Danuta Raine
@danutaelectra.bsky.social
Author, Editor, and Lover of Tea
Happy New Year, friends!
If New Year is the time when you reflect and direct your year ahead, my latest Beyond the Nevers essay looks at my take on moving beyond resolutions.
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If New Year is the time when you reflect and direct your year ahead, my latest Beyond the Nevers essay looks at my take on moving beyond resolutions.
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Beyond Resolution: You are the Bow and the Arrow
“You will Never be enough unless you improve.” But a meaningful life is more about aligning your shots than declaring resolutions.
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December 31, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Happy New Year, friends!
If New Year is the time when you reflect and direct your year ahead, my latest Beyond the Nevers essay looks at my take on moving beyond resolutions.
open.substack.com/pub/danutara...
If New Year is the time when you reflect and direct your year ahead, my latest Beyond the Nevers essay looks at my take on moving beyond resolutions.
open.substack.com/pub/danutara...
Choosing what matters doesn’t need to be becoming the best, being a billionaire, or “making it”—whatever it is
It can be hugging your daughter, having a cuppa with your bestie, or living a low impact life
What matters most to you?
It can be hugging your daughter, having a cuppa with your bestie, or living a low impact life
What matters most to you?
December 29, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Choosing what matters doesn’t need to be becoming the best, being a billionaire, or “making it”—whatever it is
It can be hugging your daughter, having a cuppa with your bestie, or living a low impact life
What matters most to you?
It can be hugging your daughter, having a cuppa with your bestie, or living a low impact life
What matters most to you?
We each have a unique voice that deserves to be heard. This holiday season, create safe spaces for unusual voices and hear the stories that people need to share. This week’s Beyond the Nevers essay explores what it means to belong during the holidays.
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We All Need Space for a Solo.
“You’ll Never fit in unless you harmonise.” But we all have unique voices that are worth hearing.
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December 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
We each have a unique voice that deserves to be heard. This holiday season, create safe spaces for unusual voices and hear the stories that people need to share. This week’s Beyond the Nevers essay explores what it means to belong during the holidays.
open.substack.com/pub/danutara...
open.substack.com/pub/danutara...
The holidays can be great for all your kith and kin … all you gotta do is put your mind to it.
Designing supportive holiday environments is something we all can do. Explore some ways to do in this week’s Beyond the Nevers essay.
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Designing supportive holiday environments is something we all can do. Explore some ways to do in this week’s Beyond the Nevers essay.
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Introverts Holiday Differently, Not Less.
“Your community will Never accept you unless you join the crowd.” But science says communities do better when they embrace difference.
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December 17, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The holidays can be great for all your kith and kin … all you gotta do is put your mind to it.
Designing supportive holiday environments is something we all can do. Explore some ways to do in this week’s Beyond the Nevers essay.
open.substack.com/pub/danutara...
Designing supportive holiday environments is something we all can do. Explore some ways to do in this week’s Beyond the Nevers essay.
open.substack.com/pub/danutara...
Creative communities encourage you to try things you might not have done otherwise.
I never thought of myself as a perfumier, but here is my first big batch.
Must admit, I felt a bit decadent using 35 drops of Herboristerie Firadous Rose oil.
But courage comes from company.
I never thought of myself as a perfumier, but here is my first big batch.
Must admit, I felt a bit decadent using 35 drops of Herboristerie Firadous Rose oil.
But courage comes from company.
December 8, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Creative communities encourage you to try things you might not have done otherwise.
I never thought of myself as a perfumier, but here is my first big batch.
Must admit, I felt a bit decadent using 35 drops of Herboristerie Firadous Rose oil.
But courage comes from company.
I never thought of myself as a perfumier, but here is my first big batch.
Must admit, I felt a bit decadent using 35 drops of Herboristerie Firadous Rose oil.
But courage comes from company.
Creative Communities are the Bees Knees is this weeks Substack essay. In it, I wax lyrical about why communities are it. Why do we thrive together? What is the key to successful communities?
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Creative Communities are the Bees’ Knees
The Never says: “You have to compete to succeed creatively.” But science says that successful creativity is all about community.
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December 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Creative Communities are the Bees Knees is this weeks Substack essay. In it, I wax lyrical about why communities are it. Why do we thrive together? What is the key to successful communities?
open.substack.com/pub/danutara...
open.substack.com/pub/danutara...
Community and creativity has always been intertwined. Creativity thrives in community, and community is designed by our evolving creativity.
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Creativity Thrives in Community
The Never says: If you didn’t do it alone, it isn’t really yours. But creativity has always thrived in community, from ancient storytellers to modern researchers.
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December 1, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Community and creativity has always been intertwined. Creativity thrives in community, and community is designed by our evolving creativity.
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open.substack.com/pub/danutara...
“You’ll Never recover from failure.” “You’re only as good as your last project.” These are lies designed to make us give up. So, don’t give up. Make failure the fodder for your next attempt.
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Failure is Fodder for Your Next Attempt
“You’ll Never recover from failure.” “You’re only as good as your last project.” These are lies designed to make us give up. So, don’t give up.
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November 5, 2025 at 1:17 PM
“You’ll Never recover from failure.” “You’re only as good as your last project.” These are lies designed to make us give up. So, don’t give up. Make failure the fodder for your next attempt.
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open.substack.com/pub/danutara...
Two words: Bleeding Brilliant.
If you are swimming in the ocean that is neurospicy womanhood, this is freaky good. Read it.
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If you are swimming in the ocean that is neurospicy womanhood, this is freaky good. Read it.
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Female Neurodivergence, It’s Really Not the Same
Neurodivergent women often live at the intersection of misunderstood biology and under-researched neurology.
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October 3, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Two words: Bleeding Brilliant.
If you are swimming in the ocean that is neurospicy womanhood, this is freaky good. Read it.
open.substack.com/pub/unmaskin...
If you are swimming in the ocean that is neurospicy womanhood, this is freaky good. Read it.
open.substack.com/pub/unmaskin...
I am so excited to release this new essay on Substack. If you ever thought that creativity was something you did to reward yourself, think again. The science suggests that creativity is essential—that it is the calm that clears our chaos.
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Creativity Calms the Chaos
“You’ll Never be creative when your life is a mess.” Well, that’s not what science says.
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October 2, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I am so excited to release this new essay on Substack. If you ever thought that creativity was something you did to reward yourself, think again. The science suggests that creativity is essential—that it is the calm that clears our chaos.
open.substack.com/pub/danutara...
open.substack.com/pub/danutara...
I have started a Substack about creativity and going beyond the Nevers.
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Creativity vs The Nevers
Why I'm Here
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September 28, 2025 at 6:28 AM
I have started a Substack about creativity and going beyond the Nevers.
open.substack.com/pub/danutara...
open.substack.com/pub/danutara...
Being hopeful during the current changes in the world. It is like your best friend has had an accident and they are no longer who they once were. Instead of having your back, they are sharpening a stick to poke into it. Everyone is trying to gently help out while getting out of range of the stick.
March 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Being hopeful during the current changes in the world. It is like your best friend has had an accident and they are no longer who they once were. Instead of having your back, they are sharpening a stick to poke into it. Everyone is trying to gently help out while getting out of range of the stick.
Happy Solstice. Beyond the religious holidays, the earth does what it does. May it do well by you in the coming season, and I hope you do well by it.
December 21, 2024 at 4:09 AM
Happy Solstice. Beyond the religious holidays, the earth does what it does. May it do well by you in the coming season, and I hope you do well by it.
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The best version of Hallelujah, in my opinion. I just wish that it was a high def, high end, recording.
Do you know of any that can compete?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt2F...
#Music #Musicsky
Do you know of any that can compete?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt2F...
#Music #Musicsky
Hallelujah (shrek song) Best version!
YouTube video by Padrobus
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December 7, 2024 at 8:05 AM
The best version of Hallelujah, in my opinion. I just wish that it was a high def, high end, recording.
Do you know of any that can compete?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt2F...
#Music #Musicsky
Do you know of any that can compete?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt2F...
#Music #Musicsky
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Rewatching Babylon 5. I know it is from the last century, but it offers so many insights into how to construct long-arc fiction series. Molari's transformation; how Straczynski seeds his flaws in the Pilot episode and then drips things in through the first series—Golden.
#Babylon5 #Writing
#Babylon5 #Writing
December 5, 2024 at 9:53 PM
Watched Martha Marcy Mae Marlene after listening to a q&a podcast on cults. Been interested in cults since my ex-husband got us caught up in 'Christian' one. It took 3 years to pull away because I wanted to bring him out of it, but his mind has never recovered.
youtu.be/ERREgOobLOs?...
#cults
youtu.be/ERREgOobLOs?...
#cults
MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE: Official HD Trailer
YouTube video by SearchlightPictures
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December 5, 2024 at 9:42 PM
Watched Martha Marcy Mae Marlene after listening to a q&a podcast on cults. Been interested in cults since my ex-husband got us caught up in 'Christian' one. It took 3 years to pull away because I wanted to bring him out of it, but his mind has never recovered.
youtu.be/ERREgOobLOs?...
#cults
youtu.be/ERREgOobLOs?...
#cults
@tfburkeauthor.bsky.social what do I do to join the Apex starter pack or group or what not?
December 5, 2024 at 7:57 PM
@tfburkeauthor.bsky.social what do I do to join the Apex starter pack or group or what not?