Nadia Bailey

@nadiabailey.bsky.social

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PhD candidate and freelance writer for hire | Researching intersections between Spiritualism, queerness and the First World War www.nadiabailey.com

A recent search history showing two results: wine bar and cemetery
A screenshot of an oral translation from Japanese to English. The English translation is “I learned about meat and money”
An explosion of rose petals strewn across a tiled floor
A drawing of a lion and a dragon, about to tongue kiss (or so I choose to believe) Source: the German alchemical manuscript ‘Clavis Artis’
Key event: 33m ago Demon questioned on wedding plans
A stack of books, top to bottom: Death and the Gardener by Georgi Gospodinov, The Hounding by Xenobe Purvis, Somebody is Walking on Your Grave by Mariana Enriquez, The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones and The Japanese Art of Pickling and Fermenting by Yoko Nakazawa.
Dressed in black and white, I stand in front of a giant cherry blossom tree, petals strewn like snow at my feet
A black and white photograph of Laura Palmer. She looks serious.
Text: A small marble headstone sits in the rusty red outback dirt, a monument to two men described as “firm friends during life, now resting here”. Childhood mates who enlisted in the first world war together, Richard Slingsby and James Renshall are spending eternity side-by-side in Ivanhoe cemetery, in far western New South Wales. The diggers’ lives are memorialised in just 40 words cast in stone, their humble grave belying an epic tale of camaraderie. When Renshall was taken prisoner by the Germans in 1917 and feared dead, it was Slingsby he contacted to let him know he had survived. Upon their return to Australia, the pair worked and lived together on outback stations until they died three years apart in their mid-60s.
View of Melbourne’s city skyline at sunset
A photo of a review in the newspaper. The headline of the article reads: Bedroom band somehow delivers intimate arena show. There’s a photo of lead singer Greg Gonzalez in black and white and a review awarding the show four out of five stars.
“Rosalind’s shadow on the striped wallpaper showed the nightdress pulling tight across her breasts” Why do we need to know about her breasts??
Agent Dale Cooper speaking into his dictaphone, entering the town of Twin Peaks
A handsome black cat curled into the shape of a croissant
An oil painting of a sumptuously dressed child (possibly haunted), overlaid with shafts of sunlight
I’m dressed all in black, wearing Victorian-era boots and weird sunglasses, sitting smugly in front of the Nosferatu movie poster
A small cat, very beautiful, emerges from a triangular cat bed, one paw delicately raised
Laura Palmer in the Black Lodge, possessed
A group of teenagers circa the 1920s: smoking, hamming it up, looking like they are causing all kinds of trouble
Three different editions of Orlando by Virginia Woolf, each more beautiful than the last
A traditional corn dolly, wearing a Victorian white dress, posed in a forest setting. The corn dolly is both alluring and ominous.
A worn vintage book with the title WEBSTER’S DICTIONARY
The book “Supernatural Tales” by Vernon Lee. The front cover features a waifish green-skinned lady with the body of a snake, being regarded by two strange birds (possibly peacocks)