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C.S. Voll

@stephlepht.bsky.social

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An author, historian, and gamer. Also likes to ponder the meaning of everything. Medium: https://medium.com/@csvoll Books: https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/18771854.C_S_Voll Superjump: https://www.superjumpmagazine.com/author/csvoll/

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 6h

#Unearthly

the cries,
the wails the soul makes
in tragedy—
when all that once
made story of chaos
is ripped away,
and all that’s left
is untold

loss

#vss365

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Mike Maihack @mikemaihack.com · 2d

Day 14: RETRO 🕹️

#SuperBatober #Inktober #inktober2025

SUPERBATOBER 14: RETRO -- Babs (Batgirl) is scoring high on a classic Super TRON arcade machine! Kara (Supergirl) flies in to check things out, a red light trail trailing behind her. Meanwhile, Streaky is curiously checking out the magical sparking happening behind the arcade's wiring.

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C.S. Voll @stephlepht.bsky.social · 5h

"Your #unearthly gaze captures me again."

"Sorry. I'll look at something else then."

"This is not the time to play coy, darling."

"Now I'm confused."

"That's the story of our marriage."

#vss365

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T. (Tammy) Greenwood @tgwood505.bsky.social · 1d

My daily #peace offering. #vermont #photography #photographer #photographers #nature #protectyourpeace #reflections #nature #mothernature #naturephotography #northeastkingdom

Orange and pink sunset. Corrugated clouds reflected in a still pond.

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Rachel @rachelnewcombe8.bsky.social · 1d

Bugs, insects, creepers, you fear them all but for one, the beautiful beetle.

It must be the wings.

#vss365 #Beetle

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 3d

Star-shaped tile with a stylized flowering plant, anonymous, c. 1250 - c. 1299
Persia

(Rijksmuseum)

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C.S. Voll @stephlepht.bsky.social · 1d

Sublimate in the sun while
A #beetle sits on a sill
To wait for the act that will
Not shade a sweltering day

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Ways With Weirds @wayswithweirds.bsky.social · 2d

A crop circle I made at Prawle Point in Devon. I was fascinated with crop circles in the 90’s, but didn’t start making them until 2013. I started to incorporate them into rituals to shed the accumulation of grief I felt as an undertaker. The first chapter of “What Remains..” recounts this practice.

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C.S. Voll @stephlepht.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes it's fun to let the reader complete the picture. It makes me happy to hear that, too.

C.S. Voll @stephlepht.bsky.social · 1d

I know, right? I hope you liked it.

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Dale Tudge? Humor! @daletudgehumor.bsky.social · 2d

"What's the difference between the Vacuumatron 9000 and the Vacuumatron 9000 Deluxe?"

"Ah! A discerning question, sir. The Deluxe model comes complete with the word Deluxe."

"So... that's it?"

"Certainly not, sir. The Vacuumatron 9000, our base model, does not include the word #Deluxe."

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Tales from the Mabinogion @mabinogiongame.bsky.social · 3d

#MythologyMonday
Cadair Idris is one of Wales' most beautiful and storied peaks. Legend says that a night upon its slopes may grant the gift of 'Awen', or divine poetic inspiration. But it comes also with a risk: some who sleep there will wake not as poets, but as madmen!

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C.S. Voll @stephlepht.bsky.social · 2d

Bullets riddle a sitting room. A #deluxe tea set sits on a table, still unscathed. Cushion pieces dance through the air. A phone rings in vain.

#vss365

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Tamara Jade @tamaaya.net · 4d

There was some really neat rare retro stuff at the retro booth at PAX, including Famicom and N64 prototypes, a Bandai Pippin, and a Pippin dev unit.

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CliveReed @clivereed.bsky.social · 3d

I felt unknown things
novel and wonderful
sitting down beneath
no distance in between
the maple tree blushing red
with undertones of green
#vss365 #undertones #poetry

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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 3d

A sea turtle with a lot of dots, from when I had time for dotting

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C.S. Voll @stephlepht.bsky.social · 3d

There was an #undertone of rage
In her voice when she said that no
One was allowed into the room
While she cleaned it with a bent broom

Her canine audience barked
Their disapproval in reply

#vss365

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 4d

I seem to have entered my 'helplessly taking pictures of trees' period of the year.

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Kymaero @kymaero.bsky.social · 6d

you have the nerve
to come to me now,
when I have weathered
the winds of time,
all #verve drained into
the ground, my roots
deep and dying. to a sapling,
hope is nectar. it is nothing
to the dying.

#vss365 #poetry

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2000s @popculture2000s.bsky.social · 6d

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C.S. Voll @stephlepht.bsky.social · 6d

“You danced with so much #verve.”

“I was trying to get away from you.”

“Yet here you stand.”

He toyed with his toupée. “The thing is, I ran into some worse — the lesser of two evils is more palatable.”

“Palatable to whom?”

His eyes darted around the room.

#vss365

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D-Mac Ottawa @dmacottawa.bsky.social · 6d

Morning on the Rideau Canal, Ottawa. #fall #nature #trees #water #city #travel #biking #MyOttawa #photography

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ⴽⴰⵔⵉⵎⴰ (Karima) @koelh.bsky.social · 7d

his eyes—
unwritten
chapters
of forbidden thought,

his voice,
a study
in exquisite ruin.

wine
on his lips,
truth and desire
share the same glass—

a #libertine soul
to me,
as the night
forgives all.

#vss365 #poetry #writingcommunity

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 28d

This sums up my writing pretty well

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C.S. Voll @stephlepht.bsky.social · 7d

Underneath the sea a
Man reads a #libertine
Novel sitting at his
Desk in a submarine

Civilization is
A distant memory
Beneath the depths that still
All concerns in a heart

#vss365

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