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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 12h

#WyrdWednesday Nørre Nærå runestone (Nørre Nærå-stenen), a Viking Age granite runestone from Denmark is interpreted as having a so called grave-binding inscription used to keep the deceased in their grave. Photo: Nationalmuseet i Denmark. www.scandinavianarchaeology.com/the-draugr/

Grey stone with pointed top, carved with runestones.

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bus_error @buserror5.bsky.social · 18h

#WyrdWednesday Song of the Necromancer (Weird Tales, Feb 1937) by Clark Ashton Smith. This text is from The Complete Poetry and Translations V2 (2012).

Song of the Necromancer

I will repeat a subtle rune—
And thronging suns of Otherwhere
Shall blaze upon the blinded air,
And spectres terrible and fair
Shall walk the riven world at noon.

The star that was mine empery
Is dust upon unwinnowed skies:
But primal dreams have made me wise,
And soon the shattered years shall rise
To my remembered sorcery.

To mantic mutterings, brief and low,
My palaces shall lift amain,
My bowers bloom; I will regain
The lips whereon my lips have lain
In rose-red twilights long ago.

Before my murmured exorcism
The world, a wispy wraith, shall flee:
A stranger earth, a weirder sea,
Peopled with shapes of Faëry,
Shall swell upon the waste abysm.

The pantheons of darkened stars
Shall file athwart the crocus dawn;
Goddess and Gorgon, Lar and faun,
Shall tread the amaranthine lawn,
And giants fight their thunderous wars.

Like graven mountains of basalt,
Dark idols of my demons there
Shall tower through bright zones of air,
Fronting the sun with level stare;
And hell shall pave my deepest vault.

Phantom and fiend and sorcerer
Shall serve me . . . till my term shall pass,
And I become no more, alas,
Than a frail shadow on the glass
Before some latter conjurer.

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RoseRed @thebookishgardener.bsky.social · 13h

"𝙸𝚝 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚊𝚜 𝚒𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚗𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚘𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚗𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚜, 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚎𝚗𝚍, 𝚗𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚌𝚞𝚛𝚟𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚘 𝚗𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚊 𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝 𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚠𝚑𝚒𝚌𝚑 𝙸 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍𝚗’𝚝 𝚜𝚎𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚎𝚗𝚍, 𝚊 𝚗𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚒𝚗 𝚠𝚑𝚒𝚌𝚑 𝙸 𝚛𝚘𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚍 𝚊𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛 𝚌𝚘𝚕𝚍, 𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚜." -𝙰𝚗𝚗𝚎 𝚁𝚒𝚌𝚎 🖌️𝙴𝚍𝚠𝚊𝚛𝚍 𝙶𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚢, "𝙰 𝙲𝚕𝚞𝚝𝚌𝚑 𝚘𝚏 𝚅𝚊𝚖𝚙𝚒𝚛𝚎𝚜," 𝟷𝟿𝟽𝟺 #WyrdWednesday

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 14h

This friend has been hanging out on the outside of our screened porch for the past few weeks. Kind of like having an insect pet with no other responsibility than making sure it is out of range of a cat claw through the screen. Photos always look a little blurry like its camouflage fools the camera😂

Photo of a Carolina mantis, a mostly beige insect with a cream and dark gray camouflage pattern on its wings.

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

“The Death I Bring” Pencils I made on a moleskine sketchbook page back in 2016.

A realistic pencil drawing of a robed woman, surrounded by three vultures and one barn owl grabbing a dead mouse with his beak.

The robed woman stares at us intimately, with a few bits of branched and a dark background makes the scene a bit ominous but graceful body positioning makes the scene beautiful as well. The artist (me) really likes this kind of imagery.

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M @midnightineden.bsky.social · 13h

embroidery projects

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Tusk Jenkins @tuskjenkins.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Once a sourdough starter is introduced to your habitat it feels like anything you touch or breathe will grow inside you. A duck pond starter is the only reason I'm still myself

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richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Daily Rothno is a paved forecourt in Rampton #aofoto

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🦤 @dayofthedodo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#allwritingisrewriting I AM SALT I am an island people. I am my ancestor's mountains. I am their seas. I am all their journeys. I am the boats they sailed. I am what they left behind. I am flotsam, I am jetsam. I am ebb and flow. I am the horizon. I am the shore.

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🦤 @dayofthedodo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#thingstowriteabout For you, an open wound these words, secret #roses bleeding red devotion

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 15/10/2024

can't really explain it but this picture is a Tuesday

B & w photo of Tippi Hedren sitting with a crow who is lighting her cigarette with a long lit match

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Sewzinski @sewzinski.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I went to Silver Springs where they filmed creature from the Black Lagoon! It’s beautiful there. I wish they had more about Milicent Patrick

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🦤 @dayofthedodo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Apparently I've got this all wrong. The man from Ilkley is still alive, age unverified, and the dead lancs man was from Doncaster. No roses involved.

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🦤 @dayofthedodo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#thingstowriteabout Memory fragment::The War of the #Roses, played out by two mathematicians. One of them is dead now, 'before his time' as they say. The other one might be too, by now. A work dinner, I was there as a plus one. Some discussion. "So says the man from Ilkley". Something dismissed.

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Kellalena @kellalena.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Love myself? I’m not even my type.

