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stefa @stefapie.bsky.social · 2h

Free will rules

A small pumpkin entirely covered in googly eyes (but just the front actually, I'm running out of googlies, but i can get more tomorrow and finish up before the contest deadline on Saturday)

Rieve Alavaix @rieve.bsky.social · 2h

I'm so sorry, my friend. Sending hugs and warmth from under my pile of blankets, which is where I've been all week. ♥ Sometimes existing is exhausting and painful, and I'm sorry we both know this all too well.

Hoping things get better for us both soon.

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Rieve Alavaix @rieve.bsky.social · 2h

I'm excited for you! This looks fantastic!

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Rieve Alavaix @rieve.bsky.social · 2h

Bedbound for most of the day. Was not able to pick up Rx or get the oil changed in my car, the only two tasks outside of a home visit that I needed to do this week.

Trying not to feel shitty about myself while just feeling shitty in general.

But I'm still here, and I'm trying to stay that way.

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Rieve Alavaix @rieve.bsky.social · 1d

Settings>Moderation>Hide Adult Content

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Rieve Alavaix @rieve.bsky.social · 1d

When the CFS moves from moderate-severe to severe

and it feels like a heavily weighted blanket is covering your whole body, making sitting up feel impossible

(or, in my case, you become acutely aware of the weight of the atmosphere, and how much strength it takes to fight against it, bc nerd)

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 1d

DESTROYING ANGEL (1982)
Acrylic on Canvas - 34” x 24”

All of the concepts I submitted for the 1982 Year’s Best Horror Stories cover were strong. If I had tried to guess which one would be chosen, the concept that became this painting would have been my last guess. 1/5

In a field of poppies, a skeletal figure wearing a black and red silk cloak holds a smiling mask set on the end of a thin staff. Sweeping the cloak aside in a welcoming gesture, it reveals an antique key hanging from a ring about its emaciated forearm. The other arm is tied off with rubber tubing. Pronounced veins run the length of necrotic flesh. Beneath the cloak, chains wraps the torso, criss-crossing, secured by a padlock. The green tunic beneath is torn to expose yellowing rib bones. Atop its tilted skull rests a crown of mushrooms and a single bird wing. Its orbitals are dead black, and many teeth are missing. A syringe dangles from a loose chain around its neck. Another needle hangs from its belt with longer cord weighed down by a spoon. A long opium pipe with a bulbous end is tucked through the belt. A winding tree rises behind the angel of death, bare limbs branching like veins, blue against the purple haze of the misty backdrop.

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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 1d

sidhewrites: y'all ever get fatigue so bad that you're laying down and it feels like you need to lay down ORE? Advanced laying. Somehow.

bi-shitposter: do you mean sleeping?

justlgbtthings: no like laying down but. more. more laying. laying beyond the physical bounds of objects and surfaces

honor-among thieves: clipping through the floor like Bethesda published me

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Rieve Alavaix @rieve.bsky.social · 3d

I will accept those hugs now. It's been that kind of night. ♥ Thank you!

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Rieve Alavaix @rieve.bsky.social · 3d

Folding up some hugs today
Stacking them neatly here for you.

Do you need one?

Run your hands over each one, find the one that makes your brain tingle, soothes your ragged Soul. Slip it from the pile, over your shoulders like a favourite sweater.

Wrap it around you
and rest. ♥

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Rieve Alavaix @rieve.bsky.social · 3d

I feel this. I can't sit in a desk chair anymore bc I literally cannot hold myself up long enough.

Just want you to know you're not alone, and I get what you're going through. (And it really does suck.)

Sending hugs, if you want them. (No pressure to accept. I'll leave them here in a pile.)

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Rieve Alavaix @rieve.bsky.social · 3d

Heya migraine buddy. I'm right there with you. Hoping both yours and mine ease up so we can enjoy what's left of the day. ♥

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Emilius Duckberry @emiliusdraws.bsky.social · 5d

#3127 Friendly dino nugget.

A digital drawing of a cute dinosaur with a friendly smiley face.

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Rieve Alavaix @rieve.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you, that really means a lot to me! I like being around you and the other bsky friends I've made. The vibe here has just become so harsh outside of our small circles. I get the ick every time I spend time looking around anymore.

I'll try to stick around, at least a little.
Or make a discord.

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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 5d

Artist: @katieabey.bsky.social

a mole freaking out but pretending to be ok in front of a rainbow and clouds and a bunch of sprinkles

kind of coping

Artist: @katieAbey

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Rieve Alavaix @rieve.bsky.social · 5d

Love this shot in every possible way. The lighting and composition are fantastic
but also I find you wildly attractive (in the most respectful way possible).

100% enjoyable photo in every way and to every part of my brain. ♥ I'm glad you shared this. You're fantastic.

C'est incroyable.

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Rieve Alavaix @rieve.bsky.social · 5d

Not sure how long I am for bsky, tbh.

There's a gross habit of bsky staff using mod tools for personal reasons
and this habit goes all the way to the top.

We're forced to have Jesse Singal but we can't have Link? Completely disheartened.
Bsky doesn't want community. They just want numbers.

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Rieve Alavaix @rieve.bsky.social · 5d

I read this is "looking for group" and I was like HELL YEAH SOUP GROUP
but then I realized

Broccoli is amazing! Huzzah for your soup!

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Rieve Alavaix @rieve.bsky.social · 5d

Happy Anniversary!

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Rieve Alavaix @rieve.bsky.social · 5d

The Ketamine is working.

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Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · 9d

A victory! To leave your loneliness panting behind you on some street corner
while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas,
pink petals that have never felt loneliness,
no matter how slowly they fell. - Naomi Shihab Nye
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀

The Rider- Naomi Shihab Nye

A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him,

the best reason I ever heard for trying to be a champion.

What I wonder tonight pedaling hard down King William Street is if it translates to bicycles.

A victory! To leave your loneliness panting behind you on some street corner while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas, pink petals that have never felt loneliness, no matter how slowly they fell.

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Rieve Alavaix @rieve.bsky.social · 10d

Diane Keaton was a great actress
but she also spent many, many years vocally and unequivocally defending sexual predator Woody Allen.

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Rieve Alavaix @rieve.bsky.social · 16d

bc that's where he sees the money at.

I honestly put him in the same category as johnny somali at this point. Abhorrent human beings looking to profit off the suffering of others.

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Rieve Alavaix @rieve.bsky.social · 16d

He doubled down on using the 'r' slur several years ago and that put me off him forever.
Then he jumped into the game I was playing (ffixv) and community in that game seemed to change overnight.

He threw a couple tantrums, stopped streaming for a bit, and I guess pivoted hard right ...

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Rieve Alavaix @rieve.bsky.social · 19d

The old ME/CFS trick of being super hungry but not having energy to get food or eat it, so going to bed instead.

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