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Things I'm Reading
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I read everything. DMs open for book, article recs. Will excerpt those sent. Here are excerpts of things I'm reading in 🫖 English 🍉#عربي 🧿🔥 #Español 🌺. #writing 📚🏳️‍🌈 #bdsm 🦯🔞
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Things I'm Reading @thingsimreading.bsky.social · Sep 22
🌈 Not interested in compartmentalizing my interests 🔞but if you only follow me out of interest in one topic and are reallly *not* interested in others, you can mute the topics you are not interested in on your own profile settings. A suggestion 💫
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Things I'm Reading @thingsimreading.bsky.social · 5h
Praiseworthy is one of the those novels that you have to read a few pages at a time, it is so dense. Alexis Wright is brilliant.
literaryhub.bsky.social Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 6h
Alexis Wright recounts the time Aboriginal leader Tracker Tilmouth when to the United Nations in Geneva: “When you go to the UN no one is allowed to bring anything political because no state is to be upset or whatever. So we brought it all.”
When Tracker Tilmouth the Warlpiri People of Central Australia “Invaded” Europe
The best story is the Warlpiri invasion of Europe when we went to the UN. I went to the United Nations originally and I said this is all wonderful, but it is really a talkfest where the Australian …
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Things I'm Reading @thingsimreading.bsky.social · 6h
#booksky #readerscommunity #writers #writing #novel
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Things I'm Reading @thingsimreading.bsky.social · 9h
Read the book #Tampa recently & keep pondering it. Billed as Lolita w/a gender reversal (not quite), it is about a teacher who preys on a 14 year-old boy in her class. The reviews focus on the salacious aspects, but sort of miss the point. Debating whether to do a thread on it. Has anyone read it?
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Things I'm Reading @thingsimreading.bsky.social · 9h
Is it just me or is bsky’s “algorithm” a little zany?
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Leather Archives & Museum @leatherarchives.bsky.social · 10h
Michael McAdory was a leatherman and LGBT activist. He was one of the first people in Texas to be diagnosed with Kaposi's Sarcoma in 1981. He was a co-founder and the first president of KS/AIDS Foundation of Houston.
Michael is white and has dark hair and muscular arms. He appears to be sitting outside, perhaps on a campground table. He is wearing a denim vest with many patches and pins and a leather cap and khaki pants.
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Things I'm Reading @thingsimreading.bsky.social · 1d
inshallah 🧿
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Things I'm Reading @thingsimreading.bsky.social · 1d
Gwenyth Paltrow > Allah?
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Things I'm Reading @thingsimreading.bsky.social · 2d
Omg lol!
maureenjohnsonbooks.com Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 2d
I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.
"Police focus on ladder placed against the side of the Louvre"
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Things I'm Reading @thingsimreading.bsky.social · 2d
And the rehearsal scene.

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Mulholland Drive - Betty's audition part 1: the rehearsal / running lines
Betty rehearses for her big audition with Rita. Watch part 2: the audition here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwY4d2utCIY Playlist of both parts: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRkNvALPsIo07IWDWPRc57KiGVuC6cPY_
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Things I'm Reading @thingsimreading.bsky.social · 2d
One of my favorite scenes of all time. #lynch #mulhollanddrive

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Mulholland Drive - Betty's audition part 2: the audition
Before watching this, I suggest first watching part 1: the rehearsal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9CrynDBO84 Playlist of both parts: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRkNvALPsIo07IWDWPRc57KiGVuC6cPY_
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Things I'm Reading @thingsimreading.bsky.social · 3d
Little Day by Ava Limón

This is what it comes down to
Me on a park bench, always writing
This is what it comes down to.

#writing #novels #booksky #literature #litsky #books #writer #reader #bookreaders #readerscommunity #poetry #poet
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Things I'm Reading @thingsimreading.bsky.social · 4d
#kink #bdsm #consent #bdsmky #D/s #shibari #kinbaku #submission #s/m
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Things I'm Reading @thingsimreading.bsky.social · 4d
www.kinbakutoday.com...
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Things I'm Reading @thingsimreading.bsky.social · 4d
When I tie and suspend myself in my own style, I tie myself pretty tight, so at the same time I feel two different things: on one hand as if “I’m tormenting myself”, and on the other as if “I’m embracing myself”.
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Things I'm Reading @thingsimreading.bsky.social · 4d
Do you ever tie yourself? What are the feelings like for that?

Yes, I do self ties and self suspensions. But I’ve not been taught by anybody, so even though I can tie myself, I cannot tie other people.
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Things I'm Reading @thingsimreading.bsky.social · 4d
Incredible diagram of the origins of #kinbaku

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#kink #bdsm #consent #bdsmky #D/s #shibari #kinbaku
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Things I'm Reading @thingsimreading.bsky.social · 6d
#advice
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Things I'm Reading @thingsimreading.bsky.social · 6d
You are selecting a co-witness for the apocalypse. Choose for gentleness.
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Things I'm Reading @thingsimreading.bsky.social · 6d
Do not interview; notice.
The questionnaire kills warm-blooded animals. Come on!

Instead: observe how they treat the waiter, how they talk about people who are absent, whether they slide their chair back when a toddler wobbles past.
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Things I'm Reading @thingsimreading.bsky.social · 6d
Speak plainly when hurt; briefly when angry.
A clean wound heals; a theatrical wound becomes a career.

Name the specific sin, propose the small repair, and do not forward the minutes to the group chat. Apologies should be nouns (“I was cruel”), not weather reports (“things were said”).

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Things I'm Reading @thingsimreading.bsky.social · 6d
Allow difference to survive contact: their football; your medieval heresies; their tarot; your taxidermy. The aim is not to be two halves of one person but two complete people orbiting a third thing that neither of you owns.

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Things I'm Reading @thingsimreading.bsky.social · 6d
Excerpt from: An Existential Guide to: Making Friends

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Be a small mirror, not a full-length one.
Reflect a little. Don’t cosplay them. Keep your colours. Friends do not fuse; they braid.
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An Existential Guide to: Making Friends
Friends Friends What Glorious Friendly Friends!
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Things I'm Reading @thingsimreading.bsky.social · 8d
Why does everything have lead in it? Didn’t yall do a report that found lead in lunchables?
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Things I'm Reading @thingsimreading.bsky.social · 8d
Rest in Power #D’Angelo. One of the best albums of the century. What a beautiful voice.

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D'Angelo - Black Messiah Full Album - YouTube
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Things I'm Reading @thingsimreading.bsky.social · 8d
#kink #bdsm #consent #bdsmky #D/s #lgbt #trans
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