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tysephine
@tysephine.bsky.social
· Nov 20
I guess I should do an intro post
Hello, my name is Sarah. I like books and cats. My life consists largely of hating my job and reading as much as I can in my downtime.
Hello, my name is Sarah. I like books and cats. My life consists largely of hating my job and reading as much as I can in my downtime.
I've had my kitten for almost a full year now and he's so big 😭 Who told him he was allowed to turn into a grown cat
August 4, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I've had my kitten for almost a full year now and he's so big 😭 Who told him he was allowed to turn into a grown cat
Oof
If you write ‘unalive’ in prose or character dialogue, in your NOVEL - which I have seen TWICE NOW - I will immediately wince and full body cringe. The TikTokification of words has to stop. Your character almost DIED or was KILLED in your novel. They were not almost ‘unalived’.
August 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Oof
A YouTube video with a good message/premise but that is boring should a crime
August 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
A YouTube video with a good message/premise but that is boring should a crime
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I read Mr Collins in Love: A Pride and Prejudice inspired m/m romance by Lee Welch
K.J. Charles's review of Mr Collins in Love
I don't like Jane Austen. I realise this is not a popular literary opinion but here we are. I also don't generally like Jane Austen retellings because with a couple of honourable exceptions (eg What W...
www.goodreads.com
June 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I read Mr Collins in Love: A Pride and Prejudice inspired m/m romance by Lee Welch
My entire upper body is feeling the yardwork I did yesterday 😩
June 24, 2025 at 12:48 PM
My entire upper body is feeling the yardwork I did yesterday 😩
Tfw you're the only employee who had made it in so far and there are 3 customers looking at you like 👀 but you don't have a key to the building
May 23, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Tfw you're the only employee who had made it in so far and there are 3 customers looking at you like 👀 but you don't have a key to the building
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Writers: before you sign a contract with a publisher, make sure AI isn't replacing your illustrator, your translator, your editor, your jacket designer. Readers: if you're thinking of buying a book, do the same. Refuse. Resist. If AI garbage doesn't sell, people will stop making it.
May 11, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Writers: before you sign a contract with a publisher, make sure AI isn't replacing your illustrator, your translator, your editor, your jacket designer. Readers: if you're thinking of buying a book, do the same. Refuse. Resist. If AI garbage doesn't sell, people will stop making it.
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FOR A HORSE AND HORSEMAN Volume 1 is now LIVE on Kickstarter!
A printed/ebook edition of my M/M gay & trans original fantasy webnovel featuring 14 full-page B/W illustrations and 55 unique chapter insets (and a fantasy map~)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lon...
🐎✨🐎✨🐎
Thank you for checking it out!
A printed/ebook edition of my M/M gay & trans original fantasy webnovel featuring 14 full-page B/W illustrations and 55 unique chapter insets (and a fantasy map~)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lon...
🐎✨🐎✨🐎
Thank you for checking it out!
March 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
FOR A HORSE AND HORSEMAN Volume 1 is now LIVE on Kickstarter!
A printed/ebook edition of my M/M gay & trans original fantasy webnovel featuring 14 full-page B/W illustrations and 55 unique chapter insets (and a fantasy map~)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lon...
🐎✨🐎✨🐎
Thank you for checking it out!
A printed/ebook edition of my M/M gay & trans original fantasy webnovel featuring 14 full-page B/W illustrations and 55 unique chapter insets (and a fantasy map~)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lon...
🐎✨🐎✨🐎
Thank you for checking it out!
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Diane Duane is having a huge sale on ebooks bought directly from her, so she can pay rent. If you want ebooks of the Wizard or Door books, this is a steal ebooks.direct
Ebooks Direct from SF & fantasy writers Diane Duane and Peter Morwood
Looking for sf and fantasy ebooks by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood? Look here first!
ebooks.direct
March 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Diane Duane is having a huge sale on ebooks bought directly from her, so she can pay rent. If you want ebooks of the Wizard or Door books, this is a steal ebooks.direct
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🙌
"We know that for years we donated funds, shamelessly appropriated rainbow branding for the month of June, and gave away countless branded T-shirts at pride parades, but now, we think it’s best that we go our separate ways."
We Regret to Inform You We Will No Longer Sponsor Your Pride Parade
“San Francisco Pride loses $300,000 after sponsors drop out: ‘The tone has changed in this country.’” — Them, 3/17/25 - - -Dear Queer Organization,...
www.mcsweeneys.net
March 24, 2025 at 12:58 PM
🙌
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Alabama's Fairhope Public Library has lost its funding for not banning books as demanded of them: www.cnn.com/2025/03/22/u...
Alabama board defunds local library for failing to protect teens from ‘inappropriate’ books | CNN
The public library in Fairhope, Alabama — a picturesque city on the shores of Mobile Bay — has found itself in the crosshairs of battles over library content.
www.cnn.com
March 24, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Alabama's Fairhope Public Library has lost its funding for not banning books as demanded of them: www.cnn.com/2025/03/22/u...
I'm happy for warmer weather but I'm not happy about the return of yardwork season
March 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I'm happy for warmer weather but I'm not happy about the return of yardwork season
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I love MMPBs and hoped that in an era of pricier paper we would move back into cheaper, more pocket-friendly mass market paperbacks. Woe. Woe!
February 27, 2025 at 1:42 AM
I love MMPBs and hoped that in an era of pricier paper we would move back into cheaper, more pocket-friendly mass market paperbacks. Woe. Woe!
