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V. G. Anderson, MFA

@vandersonauthor.bsky.social

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Best "Smelling" Author 😉, Editor @nightowlfreelance.bsky.social‬, Artist, Activist, Zany Wife, Pitbull Mom 🐾 Pinball, Pool & Pastries. 💜 Stand with #Ukraine #ResistTyrany Website: vganderson.com

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V. G. Anderson, MFA @vandersonauthor.bsky.social · Nov 13

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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · Sep 14

Good Morning!
It's chilly! In September! Unthinkable in London! It's BLISS! 😊
#autumn #writerslife #coffee

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Alexandre Henrique Lopes Porto @xandaolp.bsky.social · Sep 8

IRAS 04302: Butterfly Disk Planet Formation
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Webb; Processing: M. Villenave et al.
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25090...

This butterfly can hatch planets. The nebula fanning out from the star IRAS 04302+2247 may look like the wings of a butterfly, while the vertical brown stripe down the center may look like the butterfly's body -- but together they indicate an active planet-forming system. The featured picture was captured recently in infrared light by the Webb Space Telescope. Pictured, the vertical disk is thick with the gas and dust from which planets form. The disk shades visible and (most) infrared light from the central star, allowing a good view of the surrounding dust that reflects out light. In the next few million years, the dust disk will likely fragment into rings through the gravity of newly hatched planets. And a billion years from now, the remaining gas and dust will likely dissipate, leaving mainly the planets -- like in our Solar System.

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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · Aug 27

Dearest Martha,

The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover.

Yours in glaze,

National guard troops lounging outside a Krispy Kreme

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · Jun 20

AMEN

Cheeto Voodoo @cheetovoodo.bsky.social · Jun 19

Can I get an AMEN?

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · Aug 20

New #RSOS paper: The impact of temperature on the reproductive development, body condition and mortality of autumn migrating monarch #butterflies in the laboratory: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Robin (she/he-ella/él) @merryrobin.bsky.social · Aug 17

Frances Woodworth Wright (1897 – 1989) was a US astronomer based at Harvard University.
During World War II, she taught celestial navigation to military officers and engineers.
🔭 #WomenInSTEM

Black and white photo of Frances Woodworth Wright, seated, at a telescope at Harvard College Observatory.

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V. G. Anderson, MFA @vandersonauthor.bsky.social · Aug 3

😆👍 Just signed up for your email list! ;) If you need an editor, be sure to explore my services at NightOwlFreelance.com. I'd love to hear from you. Either way, awesome cover! Looking forward to the release!

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V. G. Anderson, MFA @vandersonauthor.bsky.social · Aug 3

I'm with you! Comparable years lost as well. 🙃 Pretty sure I'm subconsciously trying to make up for it lately by harping on my clients not to do the same, so your post really resonated. 😆

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Ruthanne Reid (A.K.A. Trin) @ruthannereid.bsky.social · Aug 3

Creative, your identity is NOT tied to that one project that didn’t work.

Creation is never one static state. No art, good or bad, can ever define you; they’re just little monuments you built on the path along your way.

#2rulerecovery #writers #artists #poets #composers

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Creative, your identity is NOT tied to that one project that didn’t work.

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V. G. Anderson, MFA @vandersonauthor.bsky.social · Aug 3

Hi, I'm the editor in question—been at the top of my field for a decade now. You didn't ask anything specific about the image I was using to promote MY blog post written by ME. That image was created by ME based on MY art. I simply used AI to animate it, which was obvious, hence my response.

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V. G. Anderson, MFA @vandersonauthor.bsky.social · Aug 1

A worthy bathroom indeed. Loving those pants! 🧡

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V. G. Anderson, MFA @vandersonauthor.bsky.social · Aug 1

Great post! Thanks for sharing!

a woman stands at a podium with her arms outstretched and the words all of this above her

ALT: a woman stands at a podium with her arms outstretched and the words all of this above her

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🎃 psycho brahe 🔪 @medianoche.bsky.social · Jul 29

movie night:
the life aquatic
with steve zissou

needing a cleanse and a good cry. like owning a catte is the closest i will ever be to parenthood.

she was the grant to my sherman and i was the sherman to her grant.

waiting for the dead cat bit. if it keeps on rainin the levees gonna break.

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adelita the rabbit @adelita.space · Jun 20

CHARGING UP

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · May 29

Little kids, scared over bringing a book to school without advance approval.

It has come to this.

