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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈

@no1foofan.bsky.social
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Writer - novels (mostly speculative fiction), short stories including observational reflections, and poetry. Author webpage at - cristinaarcher.com.au - and poetry at - medium.com ... and occasional photography.

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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 19h
medium.com/ipoetry/soli... - This poem explores the feeling of why I love hiking so much.
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solivagant — purposeful wandering
A poem
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
medium.com/zen-poetry/s... - this poem explores that feeling of being surprised kindly — the universe whispering, “Here, this is for you.”
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Serendipity
A poem
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AgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
When you're ticked off and a friend sends you something to make you feel better. 🐑🔊
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
medium.com/ipoetry/vell... - This poem extrapolates a word in the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows - the feeling triggered by the scents in an old bookstore. The scent lingers in your chest, quiet, insistent — the ache of worlds you could almost enter if only you had the patience to breathe them in.
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Vellichor — the smell of stories unlived
A poem
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Melbourne offered up perfect spring weather for the visiting NFL game. A most entertaining day!
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
medium.com/zen-poetry/r... - looking back over several photos I took when I travelled through the Kimberley region — now almost a decade ago. Even now, my memory of that trip is so vivid.
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Rocks in the Kimberley
I came to the Kimberley to disappear properly — no bars, no signal, just stone teaching silence how to hold its breath.
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
medium.com/ipoetry/sond... - This poem is based on one of the words listed in the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows and explores the feeling of how deeply unknowable, and yet familiar, we all are.
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sonder — the vivid lives of strangers
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
My latest novel - just released www.amazon.com.au/One-Way-Stre...
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
medium.com/ipoetry/reso... - This piece explores that feeling of a sound still ringing long after the song has gone silent.
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resonance — moving echoes
A poem
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
medium.com/zen-poetry/a... - poem inspired by a chance encounter at traffic lights. It’s not uncommon for strangers to strike up small talk in Australia including conversations that unearth deeper connections. It is unusual when there several decades age difference between those who are chatting.
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At the Crossing
A poem
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
medium.com/ipoetry/limi... - This poem explores that feeling of being neither here, nor gone, only the quiet certainty that something next is coming.
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liminal — the door in between
A poem
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
medium.com/zen-poetry/a... - poem inspired by the unseasonably warmer stretch of fine weather in autumn this year.
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Autumn Garden Quiet
A poem
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
medium.com/ipoetry/mela... - this piece explores that feeling that isn’t sorrow — not really — but those moments a little too gone.
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Melancholy (a.k.a. my resting state)
A poem
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
medium.com/zen-poetry/e... - This poem explores that otherworldly feeling always just beyond reach.
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Ethereal — Sunlight through Fog
A poem
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
medium.com/ipoetry/ephe... - this week's poem explores how often we glimpse eternity passing before our eyes or through our hands.
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ephemeral — vanishing moments
A poem
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
A cat has got to be the least herdable animal in the world 😂 TT: @sonjaboostrom
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
medium.com/zen-poetry/a... - A poem inspired by the unexpected joy of a warmer autumn and the strangeness of wearing boots when the weather suggests sandals would be a better option. Plenty of lizard moments enjoying the unexpected sunshine.
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An Autumn in Sandals (But Not Quite)
A poem
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
www.amazon.com.au/Peithosian-L... - the third and final part of this series is coming 30 June. Got to say - I am excited.
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
On a small boat fishing off the coast of north western Australia.
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
medium.com/ipoetry/numi... - This poem explores the feeling that we are but a tiny dot in the universe. We are all stardust in the end.
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numinous — spiritual sacred awe
A poem
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Mud plains north of Kununurra in Northern Territory, Australia.
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
medium.com/ipoetry/inef... - This poem explores the feeling of the almost indescribable French concept of un certain regard.
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ineffable — un certain regard
A poem
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The view of Sydney Harbour bridge from Taronga Zoo.
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
medium.com/zen-poetry/t... - Have you ever noticed in most dystopian fiction, hopefulness always finds a way? Even in the darkest of times. This poem explores that feeling.
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The Quiet Certainty of Light
A poem
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Another image from the light show in tune with Vivaldi's four seasons.
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
medium.com/ipoetry/zeit... - this poem explores the feeling of the importance of being in the moment.
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zeitriss — time is sacred
A poem
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
A highlight of the autumn season this year was a light show performed with the music of Vivaldi's Four Seasons. So colourful.
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
medium.com/@no1foofan1/... - a poem about how I am remembering my old high school science project designing nuclear fallout shelters and the list of things I need to stock if the world as we know it ends. Has my doom scrolling reading about current world events led me to this urge to doomsday prep?
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Apocalypse, Drafted in Blue Pen and Mild Anxiety
A poem (sort of)
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Winter wall.
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
medium.com/zen-poetry/f... - a poem to remind me of the need for Zen given the global chaos at the moment.
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Finding Calm in Chaos
A poem
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne - the lights are so pretty in the evening.
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
medium.com/ipoetry/eide... - this poem explores the feeling of how emotional details long outlast logic when it comes to relationships and friendships long gone from your life.
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eidetic absence — the endurance of memory
A poem
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
One of my favourite trips along the south coast of Australia - the early mornings are particularly serene.
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
medium.com/zen-poetry/b... - This piece is reflecting on the concept of how we compartmentalise different versions of ourselves for different circles of people we encounter. Part defence mechanism.
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Bubble People
Reflections on Hidden Selves
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Enlightenment light show performed to a Vivaldi's Four Seasons score in Melbourne town on a warm autumn evening.
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
medium.com/ipoetry/quie... - This poem explores the feeling of those small pleasures — even in the absence of grandness, you find you are okay. And that’s what keeps you going — cup after cup, day after day.
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Quiet Joy
A poem
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Khoshka and Cous Cous (previous pair of pets) - feline supermodels.
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
medium.com/ipoetry/endl... - This poem explores the feeling of realising the thread of my history will likely end with me. Even if the world never forgets what is lost, it mattered, once.
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endling ache — the last of my kind
A poem
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Somewhere in the outback - cannot remember where!
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
medium.com/ipoetry/luci... - This poem explores the feeling of being in a crowded room yet feeling alone with connection floating untouched just out of reach.
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lucid loneliness
A poem
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Nice view of Melbourne town.
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
medium.com/ipoetry/reve... - This poem explores the feeling of instant overload when one of your senses triggers a vivid memory of a past that overwhelms you.
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Reverflash — sensory memory overload
A poem
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
the lights outside the national gallery of Victoria are so pretty...
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
medium.com/ipoetry/onis... - this poem explores the feeling when you realise you will never be able to do everything — live every life you could imagine — yet that is inspiration to live in the moment of the one life you have.
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onism — one body one life
A poem
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Sneak preview of the other novel coming out this year (I've been writing ALOT last few years).
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
medium.com/ipoetry/thyr... - This poem explores the feeling that the connections in some old friendships fade with time.
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Thyrsis Fade — eroding time
A poem
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Autumn in Melbourne.
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
medium.com/ipoetry/vem%... - This poem explores the feeling that the breathtaking view you are seeing and the photo you are about to take has been seen and taken by millions of others before you.
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Vemödalen — still Your sunset
A poem
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Nice sunrise.
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Cristina ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆🐈 @no1foofan.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
medium.com/ipoetry/nigh... - This particular piece explores the imaginary conversations we have in our minds when we wake up in the middle of the night, restless, with those who were once in our lives and there is unfinished business, in an effort to get some closure.
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Night Holding
A poem
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