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devildauta.bsky.social
The Reading Ruru/Kerry
@devildauta.bsky.social
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Avid Book reader in Aotearoa. Judge for Fantasy Faction in #SPFBO & Space Girls in #SPSFC. Socialist to the core. Peer/ally to sex workers, addicts and rainbow community. Volunteer at GMA. Getting too old to give fuck, goodbye politeness.
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Fantasy-Faction's @fantasyfaction.bsky.social latest review for #SPFBO 10 Champions League: The Lost War by Justin Lee Anderson @justinleeanderson.com – fantasy-faction.com/2025/the-los...

#SPFBO #self-published #epicfantasy #booksky #pukapuka📚🇳🇿
November 8, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Yesterday I learnt that the father of Yvonne De Carlo (known for her role as Lily Munster) was born in #Aotearoa/NZ. William Middleton went abroad as young man, was a travelling salesman, met & married Maria De Carlo.
(anecdotal evidence suggests he may have been part Māori)
#AoNZhistory #🖤munsters
Actress Yvonne De Carlo as Lily Munster in 1964. Black Hair with White streaks. "Goth/Vampire" style eye make-up.
October 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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This past week, i discovered the author Andrea K Höst @autumnwriter.bsky.social (yay for Kobo plus for finding & suggesting authors whom I've never heard of 🥰). The 2 books I've read so far impressed me with the strong female MCs & eclectic WB. Will b reading more #selfpublished #booksky
Andrea K Höst's cover of her book Bones of the Fair. It features 3 adult humans caught in swirls of wind. Top character is wearing a leather motorcycle helmet, a scarf and carries a satchel. Middle character has the bottom of their face covered by a big scarf and carries 2 satchels. Front character wears a leather mask and coat. Book cover of The Pyramids of London by Andrea K Höst, featuring a wooden mannequin holding a rope under an airship & and being chased by 2 young people on a bicycle glider. In the background is a city with 2 Pyramids
October 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Have owned the Penguin copy of Jack Kerouac's ON THE ROAD for quite a number of years, and yesterday scored its twin in this book/pencil case. Totally stoked, only a few dozen more to find 😂
#penguinbooks #JackKerouac #bookrelated
On the left is a Penguin copy of Jack Kerouac's book On the Road and on the right is a book or pencil case that is a copy of the book
September 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Seen in #newtown in #whanganui-o-tara, a diorama, with Death sitting on a red sofa, behind him a wreath with RIP Ozzy. Love the small details, a welcome mat, bat on wreath, the carafe of alcohol, a guitar between couch & a small glasstop table with lines of "cocaine".
August 8, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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NGL, at this current time & with MPs causing social division & wanting to sell Aotearoa NZ to the highest bidders, I can get behind this meme. #nzpol #internationalpol #ritualsacrife
picture of "Aztec" priest armed with a dagger whilst a man lies on his back, waiting to be sacrificed. Text above pic says "With the world in disarray, I believe now is the time we honour Indigenous cultures. Text under pic: By sacrificing politicians to a Sun God. Whether it works or not. I see no downside to the plan.
August 8, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Ready to go and brave #whanganui-o-tara weather to celebrate the beginning of the New Year here in #Aotearoa
Hari Matariki all
June 20, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Tripped over a manhole cover 2 weeks ago 🤦🙄 - I must say the body produces some awe inducing colours
pic 1 = 2 weeks after. pic 2 = 1 week after. Pic 3 = 4 days after falling.
I especially love the purple and yellows and surprised I don't have WCC imprinted in skin
2 weeks after fall, knee is lovely hues of purples and violet swelling slightly down. dark purples and yellow Very swollen knee - lovely shades of black, purple and red.
May 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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found myself a Dangermouse and Penfold t-shirt - very well worn but SCORE!! 👕🐁
April 8, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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❤️🐈🐱 Cat lovers!! Here's your chance to own a backpack/school bag covered with cute cats & flowers and help our 🏳️‍⚧️ community. Bag can be found at #AuntyDana's op-shop in Newtown, Whanganui-a-Tara. #GMA #re-use,recycle #cats
Lily Bloom backpack/school bag with cats and flowers print. Top folds down over a pocket and is secured with magnetic clasp. Bag can be enlarged and secured by zip. The same backpack as in pic 1 but now shows how the bag size can be increased.
April 6, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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February 17, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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I rarely touch alcohol these days (liver says 'bon voyage' 🤣) but how does one resist a locally brewed ale that has all my favourite things on the cans? #skulls #skeletons #psychobilly #rockabilly #studs&leather #FTW #Aotearoabrews #whanganui-o-tara
Very nice brew, would love to know the artist.
can of beer with a skeleton hand with a studded bracelet doing the 'satan' or 'devil horns'. Can has the words BONEFACE APA SPINAL HOP on front & COMPANY down the right side. Brewed in Lower Hutt, Wellington, Aotearoa NZ
January 18, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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3 great shirts came into #AuntyDana op shop this morning. Support #GMA (Gender Minorities Aotearoa) by recycling, upcycling and donating
Black shirt with ladybugs on it. size S White shirt with black skulls and roses. size S shirt with comic strips on it saying spend forever with me. size S
January 12, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Couldn't resist these donations that came into the shop today. They are me to the proverbial T... 😉
T shirt with 3 figures in robes paying homage to a large coffee pot on top of a pentagram. Words on the shirt say Worship Coffee. The Dark Lord T-shirt with 4 children sitting around a circle with pentagram, another child is lying on the pentagram. Words say Activities for Children. Let's Summon Demons. T shirt with a take off of the movie Alien. It has a cute cartoon ½ avocado waving its arms and legs around as an Alien emerges where the stone would normally be
January 6, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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The late bloomers of the balcony garden. Thought 1 was going to flower at all but it's such a gorgeous velvety purple
November 23, 2024 at 4:33 AM
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Repost with one of your favorite books you’ve read this year!
Cover of However Many Must Die by Phil Williams. Shows a lone woman armed with a sniper rifle.
November 21, 2024 at 8:34 PM
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Grass by Sherri S Tepper
September 19, 2024 at 9:25 AM
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Read The West Passage by Jared Pechačk today - has to one of the strangest but weirdly good book I've read in some time.
#fantasy #bizarre #pukapuka📚
August 24, 2024 at 7:21 AM
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Need a break after a solid year of reading approx 150 #selfpublished Fantasy & Sci-fi in the brilliant #SPFBO9 & #SPSFC3 contests so I'm diving into a fave author of supernatural thrillers. John Connolly has my ultimate favourite M/M killer couple in fiction
#pukapuka
May 15, 2024 at 11:24 PM
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Rarely meet my international Internet friends - 2 of the #SPSFC3 judges, fellow teammates in #spacegirls got to meet in Wellington, New Zealand. One from Mexico, one a native of Aotearoa.
Two women eating and drinking in a restaurant/bar in Wellington, New Zealand. We are Internet friends judging for #SPSFC3 - one lives in Mexico, other is from Aotearoa
May 15, 2024 at 11:14 PM
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Working in an Op shop, we get the best books. 🐈🐱
I COULD PEE ON THIS and other poems by cats📚🇳🇿
I Could Pee On This and other poems by cats
November 12, 2023 at 10:32 PM
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35% read - God of Small Affairs by @OlgaWerby for #SPSFC3 & #teamspacegirls
I'm hoping this will be a mix of SFF & I'm saying Y to moving it forward to phase 2 as the plot and prose is very strong. Whether or not it goes forward will be announced by our team leader.
35% read - God of Small Affairs by @OlgaWerby for #SPSFC3 & #teamspacegirls I'm hoping this will be a mix of SFF & I'm saying Y to moving it forward to phase 2 as the plot and prose is very strong. Whether or not it goes forward will be announced by our team leader.
November 9, 2023 at 10:33 PM
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30% read of To Climates Unknown number by Arturo Serrano for #SPSFC3 & #teamspacegirls Though an intriguing plot this read like an Alternate History rather than anything SFF. Sadly I won't be moving it forward in the comp but will be reading it at a future date. 📚🚀
October 30, 2023 at 8:02 PM
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Just over 40% read of THE CEPH:REBORN by Matthew Poehler @PoehlerMatthew for #teamspacegirls This is definitely getting a YES from me for the next phase of #SPSFC3 The POV from the Celephods sold me immediately 🐙🦑 as did the optimistic humans & first contact.
#selfpublishedsci-fi 📚🚀
Just over 40% read of THE CEPH:REBORN by Matthew Poehler @PoehlerMatthew for #teamspacegirls This is definitely getting a YES from me for the next phase of #SPSFC3 The POV from the Celephods sold me immediately. 🐙🦑 as did the optimistic humans & first contact.
October 25, 2023 at 11:46 PM
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Reading GENEFIRE by James Flanagan for #SPSFC3 & #teamspacegirls Got to 50% as was totally engrossed. The 2 POVs, past & present work seamlessly together and the idea of sending warnings thru DNA is brilliant. Am definitely giving this a Y to move onto the next phase
Reading GENEFIRE by James Flanagan @jimiflanUK for #SPSFC3 & #teamspacegirls Got to 50% as was totally engrossed. The 2 POVs, past & present work seamlessly together and the idea of sending warnings thru DNA is brilliant. Am definitely giving this a Y to move onto the next phase
October 25, 2023 at 2:59 AM