CJ Wunsch
@cjwunsch.bsky.social
Writer, arts worker, mama and burned out messaroonie trying to garden and create and calm my way to something better.
Big glass of Apera
Fam gone to pre-Christmas stuff
LOUD accapella music
Fam gone to pre-Christmas stuff
LOUD accapella music
December 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Big glass of Apera
Fam gone to pre-Christmas stuff
LOUD accapella music
Fam gone to pre-Christmas stuff
LOUD accapella music
Things that give me melt downs #284
Ordering takeout for the family. They all stand there and WATCH me do it and it freaks me out. It’s like this silent chorus of ‘why aren’t you done yet’
For the record, yes, I know that’s silly. I used to order food just fine Now I’d rather have gallstones again
Ordering takeout for the family. They all stand there and WATCH me do it and it freaks me out. It’s like this silent chorus of ‘why aren’t you done yet’
For the record, yes, I know that’s silly. I used to order food just fine Now I’d rather have gallstones again
December 22, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Things that give me melt downs #284
Ordering takeout for the family. They all stand there and WATCH me do it and it freaks me out. It’s like this silent chorus of ‘why aren’t you done yet’
For the record, yes, I know that’s silly. I used to order food just fine Now I’d rather have gallstones again
Ordering takeout for the family. They all stand there and WATCH me do it and it freaks me out. It’s like this silent chorus of ‘why aren’t you done yet’
For the record, yes, I know that’s silly. I used to order food just fine Now I’d rather have gallstones again
My grandparents lived near Bondi when I was little. I was always there… they’d forget my swimmers but it didn’t matter. Can’t keep her out of the water. Turn around twice and she’s in, shoes and all.
Always someone with a surfboard to hitch a ride on.
Bondi is surf lifesavers and dog walkers.
Always someone with a surfboard to hitch a ride on.
Bondi is surf lifesavers and dog walkers.
December 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
My grandparents lived near Bondi when I was little. I was always there… they’d forget my swimmers but it didn’t matter. Can’t keep her out of the water. Turn around twice and she’s in, shoes and all.
Always someone with a surfboard to hitch a ride on.
Bondi is surf lifesavers and dog walkers.
Always someone with a surfboard to hitch a ride on.
Bondi is surf lifesavers and dog walkers.
I think I've found out how to know I'm officially old. It's not my knee pain or my back pain or that noise I make when I get up off the floor...
I'm listening to the 'hits of 2025', and I hate most of them 🤣 I really, I just don't like 'em, and about a quarter of them sound identical.
#old
I'm listening to the 'hits of 2025', and I hate most of them 🤣 I really, I just don't like 'em, and about a quarter of them sound identical.
#old
December 9, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I think I've found out how to know I'm officially old. It's not my knee pain or my back pain or that noise I make when I get up off the floor...
I'm listening to the 'hits of 2025', and I hate most of them 🤣 I really, I just don't like 'em, and about a quarter of them sound identical.
#old
I'm listening to the 'hits of 2025', and I hate most of them 🤣 I really, I just don't like 'em, and about a quarter of them sound identical.
#old
I want to do something meaningful, but also low-pressure. I want to help people, but they should never ever look at me. I want to be creative and free, but the fear of falling is crippling, so I don't move.
I planted out my little Jerusalem Artichokes today.
I planted out my little Jerusalem Artichokes today.
December 5, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I want to do something meaningful, but also low-pressure. I want to help people, but they should never ever look at me. I want to be creative and free, but the fear of falling is crippling, so I don't move.
I planted out my little Jerusalem Artichokes today.
I planted out my little Jerusalem Artichokes today.
#notbornintassieproblems
The flies in NSW are like fighter jets, you can wave your arms around and you're not going to make contact with anything even if there are 50 of them.
Here? I just gave a JUMBO fly a spanking because he was tootling along at .2KPH! #wrongkindofDM
The flies in NSW are like fighter jets, you can wave your arms around and you're not going to make contact with anything even if there are 50 of them.
Here? I just gave a JUMBO fly a spanking because he was tootling along at .2KPH! #wrongkindofDM
December 1, 2025 at 2:10 AM
#notbornintassieproblems
The flies in NSW are like fighter jets, you can wave your arms around and you're not going to make contact with anything even if there are 50 of them.
Here? I just gave a JUMBO fly a spanking because he was tootling along at .2KPH! #wrongkindofDM
The flies in NSW are like fighter jets, you can wave your arms around and you're not going to make contact with anything even if there are 50 of them.
Here? I just gave a JUMBO fly a spanking because he was tootling along at .2KPH! #wrongkindofDM
Our observer for #D&D last night couldn't make it, so I ran most of the original concept, and my table was epic! Curses broken, gods rejected, pasts faced, and a sweet little goblin began his journey to find out where he comes from and understand how he will change the world.
November 29, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Our observer for #D&D last night couldn't make it, so I ran most of the original concept, and my table was epic! Curses broken, gods rejected, pasts faced, and a sweet little goblin began his journey to find out where he comes from and understand how he will change the world.
Phone rang twice today, and the anxiety it causes me is unbelievable and deeply, deeply offensive to me. I used to field calls. Fill in paperwork. I made things happen... now I want to change my number just so this thing stops ringing
November 27, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Phone rang twice today, and the anxiety it causes me is unbelievable and deeply, deeply offensive to me. I used to field calls. Fill in paperwork. I made things happen... now I want to change my number just so this thing stops ringing
#D&D table on Friday has an uninitiated observer, so I'm postponing the RP-heavy session and doing a more procedural combat. I dunno about the others, but it's hard to embody the jaded, learning to care for the first time Lord of the End of Everything with the party Cleric when I'm being watched.
November 26, 2025 at 9:10 AM
#D&D table on Friday has an uninitiated observer, so I'm postponing the RP-heavy session and doing a more procedural combat. I dunno about the others, but it's hard to embody the jaded, learning to care for the first time Lord of the End of Everything with the party Cleric when I'm being watched.
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Just FYI.
Not only is the USA importing cheap butter into Australia, but they're packaging it in Green & Gold. No surprise that Woolworths is stocking it.
Farmers and consumers have "criticised it for its white colouring and bland flavour."
#auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Farmers and consumers have "criticised it for its white colouring and bland flavour."
#auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Farmers fear shoppers misled by cheap 'green and gold' US butter
Australia's dairy industry is concerned a US brand, packaged in green and gold with a white colouring and bland flavour, looks as if it's locally made.
www.abc.net.au
November 14, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Just FYI.
I beg your pardon! What is this? In November!
November 11, 2025 at 2:44 AM
I beg your pardon! What is this? In November!
Proof of life - because I'm trying to come to terms with the fact that people notice when I'm not around.
Finally got peas to sprout. Mulched and prepped 4 spots for my Artichokes, secured the larger aviary for the quail and am embracing hermitry as a way of life.
Finally got peas to sprout. Mulched and prepped 4 spots for my Artichokes, secured the larger aviary for the quail and am embracing hermitry as a way of life.
November 2, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Proof of life - because I'm trying to come to terms with the fact that people notice when I'm not around.
Finally got peas to sprout. Mulched and prepped 4 spots for my Artichokes, secured the larger aviary for the quail and am embracing hermitry as a way of life.
Finally got peas to sprout. Mulched and prepped 4 spots for my Artichokes, secured the larger aviary for the quail and am embracing hermitry as a way of life.
Mostly providing proof of life because I'm hiding from the universe in my crippling anxiety, and sometimes people worry about me because they're nice.
Also, I killed my Kiwifruit plant, but I got another one. The tomatoes look massive.
Also, I killed my Kiwifruit plant, but I got another one. The tomatoes look massive.
October 25, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Mostly providing proof of life because I'm hiding from the universe in my crippling anxiety, and sometimes people worry about me because they're nice.
Also, I killed my Kiwifruit plant, but I got another one. The tomatoes look massive.
Also, I killed my Kiwifruit plant, but I got another one. The tomatoes look massive.
The oscillation between 'fix the world!' and 'F this S, I'm out!' Weekly, daily, hourly, almost heartbeat by heartbeat, because I will never let go of the idea that the world is worth saving, but the concept that anyone could actually do it is impossible to hold on to.
October 16, 2025 at 7:16 AM
The oscillation between 'fix the world!' and 'F this S, I'm out!' Weekly, daily, hourly, almost heartbeat by heartbeat, because I will never let go of the idea that the world is worth saving, but the concept that anyone could actually do it is impossible to hold on to.
Day 6 #Preptober I went and downloaded the newest version of yWriter. I used it for years before my Muse went AWOL - this is free software from SpaceJock (the mobile app is about $22, but the desktop version is free). It's pared back hard compared to Scrivner, but it's always worked for me.
October 6, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Day 6 #Preptober I went and downloaded the newest version of yWriter. I used it for years before my Muse went AWOL - this is free software from SpaceJock (the mobile app is about $22, but the desktop version is free). It's pared back hard compared to Scrivner, but it's always worked for me.
Day 5 #preptober features a redislocated shoulder, because I'm a wild adventurer in my sleep, apparently.
It also features the mystery of a decades-old crime against an unpopular minority about whom our heroes care quite a bit. I foresee justice and shenanigans in equal measure.
#50kWords30Days
It also features the mystery of a decades-old crime against an unpopular minority about whom our heroes care quite a bit. I foresee justice and shenanigans in equal measure.
#50kWords30Days
October 5, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Day 5 #preptober features a redislocated shoulder, because I'm a wild adventurer in my sleep, apparently.
It also features the mystery of a decades-old crime against an unpopular minority about whom our heroes care quite a bit. I foresee justice and shenanigans in equal measure.
#50kWords30Days
It also features the mystery of a decades-old crime against an unpopular minority about whom our heroes care quite a bit. I foresee justice and shenanigans in equal measure.
#50kWords30Days
Day 4 #preptober features a shoulder I dislocated in my sleep and a main character timeline that overlaps itself because time travel!
The central theme seems to be that finding someone you can admire, even for something incredibly simple, can completely change your perspective.
The central theme seems to be that finding someone you can admire, even for something incredibly simple, can completely change your perspective.
October 4, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Day 4 #preptober features a shoulder I dislocated in my sleep and a main character timeline that overlaps itself because time travel!
The central theme seems to be that finding someone you can admire, even for something incredibly simple, can completely change your perspective.
The central theme seems to be that finding someone you can admire, even for something incredibly simple, can completely change your perspective.
My little plan for #preptober, including the four areas of failure I tend to experience and what I'm doing about them. I've met my writing time goal every day so far and pulled together a scene list (wildly incomplete, of course) to help me jump in.
Love this shot of my keyboard LoL!
Love this shot of my keyboard LoL!
The creative pursuit formerly known as NaNoWriMo
In 1999, 21 people in the San Francisco Bay area decided, for reasons known only to themselves (and those of us who followed them later), to embark on a month o
swampwitch.com.au
October 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
My little plan for #preptober, including the four areas of failure I tend to experience and what I'm doing about them. I've met my writing time goal every day so far and pulled together a scene list (wildly incomplete, of course) to help me jump in.
Love this shot of my keyboard LoL!
Love this shot of my keyboard LoL!
Day 2 of #preptober
I haven't done my writing yet today, but I will. Today is for thinking about themes, the things in my #novelformerlyknownasnano that overlap across characters and plot threads.
Vast, cosmic events are in the works, sparked mostly by the desire to make someone proud.
I haven't done my writing yet today, but I will. Today is for thinking about themes, the things in my #novelformerlyknownasnano that overlap across characters and plot threads.
Vast, cosmic events are in the works, sparked mostly by the desire to make someone proud.
October 2, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Day 2 of #preptober
I haven't done my writing yet today, but I will. Today is for thinking about themes, the things in my #novelformerlyknownasnano that overlap across characters and plot threads.
Vast, cosmic events are in the works, sparked mostly by the desire to make someone proud.
I haven't done my writing yet today, but I will. Today is for thinking about themes, the things in my #novelformerlyknownasnano that overlap across characters and plot threads.
Vast, cosmic events are in the works, sparked mostly by the desire to make someone proud.
It's October 1 - the beginning of #preptober where crazy writers the world over try to convince themselves it's not bonkers to take part in the creative explosion formerly known as #NaNoWriMo
I put all my background material into a folder and hyperventilated for an hour.
Good start.
I put all my background material into a folder and hyperventilated for an hour.
Good start.
October 1, 2025 at 9:27 AM
It's October 1 - the beginning of #preptober where crazy writers the world over try to convince themselves it's not bonkers to take part in the creative explosion formerly known as #NaNoWriMo
I put all my background material into a folder and hyperventilated for an hour.
Good start.
I put all my background material into a folder and hyperventilated for an hour.
Good start.
Florian fixed my shredder!!!!
September 29, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Florian fixed my shredder!!!!
I just spent 5 minutes reading about the difference between input and output devices in the office for my TAFE class. I'm not sure WHY I read the document... I guess I was finished before I realised it probably wasn't required.
September 29, 2025 at 5:06 AM
I just spent 5 minutes reading about the difference between input and output devices in the office for my TAFE class. I'm not sure WHY I read the document... I guess I was finished before I realised it probably wasn't required.
As always, Griffin was the most loved on creature at the vet, even in his final moments, everyone could see how beautiful he was. Good journey, little man - 9+ years is a good innings for a ferret.
September 28, 2025 at 4:25 AM
As always, Griffin was the most loved on creature at the vet, even in his final moments, everyone could see how beautiful he was. Good journey, little man - 9+ years is a good innings for a ferret.
If the law doesn't protect everyone, then inevitably it will protect no one. By the time this resolves, it will be a rare person who hasn't worn the consequences to some degree. I hope you aren't crushed by the weight of the things you choose to do and say between now and then.
#existentialdread
#existentialdread
September 26, 2025 at 7:44 AM
If the law doesn't protect everyone, then inevitably it will protect no one. By the time this resolves, it will be a rare person who hasn't worn the consequences to some degree. I hope you aren't crushed by the weight of the things you choose to do and say between now and then.
#existentialdread
#existentialdread