Belle Chapin
@bellechapinbooks.bsky.social
She/her. Author of quirky romance novels. Broken Records and Mother Road available now.
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🎶Has-been rockstar
🎶Neurodivergent rep
🎶Found family
🎶Hurt/comfort
🎶Marriage of convenience
#romance #booksky
Link: books2read.com/BrokenRecord...
🎶Neurodivergent rep
🎶Found family
🎶Hurt/comfort
🎶Marriage of convenience
#romance #booksky
Link: books2read.com/BrokenRecord...
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I highly recommend having two knitting WIPs on the go: one challenging, one easy. That way, you can choose what matches your brain that day.
November 4, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I highly recommend having two knitting WIPs on the go: one challenging, one easy. That way, you can choose what matches your brain that day.
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“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
October 2, 2025 at 2:56 AM
“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
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IF YOU SEE A BAT CRAWLING AROUND ON THE GROUND DURING DAYLIGHT HOURS, LEAVE IT ALONE. IF YOU WANT TO HELP IT CALL ANIMAL CONTROL. DO NOT APPROACH THE BAT, DO NOT TRY TO AID THE BAT ON YOUR OWN, AND FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY DO NOT BREASTFEED THE BAT. TELL YOUR FRIENDS.
This is the most excellent local headline writing.
"DID YOU GIVE WATER TO A BAT NEAR THE ARBORETUM? IT HAD RABIES."
(this is explicitly for @andreagrimes.com )
"DID YOU GIVE WATER TO A BAT NEAR THE ARBORETUM? IT HAD RABIES."
(this is explicitly for @andreagrimes.com )
Did you give water to a bat near the Arboretum? It had rabies
A rabid bat was found in Seattle near the Washington Park Arboretum. Here's what to know, and what to do if you think you might have been exposed.
www.seattletimes.com
September 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
IF YOU SEE A BAT CRAWLING AROUND ON THE GROUND DURING DAYLIGHT HOURS, LEAVE IT ALONE. IF YOU WANT TO HELP IT CALL ANIMAL CONTROL. DO NOT APPROACH THE BAT, DO NOT TRY TO AID THE BAT ON YOUR OWN, AND FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY DO NOT BREASTFEED THE BAT. TELL YOUR FRIENDS.
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So interesting. www.openculture.com/2025/09/an-a...
An Art Conservator Restores a Painting of the Doomed Party Girl Isabella de’ Medici: See the Before and After
Some people talk to plants.
www.openculture.com
September 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
So interesting. www.openculture.com/2025/09/an-a...
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“Get Smart” premieres 60 years ago tonight, on NBC.
“I was sick of looking at all those nice, sensible situation comedies,” Mel Brooks said. “They were such distortions of life. .. No one had ever done a show about an idiot before. I decided to be the first.”
“I was sick of looking at all those nice, sensible situation comedies,” Mel Brooks said. “They were such distortions of life. .. No one had ever done a show about an idiot before. I decided to be the first.”
September 18, 2025 at 11:29 PM
“Get Smart” premieres 60 years ago tonight, on NBC.
“I was sick of looking at all those nice, sensible situation comedies,” Mel Brooks said. “They were such distortions of life. .. No one had ever done a show about an idiot before. I decided to be the first.”
“I was sick of looking at all those nice, sensible situation comedies,” Mel Brooks said. “They were such distortions of life. .. No one had ever done a show about an idiot before. I decided to be the first.”
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I miss shows like Heroes where you'd have a pretty tight opening season that is basically a self contained story and then another 4 that consist of 3 guys and a bag of heroin randomly pulling words out of a bag and placing them in sentences
September 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I miss shows like Heroes where you'd have a pretty tight opening season that is basically a self contained story and then another 4 that consist of 3 guys and a bag of heroin randomly pulling words out of a bag and placing them in sentences
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The “king” of the Permian Period was Dimetrodon! And although he may look like one, he is NOT a dinosaur. Dimetrodon are synapsids and are stem-mammals.
Illustration from my book DINOSAURS 📚 buy here: a.co/d/92GBeXk
#paleoart #permian #paleontology #fossiladdict #prehistoric #evolution #dinosaurs
Illustration from my book DINOSAURS 📚 buy here: a.co/d/92GBeXk
#paleoart #permian #paleontology #fossiladdict #prehistoric #evolution #dinosaurs
September 12, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The “king” of the Permian Period was Dimetrodon! And although he may look like one, he is NOT a dinosaur. Dimetrodon are synapsids and are stem-mammals.
Illustration from my book DINOSAURS 📚 buy here: a.co/d/92GBeXk
#paleoart #permian #paleontology #fossiladdict #prehistoric #evolution #dinosaurs
Illustration from my book DINOSAURS 📚 buy here: a.co/d/92GBeXk
#paleoart #permian #paleontology #fossiladdict #prehistoric #evolution #dinosaurs
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Get games - help cats 💙🐈⬛
My #TTRPG fundraiser for #Ohio rescue @alley-aristocats.bsky.social is slowly inching toward its $2500 goal
We can’t cross the finish line without you!
Can you give us a boost?
$10 gets you a collection of charming cat-themed games #CozyCatJam
itch.io/b/3118/cozy-...
My #TTRPG fundraiser for #Ohio rescue @alley-aristocats.bsky.social is slowly inching toward its $2500 goal
We can’t cross the finish line without you!
Can you give us a boost?
$10 gets you a collection of charming cat-themed games #CozyCatJam
itch.io/b/3118/cozy-...
