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Cris Chalcedony

@crischalcedony.bsky.social

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Writer, shirker, AuDHD. Cats, chronic illness, fandoms, fanfic, Muppets, cats. And cats. 🚫AI, 🚫requests for aid. Blue voter but 🚫political talk. https://archiveofourown.org/users/CrisChalcedony

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Cris Chalcedony @crischalcedony.bsky.social · Mar 12

When I was struggling through a long stretch of burnout before the pandemic, a counselor suggested trying to remember something that had made me happy in the past - a hobby, a band, whatever - and digging back into that, no matter how silly. Feels like good advice to try to return to now.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 2h

The alleged home tree of the Wood Sprite known as Blood Squall. His reputation is high among the fiercest and most troubling of cursers. His favoured appeasements are said to be the medicate wine Tor Tonic, items of pewter, chocolate raisins and teeth – human or animal.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2h

You all know we're an American English Dictionary, right?

It may be pronounced differently in your country, but that's not our jurisdiction.

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Cris Chalcedony @crischalcedony.bsky.social · 1h

I know the rules!

👻 YSUBoOooOooOo 👻 @bassoonysu.bsky.social · 9h

As is always correct and in accordance with all the laws of the internet, I just watched Tom Holland's epic Lip Sync Battle performance, and now I am sharing it with all of you so you can do the same.

Lip Sync Battle - Tom Holland

YouTube video by Comedy Central Latinoamérica

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Cris Chalcedony @crischalcedony.bsky.social · 12h

catte buglery?

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zuko & co @firelordzukitty.bsky.social · 14h

brain smooth like marble

apollo the cat staring blankly in the vague direction of the camera but neither of his eyes is really pointed right at the camera

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Cris Chalcedony @crischalcedony.bsky.social · 22h

*waves from Seattle*

Cris Chalcedony @crischalcedony.bsky.social · 22h

I bought a Bonne Maman advent calendar last year, and I have 3 left still. Opened the Lemon Elderflower today and I don't like it. Tastes like something you'd use to flavor spirits, not spread on scones.

Cris Chalcedony @crischalcedony.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent form! And fantastic toe bean floof! 😻

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Maine Meowskateers @mainemeowskateers.bsky.social · 1d

Wolfie’s spooky season outfits, Day 9: Mommy’s Little Pumpkin hoodie
#CatsOfBlueSky #HalloweenCats

A long hair black cat with black nose, black whiskers and green eyes is sitting in the grass looking up at the camera. He’s wearing a black hoodie with light orange hood. Orange writing shaped like a pumpkin says “Mommy’s Little Pumpkin”

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

lede = introductory section in journalism

bury the lede = hiding the most relevant pieces of a story within other distracting information

Allegedly, it’s spelled ‘lede’ to avoid confusion with ‘lead,’ which was the strip of metal that would separate lines of type.

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 1d

A woodcut of a bird beside the text "WELL WOULD YOU LOOK AT THIS BULLSHIT"

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 1d

PUT AWAY YOUR HARPOON, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE SELF DOUBT. AND YOU WILL WIN.

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Cris Chalcedony @crischalcedony.bsky.social · 1d

Sequim
Puyallup
Geoduck

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 2d

substitutes for a healthy diet:

Noodles- -Zucchini
Chips - Carrots

Milk- Coconut Milk

Rice - Cauliflower

Butter -Sadness

Sugar - A Broken Heart

Cheese - Nope

Coffee- This is stupid and not doing it.

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Dinosaur Dracula 🦖🧛 @dinosaurdracula.bsky.social · 2d

Halloween! Nightmare King! Ghost! Ghost Pepper! Wednesday! And now the Jack-O-Lantern Whopper. I'm the only person in the world with a complete collection of Burger King's Halloween Whoppers, dating as far back as 2015. Can't believe I'm single.

Every Burger King Halloween Whopper, from 2015 to now. (Why though?)

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Quite Interesting @qi.com · 2d

Charles Earl Boles was an 1870s American stagecoach robber who left poems at his crime scenes, signing them “Black Bart”. One verse was:

I’ve labored long and hard for bread,
For honor, and for riches,
But on my corns too long you’ve tread,
You fine-haired sons of bitches.

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Cris Chalcedony @crischalcedony.bsky.social · 2d

Screengrab from Crimson Peak (2015) of a young wife in a haunted house with her hand on the knob of a menacing door. Behind the door lurks the spectre, a glimpse of which is visible for just a moment, red and threatening.

Cris Chalcedony @crischalcedony.bsky.social · 2d

Ugh, the struggle is real! 😭 Just went through the "buffet" stage with Chess trying to find the next food she would deign to eat. Good luck to you both!

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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 2d

@elle91.bsky.social

@elle91

My body is a wonderland, but like, the "Alice In" type. Everything is the wrong size. Tons of tea in there. Cats everywhere.

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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 2d

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 2d

The wood is a constant promise to the witch. It whispers of magics, wild harvest and omens to be found on its paths. It never breaks it oaths to her. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

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Cris Chalcedony @crischalcedony.bsky.social · 2d

I remember when this was in the news as a kid. One year my class did some sort of fundraiser and bought an acre of rainforest. I've wondered whatever happened to acres "saved" in this way; the pessimist in me thinks they burned anyway.

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 2d

Dodos were thriving when the Mary Rose sank.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 2d

Some grave guardians are open to being stroked. Some will growl if your hand reaches towards them. It is wise to know which are which before one goes poking at tombs. – #CLNolan

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