Lazy Lightning

Don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight and reclaim what they’ve taken from you

The Empire State Building lit in orange and green. Like a pumpkin.

Empire State Building wearing its pumpkin costume.

a black and white photo of an owl flying with its wings outstretched and looking at the camera . ALT: a black and white photo of an owl flying with its wings outstretched and looking at the camera .

"But in that instant of darkness, the night swept in. A great wing folded over the abyss. Many owls hooted. Many mice scampered and slithered in the shadows. A million tiny murders happened somewhere."

—The Halloween Tree, Ray Bradbury

#BookWormSat

a black and white cartoon of betty boop standing in front of a fireplace with pumpkins on the mantle ALT: a black and white cartoon of betty boop standing in front of a fireplace with pumpkins on the mantle

"Everything seemed cut from soft black velvet or gold or orange velvet. Smoke panted up out of a thousand chimneys like the plumes of funeral parades. From kitchen windows drifted two pumpkin smells: gourds being cut, pies being baked."

—The Halloween Tree, Ray Bradbury

#BookWormSat

YouTube video by CWStonekingVEVO C.W Stoneking - Zombie (Official Video)

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Draw NUDIS with me next month!

illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a dark old room with double doors opening to reveal a tall shadow figure with white eyes peering into the room, looking at the viewer.

Something wrong?

Ronnie Drew also pairs well with a early morning drunk.

*New Post*

My latest post discusses the story of Hannah Phillips, who folklore states drowned on the eve of her wedding. Discover her story and the maiden's garland that still bares her name.

#Folklore #Ghosts #Shropshire #hauntings

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My #theology is whatever this is–

The Luddites Were Right

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Gross.

You both were lucky.

Mustelid is also a valid choice.

YouTube video by Grateful Dead Grateful Dead - Dear Mr. Fantasy / Hey Jude (Foxboro, MA 7/2/89)

You owe it to yourself to listen. The boys are tight, Brent is on fire and Jerry's having a blast. Good stuff.

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The artwork is made up of many different petroglyph-inspired animal figures. The animals are all moving to the left. In the foreground you see three wolves and four ravens chasing after two bull elk and one doe in fairly dark lines. In the background are similar style elk that use smaller artwork and lighter lines to represent being further away. All the foreground animals have gold foil circles into their design around their heart's location and airway location. The entire piece has been given a distressed treatment.

This is probably the largest art I've made in a long time; it's 16x48 inches at 300dpi. All of the animals are inspired by petroglyphs and cave art from around the world on top of the shapes found within the animals themselves. #art #caveart #petroglyph #deer #wolves #ravens #raven #wolf #elk

#FolkyFriday We all need more murder ballads in our lives surely, get on down to The Three Ravens pod to enjoy some.

Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman is a very good book.

Under the water, carry the water.

Crowned skully has a smoke sitting on some stairs while a meteor shower rains down

King of Nothin' #NoKings

#Art by Tiny Piece of Mercury

“When they rob us of art and emotion, that leads us towards the aesthetics of fascism. In this film, all the sets are real, the decor is human-sized, there are painstakingly created miniatures... It’s there to remind us that art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go fuck itself!”

Remember our mantra:

Don't Engage, Just Block.

Pumpkinhead rides a horse at night

Pumpkin Man #Halloween

#Art by Joseph Feely

Release the Steinbeck werewolf novel!

HE'S EVEN DOING THE THING

#MST3K

And to you.

A photo of a large gold-plated enamel pin photographed on top of a lichen-covered rock. The enamel pin features a whale skeleton covered with various deep sea creatures, such as octopuses, hagfish, a giant isopod, a crab, and chimaeras.

Whale Fall pin 🦀🐋🦑

This isn’t just “Charlie Brown had hoes” levels of wrong it’s “Charlie Brown never had a dog” levels of wrong

Let’s All Be Witches and Re-enchant the World “The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” — W.B. Yeats I’m tired of this scolding from the haters of magic who press their dull knives to the heart of our longing, who see in Wild Nature but a mass to be measured, and in the Soul of All Living, but an insult to reason I’m tired of pretending their methods impress me, that their double-blind studies reveal more than blindness to all they refuse in advance to conceive for fear of conflicting the faith they believe I’m tired of hearing that we’re only our bodies from men with no love for the magic of bodies, who find in our dreams but the chatter of neurons, in our deepest desires, mere chemical churn

It’s time to remember the Tuatha de Danann, to sleep on the hilfort, and learn the Sidhe magic, till the wind has awakened, and leaves whirl round, till “Away, come away” rises out of the ground So, get ready to fly past the glowering doubters on your unlikely broom to the place of our meeting, our sharing the mushroom, our dancing and dreaming, our splitting the veil that separates worlds Come join me in singing to the Earth and the Moon, in welcoming spirits, in shaking the barley. Let’s join the wild hunter, our banners unfurled —  Let’s all be witches and re-enchant the world. -- Jack Preston King

Perhaps not directly a #Halloween poem, but definitely Halloween- adjacent...

Here's "Let's All Be Witches and Re-Enchant the World":