August 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Get games - help cats 💙🐈⬛
My #TTRPG fundraiser for #Ohio rescue @alley-aristocats.bsky.social is slowly inching toward its $2500 goal
We can’t cross the finish line without you!
Can you give us a boost?
$10 gets you a collection of charming cat-themed games #CozyCatJam
itch.io/b/3118/cozy-...
My #TTRPG fundraiser for #Ohio rescue @alley-aristocats.bsky.social is slowly inching toward its $2500 goal
We can’t cross the finish line without you!
Can you give us a boost?
$10 gets you a collection of charming cat-themed games #CozyCatJam
itch.io/b/3118/cozy-...
Reworking how I market myself and where my efforts need to lie. Writing is rare at this point, because my spoons are so very low. But there’s something freeing about reworking the rest.
September 3, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Reworking how I market myself and where my efforts need to lie. Writing is rare at this point, because my spoons are so very low. But there’s something freeing about reworking the rest.
name a non-LotR character who is a cool and good person but would nevertheless set land speed records for getting fucked up by the One Ring
August 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
name a non-LotR character who is a cool and good person but would nevertheless set land speed records for getting fucked up by the One Ring
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An interesting look into creating characters. www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com/writing-bett...
Writing Better Character Conflicts With the 5 Conflict Management Styles
Here's how writers can apply the five conflict management styles to create richer, more realistic character conflicts in your fiction.
www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com
August 18, 2025 at 9:40 PM
An interesting look into creating characters. www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com/writing-bett...
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Hello, law firm in Aotearoa New Zealand? Yes, I need to sue Taika Waititi for his delivery of "you mean just curl up into a ball and die?" Thanks I'll hold
August 12, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Hello, law firm in Aotearoa New Zealand? Yes, I need to sue Taika Waititi for his delivery of "you mean just curl up into a ball and die?" Thanks I'll hold
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People don't understand what autistic inertia is all about.
It's basically the crux of everything.
It's basically the crux of everything.
I’m Not Procrastinating
The autistic experience of being “stuck,” why it’s nothing like laziness, and how to stop making it worse.
theautisticcoach.substack.com
August 13, 2025 at 8:28 AM
People don't understand what autistic inertia is all about.
It's basically the crux of everything.
It's basically the crux of everything.
Post one of the most haunting shots in movie history from a film made before the year 2000.
August 13, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Post one of the most haunting shots in movie history from a film made before the year 2000.
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Last re-skeet: Y’all know how I feel about this sort of thing; how frustrating (and, sometimes, outright harmful) it can be when identity is stripped of verisimilitude and impact.
The Shoulder Check Problem
Like a lot of my blog posts here, this one was sparked at a specific time over a specific conversation, but over the years I’ve seen this particular topic come up again and again like waves on a sh…
apostrophen.wordpress.com
August 11, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Last re-skeet: Y’all know how I feel about this sort of thing; how frustrating (and, sometimes, outright harmful) it can be when identity is stripped of verisimilitude and impact.
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Just saw someone call the military occupation of DC a distraction, and that’s it, the it’s a distraction people have lost it. We should wait until the bulldozer is running over your house and all chime in with “isn’t there something else we should be talking about”
August 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Just saw someone call the military occupation of DC a distraction, and that’s it, the it’s a distraction people have lost it. We should wait until the bulldozer is running over your house and all chime in with “isn’t there something else we should be talking about”
Honestly too depressed to write.
August 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Honestly too depressed to write.
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i'm sorry for posting facts:
July 30, 2025 at 6:36 AM
i'm sorry for posting facts:
Along this line, I’d love to be an art restorer. Way past potato Jesus standards too.
I’ve said it before, but I’d be quite a good art forger.
What job are you extremely unlikely to ever get that you think you would kick ass at?
I think I could book compelling wrestling storylines.
I think I could book compelling wrestling storylines.
July 30, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Along this line, I’d love to be an art restorer. Way past potato Jesus standards too.
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“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
-- James Baldwin
-- James Baldwin
July 29, 2025 at 10:47 AM
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
-- James Baldwin
-- James Baldwin
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idk petting a cat with your foot hits different
July 28, 2025 at 2:20 AM
idk petting a cat with your foot hits different
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If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.
July 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.
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Tempers are hot.
Spare other queer creatives your wrath.
Put it where it belongs.
With fascists and the companies complying with them. 🫶
Spare other queer creatives your wrath.
Put it where it belongs.
With fascists and the companies complying with them. 🫶
July 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Tempers are hot.
Spare other queer creatives your wrath.
Put it where it belongs.
With fascists and the companies complying with them. 🫶
Spare other queer creatives your wrath.
Put it where it belongs.
With fascists and the companies complying with them. 🫶
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🎶Has-been rockstar
🎶Neurodivergent rep
🎶Found family
🎶Hurt/comfort
🎶Marriage of convenience
#romance #booksky
Link: books2read.com/BrokenRecord...
🎶Neurodivergent rep
🎶Found family
🎶Hurt/comfort
🎶Marriage of convenience
#romance #booksky
Link: books2read.com/BrokenRecord...
March 21, 2025 at 1:02 AM
🎶Has-been rockstar
🎶Neurodivergent rep
🎶Found family
🎶Hurt/comfort
🎶Marriage of convenience
#romance #booksky
Link: books2read.com/BrokenRecord...
🎶Neurodivergent rep
🎶Found family
🎶Hurt/comfort
🎶Marriage of convenience
#romance #booksky
Link: books2read.com/BrokenRecord...