etoiline 🍂
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Reader, writer, dreamer, scientist. She/her. everywhere else @etoiline except twitch: starryjen. Currently immersed in writing fanfic because real life isn't so pretty right now. Many archived posts from the other social media. #stl
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this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
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Important information from the Richard Scarry book I picked up at the charity shop
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Gotta participate in this year's -tober challenge
Love Tsuro! Thanks for the list.
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Happy Pythagorean Triple Day to all that math nerd.

(2025 is also a square (of 45))
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Sep 16
Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.
On 9/16/25, celebrate a date of mathematical beauty
Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.
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When the guy you think is your friend is discovering how best to betray you. This is a voice-over moment in-game that you can't find until you've finished the story, and it really hurt to see the first time around. It's even more gutting to have this freecam reimagining.
Bode’s Force Echoes: Angles (reimagined) #StarWarsJediSurvivor
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That’s exactly what this feels like!
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replacing Batman fight onomatopoeiae with old midwestern brewery names
Used to steadfastly never DNF any book, though once I realized I had a stack I'd "finish later" & never did I gave in and called them DNFs. Still pretty rare, but I don't have the att'n or time anymore to push through something that isn't holding my interest. No one's told me they've DNF'd me yet...
Heya #pretendpanel, let's confront those dreaded three letters... Did Not Finish!

August 29: Everyone has different tastes and tolerances. Do you ever DNF things you pick up to read? As a writer, have you been DNF'd before (that you know of)?

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Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan."
From books I've read this year, I recommend Mary Robinette Kowal's THE MARTIAN CONTINGENCY, Alexander Freed's THE MASK OF FEAR, Rosie Danan's FAN SERVICE, Nnedi Okorafor's DEATH OF THE AUTHOR, and Amal El-Mohtar's THE RIVER HAS ROOTS.
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Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends:

1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;

2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;

3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
I don't care if it's pandering, I love it when Rey picks up the lightsaber at the end and lets the Force flow through her and then just whales on Kylo. I also really like the Force Vision she has in the basement of Maz's place on Takodana.
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"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
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Well shone, Moon. Truly, the moon shines with a good grace.
My first love for both reading and writing is fantasy. I've recently been writing more on the sci-fi side of things, but always with a healthy dose of the fantastic. Magic, the Force, spells or potions or spren or science so advanced it may as well be magic: let me exercise my imagination.
#pretendpanel, continuing on our reader/writer topic, I'm going to ask a question that I will struggle to answer... I'm so bad at picking favourites!

August 8th: Do you have favourite genres to read and/or write?

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help my job says i have to do my job what do i do help
Scientist mention! How I wish we could have seen what the research world would be like with her as president.