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Vel @velbat.bsky.social · Dec 19

A quick intro:
Vel, 30s, she/her

-Books (sci-fi, fantasy, queer, thriller)
-Art (I'm very out of practice, but trying to get back to it)
-Music (rock and a variety of other genres)
-Movies/TV series/anime (various/mood-based)

Vel @velbat.bsky.social · Sep 11

Genre. I don't actually do much bookshelf organization, but I wouldn't be able to stand books in a series being separated 😅

𝔳𝔦𝔠 𝔣𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔨𝔢𝔫𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔦𝔫 🖤⚡️ @vicxbookshelf.bsky.social · Sep 9

organize bookshelf by colour or genre?

Vel @velbat.bsky.social · Sep 11

😂

Ben Paddon | Jump Leads season 2 Oct 31! @benpaddon.net · Sep 10

Thank God it's finally out in paperback

Amazon listing for a Star Trek TNG era Tricorder. It's listed as a "paperback" priced at $15.95.

Vel @velbat.bsky.social · Sep 8

All Demeter wants is to safely shuttle her passengers to their destination, but everything keeps going wrong.

@barbaratruelove.bsky.social's Of Monsters and Mainframes was such a fun time! Definitely one of my favorite reads so far this year.

#booksky 🌈📚🪐

Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove
The title is written in colorful, 3D font and framed between an upper and lower set of vampire teeth. In the top left, a spaceship is flying away.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · Jul 28

Anyway, this is just a reminder that early humans were human. They took care of the sick and loved art & saturated fat.

Thinking that everything they did was a grim survival tactic?

That's usually us projecting our issues onto the past. Not what their own lives were actually about.

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Vel @velbat.bsky.social · Jul 30

This entire thread is such a good read!

Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · Jul 28

So they found a 125,000 yr old Neanderthal fat rendering plant & I have thoughts.

Knowing that they loved saturated fat SO MUCH that they industrialized to get as much of it as humanly possible?

Makes me feel seen, heard, supported, etc www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Large-scale processing of within-bone nutrients by Neanderthals, 125,000 years ago

Neanderthals intensively processed a minimum of 172 large mammals for grease and marrow fat, 125,000 years ago.

www.science.org

Vel @velbat.bsky.social · Jul 30

The third act breakup

Vel @velbat.bsky.social · Jul 29

My once-a-year-ish dip into the romance genre.
I picked this one up because I'd heard it avoided a specific trope I'm not big on, and it ended up being the perfect June-July pride months read 🌈📚💙

A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall. Cover shows a woman in a yellow dress and a man in a blue tailcoat standing close together with foreheads touching. The man has his hands on the woman's waist, and the woman rests a gloved hand on his chest.

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Vel @velbat.bsky.social · Jul 21

Oh awesome! I feel like I rarely ever find fans of these!

Vel @velbat.bsky.social · Jul 21

What are your top 4 favorite anime?

Definitely have more than four I'd consider favs, so instead of listing the big-name ones, here are 3 shows and 1 movie that I feel like are lesser known/less popular.

Devil May Cry: The Animated Series (2007)

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Vel @velbat.bsky.social · Jul 21

Ok, I couldn't resist...

Create this Picrew of yourself: picrew.me/en/image_mak...
Then take this quiz: uquiz.com/quiz/eTdXoU/...

LMAO
(But also the misplaced apostrophe in the description 😭)

Text image that reads:
"Morally Grey. You helped the heroes once, but only for money. And you sold them out later, but only to save your daughter from slavers. Your actions and motives are constantly contradicting, with no end in sight. Twitter and Reddit are divided in very different ways. Tumblr wants to eat you raw."

In the text image, heroes is spelled hero apostrophe s

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Bricky @brickyo8.bsky.social · Jun 15

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Vel @velbat.bsky.social · Jun 11

I just had a whole MySpace-era flashback 😂 (Love the outfit btw!)

Vel @velbat.bsky.social · Jun 4

This sci-fi horror novel is book 1 in a planned series, which I didn't realize when I first picked it up. Thankfully it wraps up a complete arc, even if some plot threads are left open for the sequel.

Vel @velbat.bsky.social · Jun 4

Gruesome murders lead to the discovery that a parasitic organism is spreading among the staff at an isolated Antarctic research station.
#booksky

Symbiote by Michael Nayak. Cover illustration shows a floating iceberg. The top two-thirds of the iceberg are blue, but the lower third is red with root-like tendrils growing out of it.

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Vel @velbat.bsky.social · Jun 4

Agreed! This reminded me of a book I read with a popular title comp. Many reviewers were disappointed because they felt the book was A.) a rip-off of the title comp, or B.) wasn't enough like the comp.
Truly a disservice to what I thought was an interesting book on its own merits.

Vel @velbat.bsky.social · Jun 2

This looks adorable! I had to immediately go put a hold on it at my library.

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Heatherface Wixson @thehorrorchick.bsky.social · Jun 2

I posted this last June but it applies to every month really. Happy Pride y’all - I know the world is filled with so much cruelty and hate right now so I hope everyone gets enjoy the love and happiness they deserve. 🌈