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JFW
@middleageunicorn.bsky.social
she/her
📚 Reader: mystery, true crime, sci-fi, reading diversely
🎨 Art journaler and former poet
🔮 Tarot card collector
🦄 Perimenopausal mom & educator still figuring my 💩 out
48 and... well, I like myself more and care less about what other people think of me.
June 23, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I crave the end of the semester. There's a rhythm to the year: 10 frantic months/2 reflective months. I just read #TheEndofBurnout by Jonathan Malesic. He's a former professor who left academia after earning tenure. It's both memoir & history of American burnout culture. 🧵 1/X

#booksky #academicsky
May 10, 2025 at 8:55 AM
I celebrated #IndependentBookstoreDay by going to #InkwellBooksandThreads in downtown Rockton, IL. Picked up these lovelies while there. I'm coming up on my slow season at work, so I've got to expand my #tbr pile some more.

#booksky
#buylocal
April 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Post your favorite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only.
March 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Modern riot girl album.
March 9, 2025 at 3:28 AM
My current #workinprogress in my #ragejournal. I bought a vintage doll collector book at a $1 bag sale at my local library. The pictures of these posed dolls + doll parts are horrifying but also evocative. I'll share more when I'm done.

#artjournal #artjournaling #junkjournal #mixedmedia #collage
March 2, 2025 at 4:44 AM
February #storygraph summary. I'm a slow reader, so 3 books/646 pages is a win.

Books read:
❤️ Head On by @scalzi.com
❤️ Unlocked by @scalzi.com
❤️ Dawn by Octavia Butler

I'm 90% finished w/ Adulthood Rites, the 2nd book in Butler's #Xenogenesis / #LilithsBrood series, which will count for March.
March 1, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Day 19/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days(or however you like), in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙

#booksky
February 26, 2025 at 4:09 AM
The gold standard has been a libertarian talking point since I was a kid. Here's a halfway decent paper: blog.uwsp.edu/cps/2024/09/...
February 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Things that are satisfying after an exhausting week:

🫠 Peeling the dryer lint off the lint trap in one perfect piece
🫠 Putting my frizzy hair in a tight baby ponytail
🫠 Cadbury Creme Eggs
🫠 Buying more art supplies for no damn reason
🫠 Ugly crying during the week's episode of #thepitt
February 22, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Day 19/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days(or however you like), in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙

#booksky
February 22, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Day 18/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days(or however you like), in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙

#booksky
February 19, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I worked in my #ragejournal this evening and finished the first page. You can't see it, but I scribbled, "We are not for sale," over the painting, but under the map.

#artjournal #journaling #junkjournal #dylusionsjournal #mixedmedia #WeNeedMoreVoices
February 17, 2025 at 2:28 AM
#CurrentlyReading Dawn by #OctaviaButler, Book 1 in her Xenigenesis series. I'm 50% through & it's so good. There's great world building & a strong MC, as expected in #sci-fi. The way that she spins colonialism and slavery into the plot is perfection.

💙📚 🪐📚
#booksky
#readingdiversly
#blackauthor
February 16, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Day 17/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days(or however you like), in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙

#booksky
February 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Day 16/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days(or however you like), in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙

#booksky
February 16, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I like to have ASMR YouTube videos playing while I work. While on #MiracleForest, I may have found the weirdest so far: Gathering of the Moon Cats. And yet - it's so good. Purring, rustling leaves, and windchime sounds.
February 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Day 15/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days(or however you like), in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙

#booksky
February 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The world is a 🗑🔥and my epilepsy is being annoying. (No seizures, just other dumb symptoms), so I'm posting memes. This is 100% my daughter (Libra] and I (Capricorn) fighting.
February 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Day 14/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days(or however you like), in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙

#booksky
February 13, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Day 13/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days(or however you like), in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙

#booksky
February 11, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Day 12/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days(or however you like), in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙

#booksky
February 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Day 11/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days(or however you like), in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙

#booksky
February 8, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Day 10/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days(or however you like), in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙

#booksky
February 7, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Day 9/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days(or however you like), in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙

#booksky
February 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM