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spoonie woo-woo poetical shadow animal; inclined to love everything while often at odds with life in this weird era
#resist

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ISO other kind, discerning, deeply feeling, ridiculous souls & weirdos
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Found this adorable beagle-chonk wandering alone today during my daily dog walk & after some cooperation with a caring neighbor, was able to get him back home. Somehow I’m always rounding a corner just in time for lost dogs- a strange, magical existence. 💖
A chubby little beagle sniffing his way down an incline toward the road at a neighborhood intersection. Little glossy-coated beagle boy sits expectantly in a neighbor’s entrance way with the leash I used to lasso him around his neck. Blurry pic of a cute terrified beagle with his tongue out behind the bars of a dog crate. Mr. Cute stands in the dog crate wondering where he is and how he will get home while a strange lady takes pictures of him to make lost & found Facebook posts.
November 5, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Warm Prompt, for anyone who might be needing one today.
A pop-up notification that says “Warm Prompt” in bold lettering and then “Tracking number for your parcel has been updated.” At the bottom there is an OK button.
October 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Behold my little animal-goblin, for he is too cute for me to be the only one beholding him.
Just a cute little guy, part chihuahua and part rat terrier, with short slick light brown fur and white highlights around his back nose and big alert shiny eyes. His ears are huge and pointy and the end of his tail has thick darker longer hair like a wild woodland creature. He’s laying on a bed with his head perked up at attention to the camera.
September 14, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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They never really want to talk. 😔
Image of a text conversation on an iphone. Sender: Got a minute to talk? Receiver: A lantern bearer lights the way for those who no more seize the day Sender: I am Mediyln from Indeed, We have a job opening. would you like to know more details? Receiver: Blind eyes peer out from every head that crowds the carriage of the dead A miser thought to keep his gold as shield against the coming cold But what cared death for mortal gains? He smiled upon the miser’s pains
July 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Poem of the week, from The Guardian
#poetry
Carol Rumens there’s a bird in a tree in the garden a small tree in a small garden it’s a robin (of course) & there are other birds in other trees in other gardens
January 28, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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I found this little muppet wandering around the neighborhood today & was able to return her to her family after a a tricky lasso-ing & knocking on various doors, which was way too much of a social activity for me today, but a happy adventure nonetheless. 💕
Small white maltese mix in a pink dog coat standing by a tree at the side of a residential street.
January 12, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Lots of weird, fun stuff happening with pareidolia in this pic, including a couple of skull-like shapes. Any info about this weird character in the background who seems to be cast entirely in sepia?
Blurry zoom-in of a background person dressed in monochrome yellow-brown.
January 6, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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He’s this cute

& that’s his plan

& he won’t be persuaded otherwise.

Seems highly unreasonable to me, but what can be done? 🤷🏻‍♀️
#dogsky
Portrait of a camel colored chihuahua rat terrier mix laying at on a purple couch with his little paw under his face while he casually awaits his snuffle ball for the evening. His ears are pointy and his eyes are intense and alert despite an otherwise sleepy pose.
January 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Always incurably obsessed with this one. ❄️
#Poetry #Snow
Screenshot of a December 30, 2019 post from my old Facebook. Poem entitled Snow by Louis MacNeice The room was suddenly rich and the great bay-window was Spawning snow and pink roses against it Soundlessly collateral and incompatible: World is suddener than we fancy it. World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion A tangerine and spit the pips and feel The drunkenness of things being various. And the fire flames with a bubbling sound for world Is more spiteful and gay than one supposes- On the tongue on the eyes on the ears in the palms of one's hands- There is more than glass between the snow and the huge roses.
December 31, 2024 at 1:25 AM
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I love that my neighbor’s x-mas decorations are monstrosity inflatable Whoville (sans Cindy Lou Who due to inoperable deflation) alongside wooden skeleton riding a tractor bathed in Suspiria-esque red floodlights. Decent representation of the overall American vibe these days.
Night time photo of a greenlit ridiculous blowup monstrosity Whoville archway complete with Whoville tower and tree, the Grinch, and Max the dog with antlers. Night time photo of a giant Skeleton riding a life-size wooden tractor lawn ornament, cast in red floodlighting.
December 31, 2024 at 12:24 AM
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New Jersey’s Official Health Insurance Marketplace is totally not gonna f—- my application up this time, I can just feel it.
Screenshot of an e-mail from Get Covered NJ. The body of the e-mail says “Header Header Header Header,” followed by Words Words Words Words other words. Need help enrolling? Find free and certified Assisters, Agents, and Brokers in your neighborhood who can help you enroll in health coverage here.”
December 29, 2024 at 10:37 PM
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Does this count for #GothicAdvent? 🖤🎄
A mash of chaotic raven tracks in the snow.
December 24, 2024 at 11:11 PM
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Probably an innocent editorial snafu wherein “blah” was intended as a placeholder, but yike anyway.
Screen shot of a Facebook post by a Jewish friend who wrote “Be sure to celebrate your blah appropriately” above an image of a Fox 13 Seattle News article titled “Why is Hannukah so late this year?” dated December 15, 2024. Above the article Fox News has elaborated “For the first time in nearly 20 years, Hanukkah will begin on Christmas Day. The Jewish holiday marking blah usually begins a bit earlier.” Screenshot of a text exchange with friend of half Jewish heritage. Them: Marking blah. Excuse me? Me: You won’t have to do blah at a different time. Me: You can multi-task.
December 24, 2024 at 4:29 PM
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Will they have enough spice?
A blue glass mixing bowl filled with flour and ginger, cardamom, nutmeg, cinnamon, black pepper, and clove.
December 24, 2024 at 12:26 AM
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If you know anyone who really deserves it, the Hoot n’ Holler Animal Caller exists.
Screenshot of a Mastodon post by Aprylle Peculiaris (me) from 11 months ago. The post contains a photo of a “shop now” Amazon advertisement on Facebook. The ad features an intriguing toy called the Hoot n Holler Animal Caller which is shaped like a drinking horn and apparently has at least 9 different horrible noises it can make at a child's discretion, according to the description on the box.
December 22, 2024 at 6:18 AM
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Memory Lane: December Ridiculous Nonsense Edition
Screenshot of Twitter post by Creature of Twee (me) on December 24, 2018. "Forgive me if I am not justified in what I ask," said Scrooge, looking intently at the Spirit's robe, "but I see something strange, and not belonging to yourself, protruding from your skirts. Is it a foot or a claw." Spirit of Christmas Present: "Both." Scrooge: "….” From the foldings of its robe, it brought two children; wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable. They knelt down at its feet, and clung upon the outside of its garment. Scrooge: "Spirit, are they yours." Spirit: "They are memes. And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This doggo is Frighten. This catto is Screamo." Scrooge: "Heck." Spirit: "Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this roud boi, for on his brow I see that written which is doin' a concern, unless the writing be erased." Scrooge: "Spirit, i think you're doin' me a bamboozle."
December 22, 2024 at 4:02 AM
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Memory Lane: December #Horror Edition
Screenshot of a Mastodon post by Aprylle Peculiaris (me) on December 8, 2023. A horror movie, but it's just the protagonist trying to pull those nasty, staticky hair tangles from the dryer off of herself all winter long, only to have them re-attach themselves again & again.
December 22, 2024 at 3:55 AM
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A center pine tree between two cement urns is completely engulfed in golden and green lighting. Smaller trees flooded with violet blue light form a half circle behind it. In the foreground, the dark silhouettes of people standing and walking past. Brightly lit fuchsia tree branches needle out into darkness like lightning. Vague glimpses of tree branches are visible in the darkness between snowflake shaped bursts of white Christmas lights. A big ol’ pile of sugary, sparkling gingersnaps.
December 22, 2024 at 1:06 AM
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Photograph of a winter light display at Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania. A tall tree with branches adorned in blue and white lights standing at the edge of a large pond on a dark winter’s night. In the water its reflection is a blobby glowing cobalt, smudged out like broad strokes of paint. To its right, smaller floating blue and white dots of light hover in mid air, with more small lit figures on the shore below. The smaller lights are reflected in short bright vertical streaks on the rippled black surface of water in the foreground. Purple and fuchsia orbs of light in various sizes nestled in the deep darkness of a hillside, decorated by the black silhouettes of branches and twigs. A large tree with branches and trunk overcast in violet blue light against a backdrop of darkness. White glowing snowflakes dangle from curved branches. To the left a straggly shrub is decorated in golden lights. Off to the right, a short structure of arches is lit in ivory. A copse of trunks wrapped in Christmas lights of various bright colors, with the tops of the trees disappearing into the darkness above.
December 22, 2024 at 1:06 AM
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Memory Lane: December 2019 Edition

