@felicitythistle.bsky.social
Stout Auntie. Fan of words. Enjoyer of interesting images. Ageing queer. Vaguely hoping to regain hope.
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friday is for kafkaposting
October 9, 2026 at 3:27 PM
friday is for kafkaposting
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Quite tricky not simply exploding with rage at the callous cruelty & gleeful stupidity of all this *gestures at everything* isn’t it?
Difficult to keep from bursting into searing flames of apocalyptic anger & spontaneously spattering one’s atoms across the known universe like furious meat confetti
Difficult to keep from bursting into searing flames of apocalyptic anger & spontaneously spattering one’s atoms across the known universe like furious meat confetti
October 8, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Quite tricky not simply exploding with rage at the callous cruelty & gleeful stupidity of all this *gestures at everything* isn’t it?
Difficult to keep from bursting into searing flames of apocalyptic anger & spontaneously spattering one’s atoms across the known universe like furious meat confetti
Difficult to keep from bursting into searing flames of apocalyptic anger & spontaneously spattering one’s atoms across the known universe like furious meat confetti
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My new novel is out a week from today — tough timing because of the election & uh, you know, the world. With book reviews an extinct species, it's hard to get the word out. So tell your friends! Meanwhile, I've started the next one, folkish horror set in a bog at a remote Maine hunting camp. Onward!
October 6, 2026 at 4:13 PM
My new novel is out a week from today — tough timing because of the election & uh, you know, the world. With book reviews an extinct species, it's hard to get the word out. So tell your friends! Meanwhile, I've started the next one, folkish horror set in a bog at a remote Maine hunting camp. Onward!
What media scarred me as a child? Had nightmares about this Dr Who series for years...
October 6, 2026 at 2:50 AM
What media scarred me as a child? Had nightmares about this Dr Who series for years...
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When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.
October 5, 2026 at 10:32 AM
When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.
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Honestly how dare you
September 25, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Honestly how dare you
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This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it.
It was effectively banned as it never aired again.
I wonder why.
MEDIA-OPOLY
It was effectively banned as it never aired again.
I wonder why.
MEDIA-OPOLY
September 21, 2026 at 6:07 PM
This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it.
It was effectively banned as it never aired again.
I wonder why.
MEDIA-OPOLY
It was effectively banned as it never aired again.
I wonder why.
MEDIA-OPOLY
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this meeting could’ve been a psychosexual journey into the id
September 21, 2026 at 4:31 PM
this meeting could’ve been a psychosexual journey into the id
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You’re Getting In My Hair, created c.1968 by Mavis Oultram, in the art therapy studio at Netherne Hospital, Surrey, where she was compelled to live.
This is one of a small number of surviving works, which all feature the motif of eyes. No biographical information is currently known to us
This is one of a small number of surviving works, which all feature the motif of eyes. No biographical information is currently known to us
September 15, 2026 at 9:11 AM
You’re Getting In My Hair, created c.1968 by Mavis Oultram, in the art therapy studio at Netherne Hospital, Surrey, where she was compelled to live.
This is one of a small number of surviving works, which all feature the motif of eyes. No biographical information is currently known to us
This is one of a small number of surviving works, which all feature the motif of eyes. No biographical information is currently known to us
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A heady 70s selection of rotten little poppets and craft creeps from The Big Book of Dolls by Mabs Taylor
September 13, 2026 at 4:31 PM
A heady 70s selection of rotten little poppets and craft creeps from The Big Book of Dolls by Mabs Taylor
Things I was frightened of as a child:
-Nuclear war
-My house burning down
-Any monster that could turn *you* into a monster (esp. Werewolves)
-The monsters in my room that came out at night & only didn't hurt me 'cause I put a pillow over my eyes so as not to see them
-Hardboiled egg-slicers
-Nuclear war
-My house burning down
-Any monster that could turn *you* into a monster (esp. Werewolves)
-The monsters in my room that came out at night & only didn't hurt me 'cause I put a pillow over my eyes so as not to see them
-Hardboiled egg-slicers
Things I was frightened of as a child:
Nuclear War
Giant Hogweed
Pylons
Hellhounds
The Black Rabbit of Inlé
Lowry’s The Man With Red Eyes
Accidentally digging up a haunted skull
The Yorkshire TV ident
Rabies
The Castrol GTX advert
Tottie
The knight on the cover of the AA Treasures of Britain
Nuclear War
Giant Hogweed
Pylons
Hellhounds
The Black Rabbit of Inlé
Lowry’s The Man With Red Eyes
Accidentally digging up a haunted skull
The Yorkshire TV ident
Rabies
The Castrol GTX advert
Tottie
The knight on the cover of the AA Treasures of Britain
Things I was frightened of as a child:
