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Emily Riesbeck, Haunted Doll

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⚧️ she/her. Author: It's Your Funeral, Mountain, The Pirate and the Porcelain Girl (Out NOW!!!). Repped by Au Literary Management. Website: https://emilyriesbeck.com/

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Emily Riesbeck, Haunted Doll @emilyriesbeck.bsky.social · Mar 31

Happy #TransgenderDayOfVisibility! I'm Emily Riesbeck. I write books, mostly about or containing women falling in love with each other. While not all my books are about being trans, it is one of the core facets of myself that i draw from.

My website has previews of all my books: emilyriesbeck.com

Emily holds up a copy of The Pirate and the Porcelain Girl and smiles. She's wearing a white dress.

Page 18 of the pirate and the porcelain girl. Ferra, a young woman wrpaped in banadages, slips off the wall she's crying, tumbling to the ground screaming where her fragile porcelain face shatters.

Page 10 from Mountain. The Pilgrim follows The Climber as they ascend towards Mountain's base. The Pilgrim, tired after a long journey, stos to rest for a moment, then realizes that the Climber will leave without her if she doesn't keep up. Begrudgingly, she plods on.

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Emily Riesbeck, Haunted Doll @emilyriesbeck.bsky.social · 2h

chicken shawarma with pickles from my favorite restaurant will fix me.

Emily Riesbeck, Haunted Doll @emilyriesbeck.bsky.social · 2h

Like that job was killing me but how much more relaxed would I be if I wasn't broke and had gotten paid while recovering from surgery.

Emily Riesbeck, Haunted Doll @emilyriesbeck.bsky.social · 2h

man it's wild to remember that i got fired this year for trying to take (paid) medical leave (that's not the reason they said and i cant prove it but, cmon).

Emily Riesbeck, Haunted Doll @emilyriesbeck.bsky.social · 2h

man it's wild to remember that i got fired this year for trying to take (paid) medical leave (that's not the reason they said and i cant prove it but, cmon).

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Emily Riesbeck, Haunted Doll @emilyriesbeck.bsky.social · 15h

i cant explain it but pizza tastes better cut into squares.

Emily Riesbeck, Haunted Doll @emilyriesbeck.bsky.social · 15h

Update we made friends with the lizard man cult and are gonna try to lead them to the time stream so they can escape the humans persecuting them

Emily Riesbeck, Haunted Doll @emilyriesbeck.bsky.social · 16h

BIG dungeon for Draw Steel tonight! We are delving into the lair of some lizardmen who are being controlled by time pirates.

A kitchen table with a large elaborate dungeon map on top. The map displays a deconstructed space ship built into the walls of a cavern in order to mine from it.

Emily Riesbeck, Haunted Doll @emilyriesbeck.bsky.social · 16h

BIG dungeon for Draw Steel tonight! We are delving into the lair of some lizardmen who are being controlled by time pirates.

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Jasmine W. @mythjae.bsky.social · 1d

The Traitor & The Wretch is a grim fantasy with a surprisingly tender romance between two minor villains trying their best to outrun their terrible fates.

Written by me
Illustrated by @skulkingfoxes.bsky.social
Cover art by @fusspot.rip
With editing by @cknightwrites.bsky.social

A trope map showing the cover of The Traitor & The Wretch, with the two main characters. It reads: "Minor villains dungeon-crawling their way to a happy ending." "On the run from an entire kingdom that wants them both dead." "This guy helped raise a Chaos God to bring about the end times (he's not coping well)." "This guy tried to kill the Prophesized Hero (it ended badly)." "Enemies-to-Lovers" and "Mutated cave creatures! Undead horrors! Endless pitch black caves! Somehow, it's a romance!"

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Emily Riesbeck, Haunted Doll @emilyriesbeck.bsky.social · 1d

no way dude, tortoise clears hare 100 times out of 100. Hare has no good feats except in cut-scenes.

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 1d

It infuriates me that as human-made porn is being increasingly censored across the board, AI porn is not only allowed, but celebrated. And AI porn exists because of stolen content from non-consenting, unpaid human pornographers. It's maddening.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 5d

“I still can’t believe how unhinged the last update was. Not only the nudity but the motions, boobs bounces more realistically, it’s incredible.”

Elon Musk's xAI seems to have relaxed filters on Grok's video generation, allowing users to create and share explicit AI pornography.

Musk's AI Is Being Used to Make Hardcore Porn: 'Grok Is Learning Genitalia Really Fast!'

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Emily Riesbeck, Haunted Doll @emilyriesbeck.bsky.social · 1d

on the upside i'm down 5k words since i started and well on my way to gfetting this book into the 70s

Emily Riesbeck, Haunted Doll @emilyriesbeck.bsky.social · 1d

are there any writing doldrums worse than the "trimming the wordcount and working the verbs?" I'm so bored and fed up with this book lol

doraline's dad looking like shit at his stupid computer.

Emily Riesbeck, Haunted Doll @emilyriesbeck.bsky.social · 1d

are there any writing doldrums worse than the "trimming the wordcount and working the verbs?" I'm so bored and fed up with this book lol

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june 🧛‍♀️ @juneever.green · 1d

Marisa Tomei as Mona Lisa Vito in My Cousin Vinny (1992).

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Emily Riesbeck, Haunted Doll @emilyriesbeck.bsky.social · 1d

probably New Nightmare!

Emily Riesbeck, Haunted Doll @emilyriesbeck.bsky.social · 1d

me: here baby, just move a few inches to the left so i can put this nice pillow in the windowsill for you to sit on!

my cat: how dare you, shoving an old woman. You are ontological evil and will never see heaven.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 2d

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 3d

Pope to Chicago Labor Leaders: “Please know of my appreciation for your welcome of immigrants and refugees, especially your support of food pantries and shelters….I encourage you to continue to advocate for society to respect the human dignity of the most vulnerable.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

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Emily Riesbeck, Haunted Doll @emilyriesbeck.bsky.social · 2d

He has like zero effect on the plot or outcome after the first act lol. Like even when he's shooting at Sean penn they're already in the car driving away

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 4d

As y'all have probably heard, there has been a lot of ICE activity on the North Side of Chicago today. At least four people were kidnapped by ICE in the Rogers Park neighborhood. Folks mobilized throughout the day to do ICE Watch and Rapid Response work.

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Bayleaf 🍃 @iceghost.bsky.social · 6d

Hey hey! Issue 1 is out today!

Part of a comic page inks from strange tales issue 1

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Alex Jaffe “Alex Jaffe” Alex Jaffe @alexjaffe.bsky.social · 6d

“Unfortunately our only options at this point are destroying all art forever or not creating the world’s first trillionaires”

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Tess "The Egg Prime Directive" Tanenbaum @drtanenbaum.bsky.social · 10d

This is such an important point about HRT that gets lost in the noise: you will feel whether or not it is right for you long before any "permanent changes" set in.

This is one of those areas of medicine where letting people experiment freely and without judgement is the single best path forward.
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Tamsin the Reanimated Girl™ @tamsin.reimaginedgirl.com · 11d

That said, if you're considering HRT, my advice is simple: DO IT.

HRT is one of the safest medical treatments there is, and you'll likely know if it's working for you pretty quickly. Within a few weeks, my quality of life had improved to the point where my wife noticed and commented on it.

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Kristina Cooke @kristinacooke.bsky.social · 10d

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Ted Hesson @tedhesson.bsky.social · 10d

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies

U.S. Border Patrol agents deployed to Chicago led a late-night raid on an apartment building this week, rappelling from helicopters onto rooftops and breaking down doors in an operation authorities said targeted gang members but which swept up U.S. citizens and families.

www.reuters.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 9d

The ICE agents deploying these are people without necessary training, those who couldn’t cut it in police training or didn’t want to join the military.

They are in this to hurt people and play Call of Duty on our streets, deploying chemical weapons on our neighbors as if they’re pressing L1.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 9d

Remaining feds left the scene in a large caravan, deploying more tear gas straight into the crowd - and right at my feet - as they left.

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