#Booksky

Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · May 29

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My first grade student had a full-blown panic attack over being caught bringing his own books to school- Florida
Basically what the title says. The students are not allowed to bring their own books from home because they have not been approved. Another student tattled on him for having it in his backpack (it was Magic Tree House for Christ's sake) and he broke down in tears and had a panic attack. He was afraid he was going to get in trouble for bringing them. So thank you, DeSantis and thank you Florida for making my bright and wonderful first graders fearful of books. They are beginning to associate negative emotions with reading instead of interest, inquiry, enjoyment and a love for reading. You made my student cry over books. Kids are not your political pawns. They deserve better than this! I am pissed!!!!!!!!

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V. G. Anderson, MFA @vandersonauthor.bsky.social · May 29

It doesn't mean anything anymore.

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MStewart @thinkingtooloud.org · May 1

" We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master."

I like this quote because it speaks to a basic fact of being a writer. We are always learning and honing our craft.
#WritingCommunity #amWriting

A fountain pen leans against a bottle of ink. There is a quote from Ernest Hemingway. " We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master".

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Marie @michmom1035.bsky.social · Apr 23

Courage is not about being unafraid.
It’s about waking up each day,
facing the shadows that follow,
and saying,
“I am still here.”
It’s knowing the world may never be soft,
but stepping into it anyway,
heart trembling,
hands steady,
choosing to live.
#poetry #poem #art #digitalart

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The Swamp Wytch @theswampwytch.bsky.social · Apr 22

Prodigiosa, Byrophyllum pinnatum, in Yoruba Ewe Abamoda, it is often called Prodigiosa or Yerba Luisa or Yerba Bruja in Spanish. Each leaf is capable of making numerous plants! Medicinal, magical, spiritual plant. #herb #eweOsanyin #Lucumi #WitchSky

Photo of my indoors Prodigiosa, Byrophyllum pinnatum, in bloom

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Katherine Nesbitt @katherinenesbitt.me · Mar 22

You say hello I say goodbye
#Writer
#AskAnAuthor
#Amwriting
#QOTD

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❤️🎵

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · Mar 11

This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.

benion
Grieving a wasted life
At a point in life when there are far too many days behind than ahead, one tends to
re-elected in contrast to standing up for the
reflect on a life lived. In my lifetime decades
greater good?
were devoted to protecting America. Sacri
A compromised Supreme Court recently
fices were made both by myself and my fam-
trotted out a shallow token standards of
Ily in military service. The tip of the spear:
conduct for themselves. Apparently it's
Countless weeks over the years were spent
not a bribe to accept favors after a deci-sion; only before. Corporations are people?
living at the end of a runway on alert with an Really? Whatever happened to Superman's armed B-52 as generations of aviators have motto of "truth, justice, and the American done before and since.
way?"
The purpose: if required, be airborne
Pay-to-play is the theme of the day. Un-
in minutes on a one-way trip bringing a
challenged and uncontested blatant conflicts
nuclear Armageddon to an adversary. Fly:
of interest abound. The rule of law is situ-
ing the unfriendly skies over North Viet-
ational if adhered to at all. America can no
nam provided a brief interlude, but overall,
longer be trusted. The unbridled pursuit of
this long line of silent sentinels stood firm
power and wealth driven by unquenchable
to protect America by deterring external
greed has left service above self and Con-
threats to our freedoms and way of life
stitutional norms in the dustbin of a quaint
across the decades. I was privileged to serve past. with men and women of integrity imbued
Recently the VA said exposure to Agent
with a sense of service.
Orange is the probable cause of the can-
I'm truly grateful that the B-52s we flew, which were built tough, were engineered
cers I live with. Actually I suspect it's more from yet unspecified sources, which cause
on scientific principles and fabricated by experienced, skilled workers rather than
military pilots to have significantly higher
founded on mere beli…

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Walt @waltedinger.bsky.social · Mar 12

When you think about it, isn't every book a mystery?

#writingcommunity

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Lola @lolarodrigo.bsky.social · Mar 12

Daily reminder that my imposter syndrome should just sit quietly in the backseat and let me write the d@mn story in peace. #writerslife #quote

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Fay Thompson, Author/Artist @faythompsonauthor.bsky.social · Mar 12

Let the story rest...sometimes for years. Your brain needs to rewrite it in your back brain before you do real life revisions. Sometimes that is a few weeks, sometimes much longer. #writingcommunity #writing #restingprose

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Adam Ming @adamming.bsky.social · Mar 1

I’m reformatting some of my art for the new IG feed..

I made an early #kidlitartpostcard , this event has been pivotal in my career and I’m happy to see it still going strong after all these years.

Hello, I’m Adam Ming and I make witty and energetic illustrations with a comic sensibility.

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