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Bravery TE Walker
@braverytewalker.bsky.social
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An #indieauthor. Currently writing a series of #shortstories called Tiny Tales To Be Forgotten.

No T.R.A.S.H.

Block the trolls.

🏴‍☠️ 💕🏳️‍🌈💕 🖕🍊 🩵🩷🤍 📎

Check out my website, where all my stories roam: https://braverytewalker.weebly.com
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She's crass, blunt as a bat, and fed up with the world. Who better for the princess?

Read the full story here: braverytewalker.weebly.com/short-storie...

Snippet:
White text on a black background. It reads, "“Hey, my Spanish is ‘caca.’ Go easy on me. Pretend I’m some five-foot-three red head.” He flutters his eyelashes, then purses his lips and makes loathsome kissing noises. “Your head’s gonna be red if you keep on talking. I hear blood makes a great hair dye,” I rub the side of my head. “Please tell me you didn’t drag me to this gilded shitshow so I could get laid.”"
December 12, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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A man grieves for a neighbor he has never tried to understand, and now will never get to.

Read one of the short stories I'm most proud of, The Whistling Woman, here:

braverytewalker.weebly.com/short-storie...

A snippet.
White text on a black background. It reads, "I know that now. The whispering wind around her always carried the scent of vanilla, sugar, and coffee, and I hold such precious knowledge like a gift. I want to visit her family’s home and see if they can give me a bottle. I slash my hand through the air, destroying the thought. Her loved ones would sooner punch me in the face and slam the door than humor the nonsensical mourning of a stranger. I can already hear her older brother ask me what her name is. The sound of knuckles hitting teeth. The rustling leaves and sorrowful winds call to me, and, for the first time in months, I answer."
December 11, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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I think Opal likes our new kitten.

( #cat #cats #catsky #catredistributionsystem #dog #dogs #dogsky )
A cat and a dog are sitting on a deep green ottoman, a red curtain behind them, sunlight streaming from the right. The cat is a grey-black tabby with white socks, and white markings on the face. The dog is a medium sized brown-tan mutt with blacking markings on her ears, snout, and on the tip of her tail and down her neck. They are both looking at the camera, their ears up and alert. The cat is slightly loaf-ing.
December 11, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Here's my bluesky harvest:

Happy that I'm offline so much.

WHOO, all of my posts have had alt text! Let's goooo.

And I am not surprised that one of my most used words is 'fucking'-

( #bluesky #blueskyharvest )
It is titled "Grass Touching." One side is labeled "Online," while the other side is labeled "Offline." The middle is labeled "Balanced." There is an orange circle, outlined in white, that represents me and my online activities. It is on the "Offline" side of the line, near the end of it. At the bottom of the graph, it reads, "You're a 'Daytime Poster' with 1 post a day." It is titled "Most Used Words." The bigger the words, the more they were used. Some of my most used words include: "Writing community, writers, shit, fiction," and "fucking." It is a percentage circle that shows how many of a user's posts have alt text with the images. Mine says "100% of images have alt text." The circle is completely filled out with orange. At the lower right corner, it says, "155% above average."
December 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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A snippet from the new flash fiction on my site, Animals. It is the next entry for my series of short works, Tiny Tales To Be Forgotten, short stories that are a love letter to everyday mundanity and tragedy.

Read it here: braverytewalker.weebly.com/flash-fictio...
White text on a black background. It reads: "It isn’t the worst thing to have a cool mom. Not usually, anyway. It’s great when the principal is a jackass and Mom comes to the rescue to remind him I actually have a parent who gives a damn. People are just now realizing that they should probably be friends with my very single mother. And when people like her are single, it takes two seconds for someone to shoot their shot and hang onto her until she sprays her disinfectant. Me."
December 4, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Use only ONE piece of art to convince folks to follow you. :D

(can writers be included in this? :p)

braverytewalker.weebly.com/poetry/heckl...
It is a poem. White text on a black background. "Heckled herons fly away from speckled sparrows. They fly to sea. The sparrows follow. They fly to trees. The sparrows follow. They fly to cliffs, feathers failing. Still, the sparrows follow. They fly to waves, salt, and shells, but sparrows pursue, bloody beaks begging. They fly to a cabin and fall, one by one. Heron, sparrow, heron, sparrow, all freckled by a farmer's gun. ​ Still, the sparrows follow."
November 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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TW: Discussions of SA

You want to talk about shit movie poster design? How about the movie poster sexualizing the protagonist when the movie is about a rape survivor getting revenge on those who assaulted her? Sexually her ripped up underwear no less, holy shit.

