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Michaela
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🟣⚪️⚫️ They/She/Any Bookish Internet Kobold || 31 '94 Baby || #steddie on the 🧠 Queer & Speculative 1/2 of Betwixt the Books on YT #💙📚
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Michaela @piedpipercalls.bsky.social · Dec 21
I'm reading my physical TBR by color in 2025. Let's see if I can actually make a dent in it.

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2025 Rainbow TBR Challenge
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Michaela @piedpipercalls.bsky.social · 1d
Sshhhhhh... don't give away my secret.
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Michaela @piedpipercalls.bsky.social · 1d
Last week was #bannedbooksweek and we celebrated by reading and discussing some banned children's books. Highly recommend this one for a giggle plus some important discussions around what you can do to help prevent book banning in your community!

youtu.be/rQmEqHo_914

#booksky #bookishpodcast
Reading Banned Children's Books | Reading Round Table #24
YouTube video by Betwixt the Books
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Michaela @piedpipercalls.bsky.social · 2d
If you want to hear the whole discussion with all of the books we brought, here is a link to the video's premiere page!

youtu.be/rQmEqHo_914?...
Reading Banned Children's Books | Reading Round Table #24
YouTube video by Betwixt the Books
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Michaela @piedpipercalls.bsky.social · 2d
A new episode of our #readingroundtable #bookishpodcast comes out tomorrow... if you want a laugh and a sneak peak have a gander at the reel I just posted. Gretchen, @ghohmeyer.bsky.social , had a bit of a time with our #bannedbooks prompt. 🤣

www.instagram.com/reel/DP49gPV...

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betwixt.the.books on Instagram: "Warning! Volume, Language, and Spoilers for Damsel by Elana K. Arnold ahead. A new episode of #readingroundtable comes out tomorrow…"
Warning! Volume, Language, and Spoilers for Damsel by Elana K. Arnold ahead. A new episode of #readingroundtable comes out tomorrow (Friday 10/17) at 11am, where we all brought #bannedbooks to celebrate #bannedbooksweek. Unfortunately, Gretchen did not have a good time with her choice, but her pain is definitely entertaining. Be sure to watch this episode for more discussion of the unhinged things that happened in this book and more!#bookishpodcast #booktube #longformcontent #bookstagram #books #ya
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Michaela @piedpipercalls.bsky.social · 2d
This is all me assuming though because scarecrows also wind up being some of my favorite characters (wizard of oz/the wiz and also my favorite batman villain) but I can't do them in horror settings. Sometimes even just driving past corn fields at night in the autumn ratchets my anxiety up to 100%.
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Michaela @piedpipercalls.bsky.social · 2d
See, I don't know. I did read (and love) that series as a kid and I do vividly remember that story along with the meat grinder one (IYKYK) but no. I grew up in a town surrounded by corn growing farmland and there was a "haunted hay ride" type thing every fall and I think it came from there? Maybe?
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Michaela @piedpipercalls.bsky.social · 2d
This is brought up because I've been absolutely enjoying all the Steddie Monster Calandar prompt fics but you couldn't pay me to read the scarecrows ones. I'm sorry. I will love all the rest of them. Please keep those abominations away from me.
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Michaela @piedpipercalls.bsky.social · 2d
As a person who loves horror. I live and breathe it. There is absolutely one thing I cannot do.

Scarecrows.

It is the only thing that makes me immediately clam up and hide. Which sounds so pathetic but close friends have seen it happen in real time. I couldn't even tell you why. It's pathological.
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These Exquisite Nightmares @exquisitenghtmares.bsky.social · 5d
Light the jack o' lanterns and cackle like witches.
For on All Hallow's Eve, we open for pitches.

These Exquisite Nightmares - A Stranger Things Monster Fanzine. By adults for adults.
Art of an open mouth with sharp fanged teeth and a tongue dripping with saliva upon a background of roses and thorns. Golden text reads "these exquisite nightmares, a stranger things fanzine" with some golden sparkles
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Michaela @piedpipercalls.bsky.social · 10d
This video has literally been ten months in the making and has gone through several iterations, just to break containment and become a multi-part series... sooo enjoy pt 1 of my thoughts on some of the best* #horror of last year.

*as voted by the Goodreads Choice Awards

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Reading The Best Horror Books of 2024* Pt. 1 | Worth the Hype?
YouTube video by Betwixt the Books
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Michaela @piedpipercalls.bsky.social · 16d
Definitely not our favorite read of the year... but @ghohmeyer.bsky.social and I are back to talk about Sour Cherry and check off a feminist text from our buddy reading challenge.

#literary #horror #bookreview #booksky #bookclub #readingchallenge

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A feminist take on serial killers | Sour Cherry by Natalia Theodoridou | Betwixt the Books Reviews
YouTube video by Betwixt the Books
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Michaela @piedpipercalls.bsky.social · 17d
I want to say that despite dragging my feet while reading this one, I always forget how much I enjoy King's short fiction. I picked this up on release last year and I'm glad to be reading it...

BUT ☝️

I'm halfway through and none* of this is horror

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Michaela @piedpipercalls.bsky.social · 17d
I've been working all year on a video where I read some of the best* horror books of last year. I wanted to have it up today for the start of October. It may not be up today as I'm still making my way through You Like It Darker... but soooooon.

