Deike
@swordsandspindles.bsky.social
Tumblr refugee, doesn't know what's going on.
Fibre arts, books, Yelling About Media. Reluctant Adult, German, Ace. They/them.
Fibre arts, books, Yelling About Media. Reluctant Adult, German, Ace. They/them.
Reposted by Deike
ICYMI.
This survey is still ongoing. Joan of Arc, lady knights and current practitioners of HEMA.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Survey Questions
Do chivalric virtues influence current-day lady knights and HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts) practitioners to practise, for example, medieval longsword? Do Joan of Arc and the literary lady kni...
docs.google.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:00 AM
ICYMI.
Reposted by Deike
Failure to return the shopping cart to one of the cart returns if you are able is a sign of someone who does not value the social contract.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 20, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Failure to return the shopping cart to one of the cart returns if you are able is a sign of someone who does not value the social contract.
Das schönste am BuCon ist, dass man sich auch einfach eine halbe Stunde im Park verstecken kann, wenn man will. 😌
October 18, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Das schönste am BuCon ist, dass man sich auch einfach eine halbe Stunde im Park verstecken kann, wenn man will. 😌
Reposted by Deike
ANNOUNCEMENT🎺🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:
FANTABULOSA!
Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.
& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘
Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:
FANTABULOSA!
Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.
& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘
October 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
ANNOUNCEMENT🎺🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:
FANTABULOSA!
Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.
& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘
Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:
FANTABULOSA!
Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.
& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘
Reposted by Deike
Publishers should be invested in promoting the books they publish.
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Publishers should be invested in promoting the books they publish.
Reposted by Deike
Es wird am 17.10 final darüber im Bundesrat abgestimmt.
Wir benötigen eure Unterschrift für diese Kampagne von @campact.de und eure lauten Stimmen, die deutlich machem:
Kein Sonderregister!
Keine Listen über Marginalisierten in Deutschland!
Wir benötigen eure Unterschrift für diese Kampagne von @campact.de und eure lauten Stimmen, die deutlich machem:
Kein Sonderregister!
Keine Listen über Marginalisierten in Deutschland!
⚠️ Sonderregister für trans* Personen?
⚠️ Meldelisten für psychisch Erkrankte?
Klingt dystopisch, aber das fordert die CDU.
➡️ Alle Hintergründe & Kritik findest Du im Blog.
👉 campact.org/VqxyJ
⚠️ Meldelisten für psychisch Erkrankte?
Klingt dystopisch, aber das fordert die CDU.
➡️ Alle Hintergründe & Kritik findest Du im Blog.
👉 campact.org/VqxyJ
Register für trans* Personen: Die CDU und ihre Listen
Wenn es nach der CDU geht, gibt es bald Listen für marginalisierte Gruppen. Klingt dystopisch? Ist aber leider real, denn die CDU hätte gerne Listen über trans* Personen und psychisch Kranke. Lies meh...
campact.org
October 13, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Es wird am 17.10 final darüber im Bundesrat abgestimmt.
Wir benötigen eure Unterschrift für diese Kampagne von @campact.de und eure lauten Stimmen, die deutlich machem:
Kein Sonderregister!
Keine Listen über Marginalisierten in Deutschland!
Wir benötigen eure Unterschrift für diese Kampagne von @campact.de und eure lauten Stimmen, die deutlich machem:
Kein Sonderregister!
Keine Listen über Marginalisierten in Deutschland!
Reposted by Deike
If you've prepared your patch properly, by now your pumpkins should be:
- humming slightly
- levitating a little
- visited nightly by dark fairies
- sinking their vines into other plants to drain them of energy
- murmering dark incantations to the elder gods
- humming slightly
- levitating a little
- visited nightly by dark fairies
- sinking their vines into other plants to drain them of energy
- murmering dark incantations to the elder gods
October 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
If you've prepared your patch properly, by now your pumpkins should be:
- humming slightly
- levitating a little
- visited nightly by dark fairies
- sinking their vines into other plants to drain them of energy
- murmering dark incantations to the elder gods
- humming slightly
- levitating a little
- visited nightly by dark fairies
- sinking their vines into other plants to drain them of energy
- murmering dark incantations to the elder gods
Bahnfahren könnte so schön sein, wenn nicht immer die Menschen mit der lautesten Stimme direkt hinter mir sitzen würden...
October 10, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Bahnfahren könnte so schön sein, wenn nicht immer die Menschen mit der lautesten Stimme direkt hinter mir sitzen würden...
Huch, es ist ja schon wieder bald Wollmarkt Vaterstetten, schnell noch ein bisschen Wolle wegspinnen damit ich neue kaufen darf!
October 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Huch, es ist ja schon wieder bald Wollmarkt Vaterstetten, schnell noch ein bisschen Wolle wegspinnen damit ich neue kaufen darf!
Reposted by Deike
darf man noch fruchtfleisch sagen
October 8, 2025 at 12:33 PM
darf man noch fruchtfleisch sagen
Reposted by Deike
You look fabulous today!
It's not easy to pull off that bold mix of rumpled sweaters, exhaustion, and the dusty darkness of a cluttered used bookstore.
It's not easy to pull off that bold mix of rumpled sweaters, exhaustion, and the dusty darkness of a cluttered used bookstore.
October 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
You look fabulous today!
It's not easy to pull off that bold mix of rumpled sweaters, exhaustion, and the dusty darkness of a cluttered used bookstore.
It's not easy to pull off that bold mix of rumpled sweaters, exhaustion, and the dusty darkness of a cluttered used bookstore.
Huch, es ist ja schon wieder bald BuCon, ich muss fix ein paar Bücher weglesen damit ich neue kaufen darf
October 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Huch, es ist ja schon wieder bald BuCon, ich muss fix ein paar Bücher weglesen damit ich neue kaufen darf
Reposted by Deike
Today is National LED Light Day! On this day, October 7, 2014, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura for Light Emitting Diodes.
🧶 Did you know you can knit with LEDs? See these knitting patterns on my post
intheloopknitting.com/light-knitti...
🧶 Did you know you can knit with LEDs? See these knitting patterns on my post
intheloopknitting.com/light-knitti...
October 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Today is National LED Light Day! On this day, October 7, 2014, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura for Light Emitting Diodes.
🧶 Did you know you can knit with LEDs? See these knitting patterns on my post
intheloopknitting.com/light-knitti...
🧶 Did you know you can knit with LEDs? See these knitting patterns on my post
intheloopknitting.com/light-knitti...
Reposted by Deike
Lynda Sayce plays a piece of lute music that was recently discovered in an archival document at the Museum Plantin-Moretus. Since the handwritten lute tablature was folded and reused as scrap paper, it's problaby the first time in 400 years that this music is heard.
May 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Lynda Sayce plays a piece of lute music that was recently discovered in an archival document at the Museum Plantin-Moretus. Since the handwritten lute tablature was folded and reused as scrap paper, it's problaby the first time in 400 years that this music is heard.
Reposted by Deike
EU citizens, please take 30 seconds to sign the European Citizens' Initiative to ban conversion therapy (torture against LGBTQ+ people).
Only 1 day left to meet the criteria of 1 million signatures.
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public
Only 1 day left to meet the criteria of 1 million signatures.
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public
European Citizens' Initiative
Give your support !
eci.ec.europa.eu
May 15, 2025 at 8:57 AM
EU citizens, please take 30 seconds to sign the European Citizens' Initiative to ban conversion therapy (torture against LGBTQ+ people).
Only 1 day left to meet the criteria of 1 million signatures.
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public
Only 1 day left to meet the criteria of 1 million signatures.
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public
Reposted by Deike
THE INCANDESCENT is a book about money and education and status symbols, about loving your career, about demons, about magic, about fantasy school - but most of all about how 'school' is always a kind of fantasy. Available now!
US: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
UK: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/unti...
US: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
UK: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/unti...
May 13, 2025 at 10:02 AM
THE INCANDESCENT is a book about money and education and status symbols, about loving your career, about demons, about magic, about fantasy school - but most of all about how 'school' is always a kind of fantasy. Available now!
US: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
UK: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/unti...
US: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
UK: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/unti...
Absolutely perfect colours!
May 9, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Absolutely perfect colours!
Reposted by Deike
you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"
May 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"
Reposted by Deike
@tkingfisher.com Real life White Rat propaganda?
May 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
@tkingfisher.com Real life White Rat propaganda?
Happy #draculadaily day! I just explained the concept to a social media averse 60+ year old, and she's now considering reading the book. Our good friend Jonathan can charm anybody.
May 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Happy #draculadaily day! I just explained the concept to a social media averse 60+ year old, and she's now considering reading the book. Our good friend Jonathan can charm anybody.
Mwahahaha... Bücher... Büüüüüücher...
April 29, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Mwahahaha... Bücher... Büüüüüücher...
Why yes, I _do_ need medieval cat enamel pins. 👀
April 28, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Why yes, I _do_ need medieval cat enamel pins. 👀
Reposted by Deike
So in the midst of the chaos and joy of Eastercon, @ngjeannette.bsky.social and I have set up a charity auction: Genre Creators for Trans rights in the UK and South Africa as a small personal response to what's happening in the world. You can bid on cool things here www.32auctions.com/genrefortrans
Genre Creators for Trans Rights in the UK and SA
Silent auction 'Genre Creators for Trans Rights in the UK and SA' hosted online at 32auctions.
www.32auctions.com
April 21, 2025 at 9:31 AM
So in the midst of the chaos and joy of Eastercon, @ngjeannette.bsky.social and I have set up a charity auction: Genre Creators for Trans rights in the UK and South Africa as a small personal response to what's happening in the world. You can bid on cool things here www.32auctions.com/genrefortrans
Reposted by Deike
This is crazy. UK cartoonist Rebecca Burke on her ICE detainment (from Comics Journal!) www.tcj.com/u-k-cartooni...
April 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This is crazy. UK cartoonist Rebecca Burke on her ICE detainment (from Comics Journal!) www.tcj.com/u-k-cartooni...