v. h. king
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v. h. king
@vhkingsink.bsky.social
· Aug 10
im new here 👋🏾👀💜
i write poems and short stories, im working on several novels, and i like to paint 🎨📝📚
i write poems and short stories, im working on several novels, and i like to paint 🎨📝📚
The thing is, I'm always terrified. But I'm here anyway, and it's the music that gets me through.
Borges’ Music
The right song (at the perfect volume) changes everything.
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February 4, 2026 at 6:35 PM
The thing is, I'm always terrified. But I'm here anyway, and it's the music that gets me through.
in other news, i need more 18x24 canvases. nevermind that i haven't finished the one and im about to start another and there are 2 i have zero plans for.
January 27, 2026 at 5:20 PM
in other news, i need more 18x24 canvases. nevermind that i haven't finished the one and im about to start another and there are 2 i have zero plans for.
update: i also got paint on some frames..... oops.... silver dots on the glass is fine, right????
today's art lesson is that acrylic paint pens actually have paint in them, so if you shake them with the cap off, you might get some unexpected accents to your artwork.........
January 27, 2026 at 5:12 PM
update: i also got paint on some frames..... oops.... silver dots on the glass is fine, right????
today's art lesson is that acrylic paint pens actually have paint in them, so if you shake them with the cap off, you might get some unexpected accents to your artwork.........
January 26, 2026 at 6:35 PM
today's art lesson is that acrylic paint pens actually have paint in them, so if you shake them with the cap off, you might get some unexpected accents to your artwork.........
do people know how much of art is putting things in your mouth bc you dont have enough hands.....?
January 24, 2026 at 10:27 PM
do people know how much of art is putting things in your mouth bc you dont have enough hands.....?
The cool thing about redoing a piece that wasn't half bad is that I get to remember why it came to me in the first place.
It Looks Like This
What has uncertainty taught me? Hard to say for sure, but it's far more than the faith that was handed to me.
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January 23, 2026 at 7:06 PM
The cool thing about redoing a piece that wasn't half bad is that I get to remember why it came to me in the first place.
not me scrolling through the dropdown list of exhibits only to switch out one of pieces i was gonna use because i found another exhibit i wanna submit it to 😅
January 12, 2026 at 8:51 PM
not me scrolling through the dropdown list of exhibits only to switch out one of pieces i was gonna use because i found another exhibit i wanna submit it to 😅
I have a habit of writing things I'll need to hear later. If you need it, I hope me talking to myself helps you too.
Kicking & Screaming
Fighting to face the day, let alone get through it.
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January 9, 2026 at 6:01 PM
I have a habit of writing things I'll need to hear later. If you need it, I hope me talking to myself helps you too.
The first two times I submitted this piece to an exhibit, it got rejected. Fitting, that it found its first audience in an exhibit titled "Dreamscape & Belief"--because isn't that all of life?
Presence in Profile
I really wasn't planning on making a self-portrait. I was just desperate to hold onto hope.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The first two times I submitted this piece to an exhibit, it got rejected. Fitting, that it found its first audience in an exhibit titled "Dreamscape & Belief"--because isn't that all of life?
Small steps, small steps, small steps. I'm not here for productivity and constant output. I'm (re)learning how to be a person.
I’m Not Not a Professional
October destroyed me, but I'm giving myself credit for the ways I'm growing. Still.
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November 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Small steps, small steps, small steps. I'm not here for productivity and constant output. I'm (re)learning how to be a person.
one of my friends is in need of help after their publisher thoroughly ruined a book deal. please share/ donate! anything helps! #MutualAid #BlackWriters
gofund.me/75730aef3
gofund.me/75730aef3
Donate to Help an Author Overcome Publishing Setback, organized by gee davis
tl;dr - I'm asking for assistance in order to live. a promised advance payment fr… gee davis needs your support for Help an Author Overcome Publishing Setback
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October 24, 2025 at 2:34 AM
one of my friends is in need of help after their publisher thoroughly ruined a book deal. please share/ donate! anything helps! #MutualAid #BlackWriters
gofund.me/75730aef3
gofund.me/75730aef3
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ARE YOU KICKING & SCREAMING YET ⁉️
come grab art prints, notebooks, bookmarks, and more. also, help this BlackDisabledQueer kid buy their meds and survive another day.
worth-n-wonder.printify.me
come grab art prints, notebooks, bookmarks, and more. also, help this BlackDisabledQueer kid buy their meds and survive another day.
worth-n-wonder.printify.me
October 21, 2025 at 8:23 PM
ARE YOU KICKING & SCREAMING YET ⁉️
come grab art prints, notebooks, bookmarks, and more. also, help this BlackDisabledQueer kid buy their meds and survive another day.
worth-n-wonder.printify.me
come grab art prints, notebooks, bookmarks, and more. also, help this BlackDisabledQueer kid buy their meds and survive another day.
worth-n-wonder.printify.me
ARE YOU KICKING & SCREAMING YET ⁉️
come grab art prints, notebooks, bookmarks, and more. also, help this BlackDisabledQueer kid buy their meds and survive another day.
worth-n-wonder.printify.me
come grab art prints, notebooks, bookmarks, and more. also, help this BlackDisabledQueer kid buy their meds and survive another day.
worth-n-wonder.printify.me
October 21, 2025 at 8:23 PM
ARE YOU KICKING & SCREAMING YET ⁉️
come grab art prints, notebooks, bookmarks, and more. also, help this BlackDisabledQueer kid buy their meds and survive another day.
worth-n-wonder.printify.me
come grab art prints, notebooks, bookmarks, and more. also, help this BlackDisabledQueer kid buy their meds and survive another day.
worth-n-wonder.printify.me
if any of this sounds familiar, i invite you to hold your loved ones close, i implore you not to lose heart, i hope you are stirred up and soothed calm by all the right things you need at just the right time...and i might have a few things to help.
‼️KICKING & SCREAMING SALE STARTS TOMORROW‼️
‼️KICKING & SCREAMING SALE STARTS TOMORROW‼️
October 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
if any of this sounds familiar, i invite you to hold your loved ones close, i implore you not to lose heart, i hope you are stirred up and soothed calm by all the right things you need at just the right time...and i might have a few things to help.
‼️KICKING & SCREAMING SALE STARTS TOMORROW‼️
‼️KICKING & SCREAMING SALE STARTS TOMORROW‼️
get ready......😱😱😱😱😱
October 17, 2025 at 12:40 PM
get ready......😱😱😱😱😱
it's really nice actually to just. take a break. sometimes. I'm allowed to be tired and decide to not do things for a minute.
(I've still got a shitton of anxiety, that's not going anywhere, but at least i can lay down.)
(I've still got a shitton of anxiety, that's not going anywhere, but at least i can lay down.)
October 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
it's really nice actually to just. take a break. sometimes. I'm allowed to be tired and decide to not do things for a minute.
(I've still got a shitton of anxiety, that's not going anywhere, but at least i can lay down.)
(I've still got a shitton of anxiety, that's not going anywhere, but at least i can lay down.)
Drawing trees has always helped me think. This poem became an exercise in teaching myself how to get through the many long slow short gray days of fall and winter and spring and any other time when life feels unbearably endless.
Do Not Dread the Dormant Days
How much feeling, how many memories, stored in trees and stirred by the breeze? I can't stop listening.
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October 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Drawing trees has always helped me think. This poem became an exercise in teaching myself how to get through the many long slow short gray days of fall and winter and spring and any other time when life feels unbearably endless.
by the power of coffee invested in me..... im working on grief journals again...
September 29, 2025 at 9:22 PM
by the power of coffee invested in me..... im working on grief journals again...
yesterday i dropped off my art for a gallery exhibit :3 im super excited to be part of a show called "Dreamscape & Belief"--i feel like that's where all my writing + art come from 😅
September 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
yesterday i dropped off my art for a gallery exhibit :3 im super excited to be part of a show called "Dreamscape & Belief"--i feel like that's where all my writing + art come from 😅
One of my favorite things from BUTTER was hearing "I AM...ART!" shouted with joy and enthusiasm from students on Education Day. Here's to raising my own voice and joining that chorus.
Buttered Up Bravery
All these ways I've grown between one BUTTER and another. What a beautiful becoming.
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September 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
One of my favorite things from BUTTER was hearing "I AM...ART!" shouted with joy and enthusiasm from students on Education Day. Here's to raising my own voice and joining that chorus.
Butter Five was absolutely everything...and I almost missed it.
I Had to Be There
To meet people? As myself? Fully and truly? Turns out...I can do that. I need to do that.
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September 17, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Butter Five was absolutely everything...and I almost missed it.
apparently i go through like, one ball-point pen a month, doing my nightly journaling. theoretically the box of 36 pens i got could last me 3 years...
except im convinced pens have a casual relationship with spatial permanence (as do i, most likely). also, couches love to eat things.
except im convinced pens have a casual relationship with spatial permanence (as do i, most likely). also, couches love to eat things.
September 14, 2025 at 3:50 AM
apparently i go through like, one ball-point pen a month, doing my nightly journaling. theoretically the box of 36 pens i got could last me 3 years...
except im convinced pens have a casual relationship with spatial permanence (as do i, most likely). also, couches love to eat things.
except im convinced pens have a casual relationship with spatial permanence (as do i, most likely). also, couches love to eat things.
all I have are poems and the heaviness of hope
Without Preamble
How's your constitution?
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September 3, 2025 at 5:48 PM
all I have are poems and the heaviness of hope
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Only 8 days left!! @blackindiecomix.bsky.social is running a kickstarter for the Black & Bloody anthology... And I'm in it!!
If you want to read about Wrestling vampires, you can see my story here! 🍷✨️
🦇 bit.ly/4mb13uU
If you want to read about Wrestling vampires, you can see my story here! 🍷✨️
🦇 bit.ly/4mb13uU
September 2, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Only 8 days left!! @blackindiecomix.bsky.social is running a kickstarter for the Black & Bloody anthology... And I'm in it!!
If you want to read about Wrestling vampires, you can see my story here! 🍷✨️
🦇 bit.ly/4mb13uU
If you want to read about Wrestling vampires, you can see my story here! 🍷✨️
🦇 bit.ly/4mb13uU
oh hey look! new poem tomorrow!
September 2, 2025 at 9:47 PM
oh hey look! new poem tomorrow!