I’m going to go quiet for a while.
Giving, promoting, helping, and then being blocked or ignored for it wears you down more than people realize.
Time to step back, protect my energy, and write.
#Booksky
@author.bsky.social
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I’m going to go quiet for a while.
Giving, promoting, helping, and then being blocked or ignored for it wears you down more than people realize.
Time to step back, protect my energy, and write.
#Booksky
Fuck the ingrates
22.01.2026 22:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0What are you trying to say?
22.01.2026 22:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Actually, fuck this motherfucker. I don’t care I will continue to do what I see fit.
22.01.2026 22:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I don’t want anything. I only want to promote .
22.01.2026 21:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🤷
22.01.2026 21:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I did spend at least two hours going through different accounts until I found this one which really resonated with me. What a shame. His work is fantastic.
22.01.2026 20:26 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This one really hurts.
I featured someone only to support their work, and instead of a message or a conversation, I was simply blocked.
I’m only trying to do good here.
Sometimes that lands harder than the block itself.
#Booksky #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #indieauthors #AuthorDiscovery
They’re all over on IG save for a few.
22.01.2026 19:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0They’re all poems
22.01.2026 19:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I kind of do the same thing. I dictate them into my Notes app, and then whatever I have, I throw down on paper and scratch around, changing things. You never know when something will pop up and a new muse is born.
22.01.2026 19:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0FFS I’m still writing 2025 on everything! 😳
22.01.2026 18:33 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Reminder for Featured Author Friday
If you’d like to be considered, please DM your work or recommend an emerging author.
Otherwise, I curate independently
Poetry.
Excerpts.
Short stories.
#FeaturedAuthor #AuthorDiscovery #WritingCommunity #Booksky #AmWriting #Unagented #IndieAuthors #DebutWriters
This is how I write my poetry, scraps, crossings-out, pages that argue with themselves until a line finally stays.
And you? How does your process look?
#poetry #writinglife #amwriting #poetsofbluesky #firstdrafts #Booksky
@upfromsumdirt.bsky.social
22.01.2026 15:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 03/3
If you are drawn to poems that experiment boldly
but still protect a real emotional core,
Spend time with this voice.
Small forms.
Large echoes.
#Booksky #DiscoverPoetry #BlackAuthors #PoetryReaders
2/3
What stands out in his work is the tension between brilliance and vulnerability.
The lines dazzle, yes,
but underneath the invention is a steady question
How much of love, faith, and self can language actually hold
#Booksky #BlackWriters #LiteraryCommunity #IndiePoetry
1/3
Feature Thursday
@upfromsumdirt
A poet whose work moves by sound and association,
where language does not explain itself so much as unfold.
This is poetry that trusts the reader.
#Booksky #Poetry #BlackPoets #PoetryCommunity
Before we learn to read words,
we learn to read beauty.
A child holding Miles Davis,
already listening for a life.
I 💙 this photo! Many could learn so much from this child’s perspective. #MilesDavis #Jazz #Bebop
@jay.bsky.team a little blue birdie told me “reskeet” has been banished to the gates of Musk’s wet dream. Please confirm. As one of the OGs, I quite like the term. 💙🦋
22.01.2026 09:47 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This reads like a sound-driven piece, more about rhythm and motion than explanation. Interesting textures here.
P.S. I grew up on Supertramp. Visions of cafeteria food and sticky fingers behind the bleachers.
Not a review.
A shrug with credentials.
You deserved a reader. #poetry
Today at Author Discovery
Poetry Micro Flash Thursday
Short work.
Small forms.
Lines that carry more than their length.
Sharing poems and flash pieces that prove brevity can still leave a mark. DM me or I curate. 💙🦋
#PoetryCommunity #FlashFiction #AuthorDiscovery #Booksky #AmWriting
One of my playlists 🤘🏼
22.01.2026 09:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Many have told me I’m only here to charge for services.
That’s fucking bullshit.
I’m not.
They’re running scared — and they know it.
#Booksky #WritingCommunity #WritersOfBluesky #IndieAuthors #AuthorLife #AmWriting
Mouse days good night to all loyal followers. 🦋💙 #booksky
21.01.2026 22:41 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My services are free.
If you don’t believe in that,
if you have a problem with that,
or if you’re afraid this platform will surpass your pay-for-play—
then run.
Don’t look back.
Fucking scabs.
#WritingCommunity #Booksky #IndieAuthor #AuthorLife #FreeArt #NoPayToPlay #SupportWriters
I’m not collecting followers.
I’m writing for people who actually read.
If that’s not you, fuck off and unfollow.
#WritingCommunity #Booksky #IndieAuthor #AuthorLife #RealWriting #NoAudienceNoProblem
3,500 followers.
Five likes.
If you don’t care what I post, stop pretending and unfollow.
#WritingCommunity #Booksky #IndieAuthor #AuthorLife #RealWriting #SupportWriters
Yes.
21.01.2026 22:26 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0