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Nyxie Huitsing

@nyxieh.bsky.social

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Neurodivergent, Agender artist. Music, fibre, words and colour are channels to express and experience truth and connection. Music teacher, French teacher, and perpetual student. Survivor, escaper and exposer of extreme Christian Fundamentalism/Nationalism

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Nyxie Huitsing @nyxieh.bsky.social · Oct 1

I've been noticing the places that will soon be empty.
#grief #bestfriendshavepaws

Nyxie Huitsing @nyxieh.bsky.social · Sep 23

Never before thought of vocalizing as a part of my masking, but it definitely is. My brain deeply believes that if I can articulate something well enough it is real and I will be seen and feel connection.
It works with other ND folx.

#audhdmusings
#ndbrain
#ndsocializing

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Nyxie Huitsing @nyxieh.bsky.social · Sep 23

#bestfriendshavepaws

A sleepy Rosie face on the arm of the blue sofa, he nose turned towards the camera, paws peeking out from beneath her head.

Nyxie Huitsing @nyxieh.bsky.social · Sep 22

Hard decisions today.

This is a tipping point
Here we are at a worn out joint
The gate swings shut between our steps
Merging paths divide again
The bitter path of bosom friends

#bestfriwndshavepaws #grief #poetry #equinox

Nyxie Huitsing @nyxieh.bsky.social · Sep 14

There isn't much as heart warming as being safe enough for a cat to sleep beside. Sybil wasn't supposed to feel comfortable in our house. We were told she wouldn't get along with dogs, or enjoy a multi animal household, but this tabby proved them all wrong.
#recuecats #catsofbluesky #catnap

Sybil, a tabby cat sleeps with her face partially smoothed into a blue couch with warm lamplight glowing behind her.

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Nyxie Huitsing @nyxieh.bsky.social · Sep 10

Yeah. I'm cycling between inwardly rejoicing that he can't spew his rhetoric anymore, and feeling shame over being ' no better than them' and despair over how many people his death has radicalized to the right.
It's really not for much to do with the man himself he's gone. The end.

Nyxie Huitsing @nyxieh.bsky.social · Sep 10

In dog news however; Today I Learned Rosie stress digs.
Honestly, I'd rather that than a lot of other options. #dogsofbluesky #recuedogs #olddog

A front leg in black, tan and white ending in a paw on dark earth with straw and grass. A yellow leash trails in the foreground.

Nyxie Huitsing @nyxieh.bsky.social · Sep 10

What isn't said here is that he was counting on those deaths to be mostly black, brown and queer folks.

Me-TRICK-OR-TREAT-ula @metricula.com · Sep 10

Charlie Kirk: “It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment”

Nyxie Huitsing @nyxieh.bsky.social · Sep 10

Charlie Kirk is dead.
This is a fact.
I don't know how to feel about it.
Also a fact.
I want to be better than what I left behind.
I want to believe every human is worthy of empathy.

But when you preach against rights for marginalized peoples and defend violence against them.

You forfeit.

Fact.

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Nyxie Huitsing @nyxieh.bsky.social · Sep 10

On our way to work this morning a hot air balloon looked like it was going to land by our house, and it hit me how violently different my reaction is to that circumstance from what almost everyone I know would expect it to be.
I don't care. Get your big hot sweaty thing away from me.
#audhd #ndbrain

Nyxie Huitsing @nyxieh.bsky.social · Sep 6

Just feeling the cozy vibes of a chilly day combining my own and my Oma's handspun into a scarf/hood situation. The grey is Wensleydale lambswool blended with Merino and the green is my Oma's handspun, unknown fibre. The squish is intense #showmeyourknits #blueskyknitters #handspinners #handcrafter

Grey and green stripes of garter stitch knitting in cool light.

Nyxie Huitsing @nyxieh.bsky.social · Sep 2

Creative expression for its own sake.
I started a journaling RPG I've been designing.
Chiya is an Acolyte sent on an Initiation Task to find a sacred cave lost to time and retrieve any writings they find.

A small journal with a mosaic cover featuring floral motifs in black, gold, ochre and red sits on a wooden picnic table

An open book showing small hand written text in black ink. The focus is on the pen slanted towards the camera.

Nyxie Huitsing @nyxieh.bsky.social · Aug 31

Sometimes it's good to just get all the painting stuff out and paint a little fox. Only, don't tell him he's little, he is very proud of himself, and thinks he is quite the distinguished vulpine.

On a soft teal background sits a painted fox, upright and slightly snooty. His lines are sleek, white chin and tail bright against the brown-red of his fur. His eye visible to the viewer is closed.

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Nyxie Huitsing @nyxieh.bsky.social · Aug 12

Yes! Students often have profound insights into the illustrations and I love talking with them about what they see in the art.

Nyxie Huitsing @nyxieh.bsky.social · Jun 7

As an autistic person, days when I am not required to be perceived by people who I have to mask around are mandatory.
I suffer when I don't get them.
Having our roof redone is great, and necessary, but I just want to hide.
#autistic #hiding #masking #demandavoidance

Nyxie Huitsing @nyxieh.bsky.social · May 30

Freshly blackened hairs make all the difference to my confidence. Hello sunshine, you are lovely today.