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Steve Silas Hendrickson
@phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social
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"Mamunduong tawo" 🌈🇵🇭

| Vocabularian | Folklorist | Filipino (Bicolano) Poet |

Featured on One Line October Anthology 2025. 🖋️

Working on my first book "When My Purple Met Your Blue" 💜 🩵

Let me be the worst in the most beautiful way possible!
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And I can't get along with you right now...

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Notepad I'm trying to write right now While you're streaming on TV... Watching you, a clown yourself Baby I could write for free. And all it took from me to walk at least a little farther, Seeing you mock me online.. And I keep seeing you cry online tearing that you have no friends, Maybe that was my mistake.... Maybe you were my mistake.... And all of my pills Went missing again.. That's what happens when you have to heal. And all of the times, You left me here behind.. I tell myself I only need to heal... And I can't get along with you right now... Maybe I'm the problem. Maybe I should write this. Maybe I should paint this. Maybe I.. maybe I... Maybe you're the problem..
December 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Heartbeats and heart skips
Your brain waves and thought weaves—

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Drag to Wonderland Just give me what I'm due for, The heart you took from my core, My body's shaking even more My fingers trembling so.. Heartbeats and heart skips Your brain waves and thought weaves— This frisson I've been dipping A static through my skin.. Ahh, I can't forgive! I can't forgive! A bunch of useless humans you are! I can't forgive! I can't forgive! I cannot! Ahh, delinquent thoughts! Gasping through hands Breathing, breathing Eyes moving sideways Ahh I can't forgive! I can't forgive! I'll drag you down here, too! Yeah, you were my star, My ge—ge—genesis. You were everything once to me, My darling everything Now, you're afar My ne—ne—nemesis. May a hundred hands frisson you inside!
December 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Beneath the glamor and sheen..
I'm just alone in my bubble.
Who is he now?

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Alone In My Bubble There's this tumultuous boy... Who had a tumultuous life And a tumultuous home Built on hundreds of lies... And I thought I would be Eventually.... Live happily with a spree Beyond my mother's hurt And my father's crimes.... And I'll expand my bubble To those who saw my trouble, And thought it was doable To keep this lonely boy... In the end, they all faded out, And left my shiny bubble.. And in me grew my doubt— Inside I was almost about To pop my tiny bubble... No longer shining or gleaming... And eventually, and probably... I will let myself creatively Allow people inside my bubble— And so much of me could live again, Alone in my bubble, I'm never subtle.... Soon, I'll let it pop...
December 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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You only said I'm sorry,
When you knew I'd grieve with worry

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Fade Out I'm better off fading out. Ending Stream wasn't a goodbye, That was just another lie. The messages followed don't deny— With every time you'd cry, You only said I'm sorry, When you knew I'd grieve with worry, For you only wanted to bury, What we had so you can scurry. Yes, the farewells and instant blocking Did leave in me a scarring, But at least there's no more warring, And peace I have been living. Yes, I guess it was good of me, I'm better off fading out.
December 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Hot daddy ogre 🥵

Also, not Tentacle (the octopus plushie) silently judging me 😭

Btw, this is from I Got Reincarnated As A Slime. I'm binge watching anime as of late, I finished Bofuri, now moved to Slime, and currently watching Campfire Cooking every Wednesday.
A scene in I Got Reincarnated As A Slime featuring Benimaru, an ogre.
December 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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It's a grand, brand new flock,
Without my old lock.

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Deus/x Crisis It's a pity worlds like these are both Ugly and beautiful, a border— I played around with the concept of My cunning and alchemy— (for me) It's a darkness I'm willing to face. May my endeavor be easy to ace, Drown out their noise! It's a whole brand new world! A brand new canon. A litany I'm willing to verse, My crisis trance. It's a grand, brand new flock, Without my old lock. It's a definition of a world remade, Indicted by nobody— It's my Deus ex trance, Advance! Balance the old world, Dance in the new world. See through the old world, Embrace the new!
November 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Finally, after a year of trying over and over again, I finally got a perfect shot of Mayon Volcano while riding a bus.

My previous attempts always had clouds covering it, destroying my chances.

This was taken somewhere in Guinobatan, Albay.

#nature #volcanoes #mayon
Mayon volcano, also known as the volcano with the perfect cone.
November 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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About me:

I'm just a Filipino poet with random thoughts and an appetite for anything I fancy.

I love video games, Japanese indie rock/metal, Lofi, and classical music.

Here are four characters/people that best describes me.
Tasmanian Devil from the Looney Tunes Wan Shi Tong from Avatar, the Last Airbender Yui Hirasawa from K-On! Yoshiatsu from Dadaroma
November 30, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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One is crying over his ex even though he's in a relationship, calling his ex an avoidant, etc, when he made her stay to be friends.

The other is still crying about the issues of the Vtuber community.

Good riddance.
It's funny when people think you were the problem... but you're no longer in their life and they still have the same problems.
November 28, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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There are no benches,
You're always in the front row!

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House of Grief The house, it's haunted! Is a messy home full of mirrors! Echoing distracting me with views from my past! Each one, so ugly, My tears have never been so clearer! Cigarettes, Zolodin litter the floor! AHHH It rattles, With each scream and each chatter, Reflection of my battles Relentless and better, With every day, a crying day, It cackles, Inside its halls, no falter, It doesn't need to tattle on, It just goes on, No need to burn.... There are no benches! You're always in the front row! A train ride passing each scene in full front view! Kitchen, with no pots, Only boiling my regrets. Spice racks, ovens bursting with steam... It's a horror stan's love affair. With a full ride and budget fair.... There is one rule, you cannot stare... You must ride on the train to share...
November 26, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Late night wishes always reflect what the heart wants but the mind knows is impossible.

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As If Forever Exists To the one who loved me, There were things I always wanted... Our words exchanged always haunted My nightmares, see... Why can't fate keep us both? Why can't love persist our troubles? Was our romance doomed like bubbles, I thought we swore an oath... Your tears melted me. My frozen heart see... I thought we're a we... You were my degree... As if forever existed now, It's a foolish thing I thought before.. I really believed it even though It's foolish! You're already out the door! My wish joined my tears on the floor!
November 24, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Provide unto others what you want others to provide....

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Rest I'll bleed for you, while I'm loving you.. Rest in peace, I'll give your peace for me... it's true.. I'll let myself walk processions While chanting my confessions— They're filled with divine intentions, Provide unto others what you want others to provide.... In peace and quiet we'll meet with pieces, And lease our heaven without the heathens, For now you'll rest away from mortal danger, I'll bear your casket so we will be together. I'll weep for you, while I'm loving you... Rest in peace, Just leave your peace for me, to do... And I will drape your bed with leaves You love.. And then we'll meet... Again!
November 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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I watched Wicked: For Good today and...

Wow...

That was an experience and an emotional whiplash I haven't felt in months...the pleasurable kind.

Time to sleep now. I've been awake since 11 PM and it's now 4:20 PM for me and your man need sleep!

#WickedForGood
It's me. Hi! The movie theater before the start of the film. The movie credits, with the name Gregory Maguire on the screen.
November 22, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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I caught the lie you made, venom for me,
And you should know.

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Words Meant For Me I left from the liars that watered the fire I know I ignited myself... I know I can't fight their evil and nightmares And I...never asked for their Hell... You've got nerve... No, we're not meant to be Together.... So you planned it all, All the lies, unto meee... Words of yours, But I don't want your words for me. I don't want it. Please...your words for me Venom to me. Words for me, venom to me.. Please... your words for me, None for me... I caught the lie you made, venom for me, And you should know.
November 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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This is meant for a certain someone...

