@idledragon27.bsky.social
A wanderer of words, and I like to ramble
A teacher’s harmless classroom experiment to test belief in ghosts accidentally created a local legend | Schoolmaster
31.10.2025 17:30 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The cover of WHAT FEASTS AT NIGHT by T. Kingfisher, which is a deconstructed horsie torso with text throughout on a red background.
On Halloween I'm doing a liveread of @tkingfisher.com's WHAT FEASTS AT NIGHT.
This is the second novella in the Sworn Soldiers series and came out in 2024. Mute or unfollow if you don't want spoilers or anything to do with the fungus among us.
#Halloween #horror #BookSky
The 3.5% solution to the rise of American authoritarianism
How the No Kings rallies could be the kickstart for Trump and MAGA’s downfall
By J 'Masharubu' Strauss
Little mari sits holding a pumpkin in her witches outfit with a red cloak a black cat with its tongue out looks at her ribbons. A moon is behind her with stars
Here is another Little Mari recreating a vintage Halloween card
29.10.2025 18:31 — 👍 50 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0
Just some 9,000-year-old masks from the Judean Desert & hills.
timesofisrael.com/eerie-neolit...
Yes, a lovely thread follows with pictures of faces you'll see again in the dark corner of your bedroom when you try to sleep.
(photo credit: Elie Posner/Israel Museum, Jerusalem)
29.10.2025 18:54 — 👍 56 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Friendly reminder, if you see someone this Halloween wearing the plague doctor with the bird beak mask costume, you have to ask them what they are supposed to be and if they then say they're a medieval plague doctor... it's your duty to correct them ;)
29.10.2025 18:57 — 👍 233 🔁 34 💬 8 📌 1
Balanced stones and lotus flowers in Zen sand garden
Calm before Christmas
Online writing workshop
Gentle writing activities using our imagination to find a bit of mindful presence and calm during busy holiday season. Sun 14 Dec, 2-4pm (UK time). Only £25. Booking details: www.writingforwellbeing.co.uk/therapy-and-...
#WritingforWellbeing #writing
2 days until the book goes to print and 6 copies are still awaiting homes (you get a free sticker!)
skullsandsheets.etsy.com/listing/4392...
"An insanely good book"
"I couldn't put the book down"
"A terrific read, a real page-turner"
"A gripping story, superbly written"
"What a hit! Unputdownable! More please"
"This book is extraordinary"
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Ebook, audiobook, paperback
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FLPMD7B...
Fingers crossed for @wtpress.bsky.social - Fight Like A Girl 2 is up for an award for Best Anthology at the @britfantasysoc.bsky.social Awards on Saturday! Wish us luck!
wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/anth...
A linocut illustrated print of a witch hare next to the plate.
‘Witch Hare’ linocut print.
matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com/product/bloc...
#BLOCTOBER2
It's just patriots (actual patriots) being patriotic.
25.10.2025 19:10 — 👍 898 🔁 193 💬 21 📌 8I really loved the devils in this. Their babbling was so fun.
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MARI LWYD CHARITY AUCTION UPDATE!
A wonderful postcard by
@idledragon27.bsky.social
has arrived!
Please go see all the entries so far here!: skullsandsheetsauction.wordpress.com
It's a flock of elderly PickMees
15.10.2025 13:24 — 👍 193 🔁 76 💬 10 📌 2
Exterior of a bookshop with books and lights in the display window
‘Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilise their neighbourhoods.’
— John Updike
writingforwellbeing.co.uk
#writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #books #reading
A bit of joy 😸
15.10.2025 13:50 — 👍 625 🔁 180 💬 10 📌 8
Repost with working link!
Super thrilled to have acquired The Riven Kingdom by
@julietemckenna.bsky.social
A high fantasy blending politics, religion and a battle for a dead king’s throne.
Click to go to The British Fantasy Society for more details:
britishfantasysociety.org/book-news-an...
A lovely mossy boulder with a face. I walked past this venerable stone gentleman on Dartmoor when I was beginning to write my first novel, Villager, and it whispered all 104,000 words of the book to me. So now I have to pay it all of my royalties. Unfortunately my ex-publisher stopped paying me royalties last year. Understandable, the boulder was not happy. But now I have a new publisher and the book is being republished this Thursday. So remember if you purchase a copy you will be helping a boulder to eat, pay the rent on his riverside moss garden, and feed his boulder family.
Yes it could be argued that keeping up with world events is important but alternatively can I interest you in hugging an ancient mossy boulder that looks like a face and quietly listening while it tells you stories from centuries cloaked in mist.
07.09.2025 15:47 — 👍 764 🔁 203 💬 27 📌 21
'Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.'
Mary Webb
#Folklore #Nature #Shropshire #Autumn
the fact he sounds exactly like you'd expect a stuffed frog to sound is why this is the rightful winner
11.10.2025 16:10 — 👍 839 🔁 208 💬 14 📌 0
Title: Where writers really get their ideas. A writer, holding a note in his outstretched hand approaches a cart in the park. The front of the cart reads 'Fresh ideas' and a colourful umbrella shades the server who is reaching deep into the body of the cart (much as an ice-cream vendor might) and saying: "I'm all out of mind-blowing concepts and heart-rending narratives, but I've got an acerbic observation, an unexpected outcome and a couple of amusing notions."
My cartoon for the books page in this week’s @theguardian.com
11.10.2025 16:14 — 👍 632 🔁 167 💬 13 📌 13“We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close.”
11.10.2025 15:35 — 👍 1912 🔁 731 💬 82 📌 16Hello Evening Crowd we delve into how fantasy gets written
11.10.2025 16:44 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
This is Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron and considered to be the first person to write a computer programme which was for Babbage's Analytical Machine. She died in 1842
In her honour, today is Ada Lovelace Day and is all about encouraging women and girls in mathematics, science and engineering.
What happens when £47 billion disappears from Britain’s economy? youtu.be/tFwmfxMP1hs?...
Tory Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride wants to take £47 billion out of the UK economy — mostly by cutting benefits for migrants and those with mental ill health. That isn’t prudence. It’s managed decline.
What has the ECHR ever done for us?
Quite a lot actually, and we wrote it too.
This #buyastrangerabook offer is still up for grabs!
@applecott.bsky.social is offering to buy someone the book of their choice, up to £10.
So, if there's a particular book you're after, just let us know!
UK only.
