Toby
@tobymacnutt.bsky.social
Poet, dancer, textile artist ✨ they/them disabled trans queer
It is a deeply unfair thought combination and someone should patch this bug
December 16, 2025 at 8:13 PM
It is a deeply unfair thought combination and someone should patch this bug
*faceplant, flailing* what else... is a government... for... my guy........
(no wonder they keep trying to dismantle it I guess, since it's for... nothing....)
(no wonder they keep trying to dismantle it I guess, since it's for... nothing....)
December 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
*faceplant, flailing* what else... is a government... for... my guy........
(no wonder they keep trying to dismantle it I guess, since it's for... nothing....)
(no wonder they keep trying to dismantle it I guess, since it's for... nothing....)
And lastly, @smallwondersmag.com published "An Ache With No Name", a poem about haunted ribs and community and continuity and access intimacy which I am really darn proud of.
smallwondersmag.com/piece/an-ach...
(CN some blood, fictional medical procedure)
smallwondersmag.com/piece/an-ach...
(CN some blood, fictional medical procedure)
An Ache With No Name - Small Wonders
They do not have words for the pain / and do not speak to you of healing.
smallwondersmag.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:22 PM
And lastly, @smallwondersmag.com published "An Ache With No Name", a poem about haunted ribs and community and continuity and access intimacy which I am really darn proud of.
smallwondersmag.com/piece/an-ach...
(CN some blood, fictional medical procedure)
smallwondersmag.com/piece/an-ach...
(CN some blood, fictional medical procedure)
"The Tailor and the Boatman" is a little gay textile folktale, tender and intimate, at The Orange & Bee (are they on here? idk)
theorangebee.substack.com/p/the-tailor...
theorangebee.substack.com/p/the-tailor...
The tailor and the boatman
Issue four: short fiction by Toby MacNutt
theorangebee.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:22 PM
"The Tailor and the Boatman" is a little gay textile folktale, tender and intimate, at The Orange & Bee (are they on here? idk)
theorangebee.substack.com/p/the-tailor...
theorangebee.substack.com/p/the-tailor...
"Set Alight" came out in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social at the very start of the year. Weird space travel, weird ceramic ship, weird sentience, weird senses, all weird becoming:
kaleidotrope.net/winter-2025/...
kaleidotrope.net/winter-2025/...
“Set Alight” by Toby MacNutt
kaleidotrope.net
December 16, 2025 at 7:22 PM
"Set Alight" came out in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social at the very start of the year. Weird space travel, weird ceramic ship, weird sentience, weird senses, all weird becoming:
kaleidotrope.net/winter-2025/...
kaleidotrope.net/winter-2025/...
It would look good in your kitchen!
December 16, 2025 at 7:07 PM
It would look good in your kitchen!
I have no idea who these people are and there are so many of them 😭
December 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I have no idea who these people are and there are so many of them 😭
(and I've been reading them via library so I can't just pick the prior one up off my shelf real quick 💀)
December 16, 2025 at 7:04 PM
(and I've been reading them via library so I can't just pick the prior one up off my shelf real quick 💀)
(do I still write them to express my opinion, yes, do I think that a long plain language essay with citations and personal anecdotes would be worth it, sadly no)
December 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
(do I still write them to express my opinion, yes, do I think that a long plain language essay with citations and personal anecdotes would be worth it, sadly no)
Yep 😭 I continually have to stifle the autistic impulse to be like, ok clearly someone just hasn't explained it to the people in power well enough, so if I write a really good letter.......
December 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Yep 😭 I continually have to stifle the autistic impulse to be like, ok clearly someone just hasn't explained it to the people in power well enough, so if I write a really good letter.......
language and cognitive! 😤
December 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
language and cognitive! 😤
this stuff makes me so mad, as a highly literate person who still never got food stamps when I was hungry & housing-insecure because the application asked questions I couldn't figure out how to answer, and who knows the language struggles of many of the people who need services most
December 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
this stuff makes me so mad, as a highly literate person who still never got food stamps when I was hungry & housing-insecure because the application asked questions I couldn't figure out how to answer, and who knows the language struggles of many of the people who need services most
oh my god not even social security is 74pg
December 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
oh my god not even social security is 74pg
It seems to have worked out, anyway!
December 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
It seems to have worked out, anyway!
Yeah!!! 🤩 Celebration time!
December 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Yeah!!! 🤩 Celebration time!
🥰
(finally decided I missed being where the cool kids were 🤣)
(finally decided I missed being where the cool kids were 🤣)
December 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
🥰
(finally decided I missed being where the cool kids were 🤣)
(finally decided I missed being where the cool kids were 🤣)
You already had bacteria try to eat your ass, you don't need any more exciting unusual problems!
December 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
You already had bacteria try to eat your ass, you don't need any more exciting unusual problems!
I don't have a book tbr problem but wow do I have a games tbp problem 😅
December 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I don't have a book tbr problem but wow do I have a games tbp problem 😅
I've been meaning to play that for literal yearsss whoops 🫣
December 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I've been meaning to play that for literal yearsss whoops 🫣
So soon!! Congratulations!
December 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
So soon!! Congratulations!