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@sanguinity.bsky.social
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Liminal, occasionally paradoxical beings with values such as integrity, loyalty, patience, appreciation, self-control, curiosity, listening, self-accountability— and more in/of the core. Often embracing uncomfortable euphorias of the unknown, full of care.

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Babe&Oak @babeandoak.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Chambered Nautilus Study 🐚✨
Digital painting study done in Procreate Pocket for IPhone16. On the left is a reference photo of a pearlescent chambered nautilus facing to the right. The reflections on it are between the matte white ridged and are prismatic colours of green yellow blue pink and purple with indigo blue shadows. On the right is my study of it done in a textured painting digital brush.
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bloodletter @sanguinity.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I hopepray we all can remember to always, all ways tread respectfully; we're walking the holy ground of trillions of unmarked graves.
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Tiny Fungi Flower @tinyfungiflower.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
TRANS LIVES MATTER TRANS RIGHTS MATTER TRANS YOUTH MATTERS TRANS VISIBILITY MATTERS TRANS WILL NOT DISAPPEAR TRANS WILL NOT BE ERASED TRANS WILL NOT BE ABANDONED TRANS WILL ALWAYS EXIST TRANS PEOPLE WILL ALWAYS FUCKING MATTER !!!
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bloodletter @sanguinity.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Should I post what I'm posting on egge here too? I feel bad I've actually taken a loving to it and forget to post here, but I don't want to leave here either because I still like reading and supporting people, and having ability to look up neat things like art and animals, among other features hhhh
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bloodletter @sanguinity.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
My goal is to strive to build strong foundation for anything in/of me that will endure and persist against passivity.
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Toni Plant @toniplant.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Morning... or evening #art #digital #landscape
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bloodletter @sanguinity.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I'm not leaving bsky, HOWEVER-- I folded and made an egge
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bloodletter @sanguinity.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
NTS: if ever feeling lost, search in the memories of gratitude, perseverance, strength, and sanguinity. The light of grace will find us whether or not we break.
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bloodletter @sanguinity.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
A vision reminded me, and I'd like to post it here:     Reality is in the drive of the beholder/wheel-holder [with those two interchangeable words glitching in and out of each other]
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bloodletter @sanguinity.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Our posts are scattered whisperings into the infinite, eternal archive. Choose to click like and potentially remember.
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bloodletter @sanguinity.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Be wary not to confuse the end of everything for the end of all. Everything's end is the emergent dawn of anything. There is no dying-- there is only system updating.
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bloodletter @sanguinity.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Not all grown or growing from dirt are dirty.
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bloodletter @sanguinity.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I don't want to let things keep building up in the background-- I'm working to be more up front and close.
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bloodletter @sanguinity.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Anything and anyone which attempts to chain or restrain me to trap or detain me, I'll break free from-- so I know I'll escape from myself if necessary, too.
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bloodletter @sanguinity.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Resting is a act of rebellion (also I'm just very tired)
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bloodletter @sanguinity.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I need to keep in mind that to surrender is not the same as giving up. To surf, one is responding to the ocean to keep balanced, surrendering senses to listen. When we resist our circumstances-- insisting on the ways life or people should be-- we're no different than a surfer yelling at a wave.
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bloodletter @sanguinity.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I won't stop holding my heart in outstretched hands, excited to share love with all I come across. I recognize and welcome that this opens the door to pain.. but everything feels so near and dear to me already, it's difficult not experiencing a constant sense of grief and mourning anyway.
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bloodletter @sanguinity.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
We learn through pleasure and the inevitability of its passing; discomfort is necessary when averting complacency.
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bloodletter @sanguinity.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
The paths we go are easiest to traverse when, in order to move forward, we must change and leave our old ways behind us. When there's no longer a need or desire to retrace our steps, we're more freely able to walk as if we know where we're going.
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bloodletter @sanguinity.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
A lot of mediums of pains expressed can be fundamentally misunderstood if one's takeaway from the display in art is solely focused on the suffering. One example is what I believe to be a common fundamental misunderstanding of the blues; one may listen and come away only thinking it's about suffering
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Bonita @cherub8.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Suffering in art is merely portrayed as a state of the human condition and its varied mediums as a way to understand and communicate this state. Pain is pain, albeit one of the worst things a human can experience. Many have tried to find meaning in it, possibly to justify it.
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Bonita @cherub8.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Who seeks to justify happiness?, we like to think it is bc we deserve it, just for existing, but not suffering. Dostoyevsky said “pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
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Bonita @cherub8.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Orthodox Christianity (and its denominations) has always romanticized suffering. Catholicism continues to do so, recalling mother Theresa spreading everywhere the idea that suffering was not just divine but also beautiful, only bc Jesus felt it and transmuted from it.
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bloodletter @sanguinity.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I often see and hear people romanticize suffering-- mostly because much art has been born in/from the midst of it-- There may sometimes be suffering in art, but it doesn't mean there's an art in/of suffering. Pain isn't inherently romantic, and to frame it as such paints for a superficial spotlight.
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bloodletter @sanguinity.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Those I care about keep me so full of love even when I'm otherwise starving.
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bloodletter @sanguinity.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Why do so many men hate their wives so much? Got me thinking back on all the men who have ever told me that I'd make someone a good wife, wondering now if they meant that it'd be easy to treat me like shit and get away with it....
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bloodletter @sanguinity.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
All is brought to light-- or rather, the light is shone to all, whether we're broken or not.. we might as well make the best of it.
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bloodletter @sanguinity.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
My breath has yet to be fully frozen over-- even as I've held it, I could feel the burning of its yearning warmth. Nothing is truly ever ruined-- the paths have been paved by those before us--
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bloodletter @sanguinity.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
As much as I hope my silence is not an indication of total absence, how I'm heard or not is not decided by me.. I know I'll get back into things when better and able. I've been finding it hard to even socialize; my breath is held too firmly with everything I want to say, ruining anything I could've.
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bloodletter @sanguinity.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Even after a loss, we're left with so much. It hurts even more to be cleaved by what we're holding close.
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bloodletter @sanguinity.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
They need to let us edit posts so we can freely make and unmake mistakes in grammar/spelling
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bloodletter @sanguinity.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
The parts of my being I'm still working to forgive seem to tower over all I'm not as afraid to hide; so mountainous, I'm wary that they're too close to notice. Heavy are their trampling feet, ruinous are their steps... gods forbid I should ever trip.
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bloodletter @sanguinity.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I love my loved ones, and the loved ones of my loved ones, and the loved ones of their loved ones, and the loved ones of their loved ones, and the loved ones of their loved ones, and the loved ones of their loved ones, and the loved ones of their loved ones, and the loved ones of their loved ones, a
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Toni Plant @toniplant.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The other day, I had a dream that a tornado suddenly appeared, and I survived it. I'm sure it's nothing profound in any way, I just found it interesting #art #digital #tornado
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bloodletter @sanguinity.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I pick up memories; each fragmented, edges sharp as scalpels, sparkling like sea glass. I turn them over in my palms, between my fingers, again and again beyond the point of bleeding.. stinging... and will continue to bleed out into each collection of recollection-- all the warmer, even if it hurts.
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bloodletter @sanguinity.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
High and thrashing waves of winds won't unwind nor unbind me from this tether: the center of the hurricane of lessons and love, most aptly described as the eye.
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bloodletter @sanguinity.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
*whiny younger sibling voice* o sister, comethhh. The prophecy quoth tis MY turn to brouken thine Nintendo DS!
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bloodletter @sanguinity.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Born naked, we're clothed by all we observe, encounter, experience. We don't "go out of existence like we come in;" we don't leave with nothing. Even when stripping down to our bareness of being, we're swathed and adorned, whether we like it or not [with love and suffering alike].
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bloodletter @sanguinity.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
I prefer and ensure all my giving be done so freely, with no expectation of recieving in return. If mine is the bitten hand which feeds, it changes naught my reason nor will to keep those offerings at the alter-- even if it begins to decay. Its decay is my affirmation.
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bloodletter @sanguinity.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
The way most externally exhibit emotional responses are learned behaviors. We live amongst the artificially generated, yet seldom blink an eye when told certain displays of reaction are 'natural.' Procedurally generated consciousness seesawing between perception of reality and reality of perception.
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bloodletter @sanguinity.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
What is within is cradled by what is without. When entering a world saddled with such lack, we gather ourselves from the first moment of sensation. From that moment, we begin collecting echoes; being the origin of nothing but iterations and their displays.
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bloodletter @sanguinity.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Hell is empty and all the devils are on dating apps.
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bloodletter @sanguinity.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
It's true that to get somewhere you've never been before, you've got to do things you've never done. Be not afraid of your own success. If things don't improve in your life, change your course. When things start improving, don't resist nor revolt against it just because you've not been there before.
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bloodletter @sanguinity.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Concept: carrying around a little makeup mirror, not for makeup, but to hold up to people saying something weird af and asking, "would you like to reflect on that?"
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bloodletter @sanguinity.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
I'm embraced and cradled by gratitude and hope-- they are what carry me through all of my grief, and hold me through the reminder that making a home in another person doesn't mean it'll always be warm, and lived-in. When the past comes to eat at me, they give me strength to eat the past back.
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bloodletter @sanguinity.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Sometimes, the only way to go through something is to get out.
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bloodletter @sanguinity.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
There's so much more one can still learn from a vacant nest.
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