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AuDHD, CPTSD (she/they) ~Bangalore,India ~
Maker of beautiful things 🧶
Bedbound by #MECFS and
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Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · Nov 23
PSA for #Malayali or people from #Keralam - We have two active feeds
1. നീലാകാശം feed which picks up all the posts in Malayalam
bsky.app/profile/did:...
2. Keralam Sky for which I maintain a user list - @me if you want to be added/removed

bsky.app/profile/did:...

Both feeds are fairly active feeds!
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plainparanoid.bsky.social
Locke & Key: The Golden Age was such a treat to read. I loved diving into the Locke family’s past & seeing how the mythology of the keys began. It’s slower & more reflective than the main series, but deeply satisfying. Gorgeous art, rich storytelling.. absolutely loved it 💙📚 #BookSky #GraphicNovels
A hardcover copy of Locke & Key: The Golden Age by Joe Hill, Gabriel Rodríguez, and Jay Fotos lies on a white surface. The book cover shows illustrated characters, including a winged woman, a man in a suit and hat, a man wearing a crown, a girl handling a gramophone, a boy, a cat and a hot air balloon against a night sky and a mansion in background.
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 AM
chembarathi.bsky.social
I severed a leaf from its tree
And a water-drop in the green flagon Cupped a hunted bit of your smile. All things about me were steeped in your remembrance
And shivering as they tried to tell me of it.
- To One Dead

Maxwell Bodenheim
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀
To One Dead Maxwell Bodenheim I walked upon a hill And the wind, made solemnly drunk with your presence, Reeled against me. I stooped to question a flower, And you floated between my fingers and the petals, Tying them together. I severed a leaf from its tree And a water-drop in the green flagon Cupped a hunted bit of your smile. All things about me were steeped in your remembrance And shivering as they tried to tell me of it.
November 11, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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fallonturing.bsky.social
Reminder that if you want a custom, one-of-a-kind knitted gift for someone for the holidays, the best time to order something fro my shop and get it ON TIME is now! Knitting takes time and if people ask me in December it just won't be as feasible or even possible at all. #GiftShop #BSNM #OpenComms
fallonturing.bsky.social Fallon, never getting better @fallonturing.bsky.social · Oct 2
I'm opening up EMERGENCY COMMS! Please commission me for custom hats, scarves, gloves/mittens, or socks! I will take 3-4 of these. Note that I still probably won't be able to ship anything until after I return home in late October.

#BSNM #CommissionsOpen #OpenCommissions #Knitting #Knitsky #comms
CrippledCommie's Commissions
Commissions Open! Click to see CrippledCommie's commission menu.
ko-fi.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
chembarathi.bsky.social
🧶🧦 16 of 2025 - Raindrops on Roses by @stoneknits.bsky.social
from the Charming Colourwork Socks Book.
Second day of not touching hooks and needles because guess who overdid sock knitting? 😭
#knitsky
This is for the person who loves cotton socks, but I had the complete creative freedom.
A pair of handknitted socks in blue with pink roses motif. The heel and toe also are knitted in pink.
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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hanaayoob.co.uk
Been thinking a lot about expectations, perfectionism and people pleasing recently

Inspired by britchida’s work
Collaged image - a stack of blocks labelled ‘what I expect of myself’ next to a few blocks, one lop sided, and a heart and star labelled ‘what I can achieve’
November 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
chembarathi.bsky.social
Wave of sorrow,

Do not drown me now:

I see the island

Still ahead somehow.

I see the island

And its sands are fair:

Wave of sorrow,

Take me there. - Langston Hughes
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀
Island Langston Hughes 1901 - 1967 Wave of sorrow, Do not drown me now: I see the island Still ahead somehow. I see the island And its sands are fair: Wave of sorrow, Take me there.
November 10, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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fallonturing.bsky.social
350/1000 now with a new dono and a comm! Please keep sharing, I still need more money to survive the month. This is for the ENTIRE month!
fallonturing.bsky.social Fallon, never getting better @fallonturing.bsky.social · 12d
NOVEMBER #MUTUALAID! I had to dip into my savings to eat last month because Colorado and likely will again in a few weeks. I'm def not getting enough sales and comms so please maybe support me this way. Disabled person/couple needs money.

