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N.A. Chapman 🍄
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✍️ Writer & Community Organizer • 🏳️‍🌈 Neuroqueer & Disabled • ⛰️ Appalachia (Massawomeck, Manahoac, and Shawnee lands) • she/they

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N.A. Chapman 🍄 @waylarking.bsky.social · Oct 7
Are you hungry for stories? Craving hope? Seeking wonder? I'm re-launching my blog as a weekly poetry newsletter. Each week I'll post my field notes on finding hope through nature and stories. 📚 Read below or subscribe for free. Allons-y.

#poetry #nature #naturewriting #solarpunk #hopepunk
Welcome to Entangled Worlds
Field Notes on Hope in a World Unraveling
entangled-worlds.ghost.io
waylarking.bsky.social
🌳 Take the oak’s great lesson: we have many names along the paths we tread, and most do not belong to us alone.

New post + poem up on my free Ghost newsletter: entangled-worlds.ghost.io/field-notes-...

#nature #naturewriting #poetry #naturepoetry #Appalachia #hopepunk #solarpunk
Oak Tree Feeding. The oak has a name for each of its hungers. Crawling devourer. Mouthless, soaring under the summer moon. (Luna moth). Strange sunless cousin that bores in roots and befriends mushrooms. (Bear corn). Immune riddle that once wrote many stories. (Oak gall wasp). Thousands of names stack up in the oak's long memory and each one beats out a wisdom born by deep roots and thousands of suns: to eat is to feed, to survive is to be more than one, to be alive is to be many. So, when a single child goes hungry, it is as if we have forgotten our own name.
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
waylarking.bsky.social
It's saw-whet migration season. 🦉 😎🦉 Allons-y.

New post + poem up on my free Ghost newsletter: entangled-worlds.ghost.io/field-notes-...

#nature #naturewriting #poetry #naturepoetry #Appalachia #hopepunk #solarpunk
Saturn rises beacon-bright. Feather-light, you must away.
November 7, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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smenor.com
Since it’s apparently been forgotten substack platforms Nazis

I will never follow a link from there an if you’ve built a following there you should find a way to go somewhere else
Substack’s “Nazi problem” won’t go away after push notification apology
Substack may be legitimizing neo-Nazis as “thought leaders,” researcher warns.
arstechnica.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:46 AM
waylarking.bsky.social
🦉 Let's take a page from one of the smallest owls in the world: we know the way home.

New post + poem up on my free Ghost newsletter: entangled-worlds.ghost.io/field-notes-...

#nature #naturewriting #poetry #naturepoetry #Appalachia #hopepunk #solarpunk
It is easy to feel lost in such times. Society crumbles away beneath us. But everywhere I see those building the world we want to live in. Feeding the hungry. Housing the homeless. Protecting creatures no one else even notices. Fighting fiercely for lands others would trade for pennies. We don’t need to find a better world. It is already here.
November 6, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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blackamazon.bsky.social
I want the rest of us to know this.

I want folks to speak to their lives , to the diversity of who we are, the sustenance of our future and the immediacy of this moment

That if you start talking and seeing and LISTENING to people

who work ?

We can do this
erinbiba.bsky.social Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 8d
Can’t stop thinking about all the robber baron fucks that held secret meetings and spent MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in bribes and campaign investments and attack ads and media manipulation trying to tank Mamdani currently having the dawning realization that their money is completely and utterly useless.
November 5, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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haymarketbooks.org
Another world is possible, if we fight for it
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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wickdchiq.bsky.social
Everyone is hope scrolling now
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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altnps.bsky.social
Raise a glass to freedom! 🍻
November 5, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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sydney-bauer.com
I cannot stress that the work that people have been doing for years in the southeast is paying off and needs to be celebrated.
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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grist.org
Digging for minerals in the Pacific’s graveyard: The $20 trillion fight over who controls the seabed.

“The soul of our ancestors, when they leave this world, they go into the deep.”

grist.org/energy/deep-...

#Hawaiian #Hawaii #Ocean #Minerals #Mining
Digging for minerals in the Pacific's graveyard: The $20 trillion fight over who controls the seabed
“The soul of our ancestors, when they leave this world, they go into the deep.”
grist.org
October 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
waylarking.bsky.social
🌎 Together, we're forging paths to better worlds. Want to come along? Allons-y.

New post + poem up on my free Ghost newsletter: entangled-worlds.ghost.io/field-notes-4-fish-crow-calling/

#nature #naturewriting #poetry #naturepoetry #Appalachia #hopepunk #solarpunk
White text on a textured green background reads: That is the paths we tread here together, dearest waylarks - paths toward better worlds, always just beyond the next bend. The world around us closes its tired eyes but what dreams may come then. What strange meanderings of light reveal themselves in the creeping shadows. What new worlds are revealed when the old one crumbles around us.
October 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
waylarking.bsky.social
🪶 The fish crow throws its net of falling light. What may it catch?

