@dangillmor I noticed how several friends + notable authors launched new Substack newsletters in January 2024 - well after the moderation scandal that made headline news around the world. I was so baffled. Naturally I didn’t subscribe to them, le sigh.
On a personal note, I moved TWO Substack newsletters to #Ghost and I couldn’t be happier
The Sluagh (the "Host") of Irish and Scottish folklore are sometimes depicted as ghosts, sometimes as fairies. They fly through the sky like a flock of birds, and carry off anyone they find. Some humans are left on a remote island, others are never seen again.
Exorcists have a bad habit of dumping malevolent spirits at the nearest convenient hill, swamp, or forest - without considering that other people might want to use those places, too.
In the deep winter, and the dead of the night, the ghosts hold their own masses. And the unfortunate among the living can stumble into them, if they go to church at the wrong time...
Personally, I think taking away a stretch of land from a noble's estate and adding it to the land of the community should not be considered "theft" but an act of class justice.
A ghostly rider roams a beech forest at Klosterlausnitz at night. In life, he was a rich huntsman who thought himself untouchable, but in death, God's judgment fell upon him.