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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 4h

I am continuing my advocacy for autumn velvet with a sapphire blue gown trimmed with both golden sleeve baubles and sparkly beaded floral motifs. Lots to see and cosy cloth to boot. Dates to c1883, sold via #AugustaAuction #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Back view of the top half of a sapphire blue bustle dress with ruched skirt and a row of gold passementerie baubles running down the back of each arm

Side by side image of the side and front of the early 1880s blue velvet bustle dress which shows the large beaded floral motifs on the front of the skirt

A close up of the beaded sparkly blue flower with green leaves decorating the skirt of the blue velvet bustle dress

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 3h

The pwca is the black-furred Welsh version of the pooka - a forest goblin trickster. Sometimes a pwca uses a magic candle to lead travelers off the path, and other times a pwca transforms into a black animal, such a horse, and entices travelers to chase it. 🎨Tony DiTerlizzi #FolkloreSunday

A black-furred pwca in a tree. Illustration by Tony DiTerlizzi.

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 4h

“Fires burn blue … Methought the souls of all that I had murdered Came to my tent.” (Richard III) Candles dim & lightbulbs flicker in the presence of spooks. But in addition to the ominous, ubiquitous Corpse Candles, there are a number of other ghostly glows. [More #SpookySunday #ShakespeareSunday

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Caleb Howells @calebhowells.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

This video critically examines the theory that Riothamus was the historical figure behind the legend of King Arthur, particularly the legend of Arthur’s continental campaigns: youtu.be/t5zmBIiRqz4

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Debunking the “King Arthur = Riothamus” Theory (Part 1)

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Caleb Howells @calebhowells.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

This video makes the case that one of Arthur’s twelve battles can be placed at Edinburgh (and no, it’s not the Battle of Agned/Breguoin): youtu.be/DB_ERNTmWlA

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Did King Arthur Fight the Picts at Edinburgh?

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Caleb Howells @calebhowells.bsky.social · 4h

In this video, I make the case that Cadwallon Lawhir, the king of Gwynedd before Maelgwn, died at King Arthur’s Battle of Camlann: youtu.be/y35FYd52oIk?...

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Did the King of Gwynedd Die at the Battle of Camlann?

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 5h

So many people already dealing with parents/grandparents with the toxic combination of diminishing mental faculties, online radicalisation via social media and AI slop, and chatbot seduction. Unfortunately we are now all getting to see what happens when one of those cases is the president of the USA

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Michael @selmerguy.bsky.social · 7h

The Flying Dutchman, or The Phantom Ship was a play by Edward Fitzball from 1826 about a ghostly ship that foretold doom to all who saw her. It was performed regularly for the rest of the century and was popular enough to inspire a parody version by Christy’s Minstrels in the 1860s. #SpookySunday

Poster for performances of the plays The Flying Dutchman and Sweeney Todd.

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Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social · 6h

Frontispiece to The Secret Book of the Black Arts by Henry T. Williams, 1878 #SpookySunday The full title of the book is so long you can read it in the three comments below.

A black-and-white engraving of a robed, skeletal ghost that has seized a man who is leaning on a table in front of a cupboard.

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NoahClue @noahclue.bsky.social · 22h

It was a revelation in middle school to see another individual with the same mentality

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In spite of being of the correct generation to have grown up while "Peanuts" was still in active publication, it's always a little surreal to be reminded that the most popular comic strip in the English-speaking world for fifty solid years was about an eight-year-old with clinical depression.

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 6h

This ghastly illustration comes from Ernest Suffling's 'Decameron Of A Hypnotist' from 1898. I've never read it, or Suffling's more famous work, 'The Story Hunter', which I'm realising is a serious oversight on my part. This looks creepy as hell. #SpookySunday

A man clasps the arms of his chair in horror as a corpse-like figure rises out of the seat in front of him.

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 5h

"My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain." - William Shakespeare, "Richard III (Act 5, Scene 3) #ShakespeareSunday

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You Got Me Breaking Bad

Alt: Walter White pretends to be caught in "Breaking Bad."

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 7h

The Gwrach y Rhibyn is a malevolent spirit in Welsh folklore that resembles an old hag with leathery wings. At night, she goes to the window of a person about to die to call their name, or travels invisibly beside them and utters her cry when they approach a stream or crossroads. #FolkloreSunday

A spectral hag confronts two travellers in Wales. An illustration by T. H. Thomas.

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 8h

ANNE: Villain, thou know’st nor law of God nor man. No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. RICHARD III: But I know none, and therefore am no beast. - William Shakespeare, "Richard III" (Act 1, Scene 2) #ShakespeareSunday

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Toxic Love Hexxus

Alt: The toxic monster Hexxus sings "Toxic Love" in the animated movie "Fern Gully."

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 16h

@lartist.bsky.social patreon.com/cw/LardeSouza

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 15h

The gleaming golden fang heels are one of the best looks for ghoul footwear. Such a marvelously fierce design.

