@karislousirak.bsky.social
PhD Researcher, amateur photographer, freelance researcher, writer, and ethnographic researcher. Public art, reading, birds, wildlife, the coast, Lego, SciFi TV, folklore (Peg Power 💚), doodler.📍NE Eng, UK. https://linktr.ee/karislousirak
Willingly sits indoors on the weekend for a fascinating set of talks on water folklore, folk horror, and elves and dwarfs.
I don't actually know, I've not found a satisfactory answer...maybe there is something supernatural afoot. Maybe the plague village was abandoned for other reasons 🤔
Is there a ghostly reason the nearby church is green too? (I know there's a scientific reason, but any other offerings?)
Reading historical fiction, England in the medieval period, which just described a duvet on a four-poster bed. Can't keep reading it. I want my news distractions to be engaging and at least attempt accuracy...
Just been looking online for a book that was sat next to me on the desk, so, yeah, how's your brain doing right now?
I've just had a delivery from the most zen and ethereal postman, I feel like this parcel might unleash the magic of the realm.
A spate of double spacing is haunting this document I'm editing, and it's driving me insane. It's like it's been possessed by word processors of yore, ghost written by an old soul to curse my very existence. Why ?
Archive 81 on the webfilm is superb - like I wanted House of Leaves to be (still a superb book, just not met the full expectations) mixed with a strong dose of Lovecraft and Beyond the Veil podcast (as A81 began life). An absorbing watch.
Snowy scenes up here on the Yorkshire Teesside Coast. #winter
Some Solstice birds from yesterday: heron, robin, long-tailed tit (a fluffball with a tail), and a female blackbird. I love observing these "common" beauties. #birds
In these challenging times someone might need one of them:
Childline: 0800 1111
Samaritans: 116 123
Domestic Violence Hotline: 0808 2000 247
Mind: 0300 123 3393
Age UK: 0800 169 6565
Alcoholics Anonymous : 0800 9177 650
Cruse Bereavement Care: 0808 808 1677
MH text support: 85258
Nothing surprises me anymore, but the fact that these are all still going makes me apoplectic.
Lady on her mobile in the chocolate shop: I've got a terrible cold. These are £3.95, I don't love him that much, I'll only get one.
Me:
Tried writing on an offline word processor program without any input. Whilst I was productive, I realised in editing that I am closer to being illiterate than a wordsmith. It's a good job no one needs to read my handwritten work anymore too. Without technology my writing is illegible to anyone else.
Got this week's target editing done in the manuscript. Now to try and get some semblance of Christmas spirit over the weekend with a Christmas read, and related activities.
Today is Christmas Jumper day at one of the places I work. Do you think this counts?
Well this book is an absolute blooming delight, just what's needed in December. "The Dead of Winter: The Demons, Witches and Ghosts of Christmas" - Sarah Clegg. Going to try and source Clegg's previous work "Women's Lore" too. #WhatAreYouReading
Watched the Sycamore Gap Doc on Channel 4 last night on live TV like the old days. Fictional detectives are all about profiling, lab analysis, and interrogation. Real-life detectives: tip-offs, checking CCTV, and looking at a suspect's phone.
Agreed. I saw it described as someone interrupting a ritual in the woods "the moon is out..."
Currently feeding my longest held interests by reading Adam Allsuch Boardman's An Illustrated History of Urban Legends. It seems to be the best distraction from the world right now.
A data centre. Lots of job opportunities there...
Fungi in the frost for today's walk. Panaeolus foenisecii for the fungi fiends. #Fungi 🍄❄️
They taste disgusting and the skins are too chewy. They used to be my go to apple, but now they are just expensive filth.
Stottie fungi (barm, bap, bun, bread) growing alongside a regular route.
Was in an online meeting with terrible sound and no video, thought someone said "I've got two cats today" but they said caps, as in jobs. I would've preferred to be meeting with the cats.
Here are some recent photos of moss and fungi which I particularly like, enjoy. #Fungi
RIP Steve Wright, the daily offender.
A conversation with teenagers about social media, the fundamental difference is that they see it as entertainment, not as a means to make connections. That's what it's become, a media source, whereas us oldies are still chasing the social bit. This was a revelation to me, and feel slightly unburned.
Day 3 of sitting in very uncomfortable chairs listening to people talk about interesting things. Hoping that today is a revelation...
This week I've mostly been collecting material for my game "Corporate or Cult?" and let me tell you it's a difficulty hard rating.