CJ the Awkward
@awkwardleftycj.bsky.social
Ballet teacher, Jesus-follower, general nerd. Love my enby spouse @taliesin82.bsky.social Highly pretentious, but only toward people who suck. Follow me for brief rants about bad writing as I consume way more romance novels than anyone ever should. she/her
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A thread of my #WritingTip posts. These are pretty much all off-the-cuff observations from fiction I'm reading at the moment, and while art is subjective and this is all only my opinion, I'm also objectively right. 😉
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A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
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Please stop giving money to democrats. Any democrat. I don’t care if they‘re one of the “good democrats.” Give your money to your community instead. Democrats will never have your back. They are not coming to save us. Only we can save us.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Please stop giving money to democrats. Any democrat. I don’t care if they‘re one of the “good democrats.” Give your money to your community instead. Democrats will never have your back. They are not coming to save us. Only we can save us.
Question for #Latin, #Classics and #music nerds: in Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, I’ve noticed that various choirs pronounce some of the Latin consonants differently, e.g. (from Fortuna Imperiatrix Mundi):
- c in glauciem
- sc in sceleris
- g in egestatem
- q(u) in quoque
Is there debate about +
- c in glauciem
- sc in sceleris
- g in egestatem
- q(u) in quoque
Is there debate about +
November 6, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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sorry if i got on the stand and admitted to being hurt by a sandwich i would go into witness protection
November 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
sorry if i got on the stand and admitted to being hurt by a sandwich i would go into witness protection
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i would again like to remind everyone that NEGATING A FRAME REINFORCES IT
"he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality
"this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening
START WITH WHAT IT IS
not what it isn't
"he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality
"this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening
START WITH WHAT IT IS
not what it isn't
September 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
i would again like to remind everyone that NEGATING A FRAME REINFORCES IT
"he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality
"this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening
START WITH WHAT IT IS
not what it isn't
"he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality
"this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening
START WITH WHAT IT IS
not what it isn't
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I wish people defended smeared victims of sexual violence the way they defend problematic male candidates for office
October 24, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I wish people defended smeared victims of sexual violence the way they defend problematic male candidates for office
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If you're in a same sex marriage and you haven't already, get your bases covered. Both names on deeds to property. Wills directing where property goes and outlining custody of shaded minor children. Powers of attorney for both financial and medical issues.
Please don't assume overturning Obergefell
Please don't assume overturning Obergefell
Court to consider whether to hear challenge to same-sex marriage on Nov. 7 www.scotusblog.com/2025/10/cour...
Court to consider whether to hear challenge to same-sex marriage on Nov. 7
The court is scheduled to consider whether to hear Kim Davis’ challenge to same-sex marriage at their private conference on Friday, Nov. 7. As a general practice, the court does […]
www.scotusblog.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
If you're in a same sex marriage and you haven't already, get your bases covered. Both names on deeds to property. Wills directing where property goes and outlining custody of shaded minor children. Powers of attorney for both financial and medical issues.
Please don't assume overturning Obergefell
Please don't assume overturning Obergefell
#WritingTip: they say one of the best ways to learn how to write is to read good books, and that’s true, but sometimes it’s just as valuable to read something so horrifically bad that the errors and poor choices leap off the page and slam into your face. I learned this when I listened to +
October 22, 2025 at 1:26 AM
#WritingTip: they say one of the best ways to learn how to write is to read good books, and that’s true, but sometimes it’s just as valuable to read something so horrifically bad that the errors and poor choices leap off the page and slam into your face. I learned this when I listened to +
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“So you’re saying ACAB also includes The Police!?”
*listens to Every Breath You Take*
“Okay, you might be right.”
*listens to Every Breath You Take*
“Okay, you might be right.”
October 19, 2025 at 11:17 PM
“So you’re saying ACAB also includes The Police!?”
*listens to Every Breath You Take*
“Okay, you might be right.”
*listens to Every Breath You Take*
“Okay, you might be right.”
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Do not interact. Do not contribute. This is not Twitter. We do not get baited here, we block here. You hated Twitter, so stop trying to recreate it.
Block here are nuclear. Take advantage and subscribe to this list blocking all government accounts in one go.
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October 18, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Do not interact. Do not contribute. This is not Twitter. We do not get baited here, we block here. You hated Twitter, so stop trying to recreate it.
Block here are nuclear. Take advantage and subscribe to this list blocking all government accounts in one go.
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October 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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I keep reading sea salt or the sea mentioned as a fragrance in books. Idk what these authors are smelling. Salt by itself barely smells like anything and if you think the literal ocean smells good you’ve obviously never been to one.
October 15, 2025 at 4:32 AM
I keep reading sea salt or the sea mentioned as a fragrance in books. Idk what these authors are smelling. Salt by itself barely smells like anything and if you think the literal ocean smells good you’ve obviously never been to one.
Hey guess what. Fat shaming isn’t okay just because your target is a bad person. Just like racism, misogyny, ableism, and queerphobia aren’t okay against bad people. Im tired of “progressives” whose supposed values only apply to people they like.
Somehow I knew seeing the pictures of those Young Republicans from the leaked chats that liberal leftists would be on a body shaming stint about them.
Yep. I was right.
And y’all tell me I need to learn to love the me I see in the mirror more.
Yep. I was right.
And y’all tell me I need to learn to love the me I see in the mirror more.
October 15, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Hey guess what. Fat shaming isn’t okay just because your target is a bad person. Just like racism, misogyny, ableism, and queerphobia aren’t okay against bad people. Im tired of “progressives” whose supposed values only apply to people they like.
Should I start a side hustle as a book editor?
October 11, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Should I start a side hustle as a book editor?
#WritingTip: don’t forget the importance of the reader’s experience to the way your novel is structured. If you’re writing suspense, you can’t reveal too much to the reader too early. This is especially important to books written from 3rd person omniscient or multiple POVs. +
October 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
#WritingTip: don’t forget the importance of the reader’s experience to the way your novel is structured. If you’re writing suspense, you can’t reveal too much to the reader too early. This is especially important to books written from 3rd person omniscient or multiple POVs. +
#WritingTip: please for the love of Syndrome don’t write a villain monologue unless you can make clever. A sincere “I’ve been evil this whole time; now listen to me summarize the plot you’ve just read while explaining how all the events were part of my nefarious scheme,” is just not okay.
October 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
#WritingTip: please for the love of Syndrome don’t write a villain monologue unless you can make clever. A sincere “I’ve been evil this whole time; now listen to me summarize the plot you’ve just read while explaining how all the events were part of my nefarious scheme,” is just not okay.
I sewed some sleeve cuffs on inside out and now I have to remove the stitches but my machine sewed them REALLY tiny because of the stretch in the fabric. Basically I’m saying it’s a Wednesday.
October 9, 2025 at 5:53 AM
I sewed some sleeve cuffs on inside out and now I have to remove the stitches but my machine sewed them REALLY tiny because of the stretch in the fabric. Basically I’m saying it’s a Wednesday.
Tell your city council to fund libraries!
Just so we're all aware here, an individual library has to purchase the rights to the ebook or audiobook in order for that user to be able to read it through Libby.
And purchasing requires money.
And that's something not all rural libraries in red states have a lot of.
Hope this helps.
And purchasing requires money.
And that's something not all rural libraries in red states have a lot of.
Hope this helps.
October 9, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Tell your city council to fund libraries!
What in the literal Christian hell
October 5, 2025 at 5:51 AM
What in the literal Christian hell
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Is there a way to report YouTube ads? I watch YouTube via my Xbox and they are promoting a video in my feed by some chud named Elisha Long titled “be re****ed with ladies, coworkers, and jobs”
September 30, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Is there a way to report YouTube ads? I watch YouTube via my Xbox and they are promoting a video in my feed by some chud named Elisha Long titled “be re****ed with ladies, coworkers, and jobs”
Wrote an almost 2000-word book review because a) I have a weird compulsion to read books with ballet dancer MCs just to see how the dance world is represented, and b) this author didn't do a good job, but the way in which she did a bad job was just so baffling I had to talk about it at length.
September 26, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Wrote an almost 2000-word book review because a) I have a weird compulsion to read books with ballet dancer MCs just to see how the dance world is represented, and b) this author didn't do a good job, but the way in which she did a bad job was just so baffling I had to talk about it at length.
Not what you’re thinking it’s about but definitely a must-watch.
September 25, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Not what you’re thinking it’s about but definitely a must-watch.
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BE SINCERE
CARE ABOUT THINGS
CARE ABOUT EACH OTHER
BE A FUCKING GODDAMNED PERSON
CARE ABOUT THINGS
CARE ABOUT EACH OTHER
BE A FUCKING GODDAMNED PERSON
September 25, 2025 at 4:08 AM
BE SINCERE
CARE ABOUT THINGS
CARE ABOUT EACH OTHER
BE A FUCKING GODDAMNED PERSON
CARE ABOUT THINGS
CARE ABOUT EACH OTHER
BE A FUCKING GODDAMNED PERSON
After 14 years of marriage, which mean 14 years of me randomly bursting into song when announcing dinner, it’s finally rubbed off on @taliesin82.bsky.social, who greeted tonight’s meal with the declaration “Food, glorious food!”
September 25, 2025 at 3:41 AM
After 14 years of marriage, which mean 14 years of me randomly bursting into song when announcing dinner, it’s finally rubbed off on @taliesin82.bsky.social, who greeted tonight’s meal with the declaration “Food, glorious food!”