Rachel 🖤
@rchl-bryn.bsky.social
Writer in TN. Previously AL, Nashville, and NOLA. PhD in English. Southern, leftist, Dolly Parton enthusiast.
I either dreamed it or I found my sweet dead Nanny’s lost chocolate pie recipe recently. Now I can’t find it. Thanksgiving is coming.
(Tell the naturalists to suck on that bleakness. There ain’t ever been a sadder story and you know it.)
(Tell the naturalists to suck on that bleakness. There ain’t ever been a sadder story and you know it.)
November 24, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I either dreamed it or I found my sweet dead Nanny’s lost chocolate pie recipe recently. Now I can’t find it. Thanksgiving is coming.
(Tell the naturalists to suck on that bleakness. There ain’t ever been a sadder story and you know it.)
(Tell the naturalists to suck on that bleakness. There ain’t ever been a sadder story and you know it.)
I just Zoomed with Ann Patchett. This world is crazy
November 3, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I just Zoomed with Ann Patchett. This world is crazy
Recent reads. You can see my October theme has been “books I’m late to.” Unpictured: Trang Thanh Tran’s wonderful dystopian queer southern body horror YA novel They Bloom at Night.
October 13, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Recent reads. You can see my October theme has been “books I’m late to.” Unpictured: Trang Thanh Tran’s wonderful dystopian queer southern body horror YA novel They Bloom at Night.
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Excellent. In the parents’ spare room tonight, and just discovered both bedside tables are stuffed with copies of every memorial service/funeral they have ever been to.
They’re in their mid-eighties.
Sleep well between the Drawers of Death.
They’re in their mid-eighties.
Sleep well between the Drawers of Death.
October 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Excellent. In the parents’ spare room tonight, and just discovered both bedside tables are stuffed with copies of every memorial service/funeral they have ever been to.
They’re in their mid-eighties.
Sleep well between the Drawers of Death.
They’re in their mid-eighties.
Sleep well between the Drawers of Death.
One day you’re young a free. Then you decide you really need to invest in a high quality insulated grocery bag
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
One day you’re young a free. Then you decide you really need to invest in a high quality insulated grocery bag
Voulez-vous une histoire d’un jeune flâneur en essayent de gagner le cœur d’une femme qui souffre la malaise, la déprime? Bref… j’ai le film pour vous. C’était (farfelu) et le film le plus français dans le monde entier
www.rogerebert.com/reviews/four...
www.rogerebert.com/reviews/four...
Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971) movie review (2025) | Roger Ebert
"Four Nights of a Dreamer," Robert Bresson's nocturnal comedy-drama about twenty-somethings in Paris, feels at once old and new.
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September 18, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Voulez-vous une histoire d’un jeune flâneur en essayent de gagner le cœur d’une femme qui souffre la malaise, la déprime? Bref… j’ai le film pour vous. C’était (farfelu) et le film le plus français dans le monde entier
www.rogerebert.com/reviews/four...
www.rogerebert.com/reviews/four...
