Robin Elizabeth Kobayashi
@robinkobayashi.bsky.social
Legal Editor by day, writer by night of Regency fantasy & historical fiction. Award-winning Austenesque spin-offs: Kirkus Reviews Best Books 2018 & 2021; Grand Prize Winner-Novella, 2024 Chanticleer Int'l Book Awards. Linktr.ee/rekwriter
Pinned
“We, the formidables” (referring to herself & her sister Cassandra) - Jane Austen’s 1813 letter.
#Regency #bluesky #JaneAusten #Austenquotes #Regencyromance #historicalregency #historicalfiction #womensrights #feminism #writingcommunity #authors #writing #readingcommunity #booklovers #romancebooks
#Regency #bluesky #JaneAusten #Austenquotes #Regencyromance #historicalregency #historicalfiction #womensrights #feminism #writingcommunity #authors #writing #readingcommunity #booklovers #romancebooks
Reposted by Robin Elizabeth Kobayashi
A Brief Glimmer. 14°C on a rather bleak afternoon. A few sheep.
November 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
A Brief Glimmer. 14°C on a rather bleak afternoon. A few sheep.
Reposted by Robin Elizabeth Kobayashi
What he said Part 2: 💯 🎯
November 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
What he said Part 2: 💯 🎯
Reposted by Robin Elizabeth Kobayashi
What he said: 💯 🎯
November 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
What he said: 💯 🎯
Reposted by Robin Elizabeth Kobayashi
My favorite bookstore in San Francisco. It always feels magical to go inside there and look around.
#citylightsbookstore #sanfrancisco #resistance
#citylightsbookstore #sanfrancisco #resistance
October 24, 2025 at 3:57 AM
My favorite bookstore in San Francisco. It always feels magical to go inside there and look around.
#citylightsbookstore #sanfrancisco #resistance
#citylightsbookstore #sanfrancisco #resistance
Reposted by Robin Elizabeth Kobayashi
Wow! Love your creativity Ocean Beach (San Francisco)!
October 18, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Wow! Love your creativity Ocean Beach (San Francisco)!
Reposted by Robin Elizabeth Kobayashi
October 18, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Reposted by Robin Elizabeth Kobayashi
No Kings Day #2 protest is October 18th…👇
There are over 2,000 events across the USA.
Participate, spread the word!
There are over 2,000 events across the USA.
Participate, spread the word!
October 10, 2025 at 3:35 AM
No Kings Day #2 protest is October 18th…👇
There are over 2,000 events across the USA.
Participate, spread the word!
There are over 2,000 events across the USA.
Participate, spread the word!
Reposted by Robin Elizabeth Kobayashi
Jane Goodall was my first childhood hero, as I loved animals as a kid and was inspired by her story. I still remember the National Geographic specials about her. RIP.
October 1, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Jane Goodall was my first childhood hero, as I loved animals as a kid and was inspired by her story. I still remember the National Geographic specials about her. RIP.
Reposted by Robin Elizabeth Kobayashi
Up In Scotland. 9°C. Red Deer. ( back in Yorkshire soon )
September 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Up In Scotland. 9°C. Red Deer. ( back in Yorkshire soon )
Probably the only mural ever painted by Frida Kahlo, as seen on the kitchen walls of her family's red house, c. 1938. "El mesón de los gorriones" (Sparrow's Inn). The home is now Museo Casa Kahlo.
#FridaKahlo #MexicoCity #frida #artcommunity #MexicanArt
#FridaKahlo #MexicoCity #frida #artcommunity #MexicanArt
September 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Probably the only mural ever painted by Frida Kahlo, as seen on the kitchen walls of her family's red house, c. 1938. "El mesón de los gorriones" (Sparrow's Inn). The home is now Museo Casa Kahlo.
#FridaKahlo #MexicoCity #frida #artcommunity #MexicanArt
#FridaKahlo #MexicoCity #frida #artcommunity #MexicanArt
Reposted by Robin Elizabeth Kobayashi
Kamala Harris: He had no plan for actually bringing down costs and prices for the American people. He had very few plans for what he would actually do that was about the American people, and not his vengeance on his enemies.
September 23, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Kamala Harris: He had no plan for actually bringing down costs and prices for the American people. He had very few plans for what he would actually do that was about the American people, and not his vengeance on his enemies.
