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Merrie Haskell
@merriehaskell.bsky.social
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In a library alone; writing; parenting kids 25 years apart in age; polymer clay. Author of Handbook for Dragon Slayers, The Princess Curse, & that short story you half-remember like a dream. See my Patreon for TPC 2.
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Today I learned: I prefer Comice pears over all types available at the store this week, Bosc are bland, Bartletts taste the most like pear jellybellies and are a tiny bit more tasty to me than D'Anjou, the red ones aren't great, and I can't describe what pears taste like.
Plate of sliced pears of varying colors with the fruit sticker placed at the edge of the plate near each pile
October 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Whaaaa---
Standing banner add for conference event with B Dylan Hollis for Baking Across America Sunday at 3:30
June 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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If you see this, quote your green #art.
fairy house jar in natural background of stone and moss and someone's overgrown garden detail of fairy house jar being held by a person; details of moss covering the house walls and a wooden door, plus the leaf-shingled roof, in shades of green and brown and bronze
June 25, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Blooooom
Impatiens and geraniums in extremely bright pinks and reds
May 18, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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These pudgy medieval bees are giving me life. (ms. Barb. Lat 592 f. 4, Vatican Library) "the harvest of the honey"
Medieval line drawing of bees and flowers, part of a hive, and part of a human foot (the foot's owner is offscreen)
May 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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I made a dancing star with a face. (Polymer clay)
A silver polymer clay five-pointed star figurine that's kind of doing warrior pose in yoga, wiggly-limbed, with a kawaii face, standing on a holographic yoga mat on a white background. It's a true object, not AI or a rendering.
May 11, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Dogwood season
Close up of two large white dogwood flowers
May 9, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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My kid and I performed puppet shows for each other. Mine was based on my second book, slightly intending to entice her into it someday, and I learned something very important about story streamlining that I probably shoulda known already....
A room in a house with a tall windows, with a view of a railing, many bare trees, and another house not too far off. At center, a children's puppet theater with a chalkboard front, announcing Kit's Whimsical Theater. A blue sike (cyclorama) is framed by red curtains. A medieval knight puppet is at center. Visible behind the theater are a child's legs. The rest of the room is American middle class with IKEA shelving and table. Behind the theater is a plastic tote and a scattering of puppets, and a low rattan-like chair in front of one window.
April 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Harpsichord time! (2.5 hours ago)
View from the mezzanine of a 3,500-seat concert hall (balcony not pictured). A seated audience waits before an oval stage holding a harpsichord, a bass, two cellos and a number of music stands. The back wall of the stage is an enormous pipe organ. (Hill Auditorium, University of Michigan)
April 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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A waterlily so perfect it looks fake, at the North Carolina Aquarium, Fort Fisher edition.

Not where I was today, mind you. Today I went out and protested.
A cream colored water lily blossom surrounded by green lilypads and dark water
April 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Here are pictures of my moss excursion. There are 94 more.
Dirt path bordered by moss, going up an incline towards probably a rhododendron; the path appears to cut through a flattish, shin-height rock. A garden bench facing away is visible through leafless deciduous bushes; presumably the path curves around to it. The sky is gray-clouded. Brass sign mounted on lichen-covered rock, reading: interpretive moss garden // Given in loving remembrance of Barbara Kremen: poet, writer, moss gardener // Irwin Kremen, artist, Duke Professor of Psychology // By family and friends 2023 Close up of moss in a stone vessel with a black garden marker with white text that reads Plagiomnium cuspidatum, Toothed Moss Close up of tiny-fronded bright green moss in a stone planter, with a white hand written garden marker that reads Claopodium Rostratum
April 3, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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The last time this happened, I joined the Authors' Guild. What do I join this time?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Second screenshot from The Atlantic's search portal for authors with works in the LibGen data. There's a scroll bar rolled down, showing a list led into from the previous picture, of the last 4 works that showed up in a search for Merrie Haskell: The Castle Behind Thorns, "Huntswoman," Handbook for Dragon Slayers, and "Fine-tuning the Universe." At the bottom, this disclaimer fades away: LibGen contains errors. You may, for exmaple, find books that list incorrect authors. This search tool is meant ot reflect material that could be used to train AI programs, and that includs material containing mistakes and [inaccuracies]. Screenshot from The Atlantic's search portal for authors with works in the LibGen data, with "merrie haskell" as the search term. The return says there are six results, with The Princess Curse, "An Almanac for the Alien Invaders" and The Castle Behind Thorns listed. There's a scroll bar (next picture shows the items listed below The Castle Behind Thorns). At the bottom, this disclaimer fades away: LibGen contains errors. You may, for example, find books that list incorrect authors. This search tool is meant ot reflect material that could be used to train AI programs, and that includs material containing mistakes and inaccuracies.
March 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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You can be a brunette white woman or you can be an eerie homunculus of yourself.
The author page of an app about books. The picture purports to be John Scalzi but it's NOT
March 10, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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I think number of pics on the internet that make the difference in your author pic on Bookist, which are clearly AI generated--everyone less photographed appears to be a young brunette woman.
The author page of an app about books. The picture purports to be Rebecca Roanhorse. It's not. Search page of an app about books. The search is for the name Kristin. Of the 9 results displayed, the faces are eerily similar brunette white women around the same age. One author is portrayed slightly older than the others.
March 10, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Had an idea for an app where you Tindr-swipe on books to read. Of course someone already! All was going well with trying the app and not having to make my own with no skills, adding in my favorite books, until WHAT FRESH HELL IS THIS and also THIS and
The author page of an app about books. The picture purports to be Mary Robinette Kowal but it's her portrayed by alt universe Sophie Thompson. AI bullshit! The author page of an app about books. The picture purports to be Stephanie Burgis, but that is not Stephanie Burgis. The author page of an app about books. The picture purports to be Rae Carson. It's not Rae.
March 10, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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I can't with the everything so here's some literal light.
Large brick college building with a central turret extending 3 stories above the roof, with a flag on top, nearly silhouetted against a dramatic sunset with pink-orange mackerel scale clouds across the sky. Snow, pedestrians, sidewalks, and lit globe streetlamps are in the foreground. Location: University of Michigan union in Ann Arbor, USA
February 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Mushroom mushroom (top of jar, polymer clay)
A round, domed (mushroom top) decorative mosaic viewed from the top. The mosaic is composed of interlocking, multicolored acanthus leaves out of polymer clay. The predominant colors are silver and turquoise with accents of violet and sapphire, and some gradients of each.
November 21, 2024 at 4:51 AM
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I drew this during the pandemic. The sentiment remains.
stick figure cartoon of four panels. First: a stick person sits at a laptop computer, typing, with a flat expression. Second: Same expression, the stick figure has kicked back the chair and stands in front of the computer, slightly hunched. Third: action panel of the figure climbing onto the table and moving the laptop back, with its expression remaining the same. Fourth: facial expression unchanged, the stick figure has cracked open their egg-shaped head and allowed a flow of letters and liquid (perhaps blood) to drip onto the computer keyboard. The figure has a thought bubble above their head that reads: "Much easier."
November 20, 2024 at 1:31 AM