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Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 20m

Those #medievalsky folks who teach medieval European medical practices--out of curiosity, what are some of the foulest treatments/remedies you encounter? Doing a session on medieval Japanese medical practices and my students are about to read fun things like rubbing newborn infant shit into wounds!

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Loralei Reads (they/any) @loraleireads.bsky.social · 19m

Oof. You do you of course, but my ranking is completely different.
I can appreciate the pettiness of Northanger, but I do not enjoy reading it at all.

Loralei Reads (they/any) @loraleireads.bsky.social · 23m

I heartily agree!

Loralei Reads (they/any) @loraleireads.bsky.social · 15h

Jane Austen is underrated as a satirist

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 15h

Yeah, I’d the advance isn’t the equivalent of a great salary, a book a year is nuts (and even THEN it’s not sustainable).

Nichole @tnwhiskeywoman.bsky.social · 15h

Romance readers AND publishers need to stop expecting authors to publish a book a year, *especially* if the publisher is not providing a livable advance bsky.app/profile/rach...

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Lackofa @lackofa.bsky.social · 9d

This art is a year or two now but I'm still really proud of it. Pigeons!! I sell these lil guys as prints https://www.lackofa.com/shop

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Loralei Reads (they/any) @loraleireads.bsky.social · 15h

a raccoon is standing in the grass with its arms outstretched and says " sending you a big hug " .

ALT: a raccoon is standing in the grass with its arms outstretched and says " sending you a big hug " .

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 18h

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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TheMerMolly- she/her/mer @mollyandthecat.bsky.social · 15h

Taking care of ourselves in #TraumaRecovery is hard work. Today I checked in with myself very often and asked myself why I was feeling certain feelings. I was triggered a few times & felt dissociation flowing across my face like a chill. I implemented coping skills! Exhausting, effective, worth it!

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Wole Talabi @wtalabi.bsky.social · 17h

Genres aren't real. They are mental projections we impose on stories to simplify the way talk about and sell them but stories come unshaped from deep within us and writers shouldn't feel constrained by or even respect genres at all. The story comes first.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Aut. Stuart Miller 📖✍️🤓 @authorstuartmiller.bsky.social · 15h

IMO #poetry is a creative form, unique style of #writing, self expression & storytelling

Shout-out to #PoetrySky & all #poets 📖✍️🤓

@poetrywithlinda.bsky.social
@haiku-poetry.bsky.social
@ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social
@glasspoetry.bsky.social
@poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social
@sirenityphoenix.bsky.social

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 1d

Every culture has its magician. The Egyptian priest reading stars. The Yoruba babalawo casting divination shells. The hedge-witch whispering charms to the moon. Each one a keeper of the world’s secret grammar. #FolkloreSunday

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Loralei Reads (they/any) @loraleireads.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks!

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Loralei Reads (they/any) @loraleireads.bsky.social · 1d

If you call pushing 50 young, then sure

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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 2d

Applying For Disability

Written by stephen king

directed by qeuntin tarantino

soundtrack by yoko ono

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Loralei Reads (they/any) @loraleireads.bsky.social · 1d

Can I please be included in Booklovers and LGBTQIA?

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Loralei Reads (they/any) @loraleireads.bsky.social · 1d

I've had the opposite experience - revisiting media means that I nearly always get something different out of it.

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 2d

“More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducted professionally for other households” [England]

phys.org/news/2025-10...

A woman's place was not in the home: Challenging the assumptions about women's work in early modern history

New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England's national economy before 1700.

phys.org

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 1d

This week's Sunday snippet is from Wooing the Witch Queen - which is on sale in the UK (and mainland Europe) for just 99p this month!

Snap it up: stephanieburgis.com/books/wooing-the-witch-queen

#romancelandia

An image of the front cover of Wooing the Witch Queen shows a sinister witch queen in a spectacular beaded dress embracing her handsome and adoring new librarian (in a black wizard's robe) inside a library of magic filled with crows and masks and flying books. Above and beside it is this snippet from the book:
The witch queen of Kitvaria might be capable of many previously-unheard-of things, but she was certainly not interested in flirting with him now. Perhaps she was in a whimsical mood, after whatever great spell she’d been working on the roof; more worryingly, she might be hinting at real anger.
Either way, he had to remember that she was infinitely more likely to kill him than to kiss him, no matter what his treacherously reawakening body might wish him to imagine.

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Spryte M. ♿🏳️‍🌈♀️🎮✍🏻🪆🧩🦅 @sprytemagnus.bsky.social · 3d

@theradr.bsky.social I believe this is your gem of wisdom

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 2d

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Sunday from the Buckeye butterfly.

#Photography99 📷🌱 #Butterflies 🦋

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 1d

Steve is wondering if anyone saw that.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

Discworld QOTD, from The Light Fantastic

"‘You run away a lot,’ said one of the voices. ‘That is good. You are a survivor.’

‘Survivor? I’ve nearly been killed dozens of times!’

‘Exactly.’"

Micah @rincewind.run · 3d

Discworld QOTD, from Small Gods

That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty truth, and does a falling tree in the forest make a sound if there's no one there to hear it, and then just when you think they're going to start dribbling one of 'em says, incidentally, putting a thirty-foot parabolic reflector on a high place to shoot the rays of the sun at an enemy's ships would be a very interesting demonstration of optical principles.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 2d

Honestly, I get the same eye rolls about being multiply disabled. Hey, I did not pick being autistic and immunocompromised and having a broken back and long COVID and loose joints. People are more than one thing and it doesn’t make them “attention whores” (a problematic phrase!).

Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 2d

The way people react to my “in-between-ness”—the biromanticism, the asexuality, and being genderqueer in a not very cut and dry way—lead me to feel out of place in queer communities a lot of times. I don’t feel safe with (or relate to) the straights, either.

My challenge to you:

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