Orpheus "Teige" Wren 🏳️‍⚧️

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Orpheus "Teige" Wren 🏳️‍⚧️@probablyacryptid· 24d

I spent the night with my boyfriend and girlfriend recently and their kitten Zelda did this almost immediately

Teige cradling a calico kitten who has flipped on his chest and clearly smiling behind her head. There is a large jug of ginger lemonade leaning against his leg and he is wearing a black shirt and red shorts

Orpheus "Teige" Wren 🏳️‍⚧️@probablyacryptid· Jun 22

Ugh, my computer is so gay y'all

A screenshot of my computer's home screen, surprisingly neat because most shortcuts go into the "work" or "play" folders, with an idle game in the corner and an inclusivity flag I drew digitally as the background

Orpheus "Teige" Wren 🏳️‍⚧️@probablyacryptid· Jun 17

Teen wanted to try cutting a design in my hair since I'm keeping my head relatively shaved for medical reasons (hair keeping something away from treatment area) and wellllllllllllll they're turning 17 soon. Happy birthday Birb, I'm wearing 6 7 on my head for a week for you kid 😘

Orpheus "Teige" Wren 🏳️‍⚧️@probablyacryptid· Jun 15

You too, hmm?

A vapor genie vape pipe, flamed style, also my hand, leg, and two blankets in the background

Orpheus "Teige" Wren 🏳️‍⚧️@probablyacryptid· Jun 15

.................................. yay i could have seen that coming but i didn't want tooooo..........................................

My Neon Genesis Evangelion Test results, revealing I am 100% Kaworu (oh gods), 90% Misato (I was afraid of that...) and 65% Shinji (... okay I expected that one to be higher, I guess I'm not as whiny)

Happily, my Gendo is 5%, as it should be since I'm guessing it doesn't go lower

Orpheus "Teige" Wren 🏳️‍⚧️@probablyacryptid· Jun 10

LOGGING ON

A man in a salmon color shirt with a rainbow heart plopped over the image. The man is grimacing and holding his back and the caption reads "I'm here, I'm queer, and my joint pain is moderate to severe."

Orpheus "Teige" Wren 🏳️‍⚧️@probablyacryptid· Jun 6

Here's my face (please ignore my laundry)

Tempest laying in his nest, propped up on a pile of laundry he needs to put in the hamper as soon as there's room (if it's gonna be in the way, I'm gonna lay on it). His head was recently shaved, but it's already a thick stubble. He has visible sideburns and a hint of scruff under his chin he's very happy with

Orpheus "Teige" Wren 🏳️‍⚧️@probablyacryptid· May 10

Look at this goober. What an absolute unit

Shadow, a bald eagle in Big Bear, California known for raising chicks with his mate Jackie, beak agape and head tilted, staring blankly at the camera with a pine forest and Big Bear Lake behind him

Orpheus "Teige" Wren 🏳️‍⚧️@probablyacryptid· May 9

Without downloading any new pics where are you at mentally

A picture of Caucasian Jesus with his face photoshopped to look horrified and disgusted

Orpheus "Teige" Wren 🏳️‍⚧️@probablyacryptid· Apr 7

POTATO CHEESE WAFFLE WITH GREEN ONION I just took my first bite and hooooly fuck these are good

a waffle that almost looks like it could be an eggo except this one contains potato, two kinds of cheese, green onion from my garden, a blend of spices, and it's high protein too

Orpheus "Teige" Wren 🏳️‍⚧️@probablyacryptid· Apr 7

Well, well, well, what do we have here?

top view of a flour "well" waiting for wet ingredients. also in view is spice containers, cheese, a vape pen, and melted butter with scalded milk in a mug. there are green onions and cheese in the flour mix already

Orpheus "Teige" Wren 🏳️‍⚧️@probablyacryptid· Apr 5

We are up to similar shenanigans

A production station on top of a standing freezer for making waffles freeze, including a bowl full of waffle batter, cooking spray, a small Dash waffle maker, and a sheet pan for the waffles to land on before they go in the freezer. There is also a Belgian waffle maker, used only on days I am making dozens of waffles, with a Belgian waffle on top of it

Orpheus "Teige" Wren 🏳️‍⚧️@probablyacryptid· Mar 26

"Thanks for saving my life after I took a huge shit on your shorts" and other things this lizard definitely didn't say

A male yellow spiney lizard being held after some quick hydration and chill out time

Orpheus "Teige" Wren 🏳️‍⚧️@probablyacryptid· Mar 13

I return from my hiatus with this very important message

a side blotched lizard perched on a gardening glove looking extremely chill to be there. He was, too, very happy to stay there until I tried to pet him with my other hand. Then he ran off my glove, rammed head first into part of the planter, and fell on the ground

The yard in the background badly needs weeding

Orpheus "Teige" Wren 🏳️‍⚧️@probablyacryptid· Jan 26

I wish this would get LESS relevant for a change

Freedom
from Shadow Giving Light by Eli Kwake

They told me I was lucky
To grow up living free
Now that I am older I know
How freedom comes to be
Freedom comes from marches
Freedom comes from chants
From refusing to be silent
And give in to their demands
Freedom comes from fighting
And from dying, most the time
But the freedom that they say I have
Has never once been mine
Perhaps it's time to march
And perhaps it's time to sing
Make what they say true
And let the freedom ring
Or perhaps it’s time to fight
Win our freedom or else die
Could you look your child in the face
If you did not even try?
Stand with me my friends
Through this time of fear and doubt
And scream to all who hear
What freedom is about

Orpheus "Teige" Wren 🏳️‍⚧️@probablyacryptid· Jan 16

Jeremy I am so tempted to eat this entire loaf, but I am being good and sharing a slice or two to the fam I'll make them a gluten loaf tomorrow maybe? But good fuck this came out good

a loaf of gluten free bread with a tight crumb on a baking pan. there are four slices already cut and one end has already been eaten nom nom nom it is SOOOOO gooooooood

Orpheus "Teige" Wren 🏳️‍⚧️@probablyacryptid· Jan 5

Crested bullhead shark. I must learn about them

A screenshot of the crested bullhead shark, a knobbly, stripey bro

Orpheus "Teige" Wren 🏳️‍⚧️@probablyacryptid· Jan 3

My nephew and I have been taking walks in the morning around dawn and also at sunset sometimes and anyway he takes some amazing pictures, that kid

A picture of a very glutted Mojave River a little before sunset with the water electric blue and the reeds glowing gold and the hills a yellow to spring green. The sky above is robin's egg blue fading into almost white down by the horizon

Orpheus "Teige" Wren 🏳️‍⚧️@probablyacryptid· Jan 2

Someone got me this as a winter holiday gift a y'all I can't fucking wait

A chainmail choker with a dagger and spikes pendant on a knee covered by a fluffy white polar fleece trouser leg

Orpheus "Teige" Wren 🏳️‍⚧️@probablyacryptid· Dec 30

Apparently I am a dryadoligist (Emily Wilde)

A green square with white text reading: You are now forced to have the same job as the main character in the last book you read. What is the job?

Orpheus "Teige" Wren 🏳️‍⚧️@probablyacryptid· Dec 25

Tempest hanging off his hammock a bit wearing his trans squirrels shirt and laying on a fuzzy pillow. His hair is cut in a fade with the previously mohawk part cut shorter. His hair is feeling a bit more lively today!

Orpheus "Teige" Wren 🏳️‍⚧️@probablyacryptid· Dec 23

Tempest relaxing in his hammock, wearing the wrong glasses. He looks less exhausted than he feels and doesn't understand how. He's shaved his facial hair but not the sides of his head recently. With whose energy?

