A(manda) 🐝
@amandatorium.bsky.social
Writer, Dreamer, Reader, and Sleeper; Perpetual SadGirl™; Trying my fucking best; RA & Vestibular Migraine; Intersectional Feminism;🖖🏻; Le$bean🌈; She/Her 30ish
Reposted by A(manda) 🐝
"You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on."
Mary Oliver, Wild Geese
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on."
Mary Oliver, Wild Geese
December 6, 2025 at 2:52 AM
"You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on."
Mary Oliver, Wild Geese
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on."
Mary Oliver, Wild Geese
Reposted by A(manda) 🐝
🎶hold me closer, tiny dancer,
hold me closer, tiny dasher,
hold me closer, tiny prancer,
hold me closer, tiny vixen,
hold me closer, tiny comet,
hold me closer, tiny cupid,
hold me closer, tiny donner,
hold me closer, tiny blitzen
hold me closer, tiny dasher,
hold me closer, tiny prancer,
hold me closer, tiny vixen,
hold me closer, tiny comet,
hold me closer, tiny cupid,
hold me closer, tiny donner,
hold me closer, tiny blitzen
December 2, 2025 at 9:54 PM
🎶hold me closer, tiny dancer,
hold me closer, tiny dasher,
hold me closer, tiny prancer,
hold me closer, tiny vixen,
hold me closer, tiny comet,
hold me closer, tiny cupid,
hold me closer, tiny donner,
hold me closer, tiny blitzen
hold me closer, tiny dasher,
hold me closer, tiny prancer,
hold me closer, tiny vixen,
hold me closer, tiny comet,
hold me closer, tiny cupid,
hold me closer, tiny donner,
hold me closer, tiny blitzen
Reposted by A(manda) 🐝
Abolitionist John Brown was executed by the state of Virginia on December 2, 1859.
December 2, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Abolitionist John Brown was executed by the state of Virginia on December 2, 1859.
Reposted by A(manda) 🐝
There's a couple reasons so many IWW songs are set to the tunes of hymns and one is that the Salvation Army Band would show up and try to stop workers organizing by playing hymns to drown out speeches, so the Wobblies came up with words so they could sing along. SA has been trash all along.
It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
December 3, 2025 at 2:09 AM
There's a couple reasons so many IWW songs are set to the tunes of hymns and one is that the Salvation Army Band would show up and try to stop workers organizing by playing hymns to drown out speeches, so the Wobblies came up with words so they could sing along. SA has been trash all along.
Reposted by A(manda) 🐝
Pardon???
Still think some weeks about how Shirley Jackson's bone ash was being gifted to select writers at a convention back in the day.
December 2, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Pardon???
Reposted by A(manda) 🐝
I've always looked at longterm committed relationships between two writers as interesting and fun and quite romantic. Until recently, I had genuinely never considered the scenario in which it's possible for two bad writers to be in such a relationship. Now, I shudder.
December 3, 2025 at 4:14 AM
I've always looked at longterm committed relationships between two writers as interesting and fun and quite romantic. Until recently, I had genuinely never considered the scenario in which it's possible for two bad writers to be in such a relationship. Now, I shudder.
Reposted by A(manda) 🐝
The headline I feel like is that all the philanthropic donations from billionaires typically have a shitload of restrictions.
Mackenzie is like “you’re doing work to stop something horrible or to help something good? Cool. Here’s a few hundred million.” and the paper is like “wow… so novel”
Mackenzie is like “you’re doing work to stop something horrible or to help something good? Cool. Here’s a few hundred million.” and the paper is like “wow… so novel”
Mackenzie Scott’s signature philanthropic style is giving unrestricted gifts—a rarity in the industry. trib.al/DjrurgM
MacKenzie Scott's $19 billion donations have turned philanthropy on its head—why her style of giving actually works | Fortune
The billionaire philanthropist’s giving style is a rarity in the industry.
trib.al
December 3, 2025 at 1:32 AM
The headline I feel like is that all the philanthropic donations from billionaires typically have a shitload of restrictions.
Mackenzie is like “you’re doing work to stop something horrible or to help something good? Cool. Here’s a few hundred million.” and the paper is like “wow… so novel”
Mackenzie is like “you’re doing work to stop something horrible or to help something good? Cool. Here’s a few hundred million.” and the paper is like “wow… so novel”
Therapist has unintentionally diagnosed me with a touch of tism and I have messy messy feelings about it.
