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jael

@jld.bsky.social

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Jael (she/her). Misc queer. Local spreadsheets cryptid. Some of my interests: otome games, talking about foods I like, body liberation/fat liberation. Anti-AI/crypto/NFT, and otherwise tech-critical. Profile picture by @layahimalaya.bsky.social

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jael @jld.bsky.social · Nov 23

Well some of you I've known for a *long* time (like decades for a few of you?), but here are 10 things I like:

1) Body liberation
2) Hyping people up
3) Journalling
4) Otomes
5) Trying new food
6) Contemporary romance
7) Fashion
8) Video game history
9) Sex positivity
10) Joyful movement

SuiDaisy~ 🐕🌸 @suidaisy.bsky.social · Nov 23

Get to know your mutuals! List 10 of the things you like, in no particular order

1.) Animals, especially dogs, and especially dachshunds 🐶💕
2.) Videogames 🎮
3.) Light novels/Manga/Manwha~ 📚
4.) Buttery popcorn🍿
5.) Exercising
6.) Anime
7.) Plushies
8.) Bishonen~
9.) Online shopping
10.) Coffee☕

🌸Legend of Aly🎮 @alycore.bsky.social · Nov 23

Get to know your mutuals! List 10 of the things you like, in no particular order

1) Video Games
2) Anime
3) Wrestling
4) St Louis sports
5) Manga/comics
7) BBQ
8) Pizza
9) Tacos
10) Women 🫡

jael @jld.bsky.social · 3h

Makes sense! I like reading them all together w/o huge breaks in between. I would definitely say my favorites were the last three as I like the bigger cast and honestly the darker symbolism hanging over Anne of Ingleside and Rainbow Valley makes it "feel" more like some of her other, later books

jael @jld.bsky.social · 6h

I feel like putting House of Dreams on your list of faves means you are tougher than me.
*That* scene in House of Dreams shook me more than anything else in the series. Wasn't expecting it and I didn't know how to process it at all.
(My favorite is Rilla of Ingleside btw)

jael @jld.bsky.social · 6h

Hell yeah! It's a good one; as a big fan of the books, it might be my favorite adaptation.

jael @jld.bsky.social · 15h

Some writers that made me:

LM Montgomery
Dorothy Parker
Sylvia Plath
Virginia Woolf
Amelia Lanyer
Ann M. Martin
Judy Blume
Murasaki Shikibu

Johanna Taylor 👻 Lightbox Expo 630 @johannamation.bsky.social · 22h

Some writers that made me:

Bruce Coville
JRR Tolkien
Lois Lowry
Eoin Colfer
Markus Zusak
Ray Bradbury
CS Lewis
Mary Pope Osborne
Suzanne Collins

Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · Mar 22

who are some of the writers that made you?

jrr tolkien
libba bray
jd salinger
ken follett
cs lewis
joanna campbell
lemony snicket
richelle mead
stephenie meyer
kurt vonnegut jr
eva ibbotson
se hinton
lois duncan

you? 📚💙

jael @jld.bsky.social · 1d

🫂

jael @jld.bsky.social · 1d

clowncore style and cake and/or pie for breakfast whenever i want

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 2d

18. How do you show whimsy as an adult?

jael @jld.bsky.social · 1d

hehe, I still remember the theme song!

jael @jld.bsky.social · 1d

two bananas are standing next to each other wearing pajamas and a collar that says d.j.2

Alt: Two human-sized bananas are standing together and their arms around and wearing pajamas. The one on the left has a collar that says "B1" and the one on the right has a collar that says "B2."

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jael @jld.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely formative. This is so deeply burrowed into my brain that I can tell what it is in the first second and I will sometimes just say "When I was darkness at that time" to myself for no reason

🎵 Animusic 🎵 @anisongs.bsky.social · 2d

OP1 - Nana (2006)

Rose - Anna Tsuchiya

#Anime #Animesky #Opening #AnimeOpening #Nana #AiYazawa #Madhouse

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ohfivepro.bsky.social @ohfivepro.bsky.social · 4d

The Hudson Bee wishes to thank everyone who has passed through in the last few days, basked in his hat wearing glory & helped to share him around the world, thus adding a spot of bee shaped happiness to all who have witnessed him🫡

The Hudson Bee, hat in hand as he takes a bow or possibly even a curtsey. We shall never know for sure and it is of no consequence anyway. He may do as he pleases

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jael @jld.bsky.social · 5d

Damn MO is looking good

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jael @jld.bsky.social · 6d

🫂

jael @jld.bsky.social · 6d

Regarding media culture specifically, a lot. Almost all the big ones, I'd say.
I've gotten where I am in life by listening to people's conversations and nodding along and then going home to look up on Wikipedia the thing they referenced.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 6d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

jael @jld.bsky.social · 6d

This message is brought to you by I bought a pie today and it had labels like "this product is high in saturated fat! this product is high in sugar!"
Like...no shit? I didn't think cherry pie was a health food. I bought it because it's fall now and I wanted to eat a whole pie and feel cozy, fuck off

jael @jld.bsky.social · 6d

I keep seeing the new "ingredient warnings" on food and tbh it's insulting that people who make these decisions think if a person isn't doing a desired behavior it's from lack of information.
Generally if someone isn't doing the food thing you want it's either:
Inaccessibility.
Personal choice.

jael @jld.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah, I wonder this too. The only otome I can think of with even a rival is Angelique.

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ohfivepro.bsky.social @ohfivepro.bsky.social · 7d

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨

The Hudson bee in a cowboy hat still exists & is still good after all these years

You can look at him in the image below👇

The Hudson bee mascot wearing a cowboy hat. Bees cannot wear hats but this guy does not care. He is making it work

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ShortBox Comics Fair @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social · 7d

🌷✨ shortboxcomicsfair.com ✨🌷

comic by @weisanboo.bsky.social

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jael @jld.bsky.social · 7d

haha cute

jael @jld.bsky.social · 8d

Legitimately some of the coolest art I have ever seen

Jana Heidersdorf @checanty.bsky.social · 8d

Book Cover Artists!

QRP with your book covers 📖

Portrait of a pale girl with red hair and blue eyes. An undead woodpecker is draped over the left side of her face.

Portrait of a boy in school uniform. Scratches are covering his face, as if a clawed creature had torn through paper. Through the tears grow thorny vines and roses.

A boy drowning in thorny vines with soft pink blossoms. Vines cover his eyes.

A small island with a small village surrounded by dead fish and a dead sea. Above a starry night sky.

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miffyhouse @miffyhouse.bsky.social · 8d

空が、もう秋

miffy(・ｘ・)

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Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, but spooky 🦇 @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 8d

Hey, did you know that not only did PlayStation dice 'em up XI [sai] (AKA: Devil Dice) get a WonderSwan port, but it's actually a fantastic demake with a fun little dance mode too!

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XI [sai] Little: The devil’s in the dice

You might have already seen this one. Not here in its unexpected WonderSwan form, but on the PlayStation, where it was known to most of us as Devil Dice. Well, I say “most of us”, but t…

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Sandstone @quartzen.bsky.social · 10d

Reasons to still mask in 2025:

1. Less chance of spreading sickness
2. Less chance of getting sick
3. Your high school ex who you unexpectedly encounter working at the grocery store who once told you he didn't think you were REALLY queer isn't sure enough it's you to try to reconnect with you 🙂😷

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josh 🐦 @josh.uno · 10d

i wish this would happen to me

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jael @jld.bsky.social · 10d

"Building experiences."
No, I'm pretty sure I just want a bank to offer a secure place to store money and perhaps offer financial advising and financial products.
Who is asking for this?

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10d

“Cognitive Banking”

I’m sorry, what.

AI Moves Banks From Solving Problems to Building Experiences | PYMNTS.com

By combining permissioned customer data with artificial intelligence (AI), financial institutions can tailor moments of interaction today and anticipate