MariaCecilia
@meaniemary.bsky.social
Obssesive reader, a sarcastic woman who loves music, art, wine and Monty Python, slightly unhinged when it comes to Twilight. Sorry.
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Alison Holt, contemporary textile artist who creates machine and hand embroidered artworks #WomensArt
November 26, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Alison Holt, contemporary textile artist who creates machine and hand embroidered artworks #WomensArt
This summer we went looking for my mother's birthplace. Please enjoy the power of the rushing river where my grandmother's family came from, up in the far north.
November 17, 2025 at 11:28 PM
This summer we went looking for my mother's birthplace. Please enjoy the power of the rushing river where my grandmother's family came from, up in the far north.
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Now that the book's been out for over a month, I'm re-posting this great review by @hawkwinglb.bsky.social of Queen Demon, for people who have had time to read the book and like really deep smart dives: locusmag.com/review/queen...
Queen Demon by Martha Wells: Review by Liz Bourke
Queen Demon, Martha Wells (Tor 978-1-250-82691-6, $28.99, 400pp, hc) October 2025. Cover by Cynthia Sheppard. I’ve loved Martha Wells’s fantasy novels ever since I picked up The Element of Fire. Qu…
locusmag.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Now that the book's been out for over a month, I'm re-posting this great review by @hawkwinglb.bsky.social of Queen Demon, for people who have had time to read the book and like really deep smart dives: locusmag.com/review/queen...
Reading about ayahuasca therapy in the newspaper and then I go out and have a beer and listen to some live music with friends and, honestly? That's all the mind-altering I need. #livemusic #feelinggood
November 11, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Reading about ayahuasca therapy in the newspaper and then I go out and have a beer and listen to some live music with friends and, honestly? That's all the mind-altering I need. #livemusic #feelinggood
Today I went to change the tires on my bike to winter tires, buy some more tea, I got the influenza vaccine shot and I picked up some books at my local indie bookshop. Now, I'm going home to make applesauce, knit mittens and read. I'm all set @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Today I went to change the tires on my bike to winter tires, buy some more tea, I got the influenza vaccine shot and I picked up some books at my local indie bookshop. Now, I'm going home to make applesauce, knit mittens and read. I'm all set @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
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Annie Soudain is a contemporary UK artist and printmaker inspired by nature #WomensArt
November 9, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Annie Soudain is a contemporary UK artist and printmaker inspired by nature #WomensArt
I finally watched the latest #TheFantasticFour movie and while I was relieved to see that baby CGI has advanced since Reneesmee's days frankly I found the most unbelievable thing about the plot was how Sue Storm wasn't nursing the new baby 24/7. That was what nearly killed ME.
a woman in a blue superhero costume with the letter a on it
Alt: Sue Storm from Fantastic Four exhausted, but still valiantly battling Galactus and baby fatigue
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November 8, 2025 at 11:08 AM
I finally watched the latest #TheFantasticFour movie and while I was relieved to see that baby CGI has advanced since Reneesmee's days frankly I found the most unbelievable thing about the plot was how Sue Storm wasn't nursing the new baby 24/7. That was what nearly killed ME.
I always found brass orchestras vaguely threatening.
When she is much older, the girl will for a moment imagine herself still racing from a house that cares only for brass instruments.
November 8, 2025 at 9:35 AM
I always found brass orchestras vaguely threatening.
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Being from the UK and a member of the late part of Generation X means having to live with the fact that every photo from your childhood resembles a still from a cultishly acclaimed but commercially disappointing folk horror film.
ESPECIALLY IF THEY ACTUALLY ARE: www.tom-cox.com/some-photos-...
ESPECIALLY IF THEY ACTUALLY ARE: www.tom-cox.com/some-photos-...
Some Photos From My Family's Archive And The Cult Low Budget Horror Films They Became
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www.tom-cox.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Being from the UK and a member of the late part of Generation X means having to live with the fact that every photo from your childhood resembles a still from a cultishly acclaimed but commercially disappointing folk horror film.
ESPECIALLY IF THEY ACTUALLY ARE: www.tom-cox.com/some-photos-...
ESPECIALLY IF THEY ACTUALLY ARE: www.tom-cox.com/some-photos-...
"Whenever someone died my brain whispered: you can write about this. You can transform loss to words and replace those who died with sentences. In a way we all do this: we experience loss and we tell stories. We tell stories and then we die. The best case scenario is that time kills us 1/
November 8, 2025 at 9:16 AM
"Whenever someone died my brain whispered: you can write about this. You can transform loss to words and replace those who died with sentences. In a way we all do this: we experience loss and we tell stories. We tell stories and then we die. The best case scenario is that time kills us 1/
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Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
November 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
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You laugh, but as a man, I live in a drainpipe near a public park, eat garbage out of trashcans, never clean myself, abandon my offspring once they are old enough to hunt, eat the aged and weak members of the tribe, don't understand what money is, (again) live in a drainpipe, and don't have a car.
The reality of being a woman!
October 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
You laugh, but as a man, I live in a drainpipe near a public park, eat garbage out of trashcans, never clean myself, abandon my offspring once they are old enough to hunt, eat the aged and weak members of the tribe, don't understand what money is, (again) live in a drainpipe, and don't have a car.
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October 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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For the past year I've been doing focused reading on medieval literature, English history, the folklore of Scotland and Wales, and I can't express how just learning things changes a person. It will make you more interesting. You will fall in love with this world.
October 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
For the past year I've been doing focused reading on medieval literature, English history, the folklore of Scotland and Wales, and I can't express how just learning things changes a person. It will make you more interesting. You will fall in love with this world.
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I think we under-estimate how many people are miserable because they have no enthusiasms, no hobbies, because they gave up reading and quit learning when school ended. It's shocking how much studying a beloved subject elevates your mood. It will transform your life.
October 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I think we under-estimate how many people are miserable because they have no enthusiasms, no hobbies, because they gave up reading and quit learning when school ended. It's shocking how much studying a beloved subject elevates your mood. It will transform your life.
Also, please notice the love letter it has left you on a nearby tree!
October 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Also, please notice the love letter it has left you on a nearby tree!
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i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.
October 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.
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Tomorrow. D.C. The National Mall. Sunup to sundown.
October 26, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Tomorrow. D.C. The National Mall. Sunup to sundown.
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Jane Austen's 250th birthday is coming up in December and I hope you'll celebrate by taking a turn about the room, acquiring a passion for dead leaves & closet shelves, and taking a fancy to the last person you could ever be prevailed upon to marry.
October 26, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Jane Austen's 250th birthday is coming up in December and I hope you'll celebrate by taking a turn about the room, acquiring a passion for dead leaves & closet shelves, and taking a fancy to the last person you could ever be prevailed upon to marry.
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"When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. For art establishes the basic human truth which must serve as the touchstone of our judgment."
On this day in 1963, JFK's magnificent Amherst speech on power and art: www.themarginalian.org/2015/05/01/j...
On this day in 1963, JFK's magnificent Amherst speech on power and art: www.themarginalian.org/2015/05/01/j...
JFK on Poetry, Power, and the Artist’s Role in Society: His Eulogy for Robert Frost, One of the Greatest Speeches of All Time
“We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.”
www.themarginalian.org
October 26, 2025 at 4:47 AM
"When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. For art establishes the basic human truth which must serve as the touchstone of our judgment."
On this day in 1963, JFK's magnificent Amherst speech on power and art: www.themarginalian.org/2015/05/01/j...
On this day in 1963, JFK's magnificent Amherst speech on power and art: www.themarginalian.org/2015/05/01/j...
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Annemarie Petri, contemporary award-winning Dutch printmaker, known for her steampunk cityscapes #WomensArt
October 26, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Annemarie Petri, contemporary award-winning Dutch printmaker, known for her steampunk cityscapes #WomensArt