Bela Lugosi's Sad

Bela Lugosi's Sad

@thewillowtea.bsky.social

enthusiast. https://linktr.ee/thewillowtea

180 Followers 148 Following 124 Posts Joined Jan 2025
2 days ago

North America is somewhat overlooked in the recent folk horror explosion, but the folk behind this wonderful project aim to shine a grubby aldis lamp on the weirder corners of US folk culture. Very excited for this.

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1 week ago
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Death And Life And All That Lays In Between, by Willow Tea 11 track album

willowtea.bandcamp.com/album/death-...

the third part of Willow Tea's folk horror/rural apocalypse series.

#ruralapocalypse #willowtea #folkhorrormusic

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1 month ago

I feel like I had the novelisation of this, that an aunt of mine gave me for a birthday int he late 80s. I don't remember much of it, but have a real desire to revisit the book! The Stones Of Blood was fun to re-read recently.

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1 month ago
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willowtea.bandcamp.com/album/little...

I wrote a folk horror short in the last week. If you like it, please feel free to take a code.

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3pkc-68st
a63e-yfhb
8yx9-bmqw
22ez-wzys
knhu-ghzd

#naivesynth #folkhorrormusic

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1 month ago

it was such an abrupt and weird tonal shift. I know now that it's setting up part two, but I don't really feel like watching whatever that's setting up.

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1 month ago

I think many don't realise how good we have it with @fiadh.bsky.social.

thank you friend.

(p.s. buy these tapes)

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1 month ago

Let's just throw AI at problems that have already been solved because reasons.

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1 month ago
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The Owl’s Ghost Story

🎨 Louis Wain (1890)

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2 months ago

fiadh is an openly antifascist label. we do NOT require artists we work with to make political statements, but we DO require them to reject fascism, hateful ideologies & nsbm/nsds. if you are unwilling to do that, pls look elsewhere 💕

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2 months ago

Good job, Jenn. Proud of you 💚

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2 months ago

Be kind to thyself. Thou art, at the end of the day, thy final champion.

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2 months ago

no driveway, no problem 🤷 which means I can use my shovel for more refined pursuits.

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2 months ago

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2 months ago

🦖

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2 months ago
the cover of a Willow Tea album, with a vintage illustration of a girl holding the rein of a goat which looks to be trying to escape. The album is called "More Songs About Goats, Goblins, and Bucolica".

willowtea.bandcamp.com/album/more-s...

A new album of naive melodies and goblins marching in 4/4.

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pmun-bcxz
8b5m-xxag
j7u6-euux
7llt-bpjq

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2 months ago
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2 months ago

seeing more people use "this sounds/looks like AI" to insult or devalue artists is a depressing development but not unexpected.

I can understand the skepticism, and I wish we lived in a world where we were able to trust people's good intentions and efforts.

Must be my first day on earth, huh?

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3 months ago
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The Apothecary's Dream, by Willow Tea 4 track album

willowtea.bandcamp.com/album/the-ap...

"May your nightmares become the dreams of another world."

#willowtea #naivesynth #mellotron

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rcut-6rvy
aswt-kl6r
jzx5-cb9z
63eg-xc66
zx6n-ew8k

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4 months ago

Just to clarify something:

Nothing I make, visual or sonic, uses generative AI/LLMs. All mistakes, all choices, all that awful racket, for better or worse, is me.

Creativity is and should always be a human endeavour.

I'm not interested in debating or discussing further, thanks.

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5 months ago

this wizard gets it.

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5 months ago

#WizardWednesday

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5 months ago

The fey carnival will be in town this week. Remember, no deals or debts. Insist on paying for your tickets, and keep an eye on thy children and siblings.

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5 months ago

🦖

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5 months ago
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The Presence Upon Søstreklint, by Woods Of Sith Cala 5 track album

woodsofsithcala.bandcamp.com/album/the-pr...

"In late November, when the winds whisper harsh words from the North Sea, the precipitous Søstreklint welcomes a familiar presence..."

#darkambient #ghoststory #hauntedmusic #dungeonsynth

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4pfe-hcvy
e7db-5wgr
gw4m-3srl
3sp7-h4cj

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5 months ago
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The Prickle Holly Bush, by Goblin Band from the album Come Slack Your Horse!

goblinbanduk.bandcamp.com/track/the-pr...

"'Come slack your horse!', cries George"

currently on repeat.

#goblinband #folk #thepricklehollybush

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5 months ago
Panel from "Shirdon"- The Narts webcomic by Sylvan Migdal. It shows a tan skinned man with long brown hair & beard wearing a gold circlet & sticking out of a river in front of a light skinned woman with a long blonde braid wearing a white dress with a blue- gray overdress holding a bucket

Gatag is a Nart, the mythic heroes/ gods/ spirits from the mythology of the North Caucasus. Gatag is an evil water spirit who fathers the shapeshifter Shirdon.

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5 months ago
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🍂💛🍂Rivendell - by Alan Lee
#FolkloreThursday #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday

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5 months ago

I had this on a calendar when I was 11 and it has always been my idyll of Rivendell. Beautiful and autumnal.

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5 months ago

I sometimes sing this song to myself when doing laundry.

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5 months ago
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Today's Wyrd Britain birthday honours go out to artist, author, and occultist Ithell Colquhoun.
#ithellcolquhoun #stewartlee
wyrdbritain.blogspot.com/2025/10/stew...

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