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@deerene.bsky.social

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Writer of fiction for the page and screen. Artist. Queer. Black AF. Professional whimsical skiddadler. Jewelry maximalist. Geriatric millennial. ENM/Poly. Vers. 📍DC Daniellerene.com Myfrontporch39.substack.com

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Gay & Tonic @deerene.bsky.social · 17d

Here’s me explaining more about the piece.

Gay & Tonic @deerene.bsky.social · 1h

Energy !! 😂😂 love it

Gay & Tonic @deerene.bsky.social · 1h

Happy anniversary!

Gay & Tonic @deerene.bsky.social · 2h

Even better! 😂

Gay & Tonic @deerene.bsky.social · 2h

😂😂

Gay & Tonic @deerene.bsky.social · 3h

Hello! Planners to the front. Same 🫠 no more joy riding in my romantic life. We both driving or get out 😂

jeepers laquavius kreepers @hausofcucci.bsky.social · 3h

I felt this deep in my shando. I’m the planner. I go the extra mile. Then I look up and I’ve planned a year’s worth of dates by myself and they’re just having a blast.

Gay & Tonic @deerene.bsky.social · 3h

It don’t take all day to recognize sunshine. The way I look at it — if u do it now (be the initiator of everything) You’ll be doing it forever.

Times up! Sucks for him Lolol

Gay & Tonic @deerene.bsky.social · 3h

You’ll look up and realize someone has merely been responsive — but not reciprocal. There is a difference & u gotta slow down enough to see it.

And also stop. The “fuck it I’ll just do it myself” does not apply here!

Gay & Tonic @deerene.bsky.social · 3h

This thread! All the magic is you and your effort. You do have to step back and see if a person is building with you or merely along for the ride.

Chaos Cherub @biensur-jetaime.blacksky.app · 6h

One of the things I said I wanted to change about my love life (and yes yall finna get these tidbits as I make a real concerted attempt to find what I want now) was taking the lead. I realized a lot of the great experiences I had were great bc I was designing and curating them.

Gay & Tonic @deerene.bsky.social · 3h

Same. Thank yall for sticking it thru 😂😂 we made it!

Genie Lauren @moreandagain.social · 3h

Some of y'all have known me since I was 24 years old. . . and I am so sorry lolol

Gay & Tonic @deerene.bsky.social · 5h

some of us have grown up together online. As odd as that sounds. Gone thru every stage of life no matter how much or little u share, we see lives happening. Good and bad.

Maybe never even met but we’re rooting for each other. That’s kinda beautiful to me.

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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 5h

Needing multiple streams of income to stay afloat is a societal failure not a personal one. You should be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle with one job. You are not lazy.

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Cocoa Chaos @seauxcocoa.bsky.social · 6h

Anyway. I love a daytime moon. Real bad.

Moon

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OKSOTHICK. @sayitaintsoph.bsky.social · 6h

Changing Twitter and rebranding as X was the largest brand fumble of the 21st century. How dumb can you be?

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Dr. Frisky Whisky McThicky, Ball Knower @professorpash.bsky.social · 5h

Quiet as it’s kept… These kids wanna learn cursive & understand analog clocks. They wanna play CDs, tapes, records, etc. They wanna know what a typewriter feels like. They actually wanna know what your old ass has to do to find information “back in the day”. They don’t envy it but they wanna know

Gay & Tonic @deerene.bsky.social · 5h

I have plenty of real friends. Met IRL and Some digital turned real life.

But my e-baes? (My long term mutuals I never met.) I know I don’t “know” them, but I’m still fond of them. Still cheering them on.

Gay & Tonic @deerene.bsky.social · 5h

some of us have grown up together online. As odd as that sounds. Gone thru every stage of life no matter how much or little u share, we see lives happening. Good and bad.

Maybe never even met but we’re rooting for each other. That’s kinda beautiful to me.

Gay & Tonic @deerene.bsky.social · 5h

Maybe 20 years. If you’re a certain age — you basically started the internet lmao. Chat rooms to social media it’s very possible to be digitally connected that long.

✨🥀Persephone Evil🥀✨ @bipolarpisces35.blacksky.app · 7h

God damn, some of yall been following each other online for a decade?!!

Gay & Tonic @deerene.bsky.social · 7h

okay my mountain is waiting (to-do list), best get on my way

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maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 7h

music is suffering because of the purposeful defunding of arts education specifically and defunding of education in general. it’s suffering because of lack of access. it’s suffering because artists are catering to algorithms vs. living, breathing people or even themselves.

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maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 7h

you can’t bring back something you don’t really know about, or use instruments you don’t know how to play, lol.

ʜᴀᴄᴋᴀʀʏ ʙɪɴx @chaclo.blacksky.app · 8h

Music is suffering because artists won’t bring back bridges and won’t use harmonicas.

Gay & Tonic @deerene.bsky.social · 7h

Two more days and it is the most epic girls night in recent history. Legendary!

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the biscuit lady. @leenuhbee.blacksky.app · 8h

“Discipline is remembering who you said you wanted to be.”

Gay & Tonic @deerene.bsky.social · 7h

And counting.

JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 18h

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Cenetta V. @nettawitdahoops.blacksky.app · 8h

I wish I could say I was surprised. I wish.

Treywop. 🌬️🪼 @tryvns.writes.fyi · 22h

another reason i quit dating apps: cause what else could it mean. (she in her 40s btw)

Gay & Tonic @deerene.bsky.social · 7h

Put it in the textbooks! Changed lives.

Bad Bitches Love Nujabes @play-on-verbs.blacksky.app · 16h

this was 140 characters that changed PERSPECTIVES