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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 20m

Packing orders! If you are quick, you can get in on this Post Office run. thomas-brown-1.sumupstore.com/products Next run next week...sometime. (big life stuff going on)

A vasty shaggy black cat towers over an old Icelandic village.

Photo of two pieces of witch art (including a hedgehog witch, because) with crochet pumpkins and leaves.

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 54m

Good morning. From Idle Days on the Yann by the 18th Baron Dunsany (Lord Dunsany)

a ship on a river under the moon, surrounded by moths and decked with lamps. A Goddess and god bracket the image above, and river monsters below. Pencil and mixed media on toned paper. Colour applied.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 2h

Books are ghost magnets. This means every good library has it phantoms. A density of Dewey Decimal Classification is spirits what a saucer of beer is to slugs. Of course we understand ghosts desire to haunt libraries. Thousands of books and the time to read them is a heaven. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 13h

Beautiful. A very good night to @hookland.bsky.social and goodnight to us all.

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 18h

A beautiful thing you can have. One of these, in the whole world.

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 19h

Title for our next wee book (this one will be colour illustration throughout) The Kraken's Lullaby: An Incomplete History of the Great Kraken & Why We Should Fear Her

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 21h

Interior illustration for a new wee book with @taliskimberley.bsky.social. Believe it or not, it started out as a sort of children's book... Wee book will be released in time for your festive holiday gift giving. Um.

A giant squid eye in the sky over the sea, a tiny silhouetted figure on a hilltop is reflected in the eye. Pencil and mixed media on toned paper. Colour applied.

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 21h

Did you?? Did you mis it??

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 23h

aaand good afternoon (already, somehow)

Pencil drawing of a fox/raven hybrid creature holding out one talon.

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Good morning! This wraparound cover will now never be used (for its intended purpose at least) and I am fine and very relaxed about that. (long story) If you need a fantasy anthology cover like this though, talk to me.

A mermaid (combing her hair) and another young female coded person at the mouth of a cave with fishing net and a shipwreck in the background.

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A very good night to @hookland.bsky.social and goodnight to us all.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Another day spent fruitlessly searching for the Black Library in Weychester Cathedral. Another dozen subterranean rooms visited, but no new clues. It remains firmly occulted. Remains legendary, an engine of the imagination. – #MattAdams

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Where my Witches? If you want your cards in time for the season, soon would be good. thomas-brown-1.sumupstore.com/products?cat... (also, I'm going to the post office tomorrow, so)

Photo of Halloween prints and cards on an orange tablecloth with pumpkin mugs full of seed pods and sundry, a raven, a bell and crochet pumpkins.

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

and, if the fates are kind, I will be able to make an announcement concerning Ray Bradbury this month.

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My practice/path or whatever you call it is very much centred around spirits of place: Central to my life and experience of the world. So, very much looking forward to developing a relationship with the places in/of Scotland. Aventures.

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

NEED Love the Wayward Children series (also) Would happily read @seananmcguire.bsky.social 's shopping list though (not in a creepy way) I have it on best authority she writes a very good shopping list, too.

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's spooky month! Last October 1st, we started Emberlings. One a day, through October. And here they all are, in a wee book. @hookland.bsky.social even did us a foreword! thomas-brown-1.sumupstore.com/product/embe...

a mud larking witch under a full moon. Pencil drawing with white highlights.

young witch with wellies stomping through puddles.

a witch appearing in an arch of branches and candles. Pencil drawing with white highlights.

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I did say I had something for Fat Bear Week...

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Also, I may have something for Fat Bear Week. Sort of. Um.

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I need so many books, and this is one of them.

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

and this is why I have been an Eric Orchard fan for 100 years.

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Also, I don't think this got enough love yesterday. Giving you all another chance.

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Good morning. For Quest for the Queen's Tears by Lord Dunsany. Launch of this new collection (dream project) collection less than a month away now!

queen of the woods seated on a throne of twisted wood and moss among stones , trees and fungus. She gazes dispassionately at the viewer while on either side of her, her handmaids weep. Pencil and mixed media on toned paper. Colour applied.

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Packing (again) Excited, though!

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Good morning. I don't know about you, but i've seen so much about the orange shitgibbon and his UK toady I need a mental rebalance so I don't start thinking that's all there is. Let's talk about ...kindness. What unexpected kindness has come your way or maybe one you have witnessed?

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hugo Henneberg (Austrian, 1863–1918) "Der blaue Weiher (The blue Pond)", 1904. Linoleum Cut on four Plates (blue, purple, black, brown) on Japanese Paper, 29.4 × 29.8 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Expect your thingies, if you have ordered them! All posted! Do not expect your thingies if you have not ordered them. I won't know what you wanted and would be bound to get it wrong. It's a lot to ask, really.

A Krampus couple on a snowy hillside. Pencil drawing. Colour applied.

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A very good night to @hookland.bsky.social and goodnight to us all.

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ye gods! Going to have to go to second printing on the Yule Cat cards! 0_0 Thanks, all! (still have a few dozen left)

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As we've just had the full moon closest to the autumn equinox, known in Hookland as the Corn Maiden Moon, it seems appropriate share some of the folklore of the Heading the Corn. #FolkloreSunday

Full moon closest to the autumn equinox – Heading the Corn Part of the cultus in St. Urith in the county, but clearly also part of much older harvest festival traditions, the heading of the corn is the name for the ritual of the first sheath of corn cut being bound and taken to the nearest church so that the spirit of the saint could live in it to the next harvest. The sheath is traditionally taken on a cart, crowded with reapers, often wearing masks made of sack, shouting: ‘Hooky! Hooky! while the cart is led by an extravagantly dressed couple referred to as the Lord and Lady of the Harvest. Before the procession gets to the church to deliver the sheath, they will be met at a crossroad by a figure personifying death who will let them pass only after the shedding of blood (usually done by the nicking of the hands of the Lord and Lady of the Harvest). When the sheath has been delivered and a thanksgiving mass given, a usually somewhat riotous harvest supper is then held.

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Right! Good morning. All art and new orders going in the post tomorrow so, not to be greedy (maybe just a *little* bit greedy) because you all have ordered a wonderful/generous amount, but if you want anything in this run, you know what to do! thomas-brown-1.sumupstore.com/products

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh! Tis #Caturday. Have I got a cat for you! thomas-brown-1.sumupstore.com/products?cat... (also, a solution for your yule card choice)

A vast shaggy black cat towers over an old Icelandic village in the snow. At the bottom of the composition, Viking/Celtic zoomorphic knotwork. Pencil and mixed media on toned paper. Colour applied.

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