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Madeleine D'Este
@madeleinedeste.bsky.social
Writer. Reviewer. Podcaster.
Dark Mysteries are my thing.
Black Soil White Bread out on 10 June 2025.
Aurealis Award & Shadow Awards nom'd.
https://madeleinedeste.com/
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Happy book birthday to me!

Black Soil White Bread is available (here in Aust at least).
amzn.asia/d/d4XeNa4

Craving a slice of Melbourne-set folk-horror?
Dig in, friends.

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Your life has a soundtrack. We're here to press play. Major 7th Magazine is a literary mixtape that explores the relationship between music + memory. We're open to all forms, as long as they're flash. ​

Ready to send us your jam? www.major7mag.com/submit

#litmag #callforsubmissions
November 25, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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November 25, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Join us on Wednesday 26 November for a special one-night presentation, Mother Tongue: Australian Women in Animation.

7:00pm – BREAKING GROUND: FIVE ANIMATIONS FROM THE 1980s
8:45pm – PERSONAL AND POETIC: AUSTRALIAN WOMEN’S ANIMATION AFTER 1990
November 24, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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Protect your peace
November 24, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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The happy way is the middle way
November 23, 2025 at 5:29 AM
winner
It's been SEVEN hours and
fifteen days
November 23, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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November 23, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Reskeeting with alt text

Yeah this has become the utter pain of what we once had. Used to be you'd run to Google for a trusted and quick search and now I try to avoid it when I can

Legit ruined their own product to the point of being unrecognizable
November 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Bass! How low can you go?
Death row, what a brother knows
Once again, back is the incredible
The rhyme animal
The incredible - D! - Public Enemy number one
Five-O said "Freeze!" and I got numb...
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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November 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Insomnia
But then struck with story idea.

Writer good or writer bad?

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November 22, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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November 22, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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November 22, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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without downloading new pics, what is it like dating you?
November 22, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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well done, everyone 👏🔨
November 20, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Hope everyone is gearing up for a fun holiday! Currently finalizing menu plans. #nerdlyfe
November 21, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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When the players read their classes section of the players handbook and learn it
#DnDCatThoughts
November 21, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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The final Poirot and Miss Marple novels where written by Agatha Christie during the London blitz and then locked in a vault in case she was killed during the war. They were eventually published 30 years later.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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November 21, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme
October 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Holy heck, Mani from the Stone Roses has died.
Gary 'Mani' Mounfield of Stone Roses dead at 63 - latest tributes
The musician rose to fame with the Stone Roses in the 1980s
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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A new women’s safe haven, Arada House, has been launched in Sydney by the Arada Foundation in partnership with Women’s Community Shelters.
womensagenda.com.au/latest/arada...
Arada House launches in Sydney as a safe haven women fleeing domestic violence
A new women’s safe haven, Arada House, has been launched in Sydney by the Arada Foundation, in partnership with Women’s Community Shelters.
womensagenda.com.au
November 21, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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If It Doesn't Exist, MAKE IT.

Aka. The motivational bnuy.
#originalart
November 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
We bust out the synths for cricket over here.
November 20, 2025 at 11:53 PM