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👻🎃 UNCANNY HALLOWEEN COUNTDOWN: DAY 6 🎃👻

Are you enjoying counting down the days until #Halloween? Today’s bijou bite of the bizarre is Case 6: The Blanket Seal 🛌

What happened in that university hall of residence room?

Send your questions and theories on the case to uncanny@bbc.co.uk!

That awkward moment when you discover you're sharing a dorm with a selkie....

Inktober 2025 - Monster Girls 2
Day 7 - Selkie

corner of a small white room, with printed A3 artwork stuck on walls, including cover image of a book called Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales, a map of the British Isles and Brittany, several illustrations including a selkie, 2 dragons, a herd of cows, and a water monster floating on a lake surrounded by mountains. Also visible are a hand-drawn picture of a market stall, a red and black poster for a book series called Spellchasers, and a black phone tripod

I've turned my writing shed into a studio so I can film wee clips about my new book Celtic Folk And Fairy Tales to share with you. I've even filmed a full-length telling of one Celtic tale! Doesn't @elisecillustration.com artwork look splendid on the walls? @discoverkelpies.bsky.social #storytelling

got this selkie print & shes FOILED….

Selkie sightings in October

An older drawing of mine. She’s a selkie.

the sigh that pumps the final tears the letting go
like leafs in the fall
the chill after the surge
the last gasp
acceptance releases its ghost
a thread of smoke
silently disappearing
until there is no trace
it even existed
we are bared
to hold the brunt
of winter's test

#poetry

[Original] Twinkle [Charity Drive] Acrylics on paper and illustration board. The woman and a handful of stars are 3D-pop out. Unframed. 10 x 16 inches Proceeds from this original minus shop fees (estimates 8%) and shipping (estimate tb...

This original is up for grabs. The entire sale minus shipping and store fees, usually about 10-15% of the price, is going to the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR)
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Because ice up here is running amuk :(

Traditional illustration of a woman holding out her dress to catch star rain. Acrylics on paper and board. The woman and a few stars are on a separate 3 dimensional layer above the background.

Twinkle, 10 x 16 inches, acrylics on board and paper.
The lady and a few of the stars pop out in 3d :)

We've reached a new level of victim blaming here

"It's NOT the pollution from cars and factories; it's those dang asthmatics!"

How. Many. People. Have. Trouble. Breathing. That. It. Impacts. Climate. Change?

Also, could climate change be causing breathing problems?

Also, #STOPIT

Hey CNN, the correct headline is "developments in new gases can reduce emissions caused by inhalers".

But hey, I guess it is the media's god given right to endanger the lives and rights of various minorities.

the people who are most vulnerable to revolutions are constantly inadvertently adding to the problem by coming out with incredibly fucked up shit that makes it obvious how little they value and respect human life

STOP REPEATING THIS ABLEIST LIE. This has been debunked repeatedly and it's galling to blame vulnerable people for needing to use medicines to stay alive. Why do you never focus on the manufacturing practices and decisions of pharma companies who control the supply? Oh, right, bc you're eugenicists.

Seriously for a moment, notice how this "journalism" fails to mention a lot:
- Lead formerly employed by a manufacturer of dry inhalers.
- Lead was paid as an expert witness against other inhaler manufacturers by another dry inhaler maker.
- Dry inhalers are generally over 1500% more expensive.

Please consider adding alt text to posts with images as folx with vision loss & other disabilities deserve equitable access to information, & you can even update your settings on BlueSky so that you cannot post images without alt text, so you are prompted to add it if you might otherwise forget! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

CNN thinks people should die of asthma so they don't hurt the environment with their tiny inhalers.

Claire 🦭🩵🌊 Haven’t drawn my Selkie babe in awhile, and she needed a proper ref! Kinda playing around with her hairstyle, and clothing for her modern day look! #selkie #characterdesign #originalcharacter #traditionalart #bianyomarkers #art

Move over, mermaid fans! Make room for Selkie fiction. K. Stephens's By the Dark 'O the Moon is a deliciously slow-burning tale of maternal fury, folklore, and the saltwater price of stolen things. This isn’t a love story. It’s a reckoning.

www.instagram.com/p/DPdyAFgEV5B/

🌊 Kópakonan, la femme-phoque de Kalsoy : entre légende, art public et malédiction qui donne le vertige. Vous la connaissez ?
👉 www.2tout2rien.fr/kopakonan-la...

#Féroé #Kalsoy #FemmePhoque #Selkie #LégendeNordique #Voyage #ArtPublic #2tout2rien

A fluffy white sheep looking up at the camera with a smile. Grass and hay is stuck in its wool.

:⁠-⁠)

A Lincoln Longwool sheep looking to the left on a green hill. There are other sheep in the distance to the right.

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Selkie Sunday (diet starts tomorrow)
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kellyjarviswriter.com/selkie-moon

📸 by Karl Ramsdell

#SelkieMoon #selkie #fairytale #folklore #debutnovella #seals #sealife #oceanphotography

Bilbo Baggins, I’m not trying to help you, I’m trying to rob you *takes the ring*

Opal, a platinum Burmese cat, under a blanket by my feet, her head sticking out, her face and ears charmingly draped by the edges of the blanket.

A cozy cat. They love blankets, especially now it’s getting cold again.

A plump, black-haired woman sits on a pile of rocks while petting her spotted harbor seal companion. She is in the process of removing her own spotted seal skin, from which she is withdrawing her right leg. Text reads "Selkie" with signature @ajsundew '25

Day 3: Selkie

another demure femme from me what else is NEW. she runs a small seaside inn out of limsa with her baby. and she always has the freshest catch bc she catches em as a little seal...

breaking hiatus one day in to say that i want to make a selkie ok bye.

Drunk after midnight here's day 4 of #CuteGirlTober. Today it's Ribbon debuting my OC Ezili. She is a selkie and in some (but not all) cannons she is Milo's equally stupid big sister (affectionate)

#CuteGirlTober25 #OCSky