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minT_Tea_AF
@mint-tea-af.bsky.social
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I'm 'weird'. I do art things. I hate money. Feel free to ask me for advice but don't expect it to be good. Pro-community, anti-society. Lungs full of coal dust.
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Just a lazy archive for future Minty.
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2025 is dead, and here is a haphazard collage of the 34 books I read last year; screenshot from my storygraph recap.
These book covers, by order of completion: 1. The Scarlet Throne by Amy Leow 2. Wings of Fire Escaping Peril, A Graphic Novel by Mike Holmes & Tui T. Sutherland 3. We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People by Mitch Anderson & Nemonte Nenquimo 4. Scorched Earth by Tiana Clark 5. My Mother in Havana: A Memoir of Magic & Miracle by Rebe Huntman 6. An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Civilization to Independence by Zeinab Badawi 7. White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link 8. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon 9. From Red Earth: A Rwandan Story of Healing and Forgiveness by Denise Uwimana 10. Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe 11. In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action by Vicky Osterweil 12. Fabulosa by Karen Rigby 13. We Contain Landscapes by Patrycja Humienik 14. Grey Dog by Elliott Gish 15. Driving The Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance by Alvin Hall 16. Uncultured by Daniella Mestyanek Young 17. Out There Screaming by Jordan Peele & John Joseph Adams 18. Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools by Mary Annette Pember 19. Right Story, Wrong Story: Adventures in Indigenous Thinking by Tyson Yunkaporta 20. The Polish Americans by Rachel Toor 21. Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children by Noliwe Rooks 22. The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones 23. Agent Zo: The Untold Story of Fearless WW2 Resistance Fighter Elzbieta Zawacka by Clare Mulley 24. The Sellout by Paul Beatty 25. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver 26. Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy 27. Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding 28. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy 29. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 30. I Must Belong Somewhere: Poetry and Prose by Dawn Lanuza 31. The Vortex by José Eustasio Rivera 32. Holler: A Graphic Memoir of Rural Resistance by Denali Sai Nalamalapu 33. (Here) by Richard McGuire 34. Between the World and Me byTa-Nehisi Coates
January 1, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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I've been traveling this past weekish.
June 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Repost with a favourite book from childhood

My mother told me this book was about me when I was a child and it was the first time I really felt seen.
A photo of a small greenish blue children's book titled Pierre: A Cautionary Tale in Five Chapters and a Prologue by Maurice Sendak
April 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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This read your colour test is interesting. I'm generally a nonfiction reader and they've got me down. But the fiction choices it gave me were accurate as well.
Text overlaying an image of a flower washed out in purple: You are a purple reader, the unbound innovator. Text beneath a purple cartoon of a lil bearded person reading: "SO...WHAT IS A PURPLE READER? The Purple Reader is The Unbound Innovator--a bold, unconventional thinker who thrives on experimental storytelling and genre-defying narratives. They read to challenge norms, stretch their imagination. and fuel radical creativity. After finishing a book, they want to feel intellectually awakened and creatively invigorated, as if they've glimpsed a new way of seeing the world." White text over a dark grey background: THE KIND OF BOOKS YOU READ ARE... The kind of books you read are wild. unconventional, and impossible to categorize. You're drawn to stories that break rules-narratives that twist form, blur genres, or leap through time and space without warning. Traditional plot arcs don't impress you nearly as much as originality, voice, and sheer creative risk. You love authors who challenge assumptions, upend expectations, and invite you into strange brilliant new worlds. Whether it's fiction that feels like a fever dream or nonfiction that dares to imagine entirely new futures, you crave ideas that crack open your thinking. Your bookshelf isn't safe-it's a playground for the wildly inventive and the beautifully bizarre. Black text over white background with purple highlighting the word nonfiction: "YOUR NON-FICTION PREFERENCES Avant-garde essays and unconventional memoirs. Speculative cultural criticism. Futurist manifestos and radical theory. Philosophy or psychology that explores abstract or fringe ideas. Books on creativity, innovation, and alternative ways of thinking."
April 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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•ATTENTION ARTISTS•
Show off the style of your arts 🖌

I don't normally show people my art cause I make it for me. But it seemed fun. And im impatient to get back to work on them. I started most of these last year. Nothing is finished. I'm waiting for warm weather atm since I work outside.
An unfinished acrylic painting loosely tied to a white fence. It's very confusing. There's a multifaced fiery guy, a lady with lots of hair, a wing, and a big hand holding a bubble with a bunch of smaller ladies inside. A spiky snake shaking its plant like rattle over water. A big yellow set of eyes surrounded by scaly shapes. Random tree bits. Sort of a body being impaled by branches and eaten by faces guy. The colours are bright and there's random grass everywhere that had yet to be resolved in a meaningful way. Another unfinished acrylic painting loosely tied to a white fence. There's a BIG EYE. Also, some eyelashes, a nose, and mouth that flowers are growing from. A hand is shoving itself into the mouth along with the words "asked you". The word never cuts across the nose and back into the upper right corner. There's some kind of faun bro sucking on a giant cherry stem resting on a spoon he's holding that it also part of the o in you. It's all reds and blues and yellows and is mostly patchy unresolved colour splotches surrounding these main figures cause I have decided on what to do yet. Another unfinished acrylic painting, but loosely strung up between rafters under a tree house. It's got two honks of wood shoved into it to tighten up the surface. There's a big toothy grin using only the upper teeth, all sharp and pointy across the whole piece, beneath a big earthworm lip. Theres gooey stuff on the teeth. There's eyes and a nose, superimposed over a six armed monster torso with wings. The arms are in random positions, one grabbing the lip, one holding its face, one is holding the face of a giant deer skeleton that's standing on its hind legs to the right, and one is making an okay sign but sideways so it's not quite an okay or the symbol you can punch people in the legs for. The other two aren't doing much yet. Above the monster is a wreath of corn surrounding bright pink bubbly text that says "be afraid" with hearts. It's very bright and colorful. The rest of the painting is grass, and splotches, and streaks of spray paint that aren't anything yet. Another unfinished acrylic painting, this time on a loose chunk of canvas on the ground, which was once a drop cloth. There's an unfinished naked lady on the left side with a skull face and black hair shooting up and over her head to the right. I meant to and will continue to make her oranger but she came out all yellowy and pale. I was thinking dead flesh too much. Anyway she's semi dismembered and her leg is floating next to her. Her other leg is roughed in the bottom right corner mostly off canvas. You can see her ribs peeking through. She's pretty chill and just floating there alive still and unbothered. To her left is a lil scribble of a fire breathing earwig I made in honour of a lil earwig that was scurrying across the canvas and chillin with me at one point. Behind the lady are giant finger bones covered in grass that you can't really see that I'll make more visible again at some point. On the right is a big pink head that's half blue skull with pointy teeth with electric hair over a background of blue splashes. The rest of it is grass (big shock) and flowers and unresolved splotches. And lots of unpainted canvas. It's as colorful as they usually are.
March 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Cast yourself as a villain.
Image of a cheery smiling, red-haired youth wrapped in roughly made cloak. from an anime. Its Messiah, from Shin Sekai Yori. They're a Walking Spoiler of a character so don't google them if that stuff matters to you.
March 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Post you from a different era...
A photo of a photo of me, as a youth, sitting at an ancient computer timestamped 12/31/01. I'm wearing an oversized fake silk nightgown, i have natural coloured hair, and i am trying to emote gratitude to my parents for buying me educational cd roms. My little brothers foot is also in the photo, but I cropped the rest of him out.
February 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Is this cheating?
The only parasite class is that of the wealthy who have the strength to save people, but instead oppress and do nothing. If you disagree, you obviously don't beleive in the fundamental right for every human, no matter how unproductive to you personally, to exist. If you don't beleive in that right, then you are my enemy, because I refuse to play the floor is lava with idiots who actually want the floor to be lava. You are actively hoisting your own petard, you are actively burning disabled people as a sacrifice. I'm not here to play some fucking reality tv game popularity contest where we all actually lose in the end. If you can't value yourself and the lives of every human just fucking drink poison already and save us the trouble of putting up with your endlessly cannibalistic ass.
February 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Image of satellite wafer candy with caption saying "the body christ wishes he had"
January 30, 2025 at 11:50 PM