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Aaron P

@aaronpallan.bsky.social

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Horror-lover 🦇, stationery-hoarder 🖋️, tea-swiller 🫖. A mostly harmless and generally convivial Canadian queer 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈. Friend to all felines. A little weird, but always SFW. (He/Him). tea_and_ink on Insta 📸 aaronpallan on Discord

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · Feb 26

Parker is posing for his official portrait today.

Parker the brown tabby, looking majestic.

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

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Goodie for us!

Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 1d

For All Hallow’s this year I’m “a recent Covid infection.”

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 2d

I’m so sorry, Sean

Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you! It’s just a matter of time, unfortunately.

Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 2d

I’m off work sick with a terrible cold/flu. Which means I’m in that weird liminal space between “so tired I can’t get off the couch” and “bored out of my tree.”

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 2d

Lurkish Delight.

Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 3d

On my recent trip back home, it was confirmed that one of my uncles (of whom there are many) thinks that my mother is a witch (which he means in both a spooky and pejorative sense).

And because I am the Son of THE Witch, he’s reluctant to associate with me.

I’m not mad about it.

wicked witch of the west from the wizard of oz is wearing a black hat and holding a sword .

Alt: wicked witch of the west from the wizard of oz is wearing a black hat and holding a sword .

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 6d

Is there such a thing as too much spice, though?

A cat says that the Spice Expands Consciousness; The Spice is Vital to Space Travel.

Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 8d

A quiet moment in the garden before I head home.

A back garden decked out in autumn foliage.

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 9d

Clifton House; supposedly haunted (can confirm) and also where I lived for a time when I was wee.

A white clapboard house with dark trim. The house has a plaque on it marked with “Clifton.”

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 10d

One of them appears to be from 1916-ish.

Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 11d

Very cool!

Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 11d

My uncle who, in his working days, was also in the communications field, hauled out these vintage bottles of #fountainpen ink he still had squirrelled away.

Bottles and packaging of Parker Quink, Sheaffer Skrip, and Watermans’s Ideal Blue-Black writing inks.

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 11d

I had never actually seen an inkwell + desk clock combo before, but apparently they were not uncommon in the early 1900s.

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 11d

I’m not one for family heirlooms, but as a #fountainpen lover, I couldn't say no to my great-grandfather’s old Capwell inkstand (the clock still works, too!).

Family lore (and documents) indicate that he was gifted it after winning a sports match at Trinity in the 1930s.

a capwell inkstand wirh a winding clock.

A capwell inkstand wirh a winding clock, open to reveal the inkpot

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 12d

Cold as a nun’s t*t in the wind today, but the view was worth it.

Aaron stares into the camera, rugged coastline behind him.

A small turreted tower (Cabot Tower) on a hill covered fall colours.

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 12d

Staying in the house I (partially) grew up in, and remembering this banister knob when it was freshly painted.

A banister knob with its paint rubbed off from years of use.

Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 13d

Very much same

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 13d

Back at the homestead.

Aaron on a rocky cove, but a slightly different perspective

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 14d

Due to a late connecting flight, I just had a very “Darjeeling Limited” experience running across the tarmac, bag in hand, onto a waiting airplane on my way to St. John’s. (Yes, they closed the door right behind me.)

a man carrying a suitcase that says ' jack ' on it

Alt: Adrian Brody runs after a moving train man carrying a suitcase.

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 14d

ROOOOOOOOXANNE! You don’t have to put on that red (okay, maybe fuchsia) light!

A deco building facade in Vieux Porte Montréal with one single window lit up with a reddish-fuchsia glow

Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 17d

The public art of Montréal, ladies and gentlethems.

A family of abstract white figures is clustered together; the parental-type figure appears to be giving the heavens the finger.

Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 20d

Things overheard at in airport security lineup:

Agent 1: Where is [colleague’s name]? We need to open another line.

Agent 2: He’s coming, he’s coming.

Agent 1: Jesus and my ex said that too, and I’m still waiting on both!

Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 20d

The Most Glorious Day of Online Shopping Specials

a person holding a bald eagle in their arms with the words because birds tumblr visible in the corner

Alt: a person holding a bald eagle in their arms with the words because birds tumblr visible in the corner

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