October 15, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Therapist has unintentionally diagnosed me with a touch of tism and I have messy messy feelings about it.
Reposted by A(manda) 🐝
personally i think shouting into the void is probably a frightening experience for the void. maybe that’s why the void won’t answer back and you’re all alone? just a thought
October 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
personally i think shouting into the void is probably a frightening experience for the void. maybe that’s why the void won’t answer back and you’re all alone? just a thought
Reposted by A(manda) 🐝
What if I started reposting the ol’ Iowa City Police Log strips here since right now they’re basically forgotten comic strips tacked to the wall of a nazi bar
July 18, 2025 at 10:37 PM
What if I started reposting the ol’ Iowa City Police Log strips here since right now they’re basically forgotten comic strips tacked to the wall of a nazi bar
Reposted by A(manda) 🐝
Crazy but true: This is a real image captured by the Cassini spacecraft.
Dione in front of Saturn, captured by Cassini 20 years ago today on October 11, 2005 🌖🪐
October 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Crazy but true: This is a real image captured by the Cassini spacecraft.
Reposted by A(manda) 🐝
Reposted by A(manda) 🐝
October 12, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Reposted by A(manda) 🐝
You can, in fact, just do stuff. No permission needed. Have an idea? Execute it.
October 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
You can, in fact, just do stuff. No permission needed. Have an idea? Execute it.
Reposted by A(manda) 🐝
If there's someone who brings you joy, who brings light into your life, never let them go. If only in memories, let their love surround you.
May 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
If there's someone who brings you joy, who brings light into your life, never let them go. If only in memories, let their love surround you.
Reposted by A(manda) 🐝
How many animals did we try to ride before we all decided on horses?
September 27, 2025 at 10:24 PM
How many animals did we try to ride before we all decided on horses?
Reposted by A(manda) 🐝
as someone who is a hater, i accept and welcome the fact that i have haters. what is good for the goose, etc. in fact, i think people in this business should be more open about their hating. if we think our words matter, then we should feel some kind of way about people who do bad work.
I have accepted that I have haters, including people annoyed by the water drinking reminders, and I don't have the time or energy to care about them anymore.
this is something you just have to live with if you are even barely well-known online; people make up elaborate stories about you in their heads. it will always happen and you cannot give a shit about it, only stomp on it if they try to spread these weird tales to anybody you actually know.
September 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
as someone who is a hater, i accept and welcome the fact that i have haters. what is good for the goose, etc. in fact, i think people in this business should be more open about their hating. if we think our words matter, then we should feel some kind of way about people who do bad work.
Reposted by A(manda) 🐝
Them: Why ate you hunched over like that
Me: I’m carrying a lot of chalants and fucks right now
Me: I’m carrying a lot of chalants and fucks right now
September 17, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Them: Why ate you hunched over like that
Me: I’m carrying a lot of chalants and fucks right now
Me: I’m carrying a lot of chalants and fucks right now
Reposted by A(manda) 🐝
I really do feel for Lot’s Wife. Homegirl was gooped and gagged! I, too, would turn around to be like “what the fuck just happened?????” then BOOM, you’re a salt shaker.
The men of Sodom and Gomorrah at Lot’s door like “we saw some dudes come to your house give us that bussy”
September 19, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I really do feel for Lot’s Wife. Homegirl was gooped and gagged! I, too, would turn around to be like “what the fuck just happened?????” then BOOM, you’re a salt shaker.
Reposted by A(manda) 🐝
stay 𝚐̶𝚘̶𝚕̶𝚍̶ pink, pony𝚋̶𝚘̶𝚢̶ club
September 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
stay 𝚐̶𝚘̶𝚕̶𝚍̶ pink, pony𝚋̶𝚘̶𝚢̶ club
Reposted by A(manda) 🐝
have a little societal collapse as a treat
September 16, 2025 at 5:08 AM
have a little societal collapse as a treat
Reposted by A(manda) 🐝
that riff should have been a raff
September 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM
that riff should have been a raff
Reposted by A(manda) 🐝
absolutely no one, the poster's motto is you post for YOURSELF
Whose your target audience when you Skeet?
September 1, 2025 at 3:18 AM
absolutely no one, the poster's motto is you post for YOURSELF