
Communication as virtue
(Nimue) One of my recent audio books was about the history of Humanism. This raised the concept of good communication as a virtue, which struck me as being relevant for the bard path. The logic of …
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October 20, 2025 at 9:45 AM
What does it mean to communicate well? One for people on the bard path especially. druidlife.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c...
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pagan mysticism, faith and quantum physics
You know, small subjects to start writing a book about...
#paganisum #mystisicm #pagansky #blog #blogsky
#amwriting #writer
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You know, small subjects to start writing a book about...
#paganisum #mystisicm #pagansky #blog #blogsky
#amwriting #writer
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The Quantum Pagan an Introduction
Last week, because I don’t have enough to write, I started work on a project that has been kicking about for a few years. While it may never see the light of day, as it is in part a personal …
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October 20, 2025 at 9:35 AM
pagan mysticism, faith and quantum physics
You know, small subjects to start writing a book about...
#paganisum #mystisicm #pagansky #blog #blogsky
#amwriting #writer
markhayesblog.com/2025/10/20/t...
You know, small subjects to start writing a book about...
#paganisum #mystisicm #pagansky #blog #blogsky
#amwriting #writer
markhayesblog.com/2025/10/20/t...
Druidy, blindness and standing stonrs druidlife.wordpress.com/2025/10/17/e...
Encountering standing stones
All standing stones seem to me to invite touch. The careful placing of hands on rock has always been part of how I respond to these ancient sites. Touching and tracing the contours with affection a…
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October 17, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Druidy, blindness and standing stonrs druidlife.wordpress.com/2025/10/17/e...
Alongside this madcap project there are novels, poetry collections and Druidry books in my shop , all with pagan and animist elements. ko-fi.com/O4O3AI4T/shop
Visit Nimue Brown's Shop!
I've opened a shop. Come take a look!
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October 16, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Alongside this madcap project there are novels, poetry collections and Druidry books in my shop , all with pagan and animist elements. ko-fi.com/O4O3AI4T/shop
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If anyone wonders whether people care about at accessibility at conferences, I'll point out that my post on accessibility at the conference immediately has more responses than conference post itself.
Make your stance loud and clear.
Also... actually make your conference accessible.
Make your stance loud and clear.
Also... actually make your conference accessible.
October 15, 2025 at 9:52 PM
If anyone wonders whether people care about at accessibility at conferences, I'll point out that my post on accessibility at the conference immediately has more responses than conference post itself.
Make your stance loud and clear.
Also... actually make your conference accessible.
Make your stance loud and clear.
Also... actually make your conference accessible.
If you've followed me and I know you but I've not followed you back, please wave. I've been offline for months due to blindness (still can't see much) and I may have missed people. If I don't know you but you want to fix that then pleasealso wave.
October 15, 2025 at 4:50 PM
If you've followed me and I know you but I've not followed you back, please wave. I've been offline for months due to blindness (still can't see much) and I may have missed people. If I don't know you but you want to fix that then pleasealso wave.
Druidry and blindness druidlife.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/c...
Connecting with the land
(Nimue) This is a recent photo of Keith and myself on Rodborough common – a hilltop near our home. It was the first time I’d tried walking up there since the vision loss. I can’t …
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October 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Druidry and blindness druidlife.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/c...
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#inktober day 14 'Trunk'
The memory of an Oak is written within
Unseen til death
Memories of
sunrise and sunset
hard winters
dark summers
gentle rain
plenty and drought
More changes than our memory ever holds
And now
We trace those years with our fingers, touching history we can only imagine
The memory of an Oak is written within
Unseen til death
Memories of
sunrise and sunset
hard winters
dark summers
gentle rain
plenty and drought
More changes than our memory ever holds
And now
We trace those years with our fingers, touching history we can only imagine
October 15, 2025 at 11:46 AM
#inktober day 14 'Trunk'
The memory of an Oak is written within
Unseen til death
Memories of
sunrise and sunset
hard winters
dark summers
gentle rain
plenty and drought
More changes than our memory ever holds
And now
We trace those years with our fingers, touching history we can only imagine
The memory of an Oak is written within
Unseen til death
Memories of
sunrise and sunset
hard winters
dark summers
gentle rain
plenty and drought
More changes than our memory ever holds
And now
We trace those years with our fingers, touching history we can only imagine
If you can support someone, or something in a small way, that's a good choice. Keeping people going and keeping good things happening makes a difference. druidlife.wordpress.com/2025/01/23/c...