Orpheus "Teige" Wren 🏳️‍⚧️@probablyacryptid· Dec 19

I've ALWAYS been this color, there's just a lot more grey in it presently. The first thing ever said about my hair was directly after I was born and it was that I needed a haircut already 😂😂

A picture of a picture of lil baby Tempest, maybe 3 months old

Orpheus "Teige" Wren 🏳️‍⚧️@probablyacryptid· Dec 17

By Lucas S Jones from his book "I Still Believe In Miracles"

No matter what you buy, you're only ever renting

Everything's on credit
No matter how you spend it

And we should hold it gently
And gratefully and tight

You only own a home
As much as you own light

You can wear the clothes
But only for tonight

Orpheus "Teige" Wren 🏳️‍⚧️@probablyacryptid· Dec 11

By the way, this is Fred and Damien, my two successfully pirated pineapples. Fred is from the gas station, Damien is a Del Monte pineapple from the grocery store

A frilly, vibrant green pineapple plant in a hanging basket in a bathtub. His name is Fred and he's doing AMAZING

A somewhat ragged, darker green pineapple plant with a short or altogether missing inside crown that is growing back. His name is Damien and I am so happy he's doing great these days. He is also in a hanging basket sitting in a bathtub

Orpheus "Teige" Wren 🏳️‍⚧️@probablyacryptid· Dec 10

If anyone was wondering how the brain aneurysm PTSD has been lately ... Well I still have it, that's for sure

A Swallowed Scream
by Orpheus Wren

I know now why I cannot ever find the words
How do you translate such a helpless scream,
A muted shriek of terror, swallowed long ago?
It still rings in hollow pathways of my mind
Where once thought and sensation flowed
Before blood poured in to clog the channels
But while the dank sludge was cleaned
Fear moved in to fill those channels instead
“I'm afraid, I'm afraid, I'm afraid,” it calls
A useless lesson for a time I could not control
The doom has passed for but today only
And the swallowed scream in my mind cries
Drinking up every word to describe that horror
Buried behind the sound of a survivor sobbing
So I am left with nothing but numb silence
I try, I try, I try to find the words to speak of it
But all I can hear in my heart, my mind, my soul
Is a person whose terrified screams for help
Were never heeded, never heard, never seen
I know now why I cannot ever find the words
For how do you translate an unspoken scream?

Orpheus "Teige" Wren 🏳️‍⚧️@probablyacryptid· Dec 9

There ya go (it was DELICIOUS, almost orgasmic)

A picture of an heirloom tomato salad with fresh terragon, cheddar, and chopped pecans as well as a terragon vinegar and wildflower honey dressing

Orpheus "Teige" Wren 🏳️‍⚧️@probablyacryptid· Dec 6

I think I'm getting back on my bullshit y'all

History Rhymes
by Orpheus Wren

I don't know how to tell you this
But WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME
History, no, doesn't quite repeat
But you can hear it slam a near rhyme
I don't know where we should even go
But I know we don't want to stay here
Freedom always loses the ground
When people cede it out of mortal fear

Don't you want to stop this terror?
What would you do to find some peace?
Who is it you want that peace for?
When will the hate and violence cease?
Have you been herded in your thinking
Like a lamb into the slaughter’s den?
Will you let them treat you like clay?
Why do you think I pick up my pen?

People always say that things need changing
Then never change a gods damned thing
Hey, change is a VERB, it thirsts for ACTION
Not just one march, but a song we often sing
There's more protest in small and daily actions
A smile for a neighbor, a voice of hope
We're standing on the gallows together
Maybe try loosening your neighbor's rope

I don't know how to tell you this
But we are running on borrowed time
I'd like this pattern to finally end
For history to run out of this rhyme
Call this poem your sign if you need one
(It's not like you haven't had your choice)
But the only time you should stay silent
Is when they rip out your fucking voice

Orpheus "Teige" Wren 🏳️‍⚧️@probablyacryptid· Nov 29

This It was all so delicious and it made everyone so happy, but most especially the kid

Side view of a pumpkin cheesecake that came out absolutely perfect on a table

A picture of a thanksgiving feast of turkey, sweet potato casserole, cranberry sauce, ranch mashed potatoes, biscuits and gluten free toast, cranberry sauce, deviled eggs, dressing, egg nog, green bean casserole, cranberry sauce, pumpkin cheesecake, gravy, and apple cider with my nephew lighting candle for the autumnal display in the background

Orpheus "Teige" Wren 🏳️‍⚧️@probablyacryptid· Nov 28

Do you think we have enough cranberry sauce? There's 4 of us Also, please admire my pumpkin cheesecake, which I made without a recipe. It tastes amazing