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Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · Nov 23

PSA for #Malayali or people from #Keralam - We have two active feeds
1. നീലാകാശം feed which picks up all the posts in Malayalam
bsky.app/profile/did:...
2. Keralam Sky for which I maintain a user list - @me if you want to be added/removed

bsky.app/profile/did:...

Both feeds are fairly active feeds!

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Shweta @thebluemango.in · 6h

Finally finished making the chocolate cake from The Bear! 😁

#chocolate #cakesky #bakesky
🍜 🍰 🎂

In the pic: a large chocolate cake, filled with dark chocolate mousse, and covered in chocolate frosting.

A tiny green ankylosaurus perched on the edge of a white ceramic plate looking up at the towering chocolate cake in front of it.

The plate is kept on a checkered red and white table cloth with a couple of white ceramic mugs in the background.

Top shot of a tiny green ankylosaurus perched on the edge of a white ceramic plate looking up at the towering chocolate cake with chocolate frosting in front of it. You can see the a swirl pattern on top of the cake, in the frosting.

A brown human (normal size) hand can also be seen at the edge of the frame.

The plate and the hand are both resting on a checkered red and white table cloth

In the background, towards the top left of the frame is a white ceramic mug with a pattern of a small green parrot superimposed on slanted black lines.

Front shot of a tall chocolate cake with vertical indentations assembled on a white ceramic plate being defended by a small black cat figurine with round yellow eyes. The figurine's is about the size of a ping pong ball, its white tipped tail is in the air
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The plate is kept on a checkered red and white table cloth.

In the background, towards the top left of the frame is a white ceramic mug with a pattern of a small green parrot superimposed on slanted black lines.

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meerbuschknitter.bsky.social @meerbuschknitter.bsky.social · 8h

I have finished #knitting my latest cushion cover - the Jellyfish. As ever I included a little surprise quote on the reverse side.

The pattern is here:
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

🧶 #bskyknits #knitsky #showmeyourknits

Three marine themed knitted cushions with (L-R) Fish, Jellyfish, Crab, prawn and seahorse.

Cushion reverse side with the Charlie Chaplain quote: Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.

Front view of knitted cushion with jellyfish motif.

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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 8h

Crying loses it's function. It no longer releases you

Still people always ask "How do you do it" like it's optional? Like there's a method for this

So I've just started telling them, "Well there are only two options. Kill yourself, or keep waking up. So far, I keep waking up. What can you do?"

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The Doctor of Spooktober Past @lucidillusions.in · 10h

The discount is active till October 20th.

#SelfPromo

The Doctor of Spooktober Past @lucidillusions.in · 1d

Oooh another #PortfolioDay is upon us, I'm a photographer, and I also Illustrate - I have my work on #Inprnt and #Darkroom.

use code: NLXD8GY for 15% on both stores.

Darkroom: lucidillusions.darkroom.com
Inprnt: www.inprnt.com/gallery/luci...

#Photography #TradArt 🪶🦊🦑🐡🐊 #Prints

A grid with tigers, birds, leopard and a crocodile.

screengrab from inprnt.com - a 3x3 grid -

Baronet butterfly (photo print)
Porpita porpita (blue button) - color pencil on paper
Storym night - black ink on paper
Blue Borb - water color on paper
The Beatles - digital art
The Gentle Labrador -- digital art
Cool bunny in shades - digital
Phainopeplas - pencil color
Golden oriole - watercolor.

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JJ Clapton @jjclapton.bsky.social · 23h

So. Morbid author question.

What do fellow indie authors have in their wills about their books/stories?

#indiebooks #queerwriters

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Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · 10h

Glad you are off the platform for the right reasons! But good to see you the update ♥️

Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · 10h

It's a hard time to be human. We know too much and too little. Does the breeze need us?
The cliffs? The gulls?
If you've managed to do one good thing, the ocean doesn't care.
But when Newton's apple fell toward the earth, the earth, ever so slightly, fell toward the apple as well.
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#Poetry 💙📚👀

The World Has Need of You | Ellen Bass

everything here seems to need us...

-Rilke

I can hardly imagine it as I walk to the lighthouse, feeling the ancient prayer of my arms swinging in counterpoint to my feet.

Here I am, suspended

between the sidewalk and twilight,

the sky dimming so fast it seems alive.

What if you felt the invisible tug between you and everything? A boy on a bicycle rides by, his white shirt open, flaring behind him like wings.

It's a hard time to be human. We know too much and too little. Does the breeze need us?

The cliffs? The gulls?

If you've managed to do one good thing, the ocean doesn't care.

But when Newton's apple fell toward the earth, the earth, ever so slightly, fell toward the apple as well.

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The Doctor of Spooktober Past @lucidillusions.in · 1d

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Katha @taxkha.bsky.social · 1d

Heard it's time for #portfolioday again...

hi, I'm Katha, a game design graduate from Germany.
The art industry is in shambles but I still hold on to a sliver of hope that I will get a chance to work on a video game as either a concept artist or character designer.

contact: [email protected]

digital illustration of dimitri, byleth and hedgemon husk edelgard from fe3h. Dimitri is ascending the stairs with his lance in hand to take out Edelgard at the top. Byleth is standing behind him.

digital illustration of Apollo and Klavier standing on a balcony of a skyscraper. Apollo is a small young man with brown hair and Klavier a taller young man with long blond hair. Apollo is looking at the distance and Klavier has his eyes closed and is smoking a cigaratte. The skyscraper has a glass surface which is reflecting the cities skyline and the sunset. The drawing is drawn in fisheye perspective.

fanart of ping pong the animation. In the front is the main character Tsukimoto who has the back to the viewer. Hes holding his racket in on hand. Hes standing in front of a ping pong table. In the background are 4 of the other characters, Peco, Kong Wenge, Sakama and Kazama. They arent colored and are only drawn in lineart.

digital illustration. In the foreground is water from which a white and blue serpent is emerging. Behind is a young man in dark clothes and long dark hair holding a spear. Behind him are a bunch of white birds taking flight and in the background are mountains.

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 1d

Shall we post screenshots of Bluesky's CEO's waffles and mourning of a nazi and leave this platform to walk into the blue sea instead to microblog our dying breaths into the waters.

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Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · 1d

That yarn is so gorgeous 😍 I loved making the petty harbour socks.

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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 1d

#ThickTrunkTuesday #Trees #TreeClub #EastCoastKin 🌱🌳

Tree by a bridge on a small stream in the woods

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Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · 1d

This year's blood donation for "your reports are normal, eveything is in your head" is done. I cannot wait to tell my psychiatrist "I told you so" because she keeps on insisting that I need to waste my precious money over this. 😭 #pwme

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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 1d

ooooof. It's #portfolioday but very few are using alt-text so I don't feel the need to boost or reskeet any of it. A pity, and I get it - sometimes I don't have the energy.

But since Link is gone it's like y'all forgot yourselves.

So 1) bring Link back and 2) label your stuff so it can be shared

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Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, it is. But it is a little more comfortable than the last short row I tried.i always had to go back to HF because the short row heels get too tight around my ankle :(

Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · 1d

This heel surely feel a little more comfortable compared to other short row heels I tried. But have to do a little more of the foot section to see if the in step stitches get stretched out far more than I would like.

Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · 1d

A victory! To leave your loneliness panting behind you on some street corner
while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas,
pink petals that have never felt loneliness,
no matter how slowly they fell. - Naomi Shihab Nye
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀

The Rider- Naomi Shihab Nye

A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him,

the best reason I ever heard for trying to be a champion.

What I wonder tonight pedaling hard down King William Street is if it translates to bicycles.

A victory! To leave your loneliness panting behind you on some street corner while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas, pink petals that have never felt loneliness, no matter how slowly they fell.

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Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · 2d

🧶🧦 Trying out the Palindrome heel with this Autumn leaf socks. I think it works for my high instep. I have been using the usual heel flap and gusset so far because nothing else was working out for me. Need to do one chart repeat to see if it becomes too tight. #knitsky

A foot wearing a wip colourwork socks with maple leaf motif in variegated yarn

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Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · 2d

Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.
- Anne Sexton
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀

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Sloe @sloe.bsky.social · 3d

Artists! People who draw specifically! I have a question: what websites/sources do you use for reference pictures? After refern sadly shut down I'm getting frustrated with pinterest (since it's still flooded with slop).
#art #drawing #referencepics #artbaby #artadvice

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Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · 3d

🧦🧶 Trying to reverse engineer a cable sock design I loved. So far so good. #knitsky

A wip grey socks with cable design on a sock blocker

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💙SadieMae💙 @sadiemae1969.bsky.social · 3d

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Maq @maqusan.bsky.social · 3d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

A Jack-o’-Lantern carved to read ”FRIDAY DEPLOY TO PROD”

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