Writer, performer, storyteller, both bi and curious โข ISLAND OF LOVE @ Underground Venues, Buxton Fringe โข East Med to East Mids ๐จ๐พ๐ฌ๐ง (he/him)
LONGLEGS: Well filmed and well acted, gorgeous brooding atmosphere, but... Story? Characterisation? Depth? Keep "Silence of the Lambs" out of your mouths, please.
According to a Flemish folktale travellers were very wary of a road where a black cat always sat on a fence. It was said that if someone wanted to walk past the cat, the feline would say that their house would burn to the ground. People preferred a detour.
๐จJacobus van Looy
'TIS A THING!
Hard to describe how it feels to hold a copy in my hands. In very real terms, it's a book I never thought I'd get to write. Or at least to live in a world prepared to read it.
An honour. Thank you.
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Today is the 50th anniversary of the Greek nationalist coup that was one of the contributing factors to my country's division. Appropriate day to do a show about Cyprus.
I so badly want to do a storytelling show of spooky stories of pre-'60s Hollywood, but I can only find a few unremarkable "haunted hotel"-type things and true crime.
Anybody know of any resources for interesting supernatural legends of that time and place?
I so badly want to do a storytelling show of spooky stories of pre-'60s Hollywood, but I can only find a few unremarkable "haunted hotel"-type things and true crime.
Anybody know of any resources for interesting supernatural legends of that time and place?
Rewatched "Being John Malkovich" on the big screen again last night. Took me right back to 1999, when my brain chemistry was altered forever by cinema.
The Raft of the Medusa by Thรฉodore Gรฉricault (1818) depicts the wake of the wrecking of the French ship Mรฉduse, which ran aground in 1816. 147 people survived on a makeshift raft; all but 15 died before their rescue, suffering starvation, dehydration & cannibalism
#WyrdWednesday
The Funayลซrei are Japanese spirits of people who've drowned at sea and become vengeful. They'll ask for a ladel, which they'll multiply, then use to spoon water into a vessel and sink it.
This is why ladels with holes can be found in Japan.
#WyrdWednesday@wyrdwednesday.bsky.social#folklore
There is particular power in such an ideologically diverse coalition rejecting the French right because fascists should be reminded often that theyโre repugnant to a broad swath of society, not just getting outmaneuvered by the wily left
