Salem Selkie
@salemdarani.bsky.social
Writer, therapist, witch, academic. Hoarder of books, comics, and tea in a 200+ years old house full of cats.
♠️ Queer, Asian American, she/they
🌊 (pfp by kallenart)
♠️ Queer, Asian American, she/they
🌊 (pfp by kallenart)
#newenglandwinter… What’s not to love 🥶👍🏼
December 17, 2025 at 1:37 AM
#newenglandwinter… What’s not to love 🥶👍🏼
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happy nanowrimo [time of year] also fuck nanowrimo [organization]
November 2, 2025 at 12:34 PM
happy nanowrimo [time of year] also fuck nanowrimo [organization]
I’m a witch every day of the year, but I love every chance to dress the part 😆 #happyhalloween #witchsky
November 1, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I’m a witch every day of the year, but I love every chance to dress the part 😆 #happyhalloween #witchsky
#happyhalloween everyone! 🎃Time to give unto Death all the things you want to let go of for the coming cycle. Hope you had a blessed holiday #witchsky
November 1, 2025 at 2:03 AM
#happyhalloween everyone! 🎃Time to give unto Death all the things you want to let go of for the coming cycle. Hope you had a blessed holiday #witchsky
The best time of the year 🍂 Sad for it to be so brief
#newenglandautumn
#newenglandautumn
October 29, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The best time of the year 🍂 Sad for it to be so brief
#newenglandautumn
#newenglandautumn
October 5, 2025 at 1:25 AM
It is the fourth day of Halloween and STILL too hot to wear my sweaters and scarves this is a travesty
October 5, 2025 at 12:56 AM
It is the fourth day of Halloween and STILL too hot to wear my sweaters and scarves this is a travesty
Something about autumn really kicks my inspiration forward. Maybe it’s the sort of genres I favor, but as soon as the leaves start turning my summer stagnation just melts away 🍂
a person with a pumpkin on their head is holding a cup of coffee .
ALT: a person with a pumpkin on their head is holding a cup of coffee .
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August 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Something about autumn really kicks my inspiration forward. Maybe it’s the sort of genres I favor, but as soon as the leaves start turning my summer stagnation just melts away 🍂
Good times (and writing) were had! Have been taking time to decompress. Workshops are such a great way to network with creatives across the field, but 12 hours daily on campus was summer camp territory and I am *still* wrung a week later.
#writersky
#writersky
June 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Good times (and writing) were had! Have been taking time to decompress. Workshops are such a great way to network with creatives across the field, but 12 hours daily on campus was summer camp territory and I am *still* wrung a week later.
#writersky
#writersky
Setting a story in the modern day when a non-trashfire version of 2025 is so hard to imagine, and any reasonable cast of characters would be constantly distracted by all of This shit
#writersky
#writersky
April 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Setting a story in the modern day when a non-trashfire version of 2025 is so hard to imagine, and any reasonable cast of characters would be constantly distracted by all of This shit
#writersky
#writersky
ngl I am in my “fuck it we ball” era
Seeing all these “safe bet” careers go through mass layoffs really highlights how fragile the system’s always been. We still need and have always needed art; I hope everyone stays brave and keeps making it.
#writersky
Seeing all these “safe bet” careers go through mass layoffs really highlights how fragile the system’s always been. We still need and have always needed art; I hope everyone stays brave and keeps making it.
#writersky
April 8, 2025 at 12:24 AM
ngl I am in my “fuck it we ball” era
Seeing all these “safe bet” careers go through mass layoffs really highlights how fragile the system’s always been. We still need and have always needed art; I hope everyone stays brave and keeps making it.
#writersky
Seeing all these “safe bet” careers go through mass layoffs really highlights how fragile the system’s always been. We still need and have always needed art; I hope everyone stays brave and keeps making it.
#writersky
April 8, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Theoretically, revision should be easy because it’s basically writing with a map. In practice, it’s DAYS of staring at all the things that dissatisfied me in draft 1 and having no idea how to fix them.
#writingcommunity 😭
#writingcommunity 😭
March 8, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Theoretically, revision should be easy because it’s basically writing with a map. In practice, it’s DAYS of staring at all the things that dissatisfied me in draft 1 and having no idea how to fix them.
#writingcommunity 😭
#writingcommunity 😭
March 3, 2025 at 3:15 AM
More snow this week. My mother has been cursing Punxsutawney Phil’s name, but one simply cannot argue with the Seer of Seers 😔❄️
February 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
More snow this week. My mother has been cursing Punxsutawney Phil’s name, but one simply cannot argue with the Seer of Seers 😔❄️
My sister and I are estranged because of family reasons; I haven’t spoken to her since we were kids. I’m thinking about her today. She’s a high-powered business lady in DC. She published feminist research in college. I hope she’s coping.
February 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
My sister and I are estranged because of family reasons; I haven’t spoken to her since we were kids. I’m thinking about her today. She’s a high-powered business lady in DC. She published feminist research in college. I hope she’s coping.
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The #cottagecore life is all fun and games until it’s New England winter in your historic ass house and the steam pipes are rattling like chains off the Ghost of Christmas Past
February 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The #cottagecore life is all fun and games until it’s New England winter in your historic ass house and the steam pipes are rattling like chains off the Ghost of Christmas Past
Reposted by Salem Selkie
1) it’s not too late to start making the thing you want to make. You are not behind, and you work will be better for your patience and setting other things right in your life early on.
2) making the thing—whatever it is—needs to be the reward in and of itself
2) making the thing—whatever it is—needs to be the reward in and of itself
people over 30 quote this with some life advice for the rest of us?
January 30, 2025 at 1:21 PM
1) it’s not too late to start making the thing you want to make. You are not behind, and you work will be better for your patience and setting other things right in your life early on.
2) making the thing—whatever it is—needs to be the reward in and of itself
2) making the thing—whatever it is—needs to be the reward in and of itself
I have officially deleted instagram and threads. Haven’t used Facebook in a century and debating how to go about it (currently only tether to a lot of college and high school friends). With Meta going the same way as Xitter, it seems time to pull the plug.
January 14, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I have officially deleted instagram and threads. Haven’t used Facebook in a century and debating how to go about it (currently only tether to a lot of college and high school friends). With Meta going the same way as Xitter, it seems time to pull the plug.
Of all my cats (9), Inari is the ONE (1) who will tolerate clothes. I do take advantage of this. Happy December.
December 6, 2024 at 5:03 PM
Of all my cats (9), Inari is the ONE (1) who will tolerate clothes. I do take advantage of this. Happy December.
That awkward writing moment when fanfic flies from your fingertips by the pageful, but your novel stares back at you like
November 25, 2024 at 3:05 AM
That awkward writing moment when fanfic flies from your fingertips by the pageful, but your novel stares back at you like
November 17, 2024 at 12:51 AM