Crystal
@mercifulidealist.bsky.social
I had cancer. There; I said it. It's gone now... it's been a few months. I'm better and it's fine now. It turned out to be nothing. We caught it early. At the time, there was a limit to people I could bring myself to tell.
May 27, 2026 at 5:06 PM
I had cancer. There; I said it. It's gone now... it's been a few months. I'm better and it's fine now. It turned out to be nothing. We caught it early. At the time, there was a limit to people I could bring myself to tell.
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Have you taken action for libraries yet today? There's no better way to celebrate #NationalLibraryWeek than by raising your voice #ForOurLibraries!
Take action with us & tell your House Rep to REJECT censorship and PROTECT the freedom to read: ala.org/conferencesevents/take-action-for-libraries-day
Take action with us & tell your House Rep to REJECT censorship and PROTECT the freedom to read: ala.org/conferencesevents/take-action-for-libraries-day
April 23, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Have you taken action for libraries yet today? There's no better way to celebrate #NationalLibraryWeek than by raising your voice #ForOurLibraries!
Take action with us & tell your House Rep to REJECT censorship and PROTECT the freedom to read: ala.org/conferencesevents/take-action-for-libraries-day
Take action with us & tell your House Rep to REJECT censorship and PROTECT the freedom to read: ala.org/conferencesevents/take-action-for-libraries-day
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Please share as widely as possible.
This is open to Palestinians anywhere in the world, published or not.
Call for Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror stories! Pro rate pay: soniasulaiman.com/thyme-travel...
This is open to Palestinians anywhere in the world, published or not.
Call for Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror stories! Pro rate pay: soniasulaiman.com/thyme-travel...
Thyme Travellers 2 – Call for Submissions
Roseway, an imprint of Fernwood Publishing, will be publishing a sequel to the award-winning and acclaimed anthology Thyme Travellers featuring speculative fiction by Palestinian writers. Editor So…
soniasulaiman.com
April 13, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Please share as widely as possible.
This is open to Palestinians anywhere in the world, published or not.
Call for Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror stories! Pro rate pay: soniasulaiman.com/thyme-travel...
This is open to Palestinians anywhere in the world, published or not.
Call for Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror stories! Pro rate pay: soniasulaiman.com/thyme-travel...
In a world where everything occurs simultaneously and indiscriminately, the outstretched arms on the march of time sweep wide, creating ripple after ripple of movement and still.
April 8, 2026 at 8:21 PM
In a world where everything occurs simultaneously and indiscriminately, the outstretched arms on the march of time sweep wide, creating ripple after ripple of movement and still.
In expressing my thoughts, I find myself briefly contemplating on the best way to express myself — choice candidates of words applying for the job, seeming to fit in precisely as I intend, and swiftly hired — only to find that I haven't said what I wanted to say...
April 5, 2026 at 2:28 PM
In expressing my thoughts, I find myself briefly contemplating on the best way to express myself — choice candidates of words applying for the job, seeming to fit in precisely as I intend, and swiftly hired — only to find that I haven't said what I wanted to say...
I am a coward, though perhaps loving enables me so, as I only wish to continue on and snuggle into the coziest pockets of life and dream my little dreams and avoid the same pain which makes such pockets so darn cozy to begin with.
April 2, 2026 at 8:49 PM
I am a coward, though perhaps loving enables me so, as I only wish to continue on and snuggle into the coziest pockets of life and dream my little dreams and avoid the same pain which makes such pockets so darn cozy to begin with.
If only I could express the joy that comes from the very idea of sun showers. Would it be the same as the warmth of a brownie melting cold vanilla ice cream?
April 2, 2026 at 7:57 PM
If only I could express the joy that comes from the very idea of sun showers. Would it be the same as the warmth of a brownie melting cold vanilla ice cream?
What is it about misogyny that enables the dehumanization of women? How are people limited in their thinking? Do they focus more on perceived differences? Is what they're told about women so flattening to a woman's identity as a human being so limited? What is a human to a misogynist?
March 17, 2026 at 3:49 PM
What is it about misogyny that enables the dehumanization of women? How are people limited in their thinking? Do they focus more on perceived differences? Is what they're told about women so flattening to a woman's identity as a human being so limited? What is a human to a misogynist?
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We can afford to house people.
We can afford to feed people.
We can afford to give people healthcare.
The money is there. We just need to put people in office who will do it.
We can afford to feed people.
We can afford to give people healthcare.
The money is there. We just need to put people in office who will do it.
March 10, 2026 at 11:00 PM
We can afford to house people.
We can afford to feed people.
We can afford to give people healthcare.
The money is there. We just need to put people in office who will do it.
We can afford to feed people.
We can afford to give people healthcare.
The money is there. We just need to put people in office who will do it.
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ICE and Border Patrol's rampant racial profiling and blatant disregard for the Constitution puts us all in danger.
Tell Congress to hold them accountable at aclu.org/stop_ice_attacks-
Tell Congress to hold them accountable at aclu.org/stop_ice_attacks-
March 7, 2026 at 5:13 PM
ICE and Border Patrol's rampant racial profiling and blatant disregard for the Constitution puts us all in danger.
Tell Congress to hold them accountable at aclu.org/stop_ice_attacks-
Tell Congress to hold them accountable at aclu.org/stop_ice_attacks-
I woke up this morning and the walls of my bedroom were shaded gray by an overcast sky. Then, the almost imperceptible noise of drizzling rain just barely faded in and out of hearing and a quiet grumble of thunder soon after.
February 21, 2026 at 3:21 PM
I woke up this morning and the walls of my bedroom were shaded gray by an overcast sky. Then, the almost imperceptible noise of drizzling rain just barely faded in and out of hearing and a quiet grumble of thunder soon after.
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Will we wait to see whose side they're on before offering grief or defensive arguments for those who have fallen? Will we hear that a person was slain and decide whether or not to care based on some kind of scale of righteous morality? Aren't there situations in which murder should be decidedly bad?
January 27, 2026 at 2:04 AM
Will we wait to see whose side they're on before offering grief or defensive arguments for those who have fallen? Will we hear that a person was slain and decide whether or not to care based on some kind of scale of righteous morality? Aren't there situations in which murder should be decidedly bad?
Hello, BlueSky! I'm D-Boy aka Dangerous Boy, LLC! I am designing a #TTRPG inspired by 80's slasher horror films. It will be #crowdfunding on @backerkit.com in a few months. I'll have more to share soon! Feel free to follow me here and on #BackerKit in the interim:
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/d...
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/d...
You're All Gonna Die - A Slasher Horror RPG
A tabletop role-playing game inspired by the iconic slasher horror films of the 1980's. Step into the shoes of a character modeled after the various tropes of the genre as you play a game of survival ...
www.backerkit.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:59 AM
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I think a lot of us deal with the frustration of not understanding something in different ways.
January 14, 2026 at 4:01 AM
I think a lot of us deal with the frustration of not understanding something in different ways.
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In June I finished a poem about being suicidal and the tiniest things one can use as a carrot to keep themselves going, and here at the close of the year I am finally (mostly) ready to share it
December 31, 2025 at 10:42 PM
In June I finished a poem about being suicidal and the tiniest things one can use as a carrot to keep themselves going, and here at the close of the year I am finally (mostly) ready to share it
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I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
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7 Dems joined House Republicans in voting for a bill that would enable ICE agents to strip search 12-year-olds.
Henry Cuellar (TX-28)
Don Davis (NC-01)
Laura Gillen (NY-04)
Jared Golden (ME-02)
Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34)
Adam Gray (CA-13)
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)
Henry Cuellar (TX-28)
Don Davis (NC-01)
Laura Gillen (NY-04)
Jared Golden (ME-02)
Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34)
Adam Gray (CA-13)
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)
December 17, 2025 at 4:26 AM
7 Dems joined House Republicans in voting for a bill that would enable ICE agents to strip search 12-year-olds.
Henry Cuellar (TX-28)
Don Davis (NC-01)
Laura Gillen (NY-04)
Jared Golden (ME-02)
Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34)
Adam Gray (CA-13)
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)
Henry Cuellar (TX-28)
Don Davis (NC-01)
Laura Gillen (NY-04)
Jared Golden (ME-02)
Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34)
Adam Gray (CA-13)
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)
If there are mermaids, but instead of fish, it was shrimp, would the top or bottom half be shrimp? Would the other half be a girl or fish? 🧜🏻♀️🦐🐟 (I delight in the idea of a fairy sized mermaid, but wonder about the logistics... 🤔)
December 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
If there are mermaids, but instead of fish, it was shrimp, would the top or bottom half be shrimp? Would the other half be a girl or fish? 🧜🏻♀️🦐🐟 (I delight in the idea of a fairy sized mermaid, but wonder about the logistics... 🤔)
Is reliance on logic a trauma response? 🤔
December 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Is reliance on logic a trauma response? 🤔