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Gemma
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Old, writer, dreamer, mom, dog handler, survivor. Horribly anxious ancient college student. Be a voice not an echo - Albert Einstein | gemma.5193 in GW2 | Profile picture is Percy Picklebottom

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This is Blossom. Blossom has pancreatitis. Blossom does not have cancer.

We take the wins we can get. She’s her general sweet self through this and I’ll work to keep her feeling well enough to always be that way.
A sweet faced scruffy salt and pepper standard poodle stands in the back seat of a car. There is a fluffy goldenrod blanket for her to lay on in the dog safe car seat cover. She has a very thoughtful expression
November 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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I know how this goes. We just gotta keep on swimming. We didn’t choose our wiring we just gotta figure out how to work with it

I’ll let you know if I ever figure mine out ❤️ until then enjoy a stuffed dragon
A soft pink stuffed dragon’s face is visible as she lays atop a much larger purple dragon
November 16, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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A snippet!

Meet Marcus, one of the protagonists.

#gemmapompeii
Image is dark wine red with pale golden yellow text reading: I sat on a bench in the Palatine and wondered how I ever got here. I am the son of a man who did not reach high rank in the military. He did well, and he served with bravery and honor, but he did not come home to a public life and high office. He left that to his friend and stayed happily in his shadow all with the belief that by doing so I might one day have such grand things as those on this sacred hill did. I didn't want them. How could I explain to my father and mother how little I wanted them? There was something heartless about the world of politics and war. I was a trained soldier now and while I have served as expected there was no love in me for it. The Legate, my father's friend, was a man carved in the image of Mars. He was born for war and battle, this great bear of a man whose voice I can easily imagine echoing across a battlefield. He had a secret though, a secret his son and I saw with our own eyes. We knew why he left that life.
November 16, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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She’s the best girl I ever could have wished for, antics included.

(This is her with one of her sons)
November 14, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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This is what my senior dog looked like when she was a baby.
A little black appearing standard poodle puppy sits on a white blanket in a living room. She wears a green ribbon collar and is looking off camera to the right at something. She is wonderfully adorable, of course. The background has a glass lamp, a side chair, a couch, some pictures on the wall and an air conditioner in the window.
November 14, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Another snippet from my Honors Project story

Eleri speaks about being marked a slave and what she asked in return. A slave who made demands, how curious.

There is much editing to be done please be gentle.
Most slaves wore a plaque, or they were branded. I wore a bracelet high on my forearm. It is the shape of a snape, made of beaten gold with glimmering glass eyes a darker green than my own. He said I earned it with my behavior, but that chide was delivered on a laugh. There were words I cannot read on the inside edge. He said they just declared me his and not to worry about them. I told him I would wear no such mark if he did not wear one in return. He laughed, heartily. I remember that I waited out the laughter until he realized I was serious. When he silenced I took the twisted band of metal my father had made me long ago from my bicep. I put it on his wrist. He paled as he looked at it. Something in him shifted but what it was I couldn't place. He touched the metal and considered it for a long time, then nodded to me and left me there alone. He has never taken it off and we have never spoken of it again.
November 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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#BG3FirstsWeek

Here's Halsin and Cella's first kiss!

The full piece can be read here. There's a chapter before it, Too Many Beds, but both are fine on their own. It's pretty stand alone episodic, the Halsin and Cella stuff, but nice altogether as well.

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"You don't have to do all of this," she told him. He smiled patiently as he shook his head. "As you've said, a lot. I will keep doing it though. It's what you need." "I don't need anything." "Ah, my dear heart. You do. Moreover, you deserve it. And we will spoil our friends too when they return but maybe not quite so... intimately," he noted with a chuckle. She let him go enough that she could stand on tip toe as his hands found her elbows. He helped lift her just enough that she could kiss his cheek. His smile softened as he looked down at her, and, with the shyness of a boy faced with his first love, he pressed a light kiss to her lips. It was brief, a query as much as a statement. When he found himself answered with a smile his heart surged and he bent to kiss her again, far more thoroughly before he swept her into his arms. "Come my life, let's eat before this gets cold."
November 10, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Sabina and Aleida. You can't see Aleida's *incredible* hair very well here but there they are. Sabina is a little drop of pure radiance. Aleida is a towering can of paladin rage.
A screenshot from Baldur's Gate 3 depicts a beautiful halfling woman with tanned skin and honey blonde hair up in a tidy style. She has a faint smile and pretty pale eyes. Her armor is beautiful with golden details. A tall elven woman is looking incredulously at something in a screenshot from Baldur's Gate 3. She has somewhat sharp features and wears powerful and battered looking armor with interesting gold details. The size of the greatsword on her back is something else.
November 6, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Update: I’m stalked by Karl Marx, K-pop Demon Hunters and Taylor Swift.
November 6, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Blish and Aurene ♥

(I have the Aurenes from years before but look at these babies)
A screenshot from Guild Wars 2 shows a little rectangle-ish robot, grey with silver details and red accents, wearing a charming grey-beige vest and a glowing halo. A screenshot from Guild Wars 2 shows a darling baby aqua colored dragon with a little feathered crown and a glowing halo. She looks very sweet and happy as she smiles looking off to the left.
November 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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My poor desk
Pages of wide pale blue legal paper are covered with math problems written in pencil. Some of them are even correct
November 4, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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I wear this symbol on a grey baseball hat. I got it when I started iron infusions because I had finally been diagnosed with what essentially was a bloodless debuff from BG3

Someone just aggressively accused me of it being something to do with Charlie Kirk.

What the fuck. Absolutely not.
A black circle has a red human head on it. It has two holes in the neck indicating a vampire bite.
November 2, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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I write big and crazy but I’m always wanting to go in and put smaller details. Small pens are fantastic for writing in my manuals for medical coding too!
November 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Meet Shelby Cole! Ranger, socially inept, incredibly loyal to those she lets close and either seen in the company of a wallow, a bristleback or a salad. She frequently dresses like she walked through a clothes line wearing velcro. Her hair was cut with a sword or a steak knife.

I love her. lol
November 1, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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It is National Cat Day. Loki departed to return to his place in the hells a few years ago but lives on in our hearts, maintaining a mild sense of fear at all hours.

Jokes aside, he was a Good Cat.
A sweet brown (yes, brown!) cat wears a Hawai'ian style shirt of blue with red/orange flowers as he sits on a windowsill looking forlornly out at the world. He is either plotting revenge or philosophizing about something.
October 30, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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I logged into GW2 for just a moment with the new expansion and why does my little laundry heap look so pretty?! Look at her!
October 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Here’s some silly ass #poetry
"Percy" wagwagwagwag bounce! bounce! I will wait I will wait I will not wait Food! trEAT circlecirclecircle Ball! stand tall stand tall Mom? Mom?! Mom! Boy? BOYBOYBOYBOY Sit I will sit I will sit I will not sit Mom? Oh, blankets! toss TOSS toss snuffle sig Shhh. Naps... wag wag wag whimpersnortsighsnufflesnore Someone moved! Time to wake up! Tell everyone! B A R K BARK BARK! Let's do it all again! wagwagwagwag
October 28, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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I love him, warts and all.

These are my much larger lunatics. Percy is the poodle on the left, Blossom is the poodle on the right. They're both lovebugs.
October 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Credential obtained
AAPC Zereby confers upon gemma the title of Certified Professional Coder™ - Apprentice For habing satisfied all the requirements and habing successfully passed the examination giben by AAPC. In mitness whereof, this certificate is granted by authority this month of September, in the year too thousand and twenty-fibe. Couleen Garatesia President, Rational Adbisory Boarò CEO Note that the certificate has the actual name scribbled over in black and Gemma written in pink on the top. It’s a real credential with my real name hidden but you’ll have to take my word on it
October 20, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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This is good but I think we can do better lol
A screenshot of the White House’s account on clear sky shows them blocked by 76,583 users as of 12:35pm EDT
October 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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The effort is there.
Screenshot of ClearSky's stats on the White House's attempt at a bsky account. Blocked by 27,984 people as of 7:52pm EDT
October 17, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Don’t mind me taking time off from writing to…

Well, this. Fridays are for World Civ II.
Notes in an open 3 ring notebook are shown. They are written in a greenish pen. They discuss British industrial technologies and the movement of the Industrial Revolution across Europe.
October 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Ooo a snippet from the draft of ongoing work.

Setting: Britannia, 60 CE
There, in the center of a village now entirely engulfed in flame now stood a lone figure. She wore the wreath and braids of a bride yet she was veiled in ash and soot as the flames rose higher and higher off the buildings nearby. She resembled a carved statue of what a Roman might imagine a Briton beauty to look like than she did a true, real person. Then she turned his way. He unconsciously took a step towards her, then a few more. Her ash dusted face showed no streaks from tears. The way she looked at him was haunting: frank, challenging and devastated all at the same time. Her pale gaze seemed colorless and made him wonder if this was an apparition.
October 16, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Socks of the day for son
Pale blue socks with Tina Belcher of Bob’s Burgers signature hair and glasses with the word BUTTS underneath.
October 16, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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I brought one metal die back from London and I can’t imagine the weight of a full complement of them! You’re right one of those could easily be a weapon.
October 13, 2025 at 12:07 AM