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Rae (with the ducks) she/her
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Raising plants, ducks, and good humans.
Always reading.
Granny hobbies.
Kind, but not nice.
🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 rights are human rights.
Be kind, or kindly piss .
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Book 16 - Gone Wolf by Amber McBride.

This book was intense, unique, and timely. I recommend it if you are in a good place emotionally. Lots of potential triggers here, though.

However, I am really happy with this square for this book. 📚💙 #booksky #bookblanket2025
February 12, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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And on Mondays, we dress like Miss Frizzle.
February 11, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Oh, here we go!
February 10, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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While the felon in chief has been attempting to erase anyone that's not a cishetwhiteman, seeing the American flag made from dancers that look like the ones who really built our nation took my breath away. Hell yes, more please.
A still from the 2025 superbowl halftime show, Kendrick Lamar surrounded by dancers dressed in red white and blue, assembled to look like the american flag
February 10, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Book 15: Sorcery and Small Magics.

This one was a good place for my mind to rest. It has been a long couple of weeks. The characters were well rounded, and I liked the world the author built.

#booksky 💙📚 #bookblanket2025 #sorceryandsmallmagics
February 8, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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If I hadn't read the line "then let us be menaces" hadn't when I really needed it today, @rebeccayarros.bsky.social and I would be in a fight.

Cliffhanger so steep I thought pages were missing.

Anyway, book 14: Onyx Storm.

📚💙 #booksky #bookblanket2025
February 4, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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On a white brick background, a picture.of. Christopher Plummer as Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music tearing a Nazi flag with the circle around it written on the circle says I will s***
February 1, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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Book 13: Yellowface by RF Kyang.💙📚 Either the timing was wrong, or the book isn't for me. Reminded me of how I felt reading Gatsby. I understand the message, but right now, I don't need more awful people on my mind, even fictional ones.

#bookblanket2025 #crochet #booksky #books
A black yellow and white granny square is paired with the cover of "yellowface" by r.f. kuang
February 1, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Deleting social media apps and having capitalist-hellscape-induced insomnia is really good for crossing books off the TBR. Books 11 and 12. 💙📚 #booksky #bookblanket2025 #reading #crochet #bookblanket
January 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Book no. 10: The Witches of El Paso. 3⭐️

It wasn't bad, I just couldn't get invested.

📚💙

#booksky #bookblanket2025 #crochet
January 26, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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January 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Given the DEI reporting hotline, the LGBTQ+ letter coming from the VA, and the ICE raids and God only knows what else, it feels like a really important time to remember...
A parody of the snickers candy bar logo that says, "snitches get stitches."
January 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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The latest book, and the latest book blanket square. 📚💙 (this yarn was the closest I could find to the cover color.)

#crochet #bookblanket225 #reading #booksky
A picture of the book "summer's end" by Juneau Black, featuring the animal characters in the book, surrounded by stone plynths. Next to it is a crocheted granny square in coordinating colors.
January 23, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Freya the friendly, Indian runner, says hello!
Freya the friendly, a fawn and white runner duck, stops for a picture next.to firepit bricks, against a background of green grass and mud.
January 22, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Freya the Indian Runner says "hi back!"
January 22, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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Happening now in Tacoma- Firefighters Park.
January 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Sometimes, you're too thick for the bricks.

#homesteading #urbanhomesteading #duck #ducks.
January 20, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Anyone on this app doing a #bookblanket2025 ?

I learned to make granny squares on Thursday, and by Friday night I had made 15. That is all I can do, #crochet wise, but I'm happy with how it is turning out.
January 18, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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I finished this one tonight- really charming, no spice, cozy fantasy about growth and family. I think it could be adapted for the stage in a really fun way. 💙📚 #booksky #thecrescentmoontearoom #cozyfantasy
January 13, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Our guy was Clyde, (short for Clydesdale, to get ahead of the horse comparisons). He was a merle and just an absolute love.
January 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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📚💙: waiting on care at the children's hospital for my son's croup gave me time to finish this brilliant book. Especially if you're in the US right now, this is an important and fast read. #booksky #theserviceberry #robinwallkimmerer
January 12, 2025 at 4:35 AM