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Cindy Watkins 🌈

@craftysilence.bsky.social

Poet, writer, fencer, geek. Uncle. Please sit. http://cindywatkins.net https://bangalorereview.com/2024/05/waiting-2/

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For any interested, I'll be giving an introductory lecture on Andalusian Poetry (focusing on Muslim and Jewish poetic traditions from the 10th-13th century) for Highland Forde (Frederick MD chapter of SCA medieval education nonprofit) this evening at 7pm EST. meet.google.com/orq-xieo-xfr

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Zelda & Chill - YouTube

I have gotten more work done to this playlist than mortal minds can possibly imagine.
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You are stronger than you think.
If you had tentacles, you could easily crush sailing ships from below with your dark determination.

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Dancers at Trump’s Halloween party as people begin losing food stamps under his administration

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Federal employees are trying their best to serve the public while being asked to do more with less while our employer is actively at war with us. It's been a draining year and I'm hanging on out of pure spite. With as many years of service as I have, making them fire me is the most damage I can do.

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On Fri. my agency emailed to notify the Transit Benefits program was paused due to being unfunded, and it may take a month or two to restart the program even after the shutdown concludes. For me, it's the equivalent of a $200 p/ month pay cut.

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DM'ing/GM'ing is the most efficient way to platonically service top your friends.

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Paywall panties merch.

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A snickers bar split open, with a JPEG of a copper ingot exposed in the middle

A snickers bar split open, with a JPEG of a copper ingot exposed in the middle

Everyone please diligently check your candy this year. I cracked open a snickers bar and not only did I find a copper ingot, but it was of poor quality.

Worse still, when my man Nanni confronted my neighbor about it, he was treated with disdain.

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View of my face from below wearing a scarf and hoodie with cloudy night sky above.

View of my face from below wearing a scarf and hoodie with cloudy night sky above.

New author photo

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A dog, skeleton, and other lantern puppets parade.

A dog, skeleton, and other lantern puppets parade.

A giant lantern mouse on a cart.

A giant lantern mouse on a cart.

A fox on stilts.

A fox on stilts.

A woman turns and smiles as a lantern moth puppet soars past.

A woman turns and smiles as a lantern moth puppet soars past.

O autumn lords of merriment! #BaltimoreLanternParade

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A woman holds up a blue and green plastic bottle lantern while people work on making other lanterns

A woman holds up a blue and green plastic bottle lantern while people work on making other lanterns

Two homemade plastic bottle lanterns, one green and purple and the other decorated like a monster in the foreground of a parade scene.

Two homemade plastic bottle lanterns, one green and purple and the other decorated like a monster in the foreground of a parade scene.

A whimsical monster puppet in a parade

A whimsical monster puppet in a parade

Me and my friend Charlotte

Me and my friend Charlotte

Baltimore Halloween Lantern Parade, I love you.

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The full quote: "I think the sublime confusion is from nineteen to twenty-nine. You think you are late for everything, you're a has been, nothing is happening, there's no opportunity for you, the world is closed, everything is a disaster, you wanna die. And then you're thirty. " 
"You young people are in the exact age of desperation. I never felt more done and old than in my twenties. I'd say 'life has passed me and I did nothing.' But I'm here to tell you that's not true: you have a lot of fucking time."

The full quote: "I think the sublime confusion is from nineteen to twenty-nine. You think you are late for everything, you're a has been, nothing is happening, there's no opportunity for you, the world is closed, everything is a disaster, you wanna die. And then you're thirty. " "You young people are in the exact age of desperation. I never felt more done and old than in my twenties. I'd say 'life has passed me and I did nothing.' But I'm here to tell you that's not true: you have a lot of fucking time."

I love Guillermo del Toro calling ages 19 to 29 "sublime confusion"

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a man in a suit is talking to a woman with purple hair Alt: a teen boy in a suit snatches a cookie from a woman with purple hair and takes a bite

#Hinge when it shows you a hottie right before telling you you're out of likes

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Thys meetinge koude have been a Renaissance Faire

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listen up, sluts

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a woman talking on a cell phone with the words " zydrate comes in a little glass vial " below her ALT: a woman talking on a cell phone with the words " zydrate comes in a little glass vial " below her
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a woman talking on a cell phone with the words " zydrate comes in a little glass vial " below her ALT: a woman talking on a cell phone with the words " zydrate comes in a little glass vial " below her
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No brush, no pencil. Just a typewriter.

Artist James, using a 1930s Smith Premier typewriter, typed out this painting.

#art #printer #unique #typewriter #illustration

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Elaborate 5th birthday banner for a French bulldog named Coco

Elaborate 5th birthday banner for a French bulldog named Coco

Very important day in the neighborhood.

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Instant develop photo of two ladies in front of a Sweet 16 backdrop

Instant develop photo of two ladies in front of a Sweet 16 backdrop

People at party

People at party

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Family

Sweet 16 birthday for the niece extremely cute, 10/10.

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I watched every second of this.

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Vacation/Pennsic was a very nice break from reality, but now that I'm back, I can feel the mudpit of the present moment creeping back up my neck and around my jawline.

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Y'all, skeet doesn't mean what you think it means. I decline to skeet, reskeet, be skeeted, or be reskeeted. 😜

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Graffiti in color scheme of Mario with Wario facial features and a W on hay next to text that says West Side is the best side, signed by R Breezy

Graffiti in color scheme of Mario with Wario facial features and a W on hay next to text that says West Side is the best side, signed by R Breezy

Mawario? Is that you?

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Oxford, Wiley, and T&F announced similar deals last summer.

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