Umhla ✨
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Learning to handle myself with grace in this space of mourning who I thought I was.
December 14, 2024 at 12:05 AM
Learning to handle myself with grace in this space of mourning who I thought I was.
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Even by Amazon's amazing algorithm standards, this is a bit special. They sent me an email headed, "Looking for something in Science Fiction & Fantasy Books? We have some suggestions for you," and proceed to list fifteen.
Reader, I wrote five of them.
Reader, I wrote five of them.
December 13, 2024 at 12:01 PM
Even by Amazon's amazing algorithm standards, this is a bit special. They sent me an email headed, "Looking for something in Science Fiction & Fantasy Books? We have some suggestions for you," and proceed to list fifteen.
Reader, I wrote five of them.
Reader, I wrote five of them.
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Sometimes people make something they do look so effortless that we fool ourselves into thinking not only could we do it, but we could do it better.
No, they’re just really good at what they do and that happened overtime with a lot of dedication and work.
No, they’re just really good at what they do and that happened overtime with a lot of dedication and work.
December 11, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Sometimes people make something they do look so effortless that we fool ourselves into thinking not only could we do it, but we could do it better.
No, they’re just really good at what they do and that happened overtime with a lot of dedication and work.
No, they’re just really good at what they do and that happened overtime with a lot of dedication and work.
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‘Hollywood is just content now!’ Well then watch non-English-language stuff. Watch independent films. Watch stuff made for $10m max. Watch shorts. Watch guerrilla documentaries. Watch experimental filmmaking. Watch kooky animations. It’s still film if it wasn’t made in California for $100m.
December 11, 2024 at 4:19 PM
‘Hollywood is just content now!’ Well then watch non-English-language stuff. Watch independent films. Watch stuff made for $10m max. Watch shorts. Watch guerrilla documentaries. Watch experimental filmmaking. Watch kooky animations. It’s still film if it wasn’t made in California for $100m.
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i love art, i love artists, i love art because artists made it, I love artists because they make art
December 12, 2024 at 5:31 AM
i love art, i love artists, i love art because artists made it, I love artists because they make art
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Imagine being grateful for the opportunities presented to you!!
December 10, 2024 at 3:16 PM
Imagine being grateful for the opportunities presented to you!!
You can’t go to an automobile parts/servicing store and be ‘just a girl!’ — you’ll pay through your girly pearls! They’ll make sure you pay for being a damsel. This is probably the first test of your independence as a woman.
December 11, 2024 at 1:24 PM
You can’t go to an automobile parts/servicing store and be ‘just a girl!’ — you’ll pay through your girly pearls! They’ll make sure you pay for being a damsel. This is probably the first test of your independence as a woman.
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Every movie in which the protagonist survives a horrifying ordeal and is carted away in an ambulance should end with the postscript, “Twenty years later, they died in medical debt.”
December 11, 2024 at 5:18 AM
Every movie in which the protagonist survives a horrifying ordeal and is carted away in an ambulance should end with the postscript, “Twenty years later, they died in medical debt.”
Dearest Nikki, may your soul rest in peace 🧡✨
Thank you for giving the woman I am words to describe her life lived freely.
Thank you for giving the woman I am words to describe her life lived freely.
December 10, 2024 at 8:05 AM
Dearest Nikki, may your soul rest in peace 🧡✨
Thank you for giving the woman I am words to describe her life lived freely.
Thank you for giving the woman I am words to describe her life lived freely.
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This is an incalculable loss but Nikki Giovanni lived a grand and interesting life; that will always be a gift. May she rest in power.
Nikki Giovanni will forever be a legend. This headline doesn't do her the justice she deserves. www.wdbj7.com/2024/12/10/w...
Well-known Virginia Tech professor dies at 81
Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.
www.wdbj7.com
December 10, 2024 at 3:42 AM
This is an incalculable loss but Nikki Giovanni lived a grand and interesting life; that will always be a gift. May she rest in power.
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"We will forever be grateful for the unconditional time she gave to us, to all her literary children across the writerly world," said Kwame Alexander in the statement on the renowned Nikki Giovanni’s death
Renowned poet and Black arts movement icon Nikki Giovanni dies at 81
The poet and activist was a leading figure of the Black Arts Movement. Giovanni was working on her upcoming book of poetry, set to publish in the fall.
www.npr.org
December 10, 2024 at 3:55 AM
"We will forever be grateful for the unconditional time she gave to us, to all her literary children across the writerly world," said Kwame Alexander in the statement on the renowned Nikki Giovanni’s death
Respectfully. Always and in all the ways! 🔥
December 10, 2024 at 12:14 AM
Respectfully. Always and in all the ways! 🔥
Had a good lazy time out — I need to get going with this business admin & stock counting.
December 8, 2024 at 11:19 PM
Had a good lazy time out — I need to get going with this business admin & stock counting.
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You will do readings where no one shows up. You will set up at events and sell no books. Rejection will show up in your inbox again and again. You will say “I wrote a book!” and folks will stay quiet or say “Cool!” and then not buy it. It’s all good. Part of the gig. KEEP AT IT.
December 8, 2024 at 8:09 PM
You will do readings where no one shows up. You will set up at events and sell no books. Rejection will show up in your inbox again and again. You will say “I wrote a book!” and folks will stay quiet or say “Cool!” and then not buy it. It’s all good. Part of the gig. KEEP AT IT.
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Hey. You. Yes, you. You look great. That new thing you're doing is neat even though you're feeling unsure about it.
December 8, 2024 at 3:55 AM
Hey. You. Yes, you. You look great. That new thing you're doing is neat even though you're feeling unsure about it.
Gurl! 🤣🤣😭
So single I’m now eating snickers upside down for the veins
December 8, 2024 at 4:33 AM
Gurl! 🤣🤣😭
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Is "enthusiastically" an appropriate answer when someone asks how I take my coffee?
December 7, 2024 at 12:39 PM
Is "enthusiastically" an appropriate answer when someone asks how I take my coffee?
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I’m so glad you decided to join me here from that other place. May the road you travel be blessed with the ancestors immaculate love and eternal light.
December 7, 2024 at 5:08 PM
I’m so glad you decided to join me here from that other place. May the road you travel be blessed with the ancestors immaculate love and eternal light.
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About two years ago people started using the word “resonate” incorrectly and I fear we will never be able to course correct.
December 7, 2024 at 4:15 AM
About two years ago people started using the word “resonate” incorrectly and I fear we will never be able to course correct.
Another Christmas alone with my son with no family pyjama photoshoot! 😮💨😪
December 7, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Another Christmas alone with my son with no family pyjama photoshoot! 😮💨😪
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Everyone starts off thinking they want writing advice but slowly finds out what they're really looking for is writing _confidence_ to get in the chair and do the work.
December 7, 2024 at 8:59 AM
Everyone starts off thinking they want writing advice but slowly finds out what they're really looking for is writing _confidence_ to get in the chair and do the work.
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Good things have happened to me when I don’t tell anyone. Ironic.
December 7, 2024 at 4:24 AM
Good things have happened to me when I don’t tell anyone. Ironic.
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this is me crawling to a new social media space to try and make more bookish friends and talk about Jenny Han and Nancy Meyers home aesthetics and romance novels and wanting to be a poltergeist and asking for breakfast burrito recipes
November 18, 2024 at 2:10 AM
this is me crawling to a new social media space to try and make more bookish friends and talk about Jenny Han and Nancy Meyers home aesthetics and romance novels and wanting to be a poltergeist and asking for breakfast burrito recipes
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Every Nancy Meyers film gave me unrealistic expectations about kitchens.
You’ve Got Mail gave me unrealistic expectations about opening my inbox and finding it a pleasant experience
Dirty Dancing gave me unrealistic expectations vis-a-vis the dateability of Arthur Murray dance instructors.
November 29, 2024 at 10:10 PM
Every Nancy Meyers film gave me unrealistic expectations about kitchens.
The power of decor and wardrobe in telling a layered story: The case of Nancy Meyers films!
In this essay I will …
In this essay I will …
December 7, 2024 at 4:08 AM
The power of decor and wardrobe in telling a layered story: The case of Nancy Meyers films!
In this essay I will …
In this essay I will …