1. Not getting to the bottom of the stairs before the loo finished flushing.
2. Falling into a thorn bush and being blinded.
3. The granny with all the pills on her dresser who made me margarine sandwiches.
4. The dark country lane where Mrs Kelly lived.
1. Not getting to the bottom of the stairs before the loo finished flushing.
2. Falling into a thorn bush and being blinded.
3. The granny with all the pills on her dresser who made me margarine sandwiches.
4. The dark country lane where Mrs Kelly lived.
September 12, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Things I was frightened of as a child:
-Nuclear war
-My house burning down
-Any monster that could turn *you* into a monster (esp. Werewolves)
-The monsters in my room that came out at night & only didn't hurt me 'cause I put a pillow over my eyes so as not to see them
-Hardboiled egg-slicers
-Nuclear war
-My house burning down
-Any monster that could turn *you* into a monster (esp. Werewolves)
-The monsters in my room that came out at night & only didn't hurt me 'cause I put a pillow over my eyes so as not to see them
-Hardboiled egg-slicers
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A perfect archive documentary to accompany these fabulous fiction recommendations
#SpinsterSeptember
youtu.be/sZbvymivTCw?...
#SpinsterSeptember
youtu.be/sZbvymivTCw?...
September 4, 2026 at 4:10 PM
A perfect archive documentary to accompany these fabulous fiction recommendations
#SpinsterSeptember
youtu.be/sZbvymivTCw?...
#SpinsterSeptember
youtu.be/sZbvymivTCw?...
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Painting created c.1950s, in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital in Surrey, by an individual who was compelled to live there, whose identity is currently unknown to us.
This image is from art therapist Edward Adamson’s lecture slides: the original is missing, presumed lost
This image is from art therapist Edward Adamson’s lecture slides: the original is missing, presumed lost
September 3, 2026 at 9:50 AM
Painting created c.1950s, in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital in Surrey, by an individual who was compelled to live there, whose identity is currently unknown to us.
This image is from art therapist Edward Adamson’s lecture slides: the original is missing, presumed lost
This image is from art therapist Edward Adamson’s lecture slides: the original is missing, presumed lost
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This is amazing!
August 28, 2026 at 4:04 AM
This is amazing!
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Prehistoric ‘shaman's puppet’ at the Moravian Museum in Brno.
August 27, 2026 at 9:18 AM
Prehistoric ‘shaman's puppet’ at the Moravian Museum in Brno.
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Farewell today to the high priestess of polka dots, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (1929-2026). Her work was unforgettable and for her, a means to survival. It’s playful, psychedelic, compulsive, beautiful and slightly unsettling all at once. Into infinity and beyond Yayoi! 🔴🟡⚫️
August 27, 2026 at 4:49 AM
Farewell today to the high priestess of polka dots, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (1929-2026). Her work was unforgettable and for her, a means to survival. It’s playful, psychedelic, compulsive, beautiful and slightly unsettling all at once. Into infinity and beyond Yayoi! 🔴🟡⚫️
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Oh for fuckssake, another icon.
Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist who became a global superstar, dies aged 97
From the 1950s to the 2020s, Kusama produced vivid paintings, sculptures and vast installations that often drew on her experience of hallucinations
www.theguardian.com
August 27, 2026 at 3:06 AM
Oh for fuckssake, another icon.
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somehow I think Dolly would join the hell in on the chorus: DON'T DREAM IT, BE IT.
my deep gratitude to both Dolly and Tim for all the lovely and terrible and brilliant places they took us, and -balls- to the stupid gracelessness of death.
my deep gratitude to both Dolly and Tim for all the lovely and terrible and brilliant places they took us, and -balls- to the stupid gracelessness of death.
August 27, 2026 at 1:36 AM
somehow I think Dolly would join the hell in on the chorus: DON'T DREAM IT, BE IT.
my deep gratitude to both Dolly and Tim for all the lovely and terrible and brilliant places they took us, and -balls- to the stupid gracelessness of death.
my deep gratitude to both Dolly and Tim for all the lovely and terrible and brilliant places they took us, and -balls- to the stupid gracelessness of death.
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Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people
August 26, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people
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The best way to honor the two who have left us recently, imo, is to keep being as gay as possible
August 26, 2026 at 5:17 PM
The best way to honor the two who have left us recently, imo, is to keep being as gay as possible
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My oil portrait of Tim Curry. Rip :(
August 26, 2026 at 3:51 PM
My oil portrait of Tim Curry. Rip :(