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Sunnie Larsen (she/her)

@solcita.sunnie.org

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Obsequious, purple, and clairvoyant. Queer, demi, polyam. Musician 🎻, artist 🎨, seeker 🌌. She/her. Find my music at www.sunnie.org

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Sunnie Larsen (she/her) @solcita.sunnie.org · Nov 13

Pinned post! Hi, I'm Sunnie. I'm a violinist and vocalist, studio musician, visual artist, and all-around goofball who dabbles in tech law for my day job. I love cooking, travel, reading, crochet, LEGO, computer games, and cats. I live in the beautiful Pacific Northwest and yes, it is raining. 🌧️

Me singing at my CD release concert: a white woman with brown, teal, and purple hair, singing into a microphone and holding a violin up on my shoulder. I'm wearing a navy dress with stars and planets and a sparkly star headband.

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Sunnie Larsen (she/her) @solcita.sunnie.org · 2d

Awwww, honey. Sending hugs across the Atlantic. 💜💜💜

Sunnie Larsen (she/her) @solcita.sunnie.org · 2d

Feel better soon!

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Sunnie Larsen (she/her) @solcita.sunnie.org · 3d

Adding this to my list!

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Sunnie Larsen (she/her) @solcita.sunnie.org · 3d

I would also recommend Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (read by Chiwetel Ejiofor) and the Locked Tomb series (read by Moira Quirk). I also switched to libro.fm this year from Audible and haven't looked back! 2/2

Sunnie Larsen (she/her) @solcita.sunnie.org · 3d

Already recommended is the Chronicles of St Mary's series by Jodi Taylor, which is utterly delightful. Let me add the Discworld series, which I've been rereading via audiobook (the Witches books read by Indira Varma are my favorites but I'm especially enjoying Small Gods, read by Andy Serkis) 1/

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · Aug 26

In a land that had cried out for the Latchless door...
Order page is up! thomas-brown-1.sumupstore.com/product/the-...
By @taliskimberley.bsky.social , Illustrated by me, with foreword by @hookland.bsky.social
This is a small book (A5) UK only for now. Limited edition, signed and numbered.

Cover art for The Latchless Door by Takis Kimberley, illustrated by Thomas Brown with foreword by David Southwell.

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Talis
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Foreword by David Southwell

Rhymes have power. We know this at a bone-deep level. At school, the
texts of great novels and plays were studied. Can many of us remember
and quote more than odd line of them? Rarely. Can we remember a dozen
rhymes of the playground? Of course we can. They’ve tattooed themselves
upon our psychic skin. They’ve become part of us.

Rhymes are magic. We know this. Some deeply ancient part of us
understands. They summon. They seal. Banish and transform. They are
apotropaic acts. A spoken, chanted ritual of correspondences that pulls
on the strings of enfolding worlds.

Songs, well we all know about them. Songs are engines of emotion,
inspirers of action. They are invocations, enchantments. Clear high
sorcery. An alchemy of mood change. Songs are openers of the ways. Few
things can challenge their potential for discovering, mapping and
celebrating the hidden parts of ourselves.

It is for these reasons I regard The Latchless Door as a book of magic.

On the following pages you will find magic that Talis Kimberley has
created, collected and manifested.

Here are the rhyme-spells for ending and beginning things, for stitching
the wounds of the heart so that it can love again. Here are the rhyme
spells that will turn the bolts of wickets to Faery (whether they will
unbolt the gates from the other side is another matter). Here are the
rhyme-spells to open doors to memories we thought long lost. Memories of
the time we talked with a tree and it taught us a little of the green
language. Memories we now understand were locked away for good reason.
You know the sort I mean. Recollections of the spiderweb sutured woman
we used to glimpse living in the realm between the mirror’s glass and
silvering.

Here are the song-spells that summon the Queen of Owls, that let us feel
the blade of winter’s ice falling upon the year even while we are in the
stretching of summer heat.

ere are the song-spells to invoke the The
Hum or the feral saints of folk faith whose names are all but forgotten.
Here are the song spells to ward against untethered temporal shades, to
turn the Marsh Ape from from your door and loose the ankle grip of Stay
Below.

If you doubt the potent magic of Talis’s rhymes and songs, just study
the illustrations they have called forth from Thomas Brown. Ripe with a
sense of unearthed gods and feral mysteries, they dance to its score.
Chanted and song into existence, they throb with a shared sense of the
land as transmission.

The Latchless Door offers paths to the occulted within and without.
These are traditions that never were and always were. Truths you have
always known and felt, but never had put into words before. This is a
navigation of routes not only into Hookland, but the living current of
folklore it springs from.

People often tell me I am mad for having created Hookland as a
pre-enchanted landscape for others to freely use. My usual response is
to list all of wonderful things that have manifested from a belief
artists don’t always need to be landlords for the places they create.
I’m going to be able to add The Latchless Door to the list of wonderful
things.

Of course, no-one needs my validation for their exploration of the
county. It is part of the Commonwealth of the Imagination. I am merely a
guide to it and so is Talis Kimberley.

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 5d

MOOMIN MOVIE INCOMING this is not a drill!!!!

reactormag.com/rebecca-suga...

A Moomin Movie Is Coming From Steven Universe’s Rebecca Sugar - Reactor

In a just world there would be more Moomin movies than Marvel movies.

reactormag.com

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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 5d

You know this time 9 months ago I don’t think I would actually be wondering if we may see an armed showdown between two states but here we are.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 6d

NEW: Second, expanded TRO issued in Oregon case challenging Trump's National Guard deployment to the state bars any state or D.C. National Guard being deployed to Oregon.

Update at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/judge-bloc...

[Update, 11:45 p.m.: By Sunday night, a second temporary restraining order was issued in the case, barring the Trump administration from sending any National Guard federalized under 10 U.S.C. 12406 to Oregon from any state or D.C. The move followed actions by the Trump administration overnight to send members of the California National Guard to Oregon and plans to do so as to the Texas National Guard as well.

At a hastily called hearing on Sunday night, Immergut harshly questioned the Justice Department lawyer before her, Eric Hamilton, asking him — while noting that he is an officer of the court — “Do you believe this is appropriate way to deal with my order?”

Issuing the second TRO in as many days in the case, Immergut called the Trump administration’s actions in apparent response to her first order “in direct contravention” of it.

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 7d

reading an article on a topic that quite interests me, I stumbled upon this bit:

"He took up running late in life"

oh, yeah? like in his 60s? later?

"in his early forties."

y'all. please stop acting like people in their 40s are nearly dead. thanks.

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 7d

I'm gonna get my Kellis-Amberlee after all!

Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 7d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.

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Sunnie Larsen (she/her) @solcita.sunnie.org · 8d

Samencrantz and Brennanstern are Dead is bloody brilliant.

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Amy McNally @infamousfiddler.bsky.social · 8d

billroper.bandcamp.com/album/amy-me new release of Bill Roper music, plus fiddle!

Amy & Me, by Bill Roper with Amy McNally

23 track album

billroper.bandcamp.com

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Azure Jane Lunatic @azurelunatic.bsky.social · 10d

Do you like your zombies terrifying? Do you long for the days when an honest blogger could genuinely help save the world? Do you like your heroines damaged and codependent? Try Feed! Guaranteed to make you consider spray-painting the RSS logo on a sidewalk!

Sean Eric Fagan @kithrup.bsky.social · 10d

Heads up: Feed, by Mira "@seananmcguire.bsky.social" Grant is on US ebook sale for $2. I got some for random giveaway.

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Sunnie Larsen (she/her) @solcita.sunnie.org · 12d

Magic, detectives, London, secret societies, and a whole lot of dry British humor. That's what I remember from the first one. (complimentary)

Sunnie Larsen (she/her) @solcita.sunnie.org · 12d

I've only read the first one but it was marvelous fun. I need to get into it again now that I'm out of Chronicles of St Mary's books.

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 24d

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

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Tamsin the Reanimated Girl™ @tamsin.reimaginedgirl.com · 12d

I'm sorry, truly, but I literally cannot keep track of all the things about which I am supposed to be outraged, terrified, and sad.

If I'd known there was going to be a quiz, I'd've made a spreadsheet or something.

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Sunnie Larsen (she/her) @solcita.sunnie.org · 14d

YES OMG I HATE THAT

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 16d

"Guess what season it is—fucking fall. There’s a nip in the air, and my house is full of mutant fucking squash."

It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers

First published on October 9, 2009, this classic by Colin Nissan is our most-read article of all time. We’re celebrating the 16th anniversary of th...

buff.ly

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Spo0000opybirb :flag_cascadia: @moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy · 16d

According to Seattle Indivisible elsewhere, Pendergast Law have dropped advertising on KOMO over Sinclair Broadcasting's support for Trump's censorship actions and threats against critical media.

Keep it going, keep writing those letters.

#seattle #protest #protests #fascism #censorship #komo […]

Original post on mastodon.murkworks.net

mastodon.murkworks.net

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Orcish Law @orcishlaw.bsky.social · 16d

This will not help with the whole "Healthcare is too expensive and now the marketplace plans are quadrupling in price" issue.

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 16d

The United States will impose a 100 per cent tariff on imports of branded or patented pharmaceutical products from October 1, unless a pharmaceutical company is building a manufacturing plant in the US.

Breaking: Donald Trump imposes 100 per cent tariff on pharmaceuticals from October 1

www.abc.net.au

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Jen @jenk3.bsky.social · 17d

For Seattle area (or others coping with Sinclair stations) this talks about how to push back.

solarbird.net/blog/2025/09...

I wrote another letter today, this one to Sinclair Broadcasting. You should too. – Solarbird{y|z|yz}, Collected

solarbird.net

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Three queer hyperfixations in a trench coat @aniente.bsky.social · 18d

This is something I’ve been thinking a lot about the past few weeks. It’s a bitter and difficult thing to live life with senses cranked to 11 at all times in an environment that is fundamentally hostile to that lack of filtering - at both a sensory and social level

Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 18d

The thing about being neurodivergent is that I Like It. What I don’t like is that the world imposes numerous taxes on me for being like this.

I don’t view it as a Me problem.

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Alastor Stuart @alasdairstuart.bsky.social · 18d

Come for the very good, honest discussion of fatphobia in Star Wars through the lens of the Hutts, run like fuck away from the 'BUT THEY'RE SLUUUUUGS I DON'T GET IIIITTT' comment section
gizmodo.com/star-wars-ma...

A Brief History of Swole Hutts

'The Mandalorian and Grogu' is bringing back a 'Clone Wars' star as a distressingly buff slug—but it's far from the first time 'Star Wars' has contemplated a muscular Hutt.

gizmodo.com

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