@swordsandspindles.bsky.social
Tumblr refugee, doesn't know what's going on. Fibre arts, books, Yelling About Media. Reluctant Adult, German, Ace. They/them.
ICYMI.
25.10.2025 07:00 β π 5 π 8 π¬ 1 π 0Failure to return the shopping cart to one of the cart returns if you are able is a sign of someone who does not value the social contract.
20.10.2025 00:31 β π 3332 π 515 π¬ 94 π 35Das schΓΆnste am BuCon ist, dass man sich auch einfach eine halbe Stunde im Park verstecken kann, wenn man will. π
18.10.2025 10:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Bona Books Presents A new queer literary magazine FANTABULOSA! Tales of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical, from radical and unapologetic queer voices. Science fiction, fantasy and horror Short fiction & poetry Submissions open now
ANNOUNCEMENTπΊπ³οΈβππ³οΈββ§οΈ
Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:
FANTABULOSA!
Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.
& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 π€
Publishers should be invested in promoting the books they publish.
13.10.2025 21:45 β π 620 π 134 π¬ 14 π 7Es wird am 17.10 final darΓΌber im Bundesrat abgestimmt.
Wir benΓΆtigen eure Unterschrift fΓΌr diese Kampagne von @campact.de und eure lauten Stimmen, die deutlich machem:
Kein Sonderregister!
Keine Listen ΓΌber Marginalisierten in Deutschland!
If you've prepared your patch properly, by now your pumpkins should be:
- humming slightly
- levitating a little
- visited nightly by dark fairies
- sinking their vines into other plants to drain them of energy
- murmering dark incantations to the elder gods
Bahnfahren kΓΆnnte so schΓΆn sein, wenn nicht immer die Menschen mit der lautesten Stimme direkt hinter mir sitzen wΓΌrden...
10.10.2025 11:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Omg hiiii oh hello!! What a beauty! Also yeah no she doesn't look like a Fifi at all.
09.10.2025 19:12 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Huch, es ist ja schon wieder bald Wollmarkt Vaterstetten, schnell noch ein bisschen Wolle wegspinnen damit ich neue kaufen darf!
09.10.2025 14:36 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0darf man noch fruchtfleisch sagen
08.10.2025 12:33 β π 607 π 107 π¬ 40 π 8Weil Landwirte selbst... nie Pflanzen angebaut haben... ???
09.10.2025 14:11 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0You look fabulous today!
It's not easy to pull off that bold mix of rumpled sweaters, exhaustion, and the dusty darkness of a cluttered used bookstore.
Huch, es ist ja schon wieder bald BuCon, ich muss fix ein paar BΓΌcher weglesen damit ich neue kaufen darf
07.10.2025 16:45 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Collage of knitting projects. 1. A hand holds up knitting needles with knit strands of fairy lights as yarn. Knitted Fairy Lights by Leila Raven. 2. Cup of Light shows knit lace cups molded with white glue and filled with LED String Lights. Designed by Rosemary (Romi) Hill. 3. Love and Light Heart decoration ornament knit with LED fairy lights. Designed by Laura Nelkin and Jen Hohenboken. 4. Diaphanous Stars with knit stars over LED fairy lights designed by Claire Garland. Pictured project by KnittingforLJ 5. Starry Lights is a circular art piece hangings knit by combining beads, battery-operated fairy lights, a macramΓ© ring, and yarn. Designed by Mary R.
Today is National LED Light Day! On this day, October 7, 2014, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura for Light Emitting Diodes.
π§Ά Did you know you can knit with LEDs? See these knitting patterns on my post
intheloopknitting.com/light-knitti...
Lynda Sayce plays a piece of lute music that was recently discovered in an archival document at the Museum Plantin-Moretus. Since the handwritten lute tablature was folded and reused as scrap paper, it's problaby the first time in 400 years that this music is heard.
24.05.2025 15:53 β π 1378 π 530 π¬ 31 π 68
EU citizens, please take 30 seconds to sign the European Citizens' Initiative to ban conversion therapy (torture against LGBTQ+ people).
Only 1 day left to meet the criteria of 1 million signatures.
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public
THE INCANDESCENT by Emily Tesh, in US (black) and UK (pink) hardcover editions.
THE INCANDESCENT is a book about money and education and status symbols, about loving your career, about demons, about magic, about fantasy school - but most of all about how 'school' is always a kind of fantasy. Available now!
US: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
UK: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/unti...
Absolutely perfect colours!
09.05.2025 09:46 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"
08.05.2025 17:29 β π 19295 π 4620 π¬ 677 π 395@tkingfisher.com Real life White Rat propaganda?
08.05.2025 19:24 β π 207 π 38 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you for illustrating the anti-shipper stance!
07.05.2025 20:16 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I am so tired. So tired. π
07.05.2025 20:11 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Wait, is THAT what antis are about?? Do they think "proshipper" means "problematic shipper" instead of "in favour of shipping"? That would explain so much!
07.05.2025 05:48 β π 33 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0That's the trees right outside my house, too! Yellow stinky and horriblΓ©
04.05.2025 18:28 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Happy #draculadaily day! I just explained the concept to a social media averse 60+ year old, and she's now considering reading the book. Our good friend Jonathan can charm anybody.
03.05.2025 17:36 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Zwei TaschenbΓΌcher auf meinem Schreibtisch: Anarchie Deco, und der Nachfolger Anarchie Deco 1930, von C.J.Vogt.
Mwahahaha... BΓΌcher... BΓΌΓΌΓΌΓΌΓΌΓΌcher...
29.04.2025 05:57 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Yay, das Highlight des Selber Literaturzelts fΓΌr daheim!
29.04.2025 05:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Is it possible you misread my post? I'm not asking "why does anyone need cat pins?", I'm saying "I, personally, need cat pins!". They're very pretty! My background is in medieval literature, I know and appreciate medieval kitties :)
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