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Birdie, Blanket-Burrito
@srslymagenta.bsky.social
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Ridiculous feminist bluestocking crafter. BLM, ACAB, LGBTQIA+ fren. That ♿ chick. Nerd. Early 50's (I guess!), cishet single in SC. Dev Editor for manuscripts/dissertations. Mouth w/ no 🛑. AuDHD and PDA friendly. barrowediting@gmail.com for 📔 queries
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#poetry time? Good morning!
When it happened and I didn't die, at least not, with any permanence, I faced my own confused future with a grin, each year becoming a trophy to set upon shelving and dust, it being award for exceeding expectations- that thing at nineteen I thought perhaps could not, at twenty five considered impossible, at thirty two knew would be cut short. It is an odd thing, to trespass upon your own grave, sit down within it, kick your legs at the edge, measure a bit- have I grown since last Death and I had our ongoing danced coy flirtation? We lie down together, we two, caress each other's limbs, become acquainted with one another's sallow cheekbones. We are friends, beloved, and yet I refuse their advances, daily, prolong the anticipation of our eternity embrace. I have so many words piled upon one another, plied upon digital notebooks, struggling to be birthed into a world of lies and trauma, each poem a gift of relentless doomed optimism, that they alone can tightrope the chasm between myself and my future captor. May 7, 2021 Heather Harris-Bergevin
November 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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This is 100% Trixie 's most Wonderful Time of the Year. ❄️❄️❄️⛄⛄❄️❄️❄️
A Walmart box, which held a wreath, but which now holds a grey diffuse tortie cat. She's an adult, but is petite, with short hair and a long whip of a tail. She is scratching the box, and her tail is excitedly held aloft like a flag. The box is half in a Sunbeam, making it the Best Box Ever.
November 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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I'm going to rainbow the bow
The whole disco bat wreath from Walmart
November 9, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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It gets better!
But wait! The disco ball wreath has...bats? Sparkly disco bats. Might have to make a polymer clay snail to go with the wreath.
November 9, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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You want to see my Christmas wreath?
The edge of a very glittery wreath made of ornaments that look like disco balls and tinsel, both in silver
November 9, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Me: young sir. Whose bed is that?

Andre, who knows full well:
Portrait in semi-darkness of a toasty brown pitbull who is keeping Middle kid's bed warm for him while he's at work. Such kindness. The dog's ears are to the side, because he knows he's not technically supposed to be up there, but also there is a perfectly nice fleece blanket.
November 9, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Describe your cat's personality in only one photo:
Bean, vibrating at the speed of sound, has eaten my cottage cheese remains and now demands more.
November 9, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Not stew but stew adjacent
A bowl of a stew like soup which includes tiny potatoes (red, yellow, and purple), hamburger, carrot slices, cannelloni beans, stewed tomatoes and a bunch of stew spices (including rosemary). I topped mine with a small amount of butter and it's rather good
November 9, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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Me: leaves house at 10 to pick up kid

Me: returns 45m later to some sort of potato massacre in the kitchen?
Nothing to see here, only a bag of baby potatoes strewn across the floor of my dark kitchen. ???!
November 7, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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May your day be as good as the one Andre is having.
A brown Staffordshire bully with big pointy ears sits in the grass and closes his eyes. He looks happy to face the sunshine. Behind him is a large amount of pine straw all over the street.
November 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Hahahahahahahaha, too late, mama:
Picture of Walmart bags on Birdie's front porch. In the to of the Walmart bags, there's a lovely loaf of artisan bread. Someone (Bean) had bitten through the plastic bread wrapper and begun to chomp the actual bread loaf, because Bean's nickname isn't Gluten Cat for no reason. She's lucky I really love her. 🤬🤬🤬🥰🥰🥰🤬🤬🤬 Because she's a hilarious jerk. Is she punishing me for not opening the door fast enough? Is this a leftover habit from her babyhood when she could find no other food and was found eating a roll while trapped under a high school air conditioning unit? Nobody knows. We just know not to leave any bread unattended or Bean WILL TEACH IT A LESSON and bunny kick her prey before bites.
November 3, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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My niece's reply when I told them I was sending smol packages.

My goals in life are complete
Reply in all caps which reads, "YESssss, I love my weird hermit greenwitch aunt
November 2, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Y'all.
I think...
I think she's plotting something.

#Halloween #catsofbluesky
A yellow cat sitting at a kitchen table with a very knarly, rusty kitchen knife Same cat, same knife, but the cat has slightly narrowed her eyes. She is plotting murder. If I never see you again, remember I love you.
October 31, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Ngl, the only thing wrong with my ~slight~ tamarind obsession is that they aren't cheap enough, but y'all, don't buy these, ok? Because they're only for me. I know you understand. No backsides. Mine.

(Hiding them from children)

Update, five minutes later:

(Hiding from self, omg these are nom)
Nutty Fruity brand Tamarind Chili bites, which are the exact right blend of spicy to sweet tamarind and so good. Birdie is teasing and saying you should never buy them and leave them all for her, but she's kidding. You should buy them. They're really delicious.
October 31, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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My sister and her BFF before going into their elementary school this morning, lol:
Two adorable teachers in the US making the hand motion associated with saying 6-7. One wears a black shirt with a large letter 6, the other with a large letter 7. They are both grinning and look like fun teachers to have, which they are.
October 31, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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The poem from the book, Hydrangeas and Corey, who is a friend who grew up in the Crick portion of the polygamist morning fundamentalist sects, under Warren Jeffs:

(Poem from "Lawless Women," BCC Press)
October 30, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Best part of my day:

#LawlessWomen #poetry #PoetryofBluesky
West: Mom, what is poetry? Me: Brief, 7 y.o. explanation. West: Do we have the poetry? Yes we do, baby boy. We had a poetry reading on the couch, just the two of us. W: I don't know what some of that means, but I like hydrangeas. They're beautiful. Me: I know. It takes time and experience to figure out how a poem works sometimes. The part he got: Hydrangeas go dormant but don't die and come back blooming--bright, colorful, bigger.
October 30, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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I know it's on known hate symbol registries. Which is hard, because there's been a hipster undercut for a while. It's kind of like, "are they queer or just like an undercut" for women, but moreso. Deeply connected to Nazi roots:
From Google AI, saying a short haircut with shaved sides and longer on top is the historical Nazi Youth haircut, which is now being used "on trend" with leaders in the US in 2025
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Xennials unite?
A meme that says "laughs in Xennial," followed by a picture with the caption, "I've done it! I've finally done it! I've created a meme scientifically designed to ensure that no single generation will get the entire joke!" Followed by a photo of Six from the show Blossom and Seven of Nine from DS9
October 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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My offering, as I giggle:
Nerdjpg's post that says "Can everyone get cool with communism really quickly" when I logged in had 666 likes 😂😂🤭🤭
October 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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I needed this today. A treasure sent me presents. I've already given part of my soul to the journal because just LOOK AT IT, oh my word. Leather bound and thiccc and aaaaaaaaaah! And pomegranates from her own yard! Bonus selenite and mystery stone and a necklace and I desperately needed this ❤️❤️❤️
A bowl of amazingly gorgeous pomegranates with a selenite heart on top. Very Persephone core. My favorite. A gorgeous leather bound journal by Impresso Imports LLC on Etsy, with a leather cover and botanical prints.
October 28, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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If you're taking a kid to the doctor during a rainstorm and hiding in the car while coaching them on how to advocate for themselves, this is what it looks like.
Chubby, tired looking Birdie with messy hair and a dragoncon lanyard around her neck, wearing an olive green sweatshirt dress that's completely unflattering and very comfortable, and bright green cat eye glasses, sitting in her car in the rain.
October 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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I also did this because what could represent the Goose better? Nothing:
The same wallpaper of grey background, with the goose from the Untitled Goose Game carrying a knife, and the words, "You do not have to be good..." from Mary Oliver's poem, Wild Geese, except in Comic Sans font.
October 27, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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I made one for you, hold on, little moth:
October 27, 2025 at 1:42 AM