Elsie Smith
@elsiesmithwrites.bsky.social
Indie closed door contemporary romance author
Owner of @novelcratebox.bsky.social and @virtualshelfevent.bsky.social
AuDHD, EDS, POTS
https://1link.st/eswrites
https://www.elsiesmithbooks.com/mutual-aid
Owner of @novelcratebox.bsky.social and @virtualshelfevent.bsky.social
AuDHD, EDS, POTS
https://1link.st/eswrites
https://www.elsiesmithbooks.com/mutual-aid
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Elsie Smith
@elsiesmithwrites.bsky.social
· Jan 12
Hi! Here are some important things to know about me:
I write closed-door contemporary romances full of fun & feels.
My author “brand” includes:
- being anti AI generated “art” visual or otherwise
- feminism
- being pro-Palestine
- sarcasm
- talking about mental health & disability
- lots of swearing
I write closed-door contemporary romances full of fun & feels.
My author “brand” includes:
- being anti AI generated “art” visual or otherwise
- feminism
- being pro-Palestine
- sarcasm
- talking about mental health & disability
- lots of swearing
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It's white supremacy and rugged individualism and patriarchy and guns. That's why we have mass shootings.
We live in a dystopia of our own creation and call it freedom.
We live in a dystopia of our own creation and call it freedom.
September 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
It's white supremacy and rugged individualism and patriarchy and guns. That's why we have mass shootings.
We live in a dystopia of our own creation and call it freedom.
We live in a dystopia of our own creation and call it freedom.
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And the sad part is, people will let it happen because being addicted to having fun is more important than caring about the rights of others
J.K. Rowling is using her wealth attained from the "Harry Potter" series to create an organization dedicated to removing transgender people's rights "in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces.”
🔗: bit.ly/3ZBRxYk
🔗: bit.ly/3ZBRxYk
May 29, 2025 at 8:29 PM
And the sad part is, people will let it happen because being addicted to having fun is more important than caring about the rights of others
Feeling angry today & looking for a way to help? I’m raising money to cover some costs related to my chronic pain & to donate to #MutualAid for others w/ disabilities. As part of that, you can get some cool (at least I think so) merch to build solidarity for the #disabled community that so needs it.
I joked about making a “fight fascism, wear a mask” shirt & I finally did! As a highly empathetic disabled woman, it’s been hard the last few months seeing so many struggling w/ everything going on & not be able to help as much as I want. So much of the #resistance needed is entirely inaccessible
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March 14, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Feeling angry today & looking for a way to help? I’m raising money to cover some costs related to my chronic pain & to donate to #MutualAid for others w/ disabilities. As part of that, you can get some cool (at least I think so) merch to build solidarity for the #disabled community that so needs it.
Please remember that your money will be much better spent right now giving to mutual aid than donating to any politician.
March 14, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Please remember that your money will be much better spent right now giving to mutual aid than donating to any politician.
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The fight going on in the Democratic Party right now is not between hard left, left and moderate. It’s between those who want to fight and those who want to cave. And Team Fight stretches across all ideological aspects of the Party. Misread this at your own peril.
March 14, 2025 at 3:25 AM
The fight going on in the Democratic Party right now is not between hard left, left and moderate. It’s between those who want to fight and those who want to cave. And Team Fight stretches across all ideological aspects of the Party. Misread this at your own peril.
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NEW: Family of Mahmoud Khalil just released footage of his arrest
“Stop resisting”
“He’s not resisting”
Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions
“Stop resisting”
“He’s not resisting”
Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions
March 14, 2025 at 8:50 PM
NEW: Family of Mahmoud Khalil just released footage of his arrest
“Stop resisting”
“He’s not resisting”
Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions
“Stop resisting”
“He’s not resisting”
Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions
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New Yorkers and DC residents trying to talk with @schumer.senate.gov are having to push notes through a locked door with police posted outside.
March 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
New Yorkers and DC residents trying to talk with @schumer.senate.gov are having to push notes through a locked door with police posted outside.
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If you don't trust a Palestinian account, you could just block or mute them, or ignore them. Unless you know for a fact they're not who they claim to be, reporting them is a really shitty thing to do and makes you a horrible person.
March 12, 2025 at 7:56 PM
If you don't trust a Palestinian account, you could just block or mute them, or ignore them. Unless you know for a fact they're not who they claim to be, reporting them is a really shitty thing to do and makes you a horrible person.
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I love 😡 how tautological this is. Schumer is a "Bad Jew" and thus Schumer is a Palestinian and thus he has lost personhood and rights. Because that is what it means to be Palestinian. And no one bats an eye at this.
March 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I love 😡 how tautological this is. Schumer is a "Bad Jew" and thus Schumer is a Palestinian and thus he has lost personhood and rights. Because that is what it means to be Palestinian. And no one bats an eye at this.
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Once again the most antisemitic presidency in generations, an administration with *actual Nazis* on staff, is determining which Jews are Jewish and which are degenerates (hint: the latter = the vast majority of American Jews)—with the added bonus of using "Palestinian" as a slur.
Donald Trump: "Schumer is a Palestinian as far as I am concerned. He has become a Palestinian. He used to be Jewish. He is not Jewish anymore. He is a Palestinian."
March 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Once again the most antisemitic presidency in generations, an administration with *actual Nazis* on staff, is determining which Jews are Jewish and which are degenerates (hint: the latter = the vast majority of American Jews)—with the added bonus of using "Palestinian" as a slur.
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Wait I'm sorry terroristic what now
Allina Habba says foreign students are not allowed to "hand out pamphlets in our country and try to infiltrate those terroristic thoughts ... and if you bring that into our country, you can get the hell out."
March 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Wait I'm sorry terroristic what now
Anyone in central nc want to join me?
March 12, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Anyone in central nc want to join me?
I’m not even joking when I say I’m one more bad week and a dare away from quitting my job & starting a kickstarter to open a bookstore.
I might have already looked at properties and there might be a couple spaces available in a complex that would be a great fit and is super close to my house.
I might have already looked at properties and there might be a couple spaces available in a complex that would be a great fit and is super close to my house.
March 12, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I’m not even joking when I say I’m one more bad week and a dare away from quitting my job & starting a kickstarter to open a bookstore.
I might have already looked at properties and there might be a couple spaces available in a complex that would be a great fit and is super close to my house.
I might have already looked at properties and there might be a couple spaces available in a complex that would be a great fit and is super close to my house.
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If we can "avoid a government shutdown" by voting for this CR, then why is the entire Department of Education closed today? Why is USAID closed? Why are hundreds of billions in grant contracts frozen?
We are already in the shutdown. And your votes DON'T stop it. In fact, they allow it to expand.
We are already in the shutdown. And your votes DON'T stop it. In fact, they allow it to expand.
March 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
If we can "avoid a government shutdown" by voting for this CR, then why is the entire Department of Education closed today? Why is USAID closed? Why are hundreds of billions in grant contracts frozen?
We are already in the shutdown. And your votes DON'T stop it. In fact, they allow it to expand.
We are already in the shutdown. And your votes DON'T stop it. In fact, they allow it to expand.
I literally have an entire kitchen cabinet just for all my medications. It does include otc stuff. But there’s no way I could use a traditional medicine cabinet if my house had one.
March 12, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I literally have an entire kitchen cabinet just for all my medications. It does include otc stuff. But there’s no way I could use a traditional medicine cabinet if my house had one.
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On a planet where a child dies of malnutrition every 10 seconds, what reasonable person has $900,000,000 and says, "Not enough! I need more!" Being a billionaire should be a malignant disorder. (btw if you have $900M, you can spend $31,000 every single day for 80 years and not run out)
March 12, 2025 at 10:13 PM
On a planet where a child dies of malnutrition every 10 seconds, what reasonable person has $900,000,000 and says, "Not enough! I need more!" Being a billionaire should be a malignant disorder. (btw if you have $900M, you can spend $31,000 every single day for 80 years and not run out)
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Follow this group of Indigenous authors, bookshops, content creators and then share this list. Support Indigenous folks in publishingn go.bsky.app/ALbjGXE
March 12, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Follow this group of Indigenous authors, bookshops, content creators and then share this list. Support Indigenous folks in publishingn go.bsky.app/ALbjGXE
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all that commitment to patriarchy, including a critical vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, just for conservatives to still call Amy Coney Barrett a DEI hire lol
I wrote about Barrett playing sexist games and--wouldn't ya know it--winning sexist prizes
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
I wrote about Barrett playing sexist games and--wouldn't ya know it--winning sexist prizes
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
Outraged Conservatives Declare Amy Coney Barrett a “DEI Justice”
Amy Coney Barrett's years of service to the conservative legal movement couldn't protect her from its anger.
ballsandstrikes.org
March 12, 2025 at 9:48 PM
all that commitment to patriarchy, including a critical vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, just for conservatives to still call Amy Coney Barrett a DEI hire lol
I wrote about Barrett playing sexist games and--wouldn't ya know it--winning sexist prizes
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
I wrote about Barrett playing sexist games and--wouldn't ya know it--winning sexist prizes
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
If you are #disabled & in need of #MutualAid help, please reply to this with a little about your needs & how I or others can help.
I know there are non-disabled people also in need. But right now, I want to focus on the disabled community because we are so often forgotten about in efforts like this.
I know there are non-disabled people also in need. But right now, I want to focus on the disabled community because we are so often forgotten about in efforts like this.
March 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM
If you are #disabled & in need of #MutualAid help, please reply to this with a little about your needs & how I or others can help.
I know there are non-disabled people also in need. But right now, I want to focus on the disabled community because we are so often forgotten about in efforts like this.
I know there are non-disabled people also in need. But right now, I want to focus on the disabled community because we are so often forgotten about in efforts like this.
2. If you’re not able to spend that much or just want everything to go to #MutualAid, I’ve also set up a ko-fi where you can #donate any amount & get phone wallpapers of the designs as a thank you.
If you’re #disabled & need help, head to the next reply. Everyone else, please share this thread!
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If you’re #disabled & need help, head to the next reply. Everyone else, please share this thread!
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Elsie Smith Books - Mutual Aid
Ko-FI Donations & Phone Wallpaper Pack
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March 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM
2. If you’re not able to spend that much or just want everything to go to #MutualAid, I’ve also set up a ko-fi where you can #donate any amount & get phone wallpapers of the designs as a thank you.
If you’re #disabled & need help, head to the next reply. Everyone else, please share this thread!
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If you’re #disabled & need help, head to the next reply. Everyone else, please share this thread!
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There are 2 ways to help. 25% of what I get will help me cover these costs & the rest will be donated to mutual aid for others w/ disabilities.
1. If you’re able & want to help spread the word, I’ve added these designs (+ 12 more) to a zazzle shop. There are stickers, totes, hats, buttons, & more.
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1. If you’re able & want to help spread the word, I’ve added these designs (+ 12 more) to a zazzle shop. There are stickers, totes, hats, buttons, & more.
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Elsie Smith Books - Mutual Aid
Ko-FI Donations & Phone Wallpaper Pack
bit.ly
March 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM
There are 2 ways to help. 25% of what I get will help me cover these costs & the rest will be donated to mutual aid for others w/ disabilities.
1. If you’re able & want to help spread the word, I’ve added these designs (+ 12 more) to a zazzle shop. There are stickers, totes, hats, buttons, & more.
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1. If you’re able & want to help spread the word, I’ve added these designs (+ 12 more) to a zazzle shop. There are stickers, totes, hats, buttons, & more.
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if I can’t offer anything in return. I’ve also been looking for a way to spread this message off social media. So, I came up w/ this idea to work toward as many of these goals as possible.
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March 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM
if I can’t offer anything in return. I’ve also been looking for a way to spread this message off social media. So, I came up w/ this idea to work toward as many of these goals as possible.
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for me & I had to stop mutual aid donations as my own financial & job situations have become less secure. After having to replace my car last month, I now need to spend $1-2k+ on unplanned replacements to help my chronic pain. As a stereotypical eldest daughter, I hate asking for help, especially
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March 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM
for me & I had to stop mutual aid donations as my own financial & job situations have become less secure. After having to replace my car last month, I now need to spend $1-2k+ on unplanned replacements to help my chronic pain. As a stereotypical eldest daughter, I hate asking for help, especially
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