C: $FallonBinns
V: fallon-binns

#MAV #TransCrowdfund
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ko-fi.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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tonseus.bsky.social
IT’S HAPPENING!
If you’re in Bangalore: in.bookmyshow.com/events/to-bu...
November 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
chembarathi.bsky.social
There is a brokenness out of which comes the unbroken,
a shatteredness
out of which blooms the unshatterable.

There is a sorrow
beyond all grief which leads to joy and a fragility
out of whose depths emerges strength.
- Rashani Réa
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀
THE UNBROKEN by Rashani Réa There is a brokenness out of which comes the unbroken, a shatteredness out of which blooms the unshatterable. There is a sorrow beyond all grief which leads to joy and a fragility out of whose depths emerges strength. There is a hollow space too vast for words through which we pass with each loss, out of whose darkness we are sanctioned into being. There is a cry deeper than all sound whose serrated edges cut the heart as we break open to the place inside which is unbreakable and whole while learning to sing. HEALINGBRAVE.COM
November 9, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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plainparanoid.bsky.social
Loved Ballad for Sophie by Filipe Melo & Juan Cavia for how honest and human it felt. It’s about art, ego, guilt, and finding grace when you least expect it. The illustrations are pretty, the storytelling patient. A reminder that redemption often comes softly, not loudly. 💙📚 #BookSky #GraphicNovels
The image shows the cover of the graphic novel Ballad for Sophie by Filipe Melo and Juan Cavia. The cover features a warm yellow background with an illustration of a person in a red coat standing with arms outstretched, surrounded by swirling white shapes resembling musical notes or smoke. Above the figure, the title "Ballad for Sophie" is written in elegant serif font, framed by the curved pattern of piano keys.
November 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
chembarathi.bsky.social
The lightest touch
if it is gently giv-

en can yield as much
affection as a deep

embrace soft as a
glance swift as a

drop of rain light
as a leaf I give

you these again. - James Laughlin
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀
Lines To Be Put Into Latin - James Laughlin The lightest touch if it is gently giv- en can yield as much affection as a deep embrace soft as a glance swift as a drop of rain light as a leaf I give you these again.
November 8, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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lucidillusions.in
a new story is up on my patreon, it's available for all members (free tier as well), so its a great day to join and read this story (and a dozen more)

www.patreon.com/c/lucidillus...

(also can we help me reach 30 followers this month? currently at 21)

#WritersLife #WritingCommunity #BookSky
November 7, 2025 at 12:56 PM
chembarathi.bsky.social
Porter stopped their all India parcel service. 😭
November 7, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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adamfare1996.bsky.social
For many of us, the most we can do is shout and advocate on Social Media.

Because… well we’re actually disabled.

And it means we don’t have the time, energy, or capacity to do any more.

And for some they can’t even do this. Doesn’t mean they’re bad people.
November 7, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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openmedf.bsky.social
🌍 People worldwide used their limited energy to finish “ME/CFS is…” Their voices show the challenges, losses & urgent need for change. Thanks to matching donors, every gift to OMF is tripled up to $500K!

👉 Donate: www.omf.ngo?form=donate-....

#mecfs #pwME #mecfsresearch
November 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
chembarathi.bsky.social
Often a sweetness comes as if on loan, stays just long enough

to make sense of what it means to be alive, then returns to its dark source. As for me, I don't care

where it's been, or what bitter road it's traveled to come so far, to taste so good.
-
Stephen Dunn
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀
SWEETNESS Just when it has seemed I couldn't bear one more friend waking with a tumor, one more maniac with a perfect reason, often a sweetness has come and changed nothing in the world except the way I stumbled through it, for a while lost in the ignorance of loving someone or something, the world shrunk to mouth-size, hand-size, and never seeming small. I acknowledge there is no sweetness that doesn't leave a stain, no sweetness that's ever sufficiently sweet. Tonight a friend called to say his lover was killed in a car he was driving. His voice was low and guttural, he repeated what he needed to repeat, and I repeated the one or two words we have for such grief until we were speaking only in tones. Often a sweetness comes as if on loan, stays just long enough to make sense of what it means to be alive, then returns to its dark source. As for me, I don't care where it's been, or what bitter road it's traveled to come so far, to taste so good. Stephen Dunn Reference: New and Selected Poems 1974-1994, W.W. Norton, 1994.
November 7, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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gretaknits.bsky.social
Unions matter. Especially NOW.
sbworkersunited.org Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 5d
BREAKING: After months of stonewalling by Starbucks, unionized baristas just voted 92% to authorize a ULP strike unless Starbucks finalizes fair contracts & stops union busting.

