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Elliot Rae
@heckiot.bsky.social
520 followers 870 following 76 posts
🏳️‍⚧️ they/them
♿ disabled & cute, trans & tired
📢 making good trouble in Calgary, AB
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How was it?! I've actually never worked a day shift. I like sorting the money 😅🤣
March 8, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Oh, yeah, it's a whole thing! I can't take photos in here but there is a little marquee behind the cashiers tonight that says (scrolling) something like "supporting Outlink Centre for Gender & Sexual Diversity." Charities are eligible to participate in casinos every few years and get a cut of the $
March 8, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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🎧📘 They Both Die At The End by Adam Silvera
📆 Finished reading Feb 9, 2025

🌈🌍🪦

sad??? meh. idk, I wanted to like this one but I didn't.

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Cover art for audiobook version of 'They Both Die At The End' by Adam Silvera. The silhouettes of two people walk across a moonlit bridge, city skyline in the background in shades of blue. The people's shadow is a grim reaper figure.
February 9, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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🎧📗 I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie Sue
📆 Finished reading Feb 5, 2025

😬💼☕

witty, tense, realistic

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Cover art for audiobook version of 'I Hope This Finds You Well' by Natalie Sue. Background is bright pink and orange with the title in 3D block letters over the scene of an office with a water cooler, overturned plant, desk in cubicle, email notification, and person lying on the ground behind the cubicle.
February 6, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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📙 A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
📆 Finished reading Feb 3, 2025

🌊🌳😌

heartfelt, hopeful, relaxed

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Book cover of 'A Prayer for the Crown-Shy' by Becky Chambers. A warm sunrise or sunset over a tree-lined, hilly landscape. A bike wagon drives a winding path that runs through the hills.
February 4, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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🎧📒 I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
📆 Finished reading Feb 2, 2025

🎬🤱🏻🍝

emotional, candid, tense

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Audiobook cover for 'I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy, read by the author. The background is a pastel yellow. A photo of the author in a light pink dress peeks out of a darker pink rectangle in the lower middle of the page. She looks off into the distance holding a pink urn.
February 3, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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📘 Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke
📆 Finished reading Jan 31, 2025

🧑🏻‍💻☠️👀

unsettling, absurd, timely

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Book cover of 'Several People Are Typing' by Calvin Kasulke. A computer motherboard in the background, with a sunset on top of it, and a stick person face down at its desk.
February 1, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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I hope so too! Now I get to dive into the sequel (and into her other books) but damn I just really want more with these characters. Mosscap is so earnest.
January 30, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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📕: The Wild Robot Escapes by Peter Brown
📆: Finished reading Jan 30, 2025

🚜👵🏻🪿

cute, quick, predictable

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Book cover of 'The Wild Robot Escapes' by Peter Brown. A variety of pipes in different sizes are pictured. The titular robot stands on top of a thick pipe near the top-middle of the cover.
January 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Oh my gosh. I laughed. I cried. I smiled. Great length, too, for the amount of introspection (untangling sense of self from work) that really hit home.

Not to mention writing an agender/non-binary character so effortlessly, with more depth and personality than just their pronouns. Chef's kiss 🙏🏻🍳
January 28, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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📗: A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
📆: Finished reading Jan 27, 2025

🌱🤖🍵

comforting, reflective, funny

(Sidenote: Many people have recommended Becky Chambers' books to me. Now I understand WHY. Dedication: "For anybody who could use a break." YA OK. HEARD. 😅)

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Book cover of 'A Psalm for the Wild-Built' by Becky Chambers. Title and author name are written in blocky, all-caps text. A person on a bike wagon holding a cup of tea rests at the bottom of a winding path, surrounded by foliage. A silver robot stands near the top of the path, its hand outstretched toward two glowing butterflies.
January 27, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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📒 Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom
📆 Finished reading Jan 23, 2025

💅🏻🪄🏳️‍⚧️

whimsical, surreal, heartfelt

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Book cover for 'Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir' by Kai Cheng Thom. Various cartoon images in pastel colours on a light pink background. Blue hands with long red manicured nails frame the title. One hand holds a cigarette. There is also a pocket knife, a slice of red velvet cake, two swarms of bees, and a mermaid tail.
January 25, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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I shed more than one happy tear. Anyone who's trying to find their "place" in the world can relate, no matter how old they are. Looking forward to reading the rest!
January 25, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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I feel a bit of comfort when I try to remind myself that what I make doesn't have to be "good." Like, it just has to "be."
January 25, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Planning to come by! Working on my submission for the upcoming issue of From the QILT2BAG+ zine. Objects in motion stay in motion (or something like that) and so do Elliots, I've found, so that's what I'm gonna try to do. 💗
January 25, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Well, ain't that the truth... Sigh. Back to it, then.
January 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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📘 The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
📆 Finished reading Jan 23, 2025

🥲🤖🪿

charming, joyful, funny

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Book cover for 'The Wild Robot' by Peter Brown. There is a cartoon robot standing tall atop a pile of large rocks, surrounded by water and pine trees. The sun shines red in the background. The robot's eyes glow white.
January 24, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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📙 She of the Mountains by Vivek Shraya, illustrated by Raymond Biesinger
📆 Finished reading Jan 11, 2025

🌱💗✨

lyrical, heartwarming, subversive

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Book cover for 'She of the Mountains' by Vivek Shraya, illustrated by Raymond Biesinger. Geometric figures inspired by Hindu deities in shades of vivid green and black. The title text and author's name are magenta.
January 24, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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📗 Homes: A Refugee Story by Abu Bakr Al Rabeeah with Winnie Yeung
📆 Finished reading Jan 10, 2025

🌄🌛❤️‍🩹

earnest, authentic, captivating

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Book cover for 'Homes: A Refugee Story' by Abu Bakr Al Rabeeah with Winnie Yeung. There is a cityscape, presumably Homs, Syria based on the setting of the book, but not entirely sure, as the background.
January 24, 2025 at 6:09 AM