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North Ave Candles @northavecandles.bsky.social · Aug 24

If this is you too, we may be kindred spirits

Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · Aug 24

The childhood crushes on Theodore “Laurie” Laurence and Gilbert Blythe to adult obsessions with Fitzwilliam Darcy and Frederick Wentworth pipeline

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Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · Aug 22

Happy birthday, Ray Bradbury, you were the king of dropping six-page stories a kid could read once in 7th grade English class and be haunted by for the rest of their life

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North Ave Candles @northavecandles.bsky.social · Aug 19

My library hold hits and I transform into the “girl who is going to be okay” meme

Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · Aug 19

Shout out to everyone on Libby hitting “deliver later” on the books I’ve got on hold and knocking weeks off my wait, you are vital pieces in the architecture of my will to live and I for one appreciate your inability to commit to that book at this time

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North Ave Candles @northavecandles.bsky.social · Aug 9

Happy #BookLoversDay! 📚

Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · Aug 9

Books are lifeboats sent by writers to rescue us, carry us away from the wreckage of our realities and into some other existence where the burden is briefly not ours to bear

North Ave Candles @northavecandles.bsky.social · Aug 7

It’s not you, it’s me 💔

Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · Aug 7

“You're perfect just the way you are, and I wish I could be the person you deserve right now. Maybe we’ll connect again one day when the timing is right 💔”

- me to the unread books on my shelves as I leave to go get more books

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North Ave Candles @northavecandles.bsky.social · Jul 22

only to be scooped up in a data breach a few weeks from now 💔

Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · Jul 22

I don’t know if I can keep making new elaborate passwords, man. I stg the next time I have to come up with one it’s going to require me to include a solved calculus equation and ensure it passes the Bechdel test before it’ll be accepted

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North Ave Candles @northavecandles.bsky.social · Jul 21

Oedipus jokes are real motherfuckers

Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · Jul 21

Can’t help but feel sorry for Oedipus. His story is so complex

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · Jul 13

My cartoon for this weekend’s @theguardian.com books.

A sunny day in the park. People jog, walk their dogs and sit in the shade of the trees. A woman sits on a bench and says:

“It's my perfect job, really! Their owners are busy people who love them but don't have time to give the attention they need.

Nobody likes to think of them just lying around the house all alone.

So I pick them up bright and early and we spend the whole day in the park.

I read a few chapters of each and drop them home with a short precis of what happened. Everyone's happy!”

She is reading a book and has a pile of six more beside her.

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North Ave Candles @northavecandles.bsky.social · Jul 10

Just give that babe a library. Babes love libraries

Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · Jul 10

Appreciate how hard the media of my youth went with the “if he loves you, he will offer up the library of your dreams” messaging

In the movie “Ever After,” Henry takes Danielle to see the library in a monastery, and she is overwhelmed with joy.

In the movie “Beauty and the Beast,” the beast gives Belle his castle’s library, and she is overwhelmed with joy.

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North Ave Candles @northavecandles.bsky.social · Jul 8

I hated to send it at all, honestly. Be free now

Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · Jul 8

I hope this email doesn’t find you, actually. I hope you’re never burdened with determining the correct balance of exclamation points to other punctuation to keep you from coming across as unhinged ever again

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Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · Jul 8

Reporter: So who IS on the Epstein list?

DOJ:

A jar depicting Odysseus escaping from the cyclops after telling him his name is “nobody”

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · Jun 26

The best way to reduce the cost of Medicaid is to name and shame big employers that pay their full time employees so little, they qualify for Medicaid

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Dia VanGunten / Writer @pinkzombierose.bsky.social · Jun 26

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Cottage in the Woods @cottageinwood.bsky.social · Jun 27

As someone who mostly reads horror, I'll never understand the vitriol towards "cozy" books. People say they are escapist, unserious, allowing readers to avoid big issues. And I'm like, girl, WHEN did your dark romance book fix society? Did I BLINK and miss your detective thriller solving crime?

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North Ave Candles @northavecandles.bsky.social · Jun 27

brb just going to go grab the plums I’ve been saving in my ice box

Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · Jun 26

I have entombed
that friend
who was in
my basement

and who
was expecting a
rare vintage

Forgive me
I had all these bricks
a trowel
and a grudge

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North Ave Candles @northavecandles.bsky.social · Jun 22

Rich white boys ruining everything since time immemorial

Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · Jun 22

Re: Lord of the Flies

Piggy, objectively correct and genuine in his beliefs, holds the conch mid-fight as a symbol of the democracy he has tried to help maintain; the boulder that crushes it and kills him is unaware of how right he is, and the side who released the rock could not care less

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Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · Jun 13

How nice to have a meteor to blame things on instead of just *checks notes* unchecked greed

North Ave Candles @northavecandles.bsky.social · Jun 13

Feeling a little jealous of the dinosaurs lately, tbh. At least they weren’t responsible for their own demise

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North Ave Candles @northavecandles.bsky.social · Jun 13

Feeling a little jealous of the dinosaurs lately, tbh. At least they weren’t responsible for their own demise

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North Ave Candles @northavecandles.bsky.social · May 31

I need a holiday. A very long holiday. And I don’t expect I shall return. In fact, I mean not to

Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · May 31

I feel thin, sort of stretched, like one person spread over too much job without commensurate compensation

the best twelve (pending review) @cmikesspinmove.bsky.social · May 30

i feel thin, sort of stretched, like avocado scraped over too much bread

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North Ave Candles @northavecandles.bsky.social · May 29

The news:

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North Ave Candles @northavecandles.bsky.social · May 21

Before acting or speaking in today’s climate, consider: What Would Pedro Do?

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North Ave Candles @northavecandles.bsky.social · Apr 28

(is neurodivergent)

Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · Apr 28

In my Boo Radley era (staying home, being mysterious, giving people something to gossip about)

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North Ave Candles @northavecandles.bsky.social · Apr 27

Actually ChatGPT is the name of the dropout who created it, what you're degrading your brain and ruining the planet with is ChatGPT’s monster

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North Ave Candles @northavecandles.bsky.social · Apr 27

My new world? Brave

Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · Apr 27

My comedy? Divine

Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · Apr 27

My expectations? Great

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North Ave Candles @northavecandles.bsky.social · Apr 17

Gayle King: “it’s one trip to space, Michael. What could it cost? Ten dollars?”

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