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bright medusa
@brightmedusa.bsky.social
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this multipod learns, thinks, designs

I think a lot about storytelling, visual and written, and story structure

I edit personal statements for students and speculative fiction for novice writers

Also shoot portraits and family documentaries
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Good morning. I have a Mochi, too!
A calico cat sits in loaf position on white bedding, a mountain of blue and grey blanket behind her, with her face towards the camera showing one amber hazel eye and one green-blue eye. She doesn’t look amused at being awake this time of day.
March 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers #booksky #20daybookchallenge (DAY9)
Cover of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (Everyman’s Library edition). The cover shows a sepia photo of García Márquez, grinning happily, with only the left side of his face and torso as he leans away from the label in the centre of the cover with his name.
February 11, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers #booksky #20daybookchallenge (DAY8)
Cover of A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders. The cover is an illustration in light blue and purple, and looks like cutout collage artwork. Cover text includes “New York Times Bestseller” under “GEORGE” at the top, “Author of Lincoln in the Bardo” under “SAUNDERS” at the bottom. Around a cutout archway in the central cover, it reads, “In which four Russians give a master class on writing, reading, and life.” The cutout in the middle of the cover vaguely resembles a skull as it might be seen at the bottom of a disturbed pond, with all the edges rippling. The book title is handwritten over this skull so that the P and D in “POND” could be the eyes of the skull and “THE RAIN” could be the teeth. There is a blurb under “THE RAIN” that reads, “‘[A] worship song to writers and readers.’—Oprah Daily” Under “GEORGE,” there are cutouts of two people swimming towards each other from opposites edges of the cover.
February 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers #booksky #20daybookchallenge (DAY7)

*Looks are deceiving: this is really one book
February 6, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers #booksky #20daybookchallenge (DAY6)
Cover of I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to discover what you really want and how to get it, from the bestseeling author of Wishcraft, Barbara Sher, with Barbara Smith.
February 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers #booksky #20daybookchallenge (DAY5)
Cover of The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde. The cover illustration looks like a worn paperback, aged with tears and creases around the edges. The scene on the cover is an idyllic English countryside with oak trees in the foreground and edges, a pond with a swan in the middle distance, and hills rising in the back. Through the centre of the image below the title, the hood/bonnet of a mid-20th century racecar in garish green, red, and blue stripes is bursting through the cover, ripping a hole open.
February 4, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers #booksky #20daybookchallenge (DAY4)
Cover of The Elements of Typographic Style (Second edition) by Robert Bringhurst. The cover shows the title set amongst other letters of the alphabet in Trajan typeface, an elegant modern version of Roman capital letters. A line of lowercase As with various diacritics in red form a separation between the titling and the author’s name. The cover is a working example of the topic and thesis of the book.
February 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers #booksky #20daybookchallenge (DAY3)
Cover of The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (Bantam Classic edition). The cover is the painting by Sebastien Bourdon titled “Portrait of a Man wearing Black Ribbons.” The portrait depicts a man with long, wavy black hair and thin black moustache in the style of mid-17th century Frenchmen. He’s wearing a foofy white shirt with flouncy cuffs, beneath which he has black ribbons tied around each wrist, knotted with bows. His vest is brown, with large cuts down the arms to reveal the foof of the shirt beneath. He holds a brown handkerchief casually in one hand. He’s wearing the expression of a person who was up all night crying because his mistress has taken up with his best friend, who is a better dueler than he is.
February 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers #booksky #20daybookchallenge (DAY2)
Cover of Blubber by Judy Blume (published by Dell Yearling). The tagline reads, “They wanted to see how far they could go.” A pre-teen girl with a round face wearing a red dress and long striped socks stands at a chalkboard at the front of a classroom, pointing at a whale drawn in chalk. Two girls sit at desks in front of her but leaned towards each other across the aisle: the one on the left is covering her mouth to the side of the chalkboard, smiling, and pointing at the girl standing there; the girl on the right is covering her mouth to hide her laughing and looking at the viewer.
January 31, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers #booksky #20daybookchallenge
Cover of The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart (Coronet Books edition, 1979). The cover shows a short bearded man in Roman tunic and pants holding a lowered sword in one hand, shield in another, standing in front of a low rock cliff. His head is turned to the side, on the watch, while in the distance, a hooded woman on a white horse approaches out of a forest. There is mist everywhere.
January 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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my cat enjoys a stress-free Saturday afternoon
A calico cat is in a torsioned stretch with her feet at the top of the image (against a brown leather sofa cushion) and white belly facing up towards the camera, then curving down to the bottom right with her forearms stretching and her face pointing down-frame. With her tail curving from the top to the left of frame, the cat forms something like a comma shape.
December 7, 2024 at 6:34 PM
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Thanks. Here are 2 more for your collection
November 21, 2024 at 9:09 PM
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If you see this, post a bridge.
A low bridge over a canal at blue twilight is lit with orange lights that outline the side and reflect in the dark, wavy water below. A houseboat is tied to the near side of the canal, a row of Dutch buildings line the opposite side, and healthy tree foliage fills in the edges around the sky.
October 24, 2024 at 12:49 PM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,321,363!
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #1,321,363, bright medusa ‪@brightmedusa.bsky.social‬, joined on Oct 2, 2023"
September 21, 2024 at 8:37 PM