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Ashley Martin
@paperpages.bsky.social
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Writer. Bookworm. Occasional artist. Fueled by tea, pastries, and rage. She/her 📚🐱🫖🌈♏️
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Ashley Martin @paperpages.bsky.social · Jan 26
Lest you think my entire personality is reading and crocheting, I also write words sometimes. #amwriting #writingcommunity #substack
I would like to be a ghost
I'll take my autonomy with me to the afterlife, thankyouverymuch.
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chuckwendig.bsky.social
Everything is bad but birds are good so time to reinstitute BIRD PROTOCOL where a bird is deployed to offset endless evil vibes, please enjoy, birds are good, okay bye

(photo by me)
Portrait-oriented photo featuring a wooden post with a rusted hanger hook jutting out of it, and standing atop the post, triumphant and at least slightly indignant, is a plump little bluebird. The bluebird is a male, and we see the electric blue of his head, but the predominant part facing us is the coppery-orange and pale white front. He is standing amidst little pink-and-red tree blossoms, but I like to imagine these are instead the extracted organs of his enemies. So let's just pretend this bluebird stands vengefully astride a scattering of viscera -- gobbets of gore taken as a prize from his unnatural and invasive foes. I'm sorry I've really made this a gross photo. It's actually quite nice. Kind of a dreamy vibe to it, what with the wall of yellow forsythia blurring in the background, and here I am adding drippy bits and internal organs. I'm sorry. I'll do better next time. Probably. Photo by me, Chuck Wendig
April 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
paperpages.bsky.social
I’m just a girl, standing in front of the religion she was raised in, saying, “Um, on second thought…no thanks.”
Unraveled
If the sweater doesn’t fit, take apart the stitches and make something new.
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April 13, 2025 at 10:57 PM
paperpages.bsky.social
March reads. 💙📚 And no, you cannot make me pick a favorite. 🧶
A collage of books, each alongside a crocheted granny square in the colors of the book’s cover. Water Moon by Samantha Soto Yambao, Entangled Life by Merlin Sandrake, Aisle Nine by Ian X. Cho, Woodworm by Layla Martinez, Gathered Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer, We Do Not Part by Han Kang. A collage of books, each alongside a crocheted granny square in the colors of the book’s cover. Beta Vulgaris by Margie Sarsfield, The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean, Heartstopper Volume 2 by Alice Oseman, Homegrown Magic by Jamie Pacton and Becca Podos, They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran
April 2, 2025 at 11:57 PM
paperpages.bsky.social
One of my favorite reads of 2024!
tjalexandernyc.bsky.social TJ Alexander @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · Feb 5
Looks like TRIPLE SEC is half off right now 👀

libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
February 6, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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altnps.bsky.social
February 5, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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libro.fm
It's #LibraryLoversMonth and libraries rock ❤️ They:
➡️ Offer free materials
➡️ Host events
➡️ Build community and life-long learning
➡️ Are safe spaces & makerspaces
➡️ Provide life-saving resources & ESL support
➡️ Boost critical thinking
➡️ Aid in career development
➡️ Have LIBRARIANS!
February 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
February 3, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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eve6.bsky.social
Are the next 4 years really going to be logging on everyday to sentences like "a 19 year old doge intern called Big Balls has your social security number" because I'm already at capacity for this sort of thing
February 3, 2025 at 4:29 AM
paperpages.bsky.social
This. (Including the follow up in the thread.) I will make room for anyone who actually wants to educate themselves and contribute to change. But if you just want me to feel bad for you because he didn’t make your life better like he promised and you have regerts? Nah.
what-eats-owls.bsky.social Margaret Owen @what-eats-owls.bsky.social · Feb 2
I see debate over the hypothetical response to Trump voters feel remorse either being “welcome” or “I told you so,” and look. Fantasy of remorse aside, I’m not interested in anyone who will come to us for aid and then vote for the next available fascist.
February 3, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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secondlina.com
Out on the town tonight....
Drawing of a crow and a pigeon bathed in the pink glow of a storefront window filled with pastries.
January 31, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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dlmayfield.bsky.social
Happy Friday here’s a pep talk from gay icon Samwise Gamgee youtu.be/k6C8SX0mWP0?...
LOTR The Two Towers - The Tales That Really Mattered...
YouTube video by EgalmothOfGondolin01
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January 31, 2025 at 8:01 PM
paperpages.bsky.social
Final reads/squares of January. (One pro of it being such a never-ending month is I managed to read 9 books). Little Weirds felt like a very timely read in many ways (and I loved Slate’s style of writing). Two of my favorite quotes in a thread below... 💙📚 🧶
The book Flirting with Disaster by Naina Kumar sits on a tile floor surrounded by a hammer, a folded white tarp, a flashlight, and a granny square made of blue, pink and yellow yarn. The book’s cover has an illustrated silhouette of a man and a woman in a yellow canoe floating on dark blue water, with a light blue background and raindrops and clouds in bright blue and pink. The audio book of Little Weirds by Jenny Slate is shown on an iPad sitting on a gold wire shelf. To the right of the iPad is a houseplant with broad green leaves in a white pot that’s shaped like a face wearing glasses. In the left is a yellow glass candle jar shaped like a beehive and a crocheted granny square in white, pink, blue, green, brown, gray, and yellow yarn. The cover of the audiobook features a wreath of green leaves dotted with random objects, such as a hot dog, a brontosaurus, flowers, a seashell, a bra, a beer can, and a hamburger.
January 31, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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councilormorillo.bsky.social
I appreciate this statement from Police Chief Day very much.

I’ve been asked this question a lot so I’m adding this in good faith for my constituents - if you see an officer collaborating with ICE, you can file an anonymous report through the Independent Police Review. Translation is available.
shanedkavanaugh.bsky.social Shane Dixon Kavanaugh @shanedkavanaugh.bsky.social · Jan 29
Just in from Portland Police Chief Bob Day:

"PPB does not engage in immigration enforcement... remains committed to protecting, serving & supporting all residents & community members, regardless of actual/perceived nat'l origin or immigration status."

www.portland.gov/police/news/...
PPB Chief Addresses Immigration Enforcement In Community Letter
Portland Police Chief Bob Day is addressing immigration enforcement in the following letter to the community.
www.portland.gov
January 29, 2025 at 1:17 AM
paperpages.bsky.social
Costco is for rotisserie chickens and giant boxes of goldfish that will barely last a month in the hands of your teenager. Your local indie is for books (and sharing in communal joy and rage).
mtbookco.bsky.social Montana Book Co. @mtbookco.bsky.social · Jan 26
In our excitement over Costco, please keep in mind that it’s even more of a revolution to continue to buy your books from and indie bookstore, as well as support your local library.
January 27, 2025 at 9:36 PM
paperpages.bsky.social
*gasps in sapphic* #booksky #sapphic #lgbtqia+
dotakud.bsky.social dotakud.bsky.social @dotakud.bsky.social · Jan 27
Hi @geminitaymc.bsky.social i saw this tiktok and immediately thought about what you said on stream yesterday, here it is, so that you can find more sapphic books and read them! :D
January 27, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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goingmedieval.bsky.social
Same energy.
A serval cat walking up a flap ght of spiral stairs, twisting it's spine around to s e behind it. The text says "Ohoho what is that I hear behindat me, mayhaps I TWIMST around and take an peep for mineself". The beast of the apocalypse/Antichrist in th Douce Apocalypse. Three of his heads are twisting around to look at the lamb of God.
January 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
paperpages.bsky.social
Lest you think my entire personality is reading and crocheting, I also write words sometimes. #amwriting #writingcommunity #substack
I would like to be a ghost
I'll take my autonomy with me to the afterlife, thankyouverymuch.
open.substack.com
January 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
paperpages.bsky.social
I really cannot adequately express the amount of joy this book blanket project is bringing me right now. Not only do I look forward to reading the books, but I’m so excited to make my little squares afterward. It’s like treats on treats. 💙📚 🧶
January 25, 2025 at 11:40 PM
paperpages.bsky.social
I really love the relationship between @powells.bsky.social and the @thornsfc.com. Books + women’s soccer forever. 📚 ❤️ ⚽️
January 23, 2025 at 12:28 AM
paperpages.bsky.social
One of my greatest joys in life is being able to enter a bookshop and see my friends’ books. In this case, @jamiepacton.bsky.social! I can personally attest to how wonderful her (and Becca’s) books are…so go preorder! It’ll make you happy and look gorgeous on your bookshelf. 💙📚
beccapodos.bsky.social Becca Podos @beccapodos.bsky.social · Jan 22
HOMEGROWN MAGIC—our cozy, cottagequeer, NB/f fantasy romance—hits shelves in less than 2 months, and fun news:
In addition to our physical preorder campaign, Del Rey is running a digital preorder campaign! Submit receipts from anywhere, including for audiobook and ebook, and from outside the U.S.
a copy of HOMEGROWN MAGIC alongside phone wallpapers, recipes, and a TTRPG one-shot
January 23, 2025 at 12:24 AM
paperpages.bsky.social
One of the many reasons I love my city.
bombsfall.bsky.social Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · Jan 21
I don't think I need to clarify my stance on the topic but these soccer folks summed it up
Soccer stadium, large fabric flag of Mae Borowski from Night In The Woods, holding an axe and wearing team colors. There is text in the Night In The Woods title font on the right and left. It reads "From Stonewall a brick and Portland an Axe, Respect our pride or expect our wrath." It's cool
January 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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hankgreen.bsky.social
Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is.
January 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
paperpages.bsky.social
Seems like a good day to reshare this image that I made back in 2020. Don’t forget to to make joy and rest part of your resistance. But if all you feel right now is grief, that’s okay. #art
On a red background, over an illustration of an orange tree with white blossoms and oranges in its branches, Scrabble tiles spell out the words “Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum.”
January 20, 2025 at 11:22 PM
paperpages.bsky.social
The nose! The pose! The tail wrap! What a distinguished little gentlecat.
January 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
paperpages.bsky.social
This book was a fever dream (see: the blurbs on the cover using phrases like “bonkers novel” and “absolutely mental”) that I read in two days. It’s honestly not the type of novel I always enjoy, but my experience highlights the importance of books and their potential impact. A 🧵… (1/5) 💙📚 #books
A book lies on a dark blue tiled floor. It is surrounded by a white towel, several white and beige bottles of skin care products, and a crocheted granny square with a black center surrounded by white, beige and yellow. The book is titled “The Coin” by Yasmin Zaher. The cover is yellow with a light-skinned woman in a long, beige, designer trench coat and snakeskin heels. The woman is standing in profile, kicking her right leg high in the air and raising her right arm in a way that completely blocks the viewer from seeing any part of her face.
January 17, 2025 at 1:06 AM