Ben Shearwater

@shearwriter.bsky.social

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I do words good. Also, I doodle sometimes.

Black cat curled up on a couch cushion, head upside down as he looks back at his best friend.
Shelves of cans of protein soda and protein water, whatever that is
Poster for National Nurses United candlelight vigil in remembrance of VA nurse Alex Pretti. Happening Wednesday, January 28th at 7:30pm CT in front of the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center at 820 S Damen Ave, Chicago, IL.
A black cat with green eyes barely open, curled up between blanket-covered legs.
List of tag types for an Archive of Our Own search for Chuck Schumer. There are five tags related to Schumer’s imaginary constituents; none of the five appear to have been applied to a fic yet.
Post from Newfound Planets about a planet where a ferret-like creature dreams of lunch, above picture of a possum on a tree branch from the Possum Every Hour BlueSky account.
BlueSky post by @jonrosenberg.bsky.social: It’s good that there’s a 25% tariff on imported coffee now. This will incentivize people to purchase American coffee, grown in the New Jersey coffee forests”
You won’t be saved by guns or by fortune. You will be saved by the minority of those who think. By your secret souls, by your hidden treasures, by your madness that Edgar Allan Poe summed up, in short, by your poets - regardless of what ink they use - and your filmmakers aren’t the least of your inks, an ink of light that false morals drench with water and prevent from flourishing.
Screenshot of EO. Highlighted text reads: “ As a part of this plan, each agency shall identify up to nine potential civil compliance investigations of publicly traded corporations, large non-profit corporations or associations, foundations with assets of 500 million dollars or more, State and local bar and medical associations, and institutions of higher education with endowments over 1 billion dollars;”
Movie poster for Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Top half is snowy; bottom half is rocky seas. The face of Aslan - a lion - dominates the poster. Below him, a ship with a purple sail tosses on the waves. Around Aslan, we see human characters and Reepicheep, a mouse warrior.
Average cost of an acre of Iowa farmland is between $7,664 (low-quality) and $14,296 (high-quality). Average cost per acre to rent irrigated farmland is $486 in California and $86.50 in Wyoming. The average price per acre of Ontario farmland is $17,962.
Cover of Keeping a Nature Journal: Deepen Your Connection with the Natural World All Around You by Clare Walker Leslie.
Screenshot of note in iPhone notes app. Title: Ironically. Body text: When the tech lords and the capitalists take everything, the only thing left is to be original and weird - even if it’s been predicted by some machine - to ignore the future and focus on what fascinates you, focus on the here and now, focus on the what-ifs that you were born to dream - focus on the idea that the fact that you were born means something, the fact that you are ALIVE means something and is worth protecting - you have some ideas, some thoughts, you can connect with others, we can be something together, we can discover not only the joy and awe of the world as it is but the dream we collectively inspire of what it could be
Tiffany Pollard “Beyoncé???” meme. Bottom text reads, “Warrior Cats??!”
Wide-eyed black cat sitting in an office chair, peeking around the back of the chair.
Sherlock Holmes and Joan Watson from the TV show Elementary. They stride through the bright lobby entrance of a building.
Skeet by Matt Zoller Seitz: “Big congratulations to Halloween on holding the line at Nov. 1 and preventing Christmas from seizing even more territory on the calendar.” Skeet by John Scalzi: “WHY THE FUCK IS THIS DULLES STARBUCKS PLAYING “WHITE CHRISTMAS” ON NOVEMBER 7”
Photo of the page in the book Station Eleven where “Survival is insufficient” appears.
A stack of well-loved paperback books, including On Press by Tom Wicker, Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey.