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Imaginary Gardens PSTCC @imaginarygardens.bsky.social · 8h

🎶 Where words meet music, and art meets Appalachia. 🌄
This year’s Young Creative Writer’s Workshop brings authors, musicians, and makers at Pellissippi State’s Strawberry Plains campus.
#AppalachianArts #ImaginaryGardens #WritersWorkshop
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Imaginary Gardens PSTCC @imaginarygardens.bsky.social · 8h

✨ Writer at work! ✨
This week’s creative piece is…
“For the Family – Journal Entry Two” by Reese Bunch
Some writing you didn’t know you needed, until now.
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Imaginary Gardens PSTCC @imaginarygardens.bsky.social · 8h

✨In her scene-by-scene review of The Summer I Turned Pretty season three finale, Rebecka Jones unpacks all the Taylor Swift tracks, Paris drama, and long-awaited confessions.🫶
#TheSummerITurnedPretty #TSITPFinale #ImaginaryGardens #TeamConrad
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Imaginary Gardens PSTCC @imaginarygardens.bsky.social · 8h

💃 Bad Bunny turns nostalgia into resistance in DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, reminding us that identity, memory, and music can all exist as forms of love. ❤️🏝️🏆
#LatinoVoices #BadBunny #PuertoRico #ImaginaryGardens #SuperBowl
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Imaginary Gardens PSTCC @imaginarygardens.bsky.social · 1d

The Enormous Eight #2: The Beginning Continues
✏️ Story & art by Evie Hawkey, Kaela H, Amelia Williams,
💥 Only on Imaginary Gardens.
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Imaginary Gardens PSTCC @imaginarygardens.bsky.social · 1d

🌸 One arena, 24 songs, 15,000 fans and Laufey still made it feel personal.
A Matter of Time was everything a concert should be: emotional, intimate, unforgettable.
#Laufey #ConcertReview #AMatterOfTimeTour #ImaginaryGardens
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Imaginary Gardens PSTCC @imaginarygardens.bsky.social · 1d

⚖️ “Protecting free speech” or silencing trans voices? 🏳️‍⚧️
A new Tennessee policy allows students and faculty to refuse using someone’s preferred name or pronouns.
#TransRightsAreHumanRights #PellissippiState #ImaginaryGardens
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Imaginary Gardens PSTCC @imaginarygardens.bsky.social · 1d

✨ From fearless feminist to football fiancée: is Taylor Swift evolving, or erasing what made her iconic? Our writers explore how Swift might have lost herself in the spotlight. 💄🎶
#TaylorSwift #WomenInMusic #ImaginaryGardens
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Imaginary Gardens PSTCC @imaginarygardens.bsky.social · 1d

🕯️ A life cut short. A story still unfolding.
⚠️ Content Warning: Mentions of violence, grooming, and abuse of a minor.
This piece explores the tragic death of Celeste Rivas Hernández.
#JusticeForCeleste #Awareness #ImaginaryGardens
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Imaginary Gardens PSTCC @imaginarygardens.bsky.social · 8d

💔 Love should never hurt. In this powerful Dear Cordia story, Candence learns that silence protects no one and healing begins when we speak the truth. 📖
#DVAM #HealthyRelationships #StudentStories #PellissippiState #ImaginaryGardens
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Imaginary Gardens PSTCC @imaginarygardens.bsky.social · 8d

📣 Free food, good vibes, and Panther pride! From DJs spinning tracks to pom-poms flying high, Game Day at Pellissippi brought the heat literally and figuratively. 🐾
#PantherPride #PellissippiState #CampusLife #StudentLife #CollegeSports
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Imaginary Gardens PSTCC @imaginarygardens.bsky.social · 8d

🩸 Loud. Fast. Cathartic. Editor-in-Chief Draven Copeland dives headfirst into extreme metal and finds beauty in the chaos.🤘
#MetalHeads #MusicCulture #ConcertVibes #KnoxvilleMusic #PellissippiState
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Imaginary Gardens PSTCC @imaginarygardens.bsky.social · 8d

🎭 From “sculpting” barriers with our bodies to naming our fears out loud, a workshop on unity as its own form of resistance.
#Palestine #Activism #CommunityCare #ImaginaryGardens #StudentVoices
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Imaginary Gardens PSTCC @imaginarygardens.bsky.social · 8d

🎮 Rage. Joy. Skateboards flying off skyscrapers. 🛹 John Medina unpacks the beautiful disaster that is EA’s Skate. The game that is so broken, it’s kind of perfect.
#Gaming #Skate #VideoGames #ImaginaryGardens
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Imaginary Gardens PSTCC @imaginarygardens.bsky.social · 8d

✨ Writer at work! ✨
This week’s creative piece is…
“For the Family – Journal Entry One” by Reese Bunch
Some writing you didn’t know you needed, until now.
Read more here:
www.imaginarygardens.org/index.php/20...

Imaginary Gardens PSTCC @imaginarygardens.bsky.social · 8d

📀 No buffering. No “this title has been removed.” Just pure, uninterrupted cinema. 🎞️ Carly Bunch argues that DVDs aren’t dead, they're just waiting for the rest of us.
#PhysicalMediaForever #DVDCollection #MovieNight #FilmTalk #PellissippiState
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Imaginary Gardens PSTCC @imaginarygardens.bsky.social · 8d

🔐 When “convenience” becomes a cybersecurity risk: Dual enrollment students across Pellissippi are facing a digital dilemma, shared passwords that may violate college policy and jeopardize privacy. 💬
#CyberSecurity #DualEnrollment #PellissippiState
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Imaginary Gardens PSTCC @imaginarygardens.bsky.social · 21d

✨ Writer at work! ✨
One of this week’s creative pieces is…
“We Fall” by Bean Gast
Some writing you didn’t know you needed, until now.
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Imaginary Gardens PSTCC @imaginarygardens.bsky.social · 21d

🍮 Sticky, golden, and irresistible: dulce de leche is the treat that deserves center stage. A confection beloved across Latin America, Eastern Europe, and beyond.✨ #DulceDeLeche #InternationalDulceDeLecheDay #SweetTraditions

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Imaginary Gardens PSTCC @imaginarygardens.bsky.social · 21d

📚 Kick back with your laptop, light a candle, or settle into a sunlit window seat. The Imaginary Gardens team rounded up our go-to study spaces, from the newsroom and library nooks to Hey Bear Café and cozy bedrooms.

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Imaginary Gardens PSTCC @imaginarygardens.bsky.social · 21d

✨ Writer at work! ✨
One of this week’s creative pieces is…
“I Think I’m The Clone” by Reese Bunch
Some writing you didn’t know you needed, until now.
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Imaginary Gardens PSTCC @imaginarygardens.bsky.social · 21d

🏆 Extra! Extra! Our Editor-in-Chief, Draven Copeland, has been awarded the Tennessee Undergraduate Student Research Award by the Tennessee Association for Student Success and Retention (TASSR)! #ImaginaryGardens #StudentSuccess

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Imaginary Gardens PSTCC @imaginarygardens.bsky.social · 21d

The Enormous Eight #1: How It All Began
✏️ Story & art by Evie Hawkey, Lexie Campbell and Kaela Hatcher
💥 Only on Imaginary Gardens.
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Imaginary Gardens PSTCC @imaginarygardens.bsky.social · 21d

✨ Writer at work! ✨
One of this week’s creative pieces is…
“Only Your Dead” by Anna Trevathan
Some writing you didn’t know you needed, until now.
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Imaginary Gardens PSTCC @imaginarygardens.bsky.social · 21d

📰 Is Free Speech really safe? From the Hollywood Ten to late-night hosts today, free speech has always been vulnerable to fear, politics, and power. #FirstAmendment #MediaFreedom #HistoryAndNow #FreeSpeech
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