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A. A. Vacharat
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🐌 Autistic Author. Artist. Opinion-haver.
🐌 THIS MOTH SAW BRIGHTNESS - a weird novel - May 2025, Dutton / Penguin
🐌 I also paint fountain pens
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The article was as bad as the headline.
Screenshot of paragraph from article from NYtimes. “As the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the Internet and the #MeTooMovement.”
November 16, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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It’s a good day for a game of cards. #nokings
October 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Cover (up) everything in gold!
Drawing of a sheep painting the Oval Office gold to cover up the words EPSTEIN and falling Epstein files
September 29, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Hi #kidlitartpostcard ! A little cat art for today. I think it captures the current emotional moment 🙃

I’m Amanda. I especially love making illustrations in greyscale, with pen and ink.

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Greyscale illustration of a white fluffy cat atop a fireplace mantel, which is decorated for Christmas. The cat is looking at the viewer while tumping a lit candle over the edge of the mantle, onto a pile of kindling and firewood. The illustration is done with pen and ink line work. The values are flat washes of grey scale.
September 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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But the gold is so useful tho.
A simple line drawing. A cute sheep is rolling gold paint onto the Oval Office wall. The paint is poorly coming up graffiti that says “EPSTEIN”. Behind picture frames, file folders and papers have been poorly hidden. The paint can says 24 k Gold *color.
August 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Google’s AI summary continues to be wonderfully helpful. I had totally forgotten about all the why-did-the -book-cross-the-road jokes of my childhood.
A screenshot of the search results. The Search term was “before and after book joke,”the result says AI overview: a “ before, and after” book joke, often plays on the concept of dramatic, transformation or unexpected change. Here is a common example: joke: why did the before and after book cross the road? Punchline: to get to the other side! Explanation: the joke relies on the idea that a “ before, and after” book would have a clear contrast between its original state and its final state. The punchline uses that contrast suggest the book is actively changing It’s position, crossing The road to reach a new state or side.
May 16, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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I painted an amethyst dragon on a pocket pen. #fountainpens #acrylicpainting
Handpainted purple dragon with pink flowers and green leaves on an iridescent Kaweco Sport fountain pen. Around the pen are white cherry blossoms and bright pink puffy flowers.
May 13, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Lazy dogs can jump if they want to! 🐶🦊

No need to live by the expectations others have set for you. 🩵

#kidlitartpostcard
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At @thetobiasagency.bsky.social
A kid lit illustration, with textured pencil and expressive brush strokes, in teals and greens with pops of warm browns, reds, and yellows. A St. Bernard dog on a motorbike, with drool spewing from their mouth, is soaring off of a roof top above a jogging fox in the street below. The dog is wearing a leather vest that says “Indiana Bones” and a helmet with a sticker that says “Lazy 4 Life,” as well as driving goggles. The city street seems European, quaint, with loosely rendered fruit stalls and arched windows with pigeons, ivy crawling on window shutters and through window boxes, and various animals loitering. On a bench, a bear is enjoying a bag of peanuts while a pigeon looks on. A mother cat is gesturing, explaining something, to her kitten. Another animal is consulting a paper map. Others are shopping at the stalls. In the shadows, a horse and a rabbit are conversing.
May 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Happy Independent Bookstore Day and all the treats that come with it. #dogs
Excited Dog sitting in a bookstore next to an i ❤️my indie bookstore sticker. The same excited dog, but now her tongue is stuck out and curled up onto her nose. She is clearly waiting for a snack.
April 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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I paint on pens with tiny brushes. Here are two closeups of current projects to show texture, which is my favorite part. #fountainpens #acrylicpainting #art
Closeup of a fountain pen barrel that has been painted in oranges and greys and has fine hair-like line work as well as looser layers of paint with texture Close up of a fountain pen barrel that has been painted in grey tones. The side lighting makes it easy to see the textures of the paint, which have been used to create a sculptural element to what appears to be a loose interpretation of a flower
April 15, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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“Autism Awareness Month” vs “Acceptance Month.”

Awareness is knowing I’m here. Acceptance is being happy to see me. 🩵💜💚

#autismacceptancemonth #actuallyautistic
April 9, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Trump Sandwich spotted in Asheville
A woman holding a sign at a rally. The sign is shaped like a slice of bread. It says Trump sandwich: – white bread – full of baloney – with Russian dressing – small pickle on the side!
April 6, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Asheville NC says #handsoff. Thousands of dedicated people, and also many passionate dogs. #50501 #april5
Thousands of people gathered for a rally for hands-off in Asheville, North Carolina Thousands of people gathered for a rally in Asheville, North Carolina to say hands off our government A woman holding a sign at a rally the sign says Trump sandwich, white bread, full of bologna with Russian dressing, small pickle on the side. The sign is shaped like a piece of bread in the background. Someone else is holding a sign that says lies lies lies. A passionate black dog in a stroller at a rally holding up a sign.
April 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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A bad storm is brewing. Better get your boots on. ☔️

It’s #kidlitartpostcard day. 🙂

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An illustration in muted colors (warm browns, teal greens, pinks) with watercolor and pencil-style fine linework. On a beach, a large-eyed brown mouse looks up at the sky while putting on teal (with pink flowers) rain boots. Raindrops have begun to fall and a dark cloud is spreading over the light blue sky. The mouse leans against a stump. On a low branch dangles the mouse’s snorkel mask. In the background, the ocean is still calm, but the mouse is going to have to scurry quickly to get home before the storm.
April 3, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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A tiny marigold painting on a fountain pen ink converter.

The painting surface is about the size of a US quarter.

Happy April 🌻

#acrylicart #tinypainting #fountainpens #art
Close up of a fountain pen ink converter that has been handpainted with orange marigolds on a blue tile motif. The converter is next to a sailor fountain pen. More zoomed out view of fountain pen ink converter that has been handpainted with orange marigolds on a blue tile motif. The converter is next to a sailor fountain pen. The whole pen is visible and you can see the relative size of the converter, about 1/5 the length of the pen and also significantly thinner in diameter.
April 3, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Record breaking moment recorded.
Journal with quote from Cory Booker written in cursive. Fountain pen on side. Quote says “ I don’t want a Disney vacation of our history. I don’t want a white washed history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness.”
April 1, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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My friend’s cat on her rug, requesting love. A study in acrylic gouache after cat sitting. #painting #art #cat #catart
Brightly colored acrylic gouache painting of a cat on a rug. The cat is rendered in blue. The rug is warm tones and patterned. The painting style is loose, especially as it recedes into the background.
March 20, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Around 2,000 people came for a town hall in #Asheville with Chuck Edwards.

For context, Asheville’s population is only 94k. (People came from other places too, of course, but it’s still a good turnout for this region.)

Proud of my little city. 💚

#wnc #townhall
Black and white photo of a large crowd of people holding up signs and upside down American flags. The crowd goes far back, you can’t see the end of it. Crowd of people in front of a building. American flags and a rainbow flag. A large sign that says STOP ARMING ISRAEL. Many other signs like “STOP GOP republican radical extremism” “patriots don’t bow to kings” Someone holding up a sign that says “No! I am not paid. Outraged registered voter in Buncombe county” Someone holding up sign that says “Deport Deez Nutz” with a drawing of Trump and Elon inside a pair of testicles. Someone in the foreground has a sign that says STAND UP FOR WNC.
March 16, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Hi all, happy #kidlitartpostcard day.

This is Moxie, on a mission to prove that her cat is *stolen*, not simply missing.

Moxie doesn’t stand for lies, euphemisms, or bad news phrased like it’s an opportunity for personal growth. 😌🥄

Rep: @kellydhouse.bsky.social
Pen and ink drawing, gray scale. High angle view of a determined young girl with pigtails reaching up to hang a paper on a wooden telephone pole. The paper has a drawing of a cat and says “STOLEN.” A roll of tape is around one of her arms. She is clutching a second paper with a similar cat drawing and “STOLEN” to her chest. She has pigtails, a cabled sweater, a pleated skirt, and boots. The telephone pole has old staples.
March 6, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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When you tell a child they can pick one item from the candy store. #dog #happydog
Happy large brown dog on a carpet, looking at the camera. In her mouth is a giant piece of cartilage. Probably the same length she is. Happy large brown dog on a carpet, chewing on a . giant piece of cartilage. Her large white paws are draped over the cartilage. She is dwarfed by it.
March 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Starting to think my recent penchant for neon says something about my mental-emotional state. #painting #gouache #bird #art #traditionalart
Loose gouache painting of a bird on tree branches. The bird is black, white and orange. The tree is purples and magenta. The background is variegated greens and light blues over an obnoxiously bright orange-pink wash. all of the colors are overly saturated. Brush strokes are visible with the finest details only around the birds beak and eye.
March 4, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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There’s a cat in here somewhere, I’m told. #cat
Shallow depth of field photo of black and white ball of long fuzz, with four fuzzy appendages some of which have pink toe beans. The black and white ball is upon a fuzzy, warm gray blanket.
February 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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These are dreams from Germans in the 1930s. Anyone else having dreams like this, now?

(Printed in Harper’s Magazine, Mar 25)
Photo of printed text in a Magazine, black on white, serifed typeface. “[Dictation] DREAM STATE *From reports of dreams collected in The Third Reich of Dreams, by Charlotte Beradt, a new translation of which will be published next month by Princeton University Press. Beradt gathered the reports in Germany in the Thirties. Translated from the German by Damion Searls.* A WOMAN Every night without fail I try to tear the swastika off the Nazi flag. I’m proud of myself and happy when I do it, but the next day it’s always sewn firmly on again. A MATH TEACHER It was forbidden under penalty of death to write down anything to do with math. I took refuge in a bar. I took an extremely thin sheet of paper out of my bag and wrote down a couple of equations in invisible ink, deathly afraid. A FACTORY OWNER Goebbels came to my factory. He had all the employees line up in two rows, left and right, and I had to stand between the rows and give a Nazi salute. It took me half an hour to get my arm raised, millimeter by millimeter. Goebbels watched my efforts like a play, without any sign of appreciation or displeasure, but when I finally had my arm up, he spoke five words: ‘I don’t want your salute.’ Then he turned around and walked to the door. So there I was, in my own factory, among my own people, pilloried with my arm raised. A WOMAN I often dream about Hitler. He wants something from me, and I don’t say, ‘But I’m a respectable woman.’ Instead I say, ‘But I’m not a Nazi,’ and that makes him like me even more. AN EYE DOCTOR I was summoned to treat Hitler, because I was the only one in the world who could. I was proud of myself for that, and felt so ashamed of my pride that I started crying. A MAN I dreamed that I had stopped dreaming about everything except rectangles, triangles, and octagons, which all looked like Christmas cookies. Because we weren’t allowed to dream.
February 25, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Latest commissioned fountain pen painting. This one is a dragon, inspired by a book character, which was exciting! I love it when my worlds (writing, reading, pens, painting) collide.

#painting #acrylicpainting #fountainpen
Pilot 823 fountain pen that has been painted with acrylics to have a moonlit dragon in shades of desaturated blues and gold as well as a castle on the cap also lit by a second moon. The dragon is darks and gold, and may be loosely inspired by the dragon Tairn from the Fourth Wing book series. Close up of Pilot 823 fountain pen nib and cap. The pen is backlit. The pen has been painted with acrylics Pilot 823 fountain pen that has been painted with acrylics to have a moonlit dragon in shades of desaturated blues and gold. In this photo you can see the texture of the paint on the cap top.
February 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Someone is thrilled with her new hat. #dogs #dogsinhats
Large brown dog on a couch wearing a fluffy crocheted hat in pink and purple with two Pom Pom poofs. The dog looks tired of all the shenanigans she must put up with.
February 23, 2025 at 12:44 AM