Petra Pavlíková

Sunlight shining through mature trees in a woodland, with an understory of new growth and bilberry covered in dewy cobwebs

Two ecologists opening a moth trap in woodland

Pebble Prominent moth resting on a lichen-covered rock

A small brown and white moth called Catoptira permutatellus resting on a lichen-covered rock

A project to restore ancient forests in the Scottish Highlands is significantly boosting moth biodiversity, a Butterfly Conservation study has found. 🌳

Read the full story 👉 buff.ly/AyKPh6e

📷: Patrick Cook, Sarah Wanless
#MothsMatter #TeamMoth

It is, but I think Hozier's Francesca is also a good Solavellan song. :)

It’s a great sketch. :)

In the picture, I have on my palm two tiny twigs covered in lichens. Under my hand is lawn covered with colourful fallen leaves.

It's a perfect misty morning for taking pictures of lichens. :)

#Halloween 🎃

The Yew was regarded as the gentle guardian of the dead 💀

It was formerly revered so much in Wales that to cut it down was considered an act of desecration, while to burn any part of it was looked upon as sacrilege 🔥

#Wales #History

Picture shows a book of poems by John Keats open on the page with Ode to a Nightingale with the Darkling I listen line being visible. My hand keeps the book open. I wear dark nail polish and a moth ring.

#BookWormSat

"Darkling I listen; and, for many a time
I have been half in love with easeful Death"
John Keats

There is almost nothing in Tolkien as pervasive as his love for the small and vulnerable, for the meek and the gentle. These are not the values of these thugs and they do not have any claim to them.

Picture shows garden lawn with moss, some grass, and clover. There are quite a few fallen leaves.

Autumnal garden :)

The picture shows the book Kytice (A Bouquet of Folk Legends), a collection of ballads based on folkloric themes by the Czech romantic writer and folklorist Karel Jaromír Erben, opened on the page where the ballad Vodník begins. It also shows an illustration by Míla Fürstová that depicts Vodník and his human bride underwater.

#BookWormSat

In Czech and Slovak folklore, vodník is a male water spirit. He looks human and can survive outside water if his clothes are wet. He tricks and drowns people, then keeps their souls in teacups underwater. Vodník is also the main character in one of the ballads by Karel Jaromír Erben.

Picture shows a smooth collie sniffing a copy of the book Hekate by Nikita Gill.

Artemis and Hekate by @nikitagill.bsky.social :)

Photo shows misty forest during autumn. The forest floor is covered with fallen leaves, but there are still some leaves left on the trees as well.

#BookWormSat

"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness"
John Keats

The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Old Flanders An illustrated short story collection inspired by witch folklore from Flanders

If you would like to learn more about Flanders's witches, something witchy has appeared on Kickstarter! 🌙 Consider aiding us in spreading these tales across the four winds.
It means the whole world to us!

kck.st/492NqKt

Art by John Atkinson Grimshaw. Painting of a woman walking on a path. Bare trees, house in the distance, dark colours. Night.

'Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;
Lengthen night and shorten day;
Every leaf speaks bliss to me
Fluttering from the autumn tree.'
-Emily Brontë

Tomorrow #BookWormSat celebrates autumn! Join us! 🍂

The Czech Greens are back in the Parliament

🎉 GREEN WIN! The Czech Greens (@zeleni.cz) are back in the Parliament for the first time since 2010!

Congrats to Gabriela Svárovská & Irena Ferčíková Konec.

💚 They will fight for greener & fairer solutions for the people of Czechia & we can’t wait to see it!

They are an absolutely disgusting bunch of people.

Dragon Age and Mass Effect have never been perfect, but they have ALWAYS been at the forefront of progress of representation in video games. From queer romances, queer characters to trans identities and exploration of gender and identity. Infuriating that we have to worry about this changing.

Saudi Arabia & Other Investors Nearing $50 Billion Deal To Buy EA The massive deal might be announced officially as soon as next week according to sources with knowledge of the situation

Buyers: So your games... guns and football, yes?

EA: Mmhmm, mmhmm, mostly guns and football, yep.

Buyers: No gay stuff? No politics we're not going to like?

EA: Haha, definitely not! Hey, could you give me one sec? I just need to shut down a studio real quick.

kotaku.com/report-saudi...

An illustration of Varric Tethras from the Dragon Age game series. He is sitting at a table, writing in a book with a large quill - behind him are four large colourful stained glass windows, each one depicting characters and scenes from the four main Dragon Age games; Origins, 2, Inquisition, and The Veilguard.

a good story, you don’t really write. it was always there. you just uncover it.

#dragonage ✧ #art

Oh it’s on. <3

I'm accumulating a collection of tiny mushrooms growing on other tiny things #mushroommonday #fungifriends

A bright yellow fuzzy moth with feathered antennae, facing directly at the camera while perched on a branch

Canary-shouldered Thorn moth resting on a lichen-covered branch

Canary-shouldered Thorn moth doing an excellent impression of the autumn leaf it's resting next to on a branch, against a black background

Here's something to brighten your Monday 💛

The comical-looking Canary-shouldered Thorn has pale orange-brown wings with scalloped edges, allowing them to blend in perfectly with the autumn foliage.

📷: Kate Reece, Iain H Leach, Will Langdon
#MothMonday #MothsMatter

I kinda love Nish Kumar.

The idea that there is a PRO FASCIST RALLY happening in London right now, with lead white supremacists speaking at it, goes to show just how much these violent people have been coddled by white centrists and liberals. They were told their ideas had value and they SHOULD have platforms.

Nothing says "radical feminism" like submitting to a machine programmed by the worst men in the world to lie to you.

Fair. :)

I love Rilke.

The German original: Oft wenn ich dich in Sinnen sehe,/ verteilt sich deine Allgestalt;/ du gehst wie lauter lichter Rehe/, und ich bin dunkel/ und bin Wald.

Forest. Tall beeches. The sun shining through the foliage.

‘Often when I imagine you,
your wholeness cascades into many shapes.
You run like a herd of luminous deer,
and I am dark;
I am forest.’

📚Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Hours, Book I
📷 mine

#BookWormSat #poetry #forests

The photo shows the book Pan’s Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro and Cornelia Funke lying in the forest on a moss-covered piece of wood. The book is open at the beginning of the first chapter.

#BookWormSat

"There once was a forest in the north of Spain, so old that it could tell stories long past and forgotten by men."
Pan’s Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro and Cornelia Funke

Artwork of a dark forest. Tree roots are visible. Figures are walking in the distance between the trees.

'But those eyes are all you will be able to glimpse of the forest assasins as they cluster invisibly round your smell of meat as you go through the wood unwisely late. They will be like shadows. They will be like wraiths...'
-Angela Carter

🎨Alina Bazel
#BookWormSat