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Stephanie Allen
@stephallen.bsky.social
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YA & NA fantasy writer, educator, collector of houseplants and lipstick. Former elementary school teacher and middle school library assistant, current paraeducator. Probably trying to find coffee right now. She/her.

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Speaking of, I spent some quality time with my trash sons in Z-A.
My Pokemon Legends: Z-A persona, squatting in a faux Parisian alley amongst the trashcans and cardboard. I have my eyes closed and a cheesy smile on my face as three Trubbish are lined up in the background. The Trubbish look like small green trash bags with arms and eyes and they are my trash sons.
November 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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None of my favorite Pokémon are in Z-A, but I've decided it's okay because my Aromatisse is an adorable Muppet who crushes it in battles, and it's super cute that she gets to follow me around.
A screenshot of a video game character sitting at a Parisian-inspired cafe with a fluffy pink Muppet-owl-looking Pokémon standing next to the table. The character (who is me) is wearing overalls over a green sweater, and she is grinning cheesily at the camera with her eyes closed.
October 28, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Please tell me you've seen this
The cover for a Frog and Toad book, except the title has been changed to "Frog and Toad Are Antifa".
October 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Helping!
A small stuffed Wooper from Pokemon sits on my desk, smiling blankly. In front of him is a stack of postcards that say “On Tuesday Nov. 4 Pennsylvania votes”. He has no arms, but he’s a creative little bean who can definitely use his mouth to hold the pen that’s sitting on top of the postcards.
October 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Wooper also enjoyed our ride.
A small, light blue Wooper stuffie poking its head up from amongst the detritus in my purse.
September 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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This is literally the only way I’ve ever drawn birds 😆

#DrawABird
A squiggly line that I declare to be a bird.
August 18, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Not sure what types of family vacations Spotify’s algorithm thinks I’m going on?
A screenshot of a Spotify playlist entitled “boss fight family vacation Friday morning”. The first song is “Shake It Out” by Florence + The Machine.
August 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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If you live in WA, you can find evacuation maps! dnr.wa.gov/washington-g...

But I think this tweet covers the main points to remember.
A tweet from @waDNR that's the meme where one thing shakes hands with another. This one has Kate Bush and "us during a tsunami" and underneath a shaking hands emoji, it says "encouraging you to run up that hill"
July 30, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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I haven’t posted about Wooper in awhile. He continues to be a very good bean. Right now he’s helping me build some lotuses!
A small, stuffed Wooper sits on a desk, apparently reading a Lego instruction booklet upside down while a partially build lotus flower lies nearby. Wooper looks like a blue axolotl with no arms, and has a giant smile on his face. He has no thoughts in his head, like the precious bean that he is.
July 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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My Sim must have bad luck or something, because this is the second husband she's had who's died by laughter 😳

(I turned off luck from the new pack because it was annoying and yet HERE WE ARE)
A screenshot from The Sims 4 of a Sim starting to laugh himself to death in a darkened bedroom while his stepdaughter sleeps in a bunkbed right above him, completely undisturbed. (He'd gone in there to use the full-length mirror to calm himself down!)
July 18, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Spotify consistently makes me feel attacked, but I think this might be the most brutal one yet.
Screenshot of a Spotify playlist entitled "classic rock oldies thursday morning". The first four songs are visible and include selections from The Killers and blink-182.
July 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to bluesky

(Artist: @thefireseal on Instagram)
A digital drawing of a smol possum slumped against a disposable coffee cup.
June 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Happy Pride, this is how my cishet husband hit on me this morning:
A heart in the colors of the ace flag (descending black, gray, white, and purple) with text in the middle that says “Dayum, you’re aesthetically pleasing.”
June 1, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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I mean…
Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury saying, “I recognize the Council has made a decision, but given that it's a stupid ass decision, I have elected to ignore it.”
May 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Husband and I decided to pop down to Norwescon at the last minute. Wooper loves learning new things together 🥰
A small Wooper stuffie sitting on a table next to an open notebook. Wooper resembles a light blue axolotl with no arms, and an enormous head with two eyes and the biggest smile ever. The notebook has a mustard yellow flair pen lying on it and the page is blank except for the heading “Writing as a Craft.”
April 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Why does Tommy Tuberville sound like my kickboxing instructor
Screenshot of a tweet from user @atrupar that reads: Tuberville on tariffs: "It's gonna be a slow pain first before we get the gain."
April 1, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Me in the national security team group chat
My Bitmoji sitting on a bean bag with a cup of coffee and a book that I am definitely reading.
March 25, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Post a warning.
A cartoon picture of a smoliv, which is a pokemon that looks like a light green olive with two short little legs with another, smaller olive nestled in a bed of leaves atop its head. Smoliv has two round, black eyes with white pupils and a mouth that basically always makes it look like it’s a scared, smol bean. This particular smoliv has sweat drops around it and is crying, and text around it reads “Don’t bully me. I’ll cry.”
March 23, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Get in losers, we’re going to save the post office.

(This petition is hosted on Resistbot, just to be clear on the source: resist.bot)
TELL THE U.S. CONGRESS Block USPS Move Under Commerce and Privatization Efforts TEXT SIGN PKQXVW TO 50409
February 22, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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My dad was a submariner until I was 25, and I spent large chunks of my childhood not allowed to know where he was for national security reasons. And I had no trouble understanding this.

Meanwhile, our SecDef is out there running his mouth. This is going to put people at risk.

(Alt text added.)
Screenshot of a tweet from user @SkylineReport that reads: Pete Hegseth, Defense Secretary, just announced in Brussels at a press conference that the U.S. isn't prepared to face Russia, particularly at sea. He claims it would take over seven years to build the necessary ships. What the actual fuck is he doing, broadcasting our vulnerabilities to the entire world? These incompetent idiots clearly have no fucking clue what they're doing.
February 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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With alt text
A press release. Text reads: Wyden, Senate Democrats to Hold Senate Floor Ahead of Vote on RFK Jr. Nomination to Lead HHS Democrats to Hold Senate Floor into the Night to Lay Out Dangerous Views of Nominee to Lead Federal Health Care Policy Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today will lead Senate Democrats in an effort on the Senate floor to oppose the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
February 12, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Without downloading any new pictures where are you mentally
A frog wearing a red and white pinstriped onesie stares off into the distance. Text reads "I do not know what is even hampening."
February 4, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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A class I was in this morning was reading about sharks.

Me: Hey, did you know there’s one called a goblin shark? [shows picture to student]

Student: [whispering] What the fuck.

I don’t always let students swear, but when I do, it’s because they’ve just discovered the existence of the goblin shark
A photo of a goblin shark. It’s gray with a large, open mouth that takes up most of its face, revealing white, pointy teeth. It has a thick, gray horn-thing protruding from its forehead. Kind of like if a narwhal, a manatee, and a shark all had a baby. A whispered “what the fuck” was a reasonable reaction.
January 17, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Unlike you, I get my news from a reliable source.
That one news anchor from Spongebob Squarepants that's just a photographic fish head stuffed into a cartoon suit and tie.
January 9, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.

One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

💙📚

Day 7
Cover for A LITTLE PRINCESS by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The cover features an illustration of a white girl, wearing all black and with long, wild black hair, looking out a window across the rooftops of a Victorian city.
December 29, 2024 at 7:57 PM