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Iris (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 7h

This one time I was brewing beer with my buddy Khonsu when a scorpion bit us!

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

"Good People" don't spend their Time calling sick people Lazy"

[pic of racoon showing off his pretty legs]

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Iris (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 3d

I've been encouraging my cat Phoebe to work on her art project. It's really coming along

#Catsky #Cats #CatsofBluesky

A cardboard package scratched in various places by a cat

A black and white cat with her tongue out. She is sitting on a duvet

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Iris (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 5d

Witches and magickal folks:

Do you write about your experiences, whether journalling, blogging, poetry, other?

How does writing about it impact your magickal practice?

#Witchsky #WritingCommunity

Iris (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 5d

I had some time to myself today, so I went to the cow place 🐮

A highland cow standing by a trough, under the shade of a tree

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 5d

If you’re having a rough night… know you’re not alone.

When you’re dealing with chronic illness, the isolation and abandonment can wear you down.

People expecting you to say you’re “fine” when you aren’t can wear you down.

The pain & fatigue can wear you down.

You’re wonderful. Just as you are

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Iris (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 5d

Nobody is more dramatic than me having a slightly busy day

Screenshot of some text messages. Yesterday 17:13. The texts are all from one person and read: Oh Bootsie! I have so many tasks But I am t o Too tired

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Iris (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 9d

🧙🏻‍♂️: Do you want some energy?

👨🏽: Lmao, no

🧙🏻‍♂️: Iris, are you sure you don't need a little energy? Just to survive?

👨🏽: Nah, I'm good. I'll just lie here, plastered to my bed, feeling impossibly weak 👍🏽

#ChronicIllness

Iris (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 10d

It's wild that I can hear when my neighbour sneezes or when their baby's crying, but they can't hear me talking to my cat or singing "Hit Me Baby One More Time" in the shower

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Iris (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 10d

👨🏽: Ah, there's nothing quite like meditation

🤨: Iris, you planned a whole new book in your head while sitting in lotus position. That's not meditation.

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Iris (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 11d

I broke down my altar into two and made an ancestor altar in the living room.

It's basic and doesn't really sing to me right now. I'll work on it. I'll spend some time sitting in the vibrations.

#Witchsky

A small wooden table holding a place mat, a shot glass of water, a tea light candle, an orange chocolate, an incense stick, a small piece of white bread, and two black and white photographs. One photo depicts an African man. The other shows a group of African women.

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Iris (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 11d

Haha! That sounds good

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Iris (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 13d

Having altars all over the house sounds awesome!

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Iris (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 14d

Witches and magickal folks: If you have an altar, where in your home is it?

I'm reading a book that says you absolutely should not have an altar in your bedroom (Guess where mine is 😬)

I might have to move my altar or maybe have two different ones???

#Witchsky

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Iris (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 14d

I don't think that's necessary, thank you

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Iris (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 17d

🤨: Iris, did you...?
🤷🏽‍♂️: START WRITING THE NOVEL OF MY HEART, YES!

#Writersky #WritingCommunity

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Iris (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 17d

Such a beauty!

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Iris (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 17d

I need advice:

How do you start writing about (fictionalised) lived experience? I want to write the novel of my heart and make vulnerable art, but I don't know where to start

All my fiction before now seems so remote from my own experience. Help!

#Writersky #WritingCommunity

A mocked up image of a book in front of a red background. The book is charcoal grey with a broken red heart on the cover. The text on the book reads: 'The Novel of My Heart, a novel by I Jaja'

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Iris (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 17d

Phoebe has discovered the spare bedroom. She is spending #Caturday on her own. I'm slightly offended :(

#CatsofBluesky #Catsky

A black and white cat sitting on a green blanket in front of a window

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Iris (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 18d

Thank you 😊

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Iris (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 18d

The bonnet is cute! If I could get a beret that fit this well, I'd wear it all the time

Black woman wearing red lipstick and a navy blue satin bonnet

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Iris (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 19d

My magickal set-up is changing subtly. Still a focus on crystal balls. Now I'm centering a picture of the ancestors

#Witchsky

A wooden table covered in candles, crystal balls, crystals, incense, a statue of Bast and a black and white photograph of African women.

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Iris (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 19d

I feel like I haven't posted in a while. This is because I have a separate account for writing stuff and my soul is, like, 97% writing.

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Iris (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 19d

Well done! Have a wonderful birthday! 🎈🎉🎈🎉

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Iris (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 21d

🎅🏿🎁🎄 It's the most wonderful time of the year...🎄🎁🎅🏿

That's right! It's UK Black History Month. Unironically one of my favourite months. Woohoo! Black history!

#BlackHistoryMonth

Three images of Dido Elizabeth Belle in different tints. In the lower right corner are the words Black History Month

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