( #movies #movie )
The movie cover of "I spit on your grave," a movie about a rape survivor getting revenge. The protagonist is facing away from the audience, with a bloody knife in front of her back (so we can see the blade plainly). The movie's title is at the forefront in red. The protagonist is wearing a shirt and no pants. Her shirt is ripped, but the title covers up her upper half. Her underwear is also ripped up, but her lower half is not covered and is obviously designed to be suggestive.
November 5, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Punkin is too eepy to commit more crimes. Please insert wet food to continue.
A small kitten sleeping on my lap (which is covered by a white blanket). She is primarily gray and beige, with stripped markings on her face and legs and black down her back.
October 15, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Her name is Punkin.
A striped brown-black kitten (about 5 weeks old) laying on a gray faux-fur blanket.
October 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Made myself chuckle while working on my novel.
A snippet of a first draft. It reads, "Awareness does not come to me in gentle waves as it lovingly guides me to wakefulness. It pours ice water into my skull, then bitch slaps me for good measure.
October 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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My mom wondered when the Cat Redistribution System™ would give us a cat YESTERDAY, and I shit you not-
A tiny brown kitten with black stripes. She is snuggled on a white blanket with a donut cat toy on a beige couch.
October 3, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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The first half of You May Take Nothing With You

Read the other half here: braverytewalker.weebly.com/poetry/you-m...

( #poem #poems #poetry #fiction #death #selfreflection #indieauthor #indiewriter #amwriting #mywriting #writing #writer #writers #writingcommunity )
The first half of my poem, You May Take Nothing With You. The background is black while the text is white. It reads: You may taking nothing with you, No, not the paper in your pocket. No, not the photos on the wall. No, not your companion howling. No, not your sister adored. No, not your brother devoted. No, not your mother beloved. No, not your father grounded. No, not the home you called yours. No, not the grass you grew. No, not the tree you planted. No, not the flowers you wanted. No, not the ground below,
September 9, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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My baby girl is the most beautiful dog ever, sorry.
Opal is a medium-sized, fifty-pound mutt. She is primarily brown/tan, but has black on her snout, nose, ears, down her neck, and on her tail. She is a stockier dog, with a round, wrinkly head, and deep brown teddy bear eyes. The photo is a front view. She is laying on the couch, her head on the arm of it as the rest of her is spread on the couch. She is looking directly at the camera, ears slightly back, and relaxed.
August 30, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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She gets away with everything 😂
Opal, my five year old mutt. She is a medium-sized dog, mostly brown to tan coloring, with black on her ears, muzzle, around her eyes, and on the tip of her tail. She also has deep brown eyes. In the photo, her ears are pinned as she is looking almost directly up at the camera.
August 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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My boyfriend finding out how weird I am, one text at a time.

( #wolfquest #wolves #gaming #games #simulators )
A text message. My boyfriend asks, "So what games are you planning on playing later?" In order, I respond: "..." "A wolf simulator." "That I've already invested ten hours of my finite life into." "Oh no, not ten" "Sixteen." "Sixteen hours."
August 14, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Wrote another poem with my dip pen :)

( #ink #inks #poem #poetry #poets #pen #pens #fountainpen #dippen #inkart #art #handwriting )
Written with green fountain pen ink, and in cursive, goes the poem: Heckled herons fly away from speckled sparrows. They fly to sea. The sparrows follow. They fly to trees. The sparrows follow. They fly to cliffs, feathers failing. Still, the sparrows follow. They fly to waves, salt, and shells, but sparrows pursue, bloody beaks begging. They fly to a cabin and fall, one by one. Heron, sparrow, heron, sparrow, all freckled by a farmer's gun. Still, the sparrows follow. At the bottom, in the same green cursive, is the author's name: Bravery T.E. Walker.
August 2, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Quickly falling in love with dip pens.

( #cursive #handwriting #pen #pens #ink )
In cursive, with green fountain pen ink, is the title of one of my short stories, "Lie With Me."
August 1, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THIS LAD!!

BRO'S AS BIG AS MY HAND.

