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Amelinda Bérubé

@metuiteme.bsky.social

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Writer, editor, terrifying bog witch, werewolf of productivity 💀🍁 Ottawa dweller w prairie roots and maritime daydreams. she/her Three spooky YA books on shelves now! Latest: THE ONES WHO COME BACK HUNGRY Rep: Jacqui Lipton + Lane Heymont @ Tobias

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Amelinda Bérubé @metuiteme.bsky.social · Oct 9

Oh yay, new followers! Be forewarned, I spend too much time on here 💀 Expect book recs, RTd poems, assorted niche enthusiasms, bitching about housework, a lot of dog pics, random internet hilarity, and occasional reminders that I write books—specifically the ones below, perfect for spooky season!

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

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 4h

Linda Pastan

Pears

Some say
it was a pear
Eve ate.
Why else the shape
of the womb,
or of the cello
whose single song is grief
for the parent tree?
Why else the fruit itself
tawny and sweet
which your lover
over breakfast
lets go your pear-
shaped breast
to reach for?

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Amelinda Bérubé @metuiteme.bsky.social · 44m

This is the part that really cracks me up

Amelinda Bérubé @metuiteme.bsky.social · 46m

whaaaaaaaat the

Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 1h

“You could actually see the impression of the fish scales in the windshield” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

'Scared the heck out of me': Falling fish smashes Sask. woman's windshield | CBC News

Of all the things that could smash a car’s windshield in Saskatchewan, a fish that fell from the sky is pretty low on the list of likely suspects. But that’s what happened to Marie Ahlstrom when she w...

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Amelinda Bérubé @metuiteme.bsky.social · 7h

@heymonsterboy.bsky.social are there more??? 👀👀👀

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Amelinda Bérubé @metuiteme.bsky.social · 7h

I did not even know the reference when he gave it to me and I DO NOT CARE I love it anyway lol

Amelinda Bérubé @metuiteme.bsky.social · 7h

Personally I think he should totally make that second one available to buy somewhere because I feel like everyone could use a fortifying dose of this sentiment 💀

Amelinda Bérubé @metuiteme.bsky.social · 7h

I love having glorious examples of @heymonsterboy.bsky.social's genius on my laptop, they make me smile every time they catch my eye

A sticker featuring a drawing of Nicolas Cage in a movie with a cage over his head and bees all over him, yelling "Not the bees!!!"

A sticker with a drawing of the author's brother digging his way out of a grave in front of a headstone that reads "Work" - he says, grimacing, in ragged letters, "capitalism can't have me"

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C.J. Goldberg @cjwriteshorror.bsky.social · 8h

I worked at a poker dealer for 14 years. If anyone ever needs to make sure the poker game in their fiction rings true, feel free to reach out.

I also make sourdough and know how to distill alcohol...

What practical knowledge do you have that would help other writers?

Amelinda Bérubé @metuiteme.bsky.social · 8h

So handy knowing people with v practical expertise when writing fiction

Consulted lately:
* My brother, who knows rats
* My mom, a physio, who can guess at how swordfighting might leave a blacksmith sore
* My husband, ye olde HEMA and martial arts enthusiast, fight choreographer extraordinaire

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Amelinda Bérubé @metuiteme.bsky.social · 20h

WHAT in the sam hell

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Amelinda Bérubé @metuiteme.bsky.social · 20h

so good man!!!! 😍

Amelinda Bérubé @metuiteme.bsky.social · 20h

Siiiiiigh well self, we've finished Queen Demon and there won't be a third book for a million years, now what do we do

WELL SELF I was thinking I'd kinda like to listen to Witch King again, pretty sure I didn't catch everything the first time around

Capital idea, self, I like the cut of your jib

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Amelinda Bérubé @metuiteme.bsky.social · 20h

Not yet, astonishingly! They're saving that for a sequel I guess 👀👀👀

Amelinda Bérubé @metuiteme.bsky.social · 21h

BUT fortunately there is a happy ending in Chapter 4, in which the Loup dog - who had retreated to the couch all "okay, okay, jeez!" - settled down to enjoy the squeaky llama from chapter 1

A woolly husky mix chomping on a squeaky llama toy

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Amelinda Bérubé @metuiteme.bsky.social · 21h

Chapter 3, in which - PLOT TWIST - a Loup dog is *also* intrigued by the squeaky dinosaur

Immediately after this picture followed a snotty altercation in which the chaos dog chased Loup away from the squeaky dinosaur

A tan and white heeler mix holds the blue squeaky dinosaur and watches suspiciously while a woolly husky mix snoofs inquiringly at it

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Amelinda Bérubé @metuiteme.bsky.social · 21h

Chapter 2, in which the chaos dog was also pleased with the squeaky dinosaur

A tan and white heeler mix chomps on a squeaky blue dinosaur toy

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Amelinda Bérubé @metuiteme.bsky.social · 21h

A Tale Of New Dog Toys 🧵

Chapter 1, in which the chaos dog was pleased with with the squeaky llama

A tan and white heeler mix chomps on a small squeaky llama toy

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Amelinda Bérubé @metuiteme.bsky.social · 23h

EXTREMELY thank you for making me aware of this

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Amelinda Bérubé @metuiteme.bsky.social · 2d

EXCELSIOR 💪💪💪💪

I need to do this too, ugh

Posting through cleaning absolutely helps, we are cheering for you!!!

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 3d

Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew

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Amelinda Bérubé @metuiteme.bsky.social · 2d

The answer to this question is ALWAYS yes

Amelinda Bérubé @metuiteme.bsky.social · 2d

uggggghhhh solidarity 🫂

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 3d

Ea-Nāşir's perfidy seems eternal!

Comic

Panel one. Stick finger singing, "Raindrops on rose/ And whiskers on kittens."

Panel two. Same stick figure holding pot and singing, "Bright copper kettles leave/ ...Flakes on my mittens!?"

Panel three. Same figure still holding pot and singing, "Hey, these are stone with a copper veneer!"

Fourth panel. Same stick figure has put down pot and is singing, "I've been bamboozled by Ea-Nāşir!"

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sph(ooky w)erewolf @spherewolf.bsky.social · 3d

"I'm going to put this somewhere safe so I don't lose it." —ancient ADHD incantation, to ensure that something is never seen again

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Amelinda Bérubé @metuiteme.bsky.social · 4d

Got no recs but would sure be interested to hear them 👀👀👀

Tom Emanuel @realtomemanuel.bsky.social · 4d

Are there any good resources *from within the autistic community* about parenting children on the spectrum? Asking for someone on the spectrum (me) who's raising two beautiful humans who are also on the spectrum. I'm finding some things challenging lately and would love additional support.

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