Olivia Waite
@oliviawaite.com
Writer of queer romance and sff. Half agony, half hope, bisexual. She/her. Romance fiction columnist for the NYTBR: #RomanceColumn OliviaWaite.com
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Olivia Waite
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· Apr 23
Ballast Book Company
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Good news! You can now order signed or personalized or doodled-on copies of my books from @ballastbookco.bsky.social! (Eagle eyes will also spot the pre-order for the second Dorothy Gentleman mystery!) ballastbookco.com/browse/filte... 💙📚
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One of the best-sketched characters in an incredibly character-rich show: a fascist whose (potentially real!) redeeming qualities are continually undercut by his monumental pride, bigotry, entitlement and pettiness
The most realistic scene in DS9 is when Gul Dukat whined about how the Bajorans never erected a statue in his honor. A prophetic text.
December 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
One of the best-sketched characters in an incredibly character-rich show: a fascist whose (potentially real!) redeeming qualities are continually undercut by his monumental pride, bigotry, entitlement and pettiness
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I'll say again: we are oddly selective about the government services about which we will say, they operate at a loss.
We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money
We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 7, 2025 at 7:24 AM
I'll say again: we are oddly selective about the government services about which we will say, they operate at a loss.
We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money
We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money
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Friends! First three Rachel Reid game changers series, including Heated Rivalry, bundled for 1.99
THREE BOOKS, 1.99
It's 2.99 alone for Heated Rivalry lol
Get it a.co/d/758a4Io
THREE BOOKS, 1.99
It's 2.99 alone for Heated Rivalry lol
Get it a.co/d/758a4Io
Game Changers Collection: A Spicy Gay Hockey Romance - Kindle edition by Reid, Rachel. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
Game Changers Collection: A Spicy Gay Hockey Romance - Kindle edition by Reid, Rachel. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taki...
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December 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Friends! First three Rachel Reid game changers series, including Heated Rivalry, bundled for 1.99
THREE BOOKS, 1.99
It's 2.99 alone for Heated Rivalry lol
Get it a.co/d/758a4Io
THREE BOOKS, 1.99
It's 2.99 alone for Heated Rivalry lol
Get it a.co/d/758a4Io
New Adriana Anders for everyone to pre-order from their store of choice!
December 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
New Adriana Anders for everyone to pre-order from their store of choice!
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Listen Up! #Audiobook Review: Violet Thistlewaite Is Not a Villain Anymore by Emily Krempholtz twimom227.com/2025/11/list... via @jentwimom.bsky.social #RomBkBlog #Romancelandia
Listen Up! #Audiobook Review: Violet Thistlewaite Is Not a Villain Anymore by Emily Krempholtz – That's What I'm Talking About…
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December 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Listen Up! #Audiobook Review: Violet Thistlewaite Is Not a Villain Anymore by Emily Krempholtz twimom227.com/2025/11/list... via @jentwimom.bsky.social #RomBkBlog #Romancelandia
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This little Christmas ghost romance is half off, if you have fifty cents and a burning urge to read something a little different from what I normally write (no jokes in this story, only hauntings and longings)
Clara, Darling
- f/f historical paranormal romance novella
- set around Christmas 1932
- lonely radio actress x ghost of her true love
- controlling cheaters getting what they deserve
chaceverity.itch.io/clara-darling
- f/f historical paranormal romance novella
- set around Christmas 1932
- lonely radio actress x ghost of her true love
- controlling cheaters getting what they deserve
chaceverity.itch.io/clara-darling
December 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This little Christmas ghost romance is half off, if you have fifty cents and a burning urge to read something a little different from what I normally write (no jokes in this story, only hauntings and longings)
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I spoke with Any Lucía López Belloza, the Babson College student who was on her way to surprise her family for Thanksgiving when ICE deported her.
"My 5-year-old sister still believes that I might go home for Christmas," she tells me.
www.thecut.com/article/any-...
"My 5-year-old sister still believes that I might go home for Christmas," she tells me.
www.thecut.com/article/any-...
I Wanted to Surprise My Family on Thanksgiving. ICE Deported Me Instead.
How the Trump administration turned a college freshman’s life upside down.
www.thecut.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I spoke with Any Lucía López Belloza, the Babson College student who was on her way to surprise her family for Thanksgiving when ICE deported her.
"My 5-year-old sister still believes that I might go home for Christmas," she tells me.
www.thecut.com/article/any-...
"My 5-year-old sister still believes that I might go home for Christmas," she tells me.
www.thecut.com/article/any-...
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Thread on how to detect ai in that viral dog video
Yeah, I mean, I'm critical of any video nowadays that is trying to elicit an emotional response, especially when it's asking for subs at the end. It's weird that all the people seem to end up with the dog they want. And shelters are overflowing, where are the rooms full of people wanting to adopt?
December 7, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Thread on how to detect ai in that viral dog video
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'In the winter garden' - my favourite geometric garden aerial that I've ever done! I don't remember if I shared it here or not yet - it has camellia bushes in the centre and beds of winter heather and hellebore :) the geometric landscapes are always more challenging and I love that! #embroidery
December 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
'In the winter garden' - my favourite geometric garden aerial that I've ever done! I don't remember if I shared it here or not yet - it has camellia bushes in the centre and beds of winter heather and hellebore :) the geometric landscapes are always more challenging and I love that! #embroidery
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I will never not think about the origins of the word thagomizer.
December 6, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I will never not think about the origins of the word thagomizer.
Watching my favorite Christmas neonoir, Kiss Kiss Bang. Some of Val Kilmer’s finest comedy work.
December 7, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Watching my favorite Christmas neonoir, Kiss Kiss Bang. Some of Val Kilmer’s finest comedy work.
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In the sixth month
of a disastrous reign in the house of money
in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money,
our great country of money, we (forgive us)
lived happily during the war
of a disastrous reign in the house of money
in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money,
our great country of money, we (forgive us)
lived happily during the war
December 7, 2025 at 3:39 AM
In the sixth month
of a disastrous reign in the house of money
in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money,
our great country of money, we (forgive us)
lived happily during the war
of a disastrous reign in the house of money
in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money,
our great country of money, we (forgive us)
lived happily during the war
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It really cannot be stressed enough that if we don’t have birthright citizenship we don’t have citizenship.
The only Americans who have any proof of citizenship are either naturalized adults or the tiny fraction of natural born citizens who are born abroad. Everyone else has birthright citizenship.
The only Americans who have any proof of citizenship are either naturalized adults or the tiny fraction of natural born citizens who are born abroad. Everyone else has birthright citizenship.
Stephen Miller thinks it’s terrible that I can vote
December 6, 2025 at 9:51 PM
It really cannot be stressed enough that if we don’t have birthright citizenship we don’t have citizenship.
The only Americans who have any proof of citizenship are either naturalized adults or the tiny fraction of natural born citizens who are born abroad. Everyone else has birthright citizenship.
The only Americans who have any proof of citizenship are either naturalized adults or the tiny fraction of natural born citizens who are born abroad. Everyone else has birthright citizenship.
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This is where most of us end up.
I have *zero* proof of citizenship because my parents has no proof because their parents have no proof and their parents have no proof… you have to go back to the early 1900s to find anyone in my family becoming naturalized.
Everyone after that got it by being born here: a birthright, if you will.
Everyone after that got it by being born here: a birthright, if you will.
December 7, 2025 at 2:46 AM
This is where most of us end up.
December 7, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud.
Just unspeakable assholery.
Just unspeakable assholery.
December 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud.
Just unspeakable assholery.
Just unspeakable assholery.
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Ok I’ve had rum and now I’m gonna tell you that Hot Frosty is a perfect light Christmas movie.
1.Netflix having its own Xmas movies on TVs is funny.
2.”oh she looks just like a girl I went to school with”: Mean Girls callback
3.The lead guy is actually hot and not creepy
4.The deputy is adorable
1.Netflix having its own Xmas movies on TVs is funny.
2.”oh she looks just like a girl I went to school with”: Mean Girls callback
3.The lead guy is actually hot and not creepy
4.The deputy is adorable
December 7, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Ok I’ve had rum and now I’m gonna tell you that Hot Frosty is a perfect light Christmas movie.
1.Netflix having its own Xmas movies on TVs is funny.
2.”oh she looks just like a girl I went to school with”: Mean Girls callback
3.The lead guy is actually hot and not creepy
4.The deputy is adorable
1.Netflix having its own Xmas movies on TVs is funny.
2.”oh she looks just like a girl I went to school with”: Mean Girls callback
3.The lead guy is actually hot and not creepy
4.The deputy is adorable
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Deep appreciation to everyone who has and will donate to our toy drive. The actual giveaway is on Dec 20 from 2 to 6 pm. If you know families in Crown Heights who might need a gift for their children/teens, feel free to let them know.
December 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Deep appreciation to everyone who has and will donate to our toy drive. The actual giveaway is on Dec 20 from 2 to 6 pm. If you know families in Crown Heights who might need a gift for their children/teens, feel free to let them know.
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Our gorgeous #WakeUpDeadMan end credit portraits, painted from life by Isabella Watling. We’re still in theaters, see my pinned post for a theater finder!
December 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Our gorgeous #WakeUpDeadMan end credit portraits, painted from life by Isabella Watling. We’re still in theaters, see my pinned post for a theater finder!
The executive orders Gish Gallop tactic is frustratingly effective and yet I keep thinking it would solve so many problems at once if we just impeached him and also the Supreme Court.
At some point of democratic destabilization that does become the more practical thing.
At some point of democratic destabilization that does become the more practical thing.
December 6, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The executive orders Gish Gallop tactic is frustratingly effective and yet I keep thinking it would solve so many problems at once if we just impeached him and also the Supreme Court.
At some point of democratic destabilization that does become the more practical thing.
At some point of democratic destabilization that does become the more practical thing.
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the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality
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It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
December 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
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That canceled tv show you'll never stop thinking about
December 6, 2025 at 8:06 AM
That canceled tv show you'll never stop thinking about
Anyway I just pre-ordered the new Orville Peck on vinyl, that’s an exciting thing to look forward to for the end of the year!
December 6, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Anyway I just pre-ordered the new Orville Peck on vinyl, that’s an exciting thing to look forward to for the end of the year!
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People are being significantly more excited about this Voynich manuscript episode than a typical bonus episode and it's just really fun to see!
If you've been on the fence about subscribing to the Lingthusiasm Patreon maybe this is your sign to go for it 👀
If you've been on the fence about subscribing to the Lingthusiasm Patreon maybe this is your sign to go for it 👀
A book containing puzzling drawings and a strange writing system has intrigued cryptographers, historians, linguists, and more for centuries...
In our latest bonus episode we get enthusiastic about the mysterious Voynich Manuscript with @chirila.bsky.social!
In our latest bonus episode we get enthusiastic about the mysterious Voynich Manuscript with @chirila.bsky.social!
Bonus 106: The Mysterious Voynich Manuscript - Interview with Claire Bowern | Lingthusiasm
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December 6, 2025 at 4:10 AM
People are being significantly more excited about this Voynich manuscript episode than a typical bonus episode and it's just really fun to see!
If you've been on the fence about subscribing to the Lingthusiasm Patreon maybe this is your sign to go for it 👀
If you've been on the fence about subscribing to the Lingthusiasm Patreon maybe this is your sign to go for it 👀