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A list of 15 excellent queer historical romances stretching from 1980s New York all the way back to the ancient world. Because we have always been here, and we always will be, no matter what anyone else has to say about it (gift link). #Romancelandia
15 Queer Historical Romance Books to Dive Into the Genre (Gift Article)
Our columnist recommends books featuring centuries of L.G.B.T.Q. love stories that defy tragedy, laugh in the face of shame and lean into unabashed joy.
www.nytimes.com
February 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
A list of 15 excellent queer historical romances stretching from 1980s New York all the way back to the ancient world. Because we have always been here, and we always will be, no matter what anyone else has to say about it (gift link). #Romancelandia
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My first novel, The Winter Prince (1994), is on sale as an ebook at $1.99 for ONE DAY throughout a whole lot of the English speaking world (USA/Canada/UK/Australia) on Sunday, 23 Feb. 2025.
openroadmedia.com/ebook/the-wi...
#thelionhunters #thewinterprince
openroadmedia.com/ebook/the-wi...
#thelionhunters #thewinterprince
February 22, 2025 at 7:08 PM
My first novel, The Winter Prince (1994), is on sale as an ebook at $1.99 for ONE DAY throughout a whole lot of the English speaking world (USA/Canada/UK/Australia) on Sunday, 23 Feb. 2025.
openroadmedia.com/ebook/the-wi...
#thelionhunters #thewinterprince
openroadmedia.com/ebook/the-wi...
#thelionhunters #thewinterprince
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Talk of a "Feb 28 Economic Blackout" is spreading on social media.
Talk of a "Feb 28 Economic Blackout" is spreading on social media. What is it?
A grassroots effort is asking American consumers to refrain from making purchases at major retailers for one day in February.
www.cbsnews.com
February 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Talk of a "Feb 28 Economic Blackout" is spreading on social media.
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#MomsForLiberty leaders are mad that Alabama parents are flooding their legislators' phones, opposing HB4 and demanding that they #dontjaillibrarians
So let’s increase those calls!! use our Call Campaign tool call your legislators and stop HB 4!
www.readfreelyalabama.org/call_hb4_al_...
So let’s increase those calls!! use our Call Campaign tool call your legislators and stop HB 4!
www.readfreelyalabama.org/call_hb4_al_...
February 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
#MomsForLiberty leaders are mad that Alabama parents are flooding their legislators' phones, opposing HB4 and demanding that they #dontjaillibrarians
So let’s increase those calls!! use our Call Campaign tool call your legislators and stop HB 4!
www.readfreelyalabama.org/call_hb4_al_...
So let’s increase those calls!! use our Call Campaign tool call your legislators and stop HB 4!
www.readfreelyalabama.org/call_hb4_al_...
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I do listen to a certain number of audiobooks, and I just want to make it clear that I will never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever listen to an audiobook that is narrated using AI.
February 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I do listen to a certain number of audiobooks, and I just want to make it clear that I will never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever listen to an audiobook that is narrated using AI.
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#Booksky We’re releasing a new Astreiant novel on 3/20! POINT OF HEARTS (Astreiant #6) by Melissa Scott features Rathe & Eslingen solving crimes the city they call home. We have ARCs available and you can preorder from us and elsewhere or at your library!
queenofswordspress.com/product/poin...
queenofswordspress.com/product/poin...
February 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
#Booksky We’re releasing a new Astreiant novel on 3/20! POINT OF HEARTS (Astreiant #6) by Melissa Scott features Rathe & Eslingen solving crimes the city they call home. We have ARCs available and you can preorder from us and elsewhere or at your library!
queenofswordspress.com/product/poin...
queenofswordspress.com/product/poin...
If you want to take Ivermectin so damn bad just go to Tractor Supply and get some damn
Alabama Rep. Phillip Rigsby has introduced a bill that would allow pharmacists to dispense ivermectin without a prescription, subject to certain conditions.
Proposed Alabama law would allow ivermectin to be obtained without a prescription
Requestors of ivermectin will have to undergo risk-assessments when seeking to obtain the drug
www.al.com
February 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
If you want to take Ivermectin so damn bad just go to Tractor Supply and get some damn
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February 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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It's annoying how clearly this is going to play out.
They gut the FAA.
Therefore, the FAA can't do its job well because it was gutted.
Therefore, they say "The FAA sucks, we have to privatize it." which is what Project 2025 wants to do. They're manufacturing the crises for their end goal.
They gut the FAA.
Therefore, the FAA can't do its job well because it was gutted.
Therefore, they say "The FAA sucks, we have to privatize it." which is what Project 2025 wants to do. They're manufacturing the crises for their end goal.
February 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
It's annoying how clearly this is going to play out.
They gut the FAA.
Therefore, the FAA can't do its job well because it was gutted.
Therefore, they say "The FAA sucks, we have to privatize it." which is what Project 2025 wants to do. They're manufacturing the crises for their end goal.
They gut the FAA.
Therefore, the FAA can't do its job well because it was gutted.
Therefore, they say "The FAA sucks, we have to privatize it." which is what Project 2025 wants to do. They're manufacturing the crises for their end goal.
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Big crowd at the SF Tesla dealership protesting our unelected overlord. A tiny sign hangs from an upstairs window
February 17, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Big crowd at the SF Tesla dealership protesting our unelected overlord. A tiny sign hangs from an upstairs window
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In my city there is one cybertruck and one DIY parody of a cybertruck and the parody truck has become a local celebrity. Meanwhile, I always wish I had some rotten eggs to throw at the tesla whenever I see it.
February 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
In my city there is one cybertruck and one DIY parody of a cybertruck and the parody truck has become a local celebrity. Meanwhile, I always wish I had some rotten eggs to throw at the tesla whenever I see it.