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Violet Coal
@violetcoalwrites.bsky.social
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Working-class writer. ND sex worker. Sharing stories of survival, trauma, & triumph. Crafting essays, fiction & more. Trying to thrive not survive. Words not body. She/her.
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Thanks so much for the shares and donations.

I've had a quiet and peaceful weekend with my kids. I really love this painting by my daughter, inspired by the show Uncanny. I only have a WIP from my son's Ender dragon drawing but i'll get a photo of the finished piece tomorrow because it is amazing!
Drawing and painting of mysterious character in red cloak. No features visible Drawing of minecraft ender dragon
November 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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But my children deserve some sort of Christmas experience with their mother. Please consider helping us. These four gifts on my list that are reduced dramatically would be fantastic gifts for my kids. I cannot afford to get them, even at their reduced cost. They will be up in price again soon.
Furby toy £27.49 down from £59.99 in black friday amazon deal/ Vatos Science kit £39.99 down from £59.99. mysteries of universe book £8 from £20 Leaprfrog kids hoover 24.99 from 37.99
November 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Partner pointed out how surprising it is that these aren't electric vehicles (unless we are mistaken and they are. But i think they're landrover defenders.)

Being a big show like Celebrity Traitors, using electric cars would surely be a better public image? It clearly isn't out of budget.
4 land rover defenders in a row outside a big stately home or castle even
November 17, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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I reached a marimo moss ball and it is very cute!
A scruffy moss ball. Looks like a normal green ball of fuzzy moss/algae but browning and a bit dry and not ball like Much cleaner and happier moss ball, not a ball again quite yet (oval) but looks much healthier
July 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Already happened to me (i am a sw in uk that tried to set an account 4 weeks ago and definitely didnt do anything spammy. Had no problems with this account though - which is my freelance writing account - despite doing lots of follows in short amount of time.)
Email from me to bluesky moderation. Hi im not spam. Im not sure what i did to get noted as it? Only joined today? They say hi there, To continue providing you access and enhamce the bluesky experience, we've implemented robust safety measures to safeguard all users. To ensure compliance with blueskys terms of service, we kindly request that you respond with the following info for your account. - a photo of yourself holding a valid government-issued ID, along with a side that clearly displays this code, written on a piece of paper. Then there is a code.
July 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Blue green heart rock (to be identified when I find the paper i lost) sat in a tree
July 12, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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2yo picked out 4 random letters from my tub.

I noticed they could ONLY be arranged into the word HARM!

Then she painted on the wheelie bin. The letter 'g', if I'm not mistaken.

She plans something. I should warn Grandma.

She's my in law, though, so maybe I shall keep it to myself.

#toddlerfiles
Wooden letters randomly scattered R M H A Green wheelie bin with the letter g painted in red paint
July 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Doom scroll break...

5 points if anyone can spot the surpise visitor.
A small art scene rests on a book An upturned plant pot with a gem stone caterpillar on top facing a tiny canvas on a stand. To the right is a 8cm ish little painted wooden plant, a 3d daisy, with a sharp goofy grin and different sized eyes. It is silly looking , clumsy, cute Obviously a daisy with character. The caterpillar appears to be painting the daisy - on the canvas in front of it is a little painting of it. Right at the bottom of the photo is a small flying non stinging wasp thing. Hover fly maybe.
July 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Small tray of supplies and a day in the garden, let's see if we make any new friends today...
Wooden tray with various crafting things. A dried plant witb lots of holes. A wood and wool mushrooms.. plain flowers in small wooden pots. All ready to be experimented with.
July 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Here is another piece I made today using dried flowers and two pretty unakite rocks, shaped as a moon and a star.
Wall art or side decor if on a stand. A green 4x6 canvas with scrap book style patches of printed nature photos. There are two green and brown rocks, one in the bottom left in the shape of a star, one in top right which is moon shaped. They are unakite rock. Both are decorated with dry flowers, yellows and a splash of orange, some whites and one blue flower above the moon. Same as previous but held up and a harden view in the background. Wall art or side decor if on a stand. A green 4x6 canvas with scrap book style patches of printed nature photos. There are two green and brown rocks, one in the bottom left in the shape of a star, one in top right which is moon shaped. They are unakite rock. Both are decorated with dry flowers, yellows and a splash of orange, some whites and one blue flower above the moon. Same as before but in a tree. Wall art or side decor if on a stand. A green 4x6 canvas with scrap book style patches of printed nature photos. There are two green and brown rocks, one in the bottom left in the shape of a star, one in top right which is moon shaped. They are unakite rock. Both are decorated with dry flowers, yellows and a splash of orange, some whites and one blue flower above the moon. Same as before, shown on a stand
July 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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I came to the art cafe to write. Struggling with alcohol cravings (I am in recovery), I did some art to distract myself.

I made a forever bouquet, from a selection of dried flowers and a piece of blue kyanite.

