your friend dusti
@dusti.bsky.social
Dusti RW Levy. Disabled GenX PanQueer Southern poet, essayist, dramaturg, playwright, & dramatist. CATF. Jewish Plays Project. delicate emissions/Thirteen Bridges/McNeese Review.
🌍: LA/AL/WV.
🌍: LA/AL/WV.
A dramaturg I worked with last year in North Carolina had his ten-minute play accepted at that region’s KCACTF, and he emailed me asking if I would be the dramaturg for it in February. Unfortunately I can’t (I moved), but damn it feels good to be asked.
December 3, 2025 at 5:01 AM
A dramaturg I worked with last year in North Carolina had his ten-minute play accepted at that region’s KCACTF, and he emailed me asking if I would be the dramaturg for it in February. Unfortunately I can’t (I moved), but damn it feels good to be asked.
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I know lots of people have their hands out for $$ but this little guy is only a year old. He was fostered by the same person who cared for my Watson, Mystery & Lestrade #CatSky
They still don’t know what’s wrong 😿
He’s a Halloween cat, so his name is Oogie Boogie
www.gofundme.com/f/oogie-boog...
They still don’t know what’s wrong 😿
He’s a Halloween cat, so his name is Oogie Boogie
www.gofundme.com/f/oogie-boog...
Donate to Oogie Boogies fight to recovery and diagnosis, organized by Maxwell Ohare
Hi everyone, My name is Max and this is Oogie Boogie. On Tuesday Oogie was… Maxwell Ohare needs your support for Oogie Boogies fight to recovery and diagnosis
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December 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I know lots of people have their hands out for $$ but this little guy is only a year old. He was fostered by the same person who cared for my Watson, Mystery & Lestrade #CatSky
They still don’t know what’s wrong 😿
He’s a Halloween cat, so his name is Oogie Boogie
www.gofundme.com/f/oogie-boog...
They still don’t know what’s wrong 😿
He’s a Halloween cat, so his name is Oogie Boogie
www.gofundme.com/f/oogie-boog...
Re-started INDER THE BANNER OF HEAVEN and don’t remember why I stopped watching it previously.
December 2, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Re-started INDER THE BANNER OF HEAVEN and don’t remember why I stopped watching it previously.
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Y'all... the very well-funded shelter an hour away currently has $16,290 in donations right now, and my shelter has: $325.
If there is any way to convince you to help out an underdog, please, please :-) I'll reward you with cute animal pictures forever.
www.valleygivingguide.org/organization...
If there is any way to convince you to help out an underdog, please, please :-) I'll reward you with cute animal pictures forever.
www.valleygivingguide.org/organization...
Support PAWS (Pendleton Animal Welfare Shelter) | Valley Giving Guide
I’m ready to support PAWS (Pendleton Animal Welfare Shelter) on December 2, 2025 during Valley Giving Guide .
Learn more about PAWS (Pendleton Animal Welfare Shelter) and all the other organizatio...
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December 2, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Y'all... the very well-funded shelter an hour away currently has $16,290 in donations right now, and my shelter has: $325.
If there is any way to convince you to help out an underdog, please, please :-) I'll reward you with cute animal pictures forever.
www.valleygivingguide.org/organization...
If there is any way to convince you to help out an underdog, please, please :-) I'll reward you with cute animal pictures forever.
www.valleygivingguide.org/organization...
Well. I just finished my first graduate poetry workshop. Have a conference with my professor next Thursday; just need to write my reflection. I really can’t believe I made it this far considering how many other things I’ve given up on.
December 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Well. I just finished my first graduate poetry workshop. Have a conference with my professor next Thursday; just need to write my reflection. I really can’t believe I made it this far considering how many other things I’ve given up on.
I’m almost 50 and Netflix has recommended this to me every day for mover a month now. Maybe during winter break I’ll get to it. My 70 year old former professor adores it.
I have a new movie recommendation for you. “The Thursday Murder Club” stars Helen Mirren, Pierce Bronson, Ben Kingsley and a STACKED ensemble. It’s about nursing home residents who solve cold cases and then end up working a new case.
It’s fun and cozy! Netflix should be promoting but… yeah.
It’s fun and cozy! Netflix should be promoting but… yeah.
December 2, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I’m almost 50 and Netflix has recommended this to me every day for mover a month now. Maybe during winter break I’ll get to it. My 70 year old former professor adores it.
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Time Travel Is Easy is officially out in the world! Dinosaurs and Deep Time are thematic links to queer embodiment, childhood trauma, and life in the late Anthropocene. Cover art by the amazing Helen Whistberry. (Non-Amazon options coming very soon!) www.amazon.com/dp/B0G344X8L7
November 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Time Travel Is Easy is officially out in the world! Dinosaurs and Deep Time are thematic links to queer embodiment, childhood trauma, and life in the late Anthropocene. Cover art by the amazing Helen Whistberry. (Non-Amazon options coming very soon!) www.amazon.com/dp/B0G344X8L7
peanut butter and lentils should be friends
December 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
peanut butter and lentils should be friends
I’ve got to find a way to get this cat to let me sleep. Instead he spends hours at night sitting directly in front of my face, staring at me. Last night he moved behind me and pulled my hair out of its little sleepy bun. I adore him but that is all too much for the end of the semester 😭
December 2, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I’ve got to find a way to get this cat to let me sleep. Instead he spends hours at night sitting directly in front of my face, staring at me. Last night he moved behind me and pulled my hair out of its little sleepy bun. I adore him but that is all too much for the end of the semester 😭
Made myself a little hot toddy with some ginger lemon tea etc, not feeling weird or sad about going to bed early-ish this time. December is my deceleration lane — really should have been November. Finals start next week. I’m making measured progress on my assignments. Rest is imminent.
December 2, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Made myself a little hot toddy with some ginger lemon tea etc, not feeling weird or sad about going to bed early-ish this time. December is my deceleration lane — really should have been November. Finals start next week. I’m making measured progress on my assignments. Rest is imminent.
Welp. The first Yale letters of recommendation have been submitted. So I can’t back out of my application now.
December 2, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Welp. The first Yale letters of recommendation have been submitted. So I can’t back out of my application now.
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Check out my short poems at my ko-fi and leave a tip if you are so inclined.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Check out my short poems at my ko-fi and leave a tip if you are so inclined.
ko-fi.com/MichaelBrous...
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It’s the worst season for noses (insides and outsides).
December 2, 2025 at 1:20 AM
It’s the worst season for noses (insides and outsides).
Do I have four more “dear poet” letters left in me this semester?
I do. I know I do.
I do. I know I do.
December 2, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Do I have four more “dear poet” letters left in me this semester?
I do. I know I do.
I do. I know I do.
Today was ghazals and nocturnes and I am ruined, friends. Ruined.
December 1, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Today was ghazals and nocturnes and I am ruined, friends. Ruined.
Woke up super early (thanks, kitty) and fell back asleep unexpectedly so I’m keeping up my tradition of starting ahead, ending just in the nick of time!
December 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Woke up super early (thanks, kitty) and fell back asleep unexpectedly so I’m keeping up my tradition of starting ahead, ending just in the nick of time!
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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My poem “On the body (Cento with Emma Bolden & Shaindel Beers) is up at Boudin now as partnofnour ekphrastic/collage feature. www.mcneese.edu/thereview/20...
On the body – The McNeese Review
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December 1, 2025 at 3:50 AM
My poem “On the body (Cento with Emma Bolden & Shaindel Beers) is up at Boudin now as partnofnour ekphrastic/collage feature. www.mcneese.edu/thereview/20...
In mid-December 1998, my beloved granddad died at age 65. I was 22. He’s now been gone longer than I ever had him. I think about him daily. The last time I saw him, he came to my house from Indiana and we had Thanksgiving dinner on my good Lenox china. He told me he was proud of me.
December 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
In mid-December 1998, my beloved granddad died at age 65. I was 22. He’s now been gone longer than I ever had him. I think about him daily. The last time I saw him, he came to my house from Indiana and we had Thanksgiving dinner on my good Lenox china. He told me he was proud of me.
I grew up in the Sandia foothills in Albuquerque and remember, in the 1980s, first freezes happening in mid-October, right after the Balloon fiesta (which had very cold mornings & required gloves/hats). But state fair mornings — September, from what I remember — were already chilly.
It FINALLY happened: #Albuquerque had its first freeze of the season on November 30, breaking the previous latest first freeze date by a huge *8 days*!
December 1, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I grew up in the Sandia foothills in Albuquerque and remember, in the 1980s, first freezes happening in mid-October, right after the Balloon fiesta (which had very cold mornings & required gloves/hats). But state fair mornings — September, from what I remember — were already chilly.
Happy December. And happy Last Full Week of Classes Before Finals for those who celebrate. My MWF freshmen have four classes left. Here’s hoping they keep showing up!
December 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Happy December. And happy Last Full Week of Classes Before Finals for those who celebrate. My MWF freshmen have four classes left. Here’s hoping they keep showing up!
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every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
two hours with the heat on and I have a big old nosebleed
December 1, 2025 at 5:56 AM
two hours with the heat on and I have a big old nosebleed