New post + poem up on my free Ghost newsletter: entangled-worlds.ghost.io/field-notes-4-fish-crow-calling/

#nature #naturewriting #poetry #naturepoetry #Appalachia #hopepunk #solarpunk
Black text on a textured cream background reads: Fish Crow Calling. The fish crow  calls and tugs in its net of falling light. The net tumbles and spills, rays splashing onto  the golden shallows in the canopy,  wriggling shadows sinking into  emerald depths. The crow hunts  with black eyes  among its spilled catch.  There! Black text on a textured cream background continues: Scurrying free,  hope dwindling. It plunges   into a hidden crevice  and waits  for the rippling splintered sea  of spring.
October 21, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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loisbeckett.bsky.social
Charlottesville finally took down its Confederate monuments in 2021.

The statue of Robert E. Lee was melted down.

The statue of Stonewall Jackson was given to artist Kara Walker.

This is what she did with it:

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Breathtaking, unsettling, healing: a new exhibit by Black US artists transforms Confederate monuments
The sweeping exhibition Monuments opens in Los Angeles on 23 October and is on view through May
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
October 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
1. Washington DC

#NoKings 👑
October 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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When you use an Oxford comma, you're doing your part to make the world beautiful, meaningful, and understandable.
October 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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October 17, 2025 at 4:18 AM
waylarking.bsky.social
An original collage called "Entanglement."

#nature #collage #digitalcollage #naturecollage #hopepunk #solarpunk
A collage of photos sits on a dark textured background. Blazing orange mushrooms burst from the center, rooting deep into tree roots shining with turquoise. And all around this entanglement, blue butterflies flutter and sit and wing. It is a blazing entanglement of life.
October 16, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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grist.org
Here's your daily dose of climate fiction.

Mousedeer Versus the Ghost Ships.

When automated ships threaten their recovering ecosystem, it falls to Ah Ma and the crew of the Mousedeer to fight back.

grist.org/climate-fict...

#Fiction #Solarpunk #Climate #BookSky #ClimateFiction #Teacher
Mousedeer Versus the Ghost Ships
Climate fiction: When automated ships threaten their recovering ecosystem, it falls to Ah Ma and the crew of the Mousedeer to fight back.
grist.org
October 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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grist.org
As data centers upend electric grids, the largest operator in the US is facing down a revolt from state officials.

A coalition of 11 governors has threatened to withdraw from grid operator PJM.

grist.org/climate-ener...

#Climate #BosPoli #AI #Data #Electricity #Utilities
As data centers upend electric grids, the largest operator in the US is facing down a revolt from state officials
A coalition of 11 governors has threatened to withdraw from grid operator PJM.
grist.org
October 16, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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stelliform.press
It's pub day for THE OTHER SHORE, Ursula K. Le Guin winner Rebecca Campbell's ARBOREALITY follow-up and debut collection. In 10 stories set in dark west coast forests and their ruins, this book is exquisite literary spec fic perfect for spooky season. It got a PW star!

www.stelliform.press...
Publishers Weekly starred review of Rebecca Campbell's THE OTHER SHORE.
October 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social
It can't be overemphasised how much of a disaster is happening in western AK right now. Kipnuk and Kwigillingok are evacuating, with people only allowed to bring one bag and being forced to leave everything else (including their pets).
Hundreds airlifted from storm-battered Western Alaska villages in historic evacuation
The Alaska Airlines Center arena at the University of Alaska Anchorage will shelter 300 displaced residents starting Wednesday evening, the American Red Cross said.
www.adn.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:46 PM
waylarking.bsky.social
🍄 Like mushrooms on a fallen tree, let's decompose grief to grow tomorrow's hope.

New post + poem up on my free Ghost newsletter: entangled-worlds.ghost.io/field-notes-...

#nature #naturewriting #poetry #naturepoetry #Appalachia #hopepunk #solarpunk
We bleed. We weep. We root. Then, we bloom.
October 16, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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What should the artist be in these times? Fungal. 🍄

New post + poem up at my free Ghost newsletter: entangled-worlds.ghost.io/field-notes-...

#nature #naturewriting #poetry #naturepoetry #Appalachia #hopepunk #solarpunk
That is our purpose, I think, as writers, as artists, as wanderers and waylarks right now. We feed on these dark times. We point to safe refuges in the dark of fertile soil. Then, we herald light’s return.
October 14, 2025 at 10:42 PM