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Waverly
@waverlysm.bsky.social
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ocean horror | they | english in the us | represented by Kate McKean
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oh and motherfucking Housman of course. lethal on contact, to me
Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all the star-sown sky. The toil of all that be Helps not the primal fault; It rains into the sea, And still the sea is salt.
December 7, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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honourable mention — if I had to pick an entire Auden poem it would probably be September 1, 1939 (he’d hate this for me I fear) but these two verses of As I Walked Out One Evening are devastating:
‘O look, look in the mirror, O look in your distress: Life remains a blessing Although you cannot bless. ‘O stand, stand at the window As the tears scald and start; You shall love your crooked neighbour With your crooked heart.’
December 7, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Love Is Not All (Sonnet XXX), Edna St Vincent Millay
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink And rise and sink and rise and sink again; Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath, Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone; Yet many a man is making friends with death Even as I speak, for lack of love alone. It well may be that in a difficult hour, Pinned down by pain and moaning for release, Or nagged by want past resolution’s power, I might be driven to sell your love for peace, Or trade the memory of this night for food. It well may be. I do not think I would.
December 7, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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what if instead,
Good common sense naturals
December 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
waverlysm.bsky.social
wrote this a few weeks ago
A Last Love Letter to My Book Perhaps what I wanted was never you but only having made you: the firelight warmth of recognition, the murmur of applauding hands. I bore such graft in mad pursuit of you, all wild unreasoning faith, a prophet of myself spinning up visions alone in the lost late hours. Sentences latched to my brain like ticks, fattening and suckling. I miss them now. I reach for what exceeds my grasp and come up all too short, my hands bereft and empty on the keys, heartstopped and hollow. You colonised me once. Now you are nowhere, and I am ruins.
December 2, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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over 30 selfie thread

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a white person with short blue hair and a brown undercut wears big square glasses, a black and white shirt, and a smug smirk
November 30, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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felt bad because i had to get up so i made her her own little nest. she's purring in it
Roxy the cat in a nest made of the same blanket as the previous picture. you can't see in the picture, of course, but she's purring
November 29, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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a warm heavy little baby is sharing my couch nest with me
my legs under a white duvet looking blanket on a navy blue couch. Roxy is draped across my legs dozing
November 29, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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at peace with her god
Roxy lies on her favourite grey blanket with moomin stuffed toy behind her
November 29, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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“Magritte,” said Isaac
A man in a blue hoodie holds a stuffed toy pumpkin in front of his face
November 28, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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winner!!
a TV showing soleil the Belgian sheepdog
November 27, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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the greatest show on television is finally on
the national dog show is on a large tv!!
November 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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thankful for her
a white person’s hand, wearing a wedding ring, pets the cheek of a dilute tortoiseshell cat sitting on the person’s lap.
November 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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done!! thank you to Isaac for modelling my sea hornse
a man with brown hair in a green sweatshirt holds aloft a pink crocheted seahorse. he’s beaming with joy. there’s a bookshelf right behind him
November 26, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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he’s grown fins and frills
a pink crocheted seahorse, held up by a man in a grey hoodie and pyjama pants. there’s a cat resting in the man’s lap
November 26, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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you wish you were this pretty
a grey dilute tortie sits neatly, paws tucked under her body, on a folded grey knit blanket.
November 26, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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the head and body are not yet joined, but crucially we do now have a body (please ignore our laundry mound)
two white hands hold up a pink crocheted seahorse with a neck ruffle. there are framed art prints on the wall behind the seahorse, and a bed with blue pillows and a grey blanket. there's also an embarrassing mound of overflowing laundry in a bag
November 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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she started dabbing in her sleep
the same cat but her arms are arranged in such a way that it looks like she’s hitting a sick dab
November 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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the leg sitter has logged on (yes I’m working from under a blanket. it’s cosy season mother fucker’s)
Roxy sits on a pair of legs covered by an off white blanket. she looks all snug and cosy the same photo again except she’s resting her chin on my leg
November 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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cat tax
Roxy, a grey dilute tortoiseshell cat, lounges on a blue velour couch in the sunlight. her paw is folded really cutely
November 21, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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anniversary dinner!! we are cute
Isaac, a white Jewish man, sits at a table in a low-lit restaurant. he’s wearing a green fairisle sweater and a red button down shirt. Waverly, a white non binary person with blue hair, sits at a table in a low lit restaurant. they are wearing a sick brown coat with a blue and pink splotchy effect on the lapels
November 19, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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this worthy addition to our gallery wall, courtesy @gwenckatz.bsky.social, is now framed and ready to broadcast his message to the cat
a shep fairey-style riso print of the Portland frog, captioned HOP. It’s in a black frame held up my a white person’s hand; they have a tattoo of California poppies on their forearm. there’s a kitchen in the background out of focus
November 19, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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today i have been married for two years! this is longer than i used to imagine myself being married (0 years) when i was small. i love isaac and i love our tiny queer family. let's do another year?
three people stand in front of a draped rainbow pride flag on display in a museum. isaac and waverly face each other, wearing dark-coloured formal clothes. aaron is in the middle, wearing a suit and reading from a notebook. isaac and waverly are beaming at each other very homosexually actually
November 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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going to be so ready for my baby niece's birthday in may (photo by isaac) (this will become a seahorse)
a cute pink crocheted seahorse head is held aloft by a white hand. there are posters on a white wall in the background
November 15, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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as of nov 14, i have five slots remaining if you'd like a cat menu! critics are calling them "maybe a fun holiday gift" and "a place to put $20 or so that is both worthy and fun". here are a few of the menus i've made this go-around!
November 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM