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🌕🐺 Wolfmanda Wentz 🐺🌕

@ajwentz.com

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Writer of speculative poetry and prose | not hip, cool, or with it | words in Lightspeed, Wales Haiku Journal, Dreams & Nightmares, and elsewhere | member of SFPA and Haiku Society of America | ajwentz.com

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🌕🐺 Wolfmanda Wentz 🐺🌕 @ajwentz.com · 23d

You send your poem in
you get a rejection back
you send your poem again
and you shake it all about

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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 5h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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🌕🐺 Wolfmanda Wentz 🐺🌕 @ajwentz.com · 2d

PRETTY 🍄‍🟫💀🍄

The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 2d

it's here, The Deadlands fundraiser 💀

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we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon!

please like + RT this to help spread the word

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behold!

Illustration of a white skull partially obscured by colorful mushrooms and plants. Different fungi sprout from and around the skull, including red mushrooms with white spots, yellow fan-shaped mushrooms, gray cluster mushrooms, and orange bulbous mushrooms, with green and purple plants filling the background. A ribbon at the bottom of the skull reads “ADMIT ONE.”

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Skeletal Viking Amy @lasrina.bsky.social · 3d

You’re not “too old for it to do any good now.” You’re actually the perfect age to start the thing or change the thing or finally get diagnosed with the thing.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 5d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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🌕🐺 Wolfmanda Wentz 🐺🌕 @ajwentz.com · 4d

It was so much fun!

🌕🐺 Wolfmanda Wentz 🐺🌕 @ajwentz.com · 4d

Enjoyed playing brunch bartender while gabbing about Taylor Swift’s new album

A chocolate martini on a cocktail napkin with a cowgirl in a martini glass saying “Let’s go, girls.”

An Ophelia cocktail (highball glass, rosemary garnish) being held in a hand

A french blonde cocktail next to half a grapefruit

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🌕🐺 Wolfmanda Wentz 🐺🌕 @ajwentz.com · 4d

Brunch of a Showgirl

A doorway with a tinsel curtain and signs saying “the life of a showgirl”

Four laminated cocktail cards with Taylor Swift themed cocktails.

French Blonde
• 2 oz grapefruit juice*
• 2 oz Lillet Blane
1 oz gin
• ½ oz elderflower liqueur
• 3 dashes lemon bitters
Add ingredients to cocktail shaker with ice, shake 20 seconds.
* Grapefruit can interact with certain medications! If you can't have or don't like grapefruit, substitute blood orange.

The Fate of Ophelia
• 1 ½ oz gin
• ¾ oz rosemary syrup
• ¾ oz lemon juice
• club soda
Add ice, gin, lemon juice, and rosemary syrup to a glass and stir.
Top with club soda.

Cancelled!
(Whiskey Sour)
• 2 oz bourbon
• ¾ oz lemon juice
• ½ oz sinple syrup
• 3 dashes fee foam
• Garnish: angostura bitters
Add ingredients to a shaker and dry-shake 20 seconds. Add ice and shake for 30 seconds. Pour and garnish.

Elizabeth Taylor (Chocolate Martini)
• 2 oz vodka*
• 2 oz creme de cacao
• 2 oz irish cream
Add ingredients to cocktail shake with ice, shake 20 seconds and strain.
*Can use plain or salted vanilla vodka!

Five woman standing in front of a wall with a sign reading “The Life of a Showgirl” and pictures of Taylor Swift’s album covers.

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🌕🐺 Wolfmanda Wentz 🐺🌕 @ajwentz.com · 5d

I was singing (Taylor Swift) in the kitchen (as you do), and my (docked) Roomba made a noise and shut itself down 😭 Everyone’s a critic.

🌕🐺 Wolfmanda Wentz 🐺🌕 @ajwentz.com · 5d

Ooh, I hadn’t picked up on that, but you’re right!

I like how the entire album evokes both songs from her previous albums and classic songs from past greats.

🌕🐺 Wolfmanda Wentz 🐺🌕 @ajwentz.com · 5d

My favorite thing about new Taylor Swift music days is the dozen text message threads I have open with my friends 🫶 Art brings people together

🌕🐺 Wolfmanda Wentz 🐺🌕 @ajwentz.com · 5d

Yes! The shorter album allows for so much more curation and a stronger album.

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🌕🐺 Wolfmanda Wentz 🐺🌕 @ajwentz.com · 5d

I also cannot wait to hear @ecatherine.com’s thoughts on the album

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🌕🐺 Wolfmanda Wentz 🐺🌕 @ajwentz.com · 5d

The last song was what I assumed the entire album would be, but frankly I’m relieved it’s not; I think having every song on that topic would have gotten old.

I was expecting an entire album of Clara Bow & Nothing New, & I like the thematic variety she brought instead while still making it cohesive.

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🌕🐺 Wolfmanda Wentz 🐺🌕 @ajwentz.com · 5d

As of the first two listens, my top three songs are Opalite, Actually Romantic, and Cancelled, but there isn’t a single one that I didn’t enjoy.

I wanted to love Fate of Ophelia more, but the lyrics of the second verse felt a little weak to me. Still screaming the chorus at the top of my lungs.

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🌕🐺 Wolfmanda Wentz 🐺🌕 @ajwentz.com · 5d

I will be withdrawing from the world for a while to meditate on Taylor Swift’s new album.

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🌕🐺 Wolfmanda Wentz 🐺🌕 @ajwentz.com · 6d

Okay, but that is exactly the type of journal I want to be reading. Let me cronch the prose!!

🌕🐺 Wolfmanda Wentz 🐺🌕 @ajwentz.com · 6d

We need more fancy places to put our bones

🌕🐺 Wolfmanda Wentz 🐺🌕 @ajwentz.com · 6d

BONES!

(maybe a fancy ossuary?)

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🌕🐺 Wolfmanda Wentz 🐺🌕 @ajwentz.com · 7d

Someone fell off the couch and used my leg to catch herself (I have so many band-aids on my calf). She has been sulking ever since.

Cat sitting across the room on the back of the couch, staring at the camera with airplane ears.

🌕🐺 Wolfmanda Wentz 🐺🌕 @ajwentz.com · 7d

The most wonderful time of the year! 😂

🌕🐺 Wolfmanda Wentz 🐺🌕 @ajwentz.com · 7d

I was legitimately misty-eyed while reading my first white rat book (Swordheart). It was so nice to read a book emphasizing the best, most aspirational parts of the profession instead of the usual cynicism and jokes.

Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 7d

Book Tour Day 2:
Our fabulously hatted heroine shares a cab to the airport with a woman in town for a healthcare conference.

HEROINE: Oh, are you a doctor?
WOMAN: …lawyer.
WOMAN: *clearly waiting for joke*
HEROINE: So I write these fantasy novels about a god of lawyers and social workers…

Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 8d

Will the woman with the fabulous hat make her connection in Atlanta?

Does she have a lint roller in her luggage?

How many books does she have to sell before the publisher springs for Comfort Plus?

Tune in next time when this and other questions will be answered, in Tales! Of! Book Tour!

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🌕🐺 Wolfmanda Wentz 🐺🌕 @ajwentz.com · 8d

Star Trek friends! Do you cry when you watch Those Old Scientists? Do Una, Rutherford, La’an, and Uhura reflect something you see within yourself? Then you might enjoy my poems in Celebrate Discovery!

This fan zine curated by @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social contains fic, poetry, puzzles, & love of Trek.

Celebrate Disco Zine 2025 - Jordan La Fordan's Ko-fi Shop

A 40-page PDF you can read digitally or print yourself! Full of fanfic, essays, photos, games, poems, and quotes from Star Trek series airing from 201...

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🌕🐺 Wolfmanda Wentz 🐺🌕 @ajwentz.com · 9d

I am naught but a slump

🌕🐺 Wolfmanda Wentz 🐺🌕 @ajwentz.com · 9d

We’ve reached the part of the year where I leave home before sunrise 🥱

🌕🐺 Wolfmanda Wentz 🐺🌕 @ajwentz.com · 11d

Secrets stay in the juicy vault 🍑 👻 🤫

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GUINNESS @guinnessisacat.bsky.social · 11d

HILL HOUSE, NOT SANE, STOOS BY ITSELF AGAINST THE HILLS, HOLDING DARKNESS WITHIN…

Guinness the black cat in a Halloween themed cardboard house built for cats. Only his round yellow eyes are visible against his face.

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