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HEY I LOVE THIS SHOW!!! one of my short fiction pieces made it to the Hidden Lore Segment of the Kushtaka episode!!! how did I not know CN had a tumblr?!

Somewhere, there are orcas. I’m in my little gray house in Ohio surrounded by the stale, staticky air of winter indoors, but somewhere there are orcas. It’s an easy fact to forget. It’s easy to shrink your world to what you can see. But thankfully, somewhere, there are orcas.

Saying that life is meaningless is like stepping into a wilderness and saying there is no shelter.

The fact that we have the ability and inclination to build shelter, to make meaning, is a message from the universe.

It says, "what you are will provide what you need."

Vultures are holy creatures.

Tending the dead.

Bowing low.

Bared head.

Whispers to cold flesh,

“Your old name is not your king.

I rename you ‘Everything.’”

"I know that sometimes there is a wounded animal in you. An animal that has gone too long without shelter. An animal that wishes the world had but one throat to squeeze. Furious. Strong, and sharp, and tired. I know that today you said "no" to that animal in your kindest voice. Thank you."

- @cryptonature

*through gritted teeth* every day i choose to be kind *barely restraining myself from violence* i choose to have compassion *tamping down the vicious bloodlust inside me* i choose to care and to be kind and to love

feelin' some kinda way

@cryptonature

i feel like everyone has at least one of these so: in the tags tell me what media someone else needs to experience to truly understand the person you are today. mine is undertale and the owl house

Here is an unbuilt cottage.

Your materials are close at hand, there beneath the whispering pines.

Memory, soft as clay.

Unwritten moments.

All your lovely attributes, just as they are, here at the turning of the year.

Can you feel it?

The shift?

Only an idea,

yet already a home.

Happy New Year. 💚

Most progress I have achieved in life started with meeting myself exactly where I was, with accepting my limits and looking on my past choices with kindness.

It is difficult to build when we spend energy mourning our materials.

First, love this version of you.

I can barely know you and miss you. I fall in love as easy a daydream. Today, I cried into my coffee realizing that I would soon read ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ to my son for the first time. I cry to think there must be a last bluebird, and that they were once so new. Life isn’t grand because of castles on hilltops that mean to rule for a thousand years. It’s grand because of storms, flashes in the clouds that claim nothing save a memory. It’s grand because it ends. Because each moment promises us a forever, knowing it’s only half a lie. There is no doom in the world’s end. This was your world. This instant. It slipped out as you read this. You might chisel your initials in stone or film the lightening on your phone, but I hope you don’t. I hope you just watch, and cry, and try to taste every raindrop.

(Poem by Jarod K. Anderson. Check out his two poetry collections: Field Guide to the Haunted Forest and Love Notes from the Hollow Tree)

YEEEEHEEHEEHEE IT'S BACK!!!

I love this show SO MUCH, and I'm so so so happy it's updating again. My favorite podcast returns!!!

CryptoNaturalist Podcast Update

Hi. I have a podcast called The CryptoNaturalist. It’s a scripted, fictional, single-narrator story about an odd man who studies cryptids (hidden, mythic creatures). I stepped away from the show for much of 2022. This year, I plan on one ep a month. Because I miss it. Ep 50 just went live. You’ll find the show in the usual podcast places or at CryptoNaturalist dot Com. I post a lot of writing here about poetry, nature, mental health, and the importance of whimsy. My podcast is all about whimsy. It’s real love for imaginary things.

To invading germs, you are a jungle full of hungry tigers. To your gut bacteria, you are a warm orchard of perpetual bounty. To your eyelash mites, you are a walking fortress and a mountaintop pasture. How many generations have you hosted? What do they name the wilderness of you?

— "Host" by @cryptonature, in his book Field Guide to the Haunted Forest

People are walking biomes if u think about it

hey look @cryptonature it's one of yours!

I've listened to this one three times already. I think it may be one of my favorites of all 52 episodes!

New year, new episode of The CryptoNaturalist Podcast. Episode 52: Mecha-Shrew

Featuring poetry from Emily Benson and a return to a classic cryptid-watching location.

Wherever you find podcasts or stream at CryptoNaturalist.com.