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Louise

@selkies.bsky.social

Illustrator & melt of Dublin, now in Brussels. Labhair Gaeilge liom, tá sé deas. selkiesstudio.com

created July 3, 2023

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Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social)

Starting to think Germany encourages this genocides in the hopes that people will forget about their ones

2/9/2025, 4:24:44 PM | 21 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

Youse aren't ready for how much re-beating of dead horses I'll be at now

2/9/2025, 4:21:58 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social)

Oh my god finally

2/9/2025, 4:20:05 PM | 11 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

It's weird to me a chara what can I say

2/9/2025, 2:54:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

YES and I realise you could argue that that's more an American dialect thing but it's a bridge too far for me

2/9/2025, 1:06:15 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh my god yes I think this is actually the worst thing. Like it's fine to misspeak but if this is a video ESSAY then the script should be checked for this shit.

2/9/2025, 1:04:39 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah I've met loads of normal sounding people who went to Mount Temple to be fair to the school

2/9/2025, 1:02:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

Why would it be one or the other

2/9/2025, 10:04:37 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

It really makes me wonder how much of studying journalism is about language use, because it's something I have clearly been taking for granted in other media produced by pros

2/9/2025, 8:14:21 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

He really is

2/9/2025, 7:31:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social)

I am a European I shouldn't know what a Cracker Barrel is in the first place and yet

1/9/2025, 11:22:14 PM | 33 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

And it's not the only one either!

1/9/2025, 11:20:57 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

The topics are interesting, the research looks good, but their ability to articulate themselves is letting them down, man. I don't want to hear "it gets to where it's really bad" or "should have went"

1/9/2025, 11:19:53 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social)

I don't know how to say this without sounding like a massive curmudgeon but a lot of these Video Essay people are really lacking what I would have thought were basic language skills

1/9/2025, 11:15:02 PM | 19 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

It's a great time isn't it, Weapons

1/9/2025, 10:39:17 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

Man all the good quilting books are American and use imperial measurements I can't live like that

1/9/2025, 8:09:50 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

Feels more like a threat tbh

1/9/2025, 6:31:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you a chroí I appreciate the sympathy

1/9/2025, 4:36:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social)

Now how the fuck did I end up with a pound sterling in my wallet

1/9/2025, 4:35:50 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social)

Thinking about getting into quilting again (this thought arrives every single autumn without fail)

1/9/2025, 2:34:23 PM | 21 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

Tbh he actually wasn't yet elderly then but still

1/9/2025, 2:18:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social)

Mad to think about but there was a time when both me and my elderly uncle were frequenting the same place, me calling it Workman's and him calling it the full The Workman's Club, on different days of the week both feeling like the target audience

1/9/2025, 2:14:32 PM | 31 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you a chara I'm being a total whinge and I appreciate the support

1/9/2025, 12:48:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

I've been sick a few days which means my back is also flaring up and my washing machine is still broken so I'm down to the uncomfortable non-everyday knickers and I'm sleeping badly because I'm sick and I missed a load of fun shit at the weekend the HORRORS

Denise Richards wearing sunglasses in bed looking like she is in the horrors
1/9/2025, 12:40:27 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social)

Girls I'm in the horrors again

1/9/2025, 12:37:52 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

Dead right a chara nor should ye

1/9/2025, 10:19:26 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

If only they'd march themselves into some type of sink hole

1/9/2025, 10:19:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

I have been having a hard time coming up with a project big enough for my MA thesis, I wonder how many people have said "fuck it, deck of cards" and got away with it

1/9/2025, 10:17:55 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

The mini zines being so small you'd nearly keep in your wallet for emergency bad moods like smelling salts

1/9/2025, 10:10:41 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Stíofán Mhac an Bhaird (Stephen Ward) (@stephencward.com) reposted

you know what I like, @littledeercomics.bsky.social 😁 Sacred bodies by Ver, and two zines by @selkies.bsky.social

cover art for sacred bodies. A woman lies curled below a creature that is covering her protectively photo of
1/9/2025, 8:25:07 AM | 6 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

YERRR grma!!

1/9/2025, 9:32:44 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

That does sound like a type of retrograde, may you triumph over it a chara 🕯️

31/8/2025, 11:47:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

I am sleeping real badly the last three nights is something in retrograde or what??

31/8/2025, 11:44:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm feeling real smug a chara

31/8/2025, 10:26:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social)

I have once again found my favourite pair of jeans for a fiver on Vinted we're up to five pairs now

31/8/2025, 9:53:49 PM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

Tbh I thought she was just real into the new silent water fountain we got her but my fella had a feeling and I'm very glad we went with it!

