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Reina 🎃 (she/her)

@reinamwilliams.bsky.social

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Round as Pooh, shy as Piglet, glum as Eeyore, irritable as Rabbit. Reading & writing HEAs & KidLit. For peace, trans rights, and reparations. Linktree: https://t.co/tIOvhhKZat On stolen Ohlone land. Supporting https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/

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Reina 🎃 (she/her) @reinamwilliams.bsky.social · Mar 9

Did you know I've written over 30 books?
A thread of the mostly cozy, kisses-only romances available (contemporary and historical) 👇
Content notes: www.reinamwilliams.com/p/content-ad...

Amazon: amzn.to/3s3kUDg
Apple: apple.co/3DVvhuW
Barnes & Noble: bit.ly/3ES0h0n
Kobo: bit.ly/3ylmCke

Reina 🎃 (she/her) @reinamwilliams.bsky.social · Dec 18

Cozy up with a short, sweet (free) Christmas read! #CozyRomance Meet the 7 Manning brothers & their found family in #MontanaMatchmakers
Sweet Christmas
❤️childhood sweethearts to more
❤️sharp baker x soft artist
❤️forced proximity
Amazon: www.amazon.com/Sweet-Christ...
Other: books2read.com/u/b5QEN7

graphic with a photo background of a red and white heart-shaped steaming mug on a snowy, sparkly area with an e-reader on the left with the book cover for Sweet Christmas and the text in red above the mug "Cozy up with a sweet holiday read!" and the Books 2 Read and Amazon logos on the bottom

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Reina 🎃 (she/her) @reinamwilliams.bsky.social · 7h

Love them, especially the felt rabbit!

Reina 🎃 (she/her) @reinamwilliams.bsky.social · 8h

Yep!

Reina 🎃 (she/her) @reinamwilliams.bsky.social · 8h

Can't rewind #BeyondTheGates either, so does anyone know if what Carlton said about knowing Nicole since elementary school and working up courage to ask her out and never doing it was true? (episode 145)
They said something about sarcasm, so I'm not sure.

Reina 🎃 (she/her) @reinamwilliams.bsky.social · 9h

Why does Paramount+ sometimes disable fast-forward on #BTG and other times not? If Ashley or Derek show up and I can't ff... (it's bad enough Tomas is on my screen)
Meanwhile, Dani cracks me up.

Reina 🎃 (she/her) @reinamwilliams.bsky.social · 12h

Scored some things I've been looking for at the thrift store (with a coupon), I have 4 days off from work with library books to read, it's been breezy enough to make it cooler and rustle leaves in the trees, and I'm watching The Goonies and Muppet Treasure Island.
Hope tomorrow is better for you.

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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Reina 🎃 (she/her) @reinamwilliams.bsky.social · 13h

Rewatching The Goonies. First saw it in the theater with my sister when it released, and young me had a crush on Brand.
And now I want rocky road ice cream.

Reina 🎃 (she/her) @reinamwilliams.bsky.social · 14h

Whale Rider

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 17h

Name your Fav Non-American Film.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 14h

The apple harvest is underway in upstate NY. Reflective film is on the ground at many orchards to allow the apples to get extra sun. This can turn a warm day into a hot one for workers, as the sun’s rays are magnified and bounced onto the workers. #WeFeedYou

An apple orchard in upstate New York with reflective film on the ground to catch more heat

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Rashmi Sirdeshpande @rashmiwriting.bsky.social · 4d

Cover reveal - So proud to be paired with the amazing Nakul P for our new picture book SUPER UMA, a story about sensory overload, teamwork and empathy. Out in April 2026 with @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social

Cover of picture book Super Uma. Features a little South Asian girl, a small unicorn doing a flying kick and a South Asian grandma figure with a helmet and motorbike with fire motifs, all set against the sparkly colourful background of a magical world.

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 1d

as a chicagoan, this is obviously an episode very relevant to me right now. but this will be all of our cities and towns, soon. support local organizations, support independent news, and support each other.

Fated Mates @fatedmates.net · 1d

We're thinking about Chicago, DC, and LA this week, and standing in solidarity with the people living and resisting in those cities. While reading isn't action, it can supplement it, and keep us joyful as we do the hard work of standing up.

S08.04: We Love You Chicago, Dc, and LA — Fated Mates: Romance Books for Novel People

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Robert Daniels @812filmreviews.com · 9d

Marya’s Letterboxd is a fantastic resource for films directed by women, silent films, old Hollywood, noir, Palestinian movies and just about anything else made under the sun.

🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 9d

Can I get to 10K on @letterboxd.social before the end of the year?!

Get your daily dose of obscure film takes here: letterboxd.com/oldfilmsflic...

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The Latest Kate @thelatestkate.bsky.social · 1d

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A drawing of a black cat resting under a blanket. The caption reads, "please be patient with yourself; it all feels overwhelming because it IS overwhelming"

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Wendy Sparrow @wendysparrow.bsky.social · 1d

I've been meaning to do a thread on pain and pain management for a while now.

It seems like now is a good time. 1/

#ChronicPain #Spoonie #Disability

A t-shirt that says, "Life is pain." It's a quote from the movie, The Princess Bride. There an illustration of the "man in black" from the movie above it.

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Reina 🎃 (she/her) @reinamwilliams.bsky.social · 1d

Speak on it 😘

miss piggy from the muppet show is wearing a yellow dress and a pearl necklace

Alt: Miss Piggy from the muppet show is wearing a leopard print dress and a pearl necklace. She smooths her blonde straight hair with a black satin gloved hand with a large sparkly ring on one finger.

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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 1d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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Reina 🎃 (she/her) @reinamwilliams.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure when I'll catch up with #BTG because it sounds like I'll be fast-forwarding more than I'll be watching.

Reina 🎃 (she/her) @reinamwilliams.bsky.social · 1d

I've seen Gio and Emma's scenes from this week, and that's all of #GH I need to watch. ('Cause I've read the recaps...)

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Travels With Brindle Takes Manhattan 11/9 @travelswithbrindle.bsky.social · 1d

For the night crowd

Crooked Marquee @crooked-marquee.bsky.social · 1d

“While ‘Linda Linda Linda’ has been unavailable in America for almost 20 years, this would be a great start for young audiences with an interest in cult movies,” @travelswithbrindle.bsky.social writes:

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Meg Trevey @megglin.bsky.social · 1d

God damn, this one got me. "I cannot make peace with the world such as it is, and so I cannot anesthetize myself into acceptance—and I am okay with that."

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

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Linette🌻 @ohtiniestplanet.bsky.social · 1d

wrong path

gouache painting of a woman standing in tall grass, looking warily over her shoulder, storm clouds scudding by

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 1d

People ask what they can do in this moment: here's a crucially important election. There are 52,000 elections taking place next month, many of which will be determined by turnout.

Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 2d

Dispatch from Pennsylvania on a highly unusual state Supreme Court election—one of the few most consequential matters on the ballot anywhere in the country next month. New from me in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...

Inside the Clunky Elections to Control Pennsylvania's Supreme Court - Bolts

The GOP is making an expensive push to end Democrats’ majority on a court at the center of election lawsuits, sparking a fledging campaign season with little precedent or template.

boltsmag.org

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Reina 🎃 (she/her) @reinamwilliams.bsky.social · 1d

My ex (we've lived in one house since the start of the pandemic) pays for streaming services and recently he cancelled Prime and got Netflix. So I'm rewatching Dolly Parton's Heartstrings while going through my to-do lists.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d

They want hate and division… so fight back with love and kindness

Fight back with community care

Donate to mutual aid. Set up a community fridge or library. Volunteer your time. Set up a neighborhood ICE watch. Wear a mask

Embody the protesting frog or the dancing rainbow unicorn.

We got this.

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Reina 🎃 (she/her) @reinamwilliams.bsky.social · 1d

Thread up

David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 1d

Collective survival and liberation also means collective struggle. And yes, it means everyone who gives a damn has some basic collective duties to do certain things and not indulge in others.

That's also the reality, and it's the only way we — on any scale that matters — win against these evils.