Lahim Lamar
@lahimlamar.bsky.social
I write about writing, Queer stuff, disability, a little horror, Black stuff, the life of inner liberation and the many many awkward missteps in between. My substack is here: https://substack.com/@lahimlamar
Autumn for me in three images. A little reflection for the last week of October. A little devastation. A little sunrise.
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Reindeer, Spider, Mist
...it's a circle
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November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Autumn for me in three images. A little reflection for the last week of October. A little devastation. A little sunrise.
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It’s cuffing season, darling!
Time to snuggle up and make bad choices, darling!
So your girl is a-diving back into the apps. Miss Tonka Truck thinks my profile is too high-minded but I need to let these children know. #dating #cuffingseason #dragqueen
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Time to snuggle up and make bad choices, darling!
So your girl is a-diving back into the apps. Miss Tonka Truck thinks my profile is too high-minded but I need to let these children know. #dating #cuffingseason #dragqueen
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Miss Layla Prada Dada Goes A-hunting...
It’s cuffing season, darling!
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November 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
It’s cuffing season, darling!
Time to snuggle up and make bad choices, darling!
So your girl is a-diving back into the apps. Miss Tonka Truck thinks my profile is too high-minded but I need to let these children know. #dating #cuffingseason #dragqueen
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Time to snuggle up and make bad choices, darling!
So your girl is a-diving back into the apps. Miss Tonka Truck thinks my profile is too high-minded but I need to let these children know. #dating #cuffingseason #dragqueen
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In this post, I talk about my experience with Scrivener. After being stuck for a minute, I downloaded Scrivener and I have a few things to say about it…
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Found an App
She's armed and dangerous
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August 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
In this post, I talk about my experience with Scrivener. After being stuck for a minute, I downloaded Scrivener and I have a few things to say about it…
lahimlamar.substack.com/p/found-an-app
lahimlamar.substack.com/p/found-an-app
I wrote a little something about grief. Happens to all of us but this year in particular has been a challenge for my meditation practice. Hope this finds or leads you to good spirits… open.substack.com/pub/lahimlam...
Good Grief
In its current form, grief is a slow moving column of water.
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August 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I wrote a little something about grief. Happens to all of us but this year in particular has been a challenge for my meditation practice. Hope this finds or leads you to good spirits… open.substack.com/pub/lahimlam...
Have you ever experienced writer’s block? Well, hello friends. I’m stuck! A frustrating, maddening, knee deep in the muck stuck. A transformative, messy and eye-opening stuck. None of these feelings are singular. They are three-headed, they bite at each other… open.substack.com/pub/lahimlam...
Art, Constipation, Reality TV & Cake
Another take on writer's block...
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July 6, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Have you ever experienced writer’s block? Well, hello friends. I’m stuck! A frustrating, maddening, knee deep in the muck stuck. A transformative, messy and eye-opening stuck. None of these feelings are singular. They are three-headed, they bite at each other… open.substack.com/pub/lahimlam...
I could cry my tears, joyful and bittersweet, without holding back. I could look at the clouds and unfold.
A few thoughts on the movie Sing Sing. Colman Domingo #moviereview #SingSing #theatre
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A few thoughts on the movie Sing Sing. Colman Domingo #moviereview #SingSing #theatre
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What I'm Watching: Sing Sing
Art as rehabilitation, Oscars, and clouds...
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June 11, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I could cry my tears, joyful and bittersweet, without holding back. I could look at the clouds and unfold.
A few thoughts on the movie Sing Sing. Colman Domingo #moviereview #SingSing #theatre
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A few thoughts on the movie Sing Sing. Colman Domingo #moviereview #SingSing #theatre
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The revision process can be daunting and scary and exciting and triumphant. Here’s my first post on my progress as I revise my novel. I think there's something here for all writers, queer or black or brown or otherwise blessed, to consider… #queer #writing #revision
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Revision and Editing: Queer Revision
A journal following my revision process....
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May 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The revision process can be daunting and scary and exciting and triumphant. Here’s my first post on my progress as I revise my novel. I think there's something here for all writers, queer or black or brown or otherwise blessed, to consider… #queer #writing #revision
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I wrote something based on a recent event I read about on an LGBTQ+ cruise. A brief thought on the nature of ‘refugee,’ safety, memory, and empathy. #refugee #gay #cruise open.substack.com/pub/lahimlam...
