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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ed is being as overly kind as he was when it wrote the foreword to ‘Hookland Fragments’. However, I have to agree, two of the stickers might be considered a little ‘spicy’.
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Autumn comes to the ponds with a hope that Stay Belows will soon be at mud. Comes with fear that they aren't yet sleeping. – #DAKilory, 1982 #Autumn
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ok, this is bloody brilliant. Heart racing a little reading it. @hookland.bsky.social
Photo of David’s book Hookland fragments on a table next to my coffee.
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mijiyoon.bsky.social @mijiyoon.bsky.social · 23h
G'Nite Hookland
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Goodnight from The Lamb Hotel, where David Steed haunts the bar in hope of meeting the brass-eyed man. Goodnight from Ronnie Hart, desperately scrabbling in the glove box of his Vauxhall Chevette for anything to help him escape a place that’s not any map. Goodnight from Hookland.
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Folklore likes to travel ... #FolkloreThursday
Approached with politeness and genuine curiosity, people usually want to talk about their folklore. To represent for their locality through it. Especially when they have personal, intimate experience with it. Within us is a hardwired urge to share and transmit its stories. Folklore likes to travel – to possess and jump from person to person so it can walk further, flourish in new soil – and it has conditioned us from the first fires to enable this in acts of communal storytelling.
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hookland nephomancy AKA cloud-telling No. 1: The Witch Rides Her Besom. This is said to represent magic in play; new starts; pursuit; success obtained only by combing intent and speed of action; detached perspectives reveal new truths and the consequences of disrespect. #Nephomancy
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Autumn comes to the cottages with carpets of apple rot that sour the air with vinegar tang. Comes in a dressing of the year not in green gowns, but wounded rags of brown. It comes as a fear of early darkness. A terror of hungry spirits that rush the path. – #DAKilory, 1982
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
October is change. October is spirits. We walk the edge of its fields, knowing they wait for the first frost of the year to crack them and release their ghosts. - Katherine Gidding, Hookland artist, talking about her 1939 painting 'The Lip'
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Autumn comes to the alleys with a crowding of ghosts. Schoolboy firework anticipation triggered by the smoke of every garden bonfire. Comes with half-heard voices full of leaf-rasp and branch-stretch. It comes with waking shadows. – #DAKilory, 1982 #Autumn
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The witch is a creature of weather. Wind-summoner. Drought-breaker. Cloud-reader. Flood-flyer. Mist-wearer. She adapts to it, she adjusts the weather to her favour. It's one of her most vital relationships. She wears it on her boots. She wears it on her skin. – #EmilyCBanting #FolkWitchFriday
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The second is this book that I bought a week ago and haven’t read yet so this is just a new book post. I know I will love it as I love all the @hookland.bsky.social posts and have always followed them. They speak to me so have no doubt this book will too.
HOOKLAND FRAGMENTS
Volume One
David Southwell
Photo of cover
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mijiyoon.bsky.social @mijiyoon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
G'Nite Hookland
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Goodnight from the Red House Transport Cafe, where Sadie Stowen is finding out the going rate for her soul. Goodnight from the boot boys under Brighthaven Pier, suddenly realising that they aren’t tooled up enough for a ruck with what’s emerging from the sea. Goodnight from Hookland.
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mijiyoon.bsky.social @mijiyoon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
G'Nite Hookland
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Goodnight from the spectre of Ron Shadford, confusing Coreham General Hospital’s incinerator for one of Hell’s furnaces. Goodnight from the 23:36 Ashcourt to London train, stopped yet again, this time by discovery of bits of something not entirely human on the track. Goodnight from Hookland.
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Bloody kids of today. They aren't satisfied with manglewurzels or turnips for their Haggedy-Raggedy lanterns. Oh no, they want something non-traditional, something a bit different. Something a bit too bloody orange if you ask me. The spirits won't like it. – Sam Buckle, 1982 #VOH
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I am a witch for all those near broken. I am a witch for those scraped raw by trying to climb high walls, cut by having to walk on glass scattered by hollow-hearted bastards. I am a witch for those needing transformation, bound to pain. For witches understand the bruised. - #EmilyCBanting #WitchSky
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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It is a pleasure, nay, an honour, to have been granted Right to Reside in @hookland.bsky.social's capacious boundaries (Hookland Fragments ordered via the excellent @treadwells-books.bsky.social )
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mijiyoon.bsky.social @mijiyoon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wicked cool pic David
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mijiyoon.bsky.social @mijiyoon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
G'Nite Hookland
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Goodnight from Tucker Stokes, alarmed by the doubling of footsteps in an empty alley he visually walks alone. Goodnight from ‘Witch Kettle’ Sam, urging the hissing flames of his campfire to tell him the secret name of the Punkle plaguing Last Tree Farm. Goodnight from Hookland.
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Some buildings hold their shadows after sunset. They stretch and pace beyond the failing sun. Stalk corridors, assemble in former ballrooms in hope of a grand waltz. Creep wooden doors and walls overdressed for the dark. Shadows that are so eager to meet you. – #DAKilroy, 1982
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mijiyoon.bsky.social @mijiyoon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
She is vile
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Troy Jackson: Eight years ago today, Maine women begged Susan Collins not to confirm Brett Kavanaugh. She did it anyway. He helped overturn Roe v. Wade. And today, she says she has no regrets. Would you trust her to pick the next Supreme Court justice?
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mijiyoon.bsky.social @mijiyoon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt
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DrWeb @drweb2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
EMU’s Halle Library defends access to banned books for students – WEMU.org  Read More  ... book censorship while supporting students' right to access ... This year's Banned Books Week theme is “Protecting the Freedom to Read. 
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EMU’s Halle Library defends access to banned books for students – WEMU.org
 Read More  ... book censorship while supporting students' right to access ... This year's Banned Books Week theme is “Protecting the Freedom to Read. 
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This year’s #BannedBooksWeek coincides with ALA’s official 150th anniversary. To mark the occasion, ALA has released a list of the 150 most challenged books documented from 1990, when ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom began tracking book challenges, through 2025. ala150.org/150books
Photo of a bookshelf filled with various books that have been banned or challenged, including "Maus," "Sex Is a Funny Word," "This Book Is Gay," "Persopolis," and "1984." Text over photo reads: "ALA Releases List of 150 Books Most Frequently Targeted for Censorship Since Tracking Began. American Library Association logo
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
England of the humming wires. England of the ghosted fields. England of the nephomantic sky. This is where my patriotism lives, not in its ragged flags, but in a land that knows its spectres. – #DAKilroy
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Give me lithic lookouts that watch for priestly misdoings and slowly hiss at the miscreants. Give me stone guardians that roar against all evils – not just those convenient to a church. Give me spirited stones with eyes that do not blink when it comes to staring down hate. – #CLNolan
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Maisy has been banned from the chained Lower Library in Weychester Cathedral. She asked the librarian if the ghosts enjoyed ratting the chains and he said no. She called him a liar. A bit of a scene erupted. I backed the librarian which means I'm now on the shitlist. – #MattAdams
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mijiyoon.bsky.social @mijiyoon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
G'Nite Hookland just listened to a PD James audiobook that had a power station theme. Book called: Devices & Desires
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Goodnight from Brimford Power Station, its cooling towers busy releasing water vapour clouds which twist into the phantoms of a thousand stampeding mares. Goodnight from Charlie Hook, rubbing the scar gifted by Harrowhound bite and honouring its story. Goodnight from Hookland.
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Goodnight from band practice for the Tower Block Saints, where a poltergeist sympathetic to the neighbours keeps on pulling on amplifier plugs. Goodnight from Emma Hartley, unable to express why her daughters’ tales of an acorn-headed man scare her so much. Goodnight from Hookland.
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mijiyoon.bsky.social @mijiyoon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
G'Nite Hookland
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Goodnight from The Bloody Empress pub, where Mel Ridge is shouting requests to the band – The Sorrow Maidens, The Naming Jig, The Stoat’s Coat. Goodnight from Jenny Lovelock, sleeping in the stables to keep the Soul-knacker from taking her favourite mare. Goodnight from Hookland.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What an amazing event yesterday! Tom Morello brought together Joan Baez, Bruce Springsteen, and so many others at the Power to the People festival to speak up against Trump and remind us this country belongs to all of us.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Jack Smith at last night’s Power to the People concert, wearing a Springsteen/No Kings shirt.
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The models for ‘American Gothic’ pose in front of the iconic painting, 1942.
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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚢 𝙿𝚊𝚌𝚒𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚔 💀☕📚🍂🎨🐈‍⬛ @andy-paciorek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mädchen und Tod ~ Robert Budzinski (1916)
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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚢 𝙿𝚊𝚌𝚒𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚔 💀☕📚🍂🎨🐈‍⬛ @andy-paciorek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Man with a Mask ~ Peter Ondreička (1987)
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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚢 𝙿𝚊𝚌𝚒𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚔 💀☕📚🍂🎨🐈‍⬛ @andy-paciorek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Der Trinker ~ Erich Plontke (1910)
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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚢 𝙿𝚊𝚌𝚒𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚔 💀☕📚🍂🎨🐈‍⬛ @andy-paciorek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Robert Aickman book covers illustrated by Edward Gorey
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mijiyoon.bsky.social @mijiyoon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This wonderful film almost didn't survive so glad it did
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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚢 𝙿𝚊𝚌𝚒𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚔 💀☕📚🍂🎨🐈‍⬛ @andy-paciorek.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚢 𝙿𝚊𝚌𝚒𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚔 💀☕📚🍂🎨🐈‍⬛ @andy-paciorek.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
~ G. Gulyaev (2003)
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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚢 𝙿𝚊𝚌𝚒𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚔 💀☕📚🍂🎨🐈‍⬛ @andy-paciorek.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Vintage Spider Women postcards
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Patrick Kapty @patrickkapty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Grasshopper Figure carved hematite c. 1800-1700 BC Old Babylonian culture Babylon #handmade #carved #hematite #grasshopper #art #sculpture #ancientsculpture #ancientart #Babylonia #culture #Babylon #EuphratesRiver #nature #beauty #ancientBabylonia #fertility #omen #astrology #locusts #foodsource
In ancient Babylonia and the broader Mesopotamian culture, grasshoppers (and their swarming phase, locusts) held a multi-layered, dual meaning. They represented both a positive symbol of fertility and abundance and a destructive force of nature used in divination and dietary sustenance.
In their solitary, non-destructive form, grasshoppers were viewed by Babylonians as symbols of the natural cycle, fertility, and abundance. Because they appeared in large numbers during agricultural cycles, they were tied to the life-giving forces of the earth.
This famous example is a beautifully detailed, nearly 4,000-year-old Babylonian stone weight carved from hematite in the shape of a grasshopper (c. 1800–1700 BCE). Used in markets for fair trade transactions, the grasshopper shape on the weight likely invoked blessings of agricultural prosperity and nature.
When solitary grasshoppers crowded together and transformed into swarming locusts, their meaning shifted drastically. To the Babylonians, a locust swarm was a catastrophic event that could strip fields bare and cause widespread famine.
Babylonians were deeply invested in astrology and divination. Grasshopper and locust behavior was carefully documented in cuneiform omen series (such as the Šumma Ālu). A swarm of grasshoppers appearing in a specific city or flying in a particular direction was interpreted as a direct message or warning from the gods, usually predicting economic ruin, military invasion, or divine displeasure.
Despite the threat they posed to crops, grasshoppers were heavily utilized by Babylonians in daily practical life.
Babylonians actively harvested locusts and grasshoppers for food. Cuneiform records show that mass amounts of these insects were caught, preserved in brine, and transported over hundreds of kilometers to be eaten as a protein-rich delicacy or everyday staple.
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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚢 𝙿𝚊𝚌𝚒𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚔 💀☕📚🍂🎨🐈‍⬛ @andy-paciorek.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As it's now October I have added some #Halloween lights to my Wall of Masks 🎃
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