Monthly Link Dump: July 2026

This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology, anarchism, utopianism, the gothic, neo-fabulism, and the Weird - all discovered through my RSS feed reader (another reason why you should get a feed reader too). The Sacred Potato and the £47 Checkout Pageby Paul at The Grumpy Welshman Six potatoes. Forty-seven pounds. Ceremonial water sold separately. A brief investigation into what happens when wellness marketing gets hold of a vegetable. Bat’s Castle: Access and Useby Moreau Vazh at Taskerland Somehow, Bat’s Castle is still standing. Said to have been King Arthur’s first command, it is a Dark Age hill fort and instantly recognisable as such; the moats are still visible as are the walls and the two defensible entrances. Stood on higher and clearer ground than Black Ball Camp, it has managed to escape the weather and thus the march…