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Lin Tarczynski

@chalk-idiom.bsky.social
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Artist. Writer. Poet. Fictitious character, the Unreliable Narrator, who enjoys making asemic images and magic writing, which are sometimes illuminated by outlandish tales of phantasmagorical creatures from the world of the mythical Inultaru.

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Geonn Cannon @geonncannon.bsky.social · 15h
Apparently no one answering this question has seen RRR, because there are like ten right answers in that movie alone.
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Jr NTR's Epic Animal Scene from RRR Movie Interval
ALT: Jr NTR's Epic Animal Scene from RRR Movie Interval
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Cor Wijtman @corwijt48.bsky.social · 20h
. Saturday Growing older alone isn't easy, but I never want to go back. I've let go of so many things. .
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Scapegracery For jackalope families, the practice of rolling around in a big heap of fallen leaves is an autumn tradition known as the Scapegracery Frolic. On this third day of October, you are invited to celebrate your escape from grace and your escape from the machine. Most Inultarumet tribes…
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Scapegracery
For jackalope families, the practice of rolling around in a big heap of fallen leaves is an autumn tradition known as the Scapegracery Frolic. On this third day of October, you are invited to celebrate your escape from grace and your escape from the machine. Most Inultarumet tribes use the word "scapegracery" (from the English word "scapegrace") for the concept of the holiday, but of course the festivities must have their own set of names in the languages of the Inultaru.
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Lin Tarczynski @chalk-idiom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The #surrealism tag seems rather bare. Here's another Forest painting by Max Ernst. If I could say I have a favorite Forest by Ernst, this might be it.
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Lin Tarczynski @chalk-idiom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I've been thinking of Max Ernst today, and my mom. Sophie and I discovered Ernst together, I can't remember the museum, that's not the bright point of the memory. We were both captured by his Forest paintings.
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Nia Ain @nia.covn.io · 03/10/2026
Surrealist sigil working: Interrupted moment of consequence. #surrealist #chaosky
Surrealist sigil working on wrinkled paper with ink and blood affixed to wall with lancet
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Lin Tarczynski @chalk-idiom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Did you know you can have an amazing life and never encounter anything made by Warner Bros/Paramount/Skydance? They are so tiny, so very teeny-tiny, just the teeniest-tiniest thing that has no power over you.
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Hannah Comstock @hannahorca.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
October is here! 🎃🎃🎃 I created this “pumpkin ogre” in 2019 inspired by a weird gourd I found. Ever since I have created a new pumpkin inspired monster each year for Halloween. I’ll be sharing the other ones I’ve done throughout the month and the 8th pumpkin monster will appear on Halloween 🎃
Illustration of a creature inspired by pumpkins and gourds. The image shows it full body and its head with its mouth open
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Lin Tarczynski @chalk-idiom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Tirrab Tirrab A former archivist at the Geranium Lake Properties Animist Sanctuary wrote a note attached to this image: "Discolored misprint from the DB published on Feb. 1rst Rabbit Rabbit Day." No one currently associated with the archive knows which newspaper is or was indicated by the…
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Tirrab Tirrab
A former archivist at the Geranium Lake Properties Animist Sanctuary wrote a note attached to this image: "Discolored misprint from the DB published on Feb. 1rst Rabbit Rabbit Day." No one currently associated with the archive knows which newspaper is or was indicated by the abbreviation "DB". My own note will read "Unsure if this is an actual misprint. The discoloration may be the result of improper storage at the archive.
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Lin Tarczynski @chalk-idiom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Katadesmos The date at the top of today's Geranium Lake Properties comic is the first day of the fourth week in the Procession of Entropy. November 11 is Katadesmostermymy, or Cursing Day, in the JMWL1 calendar. From notes we found in the Black Oxford Notebook (BON), we have learned there are…
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Katadesmos
The date at the top of today's Geranium Lake Properties comic is the first day of the fourth week in the Procession of Entropy. November 11 is Katadesmostermymy, or Cursing Day, in the JMWL1 calendar. From notes we found in the Black Oxford Notebook (BON), we have learned there are several days that are eminently good for cursing people in the classical sense.
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Lin Tarczynski @chalk-idiom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A Poltergeist Hidden in the Flowers Tattoo flash, no. 51, "A poltergeist hidden in the flowers" Today is Michaelmas. Today I had hoped to describe why, according to Jackalopian customs, Saint Michael is the archangel who gets assigned all the shit jobs by his boss.1 That post has tangled itself…
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A Poltergeist Hidden in the Flowers
Tattoo flash, no. 51, "A poltergeist hidden in the flowers" Today is Michaelmas. Today I had hoped to describe why, according to Jackalopian customs, Saint Michael is the archangel who gets assigned all the shit jobs by his boss.1 That post has tangled itself with Jackalopian tales about the durable but doomed relationship between Michael and the Morning Star, aka Astarte, Venus, Lucifer, Chak Ek and Yotrildochet, among many other names.
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Lin Tarczynski @chalk-idiom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sometimes curiosity can be tedious. I had to look up the name of the Rolling Stone author of the Choosin' Texas thing, so that I would know that I can safely ignore Marissa R. Moss as a card-carrying member of the Flat Earth Society who cannot imagine a world larger than Billboard's Top 100.
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Lin Tarczynski @chalk-idiom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Whilom, Quondam and Bypast It has been my intention to write about the Inultaru's concept of Michaelmas, the Feast Day of the Angels, for many years. I hope 2026 will be the year I accomplish this feat, but my post for September 29 is a mess right now, so we will have to see if I can bash it into…
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Whilom, Quondam and Bypast
It has been my intention to write about the Inultaru's concept of Michaelmas, the Feast Day of the Angels, for many years. I hope 2026 will be the year I accomplish this feat, but my post for September 29 is a mess right now, so we will have to see if I can bash it into some kind of coherence in the time I have left.
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Lin Tarczynski @chalk-idiom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I was surprised to find the "iced coffee at job interview" trending thing is funny and cute and full of subversive ire. I have nothing to add, except a real world tip: Don't work for assholes, i.e. corporations. Or any boss, there are very few good bosses, in fact, they might be mythical.
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byopiapress.bsky.social @byopiapress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Friday is the final day to see works by Cathryn Miller and Cindy Hergott Pellerin in "Off the Grid" at the STM Gallery, St. Thomas More College on the USask campus. The gallery is accessible during building hours: M-F 7:30 am to 10:30 pm, weekends 10:00 am to 6:00 pm. #PaperArt #PaperQuilt
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KANSHIKETSU! @kanshiketsu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
page 4 of 1st book of untitled ledgers #asemic shapes and #printmaking objects
page 4 of first book of untitled ledger series, hand carved asemic letter set, ink on bristol 2026 Kanshiketsu!
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Cor Wijtman @corwijt48.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
. Friday Wandering through my home Losing my way in my work Living alone .
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Lin Tarczynski @chalk-idiom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It is not mentioned in this video but there is something that will make an amazing, significant contribution to the climate solution, and it is something anybody can easily accomplish: Don't have children. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBNE...
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Lin Tarczynski @chalk-idiom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Two Poems 25 Carpet Tacks(The Hardware Ballad) A good Australian of large experience,an exporter of blue shoe tacks, foundthe mousetrap in the letterbox andwas flattened by an unknown grinningdog sitting in front of our schoolmany years ago. Many years agowe used small ballad arrangementsfor Young…
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Carpet Tacks(The Hardware Ballad) A good Australian of large experience,an exporter of blue shoe tacks, foundthe mousetrap in the letterbox andwas flattened by an unknown grinningdog sitting in front of our schoolmany years ago. Many years agowe used small ballad arrangementsfor Young Children and Hardware.We also researched a variety ofsharp pins protruding through…
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Lin Tarczynski @chalk-idiom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Favorite bassist... nothing to do with his musical chops, although those are not shabby... John Taylor of Duran Duran, who long ago was part of a journey with my sister. She's gone, I'm still here.
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Lin Tarczynski @chalk-idiom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#Halloween (it's not too early, is it?) got me thinking about horror movies... Why is it always stupid young people who get the axe or knife or buzz saw? Why not 5 or 6 stupid old or oldish billionaire industrialists? That sounds like much more fun. Laughing emoji laughing tears of joy.
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Lin Tarczynski @chalk-idiom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Bliss is Antimatter How do you write what people actually want to read? View all responses I don't know and I have never wanted to know. There are reasons, I suppose there are even good reasons, to write what other people want to read, but then who would write what I want to read? No one but me.…
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Bliss is Antimatter
How do you write what people actually want to read? View all responses I don't know and I have never wanted to know. There are reasons, I suppose there are even good reasons, to write what other people want to read, but then who would write what I want to read? No one but me. Why should I abandon myself - so many people have abandoned me, a world of people have abandoned me, none of them concerned, not in the least, with what I say, with the stories I tell.
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Lin Tarczynski @chalk-idiom.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Flash Hall at Prastuttle Gheyott Today marks the official arrival of Autumn. We tried to make a post for the Autumnal Equinox but this post is the story that came without badgering the magic into the shape of the day. Today's entry is not an equinox thing, we already suffered that defeat in…
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The Flash Hall at Prastuttle Gheyott
Today marks the official arrival of Autumn. We tried to make a post for the Autumnal Equinox but this post is the story that came without badgering the magic into the shape of the day. Today's entry is not an equinox thing, we already suffered that defeat in our previous post. This story is simply a tale that required to be told.
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Lin Tarczynski @chalk-idiom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
More or Less Phonetic Homogeneity The first rule for pronouncing Inultarumek words is this: They are spelled phonetically for English speakers, except when they are not, and when they are not, your guess is as good as mine. I do not have to guess about the pronunciation of name Tinnamcaiw because…
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More or Less Phonetic Homogeneity
The first rule for pronouncing Inultarumek words is this: They are spelled phonetically for English speakers, except when they are not, and when they are not, your guess is as good as mine. I do not have to guess about the pronunciation of name Tinnamcaiw because I have instructions plainly written by Yost in the Black Oxford Notebook (BON), which some people insist on calling the Black Oxford Workbook (BOW is an appellation used nowhere in the records of the archive).
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 20/09/2026
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Lin Tarczynski @chalk-idiom.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I have to repost this because of the Mr. VanderMeer's use of the word "Sebaldian".
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Cor Wijtman @corwijt48.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
. Friday Maybe yes, maybe no I’m going – wherever it may be Here and now! On the screen . Created about 50 years ago, hoping to find a way out! Never succeeded—too many roadblocks. .
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Lin Tarczynski @chalk-idiom.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I have a weakness for the number 4. Could be one of my lucky numbers, but Madame Fortune is always fickle.
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Lin Tarczynski @chalk-idiom.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A Dozen Pages, Part 4 [ZINE] This is the finishing post to a part of our zine project dubbed "A Dozen Pages". That is not a title, this part of the project has no title, these twelve pages were my contribution to a group project, the result of which was the abstract graphic novel A Kick in the Eye…
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A Dozen Pages, Part 4 [ZINE]
This is the finishing post to a part of our zine project dubbed "A Dozen Pages". That is not a title, this part of the project has no title, these twelve pages were my contribution to a group project, the result of which was the abstract graphic novel A Kick in the Eye (2013). I will be sharing more abstract comic pages (for you to download and print!) at some point in the future, but right now I am not sure what I will post.
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Lin Tarczynski @chalk-idiom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Geranium Lake Properties is an abstract comic by Lin Tarczynski, published in her online journal Vraicking. GLP can be read as an artifact of its ostensible creator, Wm. Yost, who became a minor celebrity with a comic that followed the hallucinatory adventures of Jack Loki, an Inultarumet jackalope.
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Lin Tarczynski @chalk-idiom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A disaster can be clarifying. The Covid pandemic produced one such moment of clarity when urban skies cleared of pollution. We do not need cars to get to work. Other things we do not need are heads of state & CEOs. Trump, who has been the most vacant executive in history, has shown us that.
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GorgonGoddess_The @avngmedusa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Forage Autumnal friends
Nature craft 
Sun bleached branch piece with walnut owlNature craft
A bee made out of pinecone twigs and leavesNature craft
Insects made out of leaves pinecones seed podsNature craft
Moth made out of Evergreen bark, pinecone pieces and leaves
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Lin Tarczynski @chalk-idiom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What You Need is Nothing What’s the best advice you’d give to someone younger than you? View all responses Stop buying things. Stop buying things you don't need and stop buying things you think you need. Think seriously, or playfully, or absurdly about what you really want, then figure out how to…
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What You Need is Nothing
What’s the best advice you’d give to someone younger than you? View all responses Stop buying things. Stop buying things you don't need and stop buying things you think you need. Think seriously, or playfully, or absurdly about what you really want, then figure out how to get it without buying things. Or figure out how to live without it. Pretend it is something you can't get by any means.
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Lin Tarczynski @chalk-idiom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Floating Harvest The Inultaru can be quite casual about observing their big harvest festivals in September. The two most important celebrations are Doshennooskeyma and the Festival of the Tents, which you might think are Jackalopian versions of Dozynki (the Polish harvest festival, known as…
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The Floating Harvest
The Inultaru can be quite casual about observing their big harvest festivals in September. The two most important celebrations are Doshennooskeyma and the Festival of the Tents, which you might think are Jackalopian versions of Dozynki (the Polish harvest festival, known as Obzhynky in Ukraine, or Dažynki in Belarus) and Sukkot (a Jewish tradition). The Inultaru holidays are not quite analogous to their Slavic and Judaic counterparts.
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The Gay Curmudgeon @hermitsdaily.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
My friends and I have made movies most our lives. "Not the Bore Worms!" was to be our version of "Flash Gordon." Never filmed. Watercolor, 1985. #movies #movies #makingmovies #moviemaking #amateurmoviemaking #amaeurmoviemakers #moviemakers #super8mm #reg8mm #8mm #mm #film #filmstock
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The Gay Curmudgeon @hermitsdaily.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Pumpkins at Klinglers' Produce. Marker and Watercolor. #art #artwork #arting #artist #artists #artworks #painting #paints #watercolor #watercolors #watercolorpainting #watercolorpainters #watercolorpainter #fall #autumn #fallequinox #autumnequinox #equinox #changeofseason #changeofseasons
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Lin Tarczynski @chalk-idiom.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I’ve Seen That Movie Too The volunteers at the Geranium Lake Properties Archive and Animist Sanctuary, under the leadership of Oakleigh Clement-Greytinbark1, have misappropriated a list made by the wife of the former apprentice to the former archivist. The wife's name was Nutblossom. Please do not…
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I’ve Seen That Movie Too
The volunteers at the Geranium Lake Properties Archive and Animist Sanctuary, under the leadership of Oakleigh Clement-Greytinbark1, have misappropriated a list made by the wife of the former apprentice to the former archivist. The wife's name was Nutblossom. Please do not ask me what was up with her parents, maybe they were born-again hippies? I never dredged up the courage or impudence to ask.
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Lin Tarczynski @chalk-idiom.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Psychopomp Today is the last day of Ghost Month. Today we are encouraging the hungry ghosts, the restless ghosts, the wandering ghosts to return to Aplionta Parratiskum, before Til and Kee lock the Gates to Hell. Escorting grumpy ghosts to their afterlife might be like trying to herd feral cats…
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Psychopomp
Today is the last day of Ghost Month. Today we are encouraging the hungry ghosts, the restless ghosts, the wandering ghosts to return to Aplionta Parratiskum, before Til and Kee lock the Gates to Hell. Escorting grumpy ghosts to their afterlife might be like trying to herd feral cats to, well, anywhere. We can feel fortunate that this is not our task.
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Lin Tarczynski @chalk-idiom.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Two Poems 24 Glass Quandary The integers of mesmerism, composed uponwine roots and pure silica, catch the winking brideas she eats a box of grasshopper dreams and slow roses,sleep-trapped in an algorithm of snow and smoke. She breathes in ciphers, wrongly, waking nearly when the golden tiger of…
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Glass Quandary The integers of mesmerism, composed uponwine roots and pure silica, catch the winking brideas she eats a box of grasshopper dreams and slow roses,sleep-trapped in an algorithm of snow and smoke. She breathes in ciphers, wrongly, waking nearly when the golden tiger of the fifth invisible eden,ever hunting acorns across an infinite field of orchids,
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Lin Tarczynski @chalk-idiom.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A Dozen Pages, Part 3 [ZINE] Three more pages for our zine project. We will need one more post to complete this part of the project, which we are posting here under the working title "A Dozen Pages", but that is not its actual title. It does not need a title, these twelve pages are meant to be…
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A Dozen Pages, Part 3 [ZINE]
Three more pages for our zine project. We will need one more post to complete this part of the project, which we are posting here under the working title "A Dozen Pages", but that is not its actual title. It does not need a title, these twelve pages are meant to be mixed into a greater whole.
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Lin Tarczynski @chalk-idiom.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Favorite Album Covers The Labor Day holiday should be a day off from work for all us worker bees and toads, so today's post is an easy-peasy lemon -squeezy retrospective of five favorite album covers by Wm. Yost. The five were chosen by the volunteers and staff of the Geranium Lake Properties…
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Favorite Album Covers
The Labor Day holiday should be a day off from work for all us worker bees and toads, so today's post is an easy-peasy lemon -squeezy retrospective of five favorite album covers by Wm. Yost. The five were chosen by the volunteers and staff of the Geranium Lake Properties Archive and Animist Sanctuary, members of Albopata, and a few visitors to the archive who graciously took the time to give us their input.
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Lin Tarczynski @chalk-idiom.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Pieces Without a Puzzle The season is changing. I feel the press of autumn on the threshold of my world. Summer is lingering, and will linger for a while yet. I can appreciate that, but I am glad for the fall. From a poem by Wendell Berry: "When I fall let me fall without regret like a leaf." His…
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Pieces Without a Puzzle
The season is changing. I feel the press of autumn on the threshold of my world. Summer is lingering, and will linger for a while yet. I can appreciate that, but I am glad for the fall. From a poem by Wendell Berry: "When I fall let me fall without regret like a leaf." His name can be spelled as Amsunteygralt or Amsonteygralt.
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Lin Tarczynski @chalk-idiom.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Which Endor? Today, if you actually intend to read this, you are my Best Beloved, and it is time for me to tell you a story. There is an odd and unexplained tradition among the Inultaru that imagines the witch in the first book of Samuel in the Tanakh as a priestess or votary of one of the Ancient…
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Which Endor?
Today, if you actually intend to read this, you are my Best Beloved, and it is time for me to tell you a story. There is an odd and unexplained tradition among the Inultaru that imagines the witch in the first book of Samuel in the Tanakh as a priestess or votary of one of the Ancient Dirt Mothers. Usually…
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Lin Tarczynski @chalk-idiom.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Black in the Dark Daily writing prompt What’s the best thing you’ve ever found randomly on the street? View all responses Cats. Cats were and will always be the best things you can find on the street. Timothy Futz Stutz Bearcat, Diesel and Spats Bunter Moustache were the most splendid (and honored…
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Black in the Dark
Daily writing prompt What’s the best thing you’ve ever found randomly on the street? View all responses Cats. Cats were and will always be the best things you can find on the street. Timothy Futz Stutz Bearcat, Diesel and Spats Bunter Moustache were the most splendid (and honored in memory) cats that were found on the street. Diesel (as a kitten) was rescued from the wheel-well of a giant diesel-fueled truck.
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Lin Tarczynski @chalk-idiom.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
In a happier universe the top five trending topics on Bluesky would be 1. paper - 2. handmade - 3. ink - 4. books - 5. Pagyagdinyan music
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Cor Wijtman @corwijt48.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
. Saturday No more searching .
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Lin Tarczynski @chalk-idiom.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A Dozen Pages, Part 2 [ZINE] In this post I have included three more printable images of "A Dozen Pages" for our zine project. These pages first appeared in A Kick in the Eye, which was a collaborative book I made thirteen years ago with eleven other artists. These pages share a thematic cycle…
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A Dozen Pages, Part 2 [ZINE]
In this post I have included three more printable images of "A Dozen Pages" for our zine project. These pages first appeared in A Kick in the Eye, which was a collaborative book I made thirteen years ago with eleven other artists. These pages share a thematic cycle with Intrepid Spirits/The Book of Clea and Enoch and My Favorite Martian Comics…
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Lin Tarczynski @chalk-idiom.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Two Poems 23 Between the drawn riders of the world without colors, and the long borders of the valley of absolute night.
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Two Poems 23
Between the drawn riders of the world without colors, and the long borders of the valley of absolute night.
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Lin Tarczynski @chalk-idiom.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
#asemic #AbstractComics
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Lin Tarczynski @chalk-idiom.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Fateful Light I was looking for a particular image for an upcoming post about the Ondrusek Marian Butler Intelligence Test, but I found this Geranium Lake Properties comic instead. I need to post it today - the date on the comic is too fortuitous to ignore - on August 16 there was a full moon…
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Fateful Light
I was looking for a particular image for an upcoming post about the Ondrusek Marian Butler Intelligence Test, but I found this Geranium Lake Properties comic instead. I need to post it today - the date on the comic is too fortuitous to ignore - on August 16 there was a full moon eclipse over Los Angeles in 1989. I am not sure we will be able to view the full moon tonight.
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