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Amalia Dillin/Amalia Carosella/Amalia Theresa
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Author of Romantasy as Amalia Dillin, Historical Fiction and Mythic Retellings as Amalia Carosella, and flameworthy Contemporary Romance as Amalia Theresa!
Come for Thor, Stay for More!
https://blog.amaliadillin.com/
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I don't usually share art stuff but el husband and I teamed up to create these VACCINATE stickers with his original art in holo and glow in the dark this year! Because, well, obvs.
Two hexagon shaped stickers with a union soldier dressed white blood cell holding a rifle that say ARM YER CELLS, VACCINATE in patriotic red, white, and blue.
September 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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BUTT-WEISER CLYDESDALE
The buttside of an iconic Budweiser Clydesdale horse, his tail braided and beribboned.
June 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Totes a normal response to a bath and/or life. Nothing to look twice at here. Everyone thinks life and baths are utterly disgusting.
24. Think of your bath--oil, sweat, grime, filthy water, all utterly disgusting. Such is every part of life and every material thing you treasure.
April 20, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Okay. Marcus Aurelius is over here ONCE AGAIN reminding himself not to spin out and everyone nods along and compliments him for being so rational, but no one is asking WHY he needs to remind himself of this so often?? Couldn't POSSIBLY be
✨️ ANXIETY ✨️
49. Don't make more of things than what your senses initially yell you. You are told, for example, that someone has been gossiping about you. Olay, but you /aren't/ told that this chatter hurt you. Or you may see that your child is sick. Yes, but you /don't/ see he's in danger. Always stick to your first impressions, and don't begin adding inferences of your own, and you'll be safe. Or rather add this observation only: everything that happens is part of the natural and familiar order of things.
April 20, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Okay but. Those of us with anxiety and/or intrusive thoughts, is this not wildly relatable???

I am now leaning toward neurospicy because this is not the first time this has come up.
17. Happiness is the inner deity, the goodness of pure mind. "What are you doing here, Imagination?! Get out, in God's name, by whatever way you came in. I don't need you. You're just a bad, old habit. Really, I'm not angry with you; I just want you to go."
April 18, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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MARCUS AURELIUS WAS THE FREAKING EMPEROR OF ROME AND IF HE DID NOT HAVE TO HAVE A TAKE ON EVERYTHING NEITHER DO YOU.
52. You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone. 53. Learn to concentrate on what those around you are saying. Enter as deeply as possible into the mind of each speaker.
April 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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BIGGEST MOOD, MARCO!

(Did Marcus Aurelius just say he is very tired of finding out when he did not even fuck around? I think he did.)
46. Just as circus games and other popular entertainments off the same tedious scenes over and over, so it is with life--an appalling sameness, a tiresome round of cause and effect. When will it ever end?
April 18, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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The most relevant meditation so far of Marcus Aurelius:
"Harm comes from persisting in error and clinging to ignorance."
21. Persuade me or prove to me that I am mistaken in thought or deed, and I will gladly change--for it is the truth I seek, and the truth never harmed anyone. Harm comes from persisting in error and clinging to ignorance.
April 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Also, not for nothing, but PLAYING TO WIN ends at the holidays, also, and it is very warm and fuzzy, imho.

also for anyone who has that one person in their life who overtapes every gift and package, I see you.
books2read.com/u/47QDog

#holidayreads #booksky
image reads: PLAYING TO WIN a new sexy rom com series from the author of DAUGHTER OF A THOUSAND YEARS and FROM ASGARD, WITH LOVE, now writing as Amalia Theresa. Image of 3 couples, Sully and Kate (brunettes, very person next door looking) with their shoulder bags ready for class at fictional Midwestern State University; Will (dirty blonde curly hair and a Fowler's BBQ t-shirt) and Nic reluctantly leaning toward one another, but with some obvious reserve on Nic's part (blonde, with her arms crossed); and lastly Violet and Abe, Vi (curly reddish brown hair) obviously leaning against Abe who is planted firmly wearing his hockey team's hoodie, very much in support mode; all on a blue background with a cute squiggly outline.
November 21, 2024 at 10:12 PM
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What's extra special about WINTER GAMES this year is you can get a signed copy from the Bismarck Barnes&Noble right now! It's on the holiday romance table!!! (and the rest of my Amalia Theresa print titles are there, signed, also! along with HONOR AMONG ORCS and BLOOD OF THE QUEEN.)
Image of 5 books on digital readers, PLAYING TO WIN, PLAYING IT SAFE, SETTLING UP, PLAYING HOUSE, and WINTER GAMES, on a blue background.
November 21, 2024 at 9:45 PM
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whoops forgot to alt text that image! here it is with the alt!
reads: Spend the 12 Days of Christmas in 15th Century France, available on kindle, kobo, nook, apple books, and in paperback as part of the FACETS OF FATE collection, or alone as TAMING FATE on Amazon. It's both the TAMING FATE and FACETS OF FATE covers on a background of snowy branches and red berries. Facets of Fate's cover is split into 3 blended images by a giant lightning bolt, a man and woman in business attire with their backs to the audience, a woman racing through the snow in a red dress on a white horse, and another woman dancing in front of the Eiffel tower. TAMING FATE's cover is just the woman in a period red dress on a white horse, racing through the snow with a lightning bold striking behind her.
November 21, 2024 at 9:42 PM
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I also wrote WINTER GAMES, part of my PLAYING TO WIN series--it's best read as the 4th installment but it's full of yuletide love and warm hugs for all my pagan friends and fam. It's contemporary romance, and doesn't hold back on spice!
ebook: books2read.com/u/bo209A
(also in print!)
#holidayreads
Sully in a blue sweater vest dressed up for the holidays with Kate in a plaid green dress, both standing beside a fireplace with stockings on a red background. Reads: WINTER GAMES: A Playing to Win Holiday Special.
November 21, 2024 at 9:37 PM
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I'll start!
I wrote TAMING FATE for my Fate of the Gods series, about Eve's life with the Marquis DeLeon in 15th C France. (I hated their outfits the whole time. Profoundly unhot fashion.)

It's part of the FACETS OF FATE collection:
books2read.com/u/bwWZD0
#holidayreads #booksky
November 21, 2024 at 9:31 PM
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EVIDENCE/Cat Tax!
very fuzzy black cat rolling all over a rainbow colored mat, looking at the camera upside down.
November 19, 2024 at 1:43 PM
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YOU CANNOT TELL ME THESE TWO THINGS DO NOT BELONG TOGETHER.

(I really need to dust this bookshelf. whew. sorry.)
books on Norse mythology and Icelandic sagas as a background for the hardcover edition of FORGED BY FATE, a purple book with gold titlework, and a tall wine glass/goblet with a bright blue zigzag/lightning bolt base and a bowl that looks gray with blue water dripping down the outside.
November 19, 2024 at 4:34 AM