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summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 4h

i've said this before, but an-TEE-fah does no good and never did. it was better when people were just identifying as AY-eff because least that was it was always obvious as an abbreviation

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 4h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 4h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 10h

Buy Skyla's books. Her cat is unnecessarily expensive.

Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 10h

Ordered him the expensive prescription food the vet wants him on permanently and he’ll need more meds on hand for future episodes. I’d had optimistic thoughts of getting a new rug and bedding at IKEA but now Christmas is cancelled, everyone’s gift this year is Shawn’s bladder NOT full of blood. 😭

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summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 9h

o great now i've got a mash up going

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summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 10h

right? i almost think i was in that meeting too.

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summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 12h

i wonder if there was, and skeuomorphism killed it? i can imagine the product discussion so easily. "flipping is our brand! what are we without flipping?"

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summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 12h

one of the albums i lost in the burglary was a boot with rougher, less polished versions of these songs (i've always assumed they were pre-production demos, but i don't really know for sure)... anyway, it was great

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summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 13h

Hey #MMRomance #Romancelandia 🌈📚 I have a new book:
When Jay moves into his dorm, he’s convinced that he’s straight. But even if he can reconcile his physical attraction to Derek, can either of them handle the feelings growing between them? “When I Trust You” is a spicy novelette
available now!

summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 10d

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summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 13h

#QueerWritersChat masky lineshare!

By now I could read the whole gamut of Scyther’s smiles under his masks. This one was between “sly” and “mocking.” “We’re going to surprise you, too. Stay alert, and roll with it.”

“Thanks for nothing, boss,” I grumbled.

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 1d

#QueerWritersChat

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Question Four: Share a line from your work where masks or costumes are mentioned!

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summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 13h

you are an absolute terror (complimentary). in a similar timeframe I got ... uh... almost 700?

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summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 13h

...and that does kinda represent how she has aspects of her life that aren’t fully reconciled. but I didn’t think of that as a “mask” before this question, I think of it more like a form of code-switching

summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 13h

most boring answer to this #QueerWritersChat I don’t think so? Scyther is an emotionally detached person, but he’s in his 60s, he legit doesn’t want to get sick if he can help it, and being a touring musician is high risk from that perspective. Altho... hmm. Nykky sometimes goes by Nicola...

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 1d

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Question Three: Do you use masks as a symbol or metaphor in your writing? If so, how?

Next question at :20!

@theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social #QueerWriters #writesky #writers

#QueerWritersChat

Question Three: Do you use masks as a symbol or metaphor in your writing? If so, how?
Hosts: @amaralynn and @theodoresnapdragon

Every Friday 8pm EST
All LGBTQIAP writers and allies welcome
Background: gray wood with multicolor art supplies around the border.

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summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 13h

well #QueerWritersChat my book is set in 2024, and although my two main characters don’t wear masks regularly, the lead guitarist of the band that hires them is COVID conscious and wears a literal mask in most public situations

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 1d

#QueerWritersChat

Question Two: Do any of your MCs wear literal or metaphorical masks?

Next question at :15!

@theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social #QueerWriters #writesky #writers

#QueerWritersChat Question Two: Do any of your MCs wear literal or metaphorical masks?
Hosts: @amaralynn and @theodoresnapdragon Every Friday 8pm EST All LGBTQIAP writers and allies welcome Background: gray wood with multicolor art supplies around the border.

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summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 13h

Hi #QueerWritersChat I write as A. Lee Welles and I’m still working on the same dang romance/horror hybrid book I’ve been working on seriously for a year (and brewing for much longer). Almost done drafting now, tho.

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome to #QueerWritersChat!

To start things off, introduce yourself and tell us what you're working on!

Next question at :10!

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Suleikha Snyder @suleikhasnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Mine's not going as viral as that other post, but I live mere blocks from here. This is right by a co-op grocery I shop at. What ICE is doing in Chicago is *literally* close to home.

Suleikha Snyder @suleikhasnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Turns out, we also have a frog hopping around Rogers Park! They’re spreading from Portland. This is the corner where people were grabbed up yesterday.

A picture of somebody in a giant green frog costume whimsically hanging off a street corner sign pole like Gene Kelly in Singin’ in the Rain. They were actually doing the twirl but I didn’t take video. The frog has a beige belly and face and black spots all over the rest of the costume. There is, unfortunately, a corner of a postal truck obstructing the view. I was hesistant to get a closer, clearer pic. But the frog made me smile!

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

Let's make a promise here, friends... we ARE going to abolish ICE. Not REFORM it. ABOLISH it. And we're going to put that massive budget back into funding all the things that actually HELP people.

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summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 14h

is this when I get to say “they’re the same picture”?
(they’re not the same picture)

On the cover of "When I Trust You, A Bisexual Romance" by A. Lee Welles, two men are embracing, one standing behind while the other clasps his hands to his chest. The man in front is wearing a yellow shirt, and the illustrator (me, I'm the illustrator) got a little too happy drawing wrinkles. It's not a skin tight shirt.
The pose is not entirely dissimilar to the image of Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh embracing the somewhat bemused looking shortstop J.P. Crawford after the team’s game 5 ALDS victory over the Detroit Tigers.

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summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 14h

Carrie’s book sounds so! bad!

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summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 14h

🎉🎉🎉

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summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 15h

I remember when the Knack’s 2nd album came out, and my local AOR station was super excited to play the whole thing through and ... well ...

(this will make no sense to people not of a certain age, but even tho the 1st record had only 2 singles, a beatles-like trajectory was predicted for that band)

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summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 1d

no talk me I angy
(the ones elsewhere i funded skate. the ones throwing me under the proverbial bus will be hearing from me when I'm calm enough to be coherent.)

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summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 1d

If someone is going to risk execution, I want to hear him asked who young the youngest girl he ever [redacted] was because I think there's a chance that might slip past his filters and he might brag on it. "So young, the very youngest, I don't think anyone [redacted] a younger girl."

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summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 1d

I saw someone with a pink parasol they other day and, welp
(coulda been an umbrella, but nope)

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summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 1d

This is so flippin' cool

Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 1d

🗿 The moai really walked

New evidence shows Easter Island’s giant statues were engineered to 'walk' upright using their curved bases & forward tilt. A 4.3-ton replica moved 100 m in 40 min with just 18 people, & no logs or sleds.

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The walking moai hypothesis: Archaeological evidence, experimental validation, and response to critics

The transport of Rapa Nui's (Easter Island) monumental moai statues has been debated for over a century. Based on a systematic analysis of 962 moai, w…

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summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 1d

I am SO frustrated by the "every story just sets up the next story" dynamic. As much as I've enjoyed some of it (She Hulk! Ms Marvel!) I wish they'd been less connected. IMHO it undercuts the emotional impact of each one, and makes keeping up with the whole thing feel daunting, more work than fun.

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