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Sean The Gleeman

@thepoetsloth.bsky.social

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Wheel of Time lover, Horror, hockey, and writing. He/him Husband of Sunflower Sedai

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Sean The Gleeman @thepoetsloth.bsky.social · Jan 19

There's something to be said about being alone. You can focus better, get more done that you want and are only accountable to yourself. Moments alone are rare on a space station though. There's always a team of people here and always more work to be done. Just so happens that there's only four of us

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Sean The Gleeman @thepoetsloth.bsky.social · 18h

I have met her and I agree. She was so nice

Sean The Gleeman @thepoetsloth.bsky.social · 19h

The friends I've made and the rent I've paid. The depths of people my wife touched, some truly beautiful times. Social media is truly wonderful sometimes if you just let it be kind

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Sean The Gleeman @thepoetsloth.bsky.social · 1d

I mean you could. It's your right

Sean The Gleeman @thepoetsloth.bsky.social · 1d

As you should

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Sean The Gleeman @thepoetsloth.bsky.social · 2d

1 week since I held my wife's hand for the last time and had to say goodbye. This pain is impossible. But she'd want me to push through. I just hate that she isn't here to help

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Sean The Gleeman @thepoetsloth.bsky.social · 4d

Everyone's eyes turned green when they see her. They grew jealous not of her beauty, of which she had plenty, but of her spirit. Bold and free, she would never be afraid to stick up for a friend. They are jealous of how little she care and how true she was to herself.
#FastPrompt

Fastprompt @fastprompt.bsky.social · 4d

Old Green Eyes they call me,
But I don't really have a name.
I've been here longer than the trees,
I'll be here when you're dead.
I'll knock you from the tower here,
I'll try to steal your head!

Your 5th prompt is: "Green Eyes"
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📸by @jelaymon.bsky.social

View angled up towards the top of Wilder Tower

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Sean The Gleeman @thepoetsloth.bsky.social · 4d

Could definitely be a fun setting

Sean The Gleeman @thepoetsloth.bsky.social · 4d

Evil was kept in a glass coffin not to worship it or to study but simply to maintain. Constant guard was kept on the coffin to ensure the evil only leaked and never escaped. For if evil broke out, balance would never come again
#FastPrompt

Fastprompt @fastprompt.bsky.social · 4d

they say that if you search long enough
you'll find my glass coffin
unburied upon the house's grounds.
try not to look too long upon,
or I'll haunt you for all time!

Your 4th prompt is: "glass coffin"
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📸by Carol M. Highsmith via Wikimedia

View of the front outside of Vaile Mansion

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Sean The Gleeman @thepoetsloth.bsky.social · 4d

He was called headless not because he lost his head, but because he never used it. Folks would swear they could hear the wind howl between his ears. He would always just wander, never getting the hang of being alive. And he stayed that way for decades. Just never more than an empty head
#FastPrompt

Fastprompt @fastprompt.bsky.social · 4d

Just like that story, long ago,
the horseman that do haunt,
I am headless, and wander round
my head is what I hunt.
my head is what I hunt,
but I cannot find
cannot find
it anywhere around.

Your 3rd prompt is: "headless"
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📸by Trdinab via Wikimedia

The view of the east side entrance to the Paw Paw Tunnel on the C & O Canal Towpath

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Sean The Gleeman @thepoetsloth.bsky.social · 4d

Well. This one was about my headspace right now so it still fits

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Sean The Gleeman @thepoetsloth.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah tonight might get brutal depending on what your prompts are

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Sean The Gleeman @thepoetsloth.bsky.social · 4d

I need asylum from myself
I cannot be trusted anymore
My mind tells me it was my fault
The heart laughs at the pain
The emptiness is all that surrounds me
Why can't I escape myself
#FastPrompt

Fastprompt @fastprompt.bsky.social · 4d

Been around too long
Too long I've been around
I'm haunted from root to top
Nothing is free from my grounds.
I was an asylum once
The dead they are not found.

Your 2nd prompt is: "asylum"
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📸via Wikimedia

Circa 1880 image of Ararat Mental Asylum

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Sean The Gleeman @thepoetsloth.bsky.social · 4d

So many beings called this bridge home. All of them sad and lost, unable to move on like the world they haunt. From the white lady to the souls of those who fell, this bridge traps them all, their own lonely hell
#FastPrompt

Fastprompt @fastprompt.bsky.social · 4d

She haunts the bridge they say
The White Lady
Watch where you go, watch where you go
Don't you dare go that way!

Your 1st prompt is: "White Lady"
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📸by Greg Murphy via Wikimedia

Bridge to Charles Fort kinsale at sunset late winter

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Sean The Gleeman @thepoetsloth.bsky.social · 5d

We had to pick up my brother and now we're going to see my SIL to get some stuff for the service

Sean The Gleeman @thepoetsloth.bsky.social · 5d

I haven't drank it this morning but I've been in the car basically since I woke up

Sean The Gleeman @thepoetsloth.bsky.social · 5d

My wife loved the macabre so much lol

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Sean The Gleeman @thepoetsloth.bsky.social · 5d

We're just talking about how weird My wife was an

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Sean The Gleeman @thepoetsloth.bsky.social · 5d

I'm at my BIL house now. Does that count?

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Sean The Gleeman @thepoetsloth.bsky.social · 5d

Still a better idea than writing this eulogy though

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Sean The Gleeman @thepoetsloth.bsky.social · 5d

The problem with listening to depressing music for fun is when your algorithm plays it constantly in your worst moments. So you think to yourself, I'll just listen to it without the algorithm and it'll be better. Yeah don't do that

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Sean The Gleeman @thepoetsloth.bsky.social · 6d

Yep lol

Sean The Gleeman @thepoetsloth.bsky.social · 6d

Also, I think this is the first time she saw Ferdinand. I bought him after she returned to the hospital but I don't remember what day

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Sean The Gleeman @thepoetsloth.bsky.social · 6d

She would have loved that shirt. And yeah, she was super accepting about everyone

Sean The Gleeman @thepoetsloth.bsky.social · 6d

When she got out. It was never about if, but when she got released. I know people always say to tell your loved ones they are loved but in this case, it made all the difference that the last thing I know she heard me say was that I love her.

A white woman with brunnette hair and a dazed look on her face lays in a hospital bed with a brown hospital gown with red diamonds on it. There are multiple different wires on her right shoulder and a nose cannula in. Immediately on her left cheek is a small plush black duck with a long cat like tail and cat ears, and on her left shoulder is a small black and white plush cow that is standing upright. Above her pillow is me, a white man with long brown hair in a black T-shirt leaning over and smiling at the camera with my hand on the right side of her pillow

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Sean The Gleeman @thepoetsloth.bsky.social · 6d

I was debating posting this but decided to go ahead. This is it. The last photo we ever took together. Her trying to figure out what was going on because she had just woken up with Ferdinand the Cat-Duck and Delilah the Emotional Support Cow next to her. We were going to take so many more photos.

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