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Secondary #ELA teacher: American literature, Composition, and Journalism. Lapsed academic: Victorian literature and Gothic studies. She/her
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Black and white photo of a young nun sitting at an old school synth switchboard/keyboard. Top text reads: forgive me father, bottom text reads: for I have synthed.
November 17, 2025 at 12:37 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.
Day 8
#Booksky
#BookChallenge
#Books
Book cover for Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks. Background is bright yellow. In the upper middle of the cover is a small image of a ladder sitting on a red floor, leaning against a green wall. Underneath the ladder is the word "la escalera." Underneath the image in red letters are the words "Teaching to Transgress," with "transgress" in a slightly larger font. Under the title is a red line, and under that is the subtitle: "Education as the Practice of Freedom." At the bottom of the page is the Routledge Publishing logo, an capital "R" that looks like a person's profile. Underneath in black letters is the name "bell hooks."
December 10, 2024 at 11:02 PM
elylden42.bsky.social
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.
Day 8
#Booksky
#BookChallenge
#Books
Book cover of The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin. The title and author name are in script in the top left corner coming down to the middle. The background is black sky, with a red moon hanging low under the author's name. In the foreground is an icy, barren landscape with giant jagged ice formations sprouting from the ground. At the front of the image is the largest ice tower. On one side is carved a masculine looking face, and on the other side, a feminine one.
December 8, 2024 at 2:42 AM
elylden42.bsky.social
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.
Day 7
#Booksky
#BookChallenge
#Books
Book cover of Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler. Dark blue green background with gold lettering. In the middle, an image of a Black woman standing in front of a burning landscape under a night sky. She has her hands raised palms up like a saint in an old icon. In front of her chest/heart is a small earth the size of a baseball. Her eyes are shut and she looks as though she is listening to something. Light illuminates her face and the tiny earth.
December 6, 2024 at 11:17 PM
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If you see this, post an image you saved because it made you laugh.
December 6, 2024 at 1:01 AM
elylden42.bsky.social
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.
Day 6
#Booksky
#BookChallenge
#Books
A book cover for Le Morte Darthur by Sir Thomas Mallory. The background is royal blue. At the top in large gold letters is the title, and in smaller gold letters is the author's name. Most of the middle and bottom of the cover are filled with the image of a golden statue or coffin lid that looks like a man in a robe. Smaller gold statues of angels sit on columns to either side. Under this image, in even smaller gold letters, are the words Edited by Stephen H. A. Shepherd.
December 5, 2024 at 12:54 AM
elylden42.bsky.social
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.
Day 3
#Booksky
#BookChallenge
#Books
A book cover for Manhunt by Gretchen Felker- Martin. The cover is dark blue, and the middle image is a net fruit sack holding two black plums. One of the plums has a bite taken out of it. The word "Manhunt" is directly underneath in yellow letters that look like handwriting. A red strip on the right side of the cover has text running sideways that reads "the end of the world is nuts."
December 3, 2024 at 10:08 PM
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Image with Alt text, my apologies
A book cover for Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre. The cover features a regency era painting of the interior of a British manor house. The painting has a very deep perspective, like looking down a long hallway. In the middle distance, a woman wearing a white dress is seated near a table. In the foreground is the edge of a white cloth or dress in the bottom left corner, a pair of white shoes next to a basket of flowers in the middle, and a white lace fan sitting on a small table at the left edge of the image. A window fills most of the left edge of the painting, and the shades are open to illuminate the room at the front of the painting.
December 3, 2024 at 12:37 AM
elylden42.bsky.social
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.
Day 3
#Booksky
#BookChallenge
#Books
December 2, 2024 at 6:10 PM
elylden42.bsky.social
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.
Day 3
#Booksky
#BookChallenge
#Books
A book cover: the top half is white, then fades when with a gradient into a black and white photo of woman sitting in front of foliage. The woman looks young but tired, and stares directly at the viewer. She has a page boy haircut and is dressed in a button down shirt and slacks. In the white space at the top in large green letters is author's name: Carson McCullers. Underneath the name in black letters is the title: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
December 2, 2024 at 2:41 AM
elylden42.bsky.social
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.
Day 2
#Booksky
#BookChallenge
#Books
A book cover in dark blue leather with a silver border around the edges. Gold letters of varied sizes and fonts are inside the border. In the middle from top to bottom reads: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson.
December 1, 2024 at 3:57 AM
elylden42.bsky.social
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.
Day 3
#Booksky
#BookChallenge
#Books
The 1962 cover version of Maedeleine L'Engle's book A Wrinkle in Time. The cover is bordered by a golden yellow color. A the top the yellow border is wider than the sides and bottom. In the top left corner are the words A DELL YEARLING BOOK with a small sketched outline of a horse between the words DELL and YEARLING. In the top right hand corner is $1.25, and in the middle bottom of the yellow area are the words "The Newberry Award Winning Classic." The majority of the cover is filled with an image from the story: A large centaur with gray skin, bald head, and a rainbow sprouting from its back is flying through a blue sky. Three children are riding on its back: a small, dark haired boy, a medium sized girl with orange hair, a green shirt, and a yellow skirt, and a large boy wearing khaki pants and shirt. In the bottom third of the image are large leaves and flowers in pink and orange. On the left side between the centaur and the plants is the title A Wrinkle in Time, and in smaller print directly underneath, Madeleine L'Engle.
November 29, 2024 at 7:08 PM
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Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn't a selfie.
In a white text box at the top of the image are the words: "Still going out tonight?" Then on the next line: "Me and my dog:" Beneath the text box is the image of a baroque painting of a toddler laying next to a small dog in an ornate bed. The bed is lined with red cloth and has a gilt frame carved with swirling patterns. Both the child and dog are wrapped in fancy lace bed clothes that make them look like tiny fancy mummies. Both the child and the dog are looking at the viewer. At the top of the image is the logo for the Industrial Workers of the World, a red circle with the letters "IWW" spaced between three five-point stars in the top half and a grid outline of the globe in the bottom half. A third of the way down the page is the phrase: "Everyone is a worker" and directly underneath are five characters from Richard Scarry's children's books: Farmer Alfalfa, Blacksmith Fox, Stitches the Tailor, Grocer Cat, and Mommy Cat. Underneath is the text: well, almost everyone. Below that text at the bottom of the image are Officer Pig the Policeman, and a photoshopped image of a dog in a hammock at a beach. Underneath the policeman are the words "class traitor," and underneath the dog is the word "landlord." A tumbler screenshot from user elminster-big-naturals. The majority of the image is a screenshot from the video games Baldur's Gate 3, with a PC male drow at the front of the party. Slightly behind him are Wyll, Astarion, and Lae'zel. All characters are leaned back and looked shocked or dumbfounded. A bright purple light washes over all of their faces. A text box underneath the image reads: when its 4am and the whole squad is zooted out of their gourds trying to read the overhead menu in mcdonalds A two-panel screenshot from the 1970s Wonder Woman television show. The top panel shows Diana's mom, the Queen of the Amazons in a elaborate diamond headdress standing in front of a windows with foliage on the right and a gold curtain on the left. She is a white woman in her 60s with blonde hair and flawless skin. The text at the bottom of this panel reads: Diana, why don't you just reason with the Nazis? In the bottom panel is Diana, aka Wonderwoman in a pink bikini top and flowered hair ribbons. She is in portrait frame, and has long dark wavy hair that goes past her shoulders. She has blue eyes and looks concerned. The text at the bottom of this panel reads: Mother, there is no reasoning with Nazis
November 28, 2024 at 3:33 PM