( #mushroom #mushrooms #fungi #fungifriends #mushroomsky 🍄 )
Large white mushroom at the shaded base of a tree. Large white mushroom at the shaded base of a tree. Top view. You can see a 'blooming' mushroom behind it. Large white mushroom at the shaded base of a tree. Bottom view looking at its underside. Leaf litter frames the mushroom. Large white mushroom at the shaded base of a tree. Side view, level with the mushroom to see the full length of its cap and thin stem.
August 1, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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Had fun with my dip pen and new ink and wrote a poem!

The first photo is the final on draft, and the second photo is the first attempt.

( #poem #poetry #poet #poets #ink #inking #pen #pens #cursive #handwriting )
A handwritten poem, written in cursive with green ink. It reads: "Woman whimpers with woe. Glistening gold glitters gladly. Bed bids bride bitterly. Sorrow sits silently, slitted. Hollow house howls, hoarse. Favored fumbled fickle favor. Audacious asks ashes altered. Bride bares battered bones. Lecherous leaves love ‘lone. Evergreen ebbs to eulogy. Plot public, pain pilled, parody perish. Woman whimpers, House howls, Gold glitters." At the bottom, in the same green cursive, is the author's name, Bravery TE Walker. This is the 'first draft' of the previous page, in the same green cursive. It reads: A woman whimpers with woe. Glistening gold glitters gladly. The bed bids the bride bitterly. Sorrow sits shamefully, slitted. Hollow house howls, hoarse. (The next line has 'Fickle' scribbled out) Favored fumbled fickle favor. (The next line has "Audacious asks above approach" crossed out) Audacious asks ashes altered. Bride bares battered bones. Evergreen ebbs to embers, eulogy. Ingrained intention injured. Plot public, pain pilled, parody perished. Woman whimpers, House howls, Gold glitters. (The next line has an experimental bit that is included in the final draft, which reads, "lecherous leaves love 'lone.")
August 1, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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My favorite verse in my poem, Bread:

“I guide your dead,
I protect your clerks,
And yet none of you,
Can feed me bread?”
said the crow,
guardian of the dead.

Read Bread and tell me your favorite line! braverytewalker.weebly.com/poetry/bread
A black leather photo with the golden-yellow words, "Tiny Tales To Be Forgotten" on it, with the author name, Bravery TE Walker, underneath in the same golden-yellow script, but smaller.
July 24, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Oh, you gotta be fucking kidding me, YouTube.

Just call me stupid to my face. It'd honestly be less insulting.

( #AI #AntiAI #FuckAI #YouTube )
It's a chat with YouTube's experimental AI. The AI has three chat bubbles, which say, in order: "Hello! Curious about what you're watching? I'm here to help." "I won't always get things right, but the more feedback you give me, the more I can improve" "Not sure what to ask? Choose something:" And then there are three suggestion bubbles, which go, in order: "Summarize the video" "Recommend related content" "Why is 'window dressing' criticized?"
July 22, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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My favorite line in my short story, We're Still Here:

"There’s a satin satisfaction which comes from completing a journal entry."

Read We're Still Here and tell me what was your favorite line!

braverytewalker.weebly.com/short-storie...
A black leather photo with the golden-yellow words, "Tiny Tales To Be Forgotten" on it, with the author name, Bravery TE Walker, underneath.
July 16, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Wtf is this and how do I get rid of it, @bsky.app?

#bluesky #help #blueskyhelp
A screenshot of my Bluesky page. There seems to be a... tab of some sort which lists all of my feeds. It is intrusively on the right side and partially blocking the post button.
March 12, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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Dear writers, people do notice when you share your story.

This jumped from 19 views to 32 views in under an hour after I posted it on here.

The Whistling Woman on Royal Road: www.royalroad.com/fiction/7842...

( #writers #authors #writingcommunity #royalroad #indiewriter #indieauthor #writing )
There are two rows in the this screenshot. The first one, from left to right, has Title, Date, Words, and then Views. The second row, from left to right, has The Whistling Woman (title of the story), the date and time posted (March 6th, 2025, 4:48 PM), 2,732 (the amount of words in the story), and 32 (the number of views).
March 10, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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The Whistling Woman, the newest addition to Tiny Tales To Be Forgotten, is now live on my website!

Summary: "It had taken the neighborhood two years before we figured out she whistled sea shanties."

The Whistling Woman: braverytewalker.weebly.com/short-storie...
It is a digital photo of a book cover. The background is black leather. On it are gold words which read, "Tiny Tales To Be Forgotten." Underneath that, in the same gold color, is the author's name, Bravery T.E. Walker.
March 6, 2025 at 11:25 PM