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Natasha Kindred

@thehoursgodsends.bsky.social
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Poet and artist in triumphant distress • Reliquary archives a specialty • World's worst Catholic ❤️‍🔥 Problems merchant - international shipping God stuff: allthehoursgodsends.wordpress.com Strange essays & peculiar fiction: natashakindred.co.uk

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Natasha Kindred @thehoursgodsends.bsky.social · 5h
I could be fixed by joining a band called Seagull Meat
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Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 14h
She is gale-blooded, and that will save her.
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Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We build our churches one atop another. Double exposed Polaroid of St Mary the Virgin, a tiny and fairly remote Essex church.
The nave and east window of a small church, photographed close up and from thwe back of the chancel - one overlaid over the other. 

The Polaroid Flip has a double exposure option, and aims surprised I got this composition to work. It’s a bit hit and miss as a technique, and I do struggle to settle my mind down enough to focus on the job at hand.
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Morning. 🖼️ Joseph Austin
Painting of nine magpies in different poses, in threes, one set above the other.
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Natasha Kindred @thehoursgodsends.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’m always somehow stumbling across the most haunted item on Vinted.
A small brown wooden coffin box featuring a white faceless and armless doll inside it A small brown wooden coffin box featuring a white faceless and armless doll stood up next to it.
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Natasha Kindred @thehoursgodsends.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Not now kitten daddy’s drawing esoteric threads between Christ as Mabon Final Boss and Taliesin as the last great radiant-browed magician.
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Natasha Kindred @thehoursgodsends.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
‘No one elected you’ my personal favourite here like 1.5 billion of us didn’t livestream a chimney
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Natasha Kindred @thehoursgodsends.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Before him, the waters moved and all the ages merged, as light falling into light, and all things and the memory of things drifted into the starry arm of Time.
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Natasha Kindred @thehoursgodsends.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Rowan tree crowned with the red fire of the Spirit spoke of poetry’s madness. Its mead tongue and dreadful wild trials. The air became blue with the toll of a single bell. The man with stars in his hair stood like the heron, like a patient spear, and opened a book that bled bright gold.
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Natasha Kindred @thehoursgodsends.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hit peak Catholicism today by forgetting a prayer halfway through in English and having to finish it in Latin.
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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Just accidentally signed off an email with 'beast wishes'
A depiction from Topographia Hibernica by Giraldus Cambrensis (c.1188). The image shows a wolf or dog like beast receiving instruction from a monk
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A.L. likely @alvildalikely.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Spanish, Spanish mi corazón.
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Natasha Kindred @thehoursgodsends.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sometimes I’m sending post to the Pope’s secretary, sometimes I’m gluing seeds to things. It’s a varied job.
 laminated prayer cards on a wooden desk. Small spelt seeds are being glued to them individually
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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'Greenwich Obsevatory Sunset' by Kit Boyd kitboyd.com
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Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives.
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Natasha Kindred @thehoursgodsends.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m a beast I’m a creature I’m a sprite I’m a gremlin I’ve got dreadful secret feets I eat forbidden meats
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 27/09/2026
Junipers, Lake Tenaya Sierra Nevada Edward Weston, 1940
old and twisted trees in front of a lake and hills
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Natasha Kindred @thehoursgodsends.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The book of the Earth opened and sang. I followed the man, now in the shape of a fish, to a deep wellspring and the salmon still beneath us were vast with the ages, bigger than three men apiece, and fat with wisdom and dreaming worlds into being.
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Natasha Kindred @thehoursgodsends.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
From here there appeared a man, his black hair wet with stars, and behind him poured five gilded streams from heaven to earth. They pooled at our feet, when the water touched me I beheld the burning aura of trees, I understood the incantations of the swan.
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Natasha Kindred @thehoursgodsends.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Had an amazing dream last night where I had to help King Arthur hide a magic ring and he looked like a mid-fifties geography teacher in a red cableknit jumper and drove a mini that was falling apart.
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#ReEnchantment is resistance.
I believe humanity always lives in its folklore. I believe humanity is stories. Those stories walk and those stories need places to live. Those tales are how we relate to landscape. Those tales are how we connect to each other, how we build community and how we resist. That is why Hookland exists. For in the hopeless moment when all the territory is darkening bruise, that’s when we need stories and re-enchantment the most.
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Natasha Kindred @thehoursgodsends.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A riot of Michaelmas daisies this year
A jumble of gorgeous big purple daisies with yellow centres in the late September sun.
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Natasha Kindred @thehoursgodsends.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sorry to have missed @hookland.bsky.social at Treads last night, but I know a wonderful portal to the County was enjoyed by all who passed through the membrane ♥️
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Natasha Kindred @thehoursgodsends.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In the dream I stood at the water’s white lip, my body blued with strange inks, flowers I did not know the names of white and yellow tongues in my hand. When I opened my mouth bronze fell out.
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Natasha Kindred @thehoursgodsends.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Dear peeps, lightning has hit the tower. I’m off dealing with the rubble, but I’ll be back. In the meantime, here’s what appears to now be my prophetic Instructions for a Holy Grief.
Instructions for a Holy Grief
Prepare by bathing.
The ocean is best, the grit of salt under your soles in the shower will do.
Dress in white, be appropriate, (this is a funeral after all,
put water out for the creatures crawling on hot pavements.
Face North. Light the candle. Close your eyes.
Light forever in all directions, pray for us.
Saints of the intersection, pray for us.
Plump Mother of all fruits, pray for us.
Light your incense, speak the names of the spirits of transition:
The ghost of the first vineyard, (it will show you the hypnosis of wine after death by crushing)
The morning cigarette,
Duty free perfume,
St Brendan the Navigator.Gather them on your right like blossom in the East.
Turn your head, seek the intervention of the spirits of fortitude:
Cult of the Saguaro Cacti (pray for us)
Holy bathroom spider (pray for us)
Our Lady of hospital coffee (pray for us)
Wash your hands in almond milk and rearrange the furniture.
All four chambers of the heart will need sweeping, open their windows to the daytime moon.
Lay what remains of your table, you have sent out the great invitation of tears.
God is coming, with a bunch of gas station flowers
and a rowdy party.
God is coming with the Ace of Tombs up His
Sleeve.
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Natasha Kindred @thehoursgodsends.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Oh, September. I ran to your door eager to get my feet wet. August’s wheat was gone, wind-eaten. My hands were open. Already, you have smiled your brittle orange smile and taken almost everything.
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Salty MacTavish @saltymactavish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Looks like I picked the wrong time to quit licking batteries
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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Antlers dull & drab? Tentacles out of control? Fangs & claws chipped and ragged? Don't worry. We're all perfectly imperfect in our own way, and that's ok.
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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Pope Leo XIV has been gifted a massive green orb and honestly not now massive green orb
Pope Leo by a green glass orb the size of a med-large pumpkin
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Natasha Kindred @thehoursgodsends.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Someone play Toads today! 🐸
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Emoji Aquarium @emojiaquarium.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
   🐡                  🐡   🐡   🐡    🐡                   🐡      🌿  🌾    
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Natasha Kindred @thehoursgodsends.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
All of you too busy at work to play Toads 🐸
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Natasha Kindred @thehoursgodsends.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
No I don’t want to play mermaids, I want to play Toads.
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Natasha Kindred @thehoursgodsends.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I need autumn to stop being shy and come on down. I have evil things to do and I cannot do them in linen shorts.
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Natasha Kindred @thehoursgodsends.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I love how serious jackdaws look, especially when they walk. I watched them pick their way across the village green like solicitor’s clerks.
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Natasha Kindred @thehoursgodsends.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I have sexy grey temples coming through like the put-upon magistrate of a walled city as it succumbs to witchcraft hysteria & I smuggle a beautiful herbalist out of prison & she kisses me there where my hair is newly white before escaping into the starry night & I think of her every gilded September
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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Bro, be straight with me: was it eldritch or merely uncanny?
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Chestbursty @chestrovert.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Imagine your dream home. Wrong. More sexy taxidermy.
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Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
13/9/26 - nocturn
small hours 
big time

a candle on the table - clearing the last Sunday debris
an onion, some rosemary 

make a list for the morning - 1. sleep - 2. dog - 3. school
4. see other list - 5. DWP
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Natasha Kindred @thehoursgodsends.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Still dreaming of this rolling blue, this dusting of light on the waves reminding me what it will be like to die. This deep mineral colour, life-giving, rich and warm as silk in September.
A long shot of the clear horizon, a beautiful  blue sea, an almost clear sky but for a smattering of clouds, a ridge of shingle beach under the sun.
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Natasha Kindred @thehoursgodsends.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I’ll say this for the Catholic clergy: neurodivergence
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Ariadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Can I offer you a Tawny Frogmouth in this trying time?
A man holding a Tawny Frogmouth which is a species of bird halfway between an owl and a Pekingese dog
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Natasha Kindred @thehoursgodsends.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Does anyone know of any good reads on fashion metaphysics?
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Natasha Kindred @thehoursgodsends.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I get so used to seeing little muntjac deer running around that when I see a proper roe as I just did it’s like ‘ma’am, you are a faerie horse’
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BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
yet even at the grave we make our song: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.
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crumbum @fuwolfman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The spell working its way back around.
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Natasha Kindred @thehoursgodsends.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Today: immense brown and white cows seeking higher pasture. The wet cough of ravens who came close enough that all over again I could appreciate their size. A talisman and a blacksmith. The violent brown and grey roll of the September tide turning, her jaw working the shingle.
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Mao and the Sparrows @maoandthesparrows.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A photograph of a highway passing through a misty forest superimposed over a photograph of the moon to create a moody evening image.
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Paul Bavister @paulbavister.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
November Starlings II Niki Bowers www.nikibowers.co.uk/november-sta... #art
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Marie Enger @ LBX26 Table 409 @soengery.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Meeting Eldritch Cousins in the dead of night
an elder thing schools the lonely driver and his kid
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