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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 3d

I got some deep trauma going on around mine. It's this Thursday and I've already had several panic attacks about it 😅 Letting other people into that feels scary & fraught & like I'm asking a lot. But feeling alone in it makes it worse so 🤷‍♀️

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 10d

I hope the olive branch is lots of money

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 10d

The first row of Connections this morning 👀👀👀

A screenshot of the first row of the NYT Connections game, showing the words "only", "connect", "olive" and "branch".

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 19d

Autumn is not a mourning for summer. Autumn is not a fear of winter. The witch holds each season sacred, harvests joys and magics from them all. To be defined by a sense of loss and anxiety about is what to come is not the way to walk fiercely in the now. – #EmilyCBanting #ReenchantmentIsResistance

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 20d

WHAT

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 20d

Me: "why have they rendered this document in ultra-HD?? It looks so weird and sharp!"

Also me: *is wearing my glasses for the first time in ages*

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 21d

This is truly monstrous. Increased likelihood of offending and increased likelihood of incarceration ARE DIRECT CONSEQUENCES OF THE TRAUMA OF THE ABUSE. This is LITERALLY punishing survivors for experiencing effects of the abuse they endured.

This is despite overwhelming evidence, including in the reports from the Royal Commission of Inquiry into State Abuse, that there is a strong link between the abuse suffered by these people at the hands of the state and subsequent offending.

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 23d

I remember learning that Oscar Wilde was sent to Reading Gaol, which I assumed was a place you were sent to read a pile of books, and therefore hoping that I'd one day get sent to Reading Gaol.

Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 23d

Reading, the town, needs to change it's name. To much confusion with reading a book

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 24d

Took a walk down the back of the yard and hooboy I am not well enough for that sort of exertion yet. But the wild freesias are out so it was almost worth it.

White and purple freesias growing through a chicken wire fence

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 24d

That's enough light fluffy YA fiction about young ppl escaping unspeakable trauma by allying with the dark fae. Time for some proper serious literature about a man searching for a woman he once saw on a train.

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 28d

I've been getting, at best, half an hour between vicious coughing fits, so sleep has not been my friend. But I've been doing yoga nidra guided meditations when I can & it's actually a bit incredible how rejuvenating even a short burst is.

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 29d

Thanks lovely. I am trying, very hard, to think of it as an excuse to catch up on my reading

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 29d

Getting my period when I already have pneumonia & RSV seems a bit much. I've reached the age where they no longer bother asking if I might be pregnant before taking X-rays, why am I still menstruating?

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · Oct 7

Pneumonia x RSV - this year's hottest spring colab

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · Oct 5

It was a bad scene!

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · Oct 5

Could not recommend having a panic attack whilst also having an asthma attack less!

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · Oct 3

Proper sick for the first time since I had covid in July 2022. Wild that it used to be normal for me to feel like this at least once a year, and probably a couple of times.

Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · Oct 2

This was mown one (1) week ago 🥲

A picture of the photographer's leg wearing a purple slipper and standing in a lawn. The grass reaches about a third of the way up the shin and obscures much of the slipper

Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · Oct 2

The last couple of months have been the most consistently rainy times since we moved here which means a) everything is growing at incredible rates and b) finding a break in the weather to deal with the weeds & lawn is extremely tricky.

I fear the entire church may be engulfed at current rates.

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · Oct 1

They're beautiful 😍

Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · Oct 1

With bonus mandolin. I contain multitudes, ok??

A matte black bass because beside an ornate mandolin

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · Oct 1

I'd better get practising then!

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · Oct 1

I do! But I'm still learning so I'm to nervous to share yet 😅 Ask me next birthday!

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · Oct 1

Happy birthday to one of the most intriguing people on here. We don't interact much, but I always appreciate the energy you bring to the timeline. Gonna play a lil bass in your honour 🖤

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · Sep 30

Just thought I'd have a lil comforting sghetti on toast for lunch, but somehow there was a catastrophe and now there is spaghetti all over the block of cheese, the floor, my feet. The toast is shattered. The grater beyond repair. In the distance, sirens. Somewhere a small child cries.

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