If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.
Starbucks unionized workers say they'll strike on Nov. 13 if coffee giant doesn't finalize contract
Union members say they are ready to strike on the chain's Red Cup Day if Starbucks doesn't finalize a contract with their union by then.
www.cbsnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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chembarathi.bsky.social
Some hats and scarves are available in my Ko-Fi shop. Shipping will be done through Indian Postal Service for orders outside of India. Please help in spreading the word?

ko-fi.com/s/2c874d2fa1

#bsnm #smallbusiness 🧶 #nightmarket
Celtic Cable Scarf - Chembu's Ko-fi Shop
Celtic cables have stood the test of time and it is for those who like classy clothing! Made out of imported wool and acrylic blend. Width 7.5 inches...
ko-fi.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM
chembarathi.bsky.social
So close to the end of my childbearing life without children

- if I could remember a day when I was utterly a girl and not yet a woman-

but I don't think there was a day like that for me. - Marie Howe
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀
The Girl So close to the end of my childbearing life without children - if I could remember a day when I was utterly a girl and not yet a woman- but I don't think there was a day like that for me. When I look at the girl I was, dripping in her bathing suit, or riding her bike, pumping hard down the newly paved street, she wears a furtive look- and even if I could go back in time to her as me, the age I am now she would never come into my arms without believing that I wanted something.
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
chembarathi.bsky.social
When I die, I will see the lining of the world.
The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset.
The true meaning, ready to be decoded.
What never added up will add Up,
What was incomprehensible will be comprehended.
- And if there is no lining to the world?
- Czeslaw Milosz
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀
Meaning < When I die, I will see the lining of the world. The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset. The true meaning, ready to be decoded. What never added up will add Up, What was incomprehensible will be comprehended. - And if there is no lining to the world? If a thrush on a branch is not a sign, But just a thrush on the branch? If night and day Make no sense following each other? And on this earth there is nothing except this earth? -Even if that is so, there will remain A word wakened by lips that perish, A tireless messenger who runs and runs Through interstellar fields, through the revolving galaxies And calls out, protests, screams. Czeslaw Milosz
November 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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brainchain.ca
If you are looking for Holiday Prezzies 🎁 .. the Bluesky Night Market is a great place to start. #bsnm
straycatalyst.bsky.social StrayCatalyst @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 7d
Oh that note, there is the BlueSky Night Market, #bsnm feed where folks link their shops and goods

Anyone who sells online might want to add that and get the word out for the holidays - feed here: bsky.app/profile/did:...
coreydanks.bsky.social Corey Danks @coreydanks.bsky.social · 7d
As holiday shopping season approaches, I'd like to remind everyone to shop small/local when you can. All of the large retailers are owned by rich dickheads—who sell garbage—while your local shops and artists make a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of that but have 1000x the heart
November 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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brainchain.ca
#Craftsky … if you are prepping for a Pride Progress Flag quilt … or getting crafty stuff ready for the holidays or for Pride Month next June… you are going to want to look at this thread kit.

#PrideMonthAllYear
November 4, 2025 at 11:56 AM
chembarathi.bsky.social
Some hats and scarves are available in my Ko-Fi shop. Shipping will be done through Indian Postal Service for orders outside of India. Please help in spreading the word?

ko-fi.com/s/2c874d2fa1

#bsnm #smallbusiness 🧶 #nightmarket
Celtic Cable Scarf - Chembu's Ko-fi Shop
Celtic cables have stood the test of time and it is for those who like classy clothing! Made out of imported wool and acrylic blend. Width 7.5 inches...
ko-fi.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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mauraquint.bsky.social
It's the time of year again -- time to do your holiday shopping from independent artists. It's more important than ever to support people actually making stuff!

If you're an artist or craftsperson of any kind, please reply to this with what you make and a link to your store and I'll share it!
October 31, 2025 at 1:31 PM
chembarathi.bsky.social
I found my alt Text mandatory setting was turned off. What is this, bluesky?? 😬
November 4, 2025 at 10:10 AM