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thelostkelpie
@thelostkelpie.bsky.social
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Lover of books, nature, folklore and fantasy.
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thelostkelpie.bsky.social
Sunrise!
Photo of a sunrise. Pink/orange streaks amongst blue-ish clouds spread in the sky over the dark shapes of distant hills. The bare branches of trees silhouetted against the glowing sky in the foreground.
December 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
thelostkelpie.bsky.social
This hauntingly beautiful music is known as #kulning it is a traditional Swedish vocal technique to call cattle home. This was also at the #Urkult opening ceremony #thenightoffire
August 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
thelostkelpie.bsky.social
Met a beautiful #greenman type #fairy at the #Urkult #folkfestival in Sweden a couple of weeks ago!
A scene at a festival where a performer dressed as a sort of folklore creature in stilts and a mossy green ghillie suit speckled in bright flowers and with antlers on his head carries a long staff, also topped with flowers. The mossy green fairy figure moves basy the crowd. Even his antlers have flowers. The mossy green fairy figure leans down to where a curious little girl looks up at him with a smile, her arm outstretched.
August 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
Okay, so here's a comic I made a couple years ago
A four panel comic called Know Your Northern Cardinals. Panel 1 is labeled Juvenile and has a young cardinal with a visible gape and patchy brown and red feathers. Panel 2 is labeled adult male and has an adult male cardinal with his beautiful red feathers, red bill, and black mask. Panel 3 is labeled Bloodcheep, Frightful Molt-demon of the Cursed Abyss and shows a bald cardinal undergoing a catastrophic molt. Panel 4 is labeled adult female and shows an adult female cardinal with a red bill, olive feathers, a few red patches, and a dark mask.
June 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
thelostkelpie.bsky.social
I found my throne! #forestthrone #woodenthrone #fairythrone #dalbyforest
A crude throne carved from a tree trunk in the middle of an English forest, a tree trunk table before it. Both tinged slightly green with moss or lichen.
June 29, 2025 at 4:59 PM
thelostkelpie.bsky.social
Taking a brief break from horror to embrace a little fantasy. Been meaning to read @joannechocolat.bsky.social's The Moonlight Market for a while now. Tonight's the night!
Photo shows a book cover titled The Moonlight market. It is midnight blue with a gilded border of brambles framing the title and a round central picture. The picture shows St Pancras Station on a cloudy, moonlit night. Two pale moths flank the lower edges of the central picture.
June 14, 2025 at 6:51 PM
thelostkelpie.bsky.social
Brotherly love between my partner's bengals, Bean and Barney. ❤️❤️
Photo of two bengal cats. On the left is Bean, an orange rosetted bengal. On the right is Barney, a snow marbelled bengal. Barney is affectionately licking his brother's chin.
June 8, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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misakouroco.bsky.social
Conifer forests rustle like ocean waves as the breeze whispers the river's path, its far reaches.

Let us be the guardians of these places. The Evergreen State should accurately reflect its meaning. 🙏🌲🌲

#PNW #NaturePhotography #NationalForest #Publiclands #PubliclandsNOTforSale
A serene river flows through a lush green forest. The water is crystal clear with a blue-green tint, surrounded by mostly tall evergreens. Wildflowers and grass grow along the riverbank in the foreground. In the background, forested hills rise, partially obscured by mist and low-hanging clouds, creating a tranquil and picturesque scene.
June 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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ixerro.bsky.social
Luna moth at work the other day. Pretty neat!
June 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
I often get asked to help with bird ID problems when the answer is: it's a female of a common species! Here's a poster celebrating the often-overlooked intricacies of female bird plumage. During June, proceeds from my shop sales go to @instbirdpop.bsky.social topatoco.com/collections/...
A poster of female North American birds that includes a red-necked phalarope, painted bunting (she's green!), belted kingfisher (females have belts!), california quail, anna's hummingbird, blue grosbeak, northern harrier, black-throated blue warbler, northern cardinal, red-winged blackbird (not exactly a black bird), and common merganser.
June 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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thegodpodcast.com
Welcome to America, where protesting illegal kidnappings without due process is an insurrection, but attacking the nation’s Capitol is not.
protesters surround federal detention center in Los Angeles
June 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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fieldexplores.bsky.social
Pillows - Gator Days
Panel 1 Ember cannot get to sleep. She steps out of her room to seek help from her mom. Ember's room has a sign that says "EMBER'S LAIR". This sign was requested by Ember, as she wishes for her room to spark fear in the hearts of her enemies. Ember: MOMMY! I CAN'T GET COZY! I NEED A PILLOW! Panel 2 Fern brings a pillow into Ember's room but questions if she really needs it. Fern: Sweetheart, don't you think you have enough pillows? Panel 3 Ember is in bed and surrounded by pillows of various shapes and sizes. There are also some toys spread around. There's probably snacks hidden somewhere in there too. There aren't any weapons but it wouldn't surprise me if there were some. Ember is prepared for anything. Panel 4 Ember has carefully thought about the question of there being too many pillows and has her well thought out answer. Ember: No.
May 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
thelostkelpie.bsky.social
Can't let a little rain spoil a nice walk!
A path through some woodland. The leaves are verdant. The ground is mossy and damp from recent rainfall.
May 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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pyromeekorai.bsky.social
I absolutely love these two! What a great live show!

#criticalroleart #criticalrolefanart #criticalrolespoilers
May 9, 2025 at 5:49 AM
thelostkelpie.bsky.social
Always good to read a decent bit of folk horror! Got this signed by the lovely author himself @davidmbarnett.bsky.social
The cover of a book called "Withered Hill" The cover is black with oranfe text and the silver design of a hare's head in a sort of filigree pattern formed of twisting branches.
May 15, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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imagobit.bsky.social
The Most Dangerous Animal in the World was a 1963 exhibit at the Bronx Zoo in the Bronx, a borough of New York City. It featured a mirror and text describing the dangers humans pose to life on earth. In 1968 the exhibit was duplicated at Brookfield Zoo in Chicago.
May 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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signemaene.com
'When the sun shone, the poison flower breathed cold
And spread a chilly mist of dull disgrace.'
-Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

🎨Anna Billing
#BookWormSat
Painting of a meadow. White, red and blue flowers, grass. Trees in the background. White clouds in the sky.
May 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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signemaene.com
In Wallonia, there's a rock called La Pierre Haina. It's also known as the White Menhir. It is thought that the stone is used by the devil to travel to the centre of the earth. Another tale says that the stone is a priest who blasphemed God and was turned into stone as punishment.

#WyrdWednesday
Art by Gustave Doré. Black and white illustration of a dark, rocky landscape with the devil holding one of the rocks with both of his hands. Wings on his back.
May 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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davidmbarnett.bsky.social
In today’s @theobserveruk.bsky.social New Review section, my story of one man’s obsession with the film The Wicker Man that cost him all his money and almost his marriage, family and sanity.

observer.co.uk/culture/film...
May 11, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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possumcreekgames.com
Possum Creek is proud to release Harvest, a new folk horror Belonging Outside Belonging TTRPG based on Midsommar and The Wicker Man
warehouse23.com/products/har...
Harvest
The people of a remote British island have carved out a good life, far from the churning of industry and the march of imperialism. Yet their paradise comes at a price. Life must be paid for in death. ...
warehouse23.com
May 13, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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marygemignani.bsky.social
I went looking for the heron again yesterday, he did not disappoint. It took several return trips to the location, but he gave another very brief photo op. This bird’s plumage is so exquisitely beautiful it was unbelievable.

Great Blue Heron
#Birds #photography #nature
#GreatBlueHeron #Herons
Large blue and white bird with yellow eyes and a yellow beak is perched on log at a marsh.
April 20, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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dorianlynskey.bsky.social
Beautiful. Like an anxiety dream in which your idol tells you that you suck, but real and directed at one of the world’s worst people
meidastouch.com MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Apr 19
"Pope Francis skipped the Vatican’s official meeting with Vice President JD Vance Saturday, instead having his No. 2 give the vice president a lecture on compassion, according to a Vatican statement."
Pope Sends Deputy to Lecture Vance on Compassion at Vatican
Vance had an “an exchange of opinions” with Cardinal Pietro Parolin that touched on migration, the Vatican said.
www.thedailybeast.com
April 19, 2025 at 10:09 PM