Good morning, wyrdlings - it's Earth Day!
We're celebrating our odd little corner of the universe for today's #WyrdWednesday with our theme:
“Wyrdly Beautiful Places, Wyndrous Creatures, and Wynderful Plants!"
@cwreeve.bsky.social here. SHOW ME YOUR WYRD!! 🌏🌍🌎
Ooh, this looks good!
With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.
We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.
Please stand by for more.
Wyrdlings!
#EarthDay falls on a #WyrdWednesday this year and we celebrate the planet with:
“Wyrdly Beautiful Places, Wyndrous Creatures and Wynderful Plants!"
as this week’s topic!
Come, share your tales and celebrate with us 🌍🌏🌎
At least 30 minutes of every day should be government-mandated floor time, where we all get to lay down for half an hour and just empty our heads out.
Holy. Shit. This is Reid Wiseman's video he took with his iPhone while at the moon 🌙
How vague - I approve. Happy hurtling!
Do you dig our online vibe of weird micros and strange drabbles? Then you should check out longer works in our Rat Bag Lit Digital (or print) Issue #1 available for purchase! Read about it on our Substack.
Where's the exit?
Glitched
"Replace the Navidson Record and drop the spatial anomalies: how to fix House of Leaves."
Anonymous cartoon from 1895 satirizing the whinging of the upper classes over their claims of impoverishment. The ghostly figure is presumably the spectre of hardship they imagine looming over them - but he's clearly making fun of them.
#PhantomsFriday #satire #posterart #Victorian
CROSSROADS is out next week!
Our new edition of @laurelhightower.bsky.social's award-winning novella features an updated, revised text, and completely new cover art by @alandistro.bsky.social with spot-glossed title and blood!
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Crossr...
"Replace the Navidson Record and drop the spatial anomalies: how to fix House of Leaves."
This is a great story! I'm glad it's found a new home 👻
Horror, scifi, fantasy, and weird fiction.
If it's strange, dark, or just off the beaten path of "reality," we want to read it.
Submissions for out Summer '26 issue are open until May 31st.
See guidelines at the link below ⤵️
#horror #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #weirdfiction
Black and white photo of a shorthaired tabby kitten appearing to burst through a sheet of white paper in a dark frame. Text at the bottom reads “sauve qui peut”.
“Sauve qui peut”. This is a French phrase that translates literally to something like "save yourself who's able/can" and roughly equates to “run for your life!” or “every man for himself!”, indicating a chaotic or dangerous situation/stampede. Postcard from my collection, no date/info.
A spectral woman in white plays a piano in a parlour, while a shocked man looks on.
Spirit at the Piano, by George Roux circa 1885.
#PhantomsFriday
What's your favourite bible verse? (Wrong answers only)
Katsukawa Shunsho: 'A Man Falling Over Backwards, Startled By A Woman's Ghost', 1782.
#PhantomsFriday #Japan #JapaneseArt #artsky
A spectral woman in white plays a piano in a parlour, while a shocked man looks on.
Spirit at the Piano, by George Roux circa 1885.
#PhantomsFriday
#Gothic poet James 'BV' Thomson's father was a minister. One night he was called to perform an exorcism, during which he was hit on the head by 'a ball of fire'. He collapsed, said something about 'diabolic agency' and then died. Explains a lot about his son's dark, gloomy #poetry.
#PhantomsFriday
I'm corporeal again after BlueSky's server being offline all day, so here's Hamlet's Father's Ghost (again) to encourage another brilliant day of #ghost-related posts tomorrow: #folklore, literature, poetry, art, history, haunted sites, popular culture etc etc.
#PhantomsFriday #ghosts #hauntings
n case you failed to appease Askafroa, the ash wife, on Ash Wednesday with a sacrifice, at least do not break branches from the ash tree or grave illness will follow.
🎨 Johan Egerkrans
#FolkloreThursday
The European Commission is proposing to weaken pesticide rules. Weaker pesticide regulations put our future at risk. Instead, we need real protection of health, water & environment. This is your chance to speak up. Write your message to decision-makers here www.environmentalpillar.ie/for-health-b...
Janky. Janky janky janky. Thanks AI!
Reposting because I forgot to tag #BookologyThursday, like a plum!
Day 2 of our #WyrdWednesday / #BookologyThursday crossover!
The theme - “Absurd Words, Nonsense Poems, and Nursery Rhymes!”
And remember, at no point in the rhyme does it say that Humpty Dumpty was an egg...
🎨 by Blanche Fisher Wright