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Refugee Song
I spent third grade running away from Ryan Harlan.
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March 7, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I wrote something based on a recent event I read about on an LGBTQ+ cruise. A brief thought on the nature of ‘refugee,’ safety, memory, and empathy. #refugee #gay #cruise open.substack.com/pub/lahimlam...
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A post about rage-baiting, death, dogs, Trump, love and distraction. open.substack.com/pub/lahimlam...
Death, Dogs and Taxes
Ben Franklin was right...
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February 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM
A post about rage-baiting, death, dogs, Trump, love and distraction. open.substack.com/pub/lahimlam...
A few words on David Lynch #davidlynch open.substack.com/pub/lahimlam...
I'm Sorry Mr. Lynch
Here you are lingermeandering in the thick fog blown over here from Twin Peaks this morning and I just can’t.
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January 17, 2025 at 7:59 PM
A few words on David Lynch #davidlynch open.substack.com/pub/lahimlam...
reading this book feels like remembering something I knew already, like wiping condensation from a mirror. a little preachy at times but pretty spot on about technology and relationships.
The anxious generation / Jonathan Haidt #technology #bookrecommendations
The anxious generation / Jonathan Haidt #technology #bookrecommendations
January 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
reading this book feels like remembering something I knew already, like wiping condensation from a mirror. a little preachy at times but pretty spot on about technology and relationships.
The anxious generation / Jonathan Haidt #technology #bookrecommendations
The anxious generation / Jonathan Haidt #technology #bookrecommendations
What I'm Watching: The Secret Life of Animals & Rogue Heroes
Two, two, two reviews in one...
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December 27, 2024 at 11:21 PM
It's that time of year again. Here are the top 5 books that I read from 2024. Some good ones this year imho... #books #bookreview #scifi #gay open.substack.com/pub/lahimlam...
Top 5 Books of 2024 (that I read)
as if I know anything...
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December 11, 2024 at 8:57 PM
It's that time of year again. Here are the top 5 books that I read from 2024. Some good ones this year imho... #books #bookreview #scifi #gay open.substack.com/pub/lahimlam...
Glad to be here but it's really hard to see links and buttons in dark mode on @bsky.app #accessibility
November 18, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Glad to be here but it's really hard to see links and buttons in dark mode on @bsky.app #accessibility
"Today is movement meditation, so we all dance. Hand drums under Hindustrani melodies. He’s dancing like he’s alone in his bedroom, brazen, shameless, soul-full, through us like a curling wind, everywhere and nowhere... " #meditation #writing
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Day Four
an examination of import
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November 13, 2024 at 4:03 PM
"Today is movement meditation, so we all dance. Hand drums under Hindustrani melodies. He’s dancing like he’s alone in his bedroom, brazen, shameless, soul-full, through us like a curling wind, everywhere and nowhere... " #meditation #writing
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“The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, and the sense of belief we create from nothing."
-Trash by Dorothy Allison
-Trash by Dorothy Allison
November 13, 2024 at 1:29 PM
“The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, and the sense of belief we create from nothing."
-Trash by Dorothy Allison
-Trash by Dorothy Allison
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Goodreads is owned by Amazon & there is an AMAZING alternative‼️
The StoryGraph is a black women-owned competitor to GoodReads with better UI in my opinion.
When you sign up you can even transfer your data from Goodreads to StoryGraph!
The StoryGraph is a black women-owned competitor to GoodReads with better UI in my opinion.
When you sign up you can even transfer your data from Goodreads to StoryGraph!
November 12, 2024 at 1:59 PM
Goodreads is owned by Amazon & there is an AMAZING alternative‼️
The StoryGraph is a black women-owned competitor to GoodReads with better UI in my opinion.
When you sign up you can even transfer your data from Goodreads to StoryGraph!
The StoryGraph is a black women-owned competitor to GoodReads with better UI in my opinion.
When you sign up you can even transfer your data from Goodreads to StoryGraph!