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Ellery 🏳️‍🌈

@sparksofstardust.bsky.social

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Collector of hobbies & ships. I'm either writing, gardening, crafting, or baking (or procrastinating) #AdoptDontShop Multi-Fandom brainrot Bi, 30's, minors DNI 🖖 ao3 sparksofstarlight She/Her Homophobes & Terfs get fucked 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 FREE PALESTINE USE ALT TEXT!

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Ellery 🏳️‍🌈 @sparksofstardust.bsky.social · Aug 23

Hi friends!

I'll stay ✨️sparksofstarlight✨️ here and on AO3.

On Tumblr, you can find me
@ ✨️intheimpalawithdean✨️

I'm not active anywhere else at the moment!!

Ellery 🏳️‍🌈 @sparksofstardust.bsky.social · May 12

Hey y'all! You'll notice I am now ✨️sparksofstarlight✨️ here and on AO3! This change from acciomagic has been difficult as it's been my creative pseudonym since I was a teenager, however, I feel really good about this change and hope it's not too hard to remember!

My tumblr is now inthetardiswithbel!

A black and gold graphic made by Ellery. The background is black with pale gold lines of stardust. In the center is a golden circle with dots on it, and in the center the words "Sparks of Starlight" arranged artfully so the capital "S"s are larger than the other letters and overlaid over each other.

Ellery 🏳️‍🌈 @sparksofstardust.bsky.social · 10h

Fully submerged but her hair is completely dry. Sure, sure, not the first time this has happened. I know it's because of the wigs and stuff but like, give me my drowned cat moments, ok???? It's more romantic that way. (Plus it ruins the moment imo when they're 95% dry after getting 100% soaked.)

Ellery 🏳️‍🌈 @sparksofstardust.bsky.social · 10h

WE'RE GETTING ANOTHER WATER RESCUE!!!

(but low key this princess is giving us ladies a bad rap can she just not swim?? only hold her breath for 15 seconds? girl you're making us look bad.)

Ellery 🏳️‍🌈 @sparksofstardust.bsky.social · 1d

They totally missed out on a great ot3 water rescue 😭😭😭 look I know it's the ✨️censorship✨️but come on! It was right there!

(Or maybe I'm just super gay and need to be writing the fanfic the world deserves, ahaha.)

((This post brought to you by ep17 of The Princess's Gambit))

Ellery 🏳️‍🌈 @sparksofstardust.bsky.social · 2d

If I've learned anything in my short time in the Asian-Drama rabbit hole, it's that these writers know EXACTLY what they're doing because they almost always include water rescues, which are fucking peak cinema no matter the era. Y'all know where it's at! (And if no water rescue, then a rain scene!)

Ellery 🏳️‍🌈 @sparksofstardust.bsky.social · 10h

One of these days I'm gonna shout, "Kiss him!!!!!" at my tv and it's going to work, damn it.

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Cen Galdre @cengaldre.com · 20h

folks can complain about the effectiveness of scheduled orderly mass protest but to think about it another way its the closest thing we have to the opening scene of A Muppet Christmas Carol where all the muppets sing "there goes Mr. Dipshit, there goes Mr. Ass" to Scrooge and it clearly bothered him

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Ellery 🏳️‍🌈 @sparksofstardust.bsky.social · 11h

Ugh, I hate that. I've came across one single negative bookmark from mine and it still makes me feel like shit every time I think about it.

Ellery 🏳️‍🌈 @sparksofstardust.bsky.social · 11h

I'd be riding that high for AT LEAST two weeks! Today Kim Rhodes like my quote post of her inflatable frog thread and I squealed very loud despite the fact that she's actually responded to one of my comments before. The magic doesn't wear off no matter what!!!!

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Ana @quietpond.bsky.social · 16h

My favorite sign so far

#nokings #portland #nokingspdx

protest sign that says "our flag means death to fascisim" and has a image of the US flag

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Ellery 🏳️‍🌈 @sparksofstardust.bsky.social · 12h

WHAT HOLY FUCK I AM SCREAMING FOR YOU!!!!!!!!! HOW DOES IT FEEL BEING PERCEIVED BY LANCE FUCKING BASS?????????????????

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 12h

alt-text: Fake Bluesky alert: “Your Bluesky account is temporarily suspended…” urges verification via a shortened link. Message claims to be from “Bluesky Security Department.”

don't fall for it.

SpiffySmallSound @doublecollusion.bsky.social · 20h

Guys new scamming method on bluesky. Please share this around. Dont fall for this stuff

Block, move on.

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Ellery 🏳️‍🌈 @sparksofstardust.bsky.social · 12h

All my bookmarks are private — not because I'm ranking or trashtalking, but because I'm writing unhinged, usually horny, tags so I'll know the vibes when I come back to read. no one but me and the ao3 gods need to see them 🤣😅

Why someone would ever make ranking public is beyond me.

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Ellery 🏳️‍🌈 @sparksofstardust.bsky.social · 12h

I know I'm unhinged because my first thought was, "That would feel sinful if he was kissing my neck." 🙈🙈🙈

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Alex P. 👹 @saddestrobots.bsky.social · 18h

also, like, "ask the chatbot when low tide is" is very close to what google is increasingly doing to every single one of your local informational queries automatically

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 18h

Folks will be quick to ridicule people who do this, but it can’t be separated from the media hype and ai boosters telling us the tech is a magic answer wizard that knows all and sees all.

Two People Almost Drown After Asking ChatGPT When Low Tide Was

The owner of a restaurant in South Wales potentially saved the lives of two swimmers, who ventured out after asking ChatGPT for tide times.

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Ellery 🏳️‍🌈 @sparksofstardust.bsky.social · 12h

Ari I love it!! It looks so good!!!

Ellery 🏳️‍🌈 @sparksofstardust.bsky.social · 12h

These huge crowds are brilliant, but I'm also loving the smaller crowds of several hundred people in tiny, rural towns and cities. Especially how many older white folks that turned up! Like yes, see, just cause we live in a Red state does not mean we don't give a shit or we support these bastards!

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Ellery 🏳️‍🌈 @sparksofstardust.bsky.social · 12h

ha this is me every fucking day no matter what

⚰️ samcula 🧛‍♂️ @lunarriviera.info · 1d

me literally every fucking day there's a new #jitd leak

Ellery 🏳️‍🌈 @sparksofstardust.bsky.social · 12h

Fingers crossed they'll let us substitute out for items I'm allergic to, but this is still amazing! Especially if SNAP benefits aren't refilled for November.

Air-rum @aarum.bsky.social · 1d

The government said they aren’t releasing SNAP benefits in November — but ALDI is helping families out. Their Thanksgiving meal bundle feeds 10 people for just $40! 🦃 Available now through Christmas Eve, it includes 21 items (like a 14-lb turkey + sides). Share this with everyone!

Ellery 🏳️‍🌈 @sparksofstardust.bsky.social · 13h

Mama Kim has great tips in this feed!!

Kim Rhodes @kimrhodes.bsky.social · 14h

No Kings! Only Timelords.

A thread for people wondering if they would enjoy the inflatable-costume-at-a-protest:

A pink inflatable frog with a bag over its shoulder that looks like a tardis.

Ellery 🏳️‍🌈 @sparksofstardust.bsky.social · 13h

because I would have genuinely wept over tossing it all. Still, this couldn't have happened at a worse time. I supposed I just gotta be grateful we've got what we have. It could have been worse. It could have been so much worse.

And I just remembered I need to check Maggie's food, too. Fuck. 😮‍💨

Ellery 🏳️‍🌈 @sparksofstardust.bsky.social · 13h

them clean too, but I'm exhausted. It isn't as bad as our first experience with these fucks, and for that I'm grateful; We caught it a lot sooner than before. I'm so grateful I was able to save my 10lb bag of flour, and that it looks like we might be able to save the pasta and most of our rice 5/

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Ellery 🏳️‍🌈 @sparksofstardust.bsky.social · 13h

even know everything we had to throw out because my husband and I did it together, but I know all my Aldi's cocoa is gone and so are all my twisted shut bags of powdered sugar. So much flour, both for food purposes and to make play dough for my kid. We still have to take down the shelves and wipe 4/

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Ellery 🏳️‍🌈 @sparksofstardust.bsky.social · 13h

toss out half a bag of rice and the brand new bag was able to go into a container my mom had just bought for us after finding it on sale. I still had to look away when it got tossed. Food waste has always bothered me, but once you experience food insecurity? It's like a knife to the gut. I don't 3/

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Ellery 🏳️‍🌈 @sparksofstardust.bsky.social · 13h

I refused to throw away the boxes of pasta we have, so we've put it all in ziplock bags and we're freezing it just in case. We didn't *see* anything in the pasta, but you can't see the eggs, so. I need containers I can start keeping my pasta in because this was ridiculous. Thank fuck I only had 2/

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Ellery 🏳️‍🌈 @sparksofstardust.bsky.social · 13h

We still have to wipe everything remaining down & rip off (& sharpie on) canned food labels, but it was fucking painful to throw out food that was not expired. Sugar (cane & powdered) dried potatoes, flour, cereal, protein powder chocolate milk that they were INFESTED in somehow despite the lid. 1/

Ellery's (a white person) hand and inner wrist held out to show a pantry mother larvae crawling down her forearm. It's very tiny and yellowish green in color. Despite looking innocent, this little fucker and it's kin are why we had to toss so much food.

A yellow pantry with four long white wire shelves that is mostly empty. On the top shelf is a blue reusable fabric bag full of plastic baggies that says "Beach Planet" in white text, next to it is a plastic ziplock bag with medicine and scattered in front are liquid white glue bottles. On the second shelf are three reusable canisters: one with brown sugar on top of one with granulated sugar, next to a tall one that has maybe two inches of flour inside. On the other side is an empty plastic container next to another that has a ziplock bag full of ziplock bags and another full of canning lids and rings. The third shelf is empty save a random paintbrush. The fourth shelf has canned goods in one corner and in the other an assortment of things: expired Karo syrup and corn syrup I couldn't make myself throw away because they haven't been opened, nestle cocoa powder, olive oil cooking spray, aluminum free baking powder, a small bottle of olive oil, vanilla, corn starch, and baking yeast in glass jars with blue lids.

On the floor there are more canned goods, a case of yellow body armor, and a tuberware container of unopened cereal bags, ziplock bags of pasta, some crackers, and an unopened bag of brown sugar and powdered sugar each.

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Ellery 🏳️‍🌈 @sparksofstardust.bsky.social · 16h

We don't have credit cards and I don't have a huge support system to fall back on. My MCAS means my diet is really limited and our local food pantry does not allow us to pick and choose, which means handling/bringing home potential allergens. We just had to throw out a ton due to pantry moths. 🙃🙃🙃🙃

Ellery 🏳️‍🌈 @sparksofstardust.bsky.social · 16h

Just got word that we will not receive our SNAP/EBT benefits for November if the assholes in D.C. don't put an end to the shutdown. I have zero idea how I will be feeding my family of three* if this happens. I'm really fucking trying not to panic, but I am. I feel like I'm going to throw up.

Ellery 🏳️‍🌈 @sparksofstardust.bsky.social · 16h

*family of four, really, since my dog's food is $50 and that's $50 I normally don't have to spend on people food and she is 100% part of this family. What the fuck are we going to do.