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Stella @stellabystarlight.bsky.social · 4h

🙂‍↕️ is this the one where goes down on her in a fit of rage?

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Nikki Payne @nikkipaynebooks.bsky.social · 18h

🚨New substack!
I asked one question on my book tour...❓"When was the first time your boobs were the drama?"
and y’all… the stories.😮‍💨
Duct tape. Bloody Boobs. Praise dances.
The Tea is, our boobs have been everybody’s business but ours.🍿 Free therapy in the comments.
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Tittie Tales

The secret anthropology of boobs, shame, and survival. Come get free therapy in the comments.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 11h

We like to pretend the endemic use of the present tense in modern fiction is a stylistic choice. But usually it's a cheap way to disguise mediocre prose, lack of structure, or both. It's like a row of showy petunias planted along a house to disguise cracks in the foundation.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 20h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Stella @stellabystarlight.bsky.social · 1d

I hope the wankers who decided to play ads at MAX volume while getting gas always have pebbles stuck in their shoes.

Truly diabolical. A sensory nightmare.

Stella @stellabystarlight.bsky.social · 1d

TIL 😬🤦🏻‍♀️

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Stella @stellabystarlight.bsky.social · 1d

You’re right. I was hoping I wouldn’t have to resort to that but you’re definitely right 😢

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Stella @stellabystarlight.bsky.social · 1d

I’m having my worst reading slump since grad school 😭 send some of your reading energy my please!

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Stella @stellabystarlight.bsky.social · 2d

Taking all the wrong people. Jfc 😢

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Stella @stellabystarlight.bsky.social · 3d

Remembers obscure details and supporting characters…titles and characters names? Nope 😬

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Stella @stellabystarlight.bsky.social · 3d

Did the BIG SHOP at the Korean grocery store & a woman around my mom’s age said “아가씨 꼼꼼하내“ as I was picking scallions

I HAVE ASCENDED! She approves of my produce selecting capabilities!!
☺️

Stella @stellabystarlight.bsky.social · 3d

It’s Friday AND you did great at PT = 🍩

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Stella @stellabystarlight.bsky.social · 3d

A post pt 🍩 or other fun little treat that awaits you?

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Stella @stellabystarlight.bsky.social · 4d

I was on a mega dose too then was supposed to maintain with otc but oops Vitamin D is the only med I forget!

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Stella @stellabystarlight.bsky.social · 4d

This is my next step if this strategy fails! I know vitamin d is important but just brush it off because it’s otc 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Stella @stellabystarlight.bsky.social · 4d

I would like to throat punch people for you 🫂

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Stella @stellabystarlight.bsky.social · 4d

🥹 magic on Al Gore’s early internet!

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Stella @stellabystarlight.bsky.social · 4d

As a Weirdo™️ I met my best friend on a message board and we plotted to go to the same college ☺️

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Stella @stellabystarlight.bsky.social · 4d

I think role playing seems distinct from self insert since you’d be using your understanding of the character from the text, akin to acting. I do miss message boards from the 00s!

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Stella @stellabystarlight.bsky.social · 4d

Oh that’s a good point. I also never understood the whole “book boyfriend” concept & that might be related to self insert

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Stella @stellabystarlight.bsky.social · 4d

It literally never occurred to me that “self-insert” was a concept until a few years ago! These are fictional characters so I’m curious about them, their motivations, & characterization.
Are self insert readers more common in certain demos or genres? How? I just have so many q’s 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Stella @stellabystarlight.bsky.social · 4d

I found my old Sony cd player at my parents and it still works!! And the Friends of the Library bookstore usually has CDs in great condition for $1.50!

Stella @stellabystarlight.bsky.social · 5d

A new Kat Sterling!!

Melanie/Mel @melonreads.bsky.social · 5d

My review for Olive Becket Plays the Rake dropped on Smexy today.

smexybooks.com/2025/10/revi...

Stella @stellabystarlight.bsky.social · 5d

My lips are sealed! We’re preserving physical art imo

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Stella @stellabystarlight.bsky.social · 5d

I’ll bring freshly roasted chestnuts and a roller suitcase full of books ☺️

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Stella @stellabystarlight.bsky.social · 5d

I’ll be joining you on that bench since I got a surprise car expense today 😬

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