I am a needy person, please tell me if you like it.
July 9, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Fancy dipping a Mars bar into a cuppa... in a sixth form canteen. Carnage.
The first time i saw moth across the sixth-form college canteen i was eighteen. He was wearing a white collarless shirt as he dipped a Mars bar in a cup of tea. I was mesmerised.
July 8, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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My 8 year old self's #Letterboxd top 4:
The Witches film cover The land before time movie poster Hansel and Gretel movie poster Robin hood Disney movie poster
July 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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This is p35.

Is this book just landlords who lost their income stream and decided to cosplay poverty for literary fame? The sentence “we lost our holiday-rental business” possibly says more than the whole book. we'll see i guess.
From The Salt Path: Logic said we should work hard and find somewhere to rent. It wasnt just the house that had been taken from us, but our holiday-rental business too. Our income was gone. We'd need to find a job to enable us to reconstruct a life.
July 7, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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I made these little gemstone pieces just before I had a breakdown.

Bad photos, I know. From a bad place in my life.

This little therapy gave me something to focus on. It helped me cope while my world slowly collapsed around me.

I made little sanctuaries that I longed to escape to.
Clear glass bottle, around 15cm tall 4cm wide with a Cork lid Inside is a quartz smooth tower, and behind tnat is a twine ladder with moss steps and small pink and white flowers dotted on. Underneath tower is a bit more moss and flowers. It stands on a wooden circle. Clear glass bottle, around 10cm tall 4cm wide with a Cork lid. Amethyst tower inside, about 4cm tall. A white flowers sits next to it and a dark leafy branch climbs up the side of the bottle with even smaller white flowers attached. Clear glass bottle, around 15cm tall 4cm wide with a Cork lid Inside are some clear quartz shards attached to a dry rose bud. Moss at tbe bottom of the bottle. Small bits of lemon grass attached to a strip of moss looks like a small ladder. Clear glass bottle, around 15cm tall 4cm wide with a Cork lid Inside are some amethyst chips, a small heart charm hangs by twine from the Cork lid, moss fills the bottle and some small pink flowers It is scruffy but pretty
July 7, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Thinking of you and your family 🫶

I hope others will engage with this post to help this family.
Photo of a yellow flower surrounded by greenery
July 7, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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I love this. A stunning piece of art by @msdeathwish.bsky.social that I commissioned for my personal essay, This Is How I got Here (link below)
Illustrationvcof a cartoon white woman with blue hair. She has a flower crown on her head and a ripped pink dress. There are wounds, slashes and chunks of skin missing, from her arms and legs. She is standing at the top of a jagged cliff. She reaches down to you - despite her rough appearance, she is beautiful and looks safe, and kind. She holds her hand out to help not to hurt. The sky is beautiful shades of deep blues and purples, with the occasional light spot. A mixture of magic and spotlight.
July 3, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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While I was in hospital i finished I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Sehee. I loved it, I love her. I want her to have the best life.

Next is What I Wish I'd Know When I Was Young by Rachel Sylvester & Alice Thompson.

These wonderful authors make me feel less lonely in life
Front cover of i Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat tteokbokki by baek sehee. Title takes up most. There is an illustration of a despondent looking woman, lying on her own arm, looking at a plate if tteokbokki What i wish id known when I was young cover. The art and science of growing up.
June 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Never written a poem before (except one about my dog when I was 11). Please be kind.

I made this while I've been unwell. Trying to find ways to express myself.

The poem is called Stripped.

Sound on for me reading (badly). 1 minute 21. If it resonates, feel free to share.

thank you for reading 💜
June 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
The Summer Day, Mary Oliver.
Empty crab shell on a beige and orange rock, with lavender on the top and some dry sunflower petals Dry orange flowers to each side, a little like pincers once would have been. Empty crab shell with lavender and yellow dry flowers on top, sat on orange beige rock
June 21, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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I collected nature's treasures & ate up the beauty & peace around me. I started to visualise an arrangement, I could see what they could represent.

I was in my element when I got home & set up my vision- a little clumsily, true. But it tells a little story - open to interpretation. I had my own...
Photo of a piece of natural objects lay out on a large flat white and grey stone. There is an intact empty crab shell, no pincers but holes and clearly crab. A flower head over a shell, with the leaf over the shell. The crab is propped up by a blue and white rock and a piece of flower stem. There is a snail shell and a clear jar with dry flowers inside amd a Cork lid. Closer view of crab. A darker stone, almost black. The purple in the shell is almost shining. Closer view of cream and beige snail shell (empty though you can't see inside). It sits on a leaf with small yellow flowers on it, presented like it may eat them. There is a small red pink rock too, it adds a little separation from the other details in the larger previous view.
June 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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MH trip to a coast. Nature presented stunning gifts!

Beautiful colour in my finds. Pastel oranges & shades of pink & cream running through the empty crab shell - which is so intact! White into grey with such sudden change in the flat stone.

Even gathered in my hat they looked beautiful.
June 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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I love flowers so much, they make me very happy and I hope one day I'll get to learn so much more about them.
Rose bush with 2 pink white large flowered roses. And another plant, not a rose. Lots of small pink flowers. A bad photo of a tree with purple leaves and small pink flowers.
June 16, 2025 at 7:26 PM