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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · 22h

These are the rules as I understand it: It is not OK to sexually objectify men, unless it's Aidan Turner as Ross Poldark, and then only when he is shirtless and wielding a scythe.

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · 1d

I'm up!

Fantasy Magazine @fantasymagazine.bsky.social · 2d

oh yes, it’s Fantasy Friday! 🗡️✨

and today we have FLASH

“Knife had not always been Knife. Once it had been Tree. Once it had been Rock.”

Knife Plus by @teemcbee.bsky.social

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Knife had not always been Knife. Once it had been Tree. Once it had been Rock.

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · 3d

Nine-year-old speculating on the cost of my shoes:
They look like they're from the nineteens, so that would make them more valuable.

(Actual cost to me: $10 from a thrift shop. And now, apparently, my pride.)

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · 5d

@aliamcb.bsky.social

WILDsound Writing Festival @wildsoundwriting.bsky.social · 5d

Turning 49 Today: Andrew Scott

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People get distracted by box-office figures and take jobs because they think it will advance their careers. Of course, it’s nice to get a big cheque, but my view is that we’re not here long, so why not do something of value?

Turning 49 Today: Andrew Scott

Watch the best of new films from around the world today by signing up for the FREE 3-DAY trial going to on Roku, FireStick, and your Itune (app)) People get distracted by box-office figures and ta…

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · 9d

Want to amaze and delight a classroom full of nine-year-olds in 2025? Just say "six, seven". Use the right intonation and hand gestures, and it's like they're watching a dog juggle.

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · 12d

So interval training AND eating cake! Might be able to get behind that.

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · 12d

I just did 20 minutes of sprint interval training for the first time, and ohmyfreakinggod it sucked. Somebody tell me it's worth it. Alternatively, somebody tell me it's fine if I just spend the rest of my life lying on the couch and eating cake.

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · 19d

I love it when my FitBit says housework counts as exercise. Now, if only it worked the other way around.
#Lazy

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · Sep 25

I was slightly less lazy and consulted Snopes. Couldn't find anything to confirm or deny, but Snopes did tell me, "No, Trump Didn't Post About Oral Sex and Corn Dogs." (Oh, how I wish I was making this up...)

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · Sep 24

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Fantasy Magazine Issue 98

My flash fiction story “Knife Plus” is in Issue 98 of Fantasy Magazine, and will be published online on the magazine’s website on 24 October 2025. This story was inspired by a tal…

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · Sep 23

Whoops. I already replied to some bullshit when I shouldn't before I saw this.

full slack @fullslack.bsky.social · Oct 5

replying to some bullshit when i know i shouldn’t

comic of a guy descending into a sewer with a speech bubble that says “HERE GOES…”

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Reposted by Tracie McBride

William Meikle @williammeikle.com · Sep 23

New, enlarged FASTER THAN THE HOUND novella. Now only 99c

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · Sep 23

He forgot one. She's guilty of being black, Muslim, progressive AND a woman.

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · Sep 21

Speaking (anecdotally, of course) as a non-American, the USA has already become a nation we are afraid to visit.

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · Sep 15

Please remind me of this when it's published.

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · Sep 15

ME TOO!!!

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · Sep 14

Been trying really hard not to engage with US political content, but...this had me scraping my jaw off the floor.

full slack @fullslack.bsky.social · Sep 13

on Fox News they’re calling to exterminate unhoused people with lethal injections. so it’ll probably be a month or 2 until CNN is saying the same thing but it will be Gavin Newsom calling it a “Homeless Removal Program” with a big kind smile on his face

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · Sep 1

Do not get me started...

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · Aug 31

You had me at "Ow".

miki / comms open 🥹 @outerdog.bsky.social · Aug 29

tag yourself !!

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · Aug 29

I kinda like fsbrastuc. You could say it with a quasi-European accent and it could pass for a real word.

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · Aug 28

My story Knife Plus will be out in the next issue of Fantasy Magazine.

Fantasy Magazine @fantasymagazine.bsky.social · Aug 27

Fantasy Issue 98 Short Stories:

The Dragon and the Bog, by @translunarytree.bsky.social

They Return, by @ecastroianni.bsky.social

Flash:

The Memory Breach, by @wunderkind100.bsky.social

Knife Plus, by @teemcbee.bsky.social ‬

🎉 🎉 🎉

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · Aug 21

Gymnastics excursion for the Grade 3s today. I might have inadvertently traumatised some 9-year-olds by telling them that the bottom of the foam pit was lined with the skeletons of the kids that never made it out.

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · Aug 13

A stormy night, driving alone on a quiet country road and listening to The Cure. Forgot how Subway Song ends and scared the bejeesus out of myself.

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · Aug 10

Quote post with a picture of yourself that makes you feel powerful

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · Aug 1

Turns out being overtaken by a 57-year-old woman on a sports oval is a great incentive for 9-year-olds to run faster.

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