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Madam Adam @madamadam.bsky.social · 17h

✨✨✨ #madamadam #affirmations

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𝔽𝕣𝕒𝕞𝕖𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕆𝕨𝕝 ℍ𝕠𝕦𝕤𝕖 @toh-frames.bsky.social · 16h

#TheOwlHouse Young Blood, Old Souls (S1E19) Frame: 31206/31351

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 15h

I’m not entirely sure what's going on here, but it looks like shenanigans to me….

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🎃 Zack o' Lantern 🎃 @zackdavisson.com · 07/10/2026

Spirit - Georges Roux (1885)

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gardening friend @gardeningfriend.com · 19h

🌱🇳🇿 Calendula flowers track the sun throughout the day, a behavior called heliotropism, the same trick sunflowers are famous for, just on a smaller, less dramatic scale. #PlantFacts #GardenersOfBluesky

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𝔽𝕣𝕒𝕞𝕖𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕆𝕨𝕝 ℍ𝕠𝕦𝕤𝕖 @toh-frames.bsky.social · 21h

#TheOwlHouse Escaping Expulsion (S2E2) Frame: 3187/31725

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𝔽𝕣𝕒𝕞𝕖𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕆𝕨𝕝 ℍ𝕠𝕦𝕤𝕖 @toh-frames.bsky.social · 19h

#TheOwlHouse Once Upon a Swap (S1E8) Frame: 30325/31363

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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 18h

🐈‍⬛🤍..

A black cat with enormous round eyes gives a thumbs up against a muted coral background. Black handwritten text highlighted in yellow reads: “I thought a black cat giving you a thumbs up might make your day a little better. Please know that I’m rooting for you.” Beside the cat, white text reads: “I grew a thumb just for you.”

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Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In many Kyōto sweet shops you'll find a small 'manjū-kui' doll (饅頭喰い). The 'bun-eating boy', based on a tale of filial piety, is holding 2 pieces of manjū. Asked if he liked his mother or father more, the boy tore his bun in half and asked which piece was more delicious...😉

Small clay 'manju-kui' doll, depicting a boy holding 2 pieces of a manju sweet.

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Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Turtles and cranes are both symbols of longevity. A minogame (蓑亀) is a turtle that has lived so long it sports a fabulous tail of seaweed and algae. As the Chinese proverb goes "cranes live for a thousand years, and turtles live for ten thousand years." #folklore #木型 #Japan

Wooden moulds for turtles and cranes...both auspicious symbols of longevity.

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Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Some of the most remarkable kigata use bats as inspiration, one artist even borrowing the face of a cat to create a strange hybrid. In China the word for bat (fù 蝠) was a homonym for 'wealth' or 'fortune' (fù 富), and over time the bat became connected to good luck in Japan also.

Wooden moulds using bats as inspiration for sugar sweets.

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Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In Japan 'tai' (鯛 'red sea bream') is a symbol of good luck because its name is associated with the word 'medetai' (めでたい), which means 'congratulations'. As Kyōto is far from the sea, sugar sea bream became a convenient (but no less expensive) alternative to the real thing.

Taiyaki (鯛焼き 'baked sea bream'), as the name suggests, is a fish-shaped cake made from waffle batter. It's traditionally filled with sweet bean paste.

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Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Of the many 'sea bream' kigata on display, one was created by Horikyūraidō (掘九来堂) for use in a movie called Onna-no-saka (女の坂). About the size of a newborn, such large sweets were intended as a display of wealth and would be cut up into slices of sugary sashimi for guests!

Wooden mould for creating a large sea bream of sugar.

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Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A few winters back Nao-san joined a workshop at 'ZENBI -鍵善良房- KAGIZEN ART MUSEUM', hosted by the owner of Kagizen and a wooden mould craftsman from Okayama Kyo-ya (岡山京屋). There was a chance to use some of the moulds with a clay mix (rather than sugar)👏✨😊 #木型 #Kyoto #京都

A workshop at 'ZENBI -鍵善良房- KAGIZEN ART MUSEUM', learning how to use kigata (wooden moulds).

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Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

One of the most important sets of kigata for any confectioners is the 12 zodiac animals... 🐀🐂🐅🐇🐉🐍🐎🐏🐒🐓🐕🐗 2027 will be the Year of the Sheep or Goat. #干支 #zodiac #yearoftherabbit #zodiacanimals #木型 #Kyoto #京都

Wooden moulds with designs themed on the zodiac animals.

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Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

As the bigger sweets were intended for display they typically featured auspicious motifs, such as cranes, pines and turtles. When finished the 'sculptures' were often coloured with edible paint to enhance the designs🎨🖌️ #干菓子 #higashi #japanesesweets #traditionalsweets #京都

Large kigata with a pine, turtle and crane motif.

A large higashi partly painted to show how the original would have looked for display.

Large moulds with a shrimp (lobster) design...this is an auspicious motif seen around the new year.

Wooden moulds for sakura and ume blossom designs.

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Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The most common type of higashi use wooden moulds called 'kigata' (木型) to create intricate designs in sugar. Kigata were used to make both smaller, affordable sweets for tea ceremonies, and larger, often prohibitively expensive, creations for special celebrations🙌 #Kyoto #木型

Wooden moulds featuring a bat and crab design.

Large higashi modeled on symbols of longevity (and marital harmony) - cranes, turtles, and the old married couple (from Noh) Jo and Uba.

Wooden moulds featuring pine branch and ume blossom design.

Wooden moulds featuring Noh mask designs.

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Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

👏MOULDING GOOD FORTUNE🍬 Two types of sweets are typically used in tea gatherings: higashi (干菓子) for usu-cha (薄茶 'thin matcha'), and omogashi (主菓子) for koi-cha (濃茶 'thick matcha'). As the name suggests, higashi is a type of dry confectionery, whereas omogashi are fresh sweets with a short shelf-life.

'Tameiki-chan' (ためいきちゃん), a pointy-headed, rather melancholy-looking sweet created by Kagizen Yoshifusa (鍵善良房).

Dried sweets for spring...sugar bush warblers and thin wafers with a bracken design.

Summer sweets...jelly ayu nibble on green moss like morsels.

Dried sweets served around the time of the Gion Matsuri...one is in the shape of a fan emblazoned with the crest of Yasaka-jinja, the other features an abstract lantern design.

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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A comic of three colourful foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green, and the third one is little blue, big blue's little brother. In this one, the shading is slightly sharper and brighter than in normal reality, as Blue, Green, and Blue's brother are playing a videogame.
Green: Just to warn you too, I have never played a videogame in my life.
Baby Blue: Yeah, I know.

Both Blue and his brother freeze in horror as Green turns around to look at a cute little purple potato on the ground. The potato has eyes, and is looking right back at Green. A health bar has appeared above Green, and another one beneath the little potato. The potato's health bar is significantly larger than Green's.
Green: A "healthbar" means it's aggressive, right?

Blue and his brother watch in horror as Green runs off.
Blue: Stop running into more of them!
Green: I'm trying to run away!

Blue and his brother watch in mild disappointment as something unseen but clearly unsavoury happens to Green outside of the panel's view. A text appears above them, saying "<Green_Fox has died of making bad choices>"

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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

⚔️🐾🤍..

A little black cat with large, round eyes wears silver armour and holds a shield and a raised sword. It sits on green grass beneath a softly blended pink, purple and blue sky. White handwritten text above reads: “I will fall, but I will get up. I will fail, but I will try again. I might be scared sometimes, but there’s a brave little heart in me.”

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 07/10/2026

Having trouble deciding which books to buy from Amazon during Prime Days? Try this: None, then go support an independent bookstore instead. 😌

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Oliver Hamlin @oliverhamlin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Witchy Popplio

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🌶️ Motte! 🌶️🔞 @extra-spicymotte.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🕯️ The Ouroboros Candle new page! TOC is an 18+ thriller webcomic full of bloodshed, demonic shenanigans and the decimation of the morally bankrupt upper class in early 1900's Europe! ouroboroscandle.thecomicseries.com #oc #webcomic

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 07/10/2026

At Samhain it is believed that the dead return home, coming to seek hospitality and see how the living have gotten on. This leads to happy reunions at times, while in other cases, the disappointed dead bring the fright we associate with Halloween today. #WyrdWednesday

A spooky vintage room with faded paint, with images of superimposed figures somewhat transparent all over it, two hands on the wall as if trying to get out.

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yuko @aidosaur.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's finally here! @ananthhirsh.bsky.social and I have launched the kickstarter for our new 18+ story, Feast of the Unicorn! 🔪🦄🍽️ "Once upon a time, there was a miraculous creature, and a stranger from a distant land..." www.kickstarter.com/projects/joh...

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Feast of the Unicorn - Chapter 1

Once upon a time there was a miraculous creature, and a stranger from a distant land... An 18+ original series.

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GB Patch Games @gbpatch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

OFFICIAL OUR LIFE: NOW & FOREVER MERCH ⁉️ Yep, it's finally that time! 🍂 We're back on our merch game and need your help deciding which hoodie (yes, a new hoodie!) will head to production. There are four options to choose from and only one will be made.

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Oliver Hamlin @oliverhamlin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Day 7: Crown

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

BREAKING NEWS: Look at this otter. He's sleeping!

A close-up color photograph of Steve the baby otter peacefully sleeping on a soft towel in a warm, softly lit setting.
There is no text embedded in the image.

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secondlina // Lord of Crows @secondlina.com · 07/10/2026

Crow became accidentally important at work when all he wanted was to play with garbage.

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𝔽𝕣𝕒𝕞𝕖𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕆𝕨𝕝 ℍ𝕠𝕦𝕤𝕖 @toh-frames.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#TheOwlHouse Watching and Dreaming (S3E3) Frame: 47221/78901

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𝔽𝕣𝕒𝕞𝕖𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕆𝕨𝕝 ℍ𝕠𝕦𝕤𝕖 @toh-frames.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#TheOwlHouse Watching and Dreaming (S3E3) Frame: 60703/78901

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Samkalensky @samkalensky.com · 07/10/2026

Hajime Komainu - [Yokai|Artifact] - Some of the earliest 'KomaInu' in Japan where made by stone masons who had no clue what a "komainu" was, so they made them without reference, relying only on rumors, their imaginations & memories, Results are very charming! ❤️ samkalensky.com/products/haj...

[Image source: Komainu.net found at Tenmangu Shrine in Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture.](and my inspiration)

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Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yūsai-san examined an imperial kōrozen-no-gohō in the possession of Kōryū-ji (広隆寺), and managed to reproduce the dye used in creating the garment. Because the dye behaves mysteriously in different lights, it is known as 'maboroshi-no-zome' (幻の染 'phantom dyeing'). #Japan

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Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Interested in a mysterious method of dyeing that allowed clothes to change colour depending on the sunlight, Yūsai-san began to research 'kōrozen-no-gohō' (黄櫨染御袍), a type of yellowish attire worn by the emperor for special ceremonies since Heian times.

'Korozen-no-goho', a type of yellowish attire worn by the emperor for special ceremonies since Heian times.

Photo thanks - @ozrainbow1985

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Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yūsai-tei (祐斎亭) is a workshop and exhibition space in Arashiyama, displaying pieces by the master dyer 'Yūsai' (祐斎). Yūsai-san is a leading figure in 'yume kōro-zome' (夢こうろ染), a process of dyeing that creates a pattern capable of changing colour in the sun.

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Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Purple? Pink? ...or... Both?😮🤯 #kimono #kimonomagic #Japan #Kyoto #Arashiyama #京都 #嵐山 #着物

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Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

💜🦩THE SEASON OF PINKS & PURPLES📿🌺 These are the days of cold dew (寒露 'kanro'). In the traditional calendar the wild geese are returning (October 8th-12th 鴻雁来), chrysanthemums are blooming (13th-17th 菊花開), and crickets are singing at the door (18th-22nd 蟋蟀在戸)🦗🎶 #Kyoto #京都

A soda drink modeled on Nara's Great Buddha.

A delicately folded sweet with a chrysanthemum crest stamp.

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Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Public Domain Art is the lifeblood of small tabletop rpgs, but it can be a nightmare trying to find the right art and license. This week, I’ve re-uploaded my old list from 2020 (with updates) of public domain websites. That's 500,000+ public domain paintings, photos, maps, and film. Link below 🔗👇

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Aiwa @ai-wa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

✨Nohr Sibs Luggage Tags Preorder✨ Ending on 10/10! aiwastore.bigcartel.com/product/fe14...

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Oliver Hamlin @oliverhamlin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Day 6: Lantern

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The Obey Me Wiki @obeymewiki.com · 07/10/2026

The Underworld (also known as Hell) was described in Lesson 36-5 of Nightbringer as "essentially an enormous pit in the shape of a bowl." There are nine circles to the Underworld, and Cocytus - the lowest level - is also subdivided into four layers. ⛓️ #ObeyMe #ObeyMeTrivia

Cell in the Underworld in Nightbringer Lesson 36-5

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Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A cornucopia of chestnut deliciousness from Jukō's (聚洸) concession in Takashimaya Department Store. 🌰rihei-guri kuri kinton (利平栗の栗金団 - made from rihei chestnuts) 🌰kurikanoko (栗かのこ) 🌰tanba-kuri kuri kinton (丹波栗の栗金団 - made from tanba chestnuts) #wagashi #和菓子

A selection of chestnut inspired sweets from Juko.

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Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Toraya's (とらや) 'kurikomochi' (栗粉)✨ A Japanese proverb goes "peaches and chestnuts after three years, persimmons after eight" (桃栗三年柿八年)... It is similar to the English phrases "a watched pot never boils", "patience is a virtue" or "mighty oaks from little acorns grow".

The first sign of colours outside the teahouse.

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Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Nona's (のな) 'steamed chestnut yōkan' (栗蒸し羊羹), with its slight brandy taste, is perfect as a teatime snack!🍷😋 mountain temple- on tatami mats, gathering chestnuts 山寺や畳の上の栗拾ひ -Kobayashi Issa (小林一茶). Trans. David Lanoue. #京都 #和菓子 #wagashi #chestnuts

A tea bowl featuring rabbits running under a full moon (perfect for autumn).

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