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Heather Tomlinson🖖🏻🖤🩶🤍💜📚📝🧙🏻‍♀️
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Ace Pagan, Trekkie, ADHDer, fanfic-writing librarian in retail. Genealogy, books, history, Lego, crochet, cross-stitch, BuJos, birds, and photos.
Major fandoms: Star Trek, Stargate, Star Wars, Valdemar, Tortall, BBC Merlin, DC/Marvel

She/her, Progressive
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The no retention people co-opted the no kings message for a sign they put outside my polling place. Clever little jerks.
Election yard sign that reads "No Kings No retention".
November 4, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Every Monday a small group of protesters stands outside Sen. McCormick's office in Scranton. Today the standee of Rob Bresnahan was flying away so one of the men held it and flapped his arms like he was Bresnahan. A passing gentleman decided to shake the hand of "Bresnahan". 😆
#nokings #Scranton
A man (face blurred because I wasn't able to ask his permission to post) shakes the hand of another man standing behind a cut-out standee of Congressman Rob Bresnahan.
November 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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I finished it. I went to Michael's for the frame and it was kindly paid for by a woman I chatted with while I was looking for the right one. I was totally shocked. She insisted. She and the framer had also been at the last protest. I even gave the framer one of my tiny frogs!
#nokings #cross-stitch
Gold framed cross-stitch that reads "No Kings" in blue fancy script, with a purple guillotine with a skull underneath it.
November 1, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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I think I'll be able to finish my impulse guillotine project today. I just need to get the border done. I have to hit up the Goodwill for a frame that is sufficiently fancy to match the style.

I finished all of the middle on Tuesday, and worked on the border last night between reading fics.
Half-completed cross-stitched pattern that reads "No Kings" in blue and has a small guillotine with a skull in purple next to the words.
October 30, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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My friend and I went to #NoKings in Scranton today. I had my frog hat and a bag full of tiny frogs to hand out. Saw some really fun signs and even some people I've seen at other protests. I had a chance to tell Mary that I posted about her. That made her happy.
Sign of the Statue of Liberty removing her earrings, with the text "Girl, hold my earrings". A woman in a Winnie the Pooh onesie holding a sign that says, "I am American. I am Anti Fascist".
October 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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This is Mary. She is retired and spends as many days as she can standing in front of the county courthouse, holding her signs for all to see. She is implacable and attends as many rallies and protests as she can. Be like Mary and fearlessly speak your mind.

Oh, and honk when you drive by her. ✊🏼
An older white woman holds a protest sign reading "Tax cuts for the rich Job + benefit cuts for us"
October 6, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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I saw this little guy yesterday at Lowe's. He stuck around for a full photo shoot, but I like the way the light hits in this photo.
A monarch butterfly is perched on a red flower with its wings closed.
October 6, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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I've decided to watch cheezy sci-fi movies that have Star Trek actors in them for the month of October. First up is Night of the Lepus, with DeForest Kelley.

That mustache. Oh, boy.
Two men stare at something offscreen in what appears to be a laboratory. One is DeForest Kelley.
October 2, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Because I have to share it. 😆
June 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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As a palette cleanse, here is a fire and s'mores mom and I made last night.
A picture of a s'more. A picture of a fire in a firebowl, with two marshmallows being toasted on sticks.
June 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Baby's first yarnbomb. I still have to make a sign saying they're forget-me-nots for Alzheimer's awareness and that people can take them. I didn't finish as many as I wanted but my wrists wouldn't let me do more.

#Alzheimer'sAwareness
#yarnbomb
Park fence with small crocheted flowers. Park fence with small, blue crocheted flowers. Forget-me-nots. Close-up of crocheted forget-me-nots on a park fence.
June 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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It's Primary Day in Pennsylvania. Local elections are as important as national elections! Come in and get a free sticker for the low low cost of filling in bubbles with a pen.
A pile of stickers that read "I Voted".
May 20, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Tuesday, May 20th is PA's primary day. Whatever your party affiliation is, make sure you vote so your voice can be heard.

If you're voting by mail-in, they MUST be received at the county voter offices by 8pm on the 20th.
A drawn button that reads Vote.
May 18, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Crayon by Heather Tomlinson
#vss365 #delight
A poem on a white background with crayon drawings: Crayon Running your fingernail across the seam. The rip so loud as the lid tears away from the box. The smell of new wax tickling your nose hairs. The texture of the paper wrapper that can’t decide to be smooth or rough. That first line, from thin to fat as the tip gets eaten by the paper. Scribble marks as you give in to the impulse and grin at the memory of childish delight. Smearing the shavings from the sharpener in the back of the box. The tips of your fingers stained like a brightly- colored glass window. Heather Tomlinson
January 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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I use a double spread for the weeks with a chart to fill in the hours so I have a better idea of my free time and plenty of room for notes and planning. I don’t use habit trackers in the weekly spread, but separate pages. I like stickers and quotes for decorations but haven’t added any yet.
January 5, 2025 at 3:57 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. #21

Honorable mentions that I really wanted to post.

#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover art for Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol. A teenage boy is following a teenage girl into a house, looking backwards. Cover art of Starfish by Lisa Fipps. A plus-sized girl is smiling as she floats in a pool in the starfish position with arms and legs outstretched. Cover of Commitment Hour by James Alan Gardner. Two young blonde adults, one boy and one girl are playing the violin against a backdrop of sky and stars. Cover of an antique book, The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore. It contains the poem, The Minstrel Boy, among others.
December 14, 2024 at 7:15 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. #20

#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover of the book Blackwork Embroidery by Elisabeth Geddes and Moyra McNeil. An embroidered picture of a bird perched on a grapevine is pictured, stitched by a person with the initials DH in 1925. The motifs are all stitched with different filling patterns.
December 14, 2024 at 1:28 AM
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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. #19

#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover of the children's poetry book, The New Kid on the Block, by Jack Prelutsky, with illustrations by James Stevenson. A kid is strolling down a street with their hands fisted while a number of other kids and pets look at them from windows or behind trees or garbage cans.
December 13, 2024 at 3:03 AM
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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. #18

#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover of Mall Purchase Night by Rick Cook. A male security guard is being taunted by a scantily clad female fairy dressed in blue with blue fairy dust surrounding her. He doesn't seem too displeased by the fact.
December 11, 2024 at 3:31 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. #17

#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover of Becky Chambers' novella, A Psalm for the Wild-Built. A robot stands on a winding path in a forest watching butterflies flying around its hand. Down the path a person is sitting at the back of a wagon drinking tea.
December 11, 2024 at 3:10 AM
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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. #16

#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Scott Cunningham's book The Complete Book of Incense, Oils & Brews. A number of different herbs, soaps, and oils are photographed against a white background.
December 10, 2024 at 2:13 AM
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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. #15

#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover of The Secret of the Old Clock, the first Nancy Drew book by Carolyn Keene. A young woman is kneeling in the woods, prying open a clock face with a screwdriver while she looks over her shoulder nervously.
December 9, 2024 at 2:10 AM
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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. #14

#BookSky💙📚
#Books
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The cover of Art Spiegelman's graphic novel Maus.
December 8, 2024 at 3:23 AM
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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. #13

#BookSky💙📚
#Books
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Cover of Jude Deveraux's romance novel The Raider. A dark-haired man is holding a blonde woman in a romantic clench. There is a black horse in the background but there's no way either could actually be riding it.
December 6, 2024 at 11:32 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. #12

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#Books
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Cover of Popcorn by Frank Asch. A cartoon bear is watching a huge pot of popcorn spilling over on the stove.
December 5, 2024 at 4:00 PM