Are you an English teacher who suffers from “there is a table or desk near me so I must sit atop it while I teach” syndrome? Have you almost flipped said table or desk during class? You’re definitely not entitled to compensation, but: 👯♀️
September 16, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Are you an English teacher who suffers from “there is a table or desk near me so I must sit atop it while I teach” syndrome? Have you almost flipped said table or desk during class? You’re definitely not entitled to compensation, but: 👯♀️
Je suis revenue du Canada/ma vie francophone lol
August 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Je suis revenue du Canada/ma vie francophone lol
Somebody needs to tell gas stations in Kentucky about boiled peanuts
June 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Somebody needs to tell gas stations in Kentucky about boiled peanuts
I say this with nothing but love and reverence in my heart… I had no idea how absolutely crunk the adult night at the skate center in the predominantly Black neighborhood could get. This is remarkable
June 23, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I say this with nothing but love and reverence in my heart… I had no idea how absolutely crunk the adult night at the skate center in the predominantly Black neighborhood could get. This is remarkable
Stephen Graham Jones really is a writer’s writer ain’t he
June 20, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Stephen Graham Jones really is a writer’s writer ain’t he
Is Dale Jr. ok? He’s about to be on a Preparation H advertisement I fear
June 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Is Dale Jr. ok? He’s about to be on a Preparation H advertisement I fear
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Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously
But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state
Keep that same energy of support for her
But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state
Keep that same energy of support for her
June 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously
But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state
Keep that same energy of support for her
But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state
Keep that same energy of support for her
I’m putting chopped up horseradish pickles on my pinto beans instead of chow chow so don’t nobody tell me there ain’t a recession
June 13, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I’m putting chopped up horseradish pickles on my pinto beans instead of chow chow so don’t nobody tell me there ain’t a recession
I have been looking for a small used microwave to borrow for a few weeks or to buy used and I swear you’d think I’m asking for a unicorn that dookies gold. And folks on Marketplace are selling busted Hamilton Beaches for $50 dollars all like, “I KNOW WHAT I GOT HERE”
June 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I have been looking for a small used microwave to borrow for a few weeks or to buy used and I swear you’d think I’m asking for a unicorn that dookies gold. And folks on Marketplace are selling busted Hamilton Beaches for $50 dollars all like, “I KNOW WHAT I GOT HERE”
This may be unpopular in southern studies circles, I don’t even know, but I swear I could listen to Ed Ayers read the phone book
June 11, 2025 at 1:26 PM
This may be unpopular in southern studies circles, I don’t even know, but I swear I could listen to Ed Ayers read the phone book
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just used my bluesky clout™ to score some free books! *puts hand on earpiece* i'm being told it was actually a Little Free Library and i have to return these copies of One Bowl Microwave Recipes
June 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
just used my bluesky clout™ to score some free books! *puts hand on earpiece* i'm being told it was actually a Little Free Library and i have to return these copies of One Bowl Microwave Recipes
Currently playing “how long can I keep my iPad in airplane mode so my Libby ebook won’t get returned” roulette. Don’t tell anybody that I’m a criminal
June 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Currently playing “how long can I keep my iPad in airplane mode so my Libby ebook won’t get returned” roulette. Don’t tell anybody that I’m a criminal
I feel like somebody is lying or I’m having a stroke. Lightning bugs aren’t out yet. I have not seen a one. Anyone who says it’s “peak” lightning bug season is full of it
June 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I feel like somebody is lying or I’m having a stroke. Lightning bugs aren’t out yet. I have not seen a one. Anyone who says it’s “peak” lightning bug season is full of it
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Meanwhile at IU
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/u...
June 6, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Meanwhile at IU
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/u...
I need y’all to understand how VINDICATED I feel now, as an adult, designing my summer course… USING THE HTML CODING SKILLS I DEVELOPED ON NEOPETS AND AOL. My dad told me to quit wasting my summers…well, lookie here, Donnie
June 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I need y’all to understand how VINDICATED I feel now, as an adult, designing my summer course… USING THE HTML CODING SKILLS I DEVELOPED ON NEOPETS AND AOL. My dad told me to quit wasting my summers…well, lookie here, Donnie
I know we’re at the end of a Strauss-Howe unraveling or K Wave because my local used bookstore is trying to sell absolutely busted paperback copies of Suttree for $20. Be so for real, goofy
June 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I know we’re at the end of a Strauss-Howe unraveling or K Wave because my local used bookstore is trying to sell absolutely busted paperback copies of Suttree for $20. Be so for real, goofy
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Cleaned up my camera roll and found this absolute banger of a meme from 2018
June 5, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Cleaned up my camera roll and found this absolute banger of a meme from 2018
Oh wow, Tanya… IYKYK 🪷😮
June 5, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Oh wow, Tanya… IYKYK 🪷😮