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Awkward Ashley
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Weird womxn who writes.

What is a Maelstrom to a Mountain?
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Me and my intuition (every single past version of myself) after a suspect interaction with someone who doesn't have good intentions.

#art #writingcommunity #intuition #witchsky
Cynthia Sheppard's "Burn Out"
August 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Gosh you have such an adventure ahead of you!
Screenshot of chapter 37 of A Memory of Light.
August 6, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Me omw to go drape myself across the one who doesn't think I'm too much.
Ariana Grande as Galinda in Wicked dancing and singing "la, la, la" in an extravagant pink robe.
July 27, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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I have my favorite photo of my dad up at my new house. His friend Charlie made the frame.

I talk to him more often now than I ever have here, in the living room, about the state of the world he left behind.

#grief #mourning #cptsd #vssdaily #author #writesky
My dad
July 19, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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I have some questions.

#vssdaily #vss365 #carlsagan #synchronicity #author #eclipsephase #scifi
Cover pages for Eclipse Phase with the quote "All Inquires Carry With Them Some Element of Risk" - Carl Sagan
May 16, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Time has rounded out the sharp edges of my anger. Wisdom has a way of dulling the pain of shame with understanding and self-awareness. I am grateful my mother loves me and tried her best. I step much softer now as a result.

#vssdaily #vss365 #writingprompt #cptsd #grief
an image from 4/14/2025's postsecret.com. It is a tattered handwritten postcard that says, My mother taught me how to judge EVERYONE. I'm 31 and I haven't spent one day on this planet not feeling like everyone is judging me.
April 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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This made me think of my grandmother. It made me smile and acknowledge that not only did I come from a long line of strong women, but also, I think a great many were alcoholics. #vssdaily #writingprompt #cptsd #bpd #author
Friend: I'm worried about you Me: *dunks oreo in tequila* why
April 13, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Oh, you’re one of those.
Taking, twisting, emptying
Not from my cup, mister.

#haiku #poetsky #art #oc #writer #poet
Illustration of a teacup with a small tree growing inside of it. The branches hold the moon, a citrus wedge, a light bulb, a cookie, a nest, and a rain cloud. There is a mermaid tail hanging out of it also like a tea bag. Artist: Unknown
March 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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"Gosh, we should really consider planting garbanzo beans this season."

"I ordered an eighteen pound bag this morning."

He hears me before I even put voice to my thoughts.

#vss365 #vssdaily #author #oc
An 18 pound bag of dried Chickpeas for planting
March 14, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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I am a sewist
Adept at the unstitching
Of those binding threads

#haiku #poetsky #vssdaily #art #oc #poet #author #writesky
Two embroidered hands trying to unstitch and pull the thread of the other. Artist unknown.
March 11, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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A hard lesson
I've finally learned
A hard woman w/ a harder shell
I'll never be able to look at
Myself
If i don't try
If I let you die
The
Pain
Will end
I am not stranger to
Calculated endings.
#poetsky #poetry #poet #art #author #oc
A watercolor painted page in blues and greens with the text of the OP circled.
March 10, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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There's blood
And the lingering
rage
in me.
Strange fates.
And somehow still breathing.
My nails dig deeper at the
Sudden rage
And
Equal burst of shame.
My vengeance.
A promise.
The restraint it's taking to
Put away the pain
#poetry #poetsky #author #oc #vssdaily #vss365
A painted page with the words from the OP circled.
March 10, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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All
I can do is try to bear it
I was torn apart by
Betrayal
Mine
I
Fear another cage
I don't care to life that life again
What a strange fate
I wish
I could give my family
The best life possible
Keep us all safe
&
Sleep without nightmares
&
Live without fear
Almost
Understanding
Even ripped apart
A book page with the OP poem words circled, a drawing of a cage around it all on the page
March 10, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Digging nails into flesh,
Darkness
Death
War
And
An attack from the inside.

#poetry #poem #poetsky #oc #artsky #art
A painted page of a book in red with a black leafless tree with the words of the OP circled.
March 10, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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I find
Rage
Cold determination
Red anger
My
Bloodstained
Calm.

#poetry #poetsky #art #artsky #oc #microstory
Collage art of corn and a red painted page with the words of the OP poem.
March 10, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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I keep my secrets in a book on a shelf you'd not been able to pick from the thousand others.

We drown in silence
It feels empty
I wish I could forget
The
Emptiness
Of love.

#poetry #poetsky #ocean #vssdaily
A book with its page painted except for circled words that make the poem in the OP. The page is painted blue with clippings from a magazine of the underneath of the ocean surface.
March 10, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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#Grief is a well-trained assassin you never see coming.

I was going through my dad's records today, finding their place among my own & found this receipt from a meal he'd had.

My dad was always alone, I never knew him to be close to anyone. I am my father's daughter.

#vssdaily #cptsd #author #oc
A receipt from In and Out Burger in Santee California on November 21, 2023.
March 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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The soundtrack of this moment is obviously to the tune of the all-time classic, "Oops, I Did It Again" by Britney Spears
Painting titled, Chimera by Jacek Maleczewski Painting of a winged Femme with lion feet standing on top of a man crushed beneath them.
March 5, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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My ability to write battle scenes comes from personal experience. Generally, I mean emotional battles, but not always 👀

#vss365 #LARP #writesky #author #combat #vssdaily #photography #Dagorhir
Photo of Aisling of House Haldane with a sword and shield, attacking an opponent.
March 3, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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His temper was so scary, I lost all my opinions. I lost my ability to write, my ability to feel safe.
It wasn't only him, though. Before him there were others, like my father & my mother, like anyone I have ever loved. Sometimes the anger was loud. Sometimes it was a quiet scalpel. #cptsd #grief
Image from postsecret.com, it's post card of an abstract face that says, "His temper is so scary that I've lost all of my opinions"
February 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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A sneak peek into my preparation process for writing 👀

"A Voluptuous Smoke" (19th century) by Charles Edouard Delort

#art #vss365 #writesky #author
"A Voluptuous Smoke" (19th century) by Charles Edouard Delort A nude woman laying on her back on a pile of comfy looking blankets, with her feet up against the wall and a hooka hose wrapped around her.
February 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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#Art by Aquirax Uno
Art by Aquirax Uno, woman eating the innards of a mermaid. Idk, seemed apt since it just came across my feed.
February 20, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Relatable, D.B., very relatable.

From Weird Tales, 1930s. Signed D.B.
From Weird Tales, 1930s. Signed D.B. Text: [THE END] IMAGE: WOMAN REMOVING A MASK REVEALING A SKULL
February 19, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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C'mon, c'mon, c'mon, let's grow instead.
February 18, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Introduce yourself as a TV character
Rhoda Morgenstern
February 7, 2025 at 2:38 AM