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Alex is ok
@wordsmithswrite.bsky.social
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Ghost writer and vibe vampire in Winnipeg. Meeting averse organizer. Professionally tolerable on the internet. A soft ❤️ in a hard 🌎. Ask me about my peat anxiety. She/her #climate #queer #lesbian
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
A small house sits in a foggy landscape with its windows lit bright yellow. The whole scene is bathed in a dark red light. "The role of the artist is to terrify the oppressor.
November 17, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Everyone say Happy Birthday to Herbie, who is six today! Recently diagnosed with epilepsy and "middle age" but it won't keep him down!
A handsome black pug with a big dog smile and a warm brown collar sits on a grey couch, distracted by a cat out of frame.
October 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Be careful out there! Don't let pyramid head get you! D:
The view out a window, you can see one corner of a balcony next to it but the rest of the landscape is white fog.
September 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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I have spent my whole first day off on the balcony in a light breeze with the pets. I ate a big cinnamon bun with coffee.
We are at a 10 out of 10 so far!
An orange cat laying on his side with his face buried in the shoulder of a white cat with grey spots, who is loafing. They are both on a pale floral blanket.
August 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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2 days of freedom, then he broke the most important rule (do not scratch your face until it bleeds) so he's back in the cone.
Pls keep Frankie in your thoughts.😔
An orange cat sits on a balcony under a floral metal chair and next to some fake foliage. His head is ina plastic cone and the light is gone from his eyes.
June 25, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Frankie loses all strong independent cat when he is in the cone. Sitting on the couch? It's time to hold Frankie like a little baby. Laying in bed? Frankie time. Relaxed in your office chair? Frankie o'clock. Stand in one place too long? It's Frankie-thirty! I have nearly been smothered 3 times.
An orange cat sits on a bed looking to the left, want for a butter tart in his eyes. He has a plastic cone around his neck.
June 20, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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It's the time of day where Frankie realises I have cruelly trapped him in his favorite place in the world for 10 whole minutes so my wife can give the other cats their wet food, which he is disastrously allergic to. He falls for this every night. The call of the balcony is too strong.
An orange cat in a dark green collar with his paws on the step of a sliding door, his face rapt with attention thinking about the meats that others are enjoying inside.
May 25, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Herb likes to hold on to these treats and be a weird possessive little gremlin over them. This time he did it ALL NIGHT because of you can't gremlin in your sleep are you even living that weirdo life?

I am now pleading with him to actually eat the thing before we go to pick up the in laws.
A black pug with his head raised but his eyes still heavy with sleep, body half circled as if he just woke up. He is laying on a floral bedspread, surrounded by the lumps of his people. a green chew pokes out from his lips as he limply holds it despite being barely conscious.
May 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Lately my one-eyed cat has started sitting here and staring/dissociating at the wall. He's also been hiding less. I think this is his way of being with the family without getting overstimulated. I get it, we're a lot.
John the white cat with grey spots sits with his back to the camera. He is on a coffee table behind a speaker, apparently staring directly at a grey wall 3 inches from his face.
April 4, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Clocking in for my Sunday shift at the Holding Frankie Like a Sweet Baby Boy Factory.
An orange cat lays on his back, we see him from the waist up. His face is blissed out and his eyes are closed. His front legs flop to the side. He is laying across a woman's upper body and arm, his head on the arm of a sofa. Another hand is scratching his ear.
March 30, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Without downloading any new pictures, where are you mentally?
Graffiti on a bathroom wall we killed kings for less than this
March 19, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Hello my name is Alex and I am making my 2nd emergency vet visit in as many weeks because one of my pets is Too Stupid To Live.
He looks curiously thoughtful in this pic (pre latest injury because it's gnarly) for someone who does not have one thought on his head.
An orange cat with a clear plastic cone on his head. He is gonna white pillow atop rumpled bedsheets
March 7, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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MENSA cat's more comfortable fabric cone came in the mail and he immediately clawed his own face so GUESS WHOS BACK IN THE BAD PLASTIC ONE. Comfort is for people who can be TRUSTED WITH A FACE I guess
A photo looking at a woman's hands as she does a word search from a book of them using a purple highlighter on a white lap desk. A despondent orange cat is tucked under her arm, his head in a clear plastic medical cone. One of his paws is stretched across her lap desk, holding the puzzle book for her.
March 5, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Ok so leftover weekend stresses are resolving, my wife might have a job! I emailed a lawyer! And although he is still coned, the little guy's lumps are less lumpy and more bumpy! Hey way to get it together team!
An orange can lays in the loaf position with his eyes closed on a red and white towel. He is wearing a plastic cone to stop him from scratching the allergy lumps on his face. His eyes are closed.
March 4, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Had to go to the vet last night because a certain middle aged man threw his back out and was in enough pain to refuse cheese. I knew it was probably a pulled muscle but the cheese refusal made me think he might be dying 🤷
He's feeling better but I'm not.🥲
A black pug in a warm tan collar with a gold colored buckle lays on a dark blue sofa, facing the camera. His eyes are big, brown and wet. His ears are folded back.
February 26, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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What I thought was terrible cat acne is in fact another allergy skin reaction so Frankie's back on the prednisone and there's no way for me to creatively bandage his lip so he won't bother at it so pray for us🫠
The front half of an orange kitten looking sleepy with his eyes mostly closed,he is clinging to the torso of a person.
January 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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I sometimes leave little lines and notes for myself if they get stuck in my head and I'm not ready for a whole poem. Idk wtf this one from last night is. I don't really like chicken wings, and the on Friday makes me question whether I was trying to poem or trying to schedule something..?
White text on a black background in a notes app. "Eat the bad men like chicken wings on Friday"
January 26, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Without downloading any new pictures, where are you at mentally
An illustration of a white goose crouched in an aggressive stance with a butter knife in its beak. The text over its head says "peace was never an option"
January 24, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Had a few awkward chats lately when I tell people my wife recently moved from the US. They go "Wow, she must be relieved to be here!" And I have to gently remind them that everyone she's ever loved is still there. Not much relief.
This one was written election night but it's still fresh.
A poem in black text on a white background. I don't have room for schadenfreude Around the cold iron dread her stomach When she realizes we were right about him all along I don’t have time to laugh and say I-told-you-so before Come to me sweetheart, take my hand, Move away from that bad man with the gun Come with us, We can deal with the rest later. Why you didn’t listen, later. Right now we need to get us away from this fucker And get this fucker away from his gun.
January 20, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Here's how Frankie prefers to watch Lexi crochet. One paw barely touching. Wanting. Listening to the intrusive thoughts that say it is evil for mother to play with string and not include Frankie, but never obeying them. He is a Good Boy.
We see the front half of an orange cat from behind, one paw outstretched to barely touch a glass container holding a crocheted round. Balled yarn and currently working yarn wind next to the container.
December 20, 2024 at 9:10 PM
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Frankie takes pug maintenance very seriously.
December 10, 2024 at 6:48 PM
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Some side-eye for photographing Herb's Luxery Gaming Time.
A black pug side-eyes the photographer from the lap of a woman sitting cross legged with a switch controller in her hands. The pug is curled up with his chin resting on her wrist. Stardew Valley is on the switch's screen where it is propped on a nearby table.
December 8, 2024 at 8:47 PM
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Drawing people is the thing I most want to do and the thing I find hardest but I finished one! Featuring a phrase from Twin Peaks that's just on my mind lately for reasons. #ArtAdventCalendar day 7
A green haired bespectacled woman wearing jeans and a purple sweater clenches her fists and shakes with anger as she shouts THEY CAN FIX THEIR HEARTS OR DIE. She is in front of a turquoise background, surrounded by her words in a roughly drawn red font.
December 7, 2024 at 5:59 PM
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Sleepy for now but with twice the steroids for his allergies (because he is twice the cat) Frankie is juicing. He has eaten half his weight in kibbles and zoomed around in the snow on the balcony for 45 minutes since we woke up.
An orange cat lays on the top platform of a cat tower, the photo is taken from below. His chin is resting on the plus grey edge of the platform and most of his legs and body are curled in on each other on the platform. His tail is visible on the platform, it is striped. His nose is pink.
December 6, 2024 at 6:32 PM
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These guys turned out simple but cute, which is what I was going for. Success! #ArtAdventCalendar Day 6
A little comic with a dark background shows 3 marshmallows with pretzel arms and chocolate syrup faces. One has fallen over and says 'oof'. On faces us and says with a smile "I think it looks great!" The last has his back to use, showing a toasted top and a burnt bottom that is still smoking. He replies "thanks!"
December 6, 2024 at 4:03 PM