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The Weighing Of The Heart I have prayed for your safe passage Through the confines of my mind. Is it the way I held you tightly, Or is it I cared too much? I don't want you to lose this message, I know you, you're not that blind, This is the place you must tread lightly, The place where gods themselves can touch. Within the scale our hearts are weighed And broken into what our mind Perceives it to be a hindrance, and Protects it, even if we're apart. All I see are tears to the ground While we are judged with grazing eyes, I'll protect you from their ire Until they start the weighing of the heart.... When our spirts die, may this be a judgment of the mind. When our spirits die, may this be a judgment of our past. Love is ......
November 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Did I legit sleep for nine hours earlier?! This is huge!!
This is a sleep tracker app connected to a smartwatch. It shows here that I slept for nine hours and 2 mins.
November 16, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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One of the things I was accused of before was that I was a narcissist.

I spoke to my therapist at length, took a test (I had to pay for it), and... I scored 279. My therapist interpreted most of the questions as CPTSD coded rather than narcissism coded, so she knocked down some points.
A screenshot of a narcissist personality test, where the score says Level 3: 279 points.
November 16, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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We don't have power due to a power outage that will last four hours, so it's time to clean my Attack Shark X98 Pro, my favorite keyboard of all time.
Keyboard base, keycap slots, and keycaps of an Attack Shark X98 Pro.
November 16, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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My legs divorced 🥵

#TowerofGod
November 15, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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I too wanted to join them,
Change into...

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Flowers Fall With a gentleness unseen by Other eyes, I grabbed a leaf and petal fallen below. I wanted to love the sharp edges, my ties Vanishing—going somewhere that's not here, I know... Flowers fall, leaves fall— Where would they go when they fall? Where do they go? Where do they go? They wither until they're gone. The soil opens, its call— Their edge disappears, until its on Another tree... I too wanted to join them, Change into....
November 15, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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This is an angry register for "holy shit, I'm tired."

Literal translation:

"Son of a bitch, I'm tired!"

The even more literal translation is something I cannot post here or else I'll get flagged. 🙂
Here in Bicol, we don't say I'm tired. We say "Sa buray ni ina nyang pagal!" This is an angry register for "holy shit, I'm tired." Literal translation: "Son of a bitch, I'm tired!" The more literal translation is something I cannot post here or else I'll get flagged.
November 15, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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The bones of my ghosts live eternally.

Dear, dear, my former beloved!

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Romance. Hatred. Love. Hate. Is it really romance, or is it love? Love. Hate. Joy. Despair. It's a torrid love affair We're a broken love result. The bones of my ghosts live eternally. Dear, dear, my former beloved, You said we'd be together Forever? Dear, dear, my former beloved, What happened to you proclaiming Forever? Dear, dear, my former beloved, I tore a flower to your Forever. Dear, dear, my former beloved, I loved, I hate.... Hey, You promised me right? You said you'd fight Your demons that Tore you apart. Pinky promise, alright? Months came by, and nothing happened. Your face turned into a pillar of lies. I tore another flower— Over A lie It will haunt me forever My hate did take over... Loved. Hated.
November 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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And what hurts even more is....

They'll never understand....and probably never will.

I'm still in therapy over this but sometimes I wake up crying over the failed promises and...false love....

I'll probably never recover, and that's the hardest part.
When someone tells me to move on, but they'll never understand how deeply I loved that person.
November 14, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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A lot of love
A lot of love

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A Lot Of Love I can see a halo, a halo, I gave on An altar without you. I can smile not waver, not waver, I kept on Walking without you. Living, moving, chilling— Playing, talking, med-ing Shiver, shiver, in heaven Thinking I can begin to breathe! Hither dither a lot of love A lot of love With no glove. I don't need a poker night To have fun, tonight! Futher nearer a lot of love A lot of love, The sky above It's the last time I felt so nice, Some meat with some rice! I opened my medicine tray, They never left me astray, It's a hard easy afffair required from me daily, So I can pretend to smile!
November 13, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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I hate. No. DESPISE POST FLOOD CLEANUP LIKE MY GOD!!!

Water entered my home, my living room, dining room, bathroom, and kitchen are all muddy and I just wanna AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

My back hurts, I need a hug...
A view of my home's front patio and pathway inundated with flood brought by supertyphoon Uwan. Here, part of the red gate is submerged in water, the patio itself is muddy and is still submerged. The pathway leading to the highway outside is flooded with knee deep water.
November 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM