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Dr. Holly Walters
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Anthropologist 👣 • Ethnographer of Shaligrams 🐚 and Robot Religion 🤖 • Novelist of "The Way By" 🦄 • TTRPG Storyteller ✨ • (Genderqueer 🤷‍♀️ She/They)
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Aw, I'm blushing a little.

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"To its credit, this book gave me a lot to think about and it is still with me, a few weeks after reading it."--Beth's Bookcase. Grab this 5 star novel from: https://shop.the3littlesisters.com/products/the-way-by-1
February 2, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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These have been dark weeks, and the ones to come may be darker still.

But the fire of the new spring has been lit.
A candle burns in the snow, a common symbol of Imbolc, the early February festival marking the seasonal turn toward spring.
February 2, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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Blessed Imbolc.

My third novel, Wayward, has begun!
February 1, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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Kisses.
February 1, 2026 at 1:07 AM
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Everything is terrible. Except for snuggly dogs.

Good night and good luck.
Carter, with his face mashed into a feather duvet.
February 1, 2026 at 1:06 AM
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Midnight drop of some Midnight Editions of the line-art tees over on dillytodds-shop.fourthwall.com!
Dark editions of By The Way t-shirts available now.
January 30, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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It's going to be SUCH a good time!
The cover of By The Way: The Tales Fairies Tell About Us
January 28, 2026 at 12:06 AM
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Carter is a dedicated Snow Dog (tm). We call this his "face plow" maneuver.
January 26, 2026 at 11:48 PM
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Even my video game gets it.
Vat: It's the girl's own fault. If she hadn't resisted, she'd still be alive. Wyll: Ah yes, that old refrain. "If only she'd obeyed." Words of evil masked as justice. Sickening.
January 26, 2026 at 11:37 PM
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Patricia and Mark McCloskey brought weapons to a protest. They were honored as keynote speakers at the 2020 RNC.
Patricia and Mark McCloskey. Mark is holding an AR-15. And Patricia is holding a small handgun in a manner than can only be described as "bored dilettante who thinks this cigarette holder is so last year but it's the only one she has."
January 26, 2026 at 11:08 PM
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The Simple Sabotage Field Manual
January 26, 2026 at 8:32 PM
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As Imbolc approaches, may the light find you again. Let old heaviness rot back into the land, and let what's meant for you grow without permission.
January 26, 2026 at 8:06 PM
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My poem for today. A hard day. A day when tears fall easier and fists clench harder.
The Lesson Holly Walters The lesson of history Is that no tyrant is appeased Only fed, by sophistry Then seized More power, more prey The marginal, vulnerable Then the mighty to display In sufferable The lesson of history Is that the strong fall farthest Noosed to all upon this tree In harvest But when the wheat bends It is mistaken for submission The root that has not broken Is sedition The fire sleeps in sun warm soil Scattered seeds cast suspicion But kings reign lightless Until ignition.
January 25, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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For Alex Jeffrey Pretti, Murdered by ICE January 24, 2026 by Amanda Gorman We wake with no words, just woe and wound. out own country shoot ing us in the back is not just brutal ity; it's jarring betrayal; not enforcement, but execution. A message: Love your people and you will die. Yet our greatest threat isn't the outsiders among us, but those among us who never look within. Fear not those without papers, but those without conscience. Know that to care intensively, united, is to carry both pain-dark horror for today and a profound, daring hope for tomorrow. We can feel we have nothing to give, and still belove this world wait ing, trembling to change. If we cannot find words, may we find the will; if we ever lose hope, may we never lose our humanity. The only undying thing is mercy, the courage to open ourselves like doors, hug our neighbor and save one more bright, impossible life.
January 25, 2026 at 9:52 PM
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Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez
Keith Porter Jr.
Renee Nichole Good
Alex Jeffery Pretti

They died because they stood up.
January 25, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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I didn't put this sticker there, the library did. I can tell you, I literally almost cried walking past it.
January 25, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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I mean, I realize that it's from my own book, but I seriously love this hoodie!
January 24, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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Breaking: ICE is now reportedly following white people on grocery runs in Minnesota, suspecting they're delivering food to neighbors too afraid to leave their homes. Neighborhood instructions: Don't put the address in your phone. Don't use GPS. Write it on paper. And if you get stopped, eat it.
January 24, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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The American flag made out of chain link fence (blue field) and strings of barbed wire (red and white stripes)
January 23, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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Or, if you can't manage a book right now for any reason, we have shirts! Hoodies! Prints! All kinds of fun stuff.

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Knight Light, the teddy bear knight, original art hoodie in black.
January 21, 2026 at 7:17 PM
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I hate to keep pushing, but my books are some of the only reliable income I have. If you can, please pre-order my new novel, By The Way, and support an indie and LGBTQ+ author and illustrator!

By The Way: shop.the3littlesisters.com/products/by-...
YES, the US book and publishing market absolutely affects the Canadian market. They’re putting out literal millions of titles per year to our 10,000. So the US administration’s chilling effect on #LGBTQ publishing will change what new books you’ll get to read in the next few years. What can you do? - Follow queer authors and their publishers (check out those Canadian and small and academic presses). - Follow literary journals that feature queer work. Share their content. - Most of all, buy their books new whenever you can! Sales of new books determine whether a category will be supported, or an individual author’s next book will make it to print. (Even indie authors have to feel like they can get their books out and recoup their costs.) And do your book shopping in queer spaces where queer and diverse books are prioritized. Spaces like this only exist if you buy books from them. (US friends, this goes for you too.)
January 21, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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Happy First Day of Classes, Sri Narasimha!

#Shaligram #Darshan
My Narasimha Shaligram in his office mandir.
January 21, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins doubled-down on her claim that a healthy meal costs around $3.
The three dollar meal: a piece of broccoli, a piece of chicken, a torilla or small flat bread, and a piece of candy.
January 21, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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We even have Teddy Knight merch at our new By The Way webstore!

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January 20, 2026 at 12:57 AM
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Ladies and Gentlemen, my homeland.
A windchill map of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa showing windchills in the negative forties.
January 19, 2026 at 10:26 PM