A book recommendation post in which I even shout out my beloved @bobthebookerer.bsky.social?! What a blessing. If you're into knowing what cute they/he-s are reading, check this out. xo
#substack #bookreviews
Posts by Toby
absurdly proud of this piece of #substack fiction which i wrote and, yes, feel sensational about. it's inspired by this time i went off my meds and thought i could see the future, which was totally cool, casual, chill and normal of me :)
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Made this gay'n'tiny comic at @ubccrwr.bsky.social and am going to make and post more in 2026: a tiny'n'gay resolution!
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Sometimes you gotta be very angry with what's happened in your personal life, and you gotta write a poem about it years later!
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I remain shockingly talented. Wrote this before I even did my postgrad CRWR vibe, and it's one of the only things from the Before-Times I still enjoy. Do enjoy, alongside me.
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cuteness!!
Some of y'all might also be losing your minds. Some of you thus might like this poem.
tobysharpe.substack.com/p/cope
#poetry #substack
Men would rather read Lee Child on the tube than go to therapy
You donβt win an award for being the most not-surprised, is the thing
WOMEN WANT ME. FISH WANT ME. WE ARE A THROUPLE
bears are hot π»πΌπ»ββοΈ
(dare I use the #bear hashtag? slay)
wrote a poem about fooling around with hot bears? big slay
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#poetry #substack #heckindelicious
Made up this writing prompt at @ubccrwr.bsky.social and still think it's one of my favourites. Check out some more at my substack if you'd like! π
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#poetry
it's causing me a major existential crisis tbh: do I quote MUNA or Britney or the Torah??
I wrote a cento #poem on #substack which is one of my favourites ever, drawing in lines from Mary Oliver, Sappho, Stephen Spender, and more...
Cheeky photo of Vancouver attached to it too, because I can't let go of my UBC-MFA past.
love poetry swarming outta me, hellishly happy with this one
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Some lines from a new piece of vulnerable hecking poetry from me. The piece is called The Flop's Song. xo
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Incredibly proud of @tanvibhatia.bsky.social -- she's killing it ALL the time, but I feel like every time I open social media lately I see her doing something else cool! Appreciation and adoration post.
Yours is identical to mine! β¨
told my friend she was drawing her eyebrows too high and then she looked at me all surprised
Wrote a love story. A love story with zero demonic presences or poltergeists, so I'm really challenging myself here. Check out the #substack post here.
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if I think about elephants for too long I start crying
sharing snippets from my own work? because I'm a poet? wow...
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#substack #poetry #lmao!!
Continued work in progress on this one but nearly completed. 24x30β acrylic on canvas.
Started writing this one AND drew its accompanying art whilst at @ubccrwr.bsky.social -- time flies. Now I'm old and tired but look fondly back on the art from that time.
listening to Denial is a River like it will give me clues to salvation (and it definitely will)