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🍷allison arth🍕 (she / they)
@arthograph.bsky.social
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Little Oracles podcast: https://www.littleoracles.com 🔮 Gentleman Bandit & the Western Cantos poetry RPGs: allisonarth.itch.io 🌈 Cat Devotee with Big Book Energy 📸 IG: @arthograph
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In the midst of everything, a Mitchell for your mental health
Mitchell the cat is a grey and white tuxedo cat with light green eyes and a mask-like pattern on his face. He is sitting on a patterned blanket, staring into the distance. Dappled light cascades across his face.
June 19, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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omg you all did it

scoundrels, ready thy pens 🕺🏻
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June 18, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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HELP ME with a new album wall theme! (pics for context)

holler with a weird phrase, an abstract concept, a poetic notion, a nonsense word, a graphic style, whatever ... bc all I can think of right now is hella literal, like "green" or "really big faces" lol
A Craftsman-era built-in shelf featuring 4 record albums facing out; the built-in is surrounded by art, books, and vintage furnishings. This album wall theme is Into the Void. A Craftsman-era built-in shelf featuring 4 record albums facing out; the built-in is surrounded by art, books, and vintage furnishings. This album wall theme is Kind of Blue. A Craftsman-era built-in shelf featuring 4 record albums facing out; the built-in is surrounded by art, books, and vintage furnishings. This album wall theme is Queens. A Craftsman-era built-in shelf featuring 4 record albums facing out; the built-in is surrounded by art, books, and vintage furnishings. This album wall theme is Good Eats.
June 3, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Album wall refresh! Current theme: Drifting
A vertical Craftsman-style built-in shelf in a living room, with four records facing out: Too Low for Zero by Elton John, ButterFly by Barbra Streisand, Graceland by Paul Simon, and A Night at the Opera by Queen. The shelf is surrounded by teak midcentury furniture and lots of art -- sculpture, paintings, prints -- and a teetering stack of books in a woven basket.
March 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Last call for the Get Loud TTRPG Bundle on Itch! 36 indie games for just $20, wrapping Feb 28 ... just look at this lineup 💀

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A grid of 36 marketing image tiles, each representing one of the 36 indie games in the Get Loud Bundle.
February 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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do you need something soothing
February 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Mitchell casting all kinds of spells, good luck out there everybody
Mitchell is a grey and white medium hair tuxedo cat with a mask-like pattern on his face. He is sitting up on his fluffy blanket (on a leather couch), looking toward the camera, his chin slightly raised and his eyes slightly squinted. His white firework whiskers are illuminated by sunlight. He is a total sweetie.
February 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Time to update the album wall! Current theme: Luv in a Minor Key 💗
A vertical Craftsman-style built-in shelf in a living room, with four records facing out: Kings Left Behind by Ikebe Shakedown, Doom Wop by Prom Queen, The Wild Heart by Stevie Nicks, and Let Love In by Nick Cave. The shelf is surrounded by teak midcentury furniture and lots of art -- sculpture, paintings, prints -- and a teetering stack of books.
February 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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2025 TBR, aka Asynchronous Book Club BBs | The Hard Crowd, Rachel Kushner; Like Love, Maggie Nelson; My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante; A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith; I Do Everything I’m Told, Megan Fernandes; With My Back to the World, Victoria Chang; Sour Cherry, Natalia Theodoridou
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January 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Honors | Lanny, Max Porter; The Water Cure, Sophie Mackintosh; The English Understand Wool, Helen DeWitt; I'm Thinking of Ending Things, Iain Reid; Yellowface, R.F. Kuang; The Glutton, A.K. Blakemore; Icon, ed. Amy Scholder; Idol, Burning, Rin Usami (trans. Asa Yoneda); The Horse, Willy Vlautin
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January 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Hopefuls & Head-Expanders | The Summer Book, Tove Jansson (trans. Thomas Teal); A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, Becky Chambers; The Dominant Animal, Kathryn Scanlan; Rejection, Tony Tulathimutte; Judas Goat, Gabrielle Bates
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January 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Full thoughts on the pod, here's the cheat sheet 🔮🧵

Heavyweights & Heartbreakers | Weather, Jenny Offill; How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, Alexander Chee; Black Girl, Call Home, Jasmine Mans; On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong; We the Animals, Justin Torres; Foster, Claire Keegan
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January 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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✨ NEW SOLO RPG ✨
Lovelorn, Part IV of the Western Cantos Poetry RPG Cycle that brought you Gentleman Bandit and more, is on Itch!

Explore the intersection of heartache and hope in this solo, hybrid poetry-journaling game set in the American West. Link in thread ❤️‍🩹
An illustrated cover of the solo poetry RPG Lovelorn, featuring a silhouettes figure in Western dress walking toward warm-toned watercolor textured hills covered in scrub, and a huge yellow sunset. The word Lovelorn is featured in partially faded type, like a woodblock print or a brand. Cover illustration by John Harper.
January 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Cuddle Mitch / Creeper Mitch
Mitchell is a grey and white tuxedo cat with a mask-like pattern on his face. He is snuggled in an unmade bed, legs splayed. Mitchell is a grey and white tuxedo cat with a mask-like pattern on his face. He is peeking out from behind a partially closed pocket door, his eyes big and plaintive. His all-white front ruff is extra fluffy.
January 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Current double-decker album wall theme: Blue Ruin
A built-in vertical display shelf, framed out in a Craftsman style; the interior is painted deep navy, and the framing is white. Brass rods hold the records in place. Various art pieces and vintage furniture surround the shelf. Four LPs face out, top to bottom: Undercurrent, Bill Evans; Hydra, Toto; Hit Me Hard and Soft, Billie Eilish; Madman Across the Water, Elton John. A built-in vertical display shelf, framed out in a Craftsman style; the interior is painted deep navy, and the framing is white. Brass rods hold the records in place. Various art pieces and vintage furniture surround the shelf. Four LPs face out, top to bottom: Regatta de Blanc, The Police; Robot Face, Caravan Palace; Richard Marx, Richard Marx; Ocean Rain, Echo and the Bunnymen.
December 14, 2024 at 12:34 AM
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Current album display theme is Chaotic Queens
A tall built-in record storage shelf in a home, framed in a Craftsman style. (This is where the wall furnace used to be.) The shelf is painted dark navy, almost black, and long brass rods hold records in place. The four albums displayed are The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess by Chappel Roan, feat. a photo of Roan in her signature drag makeup and dressed as a pageant queen, sash included; Pearl by Janis Joplin, feat. Joplin lounging on a vintage settee, holding a bottle of liquor and wearing wide leg red pants, a psychedelic blousy top, and a crown of ostrich feathers; Diva by Annie Lennox, feat. Lennox staring intently into the camera and wearing a showgirl costume; and Live Through This by Hole, feat. an image of a smiling pageant winner, whose mascara has run, her rhinestone crown is askew, and she is clutching a bouquet of roses.
December 7, 2024 at 9:44 PM
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For the Unapologetic Weirdo / Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh. A surreal, dread-filled novel of obsession and slow unraveling; queer and intense, with some of my favorite writing of the last few years. For those who like strange: Mariana Enriquez, Iain Reid, Pola Oloixarac.
A photo of the hardcover version of Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh. A still life painting of a bottle and glass of wine, a loaf of bread, and a knife on a white tablecloth; the title and byline appear in acid green lettering at top and bottom of the cover.
November 30, 2024 at 7:26 PM
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For the Big-Hearted Bestie / The Friend by Sigrid Nunez. A woman's best friend dies and leaves his aging Great Dane in her care; a novel of missing and rediscovering that reads like memoir in the best way. For fans of Splinters by Leslie Jamison & Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner.
A photo of the audiobook cover of The Friend by Sigrid Nunez. A bright, multicolored illustrated geometric box surrounds a line drawing of a Great Dane; the title and byline appear in block text around the dog.
November 30, 2024 at 7:26 PM
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For the Chaotic Queen / Hera Lindsay Bird by Hera Lindsay Bird. Poetry for the girlies and the goblins: messy, hilarious, unhinged. A Fleabag-esque, Chappell Roan-y gem with idgaf Halle Butler, Melissa Broder, or Ottessa Moshfegh main character vibes.
A photo of a paperback copy of Hera Lindsay Bird by Hera Lindsay Bird on a yellow and white knit blanket. A full-bleed photograph of a little girl on a field of gravel; she is wearing a yellow slicker and is stooping to pick up something unseen; she is turned away from the camera.
November 30, 2024 at 7:26 PM
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For the Heartsore Homie / Grief Is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter. A surreal, hybrid prose-poetry novel about loss and catharsis; a beautiful portrait of love and memory. I read this four times in a row and I'll read it every year for the rest of my life.
A photo of the paperback version of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter, set among a base of yellow tulips. A vertically split yellow and grey cover, with three illustrated windows on the left: one with shades fully drawn, one with shades half-drawn; one with no shades. The title and byline appear in small, thin lettering on the lower right.
November 30, 2024 at 7:26 PM
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For the Mega Meta-Head / If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga. A multi-POV novel about addiction, entitlement, and colonialism in their direct and meta modes; by-turns cryptic, mimetic, and twisty. Shades of experimental, in the vein of Sheila Heti, Patricia Lockwood, and Jenny Offill.
A photo of the audiobook cover of If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga. It features block lettering over the painting A Bischari Warrior (1872) by Jean-Léon Gérôme, a young man with dark curly hair and very little facial hair, wearing a draped garment and holding a sword and shield.
November 30, 2024 at 7:26 PM
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Five books I won't hesitate to give this holiday season, including recs for your fave fam, friends, and freaks: details in thread and on latest Little Oracles podcast 🔮 #BookSky

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A grid of images featuring physical copies or audiobook covers of the following books: Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh; Grief Is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter; If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga; Hera Lindsay Bird by Hera Lindsay Bird; The Friend by Sigrid Nunez.
November 30, 2024 at 7:26 PM
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how much is too much Mitch
Mitchell is a cat with grey and white fur, light green eyes, black nose, and a mask-like pattern on his face. He is lounging like Caligula on a cream-naugahyde-and-hobnail midcentury footstool in front of my grandmother's 1940s waterfall vanity. He is looking directly at the camera; his giant paws are draped off the edges of the stool. He is a queen.
November 17, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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Mitchell says revolution
Mitchell is a grey and white cat with a black nose and a mask-like pattern on his face. He is sitting sidesaddle on a leather sofa; his mouth is open and his tongue is out. His firework white whiskers are silhouetted in the light from the windows behind him. Mitchell is a grey and white cat with a black nose, light green eyes, and a mask-like pattern on his face. He is sitting on a console made of planks from a high school basketball court, next to a mid century upholstered steelcase chair stacked with blankets and pillows. Behind him is a vertical display of LPs, with Bad Company (self-titled), Wings At the Speed of Sound, and the Superfly soundtrack are visible. His mouth is open and his tongue is out. Mitchell is a grey and white cat with a black nose and a mask-like pattern on his face. He is stretched out fully on a wood floor (he's like 3' long!); his mouth is open.
November 15, 2024 at 8:50 PM
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Hey there, new folks! 🌈 Welcome to the home of:

• The Little Oracles podcast: creative practice, process, theory, and thought + big book energy
• The Western Cantos poetry RPG cycle (incl. the solo fave Gentleman Bandit) and other lyrical, lexical RPGs: allisonarth.itch.io
• Mitchell the cat
Mitchell, a fluffy grey and white cat with a black nose, light green eyes, and a mask-like pattern on his face, sits on a record player, obscuring the album on display (Billy Joel's Storm Front). He is surrounded by art: paintings on the walls, photography, wooden and other sculptural objet. He is looking away from the camera, contemplative.
November 12, 2024 at 10:25 PM