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Monica Wang
@monicawang.bsky.social
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Taiwanese Canadian writer & putzfrau living in Europe. Electric Lit, Southword, Salamander, Augur, Malahat Review, EVENT, Banshee, etc. W&A Working-Class Writers' Prize shortlist. WHEN SAD ONES GO OUTSIDE (Black Sunflowers Press). she/they
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Reached Part 3 in A Brief History of Seven Killings, ran my (trail) 5km record, added a few pages to the novel, made a friend a knife bookmark

Productive week!
My photo of a scrappy hunting knife (grey-blue leather & black fabric) in a paperback copy of White Tiger
November 19, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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How should I bring pizza to a potluck? Loose foil? With paper towels to reduce sogginess?

Google AI: You should bring it ice cold on a slab of ice filled with marbles
My screenshot of Google's stupid AI overview below a search result titled "How to keep pizza warm at a party". AI overview says to keep pizza in an insulated bag with a frozen ice pack or, "for a long-term solution", on a large pan of water frozen overnight. "For extra support, you can add marbles"
November 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Ironically that was the backup for a first "Kpop Demon Hunters scene no one will recognise" Zoey costume

Happy Halloween!!🎃🕷️📔
Photo of me, an Asian woman with black hair in buns and purple animal pyjamas leering over 5 notebooks (yellow, green, blue, red, purple) at night Screenshot from Kpop Demon Hunters, animated but otherwise the same elements as the photo
November 1, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Made a Zoey (Kpop Demon Hunters) costume for Halloween from a secondhand hoodie & fabric scraps

No one recognised it aaa
Nighttime photo of me, an Asian woman with black hair in buns, wearing a yellow hoodie and black shorts and walking down a narrow street. Hoodie has a blue tiger face on it Nighttime photo of me fitting the same description except by a bike lane Netflix official screenshot of the animated character Zoey, an east Asian woman with black hair in buns wearing a yellow hoodie & shorts, from the Kpop Demon Hunters film
October 30, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Came home to a brown line drawn through the house. Followed it with disinfectant & cloths til it ended, ominously, by my bed. Changed the linens and cleaned the other rooms but still didn't find cat poop. Does this count as a cozy mystery
My photo of a white & brown tabby sleeping with happy curled hands, feet pushed against a laptop, on a green blanket. Background is forest wallpaper
October 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Not that funny but this popped up for me recently
Feel better sooon
Screenshot of my over 12yo post: "Because a coworker didn't hear me correcting myself, we had to continue a conversation about scary movies [while] referring to the Halloween killer as Michael Moore"
October 19, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Trying an Star Wars opening sequence angle for the other @the-ethelzine.bsky.social bookmail

Just a beautifully made chapbook
My photo of a chapbook, Jessica Q Stark's The Flea, with an embroidered red & black illustrated flea on ivory cover held against grey & black patterned wall tiles
October 15, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Sad to hear that the indie bookshop by my aunt's place is going out of business even though the owner's response when asked for novel recommendations is "[incredulous snort] You think I've read all the books here?"
My photo taken from inside a bright cheery bookshop stuffed with books up to the window, outside of which is a narrow road, then tall trees, then elevated metro
October 13, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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Bookmail! Reading this beautiful thing from @suzyeynon.bsky.social first 💜🌿

(Re-upload with alt text)
Photo of Suzy Eynon's chapbook (heathery purple cover with stitched binding and gold eyeball flower) entitled Being Seen and Ethel Zine's little note with a bear, held up against a green wall in one hand
October 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Hang on I have a friend for him
My photo of a white & brown tabby peering & leaning out from behind a fridge, next to his mirror self on its white door
September 27, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Gouda is lovely

The punishment for not getting cheese in Gouda is being crammed into a train that smells like armpit cheese
My photo of a small bridge covered in fuchsia flowers and peachy orangey balloons, built over a narrow canal half full of algae and other greenery. Background is small connected Dutch buildings My photo of an empty road bordered in red bike paths with cyclists in far distance, next to a canal and row of colourful Dutch houses My photo of a distant row of traditional Dutch houses raised over water, with tall reeds and grasses filling the foreground My photo of a lone pheasant in the grass next to a green wire fence, behind which is gravel path
September 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Appreciation post for @americanbedouin.bsky.social for our weekly writing sessions (and artist rendition of his face when I ask about the big thing in US news each week)
My photo of a large grey & white tabby hunching as if resigned between a post and bushes under harsh artificial light in an alley at night. Cat has friendly ears but a disgruntled expression
September 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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My photo of a pack of two gluesticks labelled simply "Glue stick", with pictures of horses on sticks and packaging
September 1, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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"I think I am holding / something I need to pour out or I am / stars burning in the past that someone might think / means something."

Quiet, compact strength in Small Remedies. Unexpectedly calming poems

Thank you @the-engine-idling.bsky.social!🌿
Screenshot of pdf cover of Allison P. Brown's Small Remedies from the engine(idling). Mostly white space with botanical illustration of green plant with tiny white flowers (garlic mustard?) My photo of fingers holding up a large round sticker with scalloped edge and text "god save the poets" around the drawing of a queen (Tenniel's Alice in Wonderland duchess crossed with Queen Elizabeth I?)
August 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Haha!! I like your positivity 🌸
Also walked through a heide the day before
My photo of a hilly expanse covered in pink heather and green shrubs under a large cloud
August 26, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Wisely abandoned a jacket that had a soft bit in the pocket that COULD'VE BEEN LINT or crumbs except I put an acorn in there 3 days ago and the acorn now has a hole in his head

(Someone just checked my pocket and pulled out a live grub 🥲)
My photo of a cow field and stream in soft sunlight. In the distance are old-timey houses and the woods that produced the acorn
August 25, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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The cuttlefish pillow I made looks 10% less fleecy/10% more eldritch when the cat uses it
My photo of a brown & white tabby loafing against a mound of pink fleece tentacles on a bed. Background is three blankets also in mounds Same scene but photographed from slightly higher angle
August 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Thank you Eleanor!!💚✨ It's a bit of park where the lawnmowers couldn't reach hehehe
My photo of a dense patch of mostly white and yellow wildflowers in soft sunlight
August 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Chapbook unboxing video, finally in a format Bsky accepts 🌱

I forgot to say the book title but the train sounds make up for it(?)
August 15, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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A writer acquaintance/litmag issuemate posted a video about how you should always buy your friends' books and weeks later I was still the only "like" on her post and she did not buy my book
My photo of the roundest white cat with brown tabby hood crouched in a marsh in the near dark, just visible below the edge of a jetty
July 30, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Midsummer night's street... cat
My photo of a white cat with doofy black markings (lopsided toupee ans small moustache) blinking at me from under a red bicycle in some The Ruins greenery against a red brick wall and reddish tile ground. Beyond the wall is a slice of bright night sky
June 25, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Mine died in two days!
My photo of a browned dead Venus flytrap in sunlighg, with half a sprouted potato plopped on top
June 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Oop probably should post more than complaints here

My chapbook about being outside(rs) has... so many fairytales! Astrophysics & quantum physics! Physics boyfriends! Bi awakenings! Immigrants! The invention of raccoons!
My collage of the front & back covers of When Sad Ones Go Outside, my poetry chapbook with Tachibana's mosaic painting of red & blue houses, hands, and rivers as centre illustration on drab brown background My old photo of two raccoons, probably parent & child, at a haunted house
June 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Just played that game where one person describes a famous actor for another to draw like a police sketch artist and guess
My drawing (in purple marker on grid paper) of a dude with with side-parted "boyband hair", "squinty eyes" or leer, wide nose, and thin moustache and beard. Lighting suggests sinister intentions. Anonymous drawing (in black pen on grid paper) of a dude with heart-shaped face, "one-third forehead", possibly thinning "tousled hair", narrow nose, "attractive undereye puffs", and pretty much the same facial hair as the previous guy. Lighting suggests impending doom.
June 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Decathlon anti-UV trekking hat? It's soft and foldable

Speedy recovery!
Stock photo of khaki Decathlon trekking hat on a smiling freckled Black woman in a sporty white shirt
June 6, 2025 at 6:43 PM