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I am once again asking you to open your hearts and minds to casual use of interjectory "behold"

Pete Clark @peteclark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This red valley, bleak and thorny was once with trees and pastures green. In these channels, dry and tawny, shining waters once were seen: streams like falling stars cascaded to fields where pools of sun-fire glowed; moonlight mists with dews brocaded orchards through which heavens flowed. (1/2)

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Dr Rebecca Tyson @tyguson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1. #MedievalSky, grab a lifejacket and a seasickness bag, we’re casting off on a thread about the Norman invasion fleet in 1066! 960 years ago, the Normans landed at Pevensey and established a base at the Roman shore fort which was already succumbing to erosion from the sea on its south side. 1/20

Photograph of Pevensey Castle with an information board in the foreground showing an artists impression of how the view may have looked in 1066 when the sea came almost up to the walls.

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AthraPlay RPG Podcast @athraplay.athrabeth.com · 22/09/2026

Happy birthday to Frodo and Bilbo and US! Two years of AthraPlay, and we wouldn't be doing it without you. Thank you for listening, laughing, theorizing, and nerding out with us for two years. Cheers to more adventures to come! #lotr #hobbitday #podcast

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 20/09/2026

I have been reading the Anne McCaffrey Pern novels for the first time yeah I don't know why I hadn't read them before and I don't know why I'm inhaling them so fast now BUT importantly I know they're not trying to actually do linguistic worldbuilding but BOY do I have linguistics thoughts anyway

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 18/09/2026

We'd like your help with something. The one hundredth anniversary of Ursula's birth will take place in 2029. This may seem a long time away, but we’re already starting to think about how to celebrate Ursula’s life and art. We’d love to add your ideas to the mix—there's a brief survey here:

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Centenary event planning

Please click the link to complete this form.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's Friday. I wrote a poem about the spiders who are trying to kill me.

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I wouldn't call myself a cartoonist, but I had the vision and just needed it to be on paper to the best of my ability.

A hand drawn eight panel cartoon. First two panels are a colander sitting frowning on a shelf. Then the colander is frowning straining pasta, then three more panels of frowning sitting on a shelf. Then a big panel where it's projecting a bunch of crescent eclipse shapes and smiling with speech bubbles around saying "Wow! Look! Amazing! Beautiful!" And then one final panel where it's sitting on a shelf smiling.

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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 15/07/2026

Gordon's alive!!!!!!!!!!

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AthraPlay RPG Podcast @athraplay.athrabeth.com · 11/06/2026

Missed @westmoot.org? Or were at Westmoot but want to live it all over again? Our LIVE! Episode from Westmoot 2026 is OUT NOW! What horrors dwell in the waters of Lake Evendim? Who is Matt Microwave? Can we get some #longlivegurgle 's in the chat? www.athrabethnetwork.com/athraplay-ep...

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Talis Kimberley🇪🇺 @taliskimberley.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

This is going to be lovely, and is one of only two gigs I have booked thus Summer as I prepare to move. #folksong #fokksinger #interfaith #LiveMusic

Midsummer Music: story-songs of folklore with Talis Kimberley, www dot talis dot net, 3pm Sunday 21st June, entry by donation. Includes afternoon tea and labyrinth walk. East Garston Quaker Meeting House RG17 7EX. Park at village hall opposite. 07768 981658.

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Tolkien Society @tolkiensociety.org · 29/05/2026

One day to go to the Sarehole Festival! We have a mini exhibition, talks, singing, storytelling, falconry, re-enactments, costuming, food and more! 10am-5pm at Sarehole Recreation Ground - where #Tolkien's Middle-earth began. Buy tickets online or on the gate. www.sareholefestival.org

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Wil Eelsing @wileelsing.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Dune Cat Budget Version

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Andrew Crowther @andrewcrowther.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

... which reminds me of this story that Barry Cryer told about Willie Rushton:

Willie Rushton was prone to having a conversation with his cat after breakfast. It was a big fat cat, I remember, because I often used to go to his house in Earls Court. One day Willie said, 'I was talking to my cat the other morning, chatting away about current affairs and topical matters, lovely morning, sunny, the window was open and suddenly a moth fluttered into the room. "Good morning to you," I said, and the moth alighted on the settee. I chatted to the moth for a moment or two and then the moth, either having a prior engagement or being bored, flew out of the window. I turned to my cat and I said, "I'm going mad. I've just been talking to a moth!"

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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

trying to play peekaboo with my child but he's a European diplomat: me: where'd daddy go? baby: we must articulate a post-daddy vision of strategic autonomy me: peekaboo! baby: my historic relationship with my father is stable despite recent troubles

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Might anyone be at the British Library over the next week, who could call up and take pictures of a 10-page article for me?

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Royston Museum @roystonmuseum.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Did anyone else see this message in the clouds this morning? #LookUpAtTheSkyDay

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Pete Clark @peteclark.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I am very chuffed that my song 'Elf-Fair Lady' opens this week's episode of Filkcast, the podcast of sci-fi and fantasy music filkcast.blogspot.com/2026/04/filk.... My first ever podcast or radio play!

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FilkCast Episode 342, April 8, 2026

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jaythechou.bsky.social @jaythechou.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1838

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Pete Clark @peteclark.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

"Now I am old they point and peer / As every day I await you here / I know you will come and heal my pain / Soon with you I shall dance again". Just posted a new recording of a song I wrote nearly 30 years ago about a mortal in love with the Queen of Elfland. apoolofsong.wordpress.com/elf-fair-lady/

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Elf-fair Lady

Lyrics So many songs and tales they sayHow the Elf Queen steals some men awayTo her shining land beyond the seaBut all ‘til now have chosen to fleeOh they have faint hearts that fear theeNow I woul…

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Elf-fair Lady

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Pete Clark @peteclark.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

A bit late this year but it's time to go prune the apple trees youtube.com/watch?v=hg2p...

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The Orchard

YouTube video by Talis Kimberley - Topic

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Tolkien Society @tolkiensociety.org · 09/02/2026

Bookings for Oxonmoot 2026 are now open! Taking place online and at St Anne's College, Oxford, UK, on 3-6 September 2026, Oxonmoot is our annual event which brings together #Tolkien fans, scholars, students and Society members from across the world. #LOTR www.tolkiensociety.org/events/oxonm...

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Oxonmoot 2026

Oxonmoot is an annual event hosted by The Tolkien Society which brings together over 500 Tolkien fans, scholars, students and Society members from across the world. Oxonmoot 2026 is the 53rd, and…

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Pete Clark @peteclark.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

For the #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday theme of "Labour/Working" here's a short poem I wrote a long time ago. #Tolkien #Silmarillion

The graphic is a short poem called "Travail":

I forge in fire and darkness, while my land
Still calls me with the voice of my own heart
The woods and fields of fair Beleriand -
The loom of music, and the hearth of art.
My longing wanders, but my flesh is bound
In dark and rusty pits to labour long
In flowerless hell beneath the wasted ground
Bereft of starlight and the Springs of Song.
But dare I flee from all my toil and pain
By crawling out across the Thirsty Plain?
What weapon could I forge to batter down
The dungeon-door and win the Iron Crown
With hate in my hand - and what would be the cost?
Should ever I regain the land I lost?

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Pete Clark @peteclark.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

A few years ago I wrote a poem about a community sustained by a well of shining water, which was then destroyed. Allegory? No. Applicability? That's up to the reader! apoolofsong.wordpress.com/the-well/

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The Well

words by Pete Clark, illustrations by Victoria Clare Part One This red valley, bleak and thornywas once with trees and pastures green.In these channels, dry and tawny,shining waters once were seen:…

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