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Rachel
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Love to read, cook & bake, film photography, the supernatural, and the macabre.
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Rachel @mango5.bsky.social · May 22
Reading low reviews of a book I loved and thought highly of

#booksky 💙📚
Photo of Doctor Evil from Austin Powers saying, "You just don't get it, do you? You don't."
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Shell sculptures by James Valkus from a 1971 Graphis magazine feature on his work
Three Black and white photos of human sized heads made from shells each a strange and slightly demonic looking creature
December 17, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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#Booksky #read
Stephen Fry launches campaign to boost reading for pleasure
The Hay festival president is asking readers for book recommendations that will ‘entice the most reluctant reader’ to help combat the decline in leisure reading
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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John Fante was crazy for this one. Ask the Dust was a really interesting book to follow The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West which I read earlier this year. Loved it #booksky 💙📚
Cover of “Ask the Dust”
December 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Old ass 120 Lomography Redscale

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #photosky
December 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Still got some Velvia pictures. Zeiss and Maxxum combo.
An abandoned car sits in the forest covered by pine needles. The car is blue. It has an orangish red stripe that moves throught it at key hole height. The glass has the 60s aqua tint.
December 16, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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OP edited to read "Someone grabbed me behind" and Picard has a goofy grin
December 16, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Enterprise scene. (🎵I'VE GOT🎵 I'VE GOT🎵 I'VE GOT🎵) Archer stands in a ship room but not in hit future space work clothes but just like a normal guy outfit, so maybe he's undercover? Behind him stands a Ferengi with giant ear lobes and a shiney bald head that looks like a butt. The Ferengi has a "whuu?" open mouth look on his face. Archer is smoldering. Closed caption reads, "All you care about is your precious gold."
December 16, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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cnn.com
Vinyl records are popular again, but it's not just audiophiles or nostalgic boomers fueling the resurgence.

Gen Z is playing an outsized role in the revival of vinyl sales, which have grown on average by 18% annually in the past five years.
https://cnn.it/4q2ceaK
December 15, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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what is a jellicle cat
December 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Film dropped off at lab ☑️
December 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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We just listed some used books for sale on our website last night.
carpelibrumbaltimore.com/collections/...
December 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Name your fav Nicolas Cage film.

Mandy BY FAR
December 13, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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1997 ❤️
December 12, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Yusuke, from YuYu Hakusho
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December 13, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Book Cover of the Day:
IN THE HEART OF CHRISTMAS PINES LEONA DALRYMPLE Pink cover, gold lettering, holly design border, snow scene with pines in centre.
December 13, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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December 12, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Digital proof i went outside today. Not AI
Photo of an icy river in December Portrait of a woman outside Photo of an icy river Portrait of a woman and a film camera
December 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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From Ask the Dust by John Fante. Wow woowwww shooketh
#booksky 💙📚 📚💙
tion. I got up from the counter and walked away in fear, walkin fast down the boardwalk, passing people who seemed strange an ghostly: the world seemed a myth, a transparent plane, and all things upon it were here for only a little while; all of us, Bandini. and Hackmuth and Camilla and Vera, all of us were here for a little while, and then we were somewhere else; we were not alive at all: we approached living, but we never achieved it. We are going to die. Everybody was going to die. Even you, Arturo, even you must die. I knew what it was that swept over me. It was a great white cross pointing into my brain and telling me I was a stupid man, because I was going to die, and there was nothing I could do about it. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. A mortal sin, Arturo. Thou shalt not commit adultery. There it was, persistent to the end, assuring me that there was no escape from what I had done. I was a Catholic. This was a mortal sin against Vera Rivken. At the end of the row of concessions the sand beach began. Beyond were dunes. I waded through the sand to a place where the dunes hid the boardwalk. This needed thinking out. I didn't kneel; I sat down and watched the breakers eating the shore. This is bad, Arturo. You have read Nietzsche, you have read Voltaire, you should know better. But reasoning wouldn't help. I could reason myself out of it, but that was not my blood. It was my blood that kept me alive, it was my blood pouring through me, telling me it was wrong. I sat there and gave myself over to my blood, let it cany me swimming back to the deep sea of my beginnings. Vera Rivken, Arturo Bandini. It was not meant that way: it was never meant that way. I was wrong. I had committed a mortal sin. I could figure it mathematically, philosophically, psychologically: I could prove it a dozen ways, but I was wrong, for there was no denying the warm even rhythm of my guilt. Sick in my soul I tried to face the ordeal of seeking forgiveness. From whom? What God, wh… and walked aray in o & people who seemed yth, a transparent ple I walk on and on, and still the land goes stretching away to the y a little while: all a to lera, all of us were be as ver achieved it. We are go Tsay unto myself, but what has happened to the sea? And I answer, the sea is back there, back in the reservoir of memory. The sea is a ere else; we were not ins horizons. A year, five years, ten years, and I have not seen the sea. myth. There never was a sea. But there was a seal I tell you I was bom on the seashore! I bathed in the waters of the sea! It gave me iven you, Arturo, en yea er me. It was a great when food and it gave me peace, and its fascinating distances fed my le I was a stupid man, bead dreams! No, Arturo, there never was a sea. You dream and you wish, but you go on through the wasteland. You will never see the thing I could do about sea again. It was a myth you once believed. But, I have to smile, for a. A mortal sin, Artum Tal the salt of the sea is in my blood, and there may be ten thousand was, persistent to the ed a roeds over the land, but they shall never confuse me, for my heart's from what I had done. In blood will ever return to its beautiful source. Then what shall I do? Shall I lift my mouth to the sky, stumbling Vera Rivken. and burbling with a tongue that is afraid? Shall I open my chest and ions the sand beach beg beat it like a loud drum, seeking the attention of my Christ? Or is it the sand to a place where be not better and more reasonable that I cover myself and go on? thinking out. I didnt he There will be confusions, and there will be hunger; there will be ating the shore. This ished loneliness with only my tears like wet consoling little birds, tum- u have read Voltaire, yes bling to sweeten my dry lips. But there shall be consolation, and ıldn't help. I could reas there shall be beauty like the love of some dead girl. There shall be ood. It was my blood tie some laughter, a restrained laughter, and quiet waiting in the n…
December 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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3/15 The Cure- If Only Tonight We Could Sleep 🥀

youtu.be/hT9TkAsfKLY?...

#ArtistFave15 #musicsky
If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
YouTube video by The Cure - Topic
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December 11, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Bout half way through this one. It’s really something. It reads like… drunkenly talking to yourself in the mirror.

#booksky 💙📚 📚💙
Photo of the book Ask the Dust by John Fante
December 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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I post, then I delete, repeat.

I'm Disturbed, I'm Depressed, I'm Inadequate – I've Got It All!
Photo wearing a George Costanza shirt that reads “MASTER OF MY DOMAIN” Photo wearing a George Costanza shirt that reads “MASTER OF MY DOMAIN”
December 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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This ad is demonic
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December 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Can’t stop thinking about this
December 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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2/15 The Cure- High

#ArtistFave15 #musicsky

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High (2022 Remaster)
YouTube video by The Cure - Topic
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December 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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#ArtistFave15 The Cure- A Forest

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbAx...

#musicsky
A Forest (2006 Remaster)
YouTube video by The Cure - Topic
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December 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM