Shawn

Small time poet, long time furry

[shawnvalsean]

A While Ago

Why was it ok a while ago,

why is it not fine now?

What happened

between then and now?

I'm afraid to ask,

Don't think I want to know

Why is it not fine now?

Why was it ok a while ago?

Maybe the whiles are gone,

and maybe time got old.

But who's to say? I do not know.

Why was it only just

a little while ago

before the time got old,

when things were ok

so long ago?

[shawnvalsean]

RIP BOZO

[shawnvalsean]

Grey Street

Walking around my old neighborhood

The familiar places of my colorful childhood

Left behind, long ago

The grandmother who walked me, long gone

The bustling stores, long since closed

Now I'm old enough to spot places I'd never been

Walk down alleys once too scary

The sun seems dimmer than it was back then

The colors drained from all the memories

The grey street once paved new

The lights out, the pavement overgrown.

My vantage higher;

From up here I see nothing of the childhood

That once felt like all there was.

Where did it go?

[shawnvalsean]

[leskylentils]

Me hanging off that piton in Peak tbh

[shawnvalsean]

Curse

I fear it will be with me to the end

No, I know it

Tearing away at me from within

No hope to escape it,

Try as I might.

It only grows stronger

And with each passing day

It consumes me

And one day,

I know it,

It will destroy me.

This terrible affliction;

Love

[bri-wolfer]

🏳️‍⚧️happy pride🏳️‍⚧️

[augustheart]

NEVER STOP THE GRINDSET

[homunculus-argument]

hey I wonder what happens if I put powdered milk into carbonated water

[homunculus-argument]

my cereal is loud and it's demanding to know why I would sin against both nature and god so thoughtlessly

[catgirlwheels]

...how does it taste?

[homunculus-argument]

bad

[writingtoolofdubiousintegrity]

the fizz comes from carbonic acid in the water splitting up into CO₂ and H₂O over time. And carbonic acid is – as an acid – sour.

By adding milk to sour water you've created a very convincing emulation of spoiled milk, so I'll believe in a heartbeat that the taste is Not Great™.

[homunculus-argument]

I have mastered the potion: Instant Spoiled Milk, therefore earning the rank of shittiest alchemist currently alive.

[wolfertinger666]

her name is Luna!

(SHE/HER) 🐆🏳️‍⚧️🌙

[slimepost-generator]

you're so beautifol :) may i sense you with my feelers

[technicolorcrows]

of course! let me just-

(source)

[vagueconfusion]

if we were both cats would you lay in a sunbeam with me

[judgejudyofficial]

the word frotting sounds like it's something you should do with your friends in a meadow on a cool spring afternoon

[judgejudyofficial]

i am glad so many share my vision

[blackpyrefly]

early to bed and early to rise leaves a man so fucked up that he dies

[birdsareblooming]

For the love of god stop

[nightingalesighs]

Let these be the photos that mark tonight.

This evening, Rep. Al Green of Texas was forcibly removed from the joint session of Congress by the sergeant-at-arms for standing up and yelling “You have no mandate to cut Medicaid.” during the president’s address.

“He is a person who has consistently used incivility against civility,” Green said. 

“I’m willing to suffer whatever punishment is available to me,” he continued. “I didn’t say to anyone, ‘Don’t punish me.’ I’ve said I’ll accept the punishment, but it’s worth it to let people know that there are some of us who are going to stand up against this president’s desire to cut Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security.”

“This is about the people who are being punished by virtue of losing their health care,” he added. “This is the richest country in the world, and we have people who don’t have good health care.” (Per HuffPost)

[shawnvalsean]

Singing

Vulnerability can be a terrible thing

In the decision to let the world know

Some days I'd feel so glad to be

Unable

To feel the past

Singing forever of love lost and found

Crying just as loud

Nothing good remains I suppose;

At the end of all is nothing and no one

But in that moment -

When you open up and let the world know

- For that brief moment,

Something mattered to you