Avery 🌿🕯

I know how overwhelming it is to see the endless, now multi-year genocidal hell that Israel unleashed on Palestinians (on top of the pre-existing colonial one), but this is one of the actual ways that we - around the world - can help a little bit.

So please donate and share!

04.04.2025 15:38 — 👍 14    🔁 20    💬 0    📌 0

The reality of genocide in Gz this week: a bakery that served a neighborhood forced to close due to the lack of flour, Rafah, the once promised 'red line' bombed with people trapped inside, new types of bombs rain down on a school packed with the displaced, the only water desalination plant bombed.

04.04.2025 15:32 — 👍 173    🔁 131    💬 10    📌 11

Hottest take I'm capable of today: April Fool's Day should be redesigned as a gilded celebration of jesters past and present

01.04.2025 15:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I love quiet people who will be very open once you really take time to speak with them but we will rarely find eachother because I'm also quiet people

01.04.2025 14:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

disability benefits are not a 'perverse incentive'

A PSA for the UK Government (yes, they actually said that)

18.03.2025 16:54 — 👍 31    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 0

Reddish orange background with white text workshops for Gaza cascading down the square

We are a group of autonomous writers, artists, educators and translators coming together to offer online courses and workshops to raise money for people in Gaza 🥀🥀🥀

16.11.2024 21:45 — 👍 1105    🔁 832    💬 51    📌 60

I guess it's been ruined for people in desk jobs by the tyranny of sitting still and upright for the Teams camera that it's supposedly impolite to turn off

Let us reclaim the online meetings where we can be in bed or crouched like recumbent goblins, cameras off, with laptops resting on our bellies

03.03.2025 20:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Honestly as a ND chronically ill person I so miss the huge crop of online events and workshop from the early pandemic. I'm sure those who are still shielding miss them even more

Yeah it's nice to share a table with coffee and biscuits but when sore and fatigued it's extra nice to write in bed

03.03.2025 19:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I'm playing around with the idea of organising regular online writing focus sessions, now that I have a little more brain power for creativity after a looong period of survival mode.

Thinking to start as a fairly small semi-closed groups. Would any writer friends be interested in joining me?

03.03.2025 19:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Submissions — Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness

i work with @tangledwilderness.bsky.social and we publish a zine every month. We pay authors ($200 or so) for 2-5k word essays and stories, and we welcome reprints. If you've got a short story you've already been paid for and want to get paid again, submit it.
www.tangledwilderness.org/submissions

28.01.2025 15:22 — 👍 471    🔁 111    💬 12    📌 5

if you are trans and need your resume edited, hmu. i'm a professional resume editor. i offer sliding scale and pro bono.

22.01.2025 19:59 — 👍 198    🔁 51    💬 2    📌 2

I had to dig real deep to find the words for 'conveyor belt' and almost just settled with 'kerb roller' and hope it would be understood

24.01.2025 13:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Like, somehow sleep is more exhausting and makes it worse? I have to recover from sleep? It feels more like I've spent the night being squeezed through a heavy vice on a conveyor belt while heavily sedated rather than actually having slept

24.01.2025 13:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I'm somewhat uncertain if my me/cfs diagnosis is correct considering my GP didn't seem to know much about it and basically used it as interchangeable with 'unexplained fatigue'

Whatever it is, when it flares up it just feels like 'perpetual unrest disease'

24.01.2025 12:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

theyve tried to erase queer people before. they literally CANNOT succeed. we have always been here. we always will, until the sun swallows the earth.

20.01.2025 04:03 — 👍 701    🔁 141    💬 2    📌 5

Twin Peaks: And when you became Denise, I told all your colleagues, those clown comics, to fix their hearts or die.

Sleep well, king 👑

16.01.2025 18:16 — 👍 5766    🔁 1855    💬 24    📌 52

David Lynch in sunglasses saying "i hope you all are having a lot of fun working on your favorite projects"

Honor his memory by doing something strange, unraveling a riddle within yourself, and working on your favorite projects.

16.01.2025 18:51 — 👍 15293    🔁 5780    💬 34    📌 136

I must warn my iron deficient fellow travellers that ink made from rusty nails will have the same tasty allure as a delicious gravy. Don't do it! Resist the forbidden broth.

14.01.2025 19:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

An assortment of bones, skulls, and rusted metal objects, set out on a table for still life painting

Reddish brown iron oxide ink made from (if I recall correctly) rusted nails

A bird skull drawn with charcoal and iron oxide ink, with an underlayer of light brown swirls

A badger skull drawn with charcoal and iron oxide ink, with an underlayer of light brown swirls

Grounded into the new year last week by sitting in a train station painting dead things with rust, thanks to @jezfranck.bsky.social's cabinet of curiosities and ink making knowledge 💀🎨

14.01.2025 19:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

wikipedia entry for Feast of the Ass illustration of a woman and infant riding a donkey with a man leading it, all of them have halos type: cultural, western date: 14 January frequency: annual

wishing a very happy Feast of the Ass to all who celebrate 🙏

14.01.2025 13:51 — 👍 1369    🔁 475    💬 36    📌 64

Hello! I'm Avery. I'm your local chronically ill queer hermit seeking a tolerable online anchorage. If you're here rn you probably already know me

I'll mostly be here to journal my reading, boost mutual aid and local worthwhile happenings, and probably admire witty gays from afar.

14.01.2025 18:40 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0