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Lep thinks thoughts
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Author. Geek. RN PhD. Incurable insomniac. 😴

Writing romance as Christine Danse (SF & sundry), Nicole Hawberry (cozy fantasy), & Kristi Kasen (paranormal).

Come for the tea, stay for the nerdy queer vibes and plant lore. (Well, stay for the tea, too!)
Mom turned on a YouTube Christmas music compilation. This one used AI-generated video for visual.

I gotta say—briefly setting all other discourse about generative AI aside—AI output is just…deeply, disturbingly *boring.*
December 28, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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What an amazing young man. We should all love the weird, awkward children we once were. Bravo.
December 28, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Something I think about all the time.
Y'all, any fanwriter worth their salt can tell you that the appeal mlm stories have for "straight" "women" is 50% "not having to deal with patriarchal violence', 50% 'oh shit, I don't think I'm a straight woman at all'.
December 27, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Indie bookstores are magical places, and the Binc Foundation is a critical safety net for bookstore owners and employees. 🧡

Here's a great list of ways you can support their work that goes beyond sending money. (Sending money is great, too!)
How Can I Support? - Binc Foundation
There are so many ways you can host a fundraising event to support booksellers and comic retailers. You can organize an auction, party, walk, trivia night,
bincfoundation.org
December 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The gryphon. THE GRYPHON.
✨🧡💛☀️SUNSHINE TEDDIES✨🧡💛☀️

CAMPAIGN ENDS TONIGHT! These plushies will only ever be this price on Backerkit-- take them home as a holiday gift for yourself or someone else!

Thank you so much to everyone ... 😭

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l...
December 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Merry Christmas, friends 🎄
December 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Fine, whatever, this random cat is your new god of the winter solstice
December 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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December 25, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Daily bunny no.3179 wants to sing along
December 25, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Domestic luxuriation of feral-born critter. That’s one warm 99-year-old radiator.
December 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Remembering a cold winter day at the beach when the birds were round and the light was fabulous

(Dublin)
#birds 🌿
December 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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🦋 Welcome to Buesky! 🦋
It's long past time to leave the Nazi bar, and you'll have a much better time here. I updated this guide due to the influx of users fleeing Grok's new AI bullshit. Share widely for all the newcomers!
December 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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All sorts of weird folklore gets rolled out on Christmas Eve. Animals speak, house hobs demand apple brandy. It's the one night when the winged dogs that climb and perch in churches can change positions. Magics and strangeness always seems thick today. – Nancy Appleyard #VOH
December 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Went outside for a walking meditation. Stepped onto deer tracks pressed onto the cool ground. Looked up, saw three sandhill cranes
December 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Someone has put little red noses on all of the deer caution signs.
December 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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I did some sketching at the ice skating rink at Brookfield Place. The holiday season in NYC is so charming
December 22, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Mom made espresso, and we have eggnog, so homemade eggnog lattes it is!!
December 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Wonderful story about the importance of kelp forests to marine ecosystems and the incredible work being done to restore them. Very happy to see the mention of sea otters in Monterey Bay! 💙🦦
Underwater Forests Return to Life off the Coast of California, and That Might be Good News for the Entire Planet
Wondrous kelp beds harbor a complex ecosystem that’s teeming with life, cleaning the water and the atmosphere, and bringing new hope for the future
www.smithsonianmag.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Gosh but I’m in love with these pine-oak woodlands. The twisty oaks, the tall straight pines, and the clusters of fanning saw palmetto.
December 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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The long nights are over, the Light begins its journey home
December 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Happy Solstice, friends!
December 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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important
December 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
When a writing app asks me to open YouTube for two-step verification and I spend the next fifteen minutes falling down video rabbit hole before remembering why I’m there to begin with, only to discover the sign-in prompt has since expired.
December 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Holy moly, the stars are bright tonight. I forgot they could look like this. I’m trying to think of words to describe them, and all I can come up with is…incredible. They’re almost tangible. I haven’t seen this many in ages; I don’t know that I’ve ever seen this many.
December 20, 2025 at 5:47 AM
I was already clearing my bank account out for this campaign, now there’s a GRYPHON *and* a wyvern. I’m a goner.
✨🧡💛☀️SUNSHINE TEDDIES✨🧡💛☀️

The votes and emotional responses to the characters were overwhelming...

Ashes and Inferno will both be available in Sunshine Teddies campaign!

Read more of their lore, see new art and info in the campaign update!

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM