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Rose 🌊

@seasaltrose.bsky.social

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Scientist who enjoys reading and video games. My main genres are Cozy (anything), Fantasy, Sci Fi, and Romance | She/they | 30+ | 🖤🩶🤍💜

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Rose 🌊 @seasaltrose.bsky.social · Nov 20

Still looking for some mutuals! More general interests:

⭐️ Anime & Manga
⭐️ Gaming
⭐️ Reading & Reviewing Books
⭐️ Collecting Tamagotchi
⭐️ Science (my job!)
⭐️ Cats & Dogs
⭐️ Sanrio

I’ve been re-posting cool art and doing the #booksky 20 book challenge. I hope to post some of my reviews too! #promosky

Rose 🌊 @seasaltrose.bsky.social · Nov 18

Here’s a few things I like, feel free to add me!

📚 Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Fairies
📚 The House in the Cerulean Sea
📚 The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

👾 Stardew Valley
👾 Animal Crossing
👾 Tales of Symphonia

🍿 Star Trek
🍿 Red Dwarf
🍿 Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

#promosky

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Rose 🌊 @seasaltrose.bsky.social · 3d

Cozy The Day Away book sale today!

I recommend:

Cursed Cocktails by S L Rowland

Pastiche by Celia Lake

The Lord of Stariel by AJ Lancaster

How to Get a Girlfriend When You Are a Terrifying Monster by Marie Cardno

cozyfantasysale.promisepress.org

Home - Cozy Fantasy Sale

This is the home page for the Cozy the Day Away Sale series, where the first-ever cozy fantasy group sale happens! Sales in 2025 have…

cozyfantasysale.promisepress.org

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Rose 🌊 @seasaltrose.bsky.social · 6d

Everyone is posting about “fall” but the high today is 95F where I live.

Unfortunately fall weather (50-70F) usually happens after Thanksgiving here.

Rose 🌊 @seasaltrose.bsky.social · 6d

Quit Your Waning has some definite werewolf vibes going on as well as being directly Halloween themed.

It’s best to read the first books of the Over the Moon series as well as Book 1 of the Intersolar Union. The books are a cozy spin off of Space Opera so you may be lost without the backstory.

Rose 🌊 @seasaltrose.bsky.social · 6d

My brain apparently wanted spooky romance reads this week so:

Last read: Quit Your Waning (4⭐️) - Cozy Sci Fi, Monster

Current Read: The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy - Fantasy #booksky 📚🪐💙

Quit Your Waning by Etta Pierce. Over the Moon Series Book 3.

The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 8d

Something from the ol' comfort zone for the beginning of autumn

A horned jousting helmet with some autumn leaves in the background and sun icons on three sides.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 8d

Reminder from your resident high school lubrarian: if you plan to do a Banned Books Week display and programming, prioritize living marginalized authors. Use this time to help those who need it the most.

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Chelsea M. Cameron (she/they) @chel-c-cam.bsky.social · 8d

I know a lot of people are wanting to get into gardening and sewing and homesteading but not in a tradwife way, so I am here to tell you about The Maine Farmers and Gardeners Association! They have a regular magazine and online classes: www.mofga.org

Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association

The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association is working to transform our food system so that local organic food is available for all.

www.mofga.org

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AK Faulkner @ NYCC @poopraven.bsky.social · 10d

It's a lovely morning on the internet and you are a horrible queer!

Drop your links to queer books! Yours, someone else's, tradpub, indie, share ALL THE QUEER BOOKS to make a fash shit themselves.

Go!!!

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Pauline @paulinedrawsbears.bsky.social · 10d

This autumn rat likes to dream while watching leaves drift along the lake 🍂

#art #cuteart #artyear #mammals #rattober #peachtober #blueskyartshow #relax

A digital drawing of a red sitting on a wooden bridge at the short of a lake. The rat is wearing a green jacket with yellow and green gingham sleeves and mushrooms stitched onto the pocket, a yellow scarf and brown pants with patches on them. Its feet are bare and one of them is barely dipping into the lake. next to the rat there are a cup filled with a dark brown liquid and a sketchbook with a pencil. yellow oak leaves swirling around the rat and resting in the lake - two of them boats for a barely discernable tiny brown bug and a similarly tiny red bug, floating towards each other.

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Rose 🌊 @seasaltrose.bsky.social · 10d

When I was looking through my “read” books on goodreads it says it on the first line of the blurb. Honestly it was 6-7 years ago that I read it so my memory is fuzzy that far back 😅

Rose 🌊 @seasaltrose.bsky.social · 10d

More painterly screenshots! I think I may switch from a fashion photographer for Nikki’s outfits into a landscape photographer 😅

Infold had batter release a lot more awesome camera settings!

#infinityNikki

Infinity Nikki Screenshot: Florawish bridge

Infinity Nikki Screenshot: Florawish Tree Plaza

Infinity Nikki Screenshot: Wishing woods faewish sprites and tree

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Vanessa Gillings @vanessagillings.bsky.social · 12d

My sixth piece for my solo show @gallerynucleus.bsky.social! 🐦‍⬛

#illustration #fantasyart #magicalforest #forestspirit #watercolor #gouache

watercolor and gouache painting of a girl wearing a feather cloak and holding a small blue flame, surrounded by crows and an overgrown forest

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Rose 🌊 @seasaltrose.bsky.social · 10d

The series had some of my top reads this year!

She’s got a spin off with lesbian goblin pirates which are in my “break glass in case of slump books” list.

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Rose 🌊 @seasaltrose.bsky.social · 10d

Same! I may be addicted to adding to my hoard during indie freebie and $1 book sales…

I picked up books 1-4 and they are pretty decent with book 1 being my favorite. Book 5 is releasing in a few weeks though and it looks good!

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Rose 🌊 @seasaltrose.bsky.social · 10d

Hobs Bargain by Patricia Briggs maybe. It’s been a while but I think he stays in monster form. No smut.

War Queen by Jordyn Alexander if you squint real hard. May scratch the itch though. An Orc King and Fairy Touched Queen political marriage. This one’s smutty.

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Foofarawr 🍂 @foofarawr.com · 11d

I don't repost stuff often enough
#pixelart

A pixel art scene of the Pokemon Gyarados at the Lake of Rage. Top down view. There is a sunset happening in the back. A fishing hut is seen in the lower right. A mountain range is seen behind the lake. At the shoreline, a trainer and their Meganium can be seen, ready for battle.

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🌻The Killing of a Sacred Snep🪐 @fm-synth.bsky.social · 13d

It's officially October 1st so that means you all have to repost Assorted cheese
hell.....yes

A package of assorted cheese with a cracker in a plastic container, from Westside Market, New York City on 77 Seventh Ave

The label reads:

Assorted cheese
hell.....yes

THE SKY IS DARK THE WIND IS COLD
THE NIGHT IS YOUNG BEFORE IT'S
OLD AND GREY. WE WILL KNOW THE
THRILL OF IT ALL--BRYAN FREEY

there is a barcode and it says 1 PCS

Packed on: & Sell by: OCT 01

Total price $5.99

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Rose 🌊 @seasaltrose.bsky.social · 13d

The game *already* had a beautiful photo mode but wow…

Infinity Nikki landscape of stone trees in The Abandoned District

Rose 🌊 @seasaltrose.bsky.social · 13d

The new painterly photo filter in #infinityNikki is amazing and I’m gonna take so many landscape photos 🥰

Infinity Nikki landscape with the photo filter Land of Wheatfields.

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Adam 🪿 @vexnir.bsky.social · May 29

Teapot spirits 🫖

#art #cuteart #traditionalart

Illustration in acrylic gouache and colored pencil. It depicts three colorful teapots, surrounded with little, playful ghost-like critters. The first teapot is tall and slender, it’s red with white, yellow and blue floral patterns. The second teapot is tall and a little wider, it has a muted green color and a lily of the valley painted on it. The third teapot is short and wide, has a wooden handle and is painted in a sunny yellow color and daisy patterns.

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Scifi Art @scifiart.bsky.social · 16d

Gilbert Williams ‘Abode of the Ancients’ (1978)

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 27d

My favorite kids

Lloyd and Colette from Tales of Symphonia. Lloyd is a young man with spiky hair wearing suspenders. Colette is a young woman with long hair and wearing a cleric’s frock. Colette traces the palm of Lloyd’s hand to communicate when she loses her voice.

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Jennie🌷 @maobabie.com · 18d

It’s soup season!
#art

Illustration of little mice surrounding a soup pot making soup! The text reads “do not disturb.. I’m busy making soup”

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Rose 🌊 @seasaltrose.bsky.social · 17d

If you liked T Kingfisher’s Romance or Emily Wilde you’ll like the trilogy by Juniper Butterworth.

They have complex characters, good worldbuilding, and a wonderful fairytale aesthetic with a cozy adjacent vibe.

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Rose 🌊 @seasaltrose.bsky.social · 17d

It’s been a slow month for me but I want to get back to reading and posting about books!

My latest read was The Dragon Under the Hill and it was 5/5 amazing! Highly recommend to people who like LGBTQIA Fantasy Romance.

My next read is the Miss Percy’s Pocket Guide series. #booksky📚🪐

The Dragon Under the Hill by Juniper Butterworth

Miss Percy’s pocket guide to the care and feeding of British dragons by Quenby Olson

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