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Eli Belt
@elibisme.bsky.social
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Writer, coauthor of Once Upon A Wave Of Witches with @whistberry.bsky.social, nature photography, #ActuallyAutistic, love Arthropoda, Iceland, poetry,fantasy, and Doctor Who. She/they. Lesbian. NO A/I https://books2read.com/WaveOfWitches
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Eli Belt @elibisme.bsky.social · Nov 24
#poem
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Open a pot of paint,
Add two pinches of flower petals,
Stir in toasted marshmallow memories,
Sip until you feel uncontrollable fits of laughter closely associated with jumping in piles of leaves.
Soak in the aromas and textures of autumn…

The whole poem is in photo.
A collage of 15 photos: red leaf tree, dawn just before sunrise with the silhouette of trees in 2 photos, a pile of colored leaves, the fiery fingers of orange, red, and purple sunset, white sheet ghosts dancing around in a circle, a pathway among the golden trees, two photos of water with leaves of gold, red, brown, orange floating in them, two dewy spiderwebs, an orange pumpkin spider climbing up a tree trunk, a yellow orange mushroom lying next to a red leaf with yellow veins, red leaf with yellow veins, a yellow tree in the woods. Argiope Aurantia with a tier of three faces piled on top of each other like Halloween masks clinging to a screen door, a tiny red mushroom with a white stem surrounded by leaves, an orange monarch butterfly with black stripes and white spots on a pile of leaves, a brown mushroom with only a cap sticking up out of the leaves and grass, a green katydid, a red dawn and silhouette of a tree, a crescent moon in a red and purple dawn sky, red and purple roped curtains of clouds at sunset, white towers of clouds in a blue sky, a community of yellow orange mushrooms, dewy spiderweb at dawn, yellow leafed tree, brown gilled mushroom, and two dewy spiderwebs. Untitled by Eli Belt Open a pot of paint, Add two pinches of flower petals, Stir in marshmallow toasted memories, Sip until you feel uncontrollable fits of laughter closely associated with jumping in piles of leaves. Soak in the aromas and textures of autumn, From the crunch of leaves to the moist Nirvana in each mouth watering bite of pumpkin spice bread to the foggy dew that covers spiderwebs and delight their artistic flair displays. This is the most perfect time of the year.
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Eli Belt @elibisme.bsky.social · 1d
Kinda like how you can’t have Black Sabbath without ABBA. Peace!
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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 4d
This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..
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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.bsky.social · 12d
Happy #Invertober day 2!

Red-banded leafhopper (Graphocephala coccinea)
Digital drawing of a Red-banded leafhopper (Graphocephala coccinea) perched on a branch amid fanciful looking yellow flowers that reflect the same color as the insect's head, belly, and legs. The insect has strikingly colorful wings in a swirly pattern of turquoise and deep pink.
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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.bsky.social · 12d
It's true! I started when I was 50 and for the first few years (yes, years) my art was pretty simplistic, but what kept me going was learning new things all the time and seeing those small improvements. There is real joy to be found in working away at something and getting better at it.
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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 13d
You’re never too old to start drawing.
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Karin Celestine @celestineandthehare.com · 12d
Nature notes: shrews are very fond of sketching their surroundings and can often be seen carrying a small cushion with them to sit on whilst drawing.

(And yes I did make a teeny tiny sketch book and teeny tiny pencil with actual lead in it - come and see at GNCCF Manchester 16-19Oct )
Tony felted shrew sitting on a mossy wall. They have a tiny pencil and sketchbook and a cushion
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#Whistpr Daily Word @whistprword.bsky.social · 12d
A daily word prompt meant to inspire any type of creativity.

Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! Alt text on images appreciated.

Tag your post: #whistpr

Word for October 2, 2025: #SONGBIRD

#WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity
Drawing of a black and white warbler, a small songbird with black and white stripe pattern on its body and wings. It is perched on a black branch with stylized white leaves falling all around it. The background is a dull green.
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Eli Belt @elibisme.bsky.social · 12d
I’m glad you were both able to do that. It had to do you both some good.
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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.bsky.social · 13d
It's October and that means it's the perfect season for a little horror with original illustrations and plenty of unsettling events... 👀
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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.bsky.social · 14d
It's here!

Roadkill is out in the world. I can't in good conscience recommend it to all readers. A sad and angry book. 90% of the animal characters are dead at the outset & the humans don't fare much better. But if you're in the mood for an unconventional eco-horror experience, links in comments!
Book cover for Roadkill by Helen Whistberry showing a bird, raccoon, and snake skeleton sprawled across a dark asphalt highway with yellow dotted line. The title is in large yellow letters that have blood streaming down them and out onto the road and animals. There is a dark and stormy sky in the background. Black and white illustration of the head and neck of a howling wolf in profile. Its mouth is wide open and a dark liquid is trickling from its mouth, snout, and eye.
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Eli Belt @elibisme.bsky.social · 13d
Happy for you, worried for me. I get mine Friday…I hope.
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Eli Belt @elibisme.bsky.social · 13d
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Eli Belt @elibisme.bsky.social · 13d
#whistpr
In a #box
sat a cat
contemplating
this & that.
In a corner
sat a mouse,
thinking
not enough room for
a cat & a mouse
in this house.
In walks me
staring at the cat
while pointing at the mouse,
this shouldn’t be.
I whistled for my roo,
who ate the mouse
& chased the cat.
Time to scat.
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#Whistpr Daily Word @whistprword.bsky.social · 13d
A daily word prompt meant to inspire any type of creativity.

Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! Alt text on images appreciated.

Tag your post: #whistpr

Word for October 1, 2025: #BOX

#WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity
Stylized drawing in white ink against a dark purple background of two identical but mirrored rabbits facing each other in a boxing pose and looking combative.
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Constance Lee Menefee @conniemenefee.bsky.social · 13d
Bullfrog of the day!
Wednesday, 1 Oct 2025
Large bullfrog with dappled neck, sitting in shallow water that shines like metal
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Constance Lee Menefee @conniemenefee.bsky.social · 13d
Poem, "October"
(c) constance lee menefee
Poem, "October" (c) constance lee menefee I know the roses have gone but for a curled crisp afterthought but I go outside anyway in the sharp air blunted with early sunlight and my breath puffs softly white like pollen promising bloom then fruit. --End--
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Tanuki’s Ghostie Revenge @tanukisrevenge.bsky.social · 13d
Rise and shine! It’s time for whimsy!
#WhimsyWednesday
A cluster of honey mushrooms in the forest
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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.bsky.social · 14d
Has 25 lovingly drawn illustrations (by me)!
Black and white illustration of two red fox kits playing behind a nearly leafless tangle of branches. Black and white illustration of four corvids: from back to front, a rook, crow, magpie, and raven.
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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.bsky.social · 14d
Content warnings should be heeded for this one!

This is a work of horror fiction & as such contains images and themes that may be disturbing to some readers. Content warning for dead & mutilated animals, body horror, gore, death including implied child death, mentions of homophobia and transphobia
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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.bsky.social · 14d
Also available from itchio:
whistberry.itch.io/roadkill

Paperback currently only on Amazon as I am still waiting on the Ingram proof to go wider with that distribution:
www.amazon.com/gp/product/1...
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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.bsky.social · 14d
Millions of animals are killed on highways around the world every day but on this Night of All Nights, a Great Army of the slain will arise from their not-so-final resting places to deliver their own form of vengeance.

Available now:

books2read.com/RoadkillBook
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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.bsky.social · 14d
It's here!

Roadkill is out in the world. I can't in good conscience recommend it to all readers. A sad and angry book. 90% of the animal characters are dead at the outset & the humans don't fare much better. But if you're in the mood for an unconventional eco-horror experience, links in comments!
Book cover for Roadkill by Helen Whistberry showing a bird, raccoon, and snake skeleton sprawled across a dark asphalt highway with yellow dotted line. The title is in large yellow letters that have blood streaming down them and out onto the road and animals. There is a dark and stormy sky in the background. Black and white illustration of the head and neck of a howling wolf in profile. Its mouth is wide open and a dark liquid is trickling from its mouth, snout, and eye.
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Leonard Sultana (An Englishman In San Diego) @englishmansdcc.bsky.social · 14d
Always and forever:
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#Whistpr Daily Word @whistprword.bsky.social · 14d
A daily word prompt meant to inspire any type of creativity.

Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! Alt text on images appreciated.

Tag your post: #whistpr

Word for September 30, 2025: #SHADOW

#WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity
Simple drawing of white feathers floating and casting black shadows against a teal blue surface.
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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 14d
Anyone good at FOIs would be down to draft an FOI for everything the University of Alberta has about my “non-disciplinary leave”?
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Eli Belt @elibisme.bsky.social · 14d
That is very concerning.
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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · 14d
I have been a little bit under a rock and missed this *horrifying* action at U Alberta. The speed with which these kinds of attacks on freedom of expression are picking up in Canada is incredible - like movement that has finally hit the top of a hill and is racing down now.
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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 15d
"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."
What Happened to the University’s Commitment to Free Expression? Charley Kirk, uAlberta, and Me | Centre for Free Expression
I was shocked when the University of Alberta administration informed me, one of its law professors, that I was being placed on non-disciplinary leave for my social media comments in the wake of Charli...
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