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i love the scene where dean and hank take hatred to a young adult fantasy movie and hatred starts freaking out and exclaims "who wrote this, henry darger" before fleeing the theater bc hes afraid of being aroused. like i love that in the ventureverse someone like hatred even knows about darger lol

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Vala Bara @valabara.bsky.social · 6m

i think bishop also yelled at lowell for that. sometimes i feel like i will receive all kinda of karmic humiliation for enjoying the private lives of poets so much, but then i guess they all very consciously wanted us to read about it lol

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Vala Bara @valabara.bsky.social · 6m

yeah he just straight up refers to zukofsky's "racial characteristics" at one point 😭 in a convo where zukofsky showed some letters to basil bunting, the latter was like "wtf" and zukofsky was like "he's not a hateful person on like... an interpersonal level" lol but zukofsky was like ice-veined

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Vala Bara @valabara.bsky.social · 1h

at my old job we had to personally open the restrooms for ppl, and it was always cute when i would see a trans girl like go all the way across the store to ask me specifically to open it for her so i would not like be like "which one do you need opened 🤨"

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Vala Bara @valabara.bsky.social · 2h

oh shit that's prolly great reading. robert lowell, that messy bitch... some of my favs are the delmore schwartz/james laughlin letters, and the pound/zukofsky letters.

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Vala Bara @valabara.bsky.social · 3h

yeah, fair, you're pretty good at it :3 I'm stuck in reply-girl limbo, I think I have more deleted posts than posts I've left up at this point

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Vala Bara @valabara.bsky.social · 3h

oh I saw that you're the transfemme guy davenport; have you read any of the letters collection of him and hugh kenner?

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Vala Bara @valabara.bsky.social · 3h

i think me not being into public humiliation is why i suck at posting tbh

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GIFS GALORE @gifs-bot.bsky.social · 17h

PEOPLE/FOREHEAD.GIF

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Vala Bara @valabara.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

its so hard to find people that actually wanna do a back and forth tho 😭

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THE CODEX NOIRMATIC @thecodexnoirmatic.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

TERRA HYPNAGOGICA 2023

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Vala Bara @valabara.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

it is probably unhealthy for us all to be playing the glass bead game at the same time all the time

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Cinder (it/its) @dollcinder.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I don’t want everything tailored to my interests I want stuff made by perverts and sickos that makes me think about stuff differently

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

holy shit!! artists!!! you guys!! pinlite.app someone made a pinterest facade site that just strips away all the dumb bullshit and gives you only the images this is AMAAZINNNGGGG. Not to mention the web 1.0 grey and blue link vibe lol

screenshot of PinLite, a skin of pinterest that's just taken away all the bs and only shows the images, on a grey web 1.0 background

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hacco @haccomayu.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

ポケ擬アシレーヌちゃん！🦭

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Wolfy D. Lucca 🌑🐺 @spookalucca.tv · 09/10/2026

everyone's always like "yeah! i love cnc! [redacted] me mommy!" ...until you go to tickle them and suddenly they're like, "NO! I WILL LITERALLY BREAK YOUR BONES! DONT YOU DARE!! IM NOT JOKING!! RED LIGHT, RED LIGHT!!!"

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Vala Bara @valabara.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

every time i see them mentioned i get "imonthedrugimonthedrug" just stuck in my head the rest of the day 😭

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Vala Bara @valabara.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

yeah one time a guy got irritated with me not after i told him i was trans, but after some time later when he realized i have a dick, and its like jfc dude like wtf did you think i meant? like i have to both self-disclose *and* walk you thru what a trans woman even is??

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Vala Bara @valabara.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

God I hate that feeling of just visceral unease when someone does that. like it's one thing when you've built up a defense against people misgendering you frequently when you're like early on, but those like intentional switchups when it hasn't happened for like years sting so bad, I'm sorry girl :(

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Vala Bara @valabara.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I don't really get where the birdman backlash came from tbh.

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Vala Bara @valabara.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

like others are saying, taking the judgment out of your hands by letting friends take pics helps. you might be horrified in the moment, from hyper self awareness, but looking back itll surprise you how much you like it. at least, for myself this is my fav photo of my smile, and i didnt take it

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Vala Bara @valabara.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

you have an adorable lil smile!! but absolutely it is difficult to like see your own smile the way other people do, and like looking at the preview of a photo and trying to not smile too much or too little, makes you stare at it too long until its like a word that doesnt look like a word anymore

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Piper Paige @pipermintz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We would find each other in every lifetime 🥺

Four panel comic

P1: A distinguished gentleman thinks to himself "I hate those damn Castrati
So MUCH.
Why do they get to be So beautiful and talented" as he watches two castrati on stage be buddy buddy

P2: he scoffs "ah! digress. I have Wife and child, house and land!!!
I'm Sure the Castrati are envious of that!"

P3: the two castrati and talking to each other
"look at that grown ass MAN"
"ugly!"
"Probably has an ugly wife too!"
"and kids!"
"Probably talentless"
"def a loser"

P4: they are holding hands and staring into each other's eyes
"wanna go make out and frot?"
"Yes bitch!!"
At the same time: I love you!

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Winton Kidd🔞 @wintonkidd.com · 07/10/2026

I'm not sure what's going on here but I think everyone feels good about it.

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Vala Bara @valabara.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

really just domestic rp is fun as hell. what id really like to do is rp with two other trans women as the friend of one their older brothers, who was there to hang out with the older brother, but hes not there, so instead i buy them both alcohol gets them drunk and then make them kiss each other

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Vala Bara @valabara.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

no joke my high school gf was like this, she both resented and envied my faggotry. it was the most damaging relationship in my life, and she works for the nsa now. its pretty hot to imagine trans women rp'ing as cishet women doing this tho ngl

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

Andrew Yeung
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Vala Bara @valabara.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

this is why I never advance anywhere in a corporate setting, being present and sitting in a room for an afternoon is like the thing I'm least good at, but I am good at learning things.

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One of my favorite forms of architecture is the Japanese-Western Eclectic Architecture which began in the 1850s and expanded throughout Japan through the Meiji Restoration. It heavily influenced how I wish to construct Goblin Hill. These examples by oldsoultw on insta are some of my favorites.

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Vala Bara @valabara.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"if you like your rock, you can keep your rock"

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Vala Bara @valabara.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

reading the story of pygmalion and galatea as a small child gave me unrealistic expectations about life

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Vala Bara @valabara.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I refuse to let these people monopolize love of pre-raphaelite aesthetics >:(

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Vala Bara @valabara.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I just turned all of it off, even auto-caps, I'm so tired of auto-everything

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm still slogging and having crash outs daily, hourly even, over my work. I am outsourcing nothing at all. The world is so cynical perhaps people think no one writes because they love it. But not everything is hustle and grift and scam. Some things are still meaningful and created out of passion.

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Re my last repost: we're so lucky to have a lifetime of handcrafted things whatever happens with AI Yes. But: A ton of us, most of us are still making handcrafted things. I have never used AI in my process. I resent that we have to create and publish under unfounded suspicion now.

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Jon Cartwright @jon.gvg.io · 05/10/2026

We're so lucky to have a lifetime of completely hand crafted pieces of human expression no matter how dire things get

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Vala Bara @valabara.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

i am addicted to walking now. ill draw one thing, do one chore, smoke one joint, and then be like "ok time to go on an hour long walk in the cold darkness" it just feels so nice. almost like being sedentary for like a year was making me miserable

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Vala Bara @valabara.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

i still have so much to learn when it comes to anatomy and perspective... but i am determined to sit down and put in the hours 😭

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Vala Bara @valabara.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

i do my best to be, i need to get better at it, i feel soooo much better when im on time 😭

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Artyom Topilin @artyomtopilin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Allow me to be corny for a sec

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Vala Bara @valabara.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

an ass to surpass metal gear

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