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A bear singing into the void. He/they

I make relaxed audiobooks of lit and poetry. Sometimes I write stuff. I don't make money at this; it's for fun and wonder. (My day job is whispering to robots.)

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I think, maybe, social media isn't the problem. Social media is the light shining on the problem. And we don't like what it's showing us about ourselves and our companions on this planet.

That said, I really hate social media.
December 19, 2024 at 3:26 PM
This is the wrong timeline. Go back and try again.
November 6, 2024 at 3:24 AM
Status update for my fans (both of them!)

I haven't been streaming or posting because, first, I had COVID, and my throat needed to recover enough that I could stream or record audiobooks.

But also 70 hr weeks now in my day job, which will probably continue for a couple more months.

I'll be back!
March 9, 2024 at 3:45 PM
Downshifting
easing off the gas
heading into the bends
as I'm rounding
the sharp corners
of your heart.

#whistpr
February 1, 2024 at 2:35 AM
These thoughts hurt
Will you think for me?
Freedom is so much
responsibility
so please
I can't be trusted
I can't be good
I need the answers
not this autonomy
So will you please
Just collar me

#whistpr #poetry
January 31, 2024 at 2:14 AM
Coffin Boffins Invent New Tech to Extend Death

Mortality giant RIP, Inc. claims their new KarmaFree tech can maintain death indefinitely. "For a low monthly fee, we guarantee no reincarnation," the press release reads. "Finally you can live your life as you like, and then rest in peace."

#whistpr
January 30, 2024 at 1:06 PM
The recording of yesterday's live stream reading of Pride and Prejudice is up on YouTube. Link to full playlist in the description of the video. More coming this week though! Wed/Thu evening, Sun afternoon US/Eastern
youtube.com/live/jkRbSED...

#vtuber #livestream #audiobook
Live soft-spoken audiobook reading: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, with crackling fireplace
This is the a live stream/recording session of Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice, read in a relaxing soft spoken style with crackling fireplace ambience. Th...
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January 29, 2024 at 6:38 PM
Oppression/Restraint

Yes, child, you are
quite clever indeed.
You see things
the world does not see.
Thoughts churn in you
overflowing energy
when you see ideas
expressed wrongly.

But could we,
perhaps, maybe,
try to disagree
more quietly?

#whistpr #poetry
January 29, 2024 at 1:38 PM
The werewolf came
full moon or not
sometimes angry
sometimes sad
Dr. Jekyll
Mr. Hyde
You had to
be clever
to survive

#whistpr #poetry
January 29, 2024 at 2:40 AM
Reposted by Wonder
Our double knickerbocker glory has two red cherries on the top.

Mum says she's tired of telling me to make do with ice pops.

She says she's tired, that's all, putting down her sundae spoon.

Vanilla strawbry tells me, we'll be moonlight flitting soon.

#mpotd #whistpr
January 27, 2024 at 7:39 PM
Every chorus
a tapestry of threads
uniformly woven
If one stands out
the whole unravels

Every aria's
embroidered on
a fabric such as this

#whistpr #poetry
January 28, 2024 at 12:20 PM
What are the words
to the chorus of your life?

The recurring part
that catches in your mind
playing again again again.
The part you can't let go.

Not the rousing anthem
the triumphant prayer
you wrap yourself in.
But the one
you did not choose.

#whistpr #poetry
January 28, 2024 at 2:30 AM
Confusion of Love

Dearest Cherry, sang he,
Thou art the soul of me
Thou'st gossamer blossoms
Palpitating my bosom
Tumultuous as the sea

That's lovely, truly,
I replied, but my name
is Charlie.

#whistpr #poetry
January 27, 2024 at 2:25 PM
They still see it when
they close their eyes.
When they drop a dish
and break it.

Your cherry paddle
hanging in the kitchen
carved by your hand
with loving care.

They see it swaying on its hook
standing outside the bar
when a car rolls up beside them.

#whistpr #poetry
January 27, 2024 at 3:01 AM
To build a chapel so
you can enter Heaven
is easy, let me show you why.

Start by building two.
Make the spires tall
so they can reach the sky.

Then stack them up
spire to spire
balanced carefully.

Continue in this manner
adding faith until
your salvation is nigh.

#whistpr #poetry
January 26, 2024 at 2:36 PM
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It's very telling, watching The Traitors, how neurodivergence and general weirdness are treated as untrustworthy.
Fuck. These. Articles.

They are pseudoscience based on anecdote and not data, they are ableist as hell and they create more ableism by reinforcing stereotypes. They are also fucking dangerous to the very people who we should be listening to and believing MORE by connecting anxiety behavior to lies
January 25, 2024 at 1:46 PM
Love Poet

I wanted to tell you
You complete me
Like a sentence
Your predicate
To my subject

But the words
Caught in my throat and
All I said was
A fragment.

#whistpr #poetry
January 25, 2024 at 2:36 AM
"I'm bored" the child said. "Let's play castleball."
"We can't, we're out of castles."
"Only cuz you won't play anywhere but France. They build new ones in America every day."
"They're so chintzy tho."
"But they fly faster."
"Fine. But I get Mjölnir. You can have the Golden Fleece."
#whistpr
January 24, 2024 at 1:17 PM
The stone was there before
men ripped it from the ground
cut it up and built their castle
bullied other men around.
Those men are dead
but not the stone
nor their travesties
of blood and bone.

#whistpr #dailyprompt: castle
#poetry
Maybe not my best. Might try again tomorrow.
January 24, 2024 at 2:17 AM
All my thoughts are
cosmically deep.
I have them near
the bottom of
a gravity well.

#science #poetry #humor
January 23, 2024 at 10:01 PM
The house we had
when I was young
a worn-out ranch
from better days
My mother tore the carpet up
I thought she'd gone insane
The wood beneath was rough
and marked with glue
She sanded sweated
stained it shined it
golden smooth
And it was still
a worn-out ranch
and we prob'ly were
insane.

#whistpr
January 23, 2024 at 2:10 AM
Neurodivergent
but from what?

#neuro #poetry
January 22, 2024 at 4:38 PM
Life paints on hands a canvas
Of rough and calloused skin
Obscuring in its warp and weft
The youth that sings within

#whistpr daily prompt: canvas
#poetry
Am I allowed two responses to the same prompt? I declare I am.
January 22, 2024 at 1:24 PM
Like canvas mushrooms
The army tents sprouted
Portending decay

#whistpr #senryu #poetry #smallpoems #smallpoemsunday
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Prompt for January 22, 2024: CANVAS
January 22, 2024 at 3:05 AM