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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 29/09/2026

I fail to understand why squirrels are not the top trending topic at all times

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Shona Ray @shonaraywrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bloody nails, just in time for horror season 🎃 #horrorsky #spookyseason

A white woman's hand with deep red nail colour holds open a page of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For the morning crowd 👇

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This poem by Pádraig Ó Tuama asks us to re-orient how we think about loss, memory, and closure That loss is not always final or absolute Remembering is not always a good thing, forgetting can be an act of self-care The ending of a book is the nature of stories #poetry #poemoftheday

Poem by Pádraig Ó Tuama - Not everything that's lost is lost

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

“When it draws near to witching time of night” (Robert Blair) 🎨 Holls Walck #owlishmonday

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is part of what I'm referring to with many people demanding stories that reassure them they're a good person. They want the moral instruction because otherwise, rather than processing the reading experience, there's a thrum of "am I bad? am I bad? what if someone finds out I'm bad?"

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stories about abuse are allowed to exist without reducing themselves to moral instruction. i think sometimes when people complain about the “romanticization” of abuse, what they're actually objecting to isn't necessarily the way abuse is being represented, but the fact that the representation doesn't provide them with constant moral reassurance. like, there is a difference between “this story frames abuse as desirable or inherently romantic” and “this story depicts abuse in an erotic/ambiguous/complicated way and doesn't repeatedly tell me that abuse is bad, therefore the depiction itself is irresponsible.”

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Still a bit blown away to see copies of ‘Hookland Fragments’ in the wild. Here is a signed copy available from @treadwells-books.bsky.social

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Shona Ray @shonaraywrites.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My horror education continues! Today's lesson: The Blair Witch Project. I'd never seen it before! Amazing film, but... not as scary as people told me. Is it me? Have I seen too many horror movies now to appreciate classics? #horrorsky #blairwitch #horrormovies

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Shona Ray @shonaraywrites.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A day late. But, you know, seems kind of worth sharing. Given the saving of humanity and all that. Never underestimate the power of an ordinary person.

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Writers’ HQ @writershq.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Impatient to perform the magic storytelling ritual tbh

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Seán Costello @seanjcostello.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A heads-up for those with access: this dazzling masterpiece is on the BBC iPlayer from today

Programme cover for The Red Shoes (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1948)

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Shona Ray @shonaraywrites.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Today's wisdom, for the disillusioned (like me): "The most valuable thing a writer can do is deepen their connection with their own humanity." Thank you, @writershq.bsky.social. I feel more human just reading this. #amwriting #writersky

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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 03/09/2026

This is one of the most inspiring and awesome things I've seen in awhile Human imagination and ingenuity is so fucking rad, and no thieving "tech" can ever hold a candle to what our minds and hearts are capable of.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The high walls of the rich demand projection. Yet some spend less time picturing houses and gardens they shall never see, more time imagining them as a locus of secrets. Beyond the wall occult orgies, mummified relatives in attics. Cellar laboratories and chained demons. – Dr. M. Benn

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Heathers and thistles in the front garden, in the rain.

A photo of white and pink heathers and ornamental thistles in a rainy garden.

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

And today, you probably need this mouse. This mouse in particular.

Pencil drawing of a mouse witch who is justifiably proud of her fancy boot with buttons on.

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 24/08/2026

" I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library." Jorge Luis Borges was born #otd 1899 🎨 Érik Desmazières

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Going to start doing a thing on a Monday where I give away a free workshop recording to one winner each week. www.mattkendrick.co.uk/workshop-rec... All you have to do to get your name in the hat is reply with the name of someone who's a cheerleading superstar in the writing community.

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Shona Ray @shonaraywrites.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Researching time is like... I don't know, going down a wormhole? Even with the illustrations in A Brief History of Time it's mindbending. Except I'm not sure my mind bends that far 😬 #writersky #amwriting #timeywimey

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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

An allegorical painting of autumn serenading the last of summer whilst anticipating the death of the year. From the time when the seasons generally did what they were supposed to. (art Piotr Stachiewicz 1858-1935)

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Sarah Barnard @sarahbpolar.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Fell down a rabbit hole into the Domesday Book and when I searched for the area I'm from, I uh

A page from a Domesday Book website by Anna Powell-Smith. This is an entry for Humphrey Goldenbollocks. No, I don't know either.

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Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A many-tailed fox and their reflection, accompanied by a crescent moon, with a heart-shaped sea urchin fossil (Micraster) between their paws 🦊🐾🤍 #FoxFriday #FoxoftheDay #FossilFriday

a many-tailed fox, seated and facing forward, lookng slightly down to the left. A crescent moon above her, a fossilized heart shaped sea urchin at her feet. and a many tailed fox reflected below with crescent moon on the other side. Linocut, gold, white and black, maria Strutz

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Destination Venus sells comics in Harrogate! @destinationvenus.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

AI is a scourge. But it is important not to trust "AI detectors". I lost regular freelancing work because my client insisted I used AI to write copy (I didn't, but their AI detecting software said I did). This is a great thread with an excellent example of why these detectors cannot be trusted.

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Shona Ray @shonaraywrites.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I have a little piece in @crowkeys.bsky.social today. Quite proud of this one 😊 Come take a tour of space and time 👇

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The witch walks the woods not just to fill her garnering bag, not just to talk with her favourite Wood Sprites. She walks to enter the trance of green communion. She walks to shade and silence her mind of all the accumulated bullshit beyond the woods. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

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Shona Ray @shonaraywrites.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This, please 👇 Oh and a room of one's own. Obviously. #writersky #thewritinglife

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 18/08/2026

I'm ready for summer to end 🫠

illustration of a seated woman with her head down on a kitchen table, arms hanging to the floor. Two little goblins are perched on the table, watching her.

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Samantha (Sam) Mills @samtasticbooks.com · 18/08/2026

Oh hey it's out early! I am in here with a bunch of other excellent weirdness

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

On the lookout for flash with brilliant titles (long titles, single-word titles, riddle titles, shadow titles) Who has suggestions? Your own or from others. Please share links if poss! This is for a workshop on titles & endings I'm teaching in November: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Good morning. Especially to witches.

An archway formed of branches with a spectral witch floating in the centre.
Pencil drawing with wash and White highlights on toned paper.

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Shona Ray @shonaraywrites.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I just rewatched Event Horizon in honour of Sam Neill, only [checks wrinkles] 29 years after I first saw it. Still mindblowing, still scary - a bit less so than I remember (I've seen a lot of horror movies since then!) but still a classic. #horrorsky #writersky #samneill

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I absolutely stand by this description of folklore. #FolkloreSunday

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

You can kill a French vampire with a baguette. It's a painstaking process but it works.

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Shona Ray @shonaraywrites.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

When he says glorious, he means it! I wrote one of my best pieces on this course and it only happened because of Matt's excellent exercises. Do sign up! #writersky #flashfiction #writingcommunity

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Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

A lively day of crime writing workshops and interviews incoming, as we help writers to MAKE CRIME PAY on the 12th September! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/make-crime... #crimewriting #crimewriters #crimeauthors #thrillerwriting #thrillerwriters #thrillerauthors

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Make Crime Pay 2026

Join us for a packed day of online workshops, talks, interviews with an exciting range of Crime Writing authors.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Today's answer to the question: What is Hookland?

What is Hookland?

Hookland is England as seen from the ghost train.

It is a fierce refusal to let psychogeographers tell you that when you talk about spirits of place you can’t really believe in them. It is all the books you borrowed time and time again from the library as a child – encyclopaedias of horror films, Usborne’s Worlds of the Unknown UFOs and Charles Berlitz’s The Bermuda Triangle.

It is walking home through the woods in November mist and feeling that the place has monsters, not the sort they made into Aurora model kits, but old, nameless things that are fed by the fear you’ve had of this place since that murder a few years back. It is the terror of living in a haunted landscape. It is the delight of living in a profoundly haunted landscape. Hookland is the place that you can almost allow yourself to believe in magic again before realising it is a territory you already inhabit. Shared space where all the broken memories of childhood are resuscitated and walking alongside you.

It is knowing the names of Soviet spacemen orbiting above and feeling the youthful power if recognising which mushrooms are poisonous. It is sneaking into fields to release crows from cruel traps and thinking up mad schemes to raise money to buy fireworks when the air becomes rich with the intoxicating smell of bonfires. It’s being more scared by gaudy movie posters for films that you haven’t ever seen than being afraid of the things your parents constantly warn you about.

It is knowing that everywhere is layers of story, layers of memory and realising you may be the ghost of someone else’s future.

On its jagged rocks, its snaring brambles, fragments of ripped cloth that you know are clues to something you have forgotten. Something important you cannot unlock.

It has a default setting of unease and déjà vu. Just when you think you are clear of it, you always turn the corner and discover you are walking its lanes.

It is home.

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

For the morning crowd 👇 I'd love to write with you on one of my upcoming courses or workshops. PLUS, shall I start a free monthly reading event?

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Shona Ray @shonaraywrites.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Feels good to be drafting something new. I've been editing so long I'd forgotten what inspiration feels like! #amwriting #writersky #horrorsky

A computer screen showing a new Word document open, with the words "The Devil's Hair" in capitals.

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 17/07/2026

"Spöket på Gripsholm" (The Ghost at Gripsholm) 🎨 Hans Arnold #PhantomsFriday

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I think we’ve made enough lemonade. Can life now please quit it with the lemons.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Might as well do these pics as a thread -- maybe I'll post one per day as I process 'em -- anyway, here's the play of light and dark on in Glencoe, Scotland.

Scotland is an absolute drama queen when it comes to landscapes -- this landscape, in landscape format, is a mounding, craggy hill-mountain (Scotland has lots of things that are neither hills nor mountains but that exist somewhere between) that is an unearthly green when the light hits it -- and the light is not always allowed through the wisps and veins of mist that crawl and slither along the tops of the ground. Here the light and shadow play nicely. Again, quite dramatically. I'd tell Scotland to calm down but then we wouldn't have places that look like this. Photo by me, Chuck Wendig

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

It's been an unexpected delight today to see folk posting copies of 'Hookland Fragments' in the wild. It's been somewhat surreal when one of those copies is posted by a writer whose work I adore and is mentioned in book. Thank you to everyone who has posted. It really has made my afternoon better.

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 11/07/2026

"O Ye, All Ye That Walk in Willowwood” 🎨 Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1903, detail)

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Cock crow sends spirits back to their cemeteries, in this illustration by the great Arthur Rackham. #PhantomsFriday #ArthurRackham #ghosts #art

In the foreground a rooster is crowing and in the background the archetypal English village. Between them a horde of misty shapes, many with their hands over their ears, rush towards the village church.

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Shona Ray @shonaraywrites.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

And only a week later it finds a home! Delighted to have this piece accepted by @crowkeys.bsky.social - I love this lit mag so much and can't wait to see my work among its pages! #writersky #writingcommunity

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The decision to remove the bench at the bus stop outside the country’s most famous heart hospital feels like classic Abled Bastardry.

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