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Ishmael The Whale

@liminallies.bsky.social
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I'm a writer, but doing real bad at it at the moment. Three time champion of the all-conference awkward Olympics (uncontested). Kind of a smart-ass.

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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
If there was anyone I could actually talk to, I'd call them, but I am - maybe for the first time - genuinely alone. And knowing I did this to myself is not a comfort. Ever get exactly what you asked for and only realize too late that wasn't what wanted? Fuck.
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I'm not back. I'm just wandering in from offstage, looking around and taking stock. Wish I had something to say. Sorry for being me, I guess.
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Sometimes I wonder if the shit I don't say is the shit I should.
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Lead convinced a coworker to stay an hour late. I look at her and say 'You're a better person than me, because I'd've been the fuck out of here." She says "See, I feel empathy..." Lead interrupts "I don't think Kyle ever feels anything but annoyed." Oh, how very little management understands.
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I fucking love Blue Valentine
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Girl came in with her new boyfriend today. I hadn't met him yet, so when he walked in I was like 'he seems cool'. And then she came in behind him and my brain snapped straight to jealousy mode, and every neuron shouted 'okay, fuck that guy' all at once. It's cool. I'm cool. Be cool.
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Maybe it doesn't make sense anymore, but I stopped asking questions because questions have answers and I don't want answers - I just want the question. I don't need truth, I need hope. The answers have never given me that.
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
"I don't mind going to hell later, if it means I can hold an angel right now." Another line from an embarrassing role-play that goes kinda hard.
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I just realized all my recent posts have been on my alt account, and I straight up vanished from this one for weeks. Whoops.
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
So lately I've been low-key obsessed with the concept of queerplatonic relationships. It's never been my thing before, but the idea of being that intimate with someone you're not romantically involved with... it's appealing, not gonna lie.
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
She quit after all. I get why, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't disapointed.
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
People get thrown off when I talk about my youngest sibling. I mention my sisters, and my sibling. They get confused, ask if they're my sister or my brother. I'm tired of explaining, so I just say yes. What's so hard to get? They're my sibling. Who gives a fuck what pronouns they're using today?
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Today, while texting a friend, I misspelled a word badly enough that my phone autocorrected it to something absolutely bizarre. So if anyone would like to unbury me when I'm done dying from embarrassment, my appreciation would be gentle urine.* *genuine
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
They're not giving the adorable girl enough shifts, and she's thinking about quitting. Is it wrong that I'm thinking about stepping up to bat for her just because everything she does is so damn cute to me? Hmmm....
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I play this game, whenever I go somewhere new. It's a little mental exercise called 'would this place be safe in a zombie attack?' It's not just a quirky little hypothetical - it's a coping mechanism for my anxiety. Before I added zombies, my hypotheticals were more... grounded. This is better.
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
My sister bought - and I'm not exaggerating- *36 pounds* of Chinese takeout. I have two huge pans of lo mein and fried rice sitting in my kitchen right now because this woman has no idea what she's doing and she ordered three party platters last night for herself and her boyfriend.
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I like *everything* she does. No, like, I can't actually explain it; the way she moves, the way she talks, the sound of her voice... it's all so fucking adorable to me. This girl could *breath* and break my heart. That doesn't happen. I get crushes, sure, but fuck, man, what do you do with this?
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I've been up for two hours, but good morning.
A very dark picture of me, taken in the early morning, with a lit cigarette
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Honestly, I like this picture of me because in it, I'm two weeks deep in a depression, and I hadn't trimmed or combed my beard at all, and I can see the exhaustion in my face, but you know what? I look okay.
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Honestly, if I wasn't this sick, I'd be a real prick. Mental illness gave me empathy - pain gave me perspective. Struggle gave me strength. Sickness gave me something to say. Every time I stumble, it keep me humble - every time I rise, it's a little more wise. This isn't poetry. It's just me.
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Jason the Spooky ®️ 💛🤍💜🖤 @jasontheaverage.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Not everything is a joke. Just the important things.
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I haven't been around much. Shit's been terrible. And busy.
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Blues and roots and rock'n'roll - stomp and swagger and smoke in your lungs. Moonshine and prison wine and dusty boots and faded suits. Songs and sadness and street lights. Something someone wants you to know, secrets shared in a neon glow. Somewhere I wish we could go.
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I would just like to take this moment to once again publicly state that Trump is a human shitstain, an ambulatory pile of dumpster grease, and exactly as charismatic as a festering, pus-wheeping boil on the ass of a particularly mangy dog. What I'm saying is I hate that guy.
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I will brush off a lot of ignorant shit because, frankly, life's too short to fight every battle. But I have a fucking limit, okay? And lest we forget, impulse control is one of my problems.
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
"Look, if you don't know what's sexy about a guy who's willing to spend an hour on his knees, his head in an awkward position, holding his breath... I don't know what I can do for you." - me, explaining why I clean the ovens.
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Boss at work asked why I'm not wearing my uniform hat. I said "Because I'm cuter in the beanie." She gave me a long look and said "Okay." So chalk up a win on the board, folks.
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
It appears I am getting too comfortable - quick, somebody break my heart before I start acting like I actually like myself.
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Okay, fuck you, this was funny.
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I'm projecting.
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Kara BOOOOOchanan 🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @magicariot.com · 26/01/2025
I would like the Star Trek franchise to permanently retire the entire concept of Section 31 please
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
So her buddy - a young man I affectionately refer to as 'Baby Gay Kid Rock' - has informed me that I make her nervous. Which is interesting. Because everybody else says I don't treat her any differently than them. So good sign? Bad sign? I'm socially useless, I need to know.
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
I believe in life. The trees, the grass, the wind and earth, and the species that walk upon them, everywhere across this planet, all different, all the same, and all living. Just day to day. Good things, bad things, everything alive and moving and making choices. That's what I believe in. Just life
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Okay, say what you will, but "Jedi Sex Cult" is a great fucking name for a band.
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Does anyone else close thier eyes when applying stick deodorant, or is that weird habit uniquely me?
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KNW Moon @knwadsworth.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Snap that cover closed and write your own ending, kiddo. It's the only way out
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Going to start ending everything I write with the postscript "Dear Maria: I Still Love You", not because I'm I love with anyone named Maria, but because I really hope to someday inspire mass speculation.
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
It's okay to cry when you don't want to. Sometimes, your heart makes your body do things your brain doesn't understand, but that's just your soul moving through you.
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
It's almost universally easier to be cruel than fix anything, and people are fundamentally lazy. That's neither comforting, nor nuanced, but it is true.
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
This is a terrible, tragic situation, but also this clip goes incredibly fucking hard.
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Some people have really romanticized that "he hates everyone, but he loves me" thing. If your man genuinely hates everybody around him, I don't think you're the one exception. I think he's just hiding his resentment - for now. I haven't seen that end well yet.
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Johnny Silverhand is my favorite character in any recent video game. Listen to the lyrics of the Samurai songs, pay attention to his dialogue, and it's clear he's a deeply empathetic, deeply scarred artist driven entirely by an emotional need for connection that he can't fulfill. Toxic, but tragic.
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Replaying Cyberpunk 2077, and honestly, I like Judy's friendship with male V way more than her romance. I just think it's super sweet, how she opens up to him. I like the platonic bonding. In fact, I think I prefer the platonic route with everyone, except Panam.
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I have now seen The Look twice, and I can confirm that either I do, in fact, have an assertive and authoritative voice, or she has serious daddy issues. Honestly, either one works in my favor.
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
I was joking around with a girl at work, and I said I could never be in charge because I lack an authoritative and assertive voice, and the look I got back heavily implied that I am very, very wrong. And possibly turning someone on. That last assertion has no proof, but you didn't see the look.
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
I don't like asking for help. I'm the one who's supposed to offer. But even the strongest pillars break, and there's nothing wrong with needing a hand to shore up the foundations.
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Moby-Dick is my all time favorite novel. Nothing I write is even remotely like Moby-Dick. I don't think what we like informs what we do as strongly as some of you insist.
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Ishmael The Whale @liminallies.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Since the only women I've felt any connection with in the last year turned out to be 17* and a lesbian, respectively, I think someone else should probably take control of my love life, because I am really, really fucking bad at this. *she lied about her age on her profile; I noped the fuck out
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