If you’re feeling in need of joy, I honestly and earnestly recommend watching some of the @projectforawesome.bsky.social livestream this weekend. It is always such incredible joy.
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Where can you get Tudor Gothic, Women's apocalyptic writing, monster-f**king, deadly dance, folklore and landscape, doppelgangers, horror theatre, grave-diggers, horror-making on a budget, Poe and Mesmerism, Gothic tourism and more all in one place?
romancingthegothic.com/2025/01/20/g...
I wish my wavy hair would wave like yours does!
I would say that folklore is, at its core, guidelines for how to survive and how to resist. ❤️
1/🧵 National Park Service, Librarians, Cartoonists, Historians, Folklorists all unhesitatingly resisting. Sound like a weird "front line"? Here's (a taste of) why #THREAD:
NPS looks after natural & CULTURAL resources: education, support of local tribes & communities, preserving local history #resist
How I feel every time my cats don’t eat their dinner after whining for it.
Geeze, that puts things into perspective.
I love it!
THIRTEEN TWENTY-EIGHT DAY MONTHS. 364 DAYS. THE 365TH DAY IS A GLOBAL CELEBRATION. #FIXTHEMONTHS
Robert Eggers "The vampire of folklore is not a nobleman. The vampire of folklore is not a suave, dinner jacket-wearing seducer. The vampire of folklore is a corpse. An undead corpse. These early vampires are visually closer to a cinematic zombie"
As the annual celebration of Christ and capitalism smothers us in its holly jolly smog, may your grading be only mildly awful, your research be highly cromulent, and your consumption of cheese/wine/chocolate be simply extravagant! 🎄💜 #academicsky #academicchatter
Watching my boyfriend play the old Super Nintendo Donkey Kong:
“This is why so many millennials have anxiety”
Haha, yeah, I did well! I talked about Peter Pan being a fairy, and fairies being representative of fate, death, and liminal spaces.
I wrote my MA dissertation about this!
Fully-funded PhD in Folklore
As said in the next post….GO WRITE YOUR FREAKY SHIT
I don’t want to read the same story written again and again, I want to read something weird.
As you’re making new year’s resolutions be sure to also think about what you accomplished in 2024. So often we focus on what we still need or want to do and forget to reflect on the successes we’ve already had.
Write that thing. Pluck it outta your soul with rusty pliers. Hit the keyboard like it owes you money. Write whenever, wherever you can. Tell your story. Make the words dance. Whatever you want—a novel, a short story, an agent, a movie—it all starts with the writing.
The science of reading for pleasure
'it’s worth considering what might happen to us as a species if skills like reading become less prioritised. Our capacity to interpret the world around us and understand the minds of others would surely diminish' theconversation.com/people-who-a...
sea
"A ship in port is safe,
but
that's not what
ships are built for."
- Grace Hopper
b today 1906
#pioneer #change
#nature #photography
“People underestimate the Pacific” is a great line
Oh no, sorry! They’re the harpsichord, druid bard is definitely SJ Tucker and Loreena McKennitt!
This is not me, but I wish it was!
Would our DNA be close? Could you, theoretically, replace missing parts of neanderthal DNA with our DNA and make a neanderthal Jurassic Park style?
Simon and Garfunkel and Cat Stevens. 🤷♀️
In one way or another, aren’t we all?
#spotifywrapped
I’m studying trauma in fairy tales, and I’ve thought a lot about UFO stories being about othering and trauma.