31/8/2025, 8:58:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 🌙Sonny Ross🌞 (@sonnyross.bsky.social) reposted

Prints in da shop raising money for a really big hammer www.sonnyross.com/shop/aisucks

An illustration featuring a nasty fucked yo hand with two many fingers with the text “I don’t use ai I’m not a fucking loser”
29/8/2025, 12:00:10 PM | 848 243 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

Our vet is after getting us in some special biscuits and some special wet food as well for her, the pee test is to make sure it's not sneakily more advanced than it seems. GRMA she appreciates the well wishes

A very handsome black cat on a green velvet pouffe
31/8/2025, 8:35:18 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social)

Skyler Gisondo is such a discordant unsatisfying name the fact he's doing well really goes to show that you don't need a stage name to make it in Hollywood

31/8/2025, 8:17:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social)

One of the prompts for the summer sessions I organised for my class because my college takes a whole MONTH off was to draw a playing card. Here's mine!

A drawing of a Queen of Diamonds playing card where the queen is wearing a wimple under her crown
31/8/2025, 7:39:18 PM | 57 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

Bullying her sister probably

31/8/2025, 7:36:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

Redken WISHES

31/8/2025, 7:25:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

Don't mind the bald patch on her elbow she was a very brave girl getting blood tests

31/8/2025, 6:47:39 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

Doesn't look a day over 6 the vet says though

A lovely black cat on a pastel rug
31/8/2025, 5:23:59 PM | 27 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

We are taking it seriously obviously she's my baby gal but she's also 14 so these might just be her Real Pissin Years

31/8/2025, 5:20:36 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social)

Cat's pissing too much so we're having to trick her into pissing on some silica gel looking beads so we can bring her piss to the vet and see what she's pissing about

31/8/2025, 5:19:50 PM | 24 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh I didn't know there was a film merci

31/8/2025, 5:18:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh yeah like the whole Meryl Streep/Future thing

31/8/2025, 1:53:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

Now that you say it I really see that

31/8/2025, 1:51:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah it actually deserves the huge amount of hype it gets

31/8/2025, 1:48:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

Is this a safe space to say that I thought Charlie was supposed to be Black or Melungeon for a few episodes and was very surprised when people weren't being racist to him

Dayton Callie dressed like it's the 1870s image
31/8/2025, 1:47:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reposted

All my clients are done for the summer or on their holidays so this is a great time to buy prints and/or commission your aul pal Louise

12/8/2025, 12:49:57 PM | 22 13 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Frances Meh (@francesmeh.reviews) reposted

thank you for your feedback 30 internet strangers i hadn't considered the less funny version of my joke

31/8/2025, 12:28:11 AM | 1891 220 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Daniel Kennedy (@fliglman.bsky.social) reposted

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as an ET

30/8/2025, 10:39:45 PM | 15 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh yeah they all fall over themselves dusting the floor with their foreheads for Baby Kirsten Bell but not fucking smile for Jewel??? Fuck this town man bring back the Sioux and give them blowtorches

30/8/2025, 9:43:53 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

"I'm a racist, but I'm not a fucking bigot" - Al Sweringen basically

30/8/2025, 9:18:24 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah I feel like I know him in real life

30/8/2025, 9:07:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

"he has to use the back door" he should use a gun

30/8/2025, 8:49:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

I'd like to see these posers run THREE successful businesses in America with not a word of English and everyone being racist to them!!!

30/8/2025, 8:48:18 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

See none of youse are REAL businesspeople because if youse were REAL businesspeople you'd have a bit of RESPECT and RECOGNITION towards my pal Mister Wu

30/8/2025, 8:46:23 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

Omg little baby Kirsten Bell

30/8/2025, 5:05:58 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

Ironing a sewing project - delightful satisfying I am fastidious and at ease. Ironing clothes I want to wear - MISERY of a Victorian flavour.

30/8/2025, 2:07:06 PM | 22 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social)

Ironing clothes to wear and ironing fabric to sew are to COMPLETELY different tasks aren't they

30/8/2025, 2:04:55 PM | 29 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social)

Trying to be the change I want to see in the world (no reposting content about America)

30/8/2025, 10:55:16 AM | 45 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

Unfortunately sounds like the behaviour of people who "just want to protect our women"

30/8/2025, 9:32:15 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

I've seen that and while it is good that's such a completely different vibe a chara

29/8/2025, 9:32:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

God they're actually very bad at singing hyms

29/8/2025, 9:16:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

You can try all youse want I will never not be on the side of the Sioux! I don't care!

29/8/2025, 7:49:48 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social)

Brussels Sketchbook Club is back on the 10th of September! We have beer and cava and a laugh (and usually at least one dog), come on down

A drawing of some crows and pansies and the text: Sketchbook club, 18-20h wednesday 10th September at the Green Door Gallery Text reads: guided session, all materials provided, beer + bubbles + snacks, all skill levels welcome, pay what you can
29/8/2025, 2:39:47 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan (@alanmaguire.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Is he… y’know… a darling of trinity college

29/8/2025, 1:56:48 PM | 11 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social)

Genuinely going to start doling out "a darling of Trinity College" as an insult now

29/8/2025, 1:37:50 PM | 24 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

A FEMINIST????

29/8/2025, 1:36:47 PM | 14 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social)

Love the way Fidel Castro loved ice cream, Jaws, and socialism. My da coded.

29/8/2025, 1:35:11 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

A home won't save you from the week folk if they're rubbed up the wrong way!!

29/8/2025, 1:32:59 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social)

Now what did I tell youse

29/8/2025, 12:25:24 PM | 106 23 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh it's a very effective domestic brainwashing campaign. Donyou remember when The Hairy Bikers with their matching Che Guevara tattoos did an incredibly happy clappy "we're all friends right?" series about the best dishes that came out of the British Empire (that starved millions)

29/8/2025, 11:13:43 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bhakthi (@bhakthi.bsky.social) reposted

I think if Britain colonised your country of origin you should get free BBC iplayer.

29/8/2025, 7:51:46 AM | 1719 321 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social)

This is what happens when I think about The English™ for too long I have my own day ruined

29/8/2025, 11:08:02 AM | 54 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

No no sure all they do is stutter and queue and eat crumpets they've never done a war crime

29/8/2025, 11:06:40 AM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

And if your country got rich off the backs of people in its colonies and their resources, the poverty that exists in those plundered countries now is ALSO your responsibility. The wars over YOUR badly drawn borders, yep you guessed it, your responsibility.

29/8/2025, 11:05:52 AM | 26 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social)

AND ANOTHER THING if your country's empire was the force that enshrined homophobia in law and set up things like the death penalty in Uganda for homosexual acts, then it is your MORAL DUTY and RESPONSIBILITY to take in those people at risk.

29/8/2025, 11:03:46 AM | 60 8 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

They're putting jellied eel brain parasites in the water in that place it's the only explanation

29/8/2025, 10:59:28 AM | 25 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social)

Rylan going on about how "this country (England) was built on legal immigration" is so crazy when actually his country got rich off selling people as slaves and colonising other countries

29/8/2025, 10:57:17 AM | 235 34 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

I would also like these people to understand that claiming asylum is perfectly legal and allowed and even if someone's application is later denied that doesn't make them a liar or retroactively make their arrival illegal or dishonest

29/8/2025, 10:49:47 AM | 29 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

And they probably would have done it illegally if they'd had to!

29/8/2025, 10:47:10 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social)

One thing I would love to impress upon people who are hung up on "illegal" immigration versus "legal" immigration is that it's all made up. It's all entirely made up those rules are not meaningful and could change tomorrow based on nothing in particular.

29/8/2025, 10:24:14 AM | 169 27 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brendel (@brendelbored.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

This website rules lol

QT Casual acephobia, sweet
28/8/2025, 3:41:16 PM | 459 23 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

I still can't believe she's not Irish with a name like that

28/8/2025, 11:55:36 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

That is so passive aggressive I saw keep it for entertainment value

28/8/2025, 11:26:07 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social)

Baga Chipz should have REALLY been called Anna Baga Chipz (as in "all that") when you think about it

27/8/2025, 11:00:52 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

The decadence of simplicity it's the perfect munch

27/8/2025, 12:18:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social)

Real fiend for the soft boiled eggs lately gals

27/8/2025, 12:11:27 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social)

Maybe I'll get into Stephen King next year

27/8/2025, 9:34:29 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richy Craven (@richycraven.bsky.social) reposted

Sometimes I don't realize how dumb these memes are until I go to alt-text them. *Deep breath* Watchmen panel where Doctor Manhattan is exploding someone. Person being exploded: Taylor and Travis getting engaged Doctor Manhatten: Someone's Da commenting
26/8/2025, 7:11:29 PM | 48 12 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mohammed In Gaza 🍉 (@xoxoey.bsky.social) reposted

💔😭 Share, quote & donate — URGENT! My little boy Jamal suffers dangerous sugar attacks without medicine, while hunger and bombing surround us. 😢 Donations are too slow… please, with mercy, help us reach $600 now to save my children from pain and hunger. 🙏🍞 gofund.me/aa80b753 @nora.zone 🙏

26/8/2025, 9:13:41 PM | 18 23 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social)

I should read Hamnet before this Jessie Buckley film comes out right

26/8/2025, 10:00:24 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

I did not paint that painting btw I do in fact hate that painting

26/8/2025, 9:37:49 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social)

Every few months I am reminded that Ohil Collins exists and I'm impressed all over again

26/8/2025, 9:37:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social)

She's so fab (we're sleeping in the spare room because the Beilgeach has the flu)

A gorgeous beautiful black clat lying on a red tartan blanket with a cursed alpine painting behind her
26/8/2025, 9:36:39 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Louise (@selkies.bsky.social) reply parent

HA

26/8/2025, 8:45:46 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view