Oh well, you take the rough with the smooth!

Baking set to opera. Found this weirdly satisfying.

There is no amount of money, oil, or gold that is worth more than having bees, trees, and clean water.

A Victorian woman stretching her hand across a table and a ghost, here a person in a sheet, reaching out while looking at the viewer. The curtains around them look like hands. Unknown artist, taken from BBC Radio 4.

A central part of the Spiritualist movement was the inclusion of spirit guides, which primarily consisted of the dead or some animus attempting to impart wisdom to the living. While a medium might speak to many spirits, they had a primary guide helping navigation. #PhantomsFriday

Ground red pepper and a wooden spoon to pick it up, in a black bowl on a gray-brown wicker table

For fear of Japanese ghosts that wander the streets of Seoul from colonial occupation, semi-modern Korean folklore states women should carry ground red peppers to deter the pepper-fearing unquiet colonizers. #PhantomsFriday

Medea from Greek mythology on her phone, thinking "I'll avenge Jason's betrayal with a murderous flood of negative comments on all of his posts." with the tag "Social Medea" beneath an eyeball.

Truly devastating.

ICE is not about immigration.

ICE is about normalizing a paramilitary force on peaceful streets.

Abolish ICE.

I bring a sort of Forbidden Vibe to InternalServerError that Rate Limit Exceeded don't really like

trying to post through it rn

A tweet from Representative Thomas Massie that reads: I just viewed 2 Top Secret FISA docs. 1) FISA Court opinion that raises serious concerns about FBI implementation of FISA 702. 2) letter by Senator Wyden describing a secret government interpretation of FISA law. The Constitution requires I vote No on FISA 702 reauthorization.

I sent a classified letter to House and Senate colleagues about a secret interpretation of surveillance law that every American should be concerned about.

Representative Massie is right. The Constitution requires EVERY member to vote against a clean reauthorization.

A little like the Norns at Yggrasils roots.

Who could forget ol Mister Snakebutt

Joseph Noel Paton's depiction of Caliban on the beach, spirits flying around his head, as he stares, massive-earred, into the sky, his mouth open, head in his hand, simply thinking of the beach.

Though mooncalf is a rare insult today, it was common enough that Shakespeare called Caliban one. Its original meaning was a false pregnancy but it came to mean a monstrous birth or abortion, whether human or animal. #BookologyThursday

🖼️: J.N. Paton

An unknown artist's depiction of Humbaba, showing a bird-legged, furry torso'd, lion and bull-faced figure with a kind of baboon overture on that face, lacking skin and just showing hideous muscles in bright red beside his sharp teeth. Snakes emerge from his asshole and penis as replacements for both.

In the Great Cedar Forest of Mesopotamian myth, there lives a giant, who is a mixture of animal parts and who devours men in gory fashion. When came Gilgamesh to gather cedar planks, Humbaba had to die: and this became his undoing. #FolkloreThursday

An unknown artist's commissioned picture for the now AI-infused Dragon Distillery showing the Snallygaster as a serpentine creature with talon-like claws, tiny chicken wings, a bird-like head with one eye, and tentacles emerging from an iron beak. It looks happy to see you as it flies off with a barrel of brandy.

The Snallygaster is an American cryptid created by German immigrants in Maryland, a chimera of bird, octopi and reptile that eats chickens and children. It later spawned snollygoster, a 19th century insult for those without principle, often seeking or in power. #BookologyThursday

Artist Alan Lee's depiction of Merlin as Myrddin, a wild man in the woods. A thin man with wily balding hair and beard, he stands in a combination of ragged clothes, mostly deteriorated to his waist, and a cloak that is as much bird feather and vine as it is cloth. His arms raised, he looks like a giant shrub in this brown-green-white image.

Foundational to the creation of Merlin is Myrddin Wyllt, or Myrddin the Wild, a bard who in Welsh poetry went mad after a battle and fled to the Caledonian Forest far to the north as a wildman, contemplating his former life but gifted with prophecy. #FolkloreThursday

🖼: A. Lee

Today on #BookologyThursday 🪿

Illustration of the forest guardian Leshy. A giant-like figure with pine cones and greenery in his hair and a long beard emerges from behind the trunk of a tree.

#FolkloreThursday THIS WEEK! Join us 16th April for our Guardians of the Forest: Spirits, Deities, and Creatures of the Woods themed hosted #FolkloreThursday

Is JD Vance the Vice Anti-Christ after Trump?

The Magazine Urd, in its first issue, from Norway, showing the goddess Urd pouring water onto a rocky surface as two swans watch. It costs 1.25 krones; no idea what that translates to in today's currency.

Wyrd/Urd is the Germanic concept of a personal fate or destiny, but has had an absurd journey across linguistics, coming to mean odd, supernatural, or bizarre in the modern weird. Urd is also one of the Norns, and is the Fate That Was, goddess of the past. #WyrdWednesday

Wyrdlings,

271 years ago #OnThisDay, Dr Johnson published his famous dictionary & even if “aardvark” was left out, #BookologyThursday’s BookCat & the Mothers of #WyrdWednesday team up, take the opportunity & give you:

“Absurd Words, Nonsense Poems, and Nursery Rhymes”

as this week’s joined topic!

A beech wood, North Wales, in the springtime.
#ThickTrunkTuesday

Never stop talking about the Epstein Files.

Never stop talking about the Epstein Files.

Never stop talking about the Epstein Files.

Never stop talking about the Epstein Files.

In the Breton tale "Little Toute-Belle," a mother, jealous of her daughter's beauty, commands a servant to push the daughter down a well. Instead of drowning, the girl lands in a room with three dragons, who adopt her and keep her safe from her mother. #FairyTaleTuesday

#portfolioday I’m Megan and I do cozy and dark fantasy illustrations! I’m available for book pub as well as tabletop rpg work. Full portfolio can be found at www.thecreepingmoon.art

Wait.....what?

Yes, depending on translation.

A depiction of a unicorn from some bestiary, artist unknown. It shows a donkey-like horse with a massive horn as long as the rest of its body.

Prior to the King James Bible unicorns were not in the Bible; many cases of oxen were replaced with unicorns, in places of metaphor or simile and when describing strength or resilience. As the unicorn was part of James' standard, it was to flatter the new king. #FairytaleTuesday

Allen Michael Geneta's depiction of a fierce-looking Bakunawa, a massive dragon flying over a forest, the full blue moon behind it

At the center of many Filipino myths is the Bakunawa, a dragon-like being whose movements inspire Filipino spiritual calendars. With a single horn, it takes on different roles in different regions, causing eclipses to the Cebuano and Bicolano via eating the moon #FairytaleTuesday

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