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Maricris
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All things cozy. Romance novels, Stardew Valley, Mary Oliver, cakes, coffee, diet coke. Here for the recs.
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sanders.senate.gov
The stakes are just too high.
March 6, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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nikitagill.bsky.social
One of my absolute favourites.
The Thing Is BY ELLEN BASS to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you down like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think, How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.
January 29, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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tamdoe.bsky.social
Also, this is my post divorce poem that I still read again and again.
January 27, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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nikitagill.bsky.social
This poem made me stop in my tracks.
The Day of Our Divorce Hearing you treated me to lunch, a spaghetti place. We had never been so kind to each other. When you said I'm still a slob we laughed. After lunch we stood in the parking lot. You said, You have the last word but I said, No, I'm tired of being the one who sums things up. You get the last word. But you couldn't think of one. So off you went to our silver car, I to our red one. It's three years later. And even that's just a story now. Lately I don't feel as if I lived with you. But I remember our kindness that day, when it no longer mattered.
January 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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nikitagill.bsky.social
Mary Oliver never misses.
DON'T HESITATE If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don't hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still, life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happens better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that's often the case. Anyway, whatever it is, don't be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb.
January 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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nikitagill.bsky.social
From Mary Oliver
OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.
January 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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benjanun.bsky.social
Curious why cozy fiction--in SFF at least, probably less so in romance--is synonymous with sexlessness. What about sex makes it uncozy?
January 23, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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eliawinters.bsky.social
I'm onto book 8, which is the last so far. I'm excited for more down the line, but also SO grateful for the joy this series has brought me during some tough times.
January 10, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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eliawinters.bsky.social
I just finished listening to book 7 of the Lady Sherlock series by @sherrythomas.com . I've been inhaling this series for three months straight now and I'm hyper fixating like a beast. Kate Reading is an incredible narrator and the stories are completely captivating.
January 10, 2025 at 1:33 AM
kindlematcha.bsky.social
I hope this is the last social I sign up for. This is tiring.
January 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM