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Greville Tombs

@grevilletombs.bsky.social
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Law book cataloguer. Graveyard Poet. Queer. "That's curiously self-destructive, even for you, Grev". There is no band Greville and the Tombstones. grevilleandthetombstones.blogspot.c…

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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wednesdays in the Archive📜 The countdown to Halloween is on! Today we're sharing the recommendation letter Bram Stoker, author of Dracula, supplied to gain admittance into Marsh's Library 🦇
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Greville Tombs @grevilletombs.bsky.social · 18h
Halloween month hair.
Greville with peacock blue hair.
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Eileen Kai Hing Kwan 🦇 MCM London @whereiseileen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Bitten 🥀🩸 One of my favourite vampire illustrations I’ve painted to start off spooky month! ♥️🦇🩸
My illustration of original characters of a vampire gently holding and biting her beloved victim, who is wearing a beautiful white lace dress. They look like they’re innocently dancing or in a romantic embrace on a moonlit night.
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💀🐺🌱ArtofMaquenda🍄🩸 @artofmaquenda.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Memento mori
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Greville Tombs @grevilletombs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Heaven: more fire than expected.
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Hannah Alexander Artwork @hannahartwork.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Moth 🔦 first picture in my October series!
A digital illustration of a giant moth fae with glowing yellow eyes clinging to a lighthouse. At it's base, a lighthouse keeper emerges from his house to investigate.
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Greville Tombs @grevilletombs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It is, indeed.
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Greville Tombs @grevilletombs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We have hot desking and all the things that involves. But also enough desks for each and every one of us. So we clear our desk every afternoon and then set it back up the next morning.
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Mad Hatter's Whimsical Tea Party Cheers
ALT: Mad Hatter's Whimsical Tea Party Cheers
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Greville Tombs @grevilletombs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sudden urge to break out my original X-Files T and have an alcopop.
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Greville Tombs @grevilletombs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
New album and 2027 tour dates day for Sleeper!
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Greville Tombs @grevilletombs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
How fancy!
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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
nothing in libraries is about the books
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I don’t think I’m the only person who will appreciate this
Triangular diagram labelled The Introvert
Hierarchy of Needs. 

Top: Self-actualisation - A completely empty house. An arrow pointing to the house says “Nobody needs anything. Nobody is coming home for hours. Phone on silent.” 

The next level is Esteem - Plans getting cancelled. An arrow here says “‘Sorry, we're going to have to rearrange.’ Oh no. That's terrible. I'm devastated.” 

Next level: Belonging - One person you actually like. No group chat. No networking. No "let's go round and introduce ourselves." Just one person you can talk absolute shit with. 

Fourth level: Safety - An escape route. Own car. End seat. Knowing exactly when the event finishes. A believable reason to leave early.

Bottom of pyramid: Physiological needs - Being left the fuck alone for a bit. Food. Water. Sleep. 45 minutes where nobody speaks to you.

Created by Lee Harding, @theintrovertedrecruiter
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Greville Tombs @grevilletombs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This wee dude 🥹
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Megan All Hallows Eve @meganeve.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
What a beauty. Carefully moved into safety where the sun will shine.
A red underwing moth on a path
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Laura Kidd 💌 Penfriend @penfriendrocks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'm still giving away my entire digital music catalogue while simultaneously raising funds to pay a ginormous pet hospital bill (yes we're insured!). Pay what you can isn't a trick - you're v.welcome to type 0 at checkout, but if you are in a position to support, your contributions are appreciated.
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
JRR Tolkien: You paint that picture of the key scene from the Two Towers where Frodo and Sam fight Gollum? Donato Giancola: Sure did, Ron, real fuckin' sexy just like you asked. JRRT: What.
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WOLFSKULLJACK @wolfskulljack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Patient is the night -2026
My art, digital. A monsterous wolf women and a red wolf skeleton
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Greville Tombs @grevilletombs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When someone asks me “how did you find X?” meaning my experience of it, I reply with detailed directions of location of X.
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Greville Tombs @grevilletombs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oh my! 😍
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Greville Tombs @grevilletombs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thank you. This means a lot to me from you 🙂 this one I’m particularly happy with because it’s taken a very long time to find these words to suit the situation that it means to me.
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Greville Tombs @grevilletombs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@jeanielaub.bsky.social @everdundas.bsky.social @alysdragon.bsky.social Happy poetry day 💚💀💚
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Greville Tombs @grevilletombs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Happy poetry day! Serendipitously, I have new poetry to unleash today! #grevilleandthetombstones grevilleandthetombstones.blogspot.com/2026/09/hear...
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Heart Doesn't Beat, It Flutters Indeterminately (Reader's Emphasis Their Own)
This is a combination of two poems, so it sort of is like A Day In The Life by the Beatles. This is... Heart Doesn't Beat, It Flutters Ind...
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Ever Dundas @everdundas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
James Byron Dean 8 Feb 1931 – 30 Sept 1955
A photo of James Dean during the filming of East of Eden, mid air as he jumps from a train roof, wearing light coloured trousers, shirt and sweatshirt. Dean has scrawled across the photo:
“Try and catch me. You think I have to come down from up there don’t you. I hate all earthlings. Love, Jimmy.”
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s particularly cruel to do this to Garbo, who protected her privacy and peace but it’s not surprising she was chosen. After all, she told the world “no” and AI pushers love to run roughshod over consenf www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...
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SKF advert review – let’s hope this dull AI Greta Garbo is not the future
Swedish-American actor exhumed for bizarre, humourless 99 seconds that give us another reason to resent AI
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Greville Tombs @grevilletombs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Brought to you by sending a Teams message instead of asking for it to be approved in the library this afternoon.
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Greville Tombs @grevilletombs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Whenever I work fast, ignoring guardrails, it’s because I suddenly fear death getting me while I hang about. It’s not because I’m a “punk”. It’s because of existential dread.
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Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.com · 30/09/2026
The wonderful Faallaway shot the cover photo of my dreams. “Do you happen to live near a sphinx statue?” I asked. Turned out her parents did. The cover was shot at the Château de Fontainebleau. It evokes the monstrous Greek sphinx, the silent guardian of the desert, the alluring Decadent symbol.
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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The colder autumn nights in Germany coaxes this magnificent eagle, Oropherion, to spend his nights in his heated indoor winter aviary. This is an African Martial Eagle (Polemaetus bellicosus), the largest eagle species native to Africa. (Cr @birdsofprey_nathalie_denolf) #birds #eagle
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Hellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
⚡️IT’S HERE!⚡️ Ruined temples, living myths, riddles and enigmas, Medieval mystics, a gas-lit world of secret societies and energy grids, psychedelic revivals, and sonic experiments at the City of the Dead. 👉🏼 Gaze into the eyes of the sphinx and pre-order The Mystery Issue on helleborezine.com
A woman standing by a sphinx, the wind beating her cape
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Greville Tombs @grevilletombs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I thought I’d completed my zine collection. Then today I’ve come back with an encore poem. I will share once polished!
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The byline left up there like a head on a spike outside a castle
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Greville Tombs @grevilletombs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
HERE LIES GREVILLE TOMBS, THE WORLD’S GREATEST LIVING GRAVEYARD POET. NOW DECEASED THOUGH.
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Start to finish making of process for one of my porcelain tentacle handle cups! Throwing, trimming, glazing You can buy a unique cup like this on my website, www.roseschmits.com
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Greville Tombs @grevilletombs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Could not resist getting this library appropriate, straitjacket coded coat for work.
Greville in a coat that people have told me looks like it’s a straitjacket and I agree.
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Michelle B @michelleab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I too would like a nice little job with books but alas I find myself still a librarian
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ber month enjoyer 🍂🍁🎃 @trickycrayon.com · 25/09/2026
ZEUS & POSEIDON <3 PALESTINE
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Them Bones
Detail of hand colored Crucifixion with grinning skull on green ground.
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Greville Tombs @grevilletombs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Continuing with a vibe poetry style for what I hope to be a compendium of it. #grevilleandthetombstones with Love Song ‘26 grevilleandthetombstones.blogspot.com/2026/09/love...
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Love Song '26
This is... Love Song '26 Pour corvid ink Over my thinning skin. Feel the creases and the kinks. Like if Medusa's snakes were constrictors ...
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Greville Tombs @grevilletombs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Thoroughly Moderna Mobes!
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Greville Tombs @grevilletombs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I watched it on an old tube TV. How amazing to watch it for the first time and it being in the cinema 🤖
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Greville Tombs @grevilletombs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
TV Channel hopping and Terminator is on. I first watched this knowing *nothing* it was a THRILL!
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Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Librarians & archivists go to work every day and devote their time and energy to make things accessible and discoverable, today and for many, many days to come. If you see us at the dumpsters, mind your business! Nobody thinks more about the preservation of knowledge and the human record than we do.
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Era una noche oscura y tormentosa @manuelabennet.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"An ancient horror settled on the street, (...) To choke the summer's final breath complete In a dark sepulchre of winter's cold. And well I knew in that dead hour of night That autumn brought no simple change of year, But an old ice-god rising in his might To claim the world in desolation drear."
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