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Ellie Athersmith

@ellieabouttown.bsky.social

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Internationally acclaimed narrative improvisor, award-winning theatre designer, amateur musician, aspiring author, former Jeopardy! contestant. Also, I read a lot. 🇺🇸 > 🇨🇦. linktr.ee/ellieabouttown

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Ellie Athersmith @ellieabouttown.bsky.social · 3h

Ahh, the unique, panicked feeling when you have ADHD when it's 10am and you're hungry.

Ellie Athersmith @ellieabouttown.bsky.social · 4h

Walk photos from yesterday.

Ellie Athersmith @ellieabouttown.bsky.social · 15h

Did I just spend all evening researching whether or not a coastal lagoon could've been anywhere near enough a volcano eruption that it would've gotten enough ash to make helenite for ~reasons~?

Apparently yes.

#writerproblems

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Ellie Athersmith @ellieabouttown.bsky.social · 2d

This is such a good joke. 😂

Microplastics Spookmelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 2d

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Amelinda Bérubé @metuiteme.bsky.social · 2d

HEY it's Halloween on Friday and obvs you need some spooky reading to go with your candy

And HERE THERE ARE MONSTERS even begins on the night before Halloween... so!

🦇🎃🦇🎃🦇🎃🦇

Amelinda Bérubé @metuiteme.bsky.social · 14d

BSky! Clearly you need some spooky books for the ides of spooky season! Well I GOTCHU

Ghosts and monsters and haunted Canadian landscapes, oh my 😱😱😱

...and hey look they're on sale!

🍁: www.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/...

B&N: www.barnesandnoble.com/s/amelinda%2...

👿: www.amazon.com/stores/Ameli...

Three books by Amelinda Berube: The Ones Who Come Back Hungry, Here There Are Monsters, and The Dark Beneath The Ice

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Ellie Athersmith @ellieabouttown.bsky.social · 3d

Currently working through the snowflake method to plot New Project, and it really, really works.

After 3 tries, I have a (very messy) 1-page summary that actually hangs together.

But I am so glad I'm doing this now and not after I've written 50k words of prose and realized the plot didn't work.

Ellie Athersmith @ellieabouttown.bsky.social · 3d

*hug*

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 14d

If you like ace romance with wry humour, messy queers fighting for justice and epic worldbuilding, The Dragon Next Door is for you!
🐲 Sword lesbian (bi)
🐲 Secret baby (dragon)
🐲 Friends to lovers (ace)
🐲 Found family
🐲 Opposites attract
books2read.com/u/bpVEQ6
vriccithode.itch.io/the-dragon-n...

white text on a blue night sky background that reads: Tollar’s got a stolen dragon egg, and that’s the least of her problems! Available on Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Campfire, Google Play, itch.io, Kobo, Smashwords, and more! Including libraries. Art by @leeshahannigan. With cover art featuring two women and a dragon on a blue night sky background.

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Ellie Athersmith @ellieabouttown.bsky.social · 4d

GO GO GO

Ellie Athersmith @ellieabouttown.bsky.social · 5d

I am not a sportsball person and I don’t live in Toronto but GO JAYS KICK THEIR ASSES

Ellie Athersmith @ellieabouttown.bsky.social · 5d

Oooh, I just built myself a TBR of heist stories! What's on your list?

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Ellie Athersmith @ellieabouttown.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you!!

Ellie Athersmith @ellieabouttown.bsky.social · 5d

I think we *all* need more heist stories! :D

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Ellie Athersmith @ellieabouttown.bsky.social · 5d

honestly I feel like the biggest sign we were lost as a nation was when everybody and their brother failed to understand one of the core messages of TLJ: no one is coming to save us, we have to pick up the mantle and fight evil ourselves.

Ellie Athersmith @ellieabouttown.bsky.social · 6d

I'm having SO MUCH FUN

Ellie Athersmith @ellieabouttown.bsky.social · 6d

New project!

Current working title: A Palace of Smoke & Mirrors.

A retired commedia dell'arte troupe gets blackmailed into doing a heist by the mob, with magical theatre tech.

[The Italian Job x Noises Off x The Mask of Mirrors]

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Ellie Athersmith @ellieabouttown.bsky.social · 6d

I'm going back next month and am bringing an extra suitcase specifically to bring home tortillas and salsas for the deep freezer.

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Ellie Athersmith @ellieabouttown.bsky.social · 6d

Not gonna lie, I saw the HEB branded PAM and the Fiesta brand spices and was immediately homesick and also incredibly hungry. Those look delicious!

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Ellie Athersmith @ellieabouttown.bsky.social · 6d

BOOOOOO

Ellie Athersmith @ellieabouttown.bsky.social · 6d

Like Word and Notion, I get to a degree because writing fiction is not their primary use case. But PLOTTR? Come on, man.

Tyra Banks I Was Rooting For You GIF

ALT: Tyra Banks I Was Rooting For You GIF

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Ellie Athersmith @ellieabouttown.bsky.social · 7d

Dear writing software companies: if you keep pushing AI shit at me and keep talking about different ways to use your software with generative AI, I'm going to stop using your product. And I'm going to tell all my friends to stop using it, too.

Plottr: you're on notice.

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Ellie Athersmith @ellieabouttown.bsky.social · 7d

Excuse me. When did Behind the Name get *place* names?? places.behindthename.com

The Meaning and History of Place Names - Behind the Name

Find the meaning, history and origin of toponyms, also called place names.

places.behindthename.com

Ellie Athersmith @ellieabouttown.bsky.social · 8d

I hadn't really realized how much I used the pad of my thumb until now and owwwwww

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Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social · 8d

Stolen from the Latin teacher FB group.

French textbook
La Famille Chat
Le supermarché
Latin textbook
NUNTIUS
TERRIBILIS
EX GERMANIA

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Ellie Athersmith @ellieabouttown.bsky.social · 8d

Managed to slice my thumb open while cutting up a cucumber for dinner. Ugh.

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