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tiffAH! Real Monster @bakedpotiffa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Came across my Critter and asked my son to put it in my room. He tucked it in 😂🥹

A Critter from the movie Critters is tucked in bed

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ash @ashhull.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My skeets have no nutritional value.

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Things to Write About. @thingstowriteabout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Apologies for the prompt absence due to travel and lack of internet but I’m back! The prompt for Monday October 5th is #over #thingstowriteabout

Words read “recommend you use ped teaspoons per mug, hot water over the chocolate powder.”

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🦤 @dayofthedodo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#sensewrds 277 rewrite soothing stars It's all in the edit revise rework remember Re-member dry bones in a dry valley Where there's life there's life Look up

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🦤 @dayofthedodo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#sensewrds 276 numinous hesitancy imagined And I am on a train And I am on the road to Emmaus And I am on the road to Damascus And that moment when we saw Or thought we saw But didn't know what we saw And I remember reading Damascene light is blinding And what a terrible thing it must be To know

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Sense Words @sensewords.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Prompt 277 Rewrite Soothing Stars Do Not use the prompt words in your piece. Please use #SenseWrds , and include the prompt number. No combo prompts. Message me if you have more questions.

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Sense Words @sensewords.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Prompt 276 Numinous Hesitancy Imagined Do Not use the prompt words in your piece. Please use #SenseWrds , and include the prompt number. No combo prompts. Message me if you have more questions.

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Travellin’ John @travellinjohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekNforNeon Right, I’ve got loads for this week! I’ve possibly posted some before but hey, not everyone’s seen them!👍😎

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Tusk Jenkins @tuskjenkins.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Waking dreams like ghosts living parallel to your life. Drifting off, occupied, time to the lost being nothing, how does it all die anyway. Regret. Left turns. Albuquerque.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The occult is a deep river. It flows below our obvious culture, sometimes surfacing to delight people who like a little understanding or think they can sell it to others. The truth is it flows regardless of those looking at it from the surface. It's an unstoppable current. – #DICallaghan

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The first school visit, 1972 Artist: Harry Wingfield

An illustration made of two frames. In the top one, mothers and children gather around a table of activities and in the second frame, a mother and child closely investigate a nature table

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Brew with a view @brew-with-view.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Not a lot of neon in the far north of Scotland - we're en route to Wick So here's one from the Aglow festival at Bishop Auckland in 2024 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekNforNeon

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🦤 @dayofthedodo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is beautiful Jen 🌹

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General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine @generalwitch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Last few tickets actonecinema.co.uk/ActOneCinema...

Poster for a film screening of Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde on 30th Oct at ActOne, Acton, Ealing, followed by a General Witchfinders live podcast. The image features a split-playing-card style portrait on a black background, with Ralph Bates in Victorian dress upright and Martine Beswick inverted below him. Bold yellow text in the center displays the film title and event details.

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bus_error @buserror5.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#WyrdWednesday Conan and Valeria battle a dinosaur in an early scene from Red Nails (1936) by Robert E. Howard. This image is from the 1973/74 Roy Thomas/Barry Windsor-Smith adaptation, colored for The Barry Windsor-Smith Archives Vol. 2 (Dark Horse, 2010).

The head of a large, red dinosaur pokes through the leaves of a tree, as it lunges with open mouth at Conan and Valeria. Conan prepares to attack it with a poison-tipped spear.

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BUT, THE CIMMERIAN HAS JUDGED HIS DISTANCE WITH PRECISION.

SOME FIVE FEET BELOW HIM, THAT MIGHTY HEAD CRASHES TERRIBLY BUT FUTILELY THRU THE LEAVES.

AND, AS THAT MONSTROUS MOUTH GAPES LIKE THAT OF A GREAT SERPENT--

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bus_error @buserror5.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#BookWormSat The Events at Poroth Farm (1972) by T. E. D. Klein. A man rents a room for the summer on a quiet farm, as he prepares to teach a class on supernatural and weird fiction. Strange happenings create an increasing sense of dread, peril, and paranoia. Art credit in alt text.

Cover art by Ashley Cser for the 2021 Pickman's Press reprint of Reassuring Tales (2006), which collected this story. The cover is painted to look like a creased, tattered trade paperback with a red border. In the center is a dark feline with glowing yellow eyes and crescent-shaped ears sitting on a split-rail fence.

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bus_error @buserror5.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is an "Am I the ghost?" story, where a character wakes up and drifts around trying to understand their environment and interact with living things. Included in The Hastur Cycle (1993) because of its influence on Robert Chambers, who borrowed Bierce's names for his King in Yellow stories.

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bus_error @buserror5.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#SpookySunday An Inhabitant of Carcosa (1886) by Ambrose Bierce. "A level shaft of light illuminated the whole side of the tree as I sprang to my feet in terror. The sun was rising in the rosy east. I stood between the tree and his broad red disk—no shadow darkened the trunk!"

Cover of The Hastur Cycle: Second Revised Edition (1997, 2006, 2014). First edition 1993. Cover art by Victor Manuel Leza Moreno. A robed and hooded man with a pallid face stands in dark water, surrounded by tentacles. Industrial equipment is in the background, and a large moon is overhead.

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

One of the standing stones from the Ring of Brodgar Stone Circle at Stenness on Orkney. The stone circle dates to around 2600 to 2000 BC, and forms part of the ‘Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site’. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Prehistory #Orkney #Archaeology

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