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Michaela
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🟣⚪️⚫️ They/She/Any Bookish Internet Kobold || 31 '94 Baby || #steddie on the 🧠
Queer & Speculative 1/2 of Betwixt the Books on YT #💙📚
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I'm reading my physical TBR by color in 2025. Let's see if I can actually make a dent in it.

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2025 Rainbow TBR Challenge
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It feels pointless to hope... I feel like we will be outbid immediately, but maybe not. Not if the vibes are right.
Anybody that wants to put out good vibes... My partner and I are putting an offer on a house today. I need like everyone to cross their fingers and toes for us because the market here is absolutely ass and finding a house in this condition at this price point in our area is actually insane.
November 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Anybody that wants to put out good vibes... My partner and I are putting an offer on a house today. I need like everyone to cross their fingers and toes for us because the market here is absolutely ass and finding a house in this condition at this price point in our area is actually insane.
November 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Do you think there are Marcus the Worm from VR Chat fics?

Asks a person with an ao3 account and the knowledge/ability to look this up.

I just want to wonder for a little while. Let my mind try and conjure up what those would even be.
November 9, 2025 at 10:06 PM
When your uterus decides to trash the place. This is a terribly inefficient system. I'd like to speak to the manager.
a stuffed white cat is sitting on top of a box and asking why ?
ALT: a stuffed white cat is sitting on top of a box and asking why ?
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November 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
SHHHH! I def. didn't accidentally schedule this for tomorrow and have to panic post it just now...

Anyway, if you can get a copy of this just to read La Huesera (the last story), it's worth it. However, we had some issues with the rest of it.

#booksky #translation #review
youtu.be/leCtCJkg_as
Talk about going out with a bang | Reservoir Bitches Review
YouTube video by Betwixt the Books
youtu.be
November 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Guys this is criminally under read right now. It needs more love. Rock bottom Rock Star Eddie and Dead End Depressed Steve find the love they walked away from 5 years ago. Actually so fucking good.

archiveofourown.org/works/705204...
November 6, 2025 at 12:50 AM
When I see someone online talking about a book that sounds amazing, but it hasn't been published in the US yet, and the "government" has made it so that I can't order it! I just wanna read the weird book where a woman eats her dead partner and is also a blazing indictment of capitalism!
November 3, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I have 3 hours of an audiobook left (on 3x speed while physically reading it at the same time because adhd is a bitch and accessibility tools are rad actually) that is due back at the library in 9 hours. Guess its time for a hot tea, a cozy blanket, and locking in.
November 2, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Throwing this out into the ether in case anyone would want to do it.

Gretchen and I have a monthly (not quite a) book club. We meet over Zoom with bookish friends and discuss the things we've been reading for our channel. We are short 1 guest for November... would any of my moots be interested?
October 29, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Me: -the will to write stirs after a nearly year long hibernation-

Also me: what fresh hell is going to happen today to swiftly snuff out my creative spark.
October 27, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I was just made aware that Steddie dropped like 60 places in the ship stats for last year... and I know everyone jumped on the 911 bandwagon but Jesus christ... 60 places! Next you are going to say we are 12 people in a giant warehouse full of cardboard cutouts of the friends we used to have!
October 25, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Last week was #bannedbooksweek and we celebrated by reading and discussing some banned children's books. Highly recommend this one for a giggle plus some important discussions around what you can do to help prevent book banning in your community!

youtu.be/rQmEqHo_914

#booksky #bookishpodcast
Reading Banned Children's Books | Reading Round Table #24
YouTube video by Betwixt the Books
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October 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
As a person who loves horror. I live and breathe it. There is absolutely one thing I cannot do.

Scarecrows.

It is the only thing that makes me immediately clam up and hide. Which sounds so pathetic but close friends have seen it happen in real time. I couldn't even tell you why. It's pathological.
October 16, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Reposted by Michaela
Light the jack o' lanterns and cackle like witches.
For on All Hallow's Eve, we open for pitches.

These Exquisite Nightmares - A Stranger Things Monster Fanzine. By adults for adults.
October 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
This video has literally been ten months in the making and has gone through several iterations, just to break containment and become a multi-part series... sooo enjoy pt 1 of my thoughts on some of the best* #horror of last year.

*as voted by the Goodreads Choice Awards

youtu.be/5g5MhlsDd7k
Reading The Best Horror Books of 2024* Pt. 1 | Worth the Hype?
YouTube video by Betwixt the Books
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October 8, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Definitely not our favorite read of the year... but @ghohmeyer.bsky.social and I are back to talk about Sour Cherry and check off a feminist text from our buddy reading challenge.

#literary #horror #bookreview #booksky #bookclub #readingchallenge

youtu.be/Jdj9koYU6wE
A feminist take on serial killers | Sour Cherry by Natalia Theodoridou | Betwixt the Books Reviews
YouTube video by Betwixt the Books
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October 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I've been working all year on a video where I read some of the best* horror books of last year. I wanted to have it up today for the start of October. It may not be up today as I'm still making my way through You Like It Darker... but soooooon.

*as voted in the Goodreads Choice Awards
October 1, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The ability to 2x speed videos on almost every app is a great quality of life thing. I love it, dearly.

Unfortunately... my ability to listen to people talk at normal speed without getting bored is slowly diminishing.
September 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Why must it feel like my hips are no longer connected to my spine and the only thing holding my lower half to my upper half are my back muscles? I am not a fan of this sensation. -5/10 do not recommend.
September 27, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Dearest #steddie peeps,

Can I humbly request some long-form fic recs to download as emotional support while AO3 is down?

Please and thanks!

Rec Tax:

god how lucky can a simple man be? By Atalia_Gold

God tier pining, hurt/comfort, slow burn & Cowboy Steve.

🔗👇
archiveofourown.org/series/4650013
September 25, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Every time I wake up from a nightmare (they tend to be hyper violent and filled with detailed gore/death) I feel like I should write then down because they would make banger horror stories but I'm too distressed at the time to do it. Plus I dont want to rehash it again. Literally shaking right now.
September 21, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Nearly spit out my tea laughing while watching the new @cultflav.com Blender Showdown when Bryn likened the modes on a blender as "the three genders"

So folks, tell me:

Are you Smoothie, Milkshake, or Salsa?

I'm salsa.

🔗 for folks who enjoy cooking content

youtu.be/v4nIP0EzwrI?...
Blender Showdown: Vitamix vs Breville vs Blendtec (and more...)
YouTube video by Cult Flav
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September 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Me: -sees a video of a bat-

Also me: Remember when we were doing bat shifter Eddie/Eddie comes back as a bat fics? I miss that. Bats are adorable and despite the trauma, I think when confronted with a fuzzy lil injured bat Steve would nurse the hell out of that thing.
a black and white photo of a cat laying on its back in the snow .
ALT: a black and white photo of a cat laying on its back in the snow .
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September 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
So, uh, is American TikTok finally dead? I've only got a friend's tab today.

I've talked about deleting it for a while now but I'm just wondering if the shambling corpse of the last six months has finally collapsed?
September 15, 2025 at 7:22 PM