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Straith 🍉

@straith.ca
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D.A. Straith (they/them). Toronto-adjacent fiction person • nonbinary trans & queer settler • work in Augur, Fusion Fragment, SHATTER THE SUN • Clarion West Novel Workshop ‘25 • #straithenfrancais • agent: Laura Zats @ Headwater • straith.carrd.co

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 1h
you don't even have to have been at work. I hope you get a BIG nap if you want one. that is my wish for u
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 1h
I’m sposed to be offline. but i just had to come say. it’s been a big day. And I’m about to have a BIG post-work nap. I hope we all get to have a big nap after work who want one
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 19h
There is an alternative universe somewhere out there where I use this power for improv
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 19h
“where do you get your ideas” idk man my brain just shitposts at me about laterally related things whenever I look at something
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 19h
oh my GOD HELL YEAH
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 19h
yoooo that sounds fun as hell!!!
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 19h
Bracing myself for imminent announcement of live action SPIRIT remake I’m sure
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 19h
this is essentially a mad max demake isn’t it
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 19h
And not cartoon horses, I mean all real horse actors à la homeward bound
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 20h
A western but the cast is all horses
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 20h
A western where everybody is on bikes and it’s taken completely seriously à la Michael Caine in Muppet Christmas Carol
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 20h
A western where everybody is on bikes
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 22h
your right op
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 29/09/2026
wait how did I get here I’m sposed to be offline !!!!!!! BACK, BACK
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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Story #8 in FF#26: "Once Upon the Crossing of Mars" by @straith.ca If you need a story with: -"I hallucinated on Mars and all I got was this t-shirt!" -carbo-loading -ecstatic mysteries Download it for free at www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/
"Once Upon the Crossing of Mars" by D.A. Straith

The dust clears. The runner leads him through the darkness into a tunnel. He follows. His sacred duty. Random lines shiver, cross and uncross on his HUD. His machined proprioception tells him there are walls on all sides. Oh, yes. He is within. He is truly inside the planet now: part of it. He’s crying again. Thank you, thank you, he murmurs, as he dusts fingers along the channel wall and descends.

ultramarathons / belonging / finding truths in the dust
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Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
FINAL FLASH OF 2024! This story closes out our EcoFutures issue and a wonderful year here at FFO. It is a story about hope and renewal. Happy release day D.A. Straith and all the creatures of the Bellmarsh Wastewater Plant…even the human 🌱 www.flashfictiononline.com/article/a-ye... #flashfiction
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A Year in the Life of the Drowned Wastewater Plant East of Bellmarsh Village
In spring we swell full with waters from upstream, brought down from broken mountains under the power of the nearer sun. Our pale ice-blanket weakens, then cracks, then splits into floes, then rein…
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 27/09/2026
coming soon FEAR THEM 🌌
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 24/09/2026
I have now reached a point in my week, my year, my creative cycle if you will, where I need to be Offline in order to make magic happen. so DM or @ me if you need my attention on something, but otherwise don't worry if I'm not here. I am writing B)
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 24/09/2026
lol I'm not doing any of this B) except for that last item
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 24/09/2026
a last few nice-to-haves for post-dayjob: - fold and put away any outstanding laundry - dust in main bedroom - change bedsheets in main bedroom - sweep main bedroom floors - collapse into a heap never to be heard from again
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 24/09/2026
YES!!!
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 24/09/2026
NOW COMPLETE: - surfaces - sink - fridge inside and out - dishwasher clean & sanitize (currently in progress) - floors - detailing in corners and nooks; vacuuming/dusting; washing under way WE'RE DOIN THIS!!! (I will be skipping the filters this time. a next week problem)
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 24/09/2026
oh my god. incredibad
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 24/09/2026
like I feel like good functionality should be the baseline BEFORE you start adding bloaty features, but as we all know that's no way to launder money in the new economy
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 24/09/2026
this feels like a metaphor for something but I simply haven't the time to analyze it, I'm too busy picking ice cubes up off my kitchen floor with my bare hands
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 24/09/2026
samsung smart fridge. smart enough to connect to wi-fi for some reason, not smart enough to know that the freezer is open and therefore it should NOT spit out a whole tray of ice cubes onto the floor at that very moment
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 24/09/2026
nice-to-haves also in this layer: - clean the dang... what are those things in the range hood. those filters. yeah those little fuckers. - clean the dishwasher
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 24/09/2026
now I will take a break (to do work tasks, have a smoothie, prep for a meeting). next block of tasks will include the "middle layer" of the kitchen, including: - surfaces - sink - fridge, inside and out
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 24/09/2026
so far today in the kitchen, working from top to bottom, I have: - wiped down the cupboard doors - cleaned the microwave - cleaned the backsplash - wiped down our kitchen appliances minus the fridge which is so special it will get its whole own later step
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 24/09/2026
(I would also like, if I have energy left over, to do a few tasks in the main bedroom, and fold/put away any outstanding laundry. but I'm not gonna feel bad if I don't get to those)
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 24/09/2026
GREETINGS. today's task is simple: clean the kitchen.
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 23/09/2026
YAAAAAH very much “gift to future me” stuff, which I will be very happy for tomorrow!!
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 23/09/2026
WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE’S MORE!
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 23/09/2026
*offstage person hands me a fresh sheet of paper* what’s this? *reads the page, squints* what fresh bullshit—what do you mean, “self care tasks”? the FUCK
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 23/09/2026
as predicted I am now a useless crumb, but in addition to a full and busy work day I: - cleaned 2 bathrooms - did a load of dishes - did a load of laundry (still need to fold & put away 🥲) - cleaned the living room - watered all the main room plants aw hell yeah. that concludes today’s thread 😎
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 23/09/2026
"but straith isn't that a lot of things to do" yes and I will be a useless crumb at the end of the day. but I will have a somewhat cleaner house 🫠
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 23/09/2026
between this and some other work tasks I have completed 1x bathroom, washed laundry and gotten it into the dryer, filled the dishwasher and gotten it runnin' next: bathroom 2 + living room
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 23/09/2026
ok back at it, time to putter about doing some house things for 15 minutes. laundry and 1x bathroom I think! whatever the light touches
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Erik Buchanan @erikbuchananauthor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Have some bunnies, in lieu of a sticker, because knuckling down and doing the work is always the hardest part.
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Bunny Bunny Kiss
ALT: Bunny Bunny Kiss
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 23/09/2026
I have begun by unloading and loading the dishwasher and putting on a load of laundry now work task 😎
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 23/09/2026
AW HELL YEAH BUNNIES!! cuuute!
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 23/09/2026
GOOD MORNING. I have no specific writing task to do today, but I do have to do a bit of a house clean while my partner is out getting a chemo infusion no sticker rewards this time, just moments of elbow grease between day job tasks 😤
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 22/09/2026
Aww hell yeah! I’m so glad it’s helping 💪🏻
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 22/09/2026
I did it I got up
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 22/09/2026
I gotta get up,, and LIFT A WEIGHT, for my HEALTH?? ??
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 22/09/2026
posting to create the conditions where if I DON’T get up from my low-stim time in bed, everybody will know about it
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Mags Visaggio 🏳️‍⚧️ @magsvisaggio.com · 22/09/2026
hey! been a slow month and i really do need to book some clients this week
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Coyote vs. LinkedIn @knabewolf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
September, but I lost my 45 adapter
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 22/09/2026
🤞🏻 yaaaah!
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 22/09/2026
THEY REALLY LEFT THE TTC IN SO MANY TIMES LMAOOO (but also that's so cool!!!! stunts are cool as hell)
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