*as voted in the Goodreads Choice Awards
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Michaela @piedpipercalls.bsky.social · 18d
As a person who has been told I talk too quickly my whole life (especially when excited or impassioned) I would like to use this as a tool to speed everyone else up. Why don't they get on my level for once? Skill issue?
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Michaela @piedpipercalls.bsky.social · 18d
The ability to 2x speed videos on almost every app is a great quality of life thing. I love it, dearly.

Unfortunately... my ability to listen to people talk at normal speed without getting bored is slowly diminishing.
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Michaela @piedpipercalls.bsky.social · 21d
Why must it feel like my hips are no longer connected to my spine and the only thing holding my lower half to my upper half are my back muscles? I am not a fan of this sensation. -5/10 do not recommend.
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Michaela @piedpipercalls.bsky.social · 22d
I've been getting them for a while because I enjoy cooking/meal prep videos and home garden videos both have a lot of fundy stay at home moms making them. So I know the pain.
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Michaela @piedpipercalls.bsky.social · 23d
Dearest #steddie peeps,

Can I humbly request some long-form fic recs to download as emotional support while AO3 is down?

Please and thanks!

Rec Tax:

god how lucky can a simple man be? By Atalia_Gold

God tier pining, hurt/comfort, slow burn & Cowboy Steve.

🔗👇
archiveofourown.org/series/4650013
A screenshot overiew of a fic on AO3. The text in the image is as follows: Stats: Words:81,903 Tags No Archive Warnings Apply Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson Background Robin Buckley/Vickie - Relationship Past Steve Harrington/Nancy Wheeler - Relationship Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington Steve Harrington Eddie Munson Robin Buckley Jim "Chief" Hopper Dmitri Antonov Billy Hargrove The Party (Stranger Things) Wayne Munson Nancy Wheeler Chrissy Cunningham Tommy Hagan Vickie (Stranger Things) Gareth (Stranger Things) Jeff (Stranger Things) Maxine "Max" Mayfield Susan Hargrove Alternate Universe - No Upside Down (Stranger Things) Alternate Universe - Modern Setting AngstHurt/Comfort Strangers to Lovers Wild Horse Inmate Rehabilitation Program Steve Works In It Eddie Munson is an Inmate Horses Cowboy Steve Harrington Steve Harrington Has Migraines Eddie Munson Needs a Hug Steve Harrington Needs a Hug Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington Are Best Friends Steve Harrington is a Sweetheart Steve Harrington Is a Mess Eddie Munson is a Mess Dyslexic Steve Harrington Happy Ending Injured Steve Harrington Alcohol as a Coping Mechanism References to Depression Cat Dad Steve Harrington Eventual Smut Steve Harrington Has Head Trauma Past Child Abuse Steve Harrington Has Bad Parents Bisexual Steve Harrington Broken Bones letter writing Pining Implied/Referenced Domestic Violence Summary And Steve wanted to help Eddie, too. Munson. Not Eddie. “What’d you do to your hand?” Munson was frowning down at Steve’s bruised and split knuckles. Steve flexed his fingers, tucked his hand away. “What’d you do your face?” he asked pointedly, glancing at Eddie’s – fuck, Munson’s – slightly-black eye. Munson remained tight-lipped, and Steve called it a draw. ***** Steve is working with the Wild Horse Inmate Rehabilitation Program. He's good at his job, exceptional with the horses, and makes sure to keep a healthy detachment from the inmates he works with... ...until Eddie Munson.
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Michaela @piedpipercalls.bsky.social · 27d
Olive oil/butter, minced garlic, montral steak seasoning (which the internet tells me is garlic, onion, salt, black pepper, coriander, dill and red pepper flakes). Although red pepper can be left out if you have gerd issues.

Pesto as well, is a good option.

Scampi is delicious if lemons are ok.
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Michaela @piedpipercalls.bsky.social · 27d
Exactly. They are the weird ones. We are chill and normal.
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Michaela @piedpipercalls.bsky.social · 27d
Right? Plus the (probably autism) metaphor of trying to be liked by an entirely different species... attempting to anticipate what something unknowable will appreciate knowing that half of it is guess work and reading microexpressions to gage and course correct a conversation. Awful. Horrible.
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Michaela @piedpipercalls.bsky.social · 27d
Like today ... my guy at one point had to survive a dinner with cannibal snail people and I was like ah, yes... social anxiety but you've raised the stakes. Now I have to be cool and entertaining... OR GET EATEN.
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Michaela @piedpipercalls.bsky.social · 27d
Rofl. Well ... on the bright side ... if the axe murderers win, you don't have to do the play?

But also that sounds horrible because its the worst part of both types of nightmares. Sometimes I can tell what fear my subconscious is playing with.
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Michaela @piedpipercalls.bsky.social · 27d
I'd much rather have normal nightmares where I'm naked at school or like doing poorly at work and getting reprimanded ... instead I get to be a man spontaniously traveling through dimensions closely chased by death as evident by everyone around him dying in gruesome ways in front of him.
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Michaela @piedpipercalls.bsky.social · 27d
Every time I wake up from a nightmare (they tend to be hyper violent and filled with detailed gore/death) I feel like I should write then down because they would make banger horror stories but I'm too distressed at the time to do it. Plus I dont want to rehash it again. Literally shaking right now.
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