Creativity – keeping it real
(Nimue) At the point where I started doing Patreon, I was in a rough place. I’d had some massive blows to my confidence as a creator. I was working a number of not very creative part time jobs, and…
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January 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
If you can support someone, or something in a small way, that's a good choice. Keeping people going and keeping good things happening makes a difference. druidlife.wordpress.com/2025/01/23/c...
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This! And adding: Don’t forget about local action. It’s much easier to see the results of your work on a local/community scale vs. a national scale. Doesn’t mean national action isn’t important, but if you’re feeling dismayed because “nothing makes a difference,” that’s much less true locally.
I'm just going to (re)post this whenever I need to remind myself. Maybe it'll help you too?
1. Focus on things in your control & take ONE action there.
2. Limit your inputs. You can't help if you're paralyzed.
1. Focus on things in your control & take ONE action there.
2. Limit your inputs. You can't help if you're paralyzed.
January 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This! And adding: Don’t forget about local action. It’s much easier to see the results of your work on a local/community scale vs. a national scale. Doesn’t mean national action isn’t important, but if you’re feeling dismayed because “nothing makes a difference,” that’s much less true locally.
Times are hard, but care and friendship still make worlds of difference. Hugs to anyone who wants or needs them. I'm here for whatever I can usefully do. Let's keep weaving those threads of hope.
January 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Times are hard, but care and friendship still make worlds of difference. Hugs to anyone who wants or needs them. I'm here for whatever I can usefully do. Let's keep weaving those threads of hope.
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The Day We Ate Grandad: Spend time with a terrible pansexual disaster doing awful things while being judged by a mythological prophet
An otherworldly family drama with tentacles & cosmic horror for fans of MERLIN and THE CALL OF CTHULHU.
#HorrorBooks #BookSky 🌈📚😱🩸📚💙
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An otherworldly family drama with tentacles & cosmic horror for fans of MERLIN and THE CALL OF CTHULHU.
#HorrorBooks #BookSky 🌈📚😱🩸📚💙
buy.bookfunnel.com/ioen86yt81
Three possible futures. Two versions of the apocalypse. One chance to save the world.
Content Notes A-Z:
Addiction and sobriety (drugs, but also literal addiction to a romantic partner)
ADHD symptoms that aren’t diagnosed or acknowledged, characters themselves are unaware they exhibit...
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January 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The Day We Ate Grandad: Spend time with a terrible pansexual disaster doing awful things while being judged by a mythological prophet
An otherworldly family drama with tentacles & cosmic horror for fans of MERLIN and THE CALL OF CTHULHU.
#HorrorBooks #BookSky 🌈📚😱🩸📚💙
buy.bookfunnel.com/ioen86yt81
An otherworldly family drama with tentacles & cosmic horror for fans of MERLIN and THE CALL OF CTHULHU.
#HorrorBooks #BookSky 🌈📚😱🩸📚💙
buy.bookfunnel.com/ioen86yt81
This is a difficult subject, and what looks credible on the surface does not always turn out to be true. druidlife.wordpress.com/2025/01/27/t...
The Credible Victims
(Nimue) While the idea that we should listen to victims is a good one, the odds are high that you won’t always be clear about who the real victim is. In situations of longstanding abuse – be that b…
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January 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
This is a difficult subject, and what looks credible on the surface does not always turn out to be true. druidlife.wordpress.com/2025/01/27/t...