Eli Belt

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Pack it in, pack it out has always been an understood rule. I always hike with a trash bag for litter, and just in case a bag for tp if no nearby bathroom is available.

Digital drawing of a beetle with cream-colored shell with brown central pattern. Its head and upper body sparkle with iridescence, and it has large dark eyes and white fuzz along its upper body and legs.

Happy #Invertober day 23!

Coral pink sand dunes tiger beetle (cicindela albissima)

Look at this guy... needlessly extravagant 😍

#SciArt #Invertober2025

Drawing in white ink against a black background of a snarling possum with its mouth open showing its teeth. The image is framed in the purple, white, gray and black colors of the ace pride flag and the words "become ungovernable" are written in the ace colors below the possum.

Hope you all are enjoying Ace Week!

I feel like this is our (un)official slogan and mascot 😂💜

Thanks :)

#3/3 #whistpr
Funding and giving back aid
Assbackwards Robin Hood
Had stole from the poor
Giving it to the depraved,
One day when he’s passed,
His coffin buried under
A parking lot at his own golf course,
Unmarked except for this sign,
Go slow speed bump ahead.

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It’s not just our rights,
He’s taking yours too.
You might not have felt it,
Give it some time.
One day you’ll wake up
Seeing we’re all victims of his crime.
Someday in history books
When speaking of him,
We stole it back
Purging denials, refilling omissions,
Putting back each right,

#whistpr
There’s a #thief in the house!
Doesn’t anyone care?
Hard to believe all are not aware.
Stealing our art,
Stealing our books,
Stealing bodily autonomy,
Stealing our history,
Insurance,
Food from the mouth of babes,
Stealing kindness, compassion meant for immigrants and foreigners.
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Kind of a let them eat cake sort of thing…

Digital painting of a green woodpecker clinging to the side of a tree. The bird has dull green wings and tail, a cream belly and head with black around its eye and red along the top of its head.

A daily word prompt meant to inspire any type of creativity.

Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! Alt text on images appreciated.

Tag your post: #whistpr

Word for October 21, 2025: #CLING

#WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity

a ufo is flying in the night sky over a forest . ALT: a ufo is flying in the night sky over a forest .

Welcome, lovely writers 🌍🌎🌏

You've tweeted so many amazing stories and poems. So much talent out there 👏👏👏

Cats drink milk from them.
Aliens visit Earth in them.
Or the saucer-like eyes of HG Wells' Martians.

The word for Oct 21st :

SAUCER

#vss365 #prompt #saucer

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When I was a small child I was sure I had seen a dodo bird. It was my favorite bird. I remember the day I found out it was #extinct I cried, it broke my heart. I don’t know what I saw that day. I still wish I could see a live dodo.

A funnel shaped orange mushroom with velvet like top seen from the side between leaves and an acorn cap. Nice sunny forest in the background.

Cute orange trumpet shaped mushroom from my lunch walk
#fungifriends

Technically ovaltine isn’t a cereal but a drink

Most people in the US hate what ICE is doing. Most people in the US hate what ICE is doing. Most people in the US hate what ICE is doing. Most people in the US hate what ICE is doing. #FUCKICE ✊💙 Viva Le Resistánce!

An illustration of a Tufted Titmouse perching on a piece of wood.

Birds are super fun to draw. I love their shapes, colours and charisma.

This is a Tufted Titmouse.

#art #birds

Here in the states too. Sorry you have to suffer too.

The Milky Way above a mountain lake. There’s light reflected on the water with large boulders. Two pines are silhouetted.

Wish you were here ⁺˚⋆｡°✩₊

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Book cover for Once Upon a Wave of Witches by Eli Belt and Helen Whistberry depicting a large green kraken tentacle curving around the title and brushing the tops of blue ocean waves. There is a dragon fly flying just below the title as well.

An illustration from the book Once Upon a Wave of Witches showing the profiles in silhouette of two women facing each other. One has whimsical vines mimicking a short bob of hair and the other has a crown of dahlia-like blooms with many petals. There is an abstract flower design over the entire image something like a spiderweb and mushrooms growing out of the bottom of the oval frame that defines the edges of the image. The drawing is monochrome with black and white creating the shapes of the women and fungi.

A unique fantasy adventure by me &
@elibisme.bsky.social featuring 2 feisty middle-aged protagonists, a cloud skydragon, sentient fungi, talking tattoos & many other fantastical beings. A celebration of friendship & courage!

books2read.com/WaveOfWitches
OR
whistberry.itch.io/wave-of-witc...

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Most autistic people I meet *like* being autistic. It’s core to who they are & comes with many strengths

What’s hard is surviving in a society that rarely accommodates, respects or tries to understand us

There’s a BIG difference between being autistic & being unsupported

Let’s not confuse the two

#whistpr
Imagine a #grid covering an area
once a lush canopy of trees
stripped,
devastated by a tornado.
Now slowly walking, stopping,
circling looking for any signs of
life.
Documented, celebrated, hopeful as regrowth multiples with time.
Not the same,
but cherished and enjoyed.

Digital painting of a hawkfish, a fish that is white with an orange grid-like pattern along its body and a long nose swimming in fanciful teal-colored water.

A daily word prompt meant to inspire any type of creativity.

Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! Alt text on images appreciated.

Tag your post: #whistpr

Word for October 16, 2025: #GRID

#WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity

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#whistpr #crawl
When I say crawl, what image comes to mind?
Babies?
Toddlers?
Soldiers going under enemy lines?
Snakes slithering?
Ants?
Or perhaps like me:
It’s the tick tick tick
Of seconds to years to decades
Where time blows across
My life
Tumbleweeds of memories
Crumbling to dust
Almost…

#whistpr #nose
Have you ever had a conversation with someone who had a bat in their cave that kept flapping its wings every time they spoke or breathed through their nose? It drives me mad. Should I tell them or just throw up. It’s no problem saying xyz or lipstick on your teeth, but boogers…

Digital drawing with an extreme close up of a fanciful interpretation of four shaggy inkcap mushrooms which are black toward the bottom of their caps but transition to more of a light gray toward the top. They have slim white stems and there are three tiny white, glowing comma-shaped ghosts hovering around them.

It's #NationalMushroomDay and Halloween season so I gotta repost this. One of my favorite things I ever drew. #art

A #beetle bugs
my woozy inbox
at 2:26 a.m. —
runs some code-x
hacks my head
#speech to text
forced to #exist
on my Notes App

#vss365 #2WordPrompt #Oulens

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