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Marisa | “the ambassador for romance novels”
@emdanyell.bsky.social
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Hi. I love coffee, cats, writing, and reading books about romance. Value empathy, equity, and inclusion. Educator. Vinyl collector. Boy band connoisseur.
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THIS IS THE ONLY ONE THAT COUNTS
Screenshot of Audible, showing the original cover of Lady Sophia’s Lover by Lisa Kleypas. The cover is a deep purple, and on the right side of the audiobook cover, there is a white woman with blond hair and a silvery-blue dress. She is leaning back into someone, her eyes closed. Behind her, mostly obscured from view, is a taller white man. He has an arm around her neck, resting across her collarbones. There is a small bit of his face in profile as he turns his face against hers.
October 14, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Rereading Rules of Scoundrels by @sarahmaclean.bsky.social & I forgot that Temple is my favorite kind of freak. This is also such a masterful moment because yes, HOT, but also because when Mara tells him his control over her feelings scares her, he gives her TANGIBLE control over him, & it’s so…👩🏾‍🍳💋🔥
Snippet from Sarah MacLean’s ‘No Good Duke Goes Unpunished,’ the Third Rule of Scoundrels book: Her gaze rested on his good hand, clutching the cravat he’d tossed away earlier, the long stretch of cloth at once promise and threat. “You worry about control,” he said. Her heart began to pound. “Yes.” He extended the cravat toward her. After a long moment, she took it, and he lay down on the bed, extending his arms up until his hands met the slats of the headboard. Her mouth went dry at the look of him, spread out before her, broad and beautiful.
August 31, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Also returned from my cruise and while I didn’t do any special celebrating today (too tired!!!), I did get some love from my babies when I got home 🥰
Picture of a white woman in profile holding a fluffy gray and white cat in her arms. A brown hand and wrist are seen on the edge of the photo as said hand reaches out to pet the head of the cat, whose eyes are closed in pleasure. Picture of a light-skinned Black woman in a long black t-shirt in profile. She has long cornrow braids and wears clear-ish purple glasses. In her arms, she holds a brown and white tabby cat. The cat is looking away from the camera, but the woman is looking at it, her face partially obscured by the cat’s head.
July 27, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Ad infinitum.
Meme of 5 Black men in puffer jackets. They’re all throwing up various gang signs. Overlaid on the picture, it says, “Fuck Greg Abbott” / “All my homies hate Greg Abbott”.
July 17, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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Since I’ve returned to my writing business, I revisited my writing Tumblr and some old fic and found a screenshot of one of the texts a friend sent me at the time in response to a one-shot I wrote. It might still be one of the best reactions to my writing that I’ve ever received.
Screenshot of a text message I received from a friend after she’d read a Niall Horan AU one-shot I’d written. It says in all caps, “HE’S SOFT AND GENTLE BUT LIKE ALSO SEXY AF LIKE GET OUT MARISA YOU TEACH CHILDREN” and it’s HILARIOUS to me because yes, I do teach children, but also, I am a ~writer who loves her sex scenes and character development!!!
July 10, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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Found the most perfect pillow at Marshalls today.
Picture of a light-skinned Black woman with short, coily dark hair, wearing clear purple glasses, a blue T-shirt, and holding up a pillow. It has a cross-stitch type of design on it. The border is a floral motif with pink, blue, green, and yellow, and in the center, on a white rectangular background, it says, “Thanks, It’s the Trauma”.
July 5, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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I’ve been watching a lot of Fire Country so when I read “skinny” and “rangy,” Billy Burke came to mind.
Picture of Billy Burke, a tall, skinny white man with longish gray hair and a mustache. He’s dressed in dirty black boots, dark blue trousers, and a navy blue shirt with a logo in yellow printed capital letters. The logo says CAL FIRE. This picture is from a photo shoot for his current series, Fire Country.
May 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Look what arrived today!!! @nicwillwrites.bsky.social
Picture of a book and an illustration being held up against a backdrop of mustard yellow curtains. The cover has a pink background and shows a tall, brown-haired white man with a light blue backwards cap. He’s wearing a blue apron over a burgundy shirt and jeans. Beside him is a plus-sized Black woman who has brown, curly hair to just past her shoulders and is wearing a yellow skirt and a light pink, off-the-shoulder crop-top. She is pulling him close by the strings of his apron, and they are staring into one another’s eyes, their noses touching, as he holds up a lottery ticket. The book is Just Our Luck by Denise Williams.
March 28, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Soothing my soul and my mind today with some Jason Reeves.
Screenshot of the song “Rescue” playing in Apple Music, from the EP “Caged Birds Set Free” by Jason Reeves. The cover features a crow in profile sitting atop a low orange hill, beneath a blue, cloud-filled sky. The crow’s mouth is open, and little doodles of orange birds are flying from its mouth. At the top is the artist’s name, “JASON REEVES” in all capital, boxed lettering, with the first letter of each name in orange while the other letters are blue. Below the crow on the hill is the EP title in orange lowercase letters— “caged birds set free”.
March 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Thinking about ✨them✨ (Spencer and Trina) #Sprina
Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Tatyana Ali as Spencer Cassadine and Trina Robinson on General Hospital. Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Tatyana Ali as Spencer Cassadine and Trina Robinson on General Hospital.
March 12, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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We also probably have some solid plans for Friday (I’m taking the whole day off)! Her response? Exactly why we’re friends.
Screenshot of a text message thread. The first message has a link to an event that is a One Direction-themed dance party called While We’re Young. The message attached to the link says, “Ummmmmmmmm but what if we made some specific plans for the 31st…” The reply message says “Let’s get…..crazy crazy crazy?” Which is perfect because these are lyrics from “Live While We’re Young,” the 1D song the event is named after.
January 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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I can see it a bit in that particular picture! Sometimes I forget that Kirsten played two of my favorite characters growing up (Zenon and Belle). Here are some others of them:
Jason Cook and Kirsten Storms. Kirsten Storms and Jason Cook.
December 25, 2024 at 11:48 PM
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A few of mine:
* Shawn-Douglas Brady & Belle Black, DAYS
* Chloe Lane & Philip Kiriakis, DAYS
* Jessica Buchanan & Cristian Vega, OLTL
* Spencer Cassadine and Trina Robinson, GH
Jason Cook and Kirsten Storms as Shawn-Douglas Brady and Belle Black on Days of Our Lives. Nadia Bjorlin and Jay Kenneth Johnson as Chloe Lane and Philip Kiriakis on Days of Our Lives. Erin Torpey and David Fumero as Jessica Buchanan and Cristian Vega on One Life to Live. Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Tabyana Ali as Spencer Cassadine and Trina Robinson on General Hospital.
December 25, 2024 at 1:31 PM
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Cleaning my room and shaking ass to a forever favorite. While I love many of SoMo’s releases, his 2017 release, ‘The Answers’ will always hold my heart (and make me wanna throw that ass in a circle).
Screenshot of an album playing in Apple Music. The album cover is for SoMo’s ‘The Answers’. It features the artist in black-and-white close-up, leaning into his hand and staring at the camera.
December 23, 2024 at 12:11 AM
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Might’ve gone a little ham at the Book Fair today. These kids better know how much I love them.
A stack of books sitting upon the surface of a teacher desk. In the stack: The Storyteller by Brandon Hobson, Camp Scare by Delilah S. Dawson, This Wicked Fate and This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron, Going Viral by Katie Cicatelli-Kuc, The Secret Battle of Evan Pao by Wendy Wan-Long Shang, Smaller Sister by Maggie Edkins Willis, Tumble by Celia C. Pérez, Dreamer by Akim Aliu, Queen Bee by Amalie Howard, Mabuhay! by Zachary Sterling, and School Trip by Jerry Craft.
December 11, 2024 at 9:58 PM
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We put our tree up right after Thanksgiving as well! Ash and I got things all squared away this evening.
Picture of a lit Christmas tree with a white, bright light-up star on top. Picture of a living room with a decorated Christmas tree, a lighted garland stretched across the entertainment center, and stocking hanging from the top of it. Picture of a living room with a decorated Christmas tree and a gray couch decorated with Christmas pillows.
November 30, 2024 at 2:52 AM
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With the holiday season almost upon us, it feels right to re-share what brought me back to my fanfic roots when #Sprina captured my heart (and kept it!) last year.

Here’s “(To Be) In Love on Christmas” (and yes, it’s named after an NSYNC song b/c I’m *me*) archiveofourown.org/works/52878142
A collage of screenshots of actors Tabyana Ali and Nicholas Alexander Chavez portraying the characters Trina Robinson and Spencer Cassadine from General Hospital.
November 26, 2024 at 1:58 AM
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Tell us your birth year by sharing the cover of an album that was released the year you were born
The cover for Guy’s self-titled debut album.
November 25, 2024 at 3:46 AM
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Bright spots of my week: 2 of my students gave me gifts. One presented me w/ a small clay sculpture of a ghost he made b/c he “knows how much I love Spooky Season”. I have named it Espooky. The other gave me a drawstring bag filled with chocolate, cat stickers, & a bracelet that says “Cat Lover”.🥰
Picture of a hand holding a small white handmade sculpture of a ghost. It was a present from one of my students this week because he knows how much I love “Spooky Season”. Picture of the overhead view of a beaded bracelet upon a light brown wrist. The beads are black and white. From this angle, the beads viewed are black, cube-shaped, and have white lettering that spells out, “CAT LOVER”. Creating a space between the two words is a round white bead with a black star on it. This was another student gift I received this week.
November 17, 2024 at 5:55 PM
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One thing to know about me is that I’m a music fiend. I find solace, joy, and understanding in the music that catches my ear, regardless of genre.

Here are a few albums I can’t get enough of lately:
- FLO, Access All Areas
- SoMo, 9 Lives
- GloRilla, GLORIOUS
- Megan Thee Stallion, MEGAN: ACT II
Screenshot of the album cover for FLO’s debut album, Access All Areas. Three young Black women wearing form-fitting red dresses stand in front of a red background with the group’s name, FLO, above them in slanted black lettering. A screenshot of the album cover for SoMo’s album, 9 Lives. Against a black background, SoMo is in black-and-white profile, exhaling smoke into the air that has taken the shape of a 9, giving homage to this being his 9th album. A screenshot of the cover for GloRilla’s album, GLORIOUS. A close-up picture of GloRilla in color is featured on the cover. Her dark hair is wavy with edges laid, and she’s wearing large gold hoops. Her face is tilted slightly, so there’s a camera glare off the hoop in her left ear. Screenshot of Megan The Stallion’s album, MEGAN: ACT II. It’s a close-up of Megan’s mouth, with a jewel-encrusted grill that also features some butterflies. The album title is in large lettering above and below her mouth, in a font that mimics the diamonds in her grill.
November 17, 2024 at 4:47 PM
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Back on my bullshit (aka reading another Lorraine Heath series from my TBR shelf)
Hand holding up a book, Between the Devil and Desire by Lorraine Heath. It features a red cover with the title and author’s name in slim gold lettering, and a picture of a white woman with auburn hair wrapped in a red sheet being held to her chest by her hand.
November 11, 2024 at 4:20 AM