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@eepicheep

Overthinker & underachiever - believer in the improbable. Near St. Louis, in Illinois. Zone 7a #Lynchsyndrome (eepicheep everywhere)

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eep!@eepicheep· May 26

Happy day of chocolate cake, but I suppose I should specify what kind of chocolate. German.

A note beneath the bluesky "Write your reply" field that reads, "The post you're replying to was marked as being written in German by its author. Would you like to reply in German?"

eep!@eepicheep· Jan 27

Goliath sending sweet dreams to you. He was out! It's quite cold here and he found the warm spot where I had been reading in bed 💙💙

Goliath, my very large Siamese mix kitty, stretched out against my big pillow, sleeping on his side, with his head kind of hanging off the edge of the bed.

eep!@eepicheep· Jan 1

kind-hearted

eep!@eepicheep· Dec 4

Monday book group is random day drinks club for the season. Blackbird club was Thursday, busy w/writers group, but switched to Monday morning which would be 2 for one book club day, but now it's gone to Wednesday. We had our gift book party, and I can't remember what I got, but I gave a favorite

One end of a table of women meeting at the Blackbird Cafe to exchange wrapped books over coffee and pastries. The café has bright natural light coming through windows. I'm at the foot of the table wreathed in a teal neck scarf with my hair up in a bun holding a book, smiling, as two women look at me.

eep!@eepicheep· Nov 29

Welp, I was off by an inch and it's still coming down 😳

Photo of a television displaying snowfall reports. At the top is Edwardsville, IL 8.0

eep!@eepicheep· Nov 6

I kept going until I got the owl

À barred owl with human legs and a feathered human bootylicious butt, standing on a bare tree limb looking over its right shoulder at the viewer

eep!@eepicheep· Sep 4

This came up on my insta at the perfect time - www.instagram.com/share/reel/B...

An Instagram screenshot of some guy singing what the Smiths sound like to people who don't like the Smiths, with the cc on, displaying
"and for this crime
I will spit in your eye"

eep!@eepicheep· Aug 23

Happy belated birthday (intentionally) to me and happy book birthday to @janeharrington.bsky.social I pre-ordered through bookshop.org and I can hardly wait to get started reading! Extremely busy schedule means I must wait a bit.

Cover of the book, Women of the Fairy Tale Resistance: The Forgotten Founding Mothers of the Fairy Tale and the Stories That They Spun, by Jane Harrington and illustrated by Khoa Le. I don't have the capacity for visual description at this moment.

eep!@eepicheep· Jul 14

The typo in the charges is unintentionally hilarious.

Screenshot from the FOX2now site, with the text:

He is currently being held in the Montgomery County jail without bond for the following charges:

Aggravated Feeling from Law Enforcement

(the typo for what should be "fleeing" is making me laugh)

eep!@eepicheep· Jun 28

I'm back! It was an Epic Journey. It's probably going to take another month to tell you all about my month.

A paper banner made of panels of sweet art and the words, Welcome Home.

eep!@eepicheep· Apr 8

I am absolutely stealing this for the Friday pool. (We have a literal pool of extra signs. A blue plastic pool.)

A blue plastic pool holding extra protest signs. A sign taped to the pool reads "new protest starting Sundays, Alton, Lincoln /Douglas Memorial (100 Market St.) Noon - 3p.m. One of our regulars is starting this weekend event in Alton - every Sunday!"

eep!@eepicheep· Apr 7

Ha, so excited i forgot to send the haunted toy

Robert the Doll face photoshopped onto the Kardashian body popping champagne with the coupe balanced on booty. Text reads HELP ME WIN SOME BOOTY! (for my museum) referencing chance to win 20k from the Knight Foundation for educational programming. It's a Facebook post cropped to show "message Robert the Doll"

eep!@eepicheep· Apr 6

Help! I lifted this photo from someone here on bluesky, forgot to note who it was, and now cannot find it. I tried image searching via Google. Can anyone help? Thank you 🤞💙

An image posted by someone here on bluesky showing a white VW bus with blue handprints "HANDS OFF" in red paint, and "Make America democratic again" on the driver's side, participating in the #handsoff demonstrations on Saturday, 5 April, 2025. Protesters holding signs are also part of the photo. Can you please let me know who posted so I can give photo credit? Thanks. 🤞😭

eep!@eepicheep· Apr 6

Turning my back on what appeared to be the sole counterprotestor in Springfield, Illinois (some kid driving a big-assed white pickemup flying a trump2024 flag). The top of my sign is cut out of the photo. It says, "Yard Sale" at the top. (See Alt text for more details.) Waterproofing & layers.

A person (me) with back to the camera standing in front of the Capitol building in Springfield, Illinois, wearing a blue rain poncho with white polkadots, green wellies with yellow dragonfly print, and a clear backpack with a red and white sign taped to the bottom pocket that reads, "FUCK FASCISM."

Peeking out from inside the backpack is a little anime keychain plushie looking shocked. I am holding a protest sign made from a plastic garage sale sign: "Garage Sale U. S. A. - - for parts."

Dollar tree has these plastic or vinyl signs that are great for wet days. Posca pen works well. The back side has a weird texture, but I was able to use both sides by taping vinyl lettering (with added marker) words to fit the "hands off" theme, "Hands Off Social Security."

eep!@eepicheep· Apr 5

Springfield, Illinois Saturday, 5 April, 2025 #handsoff

Protestors line the sidewalks in front of the Capitol building in Springfield, Illinois. The sky is overcast and one person is holding an umbrella with rainbow colors. The only sign that's facing the camera says "this is us" with a graphic of a fist and the three standard arrow/cross sex? / gender? symbols used as identifier glyphs, and a handwritten variety of issues including 'checks and balances' and 'equality.'

eep!@eepicheep· Apr 4

Rain, schmain!

Two white women dressed in rain gear holding protest signs at the park in front of the library. Evie's is a graphed red line plummeting downward, with text: The things I was taught to value... Wisdom, kindness, inclusion... are lost. Mine is a commercial Yard Sale sign. "Yard Sale USA (for parts) "

eep!@eepicheep· Mar 28

I had such a fabulous time at the demonstration with @evhemphill.bsky.social Every week, the crowd swells larger. Here's a photo of Evie and me with our protest signs.

Photo of Evie and eepicheep with our protest signs. You can see the flags on the pole behind us blowing in the wind.

Evie's sign says, "America First" is CRUEL, DESTRUCTIVE, HATEFUL - - the LAST thing any _decent_ humans are about.

My sign is that poem I wrote on fb a while ago:

ROSES are RED,
Except when they're BLUE
They call it "efficiency"
But it's truly a COUP

eep!@eepicheep· Mar 28

Let's share some art! Art is defiance! Art is resistance!

Collaged paper on faded pink construction paper. Father from a popular early reader holds a baseball bat in center. Map insets in circles outlined in black flank a section of woven paper strips. At bottom, text cobbled together from Early Reader reads:

Some get angry and break things
What happens then?

eep!@eepicheep· Mar 25

It's here! Inventing the Renaissance, by Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social I ordered mine from my local bookstore, Afterwords @afterwordsbooks.bsky.social via bookshop.org Next, I need time for reading.

Front cover of the book Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age, by Ada Palmer, resting on a pillow printed in Hares and Flowers, a pattern of illustrations by Kathleen Jennings.

eep!@eepicheep· Mar 21

For #WorldPoetryDay, here is a poem I wrote back on February 14 on my protest sign. Photo taken today at City Park in Edwardsville at the weekly Friday noon demonstration.

