🎃 Horrortober Challenge + Backlogathon 2022 📚
🔮 13th October: Do you believe in Friday 13th superstitions?
I don't believe in Friday 13th superstitions, no. But for some reason the broken mirror = bad luck superstition is really strong for me 🤷🏽♀️. Someone has put a broken mirror in our apartment building's hard rubbish collection, and it's been sitting to the side for a month, and it's SO UNNERVING >.< (And I wasn't even the person who broke the mirror!!!)
As part of @pastelhorroracademia and @logarithmicpanda's reading challenges, I've started a book of short stories by Barbara Baynton. This collection depicts the harsh life and ever-present fear (of personal safety, of physical health, of your child's safety) of living as a (white) female in rural Australia at the turn of the century. As Helen Garner writes in the Introduction, Baynton's stories "are driven by a contained, contemptuous rage that no woman of spirit can fail to recognise, or to share." It's not surprising that, in 1902, Baynton had to go out to London to get her stories published. White Australians, it seems, didn't want to see the mirror of their own society - even if it was only fiction.
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[ i l l u s t r a t i o n 🫀]
The weather warmer, he is colder
Four men in uniform
To carry home my little soldier
(What could he do? Should have been a rock star)
But he didn't have the money for a guitar
(lyrics are from : Army Dreamers - Kate Bush)
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so about this post...
can you do katherine? or maybe joel?
How did you know that the brainrot that inspired the post was Katherine-centric!
So have some Katherine snippet, I'll do Joel in a seperate post and make sure to tag you.
Katherine's mother grew roses. Lady Blossom was one of the greatest contenders for Queen of the Court and was famous for her ruthlessness and her roses. And she taught Katherine everything she knew.
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AU Masterpost
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The last set of plant design concepts for 𝙈𝙚𝙚𝙩 𝙈𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙒𝙤𝙤𝙙𝙨 🍂🍃
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And if I only could,
I'd make a deal with God,
And I'd get him to swap our places,
Be running up that road,
Be running up that hill,
With no problems.
Max in “Dear Billy”
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