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Pearl Pirie
@pearlpoet.bsky.social
slow-living poet, insect- & mushroom-portraitist, Good Omens DT & MS fan, f/t incessant reader & writer.

If you need me to know something, email me. www.pearlpirie.com

🏳️‍🌈 she/her Alt image: long wavy greying hair, red framed glasses, black top.
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Family cookbooks, filled with handwritten notes, sometimes held together with rubber bands, tell the story of generations of homemakers. They are irreplaceable treasures.

🦃 Celebrate the cultural & family histories on their worn & stained pages ➡️ blog.archive.org/2024/09/30/v...

#Thanksgiving
November 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
You have reached the account of The Wise Jolly-tail of Bluebell Wood.
For the holidays and beyond.

Your ever lovin' Mrs. Holly-whiskers of Puddle-duck Pond 🐰
November 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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I am very excited about getting my first footage of a cougar. This is a rare sight in Manitoba.
November 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Maybe I could cover a wall in bookshelves for my currently reading stacks.
November 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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📢 Upcoming #booktalk! 📖
Join Samuel Moore & Heather Joseph for PUBLISHING BEYOND THE MARKET, reimagining open access through scholar-led, non-commercial publishing.

📆 Thurs Dec 4th
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 Online
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839631951...

@SamuelMoore.org @HJoseph.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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PSA about when you feel like you want to write a fic about a character being disabled, but you are not, yourself, part of the disabled community, or do not share the specific disability that you are intending to write about: a thread, from an actually disabled person & writer...
November 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Edith takes notice of every breakthrough, no matter how small.
November 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Chickadee hopping
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
In January will be the 35th anniversary of being published in literary magazines.
November 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Dog’s soul song for howling along is apparently Silent Night.
November 23, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Volunteer meeting for the charity shop. Remember to triage by quality and damage nog your personal style. And three people of the two dozen looked at me and said, Pearl likes sequins…/colours

Yeah I’ve been seen.
November 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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small one has ukulele lesson today, so starting to go through yesterday’s haul from the small press book fair, including new chapbooks by Stuart Ross, Hugh Thomas, Tamsyn Farr + emily shafer, // @tamsynfarr.bsky.social @pearlpoet.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
My primary school poetry, same spiral notebook as I still use
November 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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It’s so weird spending 5 years working on something in service to others and then it’s out in the world and you have to spend all your time being like “hey will you buy this and read it bc it’s the biggest thing I’ve ever done and I would hate for it to go to waste” 😂

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Let's Move the Needle: An Activism Handbook for Artists, Crafters, Creatives, and Makers; Build Community and Make Change! a book by Shannon Downey
Create change in the world with this inspiring guide to social activism, from the artist and craftivist behind Badass Cross Stitch. Craftivism, or the space where art and activism meet, is a powerful...
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December 13, 2024 at 9:45 PM
I took almost no pictures at the fair. Too busy chatting. Voice is pretty hoarse. Took these two.
November 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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I woke up early to write but I never got to write because I was too tired from waking up early.

- a memoir
November 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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If you're an author being published by small and tiny presses, please shamelessly promote your work, however much your temperament might militate against it. I've seen many wonderful authors at this level so quickly forgotten when they die, you deserve all the readers you can get while you're alive.
November 23, 2025 at 6:49 AM
I want a Christmas movie where someone goes back to their home town, meets their ex says, wow, bullet dodged. Now I remember what I hated it here and ho back with renewed love for the partner they were about to dump.
November 23, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Community isn’t something you show up to consume. It requires you to contribute, collaborate, and commit-create.

If you want community, you have to be community.

#craftivism
November 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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heads up, gmail has a new setting automatically on that allows their a*i to be trained on your emails so make sure to turn off the 'Smart Feature' checkbox in your settings
November 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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lol love how they send one guy out to negotiate
November 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Brought these zine & flutter books templates to hand out,
November 22, 2025 at 9:40 PM
SuzyQ donut delivery from B
November 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM