SPOOKY Chessie 🐈‍⬛ 🎃👻🪦🦇

When I was struggling through a long stretch of burnout before the pandemic, a counselor suggested trying to remember something that had made me happy in the past - a hobby, a band, whatever - and digging back into that, no matter how silly. Feels like good advice to try to return to now.

@ripperelse.bsky.social You said I get a piece of merch once I hit 500 episodes, but some of this is nightmare fuel 😆😆😆

I gave a talk recently about re-enchant as resistance. I didn't put enough mention of the cultural dislocation so many of us feel at the moment or enough mention the things that help resolve that. We are living through a period of engineered disorientation and it damn well needs opposing.

📷 Albert Lam, Disney Photoblography [Source on Parkendium]

Etiquette question You know when you’re at a pumpkin patch and you go in the corn maze and you get turned around a bit but then you find that other exit that goes into like the foggy wooded clearing with like the hut, and like that old lady comes out and says

If you see this, post a witch

We'll try & write to you from Spain with news about everyone, but if you don't hear from us it means we've died of cholera.

Important PSA from Teddy

Throwback...uh...Sunday...to the time Toes confirmed she owns all fishie toys @meldable.bsky.social

Reposting for #SpookyPoetrySunday. "Terence, this is stupid stuff," by AE Housman, 1896

Hey @gonzo.bsky.social, do you have a costume this year? Any hints?

Cutest pastry ever! Pumpkin bread filled with spiced pumpkin puree, even topped with a little chocolate stem! 🎃😍 Starbucks WISHES they spread this sort of seasonal cheer.

Grr, Tech Update Day is interfering with Sunday Reading In Bed Day. One way paper books are far superior to ebooks. Paper books are already all packed, however.

SAMHAIN At Samhain, the dead & the #fairies are one, indulging in their furious revelry #31DaysofHalloween #SpookySunday. Image: Alan Lee

Autumn Dawn at Bolton Priory. The priory was founded around 1154–1155 when a community of Augustinian canons (often called "black canons" due to their robes) relocated from nearby Embsay. The land beside the River Wharfe was gifted to them by Lady Alice de Romille of Skipton Castle.

Sunday plans

Who's makin biscuits this #Caturday?

Was browsing randomly on Doordash and basically all the local places had DD-produced AI-generated menu item descriptions. Wondering why I would want someone to make me something if they can't even tell me what it is? This is a weird, weird world we're currently inhabiting. 🤷‍♀️

Voting in my local election while literally packing to leave the state was kind of a funny experience this week. Still important, and we did it! 🗳️

Tried a pint of this from the grocery outlet (treasure trove of weird finds and/or closeout deals). Their gimmick is apparently "no added air" and I thought that meant it would just be good ice cream like B&J but no, it's a very different texture. Not bad, but not what I expected.

When the clocks fall back, night take over. Streets black with rain contrast with the toy shop glowing like memory, and cafés warm with life. A hush in the air, a stillness that will soon be threaded with the first anticipation of Christmas, the promise of happiness, hope, and light beyond the dark.

MURDER IS EASY Agatha Christie Yep, that's a stuffed cat.

Belleh

An English Bluebell a day until I run out of photos #129

We report: later on, the sky is still working to sort itself out, all its pieces scattered every which way. The storm has moved on to the east, shaking some other trees that we do not know about. Many of the leaves of the trees we do know are on the ground now.

Wolfie’s just letting his winter floof, floooof on on this #FloofyFriday #CatsOfBlueSky

Aww, who's a happy drop bear? 😻

Got a "you have a MyChart message" notification as I was heading to bed last night; terrified me that it was cancelling a badly needed appointment next week. Nope, just a reminder to get the flu shot...that I got last week. 🙄🙄🙄

Today's #Muppet GIF of the Day is...

What the World Actually Lost When the Library of Alexandria Vanished Beyond the supposed single fire that destroyed it, what did the Great Library of Alexandria contain, and how much was truly lost with its destruction? www.thecollector.com/library-alex... #AncientHistory

Give me library ghosts. Give me a chorus of discarnate tutting, reproachful coughs. Give me spirits which observe the Dewey Decimal System, returning misplaced books to their appropriate places on the shelves. Give me well-read spectres who whisper with references. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts

Welp, I'm doomed! 😹😹😹🦇🦇🦇

Miss Maxine is wondering when she’s going to get some pats (in her bowl of course) #fluffyfriday #catsofbluesky #blackcats #felinefriday

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