#selkies — Public Fediverse posts

There are a few concurrent festivals around the Halifax waterfront this weekend, and I was happy to watch Shannon Long working on a selkie mural as part of Halifax Mural Festival while listening to distant jazz from Halifax Jazz Festival when we visited today.

#murals #selkies #selkie #mural

I made WinBox running as a web service in an LXC.

#winbox #mikrotik #lxc #selkies

I think I’ve finished this one.
Charcoal, conte & gesso. A1 130gsm paper.

Three selkies sit on the shore in front of a washed up horned sea mine. They have shed their sealskins.

In legend, islanders whould steal the discarded sealskins and this would prevent the selkies returning to the sea. The islanders would then “marry” the selkies (sounds an awful lot like human trafficking to me, where passports are stolen, and people are sold into slavery.

#Selkies #SealPeople #ScottishLegends

My muse wouldn't let this go.

Fantasy short story: Selkies prepare to raid a German facility in Brittany during WW2.

Selkie Commandos https://aceade.net/2025/12/17/selkie-commandos/

#CelticMythology #dieselpunk #fantasy #selkies #ShortStories #wtfIsMyMuseDoing

Selkies: Open-Source Low-Latency Accelerated Linux WebRTC HTML5 Remote Desktop Streaming Platform for Self-Hosting, Containers, Kubernetes, or Cloud/HPC

selkies-project.github.io/selkies/

#selkies #opensource #webrtc

@bookstodon

“The hybridity of the Great Selkie affirms the hybridity of humankind, and of the people and animals we share the world with.”

Dr Rob Maslen from the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Fantasy & the Fantastic looks at Mollie Hunter’s supernatural adventure story set in Shetland, A STRANGER CAME ASHORE (1975)

2/5

https://thecityoflostbooks.glasgow.ac.uk/mollie-hunter-a-stranger-came-ashore-1975/

#Scottish #literature #ChildrensLiterature #kidlit #YA #fantasy #selkies #supernatural #Shetland

As well as my own creature inventions, I also do my own take on well known folkloric creatures, like the selkie. These ones are more like merfolk with their bottom halves being seal-like, rather than seals who shed their skin to walk on land. #selkies #watercolour #folklore 2/5

Hey gang, I hit 10k while I was offline over the weekend! Thank you!! Let's do an #ArtShare Rules: 💜 Repost this! 💜 Add alt text to your images (always!) 💜 INTERACT! Don't drop and go 💜 No NFT, No AI #selkies #merfolk #folklore #mermaid #selkie #fantasyart #watercolour

#watercolor #selkies #legends #art #painting

Der Film „The Outrun“ ist ein intensives und authentisches Drama einer alkoholabhängigen jungen Frau, das tief berührt. Mehr dazu in meiner heutigen Filmkritik. 🌊🌬️🌾🍃🐑

https://passion-of-arts.de/the-outrun-filmkritik/

#PassionOfArts #TheOutrun #SaiorseRonan #orkneyislands #orkney #Poesie #Symphonie #YunusRoyImer #Filmkritik #Filmkritiker #MovieReview #Kino #Cinema #Arthaus #Filmkunst #ArthausKino #Kunst #Art #Barbie #Mythologie #Selkies #selkie #alkohol #alkoholsucht #Drama #AmyLiptrot

To #storytelling ... to #stories ...

Tom Muir (who was the first to teach me about #Selkies, the #Orkney tides, Skipi Geo, and take me round the #islands) is awarded an MBE "for services to Orkney folk tales."

https://orcadian.co.uk/three-recognised-in-new-year-honours-list/

#story #tale #oral #oralTradition #Stromness #lore

The Call
Original Unseen design, hand burned onto the wood. Hand painted colours.
28cm
£80 including uk p&p
#art #folklore #selkies #seals #handmade #SmallBusiness #handmadeuk #craft #pyro #Pyrography #originalart #ocean #sea #wood #fantasy #burn #woodworking #artist

"You can always tell which visitors to the pool are selkies."

"Because they are so graceful in the water?"

"Quite the the opposite, they can't shake how they learnt to swim as pups and it doesn't quite work with a human shaped body.

Luckily they can still hold their breath for a long time."

"Ah. So over there, with the rock on their chest..?"

"No, that's one of the otter-folk, or maybe a human who wants to be one. Those /are/ hard to tell apart."

#microfiction #selkies #otters #tootfic

Ooopsies! Seems this spell worked! #Undines #MerPeople #Naiads #Selkies

All this talk of underwater deaths. Sounds like the #Undines / #Merpeople / #Naiads / #Selkies are out for revenge?
#DarkHumor #RespectMotherNature

“The hybridity of the Great Selkie affirms the hybridity of humankind, and of the people and animals we share the world with.”

Dr Rob Maslen from the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Fantasy & the Fantastic looks at Mollie Hunter’s #supernatural adventure story set in #Shetland, A STRANGER CAME ASHORE (1975)

#Scottish #literature #ChildrensLiterature #kidlit #YA #fantasy #selkies

2/4

https://thecityoflostbooks.glasgow.ac.uk/mollie-hunter-a-stranger-came-ashore-1975/

Hello, Myth Lovers! To celebrate the last #Monday in #MerMay our theme is #merfolk! Share your favourite myths about mermaids, mermen, and other mythological sea creatures! Which myths feature #merpeople in a central role? Did you create #MerMay mythological art? Use the hashtag #MythologyMonday for boosts!

🎨 https://www.pngall.com/mermaid-png-transparent-images/download/33152

#mythology #mermaids #mermen #selkies @archaeodons @mythology @folklore @TarkabarkaHolgy @juergen_hubert @curiousordinary @wihtlore @FairytalesFood @bevanthomas @FinnFolklorist @Godyssey @GaymerGeek @starrytimepod

The Call
Original Unseen design, hand burned onto the wood. Hand painted colours.
28cm
£80 including uk p&p
#art #folklore #selkies #seals #handmade #SmallBusiness #handmadeuk #craft #pyro #Pyrography #originalart #ocean #sea #wood #fantasy #burn #woodworking #artist

That’s the main burning done, painting and edge still to do and it needs a name. My hands are very sore but now I know I can (slowly) work again I am going to put this piece down and finish my private commissions. 💜 #burn #selkies #folklore #Pyro #seals

A little progress today, not as much as I would like but I’m still struggling so I’ve had to stop. I know I have a couple of people patiently waiting on commissions, I’m on it as soon as I am less wobbly! #handmade #craft #pyrography #folklore #wood #seals #selkies #artist #art #fibromyalgia #eds

It’s a small start to ease back in because I’m still in a lot of pain but it’s nice to be burning. #pyrography #burn #selkies #art #craft #Pyro #folklore #wood #Seals #water #handmade #artist #fibromyalgia #eds

Very rough design for a new Selkies burning 🦭 #art #Pyro #craft #seals #selkies #folklore #pyro #pyrography #newdesign #magic #myth #legend #sea #ocean #change

Dance of the Selkies, a piece from a few years ago. After listening to the Selkies episode of Mythical Creatures on BBC Sounds with @rhipratchett I am inspired to revisit one of my Selkie designs that didn’t make it. Watch this space. #art #craft #woodworking #pyro #Pyrography #folklore #seals #ocean #selkies

Who wants to see a beautiful 10 minute short movie featuring lots of grey seals, Welsh cliffs and no talking...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQmFAzR_Ox4

#Wales #Pembrokeshire #GreySeals #Selkie #Selkies #ShortMovies
Made this with @dana a large number of years ago...