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Tom Walters
@detritivore-core.bsky.social
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Barely corporeal; poet, writer, creature 🌱💀🌻
trans/cripple/queer/fat/not fucking sorry

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Tom Walters @detritivore-core.bsky.social · Nov 14
Hi, I'm Tom!
I'm a writer and artist who can't pick a focus; I make poetry, conceptual art, work for theatre, and game narratives.

I'm interested in disability, fungus, leaf litter, and nature worship as a response to apocalypse 🌱💀
detritivore-core.bsky.social
Fantastic news!
I love writing for Zombies, Run! It's the best job I've ever had, and Naomi and Rebecca are the best people I've ever worked for.
I've never doubted that I'm valued and respected as a member of the team, and that environment of mutual respect is a great foundation for a studio.
naomialderman.bsky.social Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 5d
just incredibly thrilled to announce that after months and months of uncertainty over the future of the game, and several I have bought Zombies, Run!, the game I co-created and have been making for the past 12 years:

zombiesrungame.com

observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
I’m a novelist who’s just bought a video games company. Here’s why you should care about games writing | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:24 AM
detritivore-core.bsky.social
Listening to the new @themountaingoats.bsky.social and trying to pin down exactly why it's so meaningful to me at this moment in my life, I've realised that intentionally or not it's a disability narrative. One that fiercely asserts the value of disabled lives, even when we know they will be short.
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
detritivore-core.bsky.social
The supreme court don't get to decide who I am, actually.
The text of a poem. The open reads: I promise I am trying to want to live. when I die I will die a faggot. I'll die a tranvestite a transsexual a troon a trap I will die queer and ugly and hopelessly in love. I’ll die indifferent to your laws your papers the name on my passport I'll die surrounded by friends and I'll be the faggiest ash to ever catch on the wind. I’ll die with prayer beneath my tongue let me tell you my gods do not have lawyers they piss where they please my gods have brass knuckles and pointed teeth my gods keep deadnames curled in their fists my gods do not fear death but they wish they could live. there is a future for my people out here somewhere, full of promise and bone. I hear it rattle on the exhale. when you people meet our angels they will tell you be afraid
April 17, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Reposted by Tom Walters
shivambhatt.bsky.social
Trans friends, no amount of legal shell games and weaponized bigotry will make you anything less than perfect beings exactly as you are and wish to be.
April 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Reposted by Tom Walters
unarmedoracle.bsky.social
I’m not here to generate shareholder value. I am a sensing and thinking organ of the universe and I will speak the universe’s truth until it is time for me to be something else. A boil of burrowing insects. An apple tree. A raincloud. An altered word in the mouth of whoever comes next.
March 31, 2025 at 12:22 AM
detritivore-core.bsky.social
This news has been incredibly rough for the ZR writing team. I don't know yet where I stand, and may not for a while, but for the moment if anybody has a line on any games writing gigs, I would be eternally grateful.
runwithzrx.bsky.social ZRX @runwithzrx.bsky.social · Mar 21
An update from Six to Start.

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It is with heavy hearts that we share some changes at Six to Start. As part of a major restructure, many of our team will be leaving in April. The ZRX app will remain available and fully-functioning, and if you have a Zombies, Run! or Marvel Move subscription, you’ll continue to have access to our catalogues. Rofflenet, our fan message board, will also remain active. For now, we are pausing the release of new story episodes while we figure things out. We hope to be in a better position in the future, and we intend to be transparent with you about how that unfolds. From the very beginning, it’s been essential to us to tell stories that reflect the world around us—championing diverse voices in our writing, casting, and characters. It’s been one of the most fulfilling parts of our work, and we’re so proud of what we’ve created together. Thank you all for being with us on this journey. Your support has meant so much. We will continue to update you over the coming weeks.
March 21, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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elysewillems.bsky.social
John Cena sells every in-ring reaction like he's Scooby Doo and he just saw a ghost.
February 2, 2025 at 3:08 AM
detritivore-core.bsky.social
This was my most popular poem by far on both Instagram and twitter, so I feel like it warrants a reshare here. Solidarity and love to my trans siblings, today and every day 🏳️‍⚧️✊
The text of a poem. The poem reads: I'm asking you to please stop killing my friends every trans person in the world is beautiful today I find us in the dark leaving nightclubs and kissing the first slip of dawn. bringing vegan cakes to the community café. pay as you feel. we can afford one mastectomy between us. pass around the same ten bucks in circles a small dance of hope. I sleep safest when someone I love is awake. dig up healthcare from cracks in the pavement. remove a teaspoon of flesh once a month from now until forever maybe then our bodies could be home. take photos for posterity. record every moment of change. don't trust anyone who hasn't heard of testogel. hope I get to see your face again hope by then it belongs to you. my arms overflow with our curses. I drop them in a back alley too heavy to carry any further and I cry with the voice of a church organ sing with the voice of a church organ fill myself with promises I am wealthy with funeral ash and I say I love you and I say I'm sorry and I say nothing that you don't already know
January 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
detritivore-core.bsky.social
I've been watching Arcane on Netflix and like any poet my response to feeling things strongly is to make poetry.
I'm actually really proud of this one? But I don't quite know what to do with it. Because it's s fanfic I suppose. Are there poetry journals for fanfic?
Text of a poem. The poem reads: So you gave me a flare for the day that I needed you most and I never pulled the pin because I wanted this To be a promise you would keep. I wanted To give you that much. My last gasp of powder. I won't make you into a person who didn't show up. All those years of never asking. Held The smoke furled up in my chest; Of course I changed texture! Grew less soft and pretended I wanted my hair Round my ankles. I never cut it, you know. Couldn't bear to shed a part of me that You once touched. For so long I have stowed The idea of you in my pocket. Now come and be real with me, girl. I love you still. That's what this is. Plume of blue above the city. Exhaling at last. Oh, I swallowed the words long ago but sister, i love you i love you i love you i love you i love-
December 3, 2024 at 3:01 PM
detritivore-core.bsky.social
Text of a poem. The poem reads: Underneath it all, the love looks Like this. For all the fear and wanting I contain, the tar and the sulphur in My throat; the truth of this love is so Tender. Velvet fleshed as a raspberry, And somehow never ruptured. We are Soft as an old cotton blanket, yielding In easy content to warm bodies. Long Ago I smothered some part of myself Who is just now returning to breath. He Unravels like a cardigan that no longer Fits, remembers how it felt to spill love Across the carpet and eat blackberries Fat from the brambles, free from any Fear of the stain
November 22, 2024 at 9:53 PM
Reposted by Tom Walters
adamcsharp.bsky.social
A list of the most popular names for the daughters of drummers:

3. Anna One
2. Anna Two
1. Anna One Two Three Four
November 22, 2024 at 12:35 PM
detritivore-core.bsky.social
For the last 18 months I've been living with a chronic condition that makes me vomit every time I eat or drink. For the most part I've gotten the hang of not throwing up my meds, but every so often I still fuck up and it's a God. Damn. Nightmare.
November 19, 2024 at 1:49 AM
detritivore-core.bsky.social
Poem for a new trans man

#naturewriting #poetsofbsky #transpoetry
The text of a poem. The poem reads: The year is long, and has carried The sweet smell of grief on her breath. She has laid her tender hand On so many things you hold dear; Took two baby birds from your garden In cupped palms in spring, while you Grew out your facial hair. She was Cold, and wore the body of a slug At your door. Somehow, you Managed to keep looking out Of the window. On the precipice Of winter, two fine badgers traced Her footsteps to your lawn, fed fat On the peanuts you gave them. I hope you understand that you Have built something, here. Left a porch light on while the world Sat sickly and grey. The year is turning, Casts tomorrow in her wake. When she brings your long-tailed tits Back home, you will greet them with A different voice. One that belongs to you At last. And they will hear you, will not Hesitate to look you in the eye. They know you already, Have known you all this time.
November 16, 2024 at 11:27 AM
Reposted by Tom Walters
angelasebastiana.bsky.social
-Joy Sullivan
November 15, 2024 at 3:49 PM
detritivore-core.bsky.social
Hi, I'm Tom!
I'm a writer and artist who can't pick a focus; I make poetry, conceptual art, work for theatre, and game narratives.

I'm interested in disability, fungus, leaf litter, and nature worship as a response to apocalypse 🌱💀
November 14, 2024 at 4:09 PM