An old white lady (me) with long windblown greying ginger/auburn hair stands on the sidewalk next to a busy suburban street holding a handmade protest sign. The sign text is a poem I wrote to share on the zucky fb site for February 14:

ROSES ARE RED

EXCEPT WHEN THEY'RE BLUE

THEY CALL IT

"efficiency"

BUT IT'S TRULY A

COUP

eep!@eepicheep· Mar 14

Every Friday at noon. City Park, Edwardsville, just across the river from St. Louis. I look so damnably joyous here. I'm glad to be able to participate, but I do NOT feel the way I appear. #EatTheRich #ProtestPoetry I might have borked the alt text. My phone can't handle it correctly.

An old white lady wearing an enormous white t-shirt with black skull and cross'bones' graphic, where the 'bones' are cutlery and text reads, "eat the rich" holding a protest sign in each hand. One is a printed artist graphic by Todd Alcott depicting a fist pounding little people, text "SMASH the middle class: Corporations Need Cheap Labor," and the other is handmade with paper glued to white gessoed cardboard. It is a poem written by eepicheep in February 2025, originally posted on fb.:

Roses are red
Except when they're blue
They call it" efficiency, "
But it's truly a coup."
They call it a

eep!@eepicheep· Mar 14

I pulled some cards beneath the eclipsed Worm moon. As usual for me, Major Arcana feature strongly. I haven't even begun to delve into the symbolic meanings yet. A French radio station played eerie baroque music as the moon slid into occlusion.

A tarot spread pulled in the dark beneath the eclipsed Worm moon. Photo taken with flash. Individual cards will be named in a reply later because I do not have the energy to name them at this moment.

eep!@eepicheep· Mar 12

Home at last! After 17 hours at the ER (& $25 for parking) I'm exhausted - the upshot is that the doctors overreacted. I'm somewhat annoyed, but also it's better to have a false alarm than to ignore and/or be ignored. Also, Goliath is the best kitty in the whole wide world.

Selfie showing tired, old white lady lying on bed wearing enormous tan sweater. Goliath, my very large Siamese mix kitty, is snuggling up with me.

eep!@eepicheep· Mar 10

Goliath knows I'm not feeling my best, and this hug position he got himself into is so comforting.

Goliath, my very large Siamese mix kitty, is lying on top of me with his front arm in a hug position. My hand rests on his body.

eep!@eepicheep· Feb 16

not atall properly, not atall

Character headcanon generator says "eepicheep can't sit in a chair properly."

eep!@eepicheep· Feb 9

My cousin Mike absolutely exuded chill. I'm but an apprentice. I think you can acquire the skill by hanging out with a master. Wish he were still alive. I think this was the last time The Cousins Mike played out, Feb 2020. (See Alt text if you can't guess which one he is.)

Three guys playing acoustic guitars. Guy at left standing, playing wood resophonic with a slide; middle also standing, singing into a mic; and at right, sitting with one leg crossed as a guitar rest and absolutely exuding chill.

(Photo ca. 2020 by Bird, who is on here but I can't remember what he goes by.)

eep!@eepicheep· Feb 6

Meanwhile, here's a screenshot that also provides a little context. Not properly detailed Alt text

Screenshot of fb posts by Susan and Eric with a photo of the "you won't get your shoes back" t-shirt

eep!@eepicheep· Feb 2

Goliath outside in his fancy chariot for our first outdoor hang! Hoping we will have many more. He HATES being picked up, but he likes his carrier. It was a good investment to get the stroller set-up. There is no good way for him to see birds 🪶 at the feeder from indoors. They come if I am quiet.

À fancy kitty stroller on the back patio. Goliath, my very large Siamese mix kitty, is inside, looking out the screened windows, but not visible in the picture. A bird feeder and suet feeder can be seen hanging from a double shepherd's hook in the background. A blurry bird is barely visible, possibly a nuthatch, getting a seed.

eep!@eepicheep· Jan 23

Yesterday's: Wednesday, 22 January, 2025 mental gymnastics mental gymnastics tonight, we freed a dragon magical thinking (2/many)

mental gymnastics

mental gymnastics
tonight, we freed a dragon
magical thinking

(2/many)

This is a screenshot of the post I was making of my daily poem over on Facebook.

eep!@eepicheep· Jan 20

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