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 17h

Virginia Leith trying to stay ahead in The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962). Mood.

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 17h

Awww, Twyla looks so sad.

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Dracula Enthusiast @kmfao.latinsky.app · 18h

More jobs taken by AI. I used to work at a yearbook printer, and we had a network of photographers (and some had assistants or kids doing internships), plus the retouchers, everybody doing orders and QA, the actual printing process, sales, and tons of other positions

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 19h

Some of the most iconic werewolf stories come from France (the Beast of Gévaudan, the most werewolf-esque version of Little Red Riding Hood, etc.) so it's a really cool idea to give Clawdeen an artsy French look with a chic beret.

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James Hance @jameshance.com · 01/10/2026

“All Bert & No Play” 🪓 Inktober Day 1 - 31 days of Monsters, Fiends & Baddies! Original gouache painting on illustration board up on jameshance.com today ☺️🎨✨

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Lar deSouza @lartist.bsky.social · 23h

From the Larchives. Since today's PinUpTober prompt 'laundry', inspired an NSFW cartoon, here is a substitute pin up for you. The NSFW version is on my Patreon :)

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Lar deSouza @lartist.bsky.social · 19h

Cartoon: If you had an issue with ST SNW's puppet video I can't help you :)

cartoon: Spock enters the bridge to find Uhura, Pike and Erika are marionettes
P: Spock! Sensors show we've been hit with a 'Supermarionation' beam!
Caption: Some days Spock could not catch a fucking break.

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 19h

I love when someone is comfortable enough with Dredd to call him "Joe." Like all his mutant hillbilly relatives who cheerfully refer to Dredd as "good ol' Cousin Joe."

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 19h

The sound of her footsteps is the unrelenting sound of judgement

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 19h

Fastback - the third Flash parody from DC Comics who's a turtle (after the Terrific Whatzit and Crash).

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 19h

A crossover between the Zoo Crew and the Archie Adventures versions of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles would be so incredibly cool.

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E M Will @elainemwill.bsky.social · 21h

I bought this Superman sketch cover last year and finally got around to doing something with it (By the way, these are all real DC characters)

Captain Carrot and his Amazing Zoo Crew, including Captain Carrot himself, Rubberduck, Pig-Iron, Yankee Poodle, Alley-Kat-Abra, and Fastback. They are all looking shocked at something off screen.

Super-Squirrel, basically "what if Superman was an anthro cartoon squirrel," busting out of chains a bit like on that one Neal Adams Superman cover.

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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

oh so like season 4 is when ALL the memes happen

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Revolutionary_Jack 🕷🕸! @elvingjack.bsky.social · 20h

Eugenicist freak.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 20h

lol someone yanked grandpa aside and told him what $100 buys, nowadays.

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Clord TC, illustration creaturo @clordtc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

taking this #dayofdredd as an opportunity to draw the traditional oversized-bits Chief Judge Hershey for @judgeanon.bsky.social

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Clord TC, illustration creaturo @clordtc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

today's sketch for #dayofdredd about 2 hours for this one

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 20h

"HoW mAnY lOcAl MoDeLs Do YoU rUn" Jesus CHRIST these dipshits sound like the gun-fuckers who declare you're not allowed to to oppose children being shot to death in their schoolrooms while cops play on their phones in the hallway if you can't run a military-grade gun care routine on a M-16.

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 20h

"The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!" - William Wordsworth, "The World Is Too Much With Us" #BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly

The full "The World Is Too Much With Us" poem by William Wordsworth

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 21h

Like I know you may have heard bits and pieces about the Harry Potter fanfic writer who is one of the biggest names in the "AI Safety"/rationalism movement, but it's so much more stupid than you could ever imagine. Imagine turning Harry Potter into your self-insert character ...

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Wikipedia

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🎃 Rik (but a bit spookier) 🎃 @slightlyonfire.bsky.social · 20h

Ghostbusters Ecto-1! The ride of your (after)life! Scooting along making the 🚨EHHH-EHHH-EHHH🚨 noise might have driven my dad crazy but it was so much fun. The ghost is apparently nameless, a total Mandela Effect for me, swore it had one. Drove me nuts that Ecto-2 didn’t fit inside, bloody physics!

Kenner The Real Ghostbusters Ecto-1 / a toy version of the famous Cadillac. Not quite in-model & slightly lacking in detail but still awesome. A gunner’s seat is mounted on the roof

The Ecto-1 slams on the brakes as a small orange ghost blocks the road!

Fortunately it is easily caught with the pull-out claw, which retracts as it drives

In the cartoon Ecto-2couod be stored in the back. It’s a bit big for that in real life though nothing a bit of imagination can’t fix

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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#BookWormSat "There was not a human soul near. Sad October and her saddest self seemed the only two existences haunting that lane" Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy

Illustration for Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, A Pure Woman, by Thomas Hardy, with engravings by Vivien Gribble (Macmillan, 1926).

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