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T Porterhawk
@tporterhawk.bsky.social
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A foul mouthed cook who also writes on the side. Nerdy interests includes fountain pens, TTRPGs, sailing, natural sciences, & rocks. Dogmom to a spoilt corgi, Asami.

Austin the lab 2010-2024 💔

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I spent the night next to the creepiest tree in a random field and my brain has been going with spooky and sad story ideas. I've outlined two short stories (unrelated to creepy tree) and come up with three ghost stories about the tree.
A blackened burnt tree with a few short twisting limbs standing alone before a Field of grass and cut corn. It still manages to look dark and foreboding despite the beautiful blue sky.
November 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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I forgot about elevation adjustments. I just wanted to make some simple chocolate cupcakes for my family as a thank you but they look like poo 😭

At least they taste good 🫠
Chocolate cupcakes. The frosting looks like the poo emoji on most of them. The foremost cupcake has a sad face in frosting.
November 2, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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This is most assuredly a scam. However, I desire to be entertained.
Screenshot of a text conversation: Sender: I am Emily from Kelly Sevies. Are you still available to work? Me: Yes but my rates have doubled, or tripled depending on the size of the carcass. - Jane Chopin, "You kill 'em we fill 'em taxidermy"
October 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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I've got an old 2 volume copy in my pile of books to sell. If you dm me a po box or something I can send it to you
A red and a white hardcover book. Both are titled 'Shōgun' by James Clavell
October 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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This is Spud, he is the quintessential dumb orange cat with a charisma score through the roof. He works* at a ski area lodge.

*No he doesn't, he just lives there. His sister Maple is the working cat. Spud is too pretty to catch mice.
An orange cat lying on his side on a wood brick before a fireplace. He's partially showing his belly but that is clearly a trap.
October 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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I'm just trying to get some writing done while my windshield is being replaced. I did not come here to be so viciously attacked
A text conversation between op and partner: Op: Free refills on black coffee Partner: Ooooo what a good way to learn the language that electricity speaks Op: wait Op: are you making fun of me Op: how dare
October 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Someone is a menace. Despite her best efforts I managed 6 pages written before talking her for a swim.
A corgi standing on top of an open binder on a picnic table in the woods. Lined paper is covered in writing and an open fountain pen. A corgi wading in the water on the bank of a reservoir. Partially submerged tree trunks are visible behind her.
October 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Went for a walk in the woods today
A closeup of a cut log, it's begun to hollow out from rot and has moss growing on the cut side. In the space a little sapling has sprouted.
October 5, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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I'm on shift at the fire station tonight and struggling to sleep for hours, but at least cutest station dog Asami isn't bothered by my tossing and turning.
A cotton laying on a bed on her side, back paws against the wall. It has the effect that if you rotate the photo she'd look as though she were standing on the wall.
October 1, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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I knew a friend wasn't feeding herself properly while moving so I went over there just to make sure she ate real food once this week. All she had were tomatoes, a single pepper, and a few basil leaves so I just brought noodles and spices. I'm still not allowed to lift, but I sure as hell can cook.
A white bowl with spaghetti noodles tossed with sauteed tomatoes, a pepper, and sliced fresh basil. A stovetop with a pit of pasta boiling and a deep skillet in which a rustic tomato sauce has been sauteed
September 10, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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I've decided bulky white yarn is almost as bad as black yarn for inability to see what the hell I'm doing. I've been struggling for hours and this is going to be a big project.
A hand holding a wooden crochet hook and a chain of white bulky yarn. It's impossible to see the individual chains. In the background is a cozy setup of a laptop, coffee, flowers, and a corgi. A hand holding a fluffy white crochet project. It's still difficult to see the stitches but some texture is visible now that it's a few rows in. A little crow stitch marker shows where the row starts. The background corgi has relocated to a chair further in the background.
September 7, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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My partner is away working on a wildfire doing night operations and sent me this stunning photo.
A nighttime photo of a fiery hillside reflected in water. It's extra stunning because it's a mostly black photo with a line of fire and glow all that's visible on the hill and a mostly clear reflection of that in the water.
September 6, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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In a dark timeline, vote for the cute fluffball okenite
A dark geode with one side cracked open to expose okenite, a white spikey mineral that forms in clusters and looks like little balls of white fur from a distance. Definitely not soft to the touch, but tempting regardless.
September 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Mother Clucker is still living her wild and free life in my yard with 2 chicks. I've got a pen set up with veggie scraps. Presumably she's cleaned it out before, but I've not been home to catch her.

Video alt text: a black chicken with two little chicks strutting around a wild overgrown yard.
August 30, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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As an added bonus, I get to do this with my favorite person.
A white man with tattoos and a mop of brown and grey curly hair smiling down from the front seat of a red brush truck. His posture is relaxed and open to the camera because that's his partner.
August 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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One of the highlights of my job is sometimes I get to huck candy at children from on top of a repurposed army truck.
Two candy bags sitting atop a brush truck that is a refitted army truck. Ahead in the distance is a tender and an ambulance. Not pictured but implied is the photographer sitting on top of the aforementioned brush truck.
August 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Yesterday I learned how to wrap rope. It was super easy but seemed daunting and I'd been putting it off. Today I think my next task is to learn to eye splice.
The end of a length of rope being held up. The very top is melted and the end is wrapped in thin white waxed thread. In the background a dog and more coiled line lay on the bench of a sailboat.
August 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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I just missed her perched on my flowerpot tree stump. And unfortunately between Friday and today so she's down to only having 2 chicks.
A wildly overgrown yard with a black chicken strutting around.
August 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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They're like weeds and I love them
A sunflower plant that more resemble a bush than a tall single flower plant we're used to seeing.
August 19, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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A sunrise, featuring my current fascination the ditch sunflower.
A sunrise streaking the sky in gold, pink, and lavender in the background. The landscape is fields of tall grass. Framing the sunrise is scraggly wild sunflower plants. A sunrise painting the sky gold, pink, and lavender over a field of golden tall grass.
August 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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I'm finally home from being a responsible adult. I had about 15 minutes left on the pie and just turned the oven off on my way out the door and it seems to not have burnt? In fact it could use like 5 minutes to finish baking and it would be perfect I think.
Two lightly golden two crust pies. Not pictured is the blueberry peach filling.
August 9, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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I don't know about elsewhere, but in the coast near us they're old support posts from the railroad and supporting docks before the railroad was moved away from the dangers of erosion.
A shoreline at low tide. In the background wood posts stick out of the rocky shore. I'm the foreground a black lab and a corgi play along the water's edge.
August 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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While I'm recovering and unable to haul on lines, we're getting some work done on Athena. Our little budget sailboat looks so small in the travel lift.
A dirty little sailboat in a travel lift. She's held up in the air by two massive straps. A little 27 foot sailboat in the water about to be picked up by the travel lift next to the dock.
August 7, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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I've now had to frog the same row twice because I set it up while high on painkillers last night.
The start of a crochet sweater. It's a variegated grey with a stripe of red.
July 31, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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I've made stuffies for most of my family's littles. They're easy to customize with the top half of any amiguri and the bottom of a lil blanket.
A red, black, and white octopus stuffie draped over a very patient black lab.
July 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM