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AuDHD, CPTSD (she/they) ~Bangalore,India ~ Maker of beautiful things 🧶( #Knitting #Crocheting) Bedbound by #MECFS Appreciate any kind of Support through https://ko-fi.com/chembarathi

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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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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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Katha @taxkha.bsky.social · 22h

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 · 20h

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 · 21h

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

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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 21h

#ThickTrunkTuesday #Trees #TreeClub #EastCoastKin 🌱🌳

Tree by a bridge on a small stream in the woods

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Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · 21h

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 · 21h

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 · 23h

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 · 23h

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 · 23h

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 · 1d

🧶🧦 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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

🧦🧶 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 · 2d

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Maq @maqusan.bsky.social · 2d

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

what a world it would be if nature compared

if flowers didn't flower because their neighbours were flowerier

you, my friend, must stop all that folly

no one can be more you you are youier.
- Donna Ashworth
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀

YOUIER

Imagine if the moon refused to shine because the sun was shinier

if streams ceased to flow because the rivers were flowier

if snow didn't dare to fall because rain was fallier

if planets did not glow because stars were glowier

what a world it would be if nature compared

if flowers didn't flower because their neighbours were flowerier

you, my friend, must stop all that folly

no one can be more you you are youier.

Donna Ashworth Wild Hopl

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

When I am asked how I began writing poems, I talk about the indifference of nature.
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I sat on a gray stone bench ringed with the ingenue faces
of pink and white impatiens
and placed my grief
in the mouth of language.
the only thing that would grieve with me.
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀

POETRY

LISEL MUELLER

WHEN I AM ASKED

When I am asked how I began writing poems, I talk about the indifference of nature.

It was soon after my mother died, a brilliant June day, everything blooming.

I sat on a gray stone bench in a lovingly planted garden, but the daylilies were as deaf as the ears of drunken sleepers, and the roses curved inward. Nothing was black or broken and not a leaf fell, and the sun blared endless commercials for summer holidays.

I sat on a gray stone bench ringed with the ingenue faces of pink and white impatiens and placed my grief in the mouth of language. the only thing that would grieve with me.

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Moths in a human suit (they/them) @lycomorpha.bsky.social · 4d

These kind of go outside/try yoga/think positive suggestions are not bad in themselves. But they're not useful if you have serious or persistent mental health problems.

So for some of us it, it gets very tedious. World mental health day doesn't feel like it's for people like me, TBH.

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Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · 4d

If I take the prescribed dose for my insomnia, my stomach refuse to let go of anything that comes in and if I reduce the dose I am wide awake thinking about all the socks I want to knit, but can't because if I turn on the light it makes my eyes more sick. 😭 #pwme

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 4d

Palestinian babies like Taqwa's have been displaced & starved with their families by Israel for 2 yrs of genocide. Taqwa has already lost 6 children to an Israeli massacre. Please help her keep 7 mo Suhaib alive by sharing & donating to cover the costs of evacuation, shelter, food:

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Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · 4d

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PP @plainparanoid.bsky.social · 5d

Found the drawings I made during my psychosis last year. Let’s just say… Picasso would’ve been confused, concerned, and maybe a little lost. Chaotic lines, questionable anatomy, and enough symbolism to fuel three therapy sessions. #schizophrenia

A black-and-white sketch in an open spiral-bound notebook depicts a gargoyle-like creature perched on a pedestal. The creature has horns, large bat-like wings, clawed hands gripping a cracked sphere, and a muscular body with a somber expression.

A black-and-white ink drawing in a spiral-bound sketchbook depicts a rat, lying dead or dying, on its side with multiple small insects crawling around and over it.

A black-and-white ink drawing in a spiral-bound sketchbook shows a bat-like creature in flight holding a severed head of cat like creature with eyes dripping blood. The bat has large wings, pointed ears, and an angry face.

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Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · 4d

Let us pick flowers.
Let us lightly
Wet our hands
In the calm rivers,
So as to learn
Some of their calmness.

Sunflowers forever
Beholding the sun,
We will serenely
Depart from life,
Without even the regret
Of having lived.
- Fernando Pessoa
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀

To Alberto Caeiro

Peaceful, Master, Are all the hours We lose if we place, As in a vase, Flowers on our Losing them.

There are in our life No sorrows or joys. So let us learn, Wisely unworried, Not how to live life But to let it go by,

Keeping forever Peaceful and calm, Taking children For our teachers And letting Nature Fill our eyes...

Along the river Or along the road, Wherever we are, Always remaining In the same, easy Repose of living. Time passes And tells us nothing. We grow old. Let us know how, With a certain mischief, To feel ourselves go.

Taking action Serves no purpose. No one can resist The atrocious god Who always devours His own children.

Let us pick flowers. Let us lightly Wet our hands In the calm rivers, So as to learn Some of their calmness.

Sunflowers forever Beholding the sun, We will serenely Depart from life, Without even the regret Of having lived.

12 JUNE 1914

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