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Anika Dane @pixiedane.bsky.social · 3h

#Costober2025 day 8: Star Trek (2009)

Because of this movie Jim Kirk leapt from ‘character I like because he’s in Star Trek’ to one of my favourite characters across all fandoms. Kelvin!Kirk, played by the best Chris, will always be my Kirk.

Anika in the style of Star Trek (2009), wearing a gold mini dress with a black cardigan and small Trek delta at the collar, and over the knee black boots.

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Anika Dane @pixiedane.bsky.social · 4h

I love the weird timeline

Anika Dane @pixiedane.bsky.social · 7h

Quick check in to celebrate Les Mis, give an update on Bruno, and warn that my post will be late: open.substack.com/pub/manicpix...

At the Barricades of Freedom

We don't not need Les Mis right now.

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Anika Dane @pixiedane.bsky.social · 8h

#Costober2025 day 7: Wimbledon (2004)

I love sports movies and this one is a actually a love story. It’s smart, it’s fun, and it’s winning. Mainly it makes me smile no matter how many times I’ve seen it. The definition of feel good.

Anika in the style of Wimbledon wearing white tennis skirt and black athletic top and holding a pink racket.

A shit from further away showing Anika preparing to serve.

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Vulture @vulture.com · 1d

October book-release recommendations in fiction and nonfiction include Thomas Pynchon’s account of rising fascism, a millennial cheating novel, and a memoir from a James Beard winner.

7 New Books You Should Read This October

October book-release recommendations in fiction and nonfiction include Thomas Pynchon’s account of rising fascism, a millennial cheating novel, and a memoir from a James Beard winner.

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Anika Dane @pixiedane.bsky.social · 1d

As a kid, I was obsessed with Hayley Mills. Summer Magic was a proto Hallmark film: the heroine left the big city for a small town and found love. It’s a silly and sweet romance with a protagonist that lies her way into and out of trouble and I wanted to be her.

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Anika Dane @pixiedane.bsky.social · 1d

#Costober2025 day six: Summer Magic (1963)

Anika dressed in the style of Summer Magic, wearing a yellow sundress and a white shawl.

Anika’s yellow sundress and ruffled pink shoes.

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Anika Dane @pixiedane.bsky.social · 1d

I got The Chariot and Strength.

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Anika Dane @pixiedane.bsky.social · 2d

This bar’s cocktail menu is a tarot deck.

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Anika Dane @pixiedane.bsky.social · 3d

New #LetsTalkTelevision! I have a lot to say about the very bad no good portrayal of mental healthcare in this week's #BrilliantMinds and OG #Law&Order. But two of my longstanding OTPs kissed and #SVU remembered that Elliot exists for the second week in a row!

Let's Talk Television: My Ships Are Real

A good week for Hannah/Archer, Bradley/Cory, and EO, but an awful week for mental health.

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Claudia ✨ @madamcrusher.bsky.social · 3d

We're so close to make this puppy feel better again, please help.
In return I promise photos of his fluffy self to make your timelines better! THANK YOU.
Donors, friends, people who keep reposting, THANK YOU ALL!

Claudia ✨ @madamcrusher.bsky.social · 10d

Thor needs your help to feel better and start playing like he's still 5 months again, please.
gofund.me/f877095b9

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Anika Dane @pixiedane.bsky.social · 4d

Once again, if anyone in our deep blue school district had asked my son about his gender, instead of calling everything he went thru anxiety, it would have saved both of us years of misery, heartbreak, and stress. These people are fighting a false reality for clicks and donations.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Burchett: "One thing we found out during covid, we started looking over kids' shoulders at what they were getting from schools & these young children we ought to have more control over are soaking this up & that's why you're seeing the explosion of transgender. To me it's demonic, from pits of hell"

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Anika Dane @pixiedane.bsky.social · 4d

Planning works every time and I am still surprised by it every time.

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Amy Imhoff @amyimhoff1701.bsky.social · 6d

Before my feed becomes all Taylor/SHOWGIRL:

World Space Week starts Saturday & we're celebrating all next week! Join us on Tuesday Oct 7 at noon ET for a live Zoom call on Women in Space: Claiming Power & Creating Equity 💫

Link in next comment - submit your questions by Monday evening!

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Anika Dane @pixiedane.bsky.social · 6d

I can’t decide if this is stupid or clever. Both, I suppose. But it got my attention.

Photo of a car in traffic. It’s a HYUNDAI with the bumper sticker “I bought this before Elon went crazy” more typically seen on Tesla, but Hyundai is a competitor.

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Anika Dane @pixiedane.bsky.social · 6d

But here’s Bruno and my new favorite Ken.

Anika in her Barbie sweater poses with Bruno, a cat kissing her cheek as she grins.

Anika poses with Barbie Mysteries Beach Detective Ken with the caption Would 100% watch Law&Order: Barbie.

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Anika Dane @pixiedane.bsky.social · 6d

I planned for this year’s Costober to be themed around “Movies About Me” and to write up blurbs about the movies. However, all planning and prep were delayed by the cat crisis. I can’t promise to post every day, I can’t promise any blurbs, and I will be recycling looks from previous years/occasions.

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Anika Dane @pixiedane.bsky.social · 6d

#Costober2025 day one: Barbie (2023)

Anika wears a pink fuzzy sweater with Barbie written in black script across the chest and black slacks. Her blonde hair is pulled back in a braid with long bangs framing her face. She poses in front of the Barbie display in a store holding Barbie and Ken dolls from the movie.

Anika poses in her Barbie sweater looking to the right with an enigmatic expression

Anika poses in a window with her cat, Bruno, a tabby who recently had surgery so his legs are shorn. They both look somewhat serene.

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Anika Dane @pixiedane.bsky.social · 7d

Yessssssss

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Anika Dane @pixiedane.bsky.social · 7d

Later and later retirements keep careers stagnant, too. We lose the ability to build institutional knowledge in the new generation and simultaneously keep institutions from evolving when new people bring new ideas. It’s bad for everyone and everything.

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Anika Dane @pixiedane.bsky.social · 9d

I have like forty things I’m working on because I keep getting stuck. Sending you positive writing vibes!

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Anika Dane @pixiedane.bsky.social · 9d

Relatable!!

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Anika Dane @pixiedane.bsky.social · 9d

I didn’t love Hillary but I will always remember she had a plan to provide money and training to anyone affected by closing coal mines. Because working in a coal mine isn’t just bad for the environment and now the economy, it is bad for PEOPLE. But please, go on about the Chardonnay set.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 9d

1. More Americans work at the Cheesecake Factory than in the entire coal industry, and that won't change. It's because of automation, not snooty libs.

2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar.

3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."

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Anika Dane @pixiedane.bsky.social · 10d

I live to serve!

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