Marley Rose-Teter
@marleyroseteter.bsky.social
Writer. Theatre director. Occasional anime panelist. Once jammed a knife into my leg while carving a pumpkin. Queerer and queerer. She/her. Rep: Hannah Andrade
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Well, the rabbit's out of the PM bag! I have a lot of thoughts on what it means at last to be fulfilling the dream I've nurtured since I was 7 years old, but for right now I'm afraid all I have for you is the mental image of me flapping in a circle while I shout, I'M GOING TO BE A PUBLISHED AUTHOR!!
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𝔗𝔥𝔦𝔠𝔨𝔢𝔱 𝔓𝔞𝔯𝔢𝔦𝔡𝔬𝔩𝔦𝔞
November 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
𝔗𝔥𝔦𝔠𝔨𝔢𝔱 𝔓𝔞𝔯𝔢𝔦𝔡𝔬𝔩𝔦𝔞
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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
All my favorite art has visible texture (see: my beloved Jack B Yeats), and this walloped my heart, looking unlike any texture I've ever seen. I can FEEL this, and I love that.
Martin Lewis, “Bay Windows” (1929), drypoint and sand ground, 19.9 x 30 cm.
November 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
All my favorite art has visible texture (see: my beloved Jack B Yeats), and this walloped my heart, looking unlike any texture I've ever seen. I can FEEL this, and I love that.
So I just googled "matcha man" and am cracking up, especially at the Wikipedia list of possible interests for them that includes "therapy."
This week my niece started talking to me about "male matcha manipulators" and once I understood what she was talking about, I could not stop laughing. Language is alive.
November 28, 2025 at 9:51 PM
So I just googled "matcha man" and am cracking up, especially at the Wikipedia list of possible interests for them that includes "therapy."
Y'all should have seen the look of horror on my face and how I took an actual literal step backwards at Thanksgiving dinner when someone mentioned my book and someone else exclaimed, "You wrote a book? What is it about?"
Clearly, my elevator pitch needs work ^.^;;;
Clearly, my elevator pitch needs work ^.^;;;
November 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Y'all should have seen the look of horror on my face and how I took an actual literal step backwards at Thanksgiving dinner when someone mentioned my book and someone else exclaimed, "You wrote a book? What is it about?"
Clearly, my elevator pitch needs work ^.^;;;
Clearly, my elevator pitch needs work ^.^;;;
Far superior to eating pie for Thanksgiving dessert is eating pie for day-after-Thanksgiving breakfast.
November 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Far superior to eating pie for Thanksgiving dessert is eating pie for day-after-Thanksgiving breakfast.
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this kid is going places. "english folklore" has the same syllables and stress pattern as "motherfucker", not to mention "folk" does the same labial-dental-fricative-to-velar-plosive thing that "fuck" does, and "lore" neatly takes the place of "-er."
My 7 year old just reached for a piece of pizza fresh out of the oven and exclaimed, in the same tone as an adult swearing…
“English folklore, that’s hot!”
I choked laughing ENGLISH FOLKLORE AS A SWEAR? WHO ARE YOU?!?
“English folklore, that’s hot!”
I choked laughing ENGLISH FOLKLORE AS A SWEAR? WHO ARE YOU?!?
November 26, 2025 at 11:47 PM
this kid is going places. "english folklore" has the same syllables and stress pattern as "motherfucker", not to mention "folk" does the same labial-dental-fricative-to-velar-plosive thing that "fuck" does, and "lore" neatly takes the place of "-er."
Today in minor writer grievances:
I hate when my characters don't have my same frames of reference. I'm trying to describe a building shaped like the Globe Theatre but with a big ol' tree growing up the center. But I can't just SAY that---because my MC would never think of it that way. Bah.
I hate when my characters don't have my same frames of reference. I'm trying to describe a building shaped like the Globe Theatre but with a big ol' tree growing up the center. But I can't just SAY that---because my MC would never think of it that way. Bah.
November 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Today in minor writer grievances:
I hate when my characters don't have my same frames of reference. I'm trying to describe a building shaped like the Globe Theatre but with a big ol' tree growing up the center. But I can't just SAY that---because my MC would never think of it that way. Bah.
I hate when my characters don't have my same frames of reference. I'm trying to describe a building shaped like the Globe Theatre but with a big ol' tree growing up the center. But I can't just SAY that---because my MC would never think of it that way. Bah.
ABSOLUTELY adopting this swear.
My 7 year old just reached for a piece of pizza fresh out of the oven and exclaimed, in the same tone as an adult swearing…
“English folklore, that’s hot!”
I choked laughing ENGLISH FOLKLORE AS A SWEAR? WHO ARE YOU?!?
“English folklore, that’s hot!”
I choked laughing ENGLISH FOLKLORE AS A SWEAR? WHO ARE YOU?!?
November 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
ABSOLUTELY adopting this swear.
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oh geez... i gotta really go through all the photos from the year, too many cool ones... like seeing my first western screech owl.
November 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
oh geez... i gotta really go through all the photos from the year, too many cool ones... like seeing my first western screech owl.
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
The only instrument I've ever really played is the shamisen, and this is the energy I like to think I bring.
'Skeleton Wearing a Top Hat Playing the Shamisen for a Small Dancing Yōkai' (circa 1870)
Kawanabe Kyōsai
Kawanabe Kyōsai
November 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The only instrument I've ever really played is the shamisen, and this is the energy I like to think I bring.
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A story in four parts. This second year polar bear cub wasn't feeling it anymore. Mom, however, reminded her that they needed to keep moving with a few potentially dangerous males nearby. However, the effects of the pep talk didn't last long :) #Mammals #BearSeason2025 🌿
November 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
A story in four parts. This second year polar bear cub wasn't feeling it anymore. Mom, however, reminded her that they needed to keep moving with a few potentially dangerous males nearby. However, the effects of the pep talk didn't last long :) #Mammals #BearSeason2025 🌿
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tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
Seems like a good time to remind people that a fantastic place to get recipes is your local library! They have shelves and shelves of cookbooks! With real recipes! For free!
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Seems like a good time to remind people that a fantastic place to get recipes is your local library! They have shelves and shelves of cookbooks! With real recipes! For free!
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THIS is what I come to social media for. Some truly fantastic stories in here XD
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 25, 2025 at 5:49 AM
THIS is what I come to social media for. Some truly fantastic stories in here XD
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If you can't afford to buy books, use the library.
That is literally one of the reasons it exists.
That is literally one of the reasons it exists.
November 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
If you can't afford to buy books, use the library.
That is literally one of the reasons it exists.
That is literally one of the reasons it exists.
29! That's by far the best it's been since I first started checking! Good omen for the year in which my debut novel is published?
the japanese luck calendar is out, how lucky is your 2026 based on your birthday? 👀
November 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
29! That's by far the best it's been since I first started checking! Good omen for the year in which my debut novel is published?
Oh, I LOVE it! It's this kind of incredible creativity that sparks life in me.
November 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Oh, I LOVE it! It's this kind of incredible creativity that sparks life in me.
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November 22, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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I still think about this tweet.
![[screenshot of a tweet by twitter user @C_Zinkiev. text of tweet follows]
"Went on a date with a guy I really like. I dressed nice, did myhair, ggave him an extensvie 30 minute lecture on coelacanths, yet I haven't heard from him 🤔 the only thing I can think of is perhaps I did not provide enough information about coelacanths?? Fish people pls advise"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7soh2zyx7vqj37ngempaec4d/bafkreiafxfntj3c2wadbmdt36vatmhjtwbwf3b74y3irqmrnlx7mbpbtqy@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I still think about this tweet.
Kiddo spent a sizable chunk of the morning eating Brown Bear, Brown Bear. Which is fine: it's his book to eat. But I eventually thought, Perhaps he'd like a toy actually meant for chewing? and swapped out his book. Tears. Only wanted Brown Bear.
And I mean, yeah, I feel ya. I gobble up books, too.
And I mean, yeah, I feel ya. I gobble up books, too.
November 23, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Kiddo spent a sizable chunk of the morning eating Brown Bear, Brown Bear. Which is fine: it's his book to eat. But I eventually thought, Perhaps he'd like a toy actually meant for chewing? and swapped out his book. Tears. Only wanted Brown Bear.
And I mean, yeah, I feel ya. I gobble up books, too.
And I mean, yeah, I feel ya. I gobble up books, too.
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THREAD.
The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside.
1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.
The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside.
1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.
November 17, 2025 at 8:17 AM
THREAD.
The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside.
1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.
The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside.
1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.
I'm not actually a Tim Burton fan...but I adore this? Especially goofy-doofy Ichabod on his goofy-doofy horse? I'm also just a sucker for a sketchy art style.
Tim Burton’s concept sketches for SLEEPY HOLLOW, released on this day in 1999.
November 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I'm not actually a Tim Burton fan...but I adore this? Especially goofy-doofy Ichabod on his goofy-doofy horse? I'm also just a sucker for a sketchy art style.