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Jennifer Prokop

@jenreadsromance.bsky.social

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Romance critic & freelance editor. Half of Fated Mates. Angel Reese Fan. She/her. www.jenreadsromance.com

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · Nov 22

the bad romance take...

a man with a backpack is standing in a field with the words one of the least explored places on the planet

ALT: a man with a backpack is standing in a field with the words one of the least explored places on the planet

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 1m

wanting to talk about my current state in present tense and wanting to read a whole fucken novel in it? not even remotely the same thing. like being trapped in a car with a friend who just won't shut up.

Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 10h

I hope he remembered to say his iconic line from State & Main.

youtu.be/tUXpYMV17fw?...

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Turtleberry 🐢🍓 @sweetturtleberry.com · 11h

A lot of indie books are better than their traditionally published counterparts.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 23h

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 10h

this is 100% true in the romance space, no doubt

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 11h

books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 23h

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MC Mismatched Plaids @mismatchedplaids.bsky.social · 13h

Chapter epigraphs, particularly fictional ones, are almost always useless and can/should be skipped.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 23h

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 13h

Some people are more invested in the fetishisation of the book as an object and the act of reading as a cultural signifier than either the pleasure of reading or the pursuit of knowledge.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 23h

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A Valiant Tart @janusxuk.bsky.social · 13h

Lee Child has written one book 26 times. I'll still buy the 27th.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 23h

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Gotta have hope darling @hopeinthenight.bsky.social · 13h

Writers should bring back titling chapters like they're mini summaries of what I'm about to read ie chapter 2 wherein our hero meets a gentle lady, kisses a troll and considers marrying a sinister tavern owner to escape troublesome family matters

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 23h

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Tonia Hill @tonia.thetriibe.com · 14h

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Ald. Jessie Fuentes to file lawsuit against ICE agent who handcuffed her in Humboldt Park incident - Windy City Times

Ald. Jessie Fuentes (26th Ward) is preparing to file a lawsuit against the ICE agent who handcuffed and threatened to arrest her at Humboldt Park Health earlier this month. In an interview with Windy ...

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 13h

you cannot "abuse" your rights.

civil rights either are protected and real or they are not.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 16h

Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson's full statement, in which she says she will sign an EO permitting protest "only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street," is up on the village's website.

"There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest," Thompson says.

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Broadview Shrinks Protest Safety Zones

The following statement can be attributed to Village of Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson:

“The protests at the ICE facility on Saturday night degenerated into chaos. There were 15 arrests, and 10 of those were around the age of my own daughter. As a mother and a mayor, I am mad. Broadview didn’t choose to have the ICE facility in our community. But it’s here. And so are Broadview residents. There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest. Too many are raising their fists rather than their voices, creating chaos at the expense of the people who call Broadview home. Broadview residents lack the protestors’ privilege to return to calm, quiet neighborhoods for undisturbed rest.

Therefore, I have issued a new executive order, in consultation with the Illinois State Police and Cook County Sheriff, that permits protests only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street.

There will no longer be a designated protest safety zone at 2000 South 25th Avenue between Lexington and Fillmore.

Additionally, it has been only God’s grace alone that a protester has not been struck and killed by a motorist on 25th Avenue given how frequently protesters dash onto this busy, four-lane street. This new
measure will provide for both the serenity of residents and safety of protestors.

As I have repeatedly said, I respect, support, and defend the protesters’ free and – peaceful – speech against the outrageous injustices and deplorable unprovoked chemical arms attacks by ICE agents against American citizens, journalists, and ministers that put Broadview police and firefighters in harms’ way.

Nevertheless, my first priority is to defend public safety and the residents who live here and people who work here. They deserve stability, safety, and respect, a quality of life that is currently being denied to them. They deserve the love and kindness that they expect by being Broadview residents.”

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 14h

kate and I were talking once, and she was like "present tense is me reclaiming my time, it's MY time" and I was the opposite, "present tense is so demanding, I don't appreciate being told to make meaning as things happen. Let me process!"

So people are different, I guess.

Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 14h

it's hard for me becuase I just don't really think that way, not about the whole scope of my life or a story. It just seems exhausting. it's how my students think, and it seems tiring.

Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 14h

but I support you! you keep writing what you love!! I'm just one reader!

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 14h

trying to figure out how to respond, but mostly i'm just confused. a novel is not real life, that's what I like about them. the story of my life isn't finished. something could have happened to me today that will change everything, but I don't know that yet? I have no perspective on that?

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 14h

you and me when it comes to present tense

two ships passing in the night is a black and white photo of a man sitting on a bench .

ALT: two ships passing in the night is a black and white photo of a man sitting on a bench .

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 14h

i am so tired of present tense. so, so tired.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 14h

We like to pretend the endemic use of the present tense in modern fiction is a stylistic choice. But usually it's a cheap way to disguise mediocre prose, lack of structure, or both. It's like a row of showy petunias planted along a house to disguise cracks in the foundation.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 23h

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 15h

Sally Rooney, for example, does not use quotation marks. But it happens mostly in LitFic.

Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 16h

authors have to write what they think is best, but you're the reader, baby. don't read shit you don't want to read.

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 16h

have a few things you WON'T READ on sheer principle, just as a way of thinning the herd of potential books, or just because you don't like it.

For me, I won't read books in 3rd present. And I won't read books where authors refuse to use quotation marks. [or some way of identifying dialogue]

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 23h

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 16h

the way I SCREAMED at "Ulysses? Cut it."

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1d

But when it comes to it, if it comes to it, in that awful moment of decision, yes, you will want the old grandmas and grandpas at the front, as many of them as you can get, so those terribly young fellows with the rifles understand what a wicked, awful thing is being asked of them.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1d

This is correct, in part - as the grim, military historian in me feels the need to note - it is psychologically much harder to get soldiers to open fire on people they view as 'respectable.'

And I dread, with grim increasingly certainty, that we are headed to a point where that matters.

WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 1d

protests against this government should include white Boomer grandmothers who meet for pilates class, get a pitcher of mimosas & walk together to the public space

we need people in the street who think everyone can talk their way out of a speeding ticket, they're key to winning

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 18h

OMG. what a detail!