Katherine Villyard
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Award-Winning author, DBA, geek. President of Broad Universe. She/her. https://gravatar.com/katherinevillyard https://dl.katherinevillyard.com/bibliography https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/villyard/immortal-gifts-hardcover-paperback-and-audiobook
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I’m only 7 followers away from the 25 they recommend you have to launch!

“A literary vampire story with multiple times lines and POVs that tackle romance, grief, sadness/depression, love, acceptance, religion and even vampire pets.” —Nikki on Goodreads

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Coming soon: Immortal Gifts: Special Edition Hardcover and Audiobook
A friendly neighborhood vampire novel with 18th through 20th century historical settings, queer characters, and a no-spice love story.
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sundaycreature.bsky.social
Also bringing this thread back for Halloween! If you want a spoof movie poster I love making these and will totally make one for you too :>
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In honor of spooky season I'm bringing these back~ spoof movie posters I made for a previous job! Rex was totally entranced by the TV static, making this probably the easiest shoot for this project...
A spoof of the poster for the movie Poltergeist. The title has been changed to Poultrygeist. Above the title is the quote, "They're here," and the subtitle reads, "It knows what scares you." The poster features a darkened image of an orange silkie chicken staring at static on the screen of an old-fashioned TV, standing slightly to the left. A small plushie dinosaur sits in the same spot on the other side. The bottom of the poster reads "A Wild Flight Studios Production."
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Do you want to hear a story about a robot caregiver and his cancer-stricken owner? My audiobook narrator said this story made him cry “A LOT.”

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In Sickness and in Health, by Katherine Villyard
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They’re only $43 from funding! Check them out!

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So hey! LJ Cohen has made Litany for a Broken World pay what you will over on gumroad. You should check it out! I’ve read it and can confirm that it’s really good!

If you like multiverse scifi, but homeless shelter while oddly uplifting multiverse… oh, go read it!

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LJ Cohen is a novelist, potter, fiber artist, homestead farmer & relentless optimist. She was among the 1st wave of indies to qualify for SFWA membership. LITANY FOR A BROKEN WORLD, her 9th novel, is ...
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Without downloading anything new, where are you mentally?
Dramatic-looking kitty lying on his back in a pose suggesting exhaustion, or perhaps an empty kibble bowl
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As I get into the sexual selection and sexual dimorphism part of my evolution module, a reminder:

In Northern Cardinals, the males are bright red. The females are a brown/gray, with orange beaks.

So if you see two bright red birds snuggling together on wrapping paper or a card: they're gay.
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bookshop.org
PSA:

If reading wasn’t political, they wouldn’t be banning books.
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What a delight to learn that most people aren't in fact raging LGBTQ-phobic shitweasels
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1. 4 months ago, The Supreme Court gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education in schools.

Now, in Montgomery County, Maryland, where the case originated, the results are in.

Only 43 families out of 160,000 students have exercised that new right.

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Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To
After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.
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sethanikeem.bsky.social
I did my undergrad thesis on the European witchcraze, and a key motivator in accusations and arrests was to seize the property of the accused

Stoking the moral panic to continue the arrests was very profitable for those in positions of authority.

I say this for no reason …
kristinacooke.bsky.social
I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.
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US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
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evensong.bsky.social
Tear gas is an abortifacient.

Republicans want abortions to be illegal but are fine with giving them to certain people without their consent.
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It was definitely a “formative moment.” I’m not sure I learned the lesson she was trying to teach, though. 😉
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(Mom, it’s not 1960 any more. They let women do OTHER jobs now!)
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Yeah, even if you pay you are not entitled to see your adult child’s grades. Not unless you specifically made that a condition of paying.
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I made the mistake on commenting on a random video I saw where someone was asking for opinions.

Anyway my opinion is that if parents choose to help their child pay for college, they are still not *entitled* to information about their *adult* child's grades. Apparently this is an unpopular opinion.
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P.S. I have two master’s degrees, neither of which is in TYPING. She wanted me to go to college to be A SECRETARY. 🤦‍♀️
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She told me I was a loser and would never amount to anything, and that if I didn’t either pay for college myself or get a job (without transportation) she was kicking me out of the house.

I got financial aid and told her that since she wasn’t paying, she had no say in my major or grades.

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My mother and I had a huge fight about that when I was 18. She decided that since she was paying she got to pick my classes. I didn’t attend. She opened my mail, wrote “GREAT GRADES KATHERINE!” on it, and posted it in the fridge. I told her tampering with the mail was a crime.

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