James Parenti

@jamesparenti.bsky.social

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Writer, performer, cat dad (he/him) My writing: - https://www.havenspec.com/the-back-of-the-hand-to-everything - https://www.thedreadmachine.com/nothing-separates-you/

The trees in my backyard are legit spooky! Silhouettes of bare skinny trees and a few fluffy evergreens stand out in total blackness against a sky lit diffusely gray by lightning
A poster for the film The Bride! by Maggie Gyllenhaal. The two stars’ faces are close together and take up most of the poster. Bale’s face has suggestions of classic Creature scars, Buckley’s has a stain of black ink on one side of her mouth and cheek.
Wednesday is black cat with a white tuft on her chest. She sits on a beige blanket with her face raised expectantly, looking past the camera at something she strongly desires (a potato chip, just out of frame)
A black cat sits on a table with a red and black tablecloth. She has her nose buried in a bouquet of red and white roses, with a purple candle (unlit) beside her
An I Voter sticker on my mustard-colored sweater. You can see the lower half of my face, too.
Closeup of my left hand, pale-skinned, in a lacy black glove with black nail polish and a silver wedding band.
A beautiful black cat with a white tuft on her chest sits on a set of wood stairs. Next to her reclines a 30-something white guy (myself) wearing a black steampunk-style jacket with silver buttons over a lacy white blouse. He also wears black lacy gloves and cat ears, purple sparkles on his cheeks to represent whiskers, and an attempt at cat-eye eyeliner
A gray tabby with green eyes and her tail hooked upwards stares longingly at a buffalo chicken wing
A gray tabby cat, sitting on my lap, reaches out her leg to rest her paw on my palm while I hold a lit Kindle.
A poster for the TV show “My Lady Jane.” The two stars are near-kiss in color in foreground, supporting cast are smaller in monochrome silvery blue in background
The cover of Mario Aliberto III’s chapbook “All the Dead We Have Yet to Bury.” The cover features a black and white photo of dolls reclining on grass.
Elliott Smith in black and white
The cover of Heavy Are The Stones by Christine Daigle and J.D. Barker. It has blood-red texture on a black background with a woman’s face in profile, broken up as if in a collage of window frames
A closeup of Sigourney Weaver saying “It’s the only way to be sure,” in James Cameron’s “Aliens.”
Holly Hunter and Anna Paquin on the beach beside a shipping crate in Jane Campion’s “The Piano”
Yours truly, a 30-something white guy with brown hair, wearing blue and gray and holding a pink cardboard box, sports a mustache in the style of Ted Lasso
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #887,478, James Parenti ‪@jamesparenti.bsky.social‬, joined on Sep 6, 2023"
30-something guy with green eyes in a green button-up, smizing on an armchair in front of a blood-red wall
A gray tabby cat lounges before a window, staring through the camera lens into the viewer’s soul. Her whiskers are white brush strokes and her nose is a pink triangle. Behind her is a small, imperfectly trimmed but lovely bouquet of pink roses.
A gray tabby with a serious face sits on an low wooden armchair with yellow upholstery, one forepaw casually slung off the front of the seat. Behind her is a dark red bedroom wall and a bookcase
A 30-something caucasian dweeb (myself) has straight-up tears in his eyes on the streets of NYC. Green shirt, fucking backpack straps because when you go to NYC you have to carry your whole life on your back.
A gray tabby cat with a sweet little face and upturned tail stands with all four feet on the closed lid of a small tan jewelry box. Beside her is a Tiffany-style floral lamp roughly the same size as her.
A gray tabby cat clings to the bluejean-clad leg of a person sitting at a wood desk. Her face says “I will hug you and nap here whether you like it or not.”
The northern lights shine over an expanse of snowy flatland before a backdrop of stars
A mid-30s white guy sits on a couch in profile in a needlessly dark living room. He wears a headlamp as he reads an instruction pamphlet.
German chocolate cake with a coconut/pecan glaze atop a gleaming wood table. Not too shabby for an amateur baker!
A gray tabby in front of a window; behind her, the world is awash with snow
A black cat with a white tuft in the center of her chest smiles at the camera from inside a cardboard box RIGHT NEXT TO her scratching bed
A gray tabby lounges imperiously upon a two-story cardboard castle
A white guy in a headlamp and a floral-print button-up.
A 30-something white guy with glasses holds a beautiful Siamese kitten
A bearded Caucasian 30-something man has a tense phone conversation.
Seen from dangerously close beside, an alligator opens its jaws underwater.
Seen from dangerously close beside, an alligator opens its jaws underwater.
A Caucasian man in a grey suit and an old-fashioned film noir-style hat