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Onorah @onorah.bsky.social · 9h

I mean. You gotta do a quality control check 😉

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Onorah @onorah.bsky.social · 9h

Nearly? Are they bigger elsewhere? This is just the size we get here.

Screen shot from Dan Murphy’s (Australian alcohol retailer) showing four bottles of Hennessy Cognac, each 700mL

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Onorah @onorah.bsky.social · 1d

I had to stop at around 33% because there was a spicy (but very not my kink iykyk) scene and there was a very proper looking old dude in the seat next to me on the plane, so I felt weird reading it and switched to a cosy fantasy instead. At PAX for the next few days so live-posting will be erratic.

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Onorah @onorah.bsky.social · 2d

Okay admittedly the plot is pretty good. Like. wtf is up with this *spoilers*? I’m a lil invested.

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Onorah @onorah.bsky.social · 2d

Not because of the content - who am I to yuck other people’s problematic yum - but because of the writing. It tries so hard to be dark and moody but the adjectives tilt towards silly tbh. And the edition I’m reading desperately needs a line editor to go through it bc yikes. Sloppy feels harsh but 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Onorah @onorah.bsky.social · 2d

Next on my live-posting book rambles is Haunting Adeline. Not normally my jam (too much gratuitous violence and romanticising red flags) but it was in last year’s Goodreads top 60 and I set myself a reading challenge to read all 60, so here we are, 26% in. I would have DNFd if not for the challenge.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 4d

Boxes also work on bobcats

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Onorah @onorah.bsky.social · 11d

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Onorah @onorah.bsky.social · 6d

We don’t call it grad school here, so maybe I’m confused, but my masters/PhD experience has been wonderfully collaborative and supportive, from my supervisors to my peers. Is this unique to Australia and/or psychology? Or did I just luck out with an awesome university and cohort?

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Onorah @onorah.bsky.social · 6d

I binge-read the whole thing and thankfully fake-dating is my favourite trope, because it helped suspend disbelief.
The wild thing to me was that, even in the author’s notes, Hazelwood describes grad school as competitive. Sure, getting in was competitive, but actual post-grad has been anything but.

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The Doctor of Spooktober Past @lucidillusions.in · 6d

If you're seeing this, you could follow my work on patreon, members get a story a week + more.

(I'm trying to get 30 followers this month)

You could pick a copy of my flash fiction
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or kofi ko-fi.com/s/d33c50d04d

(at spooktober discount)

#TBBChat

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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 6d

Unclench your jaw.

Relax your brow.

Go get a drink of water.

See if you've taken your meds

Eat something.

Doesn't matter what you look like right now, i think you look amazing.

Because you do.

You're a wonderful person.

And have this. 🫂🖤 you did great today. You made it through

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 6d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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Onorah @onorah.bsky.social · 6d

What the actual F am I reading? This is hilarious but in no way at all reflects my experience of PhD life, beyond the reason for starting a PhD.

(For one, the academics in my faculty are lovely humans)

This is gonna take some serious suspension of disbelief to finish. The giggle factor will help.

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Onorah @onorah.bsky.social · 6d

Wait. Random guy she met tells her that’s the best reason for doing a PhD.

Which I guess I already knew. Why else would someone do this?

Wait. Why am I seeking validation from a fictional character?!?

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Onorah @onorah.bsky.social · 6d

I’m FINALLY reading The Love Hypothesis and am absolutely mortified that my reason for doing a PhD is almost verbatim what Olive’s is. Although I have enough faith in the psychology/autism research community that someone else would research this if I don’t, so at least I have that going for me 🤷🏻‍♀️

Photo of a Kindle showing a page from The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood.
Relevant text, some of which is highlighted:

“Academia's a lot of bucks for very little bang. What matters is whether your reason to be in academia is good enough. So, why the Ph.D., Olive?"
She thought about it, and thought, and thought even more. And then she spoke carefully. [highlight begins] "I have a question. A specific research question. Something that I want to find out.” [highlight ends] There. Done. This was the answer. "Something I'm afraid no one else will discover if I don't.”

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Onorah @onorah.bsky.social · 11d

Are you autistic and living in Australia? If so, please consider completing my research survey. It takes 45-60min and will help us understand the experience and impacts of autism identification, to try improve access to autism identification. tinyurl.com/autism-uc14359 #autismresearch #psychresearch

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Bossett @bossett.social · 27d

birdposting

these guys are SO tiny

A silvereye (a tiny, yellow-headed bird with a white circle around its eye) dangling from a small branch covered in young white flowers

A silvereye (a tiny, yellow-headed bird with a white circle around its eye) dangling from a small branch covered in young white flowers - the bird has its wing outstretched as it takes off

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The Doctor of Spooktober Past @lucidillusions.in · Sep 2

Birds being named based on their male counterparts is kinda dumb. Here's a pair of purple sunbirds.

The female doesn't have any purple at all, and tbh the male also manages to showcase it's shiny feathers but not the purple ones.

#Birds #Photography #nature #BackyardWildlife #EastCoastKin

the female sunbird, olive above and yellowish below, perched on a branch and looking away from the red flowers that is covering it's chest.

a purple bird with blue iridescent plumage. sitting near a bunch of red flowers. some of them have bloomed, others are still a bud.

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Onorah @onorah.bsky.social · Sep 2

Yeah, cozy horror girlie. But definitely also a lot of horror-adjacent too. Just not jump scares or The Babadook.

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Onorah @onorah.bsky.social · Sep 2

Me: I’m not a horror girlie.

Content/authors/artists I’m a fan of:
@lucidillusions.in
@vermillionworks.bsky.social
@theotherhappyplace.bsky.social
The Magnus Archives
Midnight Mass
Feed by Mira Grant
Blindsight by Peter Watts
The Thicket by Noelle W Ihli

… am I secretly a horror girlie?

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Saraaahh N. 🎃 @vermillionworks.bsky.social · Aug 17

Went back and changed the old Knell title cover to the Chapter 1 cover (the art in it will be edited but...later. 😵) and made the Nest of Bones art into the comic title cover at the start of the archives. Not so sure about the text on that one but oh well they're updated PLACEHOLDERS at least. XP

The chapter 1 cover art of Knell. At the top the text says "Chapter 1: Resting Place". The art features Devere carrying 8-year-old Knell to keep her out of the waters of a sunken graveyard. The water is almost up to his knees. The area is full of gravestones, some partly underwater, and the atmosphere has a green, hazy look with lines of trees in the far back. There are fireflies all around, a skull floating in the water, and the skeletal remains of someone stuck in a nearby tree.

The title cover art of my webcomic "Knell" with the author's name (Sarah N.) at the bottom. It features Devere the necromancer and his adopted daughter Knell inside of a circular "nest" made of bones. Devere holds her close and protectively with a rather unhinged expression, while we only see Knell's frightened eye staring out.

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Onorah @onorah.bsky.social · Sep 2

Also, since I’m not normally a horror girlie, there are also non-supernatural stories like this one.

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Onorah @onorah.bsky.social · Sep 2

Is it too early for spooky stories? September is basically October, right?

Because yall, @lucidillusions.in has some spine tingly short stories on Patreon and they are so good!!!

The Doctor of Spooktober Past @lucidillusions.in · Aug 17

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Bossett @bossett.social · Aug 25

absurdly small is the best genre of bird

Bossett @bossett.social · Aug 25

ooh is this a double-barred finch (yes)

A small brown speckled bird with a white-masked face and yellow underbelly

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