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Sandra: earnest on main since 2011!
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multi genre fiction slinger • nerd of many things • disabled • demi • proud parent of 🏳️‍⚧️ darlings • space dust coalesced ⏩ dreams • cis she/her • BigVirgoEnergy™️ • Treaty 6
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Name that film.
One gimme: it’s from 1981
photo of white text on a black screen: Lycanthrope Films Limited wishes to extend its heartfelt congratulations to Lady Diana Spencer and His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales on the occasion of their marriage- July 29th 1981.
January 6, 2026 at 2:06 AM
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Sneaked out for a wee coffee date with my always and forever
#SmallJoys
Two pale hands clasped together next to a latte in a blue mug/saucer and an americano in a rosé mug/saucer, on a blond wood tabletop
January 5, 2026 at 11:56 PM
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Late photo. First fresh bake of the year. Long live the bread cult
Golden brown boule nestled on parchment paper browned at the edges, atop a red cooling rack
January 3, 2026 at 5:48 AM
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Heh
wolfish [taken at 11:44am MT]
January 1, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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Holiday chocolate cream pie

how it started. how it ends
chocolate cream pie with peanut butter graham cracker crust and berries (raspberry, blueberry, blackberry) + fresh whipped cream + silver fork on a swirled blue plate. a slender black mug with white dandelion puffs and yellow stems sits beside same pie on same plate but with only whipped cream and extra crust crumbles sprinkled on top. the first bite awaits on a silver fork
December 31, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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I’m still full! but my family had dessert while I nursed a lovely hot cup of earl grey. As promised, the aforementioned chocolate cream pie with peanut butter graham cracker crust; served with fresh vanilla whipped cream and berries, customized 3 ways
swirled green plate raspberries and blackberries slice of chocolate cream pie dollop of whipped cream plain green plate raspberries and blackberries slice of chocolate cream pie mound of whipped cream extra crust crumbles + small chunk of broken crust swirled blue plate blackberries slice of chocolate cream pie dollop of whipped cream sprinkle of crumbled crust
December 26, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Christmas hot pot remains undefeated
A rectangular table with four place settings and hot pot fixings: butane hot plate with dual-sectioned pot surrounded by plates and bowls of thin-sliced meats (pork belly, pork collar, beef sirloin, chicken breast, lamb), seafood (shrimp, cuttlefish balls, fried fish balls, shrimp balls with flying fish roe), tofu pow, shiitake, enoki, suey choi, yu choi, gai lan, and 3 kinds of noodles. A dark red glass ornament dangles above the table’s bounty
December 26, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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Chocolate cream pie there shall be
ingredients! (only some) 4 brown eggs in a shallow green bowl peanut butter cornstarch graham cracker crumbs Baker’s chocolate, dark and semisweet vanilla extract glass bowl glass measure cups cutting board stainless steel measure cups
December 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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L O Llllllllll

and also—Hell no.
As if this excuses using tech created on the stolen work of writers.
C’mon, man, be better
Second skeet below the one quoted, by Publishers Weekly: This series does not teach AI writing or content replacement. It focuses on workflow efficiency, analytics, and tools that support—never replace—human creativity.
December 22, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Canadians, please sign! #TransRightsAreHumanRights
We need compassion and community, not ideological cheats.

Link to sign: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

More details from the petition in image, if you need it.
Please sign! 🇨🇦
Petition to the Minister of Health Whereas: The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms exists to protect individuals and minority communities from discriminatory laws; Recent legislation enacted by the Governments of Alberta and Saskatchewan restricts the rights, dignity, and safety of transgender and gender-diverse people, particularly children and youth, including access to gender-affirming and medically appropriate health care; These provincial governments have invoked the notwithstanding clause to shield such legislation from judicial review, thereby preventing Charter challenges from being meaningfully heard; The Constitution Act, 1867 provides the federal government, through section 90, with the authority to disallow certain provincial legislation in order to protect constitutional principles and minority rights; and The use of extraordinary constitutional powers to limit Charter protections warrants careful federal review and response. We, the undersigned, Concerned Allies of Transgender Canadians, call upon the Minister of Health to Recommend and support, within Cabinet, the exercise of the Government of Canada’s constitutional authority, including the power of disallowance under section 90 of the Constitution Act, 1867, to annul or repeal provincial legislation enacted in Alberta and Saskatchewan that restricts the rights of transgender and gender-diverse people and has been shielded from Charter scrutiny through the use of the notwithstanding clause, and to affirm the federal government’s responsibility to uphold Charter rights across Canada. Open for signature December 18, 2025, at 12:36pm (EDT) Closed for signature February 16, 2026, at 12:36pm (EDT)
December 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Getting it replaced on Tuesday…
please send thoughts of warmth and good cheer 😅
Forecast til Tues Dec 23: Thu High: -13° Low: -19° Fri High: -19° Low: -33° Sat High: -26° Low: -31° Sun High: -26° Low: -28° Mon High -25° Low: -30° Tues High -25° Low: -25° with various levels of snow and sunshine and clear nights
December 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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I also loved her previous in the series
THE VERY SECRET SOCIETY OF IRREGULAR WITCHES

So lovely and warm and drily witty at times
A WITCH'S GUIDE TO Magical Innkeeping by SANGU MANDANNA
December 17, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Maybe what I love most about witnessing my mum living her best life is her absolutely wacky emoji (& sticker) game 🤣
I honestly have never seen this emoji before: a smiling bald child (?) in a white top with black ring collar, giving the ‘call me’ hand sign with the right hand, I think? I don’t think the hand is angled properly for the ‘hang ten’ sign… The figure is in default yellow skin colour.
December 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Do fangs count?
Looking into a maw of jumbled candy corn coloured red and pink and white for Valentine’s Day. They look like little individual fangs, just pulled
December 4, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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50k words is usually considered novel-length 😭😭😭
Part of the “Year highlights for 2025” table, here showing : Unique accounts engaged with: 2,131 Words posted: 49,875 Average daily posting rate: 2.8 Table now zoomed in, centring “Number of words written 49,875” Zoomed in even further: “words written 49,875” Zoomed in damningly: “written 49,875”
December 3, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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This is cute though
Emoji bubble chart for 2025 showing 50 different emojis used 1,242 times total, visualized as bubbles sized by frequency. Top 10: 👀 (78×), ❤‍🔥 (70×), ✨ (66×), 🩷 (62×), 🤷🏻‍♀ (59×), 💗 (58×), 🤓 (51×), 🔗 (49×), 🤣 (47×), 😅 (46×) (from Anisota's Annual Bluesky Harvest) Emoji bubble chart turned into a table for 2025 showing 50 different emojis used 1,242 times total, visualized as bubbles sized by frequency. Top 10: 👀 (78×), ❤‍🔥 (70×), ✨ (66×), 🩷 (62×), 🤷🏻‍♀ (59×), 💗 (58×), 🤓 (51×), 🔗 (49×), 🤣 (47×), 😅 (46×) (from Anisota's Annual Bluesky Harvest)
December 3, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Guess who ran an online auction this year lol
Word cloud visualization (white text on black) for 2025 showing my 50 most-used words, sized by frequency. Top 10: "crimewriters4transrights" (84×), "translawcenter" (83×), "tlcauction" (83×), "book" (63×), "friends" (58×), "happy" (56×), "books" (53×), "those" (52×), "white" (45×), "items" (45×) (from Anisota's Annual Bluesky Harvest)
December 3, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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ICYMI #WritingCommunity Grove Atlantic is trying to track down scammers, and if you've encountered them, they'd like your help

cc @victoriastrauss.com
From today's Publisher's Lunch: "Someone posing as a Grove Atlantic employee has been contacting authors by email to offer a publishing contract under false pretenses. The publisher is taking steps to try to identify and stop the illicit outreach under Grove’s name. If you are contacted in this manner, Grove would like to hear from you either at 212-614-7850 or at info@groveatlantic.com."
December 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Can you believe I waited two whole days to start this, @oliviawrites.bsky.social? Happy book birthday week! 🥳
Second Chance Romance by Olivia Dade The cover illustration by Leni Kauffman shows Karl and Molly about to canoodle, staring into each other’s eyes. In the background are racks of baked goods. The colours are warm shades of yellow, pink, and orange. My left thumb is visible along the spine side.
November 28, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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When 19 was 13 (I think?), they asked for chocolate cream pie for their bday. Being me, I tweaked the recipe I found in a 2000-era cookbook (gift). So: peanut butter-oreo crust; custard from a mix of semi- & dark chocolate, homemade whipped cream obvs. It eats, every year. Silky, rich, crunchy. Yum.
An old photo I found on my phone: a slice of dark chocolate cream pie with a huge cloud of whipped cream on top, alongside a silver fork, on a blue plate with thin white swirls. I think there’s a filter, softening the edges and lighting.
November 26, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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You say you'll give me
A highway with no one on it
You treasure just to look upon it
All the riches in the night
You say you'll give me
Eyes in a moon of blindness
A river in a time of dryness
A harbor in the tempest

All the promises we make
From the cradle to the grave
When all I want is you
Pope Leo XIV in papal white cassock, at a mic, eyes closed. He looks like he’s singing soulfully. Various others mill about behind, all looking rather serious.
November 23, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Thank you @oliviawrites.bsky.social @rubyopalmindy.bsky.social and @authoremmabarry.bsky.social for a really lovely and thoughtful conversation! 💗
Thanks to @lovessweetarrow.bsky.social for hosting!
screencap from the livestream on youtube Emma Barry (a white woman with dark hair and glasses in a maroon v-neck sweater) Mindy Hung (a East Asian woman with black hair and glasses in a black top with deep coral wrap) Olivia Dade (a white woman with dark hair in a white top patterned with lemons) They are in Zoom windows, within the Love's Sweet Arrow YouTube channel livestream screen. The event is titled "Olivia and Mindy."
November 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Had to put on the heavy-duty wrist brace but I just cleared out all 13k+ old emails 😮‍💨
screencap of part of my gmail account, showing inbox zero and "No new emails!"
November 21, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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30% whole wheat dutch oven bread. Is #breadsky a thing? lol
I think I messed up the water proportion; dough was super sticky and this one hasn’t risen as well as my first attempt with this recipe.

OTOH we now have fresh homemade bread and my kitchen smells divine
#SmallJoys
A golden brown boule fresh out of the oven, cooling on a red rack. There are a few flecks of flour to accentuate its rustic crust.
November 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
A crayon drawing by Basil (@pacipup on Bluesky) of a red puppy with a sweet smile. Two small yellow star stickers with smiley faces are on either side of it. The text above: This too shall pass The text below: but like holy fuck
November 17, 2025 at 3:27 AM