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sheryl
@darktapestry.bsky.social
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aka Suriel. maker, widow, spoonie, dog mom, former goth rockstar, backyard birder, local cryptid. ace/pan, she/her. Fuck genAI.
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Oh shit, there was an even prettier sticker on the mail-in ballot instructions
A lovely pink, purple and green sticker that says I VOTED in English and Spanish. In the center of the sticker is a Phoenix, with several species of cacti and succulents to either side. In the background are rays of light similar to those on the Arizona flag.
November 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Did the thing!
A round blue, white, and red sticker that says I VOTED in the white bit. It sits on the back of a very fluffy small black dog who is watching an off-camera sunbeam intently.
November 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Post a bird announcing Dick Cheney is dead. 🪶
A male great tailed grackle stands on the rim of a green bird bath in a desert back yard. His wings are up and tail spread, and he is screaming at the female standing opposite him, who is looking blankly at him. It's exactly like either of the club memes. (I'm convinced this is a mating ritual & started the grackle family who have for years now been fixtures at my baths and feeders 🖤)
November 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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do I get extra goth points for uploading a Bela Lugosi poster on Halloween?
a poster page on ThePosterDB.com for Bela Lugosi (1882) (Acting) It shows a movie poster that says BELA LUGOSI COLLECTION and features a very dapper Mr Lugosi with slicked-back hair, colorful bow tie, light-colored suit, a half-smoked cigar held in his upraised left hand, and an small smile that says he knows you think he's hot, it's ok, you can admit it The accompanying text says by suriel Uploaded: October 31, 2025 Language: English Type: Person Variation: Original Dimensions: 1000 x 1500 Notes undead undead undead below the text are icons for Download, Link, View Set Page, Edit, Edit Set, Recycle, Star, Heart, Share, Upload and Report
October 31, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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I'm so glad I bought 11lbs* of 100% wool clothing this week 🫠

*7lbs of that is vintage navy peacoat so it's not quite as outrageous as it sounds, but it'll be December before I can wear it at this rate 😭
A screenshot showing the upcoming weather. All the highs are in the mid-80s F (about 30C) Actual text: Today 86°/57° Humidity 28% Wind 3 mph Precip Chance 0% Saturday 11/1 86°/58° Humidity 27% Wind 2 mph Precip Chance 0% Sunday 11/2 87°/59° Humidity 28% Wind 3 mph Precip Chance 0% Monday 11/3 84°/60° Humidity 30% Wind 2 mph Precip Chance 0% Tuesday 11/4 85°/58° Humidity 28% Wind 3 mph Precip Chance 0%
October 31, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Synology walked back their asinine "you can only use OUR hard drives" policy, so I can actually use the 80tb of 3rd party drives from my old nas 🤘🏻🎉🎊🥳

... and now to wait about a week for them to be added to the storage pool 😭
A status update for a network attached storage device. It says Volume 1 Adding drives... 0.47% (Step: 1/2) It started this process two hours ago. See y'all on the other side 👍🏻
October 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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OMG OMG spotted my first official raven today! I heard one in the neighborhood last year, but this morning, it was croaking right next to my house, and I watched it fly away 🖤🐦‍⬛
Merlin's "You found a Lifer!!!" screen, with a photo of a fat, glossy raven perche song a dead log. The identification below says "Common Raven" and the Latin name, Corvus corax
October 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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You guys

My dog

He is so cute and so weird

Also that's literally what I bought the rocks for so 👍🏻
A small fluffy black and red dog stands on a rlsmall boulder with his paw on an unseen stump, stretching his nose up to get a better sniff of the flowers on the sage bush. There is a sum-drenched block wall behind him. He really is unbelievably fluffy. that tail, y'all. Those butt floofs!
October 3, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Having a couch day because awful pain, but daddy grackle has been stalking gothily around my yard, looking both menacing with those fierce eyes, and slightly ridiculous with that stumpy, recently-damaged tail
A male Great Tailed Grackle, whose tail is currently not very great, stares straight at the camera with slightly menacing yellow eyes under a grumpy brow. I think he's cranky about his tail. Side view of a male Great Tailed Grackle stalking around a plastic grass lawn. He has bright yellow eyes and a ridiculous stump of a tail in place of his usual magnificent long tail. He does not look happy about it. A male Great Tailed Grackle stands on a plastic grass lawn, in front of two boulders on rocky ground. His head is raised and his butt is turned so we can see his sad, sad, not-great tail feathers.
September 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Bass player, can confirm
a meme with a terrifying Halloween costume package. The title is The Scariest Costume of All, and the package says Spirit of Halloween Staircase + Ampeg 8x10 and shows a small child wearing a costume that looks like a steep set of wooden stairs. On the second step is a gigantic bass cabinet that I am able to confirm weighs three hundred million pounds and in real life is taller than that child. Absolutely spine chilling.
September 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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😑
A black dry erase board with the words "it has been 0 days since the last scorpion incident" in blue and yellow marker
August 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Many things are terrible but at least
A black dry erase board with the words "it has been 46 days since the last scorpion incident" written in it in blue and yellow marker
August 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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making posters for my silly Plex collections is legit one of my biggest dopamine generators these days

that and coming up with silly collections in the first place 😁
a picture of a large 4-engine propeller plane in a steep bank to the left over green rolling hills. the words on the poster are "I Know the Guy Who Flew the Plane" because I used to work with the guy who flew all the prop planes in the big-prop-plane-having movies in the 90s, like Operation Dumbo Drop & Con-Air.
August 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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went out a little earlier than usual to refill the bird feeders, and a little dove was side-eyeing me from the wall while I filled the tray feeder, neck outstretched & eyes like 👀 and when I went back inside, they were instantly on the tray grabbing a bedtime snack 😁
a small eurasian collared dove perches on the rim of a brown tray feeder that appears to hover in the air between a forked green palo verde trunk and a riotous sage bush. it is bobbing down for a bite of peanut or seed
August 17, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Excavating my second floor for a renovation project & found *so many* Reliquary t-shirts, y'all

Expect a ridiculous sale shortly
Two stacks of plastic plastic storage bins, with 3 bins in each stack. The lids of the bins are open and they are nested into each other. The top two bins each have a bright green computer printed label cause that's how I roll. The label on the left bin says "LOGO FITTED L" and contains black shirts printed with the Reliquary logo in white, while the right label says "ANIME FITTED S" and contains black shirts with 4-color printing in which I and my bandmates have been drawn in an anime style. All the bins are filled to varying heights with tshirts in plastic bags, with size and type labels on the tops of each bag, cause that's how I roll. Sadly this is about half of what I found.
August 14, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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This is fine
A weather station display showing today's date, a temperature of 125.2 degrees fahrenheit (50.7C), 11 percent humidity, and the unhelpful news that all of that "feels like" 123.1 degrees fahrenheit (a frosty 50.5C)
August 7, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Had to say goodbye to my sweet Trillian, my beloved Trilly Bills, my silly Trilly Billy 💔
An orange tabby cat with bright green eyes lays on a black-clad lap
July 27, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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At least this time it wasn't in the shower 😑
A black dry erase board says IT HAS BEEN 0 DAYS SINCE THE LAST SCORPION INCIDENT
July 10, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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✅ nerd pilgrimage
✅ bucket list item
✅ sprinkled some of my sweetie's ashes
✅ action figure photoshoot
❤️❤️❤️
A large metal Stargate stands on a stone platform, reached via five stone steps The gate symbols are a combination of holes and lines of welding, super tactile Five Stargate action figures in front of the Stargate. From left to right, Jack O'Neil's elbow, John Shepherd, Rodney McCay, Vala Maldoran and Teal'c The metal sign identifying this as Martin Mayrbāurl's Stargate in Kappern, Austria
June 30, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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How I spent my Sunday afternoon
June 29, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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The staff today are ADORABLE
A man in leather shorts and suspenders smiles hugely. Out of shot: knee high socks Four women in traditional Austrian dresses and aprons. Three face forward, in red and black; green and white; and white and taupe. A fourth woman faces away from us in light blue-grey and white.
June 29, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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I have finally achieved Käsespätzle 🤘🏻
A small enameled dish with pale blue handles sits on a plate. The dish is full of incredibly soft noodles held together with melted white cheese, studded with fried leeks, and topped with parsley. It tastes even better than it looks.
June 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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WHAT THE FUCK, GRAZ
A gigantic black spider in a white marble bathroom
June 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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1998 vs 2025
A line of washing machines, with a male attendant at the back, then a black haired woman in a white top and black pants, and an elderly woman in white top and blue pants. There are red-and-white checked cloths on the folding table. No one at our hotel spoke English so we had to ask around & finally found this place up a steep hill & in the inner courtyard of a bunch of apartments. We three women were part of the support crew for a 1948 Lockheed Constellation touring Europe. This was in Baden Baden, Germany. A sleek, modern Waschsalon, with bright green walls and a row of silver washing machines. Payment is automated and by card.
June 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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The view from our hotel is kinda mid
There are roofs and statues in the foreground; in the background is Hohenzollern Salzburg and a spectacular mountain range
June 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM