Stephanie Allen
@stephallen.bsky.social
YA & NA fantasy writer, educator, collector of houseplants and lipstick. Former elementary school teacher and middle school library assistant, current paraeducator. Probably trying to find coffee right now. She/her.
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✨I'm a YA & NA fantasy writer. My current WIP is full of demons and pretty dresses, and everyone is anxious and queer.
✨I, too, am queer and full of anxiety (and caffeine, usually).
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✨I'm a YA & NA fantasy writer. My current WIP is full of demons and pretty dresses, and everyone is anxious and queer.
✨I, too, am queer and full of anxiety (and caffeine, usually).
#WritingCommunity
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turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT
November 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT
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Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
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I can't remember the precise wording but someone on here said that the Republican threat to expose Bill Clinton too isn't so much a threat as it is a "buy one, get one free" promotion.
"This could take down Democrats, too."
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
November 13, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I can't remember the precise wording but someone on here said that the Republican threat to expose Bill Clinton too isn't so much a threat as it is a "buy one, get one free" promotion.
Alternatively, I could just blame Chuck Schumer.
I'm not sure what triggered my headache today, but if I had to guess, it probably has something to do with going to school for one day before having one day off and then going back to school for three more days.
We also have three different bell schedules this week like CAN WE NOT.
We also have three different bell schedules this week like CAN WE NOT.
November 12, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Alternatively, I could just blame Chuck Schumer.
I'm not sure what triggered my headache today, but if I had to guess, it probably has something to do with going to school for one day before having one day off and then going back to school for three more days.
We also have three different bell schedules this week like CAN WE NOT.
We also have three different bell schedules this week like CAN WE NOT.
November 12, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I'm not sure what triggered my headache today, but if I had to guess, it probably has something to do with going to school for one day before having one day off and then going back to school for three more days.
We also have three different bell schedules this week like CAN WE NOT.
We also have three different bell schedules this week like CAN WE NOT.
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The Republican health care plan is about as real as the tooth fairy, so I won't hold my breath.
FOX NEWS: So what would Trumpcare look like?
DR OZ: Well, these are all ideas that we're still working on
DR OZ: Well, these are all ideas that we're still working on
November 11, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The Republican health care plan is about as real as the tooth fairy, so I won't hold my breath.
The boys are playing video games with a friend in another room. We’re at the “Normally I’d worry about that sound, but no one appears to be bleeding or crying…” portion of the afternoon.
November 11, 2025 at 10:41 PM
The boys are playing video games with a friend in another room. We’re at the “Normally I’d worry about that sound, but no one appears to be bleeding or crying…” portion of the afternoon.
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...is there a lord marmalade?
November 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
...is there a lord marmalade?
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spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
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"save your anger for 2026" wait you think I'll run out in a year this is why I hate amateurs
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
"save your anger for 2026" wait you think I'll run out in a year this is why I hate amateurs
Didn't realize I was interested in this topic until this very moment.
Let’s talk more Christmas misconceptions! Every year I do a whole thread about how Christmas carols evolved and how most of them really aren’t that old in the scheme of things. I have talked about the Yule Cat and how a lot of people get it very wrong.
I have also talked about anticapitalism.
I have also talked about anticapitalism.
November 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Didn't realize I was interested in this topic until this very moment.
I have my husband to thank for me understanding this joke. (He's a boat autistic.)
Anyway, I laughed.
Anyway, I laughed.
Edmund Fitzgerald Dem Party
🤝
Both wrecked today
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Both wrecked today
November 11, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I have my husband to thank for me understanding this joke. (He's a boat autistic.)
Anyway, I laughed.
Anyway, I laughed.
Our sports teams regularly try to take entire years off our lives. Might as well do it with our elections, too.
Seattle mayoral candidate Katie Wilson is now ahead in this nail-biter of an election count.
Katie Wilson pulls ahead of Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell – by 91 votes
www.kuow.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Our sports teams regularly try to take entire years off our lives. Might as well do it with our elections, too.
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A Gatsby party, the rise of fascism, and now a baseball gambling scandal? We’re really doing all the 1920s hits in the 2020s, aren’t we.
November 9, 2025 at 7:40 PM
A Gatsby party, the rise of fascism, and now a baseball gambling scandal? We’re really doing all the 1920s hits in the 2020s, aren’t we.
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Writers and artists: reply with a link to one of your works. And feel free to tell us about it.
Everyone: let's check through the replies and buy some creations and support some creators.
Everyone: let's check through the replies and buy some creations and support some creators.
November 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Writers and artists: reply with a link to one of your works. And feel free to tell us about it.
Everyone: let's check through the replies and buy some creations and support some creators.
Everyone: let's check through the replies and buy some creations and support some creators.
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Speaking of, I spent some quality time with my trash sons in Z-A.
November 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Speaking of, I spent some quality time with my trash sons in Z-A.
I am simply too busy doing the work to live blog to be satisfactorily performative for the internet's killjoys. Let me post about Pokemon and funny things my kids say in peace.
I saw someone on my timeline shaming someone else for posting about college football in a time like this.
Folks, if we're going to survive a time like this, we're going to need to avoid burning out from an attitude of 24/7 vigilance and constant outrage.
Let people find joy where they can, please.
Folks, if we're going to survive a time like this, we're going to need to avoid burning out from an attitude of 24/7 vigilance and constant outrage.
Let people find joy where they can, please.
November 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I am simply too busy doing the work to live blog to be satisfactorily performative for the internet's killjoys. Let me post about Pokemon and funny things my kids say in peace.
Me, trying to be a cool and relatable parent to my 12yo who didn't want to eat breakfast (which he needs to do to take his meds): "You know what? A lot of the things I do to take care of myself, I'm doing against my will."
12yo: "I'm not adding Bois to my team."
#Pokemon
12yo: "I'm not adding Bois to my team."
#Pokemon
November 8, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Me, trying to be a cool and relatable parent to my 12yo who didn't want to eat breakfast (which he needs to do to take his meds): "You know what? A lot of the things I do to take care of myself, I'm doing against my will."
12yo: "I'm not adding Bois to my team."
#Pokemon
12yo: "I'm not adding Bois to my team."
#Pokemon
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Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.
August 18, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.
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My kids have measles and my SNAP benefits were cut. But at least those cashiers at Walmart aren’t writing “they/them” on their name tags anymore.
November 8, 2025 at 2:53 AM
My kids have measles and my SNAP benefits were cut. But at least those cashiers at Walmart aren’t writing “they/them” on their name tags anymore.
Love to show my kids a life hack and it's literally just me moving aside a container of orange juice in the fridge to reveal the milk they'd claimed was out.
November 7, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Love to show my kids a life hack and it's literally just me moving aside a container of orange juice in the fridge to reveal the milk they'd claimed was out.
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If people are so scared of socialist programs, just wait until they find out how we pay our troops, cops, and firefighters. Or better yet, those paved roads! Spooky stuff.
November 5, 2025 at 10:42 PM
If people are so scared of socialist programs, just wait until they find out how we pay our troops, cops, and firefighters. Or better yet, those paved roads! Spooky stuff.
Me at 3:45 this afternoon.
What the hell is wrong with the sun? Why is it disappearing like this?
November 6, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Me at 3:45 this afternoon.