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Amy (A. E.) Wasp
@amywasp.bsky.social
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(She/Her) Writer of MM romances and watcher of hockey (Go Avalanche!). I love road trips in my van, photography, talking about writing, art, cooking, travel, and so many more things.
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A blue day in the Fort.

#photography
#Colorado
A white 2 story brick building with Bright blue garage door and blue shutters. The sky behind it is the same color blue as the doors. There are poles with white lights strong from the side of the building to the street.
February 22, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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My YouTube suggestions in a nutshell as I make art while watching criminology videos.

I recommend Business Insider videos. I don't know how true they are from the people were like I was a gun runner. Here's my story. But they are super interesting.
February 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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I need 3 things. This Iris Van Herpen dress. The money to buy this dress. An invitation to some event to which I can wear this dress.

Oh, and one more thing, someone to help me with this dress when I have to go to the bathroom.
February 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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I'm out and about like a real person. And I'm even writing! Woo hoo

#writingcpmmunity
A MacBook open on a hightop table. There is a bookshelf of ceramics on the background and framed paintings on the white wall.
February 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Today's photo theme is Street Art. One of my favorite things.

The first 2 are from East Vancouver. #3 is Fort Collins, Colorado. #4 is The Milestone in Charlotte.
A young women in a bikini lies In a lounge chair. Behind her is a yellow convertible Corvette with a puddle of water in front of it. Both of them are in front of a big industrial red brick building with vibrant blue and green graffiti in front of it. A wide alley with grass. The walls of the buildings are wood. They're brightly painted with graffiti and murals on the sides. The mural facing front is an abstract, cat and Maple leaf. A young woman in a black dress squats in front of it reading the inscriptions. A man with a winter coat and an orange backpack plays a piano in a parking garage. The piano is painted with a bright meal of owls. Every inch of the piano is covered. He's sitting in a metal chair with a g clef punched out the back. The side of a old building. It is green wood shingles that are faded. There is black and white graffiti over the wall. There's a tall window with cardboard over it. And a beat up couch, both of which have also graffiti. A man sits on the far left side of the couch with his arm over his head. A woman sits on a chair in front of him smoking a cigarette.
February 7, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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They say a picture is worth 1000 words.

www.reddit.com/r/ABoringDys...
A screenshot of a Reddit post. The title is this photograph was taken 2 days ago at the FBI academy in Quantico and submitted to the New York times. Under the condition of anonymity. It shows a worker painting over text that fills the wall. Words like fairness, leadership, compassion, integrity. He's painting bland gray over the words.
February 1, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Honey, they shrunk my coffee cup!
January 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Going to post 5 themed photos when I remember.

In honor of Chinese New Year today is "Red."

It was so hard to pick only 5.

Please to make suggestions. I have over 36,000 photos. Without them, I don't know where I've been, what I've done, and who I've met.
A wide shot of a Billy Joel concert outdoors at night. On either side of the stage are huge monitors displaying videos of fire. The stage and the crowd are lit with red light. In the center of the stage, Billy stands under a white spotlight. String of red lanterns in London's Chinatown. It's winter and the sky is grey. The lanterns are luminous against the grey. A crowd in dark colored winter coats walks below them. Close up of brilliantly red maple leaves against a bright blue sky. The sun glares through a break in the leaves. Red shirt protest in Bangkok 2012. 5 people ride in the back of an open pickup truck. The truck, their shirts, the banners and flags are all red. The truck is under the raised railway track and in front of the glass walls of a an office building
January 30, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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I loved the covers! For such slim books, they've stayed with me all these decades.
The White mountain. illustrated cover by Roger Hanes. Stylized art. Three boys, dressed in white are running toward the viewer and away from alien tripods in the background that look like a dome on top of three very very long legs. The sky is full of ominous gray clouds.
January 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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And we did get a glorious double rainbow over the bluffs to which my picture does no justice.

Double rainbow across the sky!
A photo of a ridge of sandstone bluff. There is scrub pines, one lone darker pine and a Red roof house that looks very small because of the distance. The bright arc of a rainbow curves from the upper left to the fourthd of the way to the bottom Right where it appears to touch the ground behind the pine tree and the small house. To the right of the rainbow, the sky is much darker and faint double rainbow can be seen.
January 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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One good thing for every angry, terrified post.

A woman dancing in a sun shower at Folks Fest @ Planet Bluegrass in Lyons, CO. August 2015.

I have so many amazing memories from those years.
A close up shot of young woman from the waist up. She's wearing a black tank top and has her blonde hair in a ponytail. She's standing in front of a field of brightly colored umbrellas. Her head is turned to the right and she looks happy. The sun is on her hair and on the row of trees in the background, but it is drizzling in the foreground.
January 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Literally me right now
Screenshot of a tweet from user Tanya Sabrina. Getting out of bed. Pros: cold, bad, I hate it here. Cons: (a blank space)
January 28, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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From "Kill Game" (Seven of Spades #1) by Cordelia Kingsbridge.

I'm not even sure why it grabbed me so hard.

#mmromance
quote from book. "This isn't his it happens, you and me," he said quietly. "Not like this."
January 28, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Day 3 and were there going full Gestapo. I didn't know why but this is terrifying to me.

#politics
#Trump

chcoc.gov/sites/defaul...
Screenshot of page one of the document linked in post Page 2 of document linked in post.
January 23, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Not a WIP but from Pros & Cons of Vengeance.

#writingcommunity
#writingprompts
Snippet from the book. I'd met many men like him in my line of work. They were like wild tigers that had gotten their first taste of human flesh and had to have more. Harlan wouldn't stop. The power of having someone else's life in your hands had turned stronger men than him into monsters.
January 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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What this guy? We surprised each other when I walk out the did of my sister's house in Charlotte? He had just landed on a squirrel and we were both like, oh crap.
January 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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If you want something more hands-on, so to speak, here's a delightful PG-13 coloring book also from 1964. I'm fond of Juan the Torero on page 19. He has a spiffy outfit.

www.houstonlgbthistory.org/Houston80s/A...
A black and white line drawing from a coloring book. A tall buff bare-chested man in bull-fighting pants and a hat gently drapes his richly embroidered jacket over a smaller slender man wearing only shorts. They are in front of a brick wall plastered with pictures advertising the bull fight.
January 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Warnings from The Beginner's Guide to Cruising (1964)

"Gays are very sensitive and will very soon smell the insincere rat."

There is an advanced guide if you're feeling confident.

www.houstonlgbthistory.org/Houston80s/A...
Book Cover. Title: The Beginner's Guide to Cruising by George marshall. Black and white photo of a young man in trousers and long-sleeved jacket leaning against a wall. He has one hand on his hip and is staring at the viewer.
January 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Still not getting more than a sentence at a time done but I am still playing with photos. Have some waterlilies from the Chicago Botanical Gardens.
pink water lilies with big green leaves float on dark water.
January 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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I should be writing but instead I'm editing photos. Oh well. I'll write after a snack. This is Kimball Point Campground on Kerr Lake on the border of VA & NC. One of the nicest campgrounds I've stayed in. Just lovely.

#photography
#sunrise
#camping
an edit photo of a lake at sunrise. There is a spit of land horizontally in the middle, it extends halfway into the lake on a slope and then ends. The silhouette of trees is seen on the split. The land & trees are reflected in the lake. The edit adds a hazy grunge texture.
January 20, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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I posted my reply to some horrible posts about putting a banana in your vagina before I read Courtney's reply below me. When I saw it, it made me laugh.
To skeets on top of each other. First one from me says please. No. Stop. I'll confess. I am a witch. The second one below it from Courtney Milan says I feel like Cosmo articles were specifically written to make people say no no. Please stop.
January 18, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Reddit relationship threads in a nutshell.
A screenshot of two Reddit headlines one on top of each other. The top one says " for guys that prefer no condom is there ever a situation where you refuse sex with someone asking you to wear one?" The second one says " I think my boyfriend intentionally got me pregnant.'
January 18, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Are we taking about moose now?

A moose once bit my sister. No, realli.

Well, I did see a moose and her baby in Grand Lake.
A close up shot of female moose and her calf in an opening between some trees. The adult moose is looking up. The baby. Moose is looking down
January 17, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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A saga in three parts. Dash and the Salad.

#cats
#photography
1st pic is a chubby tabby cat with flat ears eating salad out of a green bowl. 2nd pic, a man's hand holds the cat's head out of the bowl. 3rd pic, the tabby cat's head is turned to the left of the frame and he is open-mouthed yelling at someone off-screen.
January 17, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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Unedited sunset near Lyons, CO a few weeks ago. So many people had pulled over to take pics.

#photography
A line of tree silhouettes in front of neon orange clouds.
January 17, 2025 at 4:09 AM