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Wendy Sparrow

@wendysparrow.bsky.social

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Author of books, lover of HEA, dog person, happily-married mom of 2, disabled, Fibro, EDS, agoraphobia, PTSD, OCD. Bi She/her Sci-fi rom series on KU: How to Choose a Gaiian in Seven Days https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CH7HSKWH

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Wendy Sparrow @wendysparrow.bsky.social · Jun 7

Sometimes, you just really need cozy reads. Sci-fi romance for fans of Galaxy Quest, Doctor Who, or Lower Decks. Fated mates, alpha heroes / heroines, paranormal abilities, a few grumpy-sunshines and close proximity...even an accidentally married. #Booksky #Ad #Romance
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Images of all the book covers in the Love, Gaiians, and Monsters series and universe. They are available on Kindle Unlimited. There are fated mates and alien hotness. They can be read out of order due to a helpful "previously in the universe" intro, and they're funny and quirky.

Book covers shown in the main series:
How to Choose a Gaiian in Seven Days
Earthen Girls are Rarely Easy
Gaiian Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
The Gaiian Who Secretly Loved Me
The Good-ish, the Sexy Kind of Bad, and the AI
Blasterfight at the OK Outpost
Catch Me if You Can, Gaiian
Feer and Loving in Lost Vegas
Ms. Belle and the Gaiian Beast
The Really Great Lab Escape

Novellas in the same universe:
Barrten & Robin
A Spaceship's Rear Window
A Gaiian's Runaway Bride

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Wendy Sparrow @wendysparrow.bsky.social · 3h

Due to my messed-up shoulder, I've ice-packed myself into a severe Raynaud's flare that came with an ugly headache, so Eldest made me Stash Maple Apple Cider tea and just holding the warm mug feels healing.

A dark amber herbal tea in a glass mug that is covered in mushrooms.

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 3h

Novels are just comics consisting of one picture and an overwritten caption.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 22h

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

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Wendy Sparrow @wendysparrow.bsky.social · 3h

Wow, I can *almost* smell that and it's amazing.

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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 16h

A man was wrongfully imprisoned for a crime he did not commit for more than 40 years. As soon as he was exonerated, ICE picked him up to deport him to a country he has not lived in since he was a baby www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 12h

Not very unhinged, but: Stop reading a book if you're bouncing off of it. Stop "powering through." You're just wasting your time. You don't get a gold star for finishing books you're not enjoying reading.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 22h

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

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10h

Woody Guthrie wrote a song called "Old Man Trump" that, shall we say, resonates today

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Wendy Sparrow @wendysparrow.bsky.social · 4h

People who campaign to have books banned have something fundamentally wrong with them and are dooming us to repeat the worst parts of history.

Wendy Sparrow @wendysparrow.bsky.social · 4h

There's mention of cancelling a different book bowl out of "an abundance of caution" and I thought, "Oh, okay, pandemic years." No. No, that's not why someone cancelled out of an abundance of caution. It's because there are some small-minded fools there who are afraid of kids reading.

Text from article: This isn’t the first brush with book censorship that the Reading Bowl has had. In 2023, Cobb County’s Reading Bowl was canceled, “out of an abundance of caution, and in light of recent events.” That caution came due to the district’s book banning and fear that the titles included in the program–again, titles selected by state library workers–would come under fire.

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Wendy Sparrow @wendysparrow.bsky.social · 4h

A Georgia Reading Bowl Bans Titles from Competition, Including a Book on Book Bans

(There's a section in the next post from this article that I read several times because I thought I'd misread it.)

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A Georgia Reading Bowl Bans Titles from Competition, Including a Book on Book Bans

Eight books, including a book about the current spate of book bans and their impact on teens, have been banned from a Georgia Reading Bowl.

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Wendy Sparrow @wendysparrow.bsky.social · 7h

My dogs get more of their favorite pricier treats (that last longer and buy me time) during times when my health or pain level is bad.

The last few months, I've found myself buying these treats that are on a monthly subscription plan in the last week in the month.

We ran out on the 10th this time.

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Wendy Sparrow @wendysparrow.bsky.social · 7h

We're all going through things, Jill. Up is down. Wet is dry. It's all a mess.

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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 7h

The world's largest factory that produces mosquitoes that can prevent dengue, Zika and chikungunya viruses from reproducing has opened in Curitiba, Brazil, aiming to boost protection in 40 municipalities with high infection rates.
www.upi.com/Health_News/...

Brazil opens world’s largest mosquito biofactory to fight disease - UPI.com

The world's largest factory that produces mosquitoes that can prevent dengue, Zika and chikungunya viruses from reproducing has opened in Curitiba, Brazil.

www.upi.com

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 7h

AI graphics are a tool of fascism

Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 7h

Look, I get that we all want to like that frog pretending to be Obama “Hop” poster, but you all understand it’s obviously AI, right?

It has that pissbrown sheen suffusing the entire thing that’s even more obvious when you compare it to the original.

I’m not alone in seeing this, right?

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Clades 🍉 @cladesm.bsky.social · 7h

Currently very unhappy to be trying to help solve a murder.... Under the ocean....

The mermaids should be able to figure their own shit out! 🧛

Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · 20h

Spooky season is upon us! Tell me about your Vampires 🧛 #WritingPrompt

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Wendy Sparrow @wendysparrow.bsky.social · 7h

That is NOT UNHINGED! That is totally reasonable and should have happened. Seriously. I bought it right after we "met" on here for my family full of people who need it.

So, I don't know if it's cheating or what but you didn't follow the instructions on this. It feels like cheating...

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Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 11h

COLOR TASTE TEXTURE should be a bestseller and have won awards. 😤

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 22h

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

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 10h

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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Wendy Sparrow @wendysparrow.bsky.social · 7h

Whoa. The reader is yelling?

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 9h

The is literally nothing more American and patriotic than declaring: No Kings.

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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 14h

Caught a Kinglet in a rare split-second of stillness. :) #birds

Photo of an itty-bitty Golden-crowned Kinglet posing with its chin up near the tip of a small grey twig sporting cobwebs against a blurry background of green, yellow, orange bokeh

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Wendy Sparrow @wendysparrow.bsky.social · 17h

I was able to get an appointment in December, but that feels a long time away and like we're cutting it close for surgery.

So I'm still hoping to get it done sooner.

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Wendy Sparrow @wendysparrow.bsky.social · 17h

I hope on his deathbed, Johnson thinks about how he attempted to spread the lie that Trump was working with the FBI to take down Epstein. He's such a weasel.

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Wendy Sparrow @wendysparrow.bsky.social · 18h

Same. Just tossing it out like this makes me livid.

Wendy Sparrow @wendysparrow.bsky.social · 18h

As someone with diagnosed PTSD related to sexual assault who is back on medication decades later DUE TO this administration and the fact that they're all monsters he's helping to enable, I'd love if he'd help people with actual PTSD get the care they need, and not just help destroy healthcare.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

REPORTER: Do you support repealing Obamacare and what's your healthcare plan?

MIKE JOHNSON: We worked on repealing and replacing Obamacare back in 2017. I still have PTSD from the experience. We know that American healthcare needs dramatic reform. We have lots of ideas.

(So, no plan)

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 19h

ICE is thug trash.

Jonah @anotherjonah.bsky.social · 21h

This morning I was filming ICE abducting sometime in Petworth. One of the agents told me "the last US citizen that did this he put in cuffs all the way to the courtroom".

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