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Chembu🌺🧶
@chembarathi.bsky.social
AuDHD, CPTSD (she/they) ~Bangalore,India ~
Maker of beautiful things 🧶
Bedbound by #MECFS and
Appreciate any kind of Support through
https://chembarathicrafts.dm2buy.com/
https://ko-fi.com/chembarathi
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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!
🧦🧶 I hardly knit stockinette only designs, but helical knitting is super addictive. Mind is blown 🤯
#knitsky
November 16, 2025 at 11:37 AM
My heart rate has not dropped below 40 for two weeks. I thought finally my heart realised that I am not a marathon runner and was a bit relieved. Today i came to my senses and undestood it is because weather is cooler. Sigh! #pwme
November 16, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Just listened to Victoria Adukwei Bulley's collection Quiet on audiobook and it is incredible (the writing and the performance).
There you are
this cold day
boiling the water on the stove pouring the herbs into the pot
hawthorn, rose;
....
holding
your heart in your hands at the table saying please, please to nobody else here in the kitchen with you.
How hard, how heavy this all is.
-Victoria Adukwei Bulley
#Poetry 💙📚👀
November 15, 2025 at 11:40 PM
How swiftly the strained honey
of afternoon light
flows into darkness

and the closed bud shrugs off
its special mystery
in order to break into blossom

as if what exists, exists
so that it can be lost
and become precious
- BY LISEL MUELLER
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀
November 16, 2025 at 9:07 AM
I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous,
or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular,
but because it never forgot what it could do. - Naomi Shihab Nye
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀
November 15, 2025 at 9:04 AM
🧶 Crocheted a scarf after a long time as per a request. Love the pure merino and the horizontal waves. #crochetsky
November 14, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Sunny Kapikad speaking at the session titled, ഗോത്രജനത തീർക്കുന്ന പുതുവഴികൾ | The New Avenues for Tribal Life. The link to the full video up on YT, is in the bio.

#wayanadliteraturefestival #WLF2024 #tribal #adivasi #kerala #malayalam #wayanad #Attappadi
November 13, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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Earth. Mist. Mountain. Forest.
Resilience. Expression. Representation.

432 speakers. One village. One massive festival—the Wayanad Literature Festival.
When the world comes to a Wayanadan village to think, listen, read, and talk.

#WayanadLiteratureFestival #WLF2024 #Kerala #LiteratureandArt
October 1, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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The full conversation between @kr.meera and @mbrajesh_official titled "സാഹിത്യത്തിന്റെ രാഷ്ട്രീയവായനകൾ" is now on
@wlfwayanad's YouTube channel. Link is in the bio.

#wayanadliteraturefestival #wlf2024 #Malayalam
November 14, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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Pulling this out because my desperation for survival extends to need for distraction (Ive been awake for going on 3 days because Im in too much pain to rest).

Help me find some relief any way youre able?
linktr.ee/wylder
November 14, 2025 at 9:18 AM
There is a window that, once opened,
can never be shut again
no matter how many good people who love you fill up the room,
try blocking it from view;
no matter how long you go without glancing in its direction-
(years, sometimes, forgetting that tempting)
- Megan Williams
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀
November 14, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Everything is still available. I know I need to post this information daily. But brain is not braining when it is required.

#bsnm #nightmarket #pwd 🧶
November 13, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Also! My book A Stage Over Ruthless Stars is available on Kobo Plus!

It’s a YA sci-fi with disabled and queer best friends that you should totally check out! 🌈📚🪐
November 13, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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I Kill Giants by Joe Kelly and Ken Niimura is powerful and deeply moving. Beneath its fantasy and defiance lies a raw, tender story about grief and courage. I found myself pausing in silence more than once. Few #graphicnovels capture pain and strength this honestly. Loved it.
💙📚 #BookSky
November 13, 2025 at 7:50 AM
The anthology of love poems I bought for a quarter is brittle, anyway, and comes apart when I read it.

One at a time, I throw pages on the fire and watch smoke make its way up and out.

I'm almost to the index when I hear a murmuring in the street. - Ron Koertge
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀
November 13, 2025 at 8:57 AM
I had to order all my supplements, eye drops, electrolytes etc all together this time and they came in a huge sack. Reminded me that I am dependent on them more than food. #pwme
November 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Bonzy buddy took unemployment hard
When grief comes to you as a purple gorilla you must count yourself lucky.

You must offer her what's left
of your dinner, the book you were trying to finish
you must put aside
and make her a place to sit at the foot of your bed,
-MATTHEW DICKMAN
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀
November 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Cc @chembarathi.bsky.social Look what sort of pricing you need to aspire to!!
THE SOCK IS TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY DOLLARS. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Phone sock! Phone sock! Phone sock! Phone sock!
November 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
When grief comes to you as a purple gorilla you must count yourself lucky.

You must offer her what's left
of your dinner, the book you were trying to finish
you must put aside
and make her a place to sit at the foot of your bed,
-MATTHEW DICKMAN
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀
November 12, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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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
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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 💙📚👀
November 11, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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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
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
🧶🧦 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.
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Been thinking a lot about expectations, perfectionism and people pleasing recently

Inspired by britchida’s work
November 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM