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Kat, 25/ Mother of Mollusks and Millipedes/ Collector of Spooky Things/ Certified Weirdo/ Also Known as Aunt Spooky

[rainy-academia]

There’s something beautiful about buying a used poetry book with someone else’s annotations. It’s like being able to read it for the first time once more but through someone else’s eyes.

[aunt-spooky-blog]

Practice. Acrylic in sketchbook

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Oil pastel sketch by me

[aunt-spooky-blog]

An Open Letter To A Girl That Deserved Better.

I do not forgive you, let's start with that.

If you had no clue I existed, maybe I would.

But you worked right beside us, beside me

Every

Single

Day

And you knew what him and I were.

I cannot find it in myself to forgive you,

But I will apologize.

I will apologize for viewing you as

The only problem in what transpired.

I apologize for the things I said.

You were trying to warn me,

I was full of rage over already knowing.

I apologize for the hateful things

Spoken in hushed tones by

People who claimed to be your friends.

I apologize for him breaking both of

Our hearts, god knows he won't.

And I apologize for being stupid enough

To stay with him.

I will not forgive you, but I apologize.

I do not forgive you,

But I hope in the aftermath

We both find what we are looking for

And I hope the same thing never happens

To you.

"Hate is too great a burden to bear"

And I'm tired of carrying the weight of this

on my weak shoulders.

*kat

Poem based on the Martin Luther King Jr quote in the last verse. Prompt from Down With Writers Block's 31 prompts for February.

[scribbleprompts]

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[starlorddude]

Me at any social gathering….

Compilation by @sunnytheon 

[inkstay]

“Before you malign… before you curse… before you accuse - picture yourself in the other person’s shoes.”

— Bruce Adler

[bpdpeter]

someone: i really like you!

me: that’s literally impossible but ok

[aunt-spooky-blog]

S U M M E R D R E A M

I want to bathe in sunlight

In a field of flowers and tall grass.

I want to walk barefoot on the stone shore,

Feeling the warmth from sun heated rocks

On the souls of my weary winter feet.

I want to smell the smoke of a bonfire

And watch ash spark and float

In the clear night sky.

And, just for a second,

I want to feel that all is right again.

*kat

[jenny-jinya]

Short comic, while I work on something bigger on the side. It is nevertheless a very important topic. A lot of seabirds die because they eat plastic. They feed their chicks with the waste. It’s really tragic.

[inkstay]

February 2020 prompts

Write a short story, poem or anything that inspires you based on one of these prompts and tag it with #inkstay. Make it clear somewhere in the post that it is written for one of the inkstay February prompts (also mention specifically which prompt you’re writing for) and post it before the 25th if you want your work to appear in the magazine.

Prompts of the month 1# - Four people sit in a room, waiting for the doorbell to ring 2# - They could only leave the house if they had the key 3# - They could only travel when it rained, during the droughts the land was too hostile 4# - It’s said that, if addressed correctly, the flowers in the town park would whisper secrets to you 5# - After their 400th year of immortality, the two people were running out of things to do 6# - A child sets out to find February’s missing days 7# - The house was made of teeth, which wasn’t even the most horrifying thing about it 8# - She could become a statue, an immovable object, and often did so just for fun 9# - The summoned spirit was apologetic, he hadn’t been actually as bad or evil as his reputation made him seem when he was alive and so he wouldn’t be able to help his summoners with their revenge plot. 10# - Draw three tarot cards, write a story or poem to connect the cards you’ve drawn.

Word prompts 1# - lackluster 2# - euphoria, foreign 3# - nurture, friendly, dauntless 4# - calendar 5# - vicarious, finance 6# - hairy, clever, courage 7# - steal 8# - healthy, together 9# - elixer, belated, excess 10# - dragoon, field, permutation, truth

[aunt-spooky-blog]

"Little Boxes"

She kept little boxes

lined up on a mantle.

One for each time

he broke a part of her.

The first box held her eyes.

She was "seeing things".

Too many red flags.

Too many of their messages.

The second box held her ears.

She heard too much.

The rumors.

The quiet talks they had

in her own home.

The third held her voice.

She decided to speak up.

She told him she knew

something was going on.

He told her she was crazy.

The fourth held her common sense.

The girl tried to warn her.

She confronted him.

"She just wants to cause drama."

She blocked her.

The fifth held her heart.

Ripped from her chest

the night she found out the truth.

Five little boxes.

She is slowly building herself back up.

She will open the boxes, one day.

One day, she will be whole again.

*kat

[downwithwritersblock]

Happy February! I tried to make this prompt set have a good mixture of things that don’t always have to be taken in the context of romance. For all my fellow Ace and/or Aro spec friends out there, All the singles, and anyone else that’s might just be getting really tired of the mass corporate red and pink scam that is Valentines day! While still leaving in some romantic opportunities in there for anyone else that is feeling that romantic vibe this time of year.

Also, Before anyone says anything, Yes, I know there are not 31 days in February. I always put 31 prompt set, I figure you can use the extra day in case you need to skip one of the others, or are just feeling extra ambitious!

I hope you guys enjoy this set! Feel free to tag me in anything this inspires!

Text Version:

FEBRUARY 2020 PROMPT SET

1.    Little Boxes

2.    Silk

3.    ‘Only if it makes you happy…’

4.    At your fingertips

5.    “Hate is too great a burden to bear”-Martin Luthor King, Jr.

6.    Photographs

7.    Sugar

8.    A hand to hold

9.    Blankets

10.‘Thank you for being here with me’

11.Laughter

12.Constellations

13.Patience

14.“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”- Oscar Wilde

15.Wait with bated breath

16.Trope

17. First comes love

18.‘I told you to be careful’

19. That’s what friends are for

20.Soft

21.Balance

22.Letters

23.“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”-Abraham Lincoln

24.It takes a village

25.Safe

26.Together or not at all

27.Café

28. Uphill battle

29. Moonlight

30.“Fortune and Love favor the brave”-Ovid

31. You know it when you feel it

[aunt-spooky-blog]

Trees like smoke clouds

surround the black river road.

The air kisses my skin

with misty lips,

Reminding me all is well.

*kat

[aunt-spooky-blog]

Famous/ historic crimes retold in the 21st century. An H.H. Holmes type that has an air bnb or rents rooms of his inherited victorian home by the month to people that are in his city on work trips.

[inkstay]

November 2019 prompts

Write a short story, poem or anything that inspires you based on one of these prompts and tag it with #inkstay. Make it clear somewhere in the post that it is written for one of the inkstay November prompts (also mention specifically which prompt you’re writing for) and post it before the 25th if you want your work to appear in the magazine.

Prompts of the month 1# - People call out their sorrows in the forest, hoping something will take them from them. 2# - People speak in music all the time. Different songs for different emotions. However, not everyone is a good singer. 3# - Teachers moving from town to town hoping to find someone who still needs to be taught. 4# - Birds have taken to places where humans can’t reach them. It’s been years since they were seen and feathers have become rare. 5# - A girl lives in an all white room, with all white furniture, wearing all white clothes and she just wants to add some colour to her life. 6# - Whenever it rains, people called Noah have the sudden urge to put animals on boats. 7# - A prince is trying very hard to live not live up to everyone’s expectations of him. 8# - An old wizard is collecting magical artifacts for a duel later that day. 9# - A mother enjoying a moment of peace and quiet. 10# - A tower guard is passing the time by counting all the trees they can see.

Word prompts 1# - languid 2# - pitch, education 3# - cliff, sparkle, ancient 4# - confidence 5# - comprise, knackered 6# - decoy, slowly, mild 7# - belfry 8# - external, wheedle 9# - obsession, flattering, scapegoat 10# - corrosive, ill, undying, divulge