Helen Whistberry

Helen Whistberry

@whistberry.bsky.social

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Pen name for an autistic/ace/agender indie digital artist & writer, introvert, worried soul, they/them. #whistpr host (follow @whistprword.bsky.social) 🚫NO N/F/T A/I!

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The trick is to learn to #float just above the surface. It is vital that you touch nothing and nothing touches you. I am imperfect at this talent as of yet, but every day, I am practicing my art. Soon, I will be a haunting beyond compare. #whistpr

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I finished this wonderful book. (fwiw, I never said that I myself am stylistically subtle, especially in praise 😛)

For the remainder of #PrideMonth, my latest collection of stories is on sale! I consider all my stories queer, whether through subtext or overtly, as they are written by a most queer individual (in every sense of that word). $.99 gets you 18 stories & 19 illustrations! books2read.com/ABrokenThing

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#WritingCommunity, describe your book poorly Ghost Flower: Lesbianism makes woman feel like she could fight God.

#WritingCommunity, describe your book poorly The Amelia Temple Series: A young woman on the cusp of adulthood rebels against her guardians, falls in with a bad crowd 🌈📚💙

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A daily word & image by @whistberry.bsky.social meant to inspire any type of creativity. Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! #author #writing #art #WritingCommunity Tag your post: #whistpr Prompt for July 7, 2024: #FLOAT

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Someone bought a book today! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Red Darkling is a hot mess. Her ship's crap, her cat's glitchy, and her sleazy ex keeps waving his abs around. But she's got cheap beer and her independence, so life's good. Then things start going a little too well, and she's determined to put a stop to it. www.laguettler.com 📢📚 #booksky #bsnm

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his strife is leatherbound & worn, and berates his soul with nine salacious tongues; his #strife is gold & crucified, and whispers of faithless iniquity; his strife is obsidian & defiant, and is his corner-trapped vessel of subtle #extirpation; his strife is open-minded mortality #vss365 #whistpr

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It makes me sad when people misgender a nonbinary character and assign binary pronouns that I specifically avoided giving them in a story. Getting stories published with characters who have They/Them pronouns isn't easy. If I've taken that risk as a writer, your respect (or disrespect) means a lot.

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A daily word & image by @whistberry.bsky.social meant to inspire any type of creativity. Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! #author #writing #art #WritingCommunity Tag your post: #whistpr Prompt for July 6, 2024: #STRIFE

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If you see this, post a bird. #kidlitart

If you see this, post a bird. #kidlitart

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If you see this, post a bird! 🐦‍⬛

If you see this, post a bird. 🪶 #kidlitart

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Boulenger's Green Anole (Anolis chloris), Colombia. #lizards #reptiles #anoles

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It's an ancient trick of an oh-too-human mind: the dream within a dream. You think you wake but this reality is yet another lie. How pleasant it is though. With the world so unbearably harsh, who would not choose to be #swallowed by the illusion. Better to be consumed than open one's eyes. #whistpr

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Video rental shops, Cults, & Killer Scarecrows. Just another tale of Small Town America. A SPECTRE IS HAUNTING GREENTREE by @carsonwinter.bsky.social, cover art by Stefan Koidl Out next month, and available to preorder now🎃🐦‍⬛ store.tenebrouspress.com

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The #swallows gather, summer passes, The grapes hang dark and sweet; Heavy are the vines, Heavy is my heart, Endless is the road beneath my feet. #whistpr 📷✂️ credits alt text

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If you see this, post a #ghost & a #bird. — #öhrchen #kleinekunstklasse #haunted_collective

If you see this post a #ghost + #bird 👻🦜 . #kleineKunstklasse #haunted_collective

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If you see this, post a bird! Bird train is a train I'm always going to hop on. #art #birds

If you see this, post a birb! (Good excuse to post this little flapperdee again! And her chickadee friends!) #art #birds

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If you see this, post a bird! Birds!! #art #birds

If you see this, post a bird! Bird train is a train I'm always going to hop on. #art #birds

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If you see this, post a bird.

If you see this, post a bird. #kidlitart

If you see this, post a bird. #kidlitart

If you see this, post a bird. #kidlitart

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If you see this, post a bird. #kidlitart

If you see this, post a bird! 🐦 #kidlitart

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#whistpr I #swallow hard reading poetry I’d written in months and years past. The imagery makes me tear up realizing what Covid has stolen from me. If only time would kindly return my words my writing might come alive again.

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#whistpr Clenched fists and grinding teeth failed to alert him of her simmering rage. She began to #swallow more than a mouthful of air. She swallowed her years of regret and grief. He scoffed and looked away. She breathed out slowly and began to leave the place when his voice stopped her. Again.

A daily word & image by @whistberry.bsky.social meant to inspire any type of creativity. Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! #author #writing #art #WritingCommunity Tag your post: #whistpr Prompt for July 5, 2024: #SWALLOW

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she drew black and white millefleurs to befuddle her muddlement, a path through the bramble #bequeathed to her mind; her mother was motherless and #swallowed her madness, with turpentine and altar wine and insanity entwined #vss365 #whistpr

It's an ancient trick of an oh-too-human mind: the dream within a dream. You think you wake but this reality is yet another lie. How pleasant it is though. With the world so unbearably harsh, who would not choose to be #swallowed by the illusion. Better to be consumed than open one's eyes. #whistpr

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A daily word & image by @whistberry.bsky.social meant to inspire any type of creativity. Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! #author #writing #art #WritingCommunity Tag your post: #whistpr Prompt for July 5, 2024: #SWALLOW

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#whistpr Prompt for July 4, 2024: #PETAL #kleineKunstklasse #aquarell #watercolor #Flora

A daily word & image by @whistberry.bsky.social meant to inspire any type of creativity. Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! #author #writing #art #WritingCommunity Tag your post: #whistpr Prompt for July 4, 2024: #PETAL

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#whistpr Prompt for July 4, 2024: #PETAL #kleineKunstklasse #aquarell #watercolor

A daily word & image by @whistberry.bsky.social meant to inspire any type of creativity. Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! #author #writing #art #WritingCommunity Tag your post: #whistpr Prompt for July 4, 2024: #PETAL

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#whistpr Prompt forPrompt for July 4, 2024: #PETAL #kleineKunstklasse Archuv/Acryl

#kleineKunstklasse

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caring so little for the truth, she tore away but every other #petal caring so much for her beauty, the maimed rose was but one fewer rival every petal-kissed pool of tearwater, hides a forgotten naked flower every kiss she blows to strangers, #awakens only her own delusions #vss365 #whistpr

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You awaken for whimsy the petal chuff of a proud hydrangea You awaken, to a thousand tiny birds humming the tune of your lashes You awaken, astride time’s stalking horse her hooves clomping along the cobblestones of your spine You awaken to wait in dreams You wake #vss365 #whistpr #prompt