Reposted by Robin Elizabeth Kobayashi
An early look at next week’s cover: "Remote Control,” by Barry Blitt.
nyer.cm/6ApBXER
nyer.cm/6ApBXER
September 18, 2025 at 10:46 PM
An early look at next week’s cover: "Remote Control,” by Barry Blitt.
nyer.cm/6ApBXER
nyer.cm/6ApBXER
Reposted by Robin Elizabeth Kobayashi
A Pleasant Start. 14°C. A Roe Deer Prancing.
September 16, 2025 at 11:39 AM
A Pleasant Start. 14°C. A Roe Deer Prancing.
“In this hard struggle I had little refreshment but from the fountains of my own soul. Had I not clung to myself, the atrocity of others had made me a demon.” ― Edward John Trelawny, Adventures Of A Younger Son
Portrait: Edward John Trelawny by Joseph Severn
#RomanticPoets #RomanticEra #Victorian
Portrait: Edward John Trelawny by Joseph Severn
#RomanticPoets #RomanticEra #Victorian
September 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
“In this hard struggle I had little refreshment but from the fountains of my own soul. Had I not clung to myself, the atrocity of others had made me a demon.” ― Edward John Trelawny, Adventures Of A Younger Son
Portrait: Edward John Trelawny by Joseph Severn
#RomanticPoets #RomanticEra #Victorian
Portrait: Edward John Trelawny by Joseph Severn
#RomanticPoets #RomanticEra #Victorian
"Party-spirit...at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few." - Alexander Pope, 1714 letter.
September 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
"Party-spirit...at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few." - Alexander Pope, 1714 letter.
Let’s do it! Yes on Prop 50.
I support our CA Gov. Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov & his plan the Election Rigging Response Act (Prop 50) to stop felon & Texas GOP’s gerrymandering scheme!!! CA’s proposed map would only go into effect if TX or another R state changes their maps to add R seats & would remain in effect until 2031!
August 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Let’s do it! Yes on Prop 50.
These are desperate times. Yes on Prop 50!
Newsom: We got here because the President is struggling. We got here because the President is one of the most unpopular presidents in U.S. history. We got here because he recognizes that he will lose the election.
August 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
These are desperate times. Yes on Prop 50!
Echo and Narcissus by John William Waterhouse, 1903, is the story of a man in love with himself and where the woman infatuated with him can repeat only the last three words he says. Oddly, that's what is happening today in America with all those women who drank the Kool-Aid.
(Fig leaf added by me)
(Fig leaf added by me)
August 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Echo and Narcissus by John William Waterhouse, 1903, is the story of a man in love with himself and where the woman infatuated with him can repeat only the last three words he says. Oddly, that's what is happening today in America with all those women who drank the Kool-Aid.
(Fig leaf added by me)
(Fig leaf added by me)
A starving child in Gaza, August 2025. A starving boy in Mauthausen Concentration Camp, May 1945.
#gaza #wwii #starvation #concentrationcamps
#gaza #wwii #starvation #concentrationcamps
August 13, 2025 at 11:47 AM
A starving child in Gaza, August 2025. A starving boy in Mauthausen Concentration Camp, May 1945.
#gaza #wwii #starvation #concentrationcamps
#gaza #wwii #starvation #concentrationcamps
Reposted by Robin Elizabeth Kobayashi
back from vacation (a week ago) and about to make it everyone’s problem
July 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
back from vacation (a week ago) and about to make it everyone’s problem
My grandmother gave birth to twin baby girls in the internment camps and they died. Horrible living conditions. Desert winds and dust. Toilets with no doors. Constant fear of being starved to death. She hoarded bread. Moldy bread.
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
July 22, 2025 at 12:51 AM
My grandmother gave birth to twin baby girls in the internment camps and they died. Horrible living conditions. Desert winds and dust. Toilets with no doors. Constant fear of being starved to death. She hoarded bread. Moldy bread.
Reposted by Robin Elizabeth Kobayashi
The End Of A Wet Day. 16°C and mist descending. A Blackbird singing .
July 19, 2025 at 9:09 PM
The End Of A Wet Day. 16°C and mist descending. A Blackbird singing .
Reposted by Robin Elizabeth Kobayashi
July 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM