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📚 Booklover/writer 🧚🏽‍♂️ Fantasy/scifi/hist fiction/classics 🎶🎧 Audiophile 🎬 Film nerd

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📚🪱🗡 @gonturan.bsky.social · Feb 12

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Toshiasan @toshiasan.bsky.social · Nov 29

Dragon cafe ❄️🐉☕️
My online shop is now open till 2nd December! 🥰
* All A3 prints and some A4 prints are 15% off
* buy 4 prints and get the 5th one for free 🫶
toshia-san.myshopify.com

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the idea slumlord✨ @mollytanzer.bsky.social · 10d

What if we tried loving one another, eating delicious food, making art...what if we practiced patience, helped those who need it, found ways to make life easier for all, moved our bodies, and slept cozily in nice warm beds. How about we see how that goes for a while, instead of whatever all this is

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BB - Pickled Psyche 📚 Booksky @pickledpsyche.bsky.social · Aug 8

It’s too much pressure!!
#booksky

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📚🪱🗡 @gonturan.bsky.social · Aug 5

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tweety @bluskypolitics.bsky.social · Jul 29

📌 Hope this soul follows him

everywhere . A true hero 🐥

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Sp꩜꩜ky J ⋆｡𖦹 °✩☾⋆｡ @angrygoose.ruins.party · Jun 24

A goose wearing shades on a pink background with text that says "people pleasing is over, become unacceptable"

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · Jun 23

Loss of federal funding looks different at each library system 💔

Across the nation, libraries are laying off library workers, closing on weekends or entirely, stopping the ordering of new materials, eliminating summer reading programs ❤️‍🩹

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David R Beshears @drbeshears.bsky.social · Jun 16

#asimov quote #writing #writingcommunity #scifi #sciencefiction

"I write for the same reason I breathe -- because if I didn't, I would die." --Isaac Asimov

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horde jedi @hotcarbs.bsky.social · Apr 21

Grief is insane and the only thing that helps is coupling it with gratitude for loving someone so much.

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Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · Feb 23

The authoritarians and know-nothings don’t want us to imagine better futures, better worlds, and that’s precisely what fantasy does. In the words of Katherine Rundell, “The imagination is the primary and first site of resistance.”

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Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · Feb 23

Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · Feb 14

It may feel weird or somehow improper to talk about your art or your writing, but we need it. It can’t be wall-to-wall nightmare all the time. Art is both counterweight and context. It’s escape and enlightenment and a mirror of our own exasperation. We need it. We NEED it. Keep showing us.

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📚🪱🗡 @gonturan.bsky.social · Feb 14

Nothing beats that fresh journal feeling 😊

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · Feb 10

*coughs in Patricia-C-Wrede-to-Robin-McKinley-to-NK-Jemisin fandom pipeline*

Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · Feb 10

I am extremely annoyed by The Guardian claiming 'Romantasy has reclaimed the geeky fantasy dominion for women, celebrating female friendship, agency and sexuality'.
This skewed view stems from the ongoing erasure of women writers in SF&F through fewer reviews, omission from 'Best of' lists etc etc

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Greg GORY Andree 💀🎃 @gregandree71.bsky.social · Feb 13

Got my first "Violating an Executive Order" and "I'll make sure you lose federal funding" parent threat today for teaching "DEI" books in our upcoming "Liberty and Justice" themed unit. Even in "Blue" Massachusetts we're dealing with this.

Anyway, don't obey in advance, and don't obey later.

Book covers for: Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed, The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo, The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester by Maya MacGregor, Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, Monster by Walter Dean Myers, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

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Nose Stuck in a Book Blog @nsiabblog.bsky.social · Feb 13

This is so cute 😭 #booksky

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Michele/Meidas Fan @michelemanziano.bsky.social · Feb 12

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📚🪱🗡 @gonturan.bsky.social · Feb 13

I really loved the descriptions of food in this book. It was so nice to hear African cuisines being described. I rarely encounter that in fantasy

📚🪱🗡 @gonturan.bsky.social · Feb 13

feeling kind of warm cozy feelings towards her kidnapper! I get that he's a king and she's supposedly terrified, but she seemed to get over it too quickly imo. They were exchanging smiles a lot WHILE she was finding out he kidnapped her to be his bride. Like????

📚🪱🗡 @gonturan.bsky.social · Feb 13

So I kind of had to reread the first few chapters bc the night I read this book was such a blur. The first thing about this story that I thought was strange was how Ododo just kind of accepted being kidnapped. Her fear was mentioned a few times and her kind of playing along, but she was also

📚🪱🗡 @gonturan.bsky.social · Feb 12

One of my 2025 goals is to catch up on book reviews for all the books I really loved last year and never got a chance to chat about online. I think i also want to do more in-depth reviews for books I've read more recently that I only discussed on a surface level as well.