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as always, in need of hope 🪷
@tikvahchai.bsky.social
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* Scots Jew hoping to find some community & safe haven
* chronically ill, often bed bound, limits to how much stress can subject myself to, which complicates most attempts to socialise incl online
* niche joy is Thai 🇹🇭 films & telly; writing a lakorn🤯
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From just these two fragments (the Daphne & Cupid were too different), this is my best for making sense of them. I'm not convinced that they would have been this close but I haven't been able to draw a chest/neck which works with them farther away. I am not an artist though.
Two fragments of a Roman mosaic arranged to indicate the shape of a bird. Two additional lines indicate where the remainder of the bird's chest/neck and head might be. The head is clearest, with an eye and beak. Please note this is a very hypothetical illustration as part of an attempt to understand the fragments and test a guess that the red triangles on the second fragment are feet and the brown at its top is a wing.
November 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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This arrived today 😊 
Thanks Tom
Tom Cox's novel Villager and a hand drawn map on a postcard. The attached thread and Tom's feed have more information, including a link to an excerpt from the novel on his blog.
October 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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just after the last big storm I found an interdimensional portal amongst the trees, but when i went back the next afternoon to get a photo for you and your followers the magic had evaporated 🙁
with the right weather it might open again 🤞
The dark underside of a fallen tree makes a shallow cave behind a stand of younger trees.
October 17, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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שנה טובה ומתוקה
Shanah tovah u'metukah
May the new year be sweet and good
A plate of thick slices of apple surrounding a bowl of honey in the centre. Someone's hand dips a slice of apple into the honey. Apples dipped in honey in a Jewish tradition at Rosh Ha Shanah, with hopes for a sweet new year.
September 22, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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ohmigod. and in this summer no less
green cucumber, home-grown, about 4 inches long. it's supposed to be short like that. it was quite tasty.
July 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Your last saved celeb photo is your therapist. Who is it?

Well they say laughter is the best medicine 😂
Screenshot from the first episode of the Thai series He's Coming to Me. Thun, played by Ohm Pawat, is giving an amused yeah right look to Med, played by Singto Prachaya, who is off screen. Video quality for the series wasn't great so the colours are washed-out. The background is green trees but is blurry.
July 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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For ML, think something like an intersection of Alek Teeradetch's mischief, Nine Naphat's emotion and Mek Winai. I'm not sure any of them would be/have been right though, or maybe it's more the roles they've been given.
Anyway, Mek's back which is canon for the ML.
Close crop of Mek Winai Kraibutr's muscled back from the 1999 film Nang Nak. It's a night scene, and the cinematographer made excellent use of soft lamp light, shadows and Mek's physique. A friend commented on such things after he'd seen the film, so I made him a sticker pack. If you're on Signal and would like it, let me know. If you'd like help finding the film to stream, I can do that too.
July 22, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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You've inherited a movie theater. What's your first double feature?

I mean, Nang Nak on the big screen 😍😍😍 #ThaiMovie
Publicity image for 1999 Thai film Nang Nak, a national treasure of a tragic love story. Black & white with the Thai title in red. A woman (Sai Inthira), her shoulder bare, looks directly at the camera over a man's (Mek Winai) bare shoulder. Her hand grasps his upper arm. Period dress and hair. Moon through clouds in the upper left background. Crowd of villagers with torches lower left background. Publicity cover for Pee Mak Phra Khanong, 2013 comedy horror remake of Nang Nak. Colours are muted. Moon over a small house on stilts along a canal as background to face shots of the leads, Mario Maurer and Davika Hoorne in the upper half. Lower half is face shots of Mak's four friends, all Thai comedy actors with various exaggerated expressions of mock horror. The men have comedic takes on period hair styles. GTH logo bottom left, which is a reliable indication that it will be very good.
July 22, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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😍😊
ancient Roman bronze wind chime (tintinnabulum) in the shape of a phallus with a tail and two animal-ish legs in mid running stride, but alas this one has lost its bells. it's really quite charming
May 30, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Reply with an image from your comfort movie 🎥🖤
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Cover image for Thai comedy horror movie Low Season. Two people sit on the floor of a cluttered, rustic room. The colours are warm and lamp-lit. Behind them a black and white ghost peers through the open window.
May 25, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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define ‘hot’
Screenshot from the 1999 classic Thai film Nang Nak Close-up of Inthira Charoenpura and Winai Kraibutr as Nak and Mak looking intensely into each other's eyes. Both are in period dress, which means bare shoulders and closely cropped hair.
April 17, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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poor baby edge lord is bored
wanna be edge lord showing a nazi stripe. if you want/need it typed out, let me know.
April 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Scots have a head start on hating Trump.
If you've come across the legendary photos of Janey Godley with her Trump is a ---- sign, this is a different one. Same sign, but the date #ProtestTrump2018 is clearly visible. Clear blue sky, the Balmedie sand dunes in the background. The lower half of the sign was cropped by whatever media site I borrowed it from. Sunder is a nice man so may as well keep his feed clean :D
April 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Are you serious Dobies? #Gardening
Two barely there strawberry plants with one viable leaf between them. 9 cm pots Arrived today from dobies.co.uk
April 4, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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from the flower children of the -1100s 😍
Closed terracotta vessel with a pouring spout and handles on top. It's decorated with a funky octopus, fish, flowers and other designs. The octopus' eyes are concentric circles which give it a decidedly trippy look. Mycenaean, ca. 1200–1100 BCE https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/254779
March 17, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Chanukah sameach fam :)
Simple brass chanukah menorah on a window sill with two lit candles reflected in the glass.
December 25, 2024 at 4:39 PM
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Introduce yourself with
One book 📚 Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, Bruno Schulz
One movie 🎥 Low Season สุขสันต์วันโสด
One album 💿 Lau Live
One tv show 📺 The Broken Us ณ ขณะเหงา #ThaiPBS
Dark green book cover for Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass with a pencil sketch of a man in early 20th century suit and hat. There's a bright yellow circle highlighting his head and torso with the author's name Bruno Schulz (he also drew the sketch) and the name of the book around it. A second yellow circle underneath it highlights his feet and contains the a recommendation quote from John Updike "Astonishing stories by one of the great writers... His verbal art straikes us - stuns us even - with its overload of beauty." Cover/promo image for Thai comedy horror movie Low Season. It's a rustic room with a lot of wood, woven reed flooring and clutter scattered about including books, a guitar and a boom box. A woman wearing glasses and a man sit on the floor behind a low wooden table. Both are looking directly at the camera and have startled expressions. The colours are warm and saturated, except throug the window in the back wall. The tree, night sky and ghost looking through it are in black and white. CD cover with the words LAU Live. Three musicians standing or sitting on the beach as the low light of the end of the day reflects off the water. All are in silhouette. On the left is Aidan O'Rourke with his fiddle. Martin Green sits on a chair in the middle with his accordion. Kris Drever is carrying his guitar case on the left. Cover/promo image for Thai PBS series The Broken Us. Two people are sitting on the floor in front of a small dark grey sofa in a greenish room. Light comes in through a window with skyscrapers outside. The one on the left is a man with glasses holding an open book and looking to the side. His clothes are drab coloured. The one on the right is a woman with bright dyed red hair. She's wearing a black knit long sleeved shirt and jeans and is looking directly at the camera with a serious expression. They are both Thai of course.
November 9, 2024 at 5:23 PM