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Jessica Samhain🔮🎃

@jessicajrossana.bsky.social

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Editorial Assistant. Freelance editor. Former Bookseller. Writer. TBR pile is frankly out of control. Books, Broadway, Baking, and Bards. She/Her. 💖💜💙

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Jessica Samhain🔮🎃 @jessicajrossana.bsky.social · Oct 17

Hi new Bluesky users! 👋 I’m Jess. I currently work in academic publishing, but have also been a bookseller, freelance editor, and comics editor.

Give me a follow if you want to hear rants re books and pop culture, see what I’m baking, and find out what I’m playing in my current ttrpg campaigns

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Jessica Samhain🔮🎃 @jessicajrossana.bsky.social · 7h

Are we down two games? Sure. Are we playing consistently? Hell no. But are we winning right now? Yes and nothing else matters.

Jessica Samhain🔮🎃 @jessicajrossana.bsky.social · 7h

This is about the Phillies

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Jessica Samhain🔮🎃 @jessicajrossana.bsky.social · 7h

WE ARE SO BACK BABY

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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 10h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

An image of Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music, twirling on an alpine meadow in a long Austrian skirt, next to an image of Christopher Plummer as Georg Von Trapp in the same movie, tearing a Nazi flag in half.

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Jessica Samhain🔮🎃 @jessicajrossana.bsky.social · 15h

describe your bluesky account in a single image

Jessica Samhain🔮🎃 @jessicajrossana.bsky.social · 18h

Thank goodness they’re doing montages of various places around San Fran at the top of every episode. Otherwise I’d never remember where the show takes place.

Jessica Samhain🔮🎃 @jessicajrossana.bsky.social · 18h

Oooh Magic School. I remember this plot line. And for some reason the mom from Boy Meets World is here?

Jessica Samhain🔮🎃 @jessicajrossana.bsky.social · 19h

Happy birthday to the musical theater GOAT, Les Mis 🥖🇫🇷

The Les Miserables 10th anniversary concert version of One Day More

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 20h

"THESE BOOKS ARE MEDICINAL"

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

doomscroll break

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Chloé Stawski (Spooky Edition 🎃🦇) @chlowski.bsky.social · 1d

hades gals 💀🌸

fanart of Melinoe from Hades 2, wearing a modern outfit (dark jeans, orange top), she has a big tattoo on her right arm, and is about to tie her hair with a hair band (is this how it's called in english ?)
her eyes are closed, she has nice arm muscles and looks extremely lesbian

fanart of Nemesis from Hades 2, wearing a modern outfit (red jeans, black crop top with the Hades sigil as a pattern on it), moon shaped necklace, tattoos on her left arm and pecs, as she's about to tie her hair using a green hairband, her eyes closed
(green light on her right side cause she's standing next to Melinoe's glowing arm, off camera)

fanart of Eris, from Hades 2, she's sitting, right leg with her knee bent, in front of her
right hand on her right foot, left hand on her face, framing her left eye between two fingers
she's wearing big sneakers, micro shorts, some sort of sweater with stripes showing her shoulders
she has apple tree branch tattoos on her thigh and left shoulder

fanart of Medea from Hades 2, but wearing modern clothes (tiny leather shorts with double belt, red/purple leather crop top), a nose ring, necklaces, also big tattoo covering the entire left arm (a snake, a moon crescent, flowers and leaves)
She's sitting, resting on her left hand, her right hand next to her face, conjuring some plague magic that bathes her in green light

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Jessica Samhain🔮🎃 @jessicajrossana.bsky.social · 1d

It’s because every single person in that film is hot af, hope this helps!

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

A relic of horny Hollywood: why The Mummy remains a classic bisexual awakening movie

A floppy-haired Brendan Fraser, a smokey-eyed Rachel Weisz, some grisly scarabs and biblical plagues? Hail to a lost era of multiplex entertainment

www.theguardian.com

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Kelsi Jo @kelsijosilva.bsky.social · 1d

Just witches 🙌🎃🧹

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Jessica Samhain🔮🎃 @jessicajrossana.bsky.social · 1d

September was slow to start and then I devoured the Scared Sexy Collection, but saved the two vampire ones for October

September Reads
City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare, Beautiful Nightmares by Katee Robert, My Boyfriends Are All Monsters by Kimberly Lemming, Falling by Christina Lauren, Spicy Little Curses by JT Geissinger

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Jessica Samhain🔮🎃 @jessicajrossana.bsky.social · 1d

September was slow to start and then I devoured the Scared Sexy Collection, but saved the two vampire ones for October

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thank u, hexed @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social · 1d

This may sound extreme but I am getting tired of watching white men dismantle things that are important to me for no clear reason besides that they can

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Jessica Samhain🔮🎃 @jessicajrossana.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah 😞

I didn’t realize they had been on a publishing pause for a bit. Hopefully they stay in Philly.

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Andrews McMeel Acquires Quirk Books

Effective October 1, Andrews McMeel Publishing has taken over publishing all Quirk backlist and frontlist titles. The Philadelphia-based publisher will become an imprint of AMP, headed by Quirk founde...

www.publishersweekly.com

Jessica Samhain🔮🎃 @jessicajrossana.bsky.social · 1d

Baker & Taylor ceasing operations and Quirk being bought by Andrews McMeel makes it a rough day for publishing news.

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Jessica Samhain🔮🎃 @jessicajrossana.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, because it’s totally optional to breathe. I’ll keep that in mind, thanks.

Assholes.

CNN @cnn.com · 2d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 3d

Aquarius: Some good old fashioned rest and relaxation would do a world of good for your physical and mental well-being. Oh well.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 4d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Jessica Samhain🔮🎃 @jessicajrossana.bsky.social · 4d

Tenth year going to the Rocky Horror Picture Show with shadow cast in my town. Wouldn’t miss it! 👄❤️

Mirror photo of me at the Rocky Horror Picture Show. I’m wearing a cropped RHPS tee and red and black sparkle hot pants with fishnets.

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Jessica Samhain🔮🎃 @jessicajrossana.bsky.social · 5d

What a perfect flag

Jessica Samhain🔮🎃 @jessicajrossana.bsky.social · 5d

Oooh, we’re doing Arthuriana. Lady of the Lake, Excalibur, the whole bit. Piper is the new keeper of Excalibur and/or Nimue? My Masks character can relate.

Jessica Samhain🔮🎃 @jessicajrossana.bsky.social · 5d

They’re really stretching this whole Chris’s identity thing. I remember his backstory from when I used to watch it in the early aughts. But I don’t remember when the reveal happens.

Jessica Samhain🔮🎃 @jessicajrossana.bsky.social · 6d

Oh no! Rest lots and call your doctor and get on Paxlovid if you can. The side effects are annoying, but it really helped me test negative sooner and reduces chances of long Covid. Feel better soon!

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