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Watson Neith
@watsonneith.bsky.social
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A person overly concerned with books. Stories published in Translunar Travellers Lounge, We're Here 2021 (Neon Hemlock), Strange Machines (Apex), Nature Futures.
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Me, a little too enthusiastically: it's a holiday, time to assemble some IKEA!

The open box:
An open box containing the pieces of a charcoal-colored IKEA Raskog wheeled cart, awaiting assembly.
November 27, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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I thought I'd play Koriko to give myself a benign project. Now I'm completely obsessed with over-engineered layout spreads and my cat is helping.
The open recto page of a journal, with writing in jade green ink, lies obscured under the leg of a cat.
September 28, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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That pose.
Scene from the Michael Jackson cat dance sequence in the Makoto Kobayashi manga, when the cats are all posed and ready to start dancing, the center cat posed with paws on hips, legs akimbo, staring directly at the viewer.
September 13, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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I'm just saying, I have this meme in a special place for special occasions and I am always ready to use it. Kissinger getting caught by death's arcade claw machine was my ast opportunity. The world can give us more.
The iconic moment in The Muppet Christmas Carol (the only Christmas movie in the history of the world) where Scrooge has flung the window open and leans out into the snowy elements in his nightgown and cap to bellow "YOU THERE, BOY! WHAT DAY IS IT?"
August 30, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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I relive this drama at least once a day, every single day, all because they won't let me trim their claws.
The scene from The Neverending Story where Artax is overcome with sadness in the swamp, but overwritten with large white text. The text under Atreyu, who is tugging at Artax's reins, reads "My cat, overcome with emotion." The text unter Artax, who is half submerged, reads "the soft chair my cat's claws are embedded in"
August 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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I might be inside in a weirdly dark room, but I've got my summer snacks.
A pressed paper carton of cuke-melons, which are a small fruit that tastes like lemony cucumbers but looks remarkably like watermelon
July 31, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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She's making sure I read @kateelliottsff.bsky.social's The Witch Roads with proper attentiveness. One pet, one page. Another pet, another page.
A cat curled up, asleep, with her feet poking past her head, alongside an open book. The book is The Witch Roads by Kate Elliott.
July 27, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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I always vote early but I'm apparently now voting within twenty minutes of receiving my ballot.
Close-up of a ballot return envelope. The word "vote!" Is in a speech bubble above the words "return envelope."
July 20, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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More of my last efforts at marbling
Paper marbled with a sloppy bouquet pattern in blue, red, black and white. Paper marbled with predominately pale red, soft yellow, black and cream with some blue splatters
July 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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I'm getting better at marbling paper but I've never been good at consistently applying paint to the water.
Marbled paper featuring a feather design in blue, black, white and some other light neutrals. Close-up of a marbled sheet of paper featuring a bouquet pattern in black, white, green and yellow. Marbled paper featuring a stones pattern in brown, beige, lavender, black and blue Marbled paper featuring a fine comb often in black, white, and shades of brown and blue
July 17, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Sometimes I wander through a furniture store with great staging props
A copy of "I wish I could give my son a wild raccoon" edited with an introduction by Eliot Wigginton, the editor of the foxfire books.
July 13, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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I've seen the future (Nature Futures)! Next Wednesday, my flash fiction piece "The Cold Coffee Effect" will be published. Anyone with an inclination (please have an inclination) can read it online on July 9th.
Screenshot from the final proof of a short story, featuring the headings and no spoilers. The first line says "science fiction"; beneath it, in large bold text, "Futures"; beneath that, in slightly smaller, strong font, "Cold coffee effect", and beneath that in two different fonts, "Time for a break. By Watson Neith." There is a bare glimpse of a black and white editorial illustration beneath that, but what it reveals is uncertain...
June 30, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Netflix has missed out on an opportunity, and that opportunity is putting these guys on every single kind of merchandise in existence. Basically spent the entire movie shrieking into a pillow "But if the next song makes the honmoon permanent, will this precious baby be OK?"
Screenshot from the animation KPOP Demon Hunters, featuring a dopey blue demonic tiger leaning over the edge of a rooftop, with a magpie with too many eyes and wearing a tiny, traditional gat as befits a noble bird.
June 30, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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I went back and got a better photo.
A handwritten sign in black and red on white posterboard is looped up to a metal fence. It reads in all capital letters: YOU GOT COFFEE NOW GET CRAB.
June 1, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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YOU GOT COFFEE NOW GET CRAB.
A large orange banner on a metal bar fence reads in capital letters: HUGE KING CRAB SALE! DUNGENESS AND SNOW CRAB TOO. More importantly, a small, handwritten white posterboard reads: You got coffee, now get crab. Also in all caps with the 'now' italicized. The carcinization begins.
May 31, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Me, organizing my stationery to avoid thinking about the world: oh yes I do have a pretty great collection of stickers.
A sticker that says "everyone deserves a living wage" in hand lettered red font reminiscent of a simple blackletter. It is bordered with a warm red -almost scarlet- and pink block border with a rustic design of strawberries, tulips, and dark brown and white hands sprouting from vines. By the excellent HagatoneArt on Etsy.
May 30, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Look, she's protective of her image rights.
A tortoisehsell cat with dark points and bright blue eyes sits perilously close to falling out the back of a padded dining room chair.
May 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Got to love a bar that gladly tells you who their clientele is not.
A door covered in stickers. Highlights include: "Impeach Trump. Again." "Stop normalizing fascism" over a red stop sign. "Nicht mein Führer." "Eat the rich." And many, many beer labels.
March 23, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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A copy of Matt Dinniman's book The Gate of the Feral Gods, with the jacket removed so you can see the text "cats do not swim" stamped in pink foil on the bright blue binding. A cat is curled up by the head of the book, leaning slightly into it and looking at the photographer.
March 20, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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If you see this, post a photo from your device, no explanation
A bed, nightstand, lamp and wall art set up like an IKEA display room but it's all cigarette themed when a filtered cigarette bolster, bedframe, and textured sheets.
March 12, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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They're super pretty but I'm not the biggest fan of paperblanks for two reasons: 1)I don't find the paper works well with fountain pen, and 2) one of my cats thinks this is a primo scratching surface, and if you look closely you can tell. None of my other notebooks are this desirable to her.
A paperblanks notebook with clasps and golden scrollwork on the embossed cover. There are small gouges on the surface from a cat's claws
March 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Seattle's sticker scene is really top-notch, what else can I tell you.
A metal pole brightened up by a cheerful yellow square sticker. On the sticker is a smiling apple and under that apple, in blue-green all-caps text, are the words "we have a paramount duty to tax the rich."
March 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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The sticker campaign against Tesla is going strong. Innovative font mimicry; ideal placement for public view (bus stop); not shy about profanity. 9/10 looking forward to seeing more from this rogue stickerer.
A sticker on a public structure that reads "FUCK ELON" in a font similar to Tesla's branding
March 8, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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I can only talk about politics these days, for which I'm sorry. Here is a cat picture as a distraction.
A cat in a tunnel made from crumpled butcher paper, facing the light source in the upper right corner of the frame.
March 3, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Statistically speaking, what's the likelihood of me taking a big gulp of paint water if I sit down to doodle when this tea is done steeping?
A cup of steeping tea. The mug is by beardbangs and features a seated black cat whose tail climbs up the bottom half of the handle.
February 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM