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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 3h

Amd misspelled. One word! Stressed like 'understand'! Second vowel is a schwa, and the d is silent!

Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 9h

I get that with plasma donation. It's so profoundly weird. (Like - extremely cool, what a neat machine, isn't it great that we can do these things! but! So weird!)

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 1d

Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿

Screen shot of Project Monarch app map of progress of a monarch butterfly from southern Ontario to Oklahoma.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 1d

Friends! Acquaintances! Enemies! Strangers!

If you have not read Amal's short stories, what a great way to get all caught up.

Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · May 7

Absolutely thrilled to share the cover to next year's short story collection coming out from @tordotcom.bsky.social! I'm obsessed with it!

Comes out March 24, 2026, but you can pre-order it now wherever you like getting your books! Here's Macmillan's link.

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

On a gradient background that goes from blush-pink at the top to a muddy green at the bottom, a book cover. Super-imposed on a pastoral, oil-painting style image depicting a forested foreground and a hilly background beneath a soft champagne sky, is superimposed a 3-dimensional rhomboid-shape, the facets of which play with space. One facet shows a pale cloudy sky, and from it, a brown hare emerges chasing the hind legs and bushy tail of a wolf, the rest of which vanishes out of the rhomboid frame. The rhomboid's other facets -- which create the kind of infinity loop of an Escher painting -- are either blush-pink or covered in the greenery from the background. Above the rhomboid is the title, and the subtitle "Stories"; below it are the words New York Times Bestselling & Award-winning Author Amal El-Mohtar. My name and the word "Stories" are in the same blush-pink as the rhomboid's facets.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 1d

I am EXCITED

Natalie Zed 🍁 @nataliezed.bsky.social · 1d

Getting to show you all this cover and announce that VILLAIN is officially coming out in May of next year is such a joy and a relief i don't even know how to express it.
www.harpercollins.com/products/vil...

the cover for a book entitled Villain by Natalie Zina Walschots. the cover is a bright magenta with dark blue and teal lettering for the title, and the author's name is in yellow. there is an image of the silhouette of a woman carrying a cane, surrounded by the silhouettes of five superheroes.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 1d

I did say it had been a while! I haven't watched that era of Whedon since it aired and my memories are fuzzy, which is one reason I phrased it as a question. :)

Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 1d

Like - Superman has that very emotional conversation with something going on in the background, but the characters being emotional aren't the ones making the joke, there's just something contextually funny happening.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 1d

It's been a while since I watched a Whedon thing, but I wonder if the difference is that there is an underlying sincerity in Gunn's stuff? I like it for its earnestness.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 2d

ha - reading a book set in the 1920s that mentions a character going to a movie starring Harrison Ford and did a double-take and whaddayaknow:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriso...

Harrison Ford (silent film actor) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 2d

Took a biggish step today toward doing something that's going to help my mother do something she's wanted to do since I was a small child.

(I know that's circuitous, but it's an early step of many! And I have a concrete plan for the rest!)

I can't wait to see her do the thing.

Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 2d

While my mother was recovering from a broken leg, she found a quite firm recliner (of the type marketed towards women - the kind marketed to men are too soft and difficult to get out of) with a handle that also folded it up to be very useful.

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 5d

Lately I've been doing sequence edits of pelicans diving, but for the marine life feed hitting 2k likes, how about a NEARLY FULL BODY HUMPBACK BREACH sequence? 🦑

a humpback whale jumping out of the water, 6 images stacked as it goes from nearly straight up, through to the right where you can see the bottom of the whale, until it slaps down onto the water with a great splash

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 4d

Happy birthday!

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 5d

I got SO STUCK after five of them.

(Thanks for talking about this btw, am enjoying myself a lot.)

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 5d

(And obviously there's a whole aspect that I am never gonna understand, but 'who am I' is a huge question even when you don't have a major update at some point.)

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 5d

(I love reading your posts about dance, btw. Your love for it makes me want to try it myself.)

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 5d

As a cis woman, I have spent about forty years trying to work out who I am as a woman. I think I have nearly cracked it. I think if I had started a couple of years ago, I would be proud to have figured out as much as you have. You are a woman who loves music, and gorgeous dresses, and dance.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 5d

Used to bike home as fast as I could so that I would only miss five minutes at the beginning. Had to make my sister stand in the corner with a wire hanger so we could get the fuzzy Vermont channel.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 5d

Just got back from seeing Elbow play. Hot damn, live music just fills me right up. "One day like this a year would see me right," as the song goes.

Yeah. I need more of that.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 6d

FAVOURITE DUMPLING PLACE NOW DOES BAO

THIS IS NOT A DRILL

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 6d

My city website? Nope. Quebec elections website? Nope.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 6d

Can anyone in quebec find a way yo see a list of candidates for the municipal election? So far my best bet seems to be wandering around town trying to catch party signs like pokémon.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 6d

(Thank goodness it's a relatively sparse set. Still, though, lighting is a beast and I have a cyclorama to hang!)

Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 6d

I am a fan of democracy but also the municipal elections are being held in the theatre on move-in day for Tech Week and I want to bang my head on a wall a little.

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