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Holly Wade Matter

@weemallard.bsky.social

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Writer. White-knuckle knitter. Superannuated Pre-Raphaelite stunner. Punk- and Goth-adjacent. My novel, Damned Pretty Things, is available from Aqueduct Press (and the usual suspects). I like perfume.

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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · Jul 4

Fortune is an itinerant musician without a past who braids memories into her hair. Maud is a sheltered small-town girl and an unwitting heir to the notorious McBride family magic. The two young women meet when Fortune is commissioned to bring Maud to a rich man whose grandson she cursed. United by their love of music and their hunger for the road, Fortune and Maud form a friendship... one that is threatened not only by Fortune's mission but by their mutual desire for a man called Lightning.
"Damned Pretty Things is beautiful and wise, haunted and haunting. Sui generis. Brilliant. Enjoy." Cynthia Ward, author of the Blood-Thirsty Agent series
"Sweet as vanishing dreams, tender to the touch as new memories, wise as nursery rhymes, tasty as blueberry pancakes, Holly Wade Matter's Damned Pretty Things is a wondrous redemption tale of the triumph of love and friendship over pain and difference."
Nisi Shawl, author of Everfair

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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 9h

Oh no

Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 9h

Oh yay.

Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 9h

Yeah, but let all those kids starve to death....

Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 9h

Does it follow Roadside Picnic reasonably faithfully? (I haven't read it but Brad has. He really wants to see this.)

Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 10h

The Last MAC Lipstick: Keep Dreaming. Look, ma! No lipstick on my teeth! If that ain't living the dream, I don't know what is.

This and Red Rock are my faves. Still, I think I was conservative in my choices.

The author grinning like a sackful of possum heads. Lovely blue-red lipstick on her lips and not, as usually happens, on her teeth.

Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 10h

Night of the Living Selfies continues with Forever Curious, a highly presentable pinkish red.
@gsnorgathon.bsky.social is being a total champ when I show him selfies and ask him "A or B?" like a cheerful optometrist.

The author in a warm, pinky red lipstick. Bilateral symmetry is for losers.

Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 11h

Once upon a time I was down at the Raison d'Etre and passed a table where a couple of men were enjoying their coffee. One of them looked at me and said, in the snarkiest way imaginable, "Oh...*Flamingo* Woman."

MAC's Flamingo isn't *quite* flamingo enough, but is a pleasant warm pink nonetheless.

The author in warm pink lipstick. She stares off into the distance, possibly thinking of Manderley, or perhaps what the word is for that thing. You know, the thing that does that stuff.

Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 11h

I'm glad you reminded me. This is great news.

Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 12h

Thank you for reminding me!

Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 12h

How to make our hearts flutter.

Sea-Meow Convention

www.seameowconvention.com

Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 14h

It was gross, but not traumatic. My first flueroscopy made me cry.

Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 15h

Also, that it shared that riff with "Shot By Both Sides," a *completely* different song.

Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 15h

More freaking lipstick!

"Oh, when you kiss me
Does the lipstick on your lips stick on my face?"

I never knew what he was actually singing until I looked it up today.

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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 19h

Lipstick (2001 Remastered Version)

YouTube video by Buzzcocks - Topic

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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 20h

MAC Red Rock: the closest to Le Metier de Beaute's Bombay of the four. It's good to get color in one's face.

The author wearing pinky-red matte lipstick and otherwise looking like a gooner.

Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 21h

Today in the Bunny Bowl of New Arrivals, Schoppel Zauberwolle yarn from Little Knits. I love Little Knits because a) they're local and b) the yarn is mostly discontinued and priced at a steep reduction. This yarn for example, was 60% off. And hey, how cute is that label?

Variegated yarn, mostly reds and purples.

A black label featuring a cat playing with a ball of yarn.

Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 23h

"A girl can't read that sort of thing without her lipstick."

- Holly Golightly, "Breakfast at Tiffany's"

Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 23h

Another doctor's appointment today re: my annoying esophagus. Yay.

Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 23h

I only know one The Teardrop Explodes song (Passionate Friend), and I only remember two songs from Fried (Reynard the Fox and Sunspots) and two songs from My Nation Underground (Charlotte Anne and China Doll) but they're all pretty fabulous.

Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 23h

'cos you got style.

Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 1d

Pretend it's in the Bunny Bowl of New Arrivals:

MAC lipsticks in Red Rock, Keep Dreaming, Flamingo, and Forever Curious.

They smell nice.

It's too late and I am too tired to experiment.

Lipsticks in pinky red, darker red, flamingo pink, and light red.

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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 1d

CHARLOTTE! Anne
I do understand

Dano Loves Music @danolovesmusic.bsky.social · 1d

“Charlotte Anne” by Julian Cope was a UK #1 rock hit in 1989. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #vinylcommunity #juliancope #EveryHitSongEver

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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 1d

A young relative from Georgia pronounced it "pull y'all up."

Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 1d

Puyallup.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 1d

Syllables are hard.

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 1d

Ew ew ew just for an ad for one of those AI assistants in which a woman asks it to write a haiku about her cat.

You can’t write a 3 line, 17 syllable poem about your cat?????

What is being alive for if not writing tiny little poems about your cat??!!

Add this to my joker file. Good lord.

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