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Charlotte “Lotte” Vale

@espressoprose.bsky.social
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A place where words meet wonder. I write a little, read a little more, and drink a lot of coffee—fueling musings on life, stories, and everything in between. Sip, dream, and linger awhile. All photos and writings are my own unless I state otherwise.

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Quiz!Baby @quiz.baby · 13/09/2026
Imagine how much impact the super rich could have on humanity if they would follow this example. Instead they use their money to make the world worse by polluting and impovering.
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Jimothy the Raccoon @jimothythe-raccoon.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Show your love for Jimothy ❤️ #jimothy #seattle #jimothyraccoon
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Jimothy the Raccoon @jimothythe-raccoon.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Jimothys welcomed. #jimothy #seattle #jimothyraccoon
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Charlotte “Lotte” Vale @espressoprose.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Describe your music taste in three artists… I just can’t. I tried. But I can’t. My play list is by category of mood. “The Ache” “The Beautiful Darkness” “When the Volume Needs to go Way Up” “Fucking Catharsis”… You get the idea. #music #taste #artist #playlist
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Charlotte “Lotte” Vale @espressoprose.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I do not need to be rescued. I only sometimes wish I could rest my head against something stronger than my own resolve. #writing #photography #berlin #sculpture
“Der Fischer” (also called “Gerettet” , “Saved”) by German sculptor Adolf Brütt, located in the Kolonnadenhof on Berlin’s Museum Island, between the Alte Nationalgalerie and Friedrichswerdersche Kirche.
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Jimothy the Raccoon @jimothythe-raccoon.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
My Jimothy Hinge Head! #jimothy #seattle #jimothyraccoon
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Quiz!Baby @quiz.baby · 14/08/2026
Das Wichtigste in einer Demokratie ist nicht die Wahl, es ist die Abwahl.
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Quiz!Baby @quiz.baby · 14/08/2026
What truly defines democracy isn’t the vote, but the power to unvote.
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Larry Mitchell @drlarrymitchell.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
In Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood:
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Charlotte “Lotte” Vale @espressoprose.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Love doesn’t always ask us to speak more. Sometimes it asks us to become a place where another person can safely exhale. 💛🖤 #love #writing
Photo of purple tulips on a wooden table
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Jimothy the Raccoon @jimothythe-raccoon.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
#jimothy
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Charlotte “Lotte” Vale @espressoprose.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Some walls do not crumble all at once. They surrender to history one season at a time. The roof was taken by war. The silence arrived later. The world calls them broken. The stones call themselves witnesses. #AugustGothicPrompt #writing #windows #photography #hamburg
St. Nikolai tower through a window of another part of the ruin. Hamburg, Germany
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Charlotte “Lotte” Vale @espressoprose.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Anxiety is an impatient storyteller. It takes an ordinary silence and gives it a tragic ending before the next chapter has even been written. Love, I am learning, asks something different of me. It asks me to wait for the truth before I believe the story. #writing #love #bloomscroll #photography
Cream hydrangeas with dusty rose edges
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Charlotte “Lotte” Vale @espressoprose.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
My heart confuses one doorway for another The house will fill again The quiet will change Familiarity will return And my heart wants to be across the ocean No wonder it is restless It is trying to understand how much room there is for everything I feel I don’t have to answer tonight
Klimt 1895 “Liebe”… before his gold leaf era. This shows the arc of a life of love.
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Charlotte “Lotte” Vale @espressoprose.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Coffeeing. ☕️🧶 The quiet hour before the world asks anything of me. Murph moving softly through the house, stitches slipping one after another, sunlight finding its way through the leaves. Sometimes I think this is how I remember how to be here. #morning #coffee #writing
Photo of pink coffee mug with scrolls and some knitting with a leather needle case.
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Jimothy the Raccoon @jimothythe-raccoon.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
HD Jimothy photos #jimothy #seattle #jimothyraccoon
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Charlotte “Lotte” Vale @espressoprose.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I believe in Jimothy. #jimothy #hotJimothySummer #seattle #ballard
Red haired woman sitting on grey couch wearing Jimothy tshirt. Below him it says “I believe in Jimothy.”
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Charlotte “Lotte” Vale @espressoprose.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Less guns. More Jimothy. #jimothy #seattle
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grannyvalkyrie.bsky.social @grannyvalkyrie.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The Seattle Mariners are now wearing Jimothy shirts in batting practice before games
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Charlotte “Lotte” Vale @espressoprose.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
We spend our lives leaving little landmarks of affection in each other’s worlds, often without realizing we’re doing it. A landmark doesn’t demand attention. It simply exists. You don’t have to visit it every day. That’s how genuine affection often feels. Not dramatic. Orienting. #writing
Coffee mug on a table in front of a window
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Charlotte “Lotte” Vale @espressoprose.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Coffeeing. The quiet art of doing almost nothing, except being fully present with a good cup of coffee. ☕️ #coffee #writing #love
Closeup photo of pink coffee mug with scrollwork foam on top
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Charlotte “Lotte” Vale @espressoprose.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I have learned to trust the quiet kindnesses of the world. Shade. Leaves overhead. A breeze that appears at precisely the moment you think you cannot bear one more degree of summer. #seattle #summer
Woman with long red hair wearing a wide brim sunhat and large dark sunglasses
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RUBY RANGER : QUAKE DAD @rubyranger.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
At the Jimmy Eat World concert in Seattle.
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Charlotte “Lotte” Vale @espressoprose.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Okay… just came across “tillythefriendlyloaf” it’s a doggo version of jimothy 🥰 #hotSummerJimothy #doggoversion
Sweet pup named Tilly with same short spine syndrome as Jimothy.
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Charlotte “Lotte” Vale @espressoprose.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
You’ve got this Spain! 🇪🇸 🇪🇺
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Charlotte “Lotte” Vale @espressoprose.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Love is not only revealed in the moments we are invited into someone’s joy. Sometimes it is revealed in the ordinary faithfulness of waiting beside the hard days, asking for nothing except that tomorrow might be gentler. #love
Pink coffee mug with scrolls and delicate foam
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!
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Charlotte “Lotte” Vale @espressoprose.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
To celebrate Hot Jimothy Summer, I am also going to eat trash and become round. Finally, a goal I can achieve. #hotJimothySummer #jimothy
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Ryan Hill @ryanhillart.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
St. Jimothy of Ballard
Oil portrait of Jimothy the short spined raccoon
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sid @sidvicious.ca · 17/07/2026
i did a jimothy art
a drawing of Jimothy the fucked up tiny raccoon
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Guy Oron @guyoron.net · 17/07/2026
Petition to make Jimothy the honorary mayor of Seattle
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Ryan Hill @ryanhillart.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
St. Jimothy of Ballard, oil on canvas, 16"× 20" #WIP
Oil painting of Jimothy the raccoon of Seattle in progress
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Charlotte “Lotte” Vale @espressoprose.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
More Jimothy is what we all need 😍😍
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Charlotte “Lotte” Vale @espressoprose.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The most enduring relationships are rarely built in emotional sprints. They’re built in hundreds of ordinary mornings. One person saying, “I hope your coffee is good.” Those little threads become a tapestry. So, today, let it be one thread. Not the whole tapestry. ♥️ #relationship #endure
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Charlotte “Lotte” Vale @espressoprose.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
My newest quest: will be camping out in Ballard hoping for a Jimothy sighting. #summer #shenanigans
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Charlotte “Lotte” Vale @espressoprose.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The door is mine. The key is mine. And that is what makes opening it sacred. I do not open because I am empty and searching for someone to complete me. I open because I am whole, and I choose to share the mystery of that wholeness with another.
Doorway leading to an ornate entryway of a tearoom in Potsdam.
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Charlotte “Lotte” Vale @espressoprose.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
A thunderstorm in Seattle. So rare the city seems to pause and listen. A busy café. A delightful, colorful cup. These are the days I love this city… the days I wish I could slow time and simply live inside the moment. Me and my beloved coffee.
A to go coffee cup with a green lid and cardboard sleeve. On a counter with a window behind it
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Charlotte “Lotte” Vale @espressoprose.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Thought for the day: All plants are edible. Some, just once.
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Charlotte “Lotte” Vale @espressoprose.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
There are days when the distance between where I am and where I ache to be feels impossibly wide Coffee Wool Quiet Busy hands to keep sorrow from settling Perhaps this is how we survive not by outrunning longing but by weaving tenderness through it until the heart can bear the waiting #longing
Coffee cup with foam on a dark wood table top with a small view of the window and world outside.
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Charlotte “Lotte” Vale @espressoprose.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The night will not cool its breath clings to my skin like regret and I lie unmade pressed beneath a ceiling too low for dreams too near to thought I am undone by ordinary devastations small violences of being passed over unheard in the places where I gave everything I had
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Charlotte “Lotte” Vale @espressoprose.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Neighborhood walk during lunch. #seattle #summer
Summe dappled light hydrangeas back layer white with blue edges on petals. Front cluster parchment with mauve and green edgesLittle lone daisy sunning herself on the walk Red haired woman in hat and sunglasses selfie out for a noon walk
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Charlotte “Lotte” Vale @espressoprose.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
When the labyrinth opens again, I will remember that there are eyes in this world in which my heart can finally rest. 💛🖤
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Charlotte “Lotte” Vale @espressoprose.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
So I will keep writing. I will not edit. I am not too much. I am not too raw. Right now, my only job is to tell the truth. The shaping can come later. Today, I let the page carry what has become too heavy for my heart to hold alone.
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Charlotte “Lotte” Vale @espressoprose.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
There are dreams that vanish almost the moment we open our eyes, yet somehow remain with us all day. They linger not as stories but as weather, an unnamed melancholy, a tenderness, a subtle shift in the light through which we see the world. #dreams
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Charlotte “Lotte” Vale @espressoprose.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
My writing is an act of making a home for myself, A place where my thoughts, memories, and longings can exist on their own terms. Writing is one of the ways I make sense of my experience and give it shape. I don’t escape from my reality as much as I inhabit it more fully. #write #experience
Vienna spring 2026
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Dogs at the Rescue Center get to pick their own toy 🧸
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Charleszard 🔥 @theyeetforce.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
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Charlotte “Lotte” Vale @espressoprose.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Do you want my love? Then understand: What I offer is not untouched. It is a miracle of survival. And every time I place it in someone’s hands, there is still a part of me that trembles. #love #heal #heart
Photo of black and white photo with heart shape cut out. Likely for a locket.
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lord-buchanan.bsky.social @lord-buchanan.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
"Despair" by Jean-Joseph Perraud
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Doorbells should be made illegal in commercials. Dog owners know what I'm talking about.
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