#WintersSolstice
Screenshot of tweets by Creature of Twee @autumnimal on December 22, 2019. Caption: “Winter Solstice commentary 2019. Eight photos are attached.
December 22, 2024 at 1:06 AM
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A vintage illustration of a kewpie-doll-like child sitting on a stump with chin in hands. Beneath is the subtitle "I'm so lonesome, I ain't hardly human." A photo portrait of a Hackettstown High School class of 1944 football player named Sass Applegate, who was apparently a pretty big deal. He's shown in a crouching position on a field backdropped with a grove of trees. His hands are outstretched, ready to catch a football in the town historical museum. Strong jawline and impressive hair parting game. The photo caption says, additionally, University of Scranton, All American 1950. Museum display featuring a came pin in a silver setting on the left with a photo enlargement of the pin on the right. The label reads: Cameo pin, c. 1880. This cameo pin, probably made in Italy, depicts a woman in Victorian dress in a country scene by water's edge. This pin was given to Ethel Davis Hale by her grandmother, Rebecca Davis. An enlargement of the cameo is shown to the right to display the detail. Additional notes: The woman figure's eye is carved as a huge dark void disproportionately large for her facial profile. May cause one to speculate as to the specific reason it ended up in a museum rather than continuing its legacy as a family heirloom. Behind clear glass on a display case, a crooked neck gourd which has been painted in detail with to resemble Santa Claus. His expression is perhaps unintentionally forlorn and tired-eyed, as though he knows better than to hope he may one day be able to unsee the things he has seen.
December 22, 2024 at 12:06 AM
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Memory Lane: December 2018 Edition
Screen shot of a post on Twitter by Creature of Twee @autumnimal from December 1, 2018. From Hackettstown Historical Society: 1. Totally not this lonely how dare you 2. What if your name had been SASS Applegate. 3. A lovely cameo... of a hollow-eyed woman... wading in the nightmare bog... 4. Santa as the world-weary gourd we children know & love
December 21, 2024 at 11:58 PM
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Screen shot of a post by Creature of Twee @ autumnimal on Twitter Sometimes it's hard to say whether my struggles w/ productivity are due to being neurodivergent in general OR more oc I will do things like find a scary bug in the house that would not survive outside in winter & decide to keep it in a container to worry about for several weeks 4:49 PM 12/6/19 Screen shot of a post by Creature of Twee @ autumnimal on Twitter What to do what to do what to do with a spring time bug caught in the house in winter 4:53 PM 12/5/19
December 21, 2024 at 6:59 PM
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Screen shot of a Mastodon post by Aprylle Peculiaris I haven't had all the ingredients to make chai gingersnaps until today, but now that I do, whoa-hohohoOo well-heheheEell WATCH OUT December 20, 2022 at 3:13 PM
December 20, 2024 at 11:48 PM
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Why do Chrome’s article suggestions always seem like they’ve been curated to whack-a-mole any suggestion of life’s simple pleasures out of my day as soon as they come up?
Screenshot of an article titled the following: Earl Grey Teas Tested for PFAS "Forever Chemicals" - Guide
December 18, 2024 at 1:17 AM