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Rae Loverde
@raeloverde.bsky.social
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🗡️SFF author & graphic novel writer rep'd by @jenazantian.bsky.social
📚Agency assistant & scout @ Donald Maass Literary
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the creamsicle menace himself
November 24, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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I love cat-sitting 🤣
(in related news, the TV in the guest room is not currently working), so if Zuko is being too much of a pest, you can turn on the desk TV using the Toshiba remote. Then you can either select Plex and choose profile and then the movie "A Cat and Mouse Game" or you can go to YouTube and choose something from Birder King (skip the live ones, and you'll want to be sure to rewind the video to the beginning so he can hear the whistle intro). You do have to be careful with Birder King, because Zuko will sometimes try to attack the squirrels and chipmunks on the screen. You can also search for Cooking Haru. It's a Korean cooking channel that he really likes, although it generally doesn't hold his interest as long (that said, we watched it together for half an hour once before he got bored).
November 24, 2025 at 12:57 AM
raeloverde.bsky.social
are . . . republicans okay?

(CA GOP mailer sent to an elderly relative)
November 3, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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LOOK AT THESE UNREPENTANT TWERPS
October 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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for the maybe five of you who care, the pup has been given a clean bill of health post-surgery and is free from the cone of shame (meaning that one of the cats has immediately claimed it as a new cat bed) 🙏
September 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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home and zonked out 🙏🫠
a pathetic-looking black lab mix languishing in a cone of shame
September 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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V curious if she is

1) being paid by tech corps/lobby

2) naive enough to fall for investor bullshit

3) bored & in search of a new toy

4) intrigued bc she found a kindred spirit in something fraudulent, tacky, vapid, and terrible for children that exists only at the expense of harder-working ppl🤔
An article describing how Melania Trump is super into A/I and wants to introduce it to kids
September 5, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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okay fine did I give my chapters Naruto quote nicknames to make them easier to search in the doc IDK MAYBE I GUESS
one down, big brother raikiri hashirama's paradox still fooling you to the very end
August 23, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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I also do a much simpler version of this on index cards so I can lay them out and see if there's a break in any of the colors that goes on for too long
August 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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sometimes you just gotta go back to basics
Hand-diagramming info POV, location, time, characters mentioned, characters present, themes, conflict, interactions, vital info, unresolved things, resolved things, new info?, new questions?, id/treat the beginnings of a hand-diagrammed chapter
August 23, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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writer oracle @melissacaruso.bsky.social was gracious enough to bless us last night with some of the most profound writing wisdom out there

(AKA "save yourself and don't do time loops"🙏)
me and Melissa being dorks in front of infinite bookshelves Melissa at her signing and panel next to a sign that says THIRD PLACE BOOKS
August 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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lbr more polls need the bottom option
a poll posted by retired League of Legends pro Doublelift -- "is league in its current state too balanced" the options are yes, no, and neither I just want to complain
August 11, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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6a) this is another case where doing your research is important (highly recommend a spreadsheet to keep track of everything)

don't set yourself up for unnecessary rejections or feel so desperate for ANY agent -- rather than the RIGHT agent -- by sending to every agent at the agency at the same time
a spreadsheet with the categories Round Name Email Agency date of submission response (rej/req) materials requested Usual response time sub guidelines Notes
August 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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the kpop demon hunter girls made me hungry okay
ingredients for kimbap -- pickled radish, egg, cucumber, carrot, beef nine beautiful finished kimbap because I ate the tenth one while I was cooking
June 29, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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without downloading any new pics, describe your gender

(also happens to describe my WIP 💀)
OP: shout out to all the people who identify with gifted kid burnout syndrome who are probably just neurodivergent but weren't diagnosed as a child, who used to devour books like it was nothing and never really understood why the protagonist would leave their cool fantasy world behind to go back home at the end of the story, and who are now extremely disappointed in reality and use escapism as their primary coping mechanism. how's that bisexuality and deep rooted anger at the school system going for you? comment: wow excuse me I didn't expect to be mentally stripped naked like a chicken in this corner of Wendy's excuse me
June 23, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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ever since I got home from the con, Kell hasn't let me move an inch 💀
a sleeping cat pinning me down a sleeping cat pinning me down with his front legs
June 23, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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. . . did . . . Rep. West just confuse the words "best" and "least" . . .?

bc if this GOP rep *from Minnesota* truly believes the BEST someone can do after posting ghoulish, cruel shit is say they're sorry, I hope his constituents have some choice words to disabuse him of that notion
Minnesota state GOP Rep. Walter Hudson said, “This has nothing to do with Governor Walz.” Another Republican, Rep. Nolan West, wrote, “I have tremendous respect for Senator Mike Lee, but it doesn’t mean he is immune from the base impulses social media incentivizes. People say stupid stuff on the internet all the time. The best they can do is admit they shouldn’t have and be better.”
June 17, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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taking a brief moment away from the dumpster fire to say . . . . .

LOS RATONESSSSS!!!!!!
June 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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the weather really has the chance to do the funniest thing ever (via WaPo)
Widespread” but scattered thunderstorms are forecast to develop across the Washington region Saturday afternoon and carry with them a risk of torrential downpours that could cause flooding, the National Weather Service warned. The Army is closely monitoring the weather, spokesperson Steve Warren told The Washington Post’s Capital Weather Gang. The Department of Defense or the America 250 Commission would announce if any schedule changes became necessary, Warren said. A flood watch is in effect across the Washington region from 2 p.m. through Saturday evening, indicating the potential that some thunderstorms could bring rainfall heavy enough to create urban flash flooding and to cause streams and creeks to rise quickly out of their banks.
June 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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obviously there are PLENTY of people on the right who do this (see below)

but even the most well-intentioned of us on the left need to remember the difference between...

spreading the word + showing up + supporting

VS

RSVP-ing + posting pics at protests just to earn some righteous points online
speaking about how right-wing nerds don't understand their own scriptures, much less the lessons in the games they play then again, I guess I shouldn't be surprised considering they can't even comprehend their own scriptures like my siblings in Christ have you even read the New Testament once?? ‪ (and bruh don't try me on this 👆 bc if I had to suffer through 1) mandatory scripture study at home until I was 18, 2) mandatory religion classes in hs, and 3) religious college with mandatory religion classes as well as the sociopolitical history of the biblical Near East, you're gonna sit tf down) ‪ (we're talking Near Eastern anthropologist profs going "in Aramaic, it's this word, but it was written this way in Koine Greek and was butchered in translation in KJV English to--" as well as having us read the Torah, Mishnah, and the NT and testing us on the Hellenization of Judaea don't play w/me)
June 14, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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I gave up organized religion a looong time ago, but this 👇 has always stuck with me when it comes to activism and ESPECIALLY protests

(no, I don't mean the "or God won't reward you" part. I mean the "don't do good deeds sheerly for performative righteousness cookies" part of Matthew 6:1-2)
Matthew 6:1-2 King James Bible 1 Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. 2 Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
June 14, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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motherFUCKER O.o

thank heaven for the ruling, but this argument from the tr*mp side is uh . . . some real dystopian shit 😶
Brett Shumate, a lawyer with the U.S. attorney’s office, defended Trump’s actions, arguing that as governor, Newsom was “merely a conduit” for the president’s orders. “The president doesn’t have to call up the governor and invite him to Camp David and have a summit and negotiate for a week, on what are the terms, we’re going to call up the National Guard in your state and what are the terms of deployment — no,” he said. “There’s one commander in chief, and the states are subservient to the president.”
June 13, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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thank you, KUOW, for actually having a godsdamned shred of integrity 👍

it's almost like it's actually possible to cover real and urgent local news???

(KUOW = NPR network that is "a self-sustaining service of the University of Washington"

story on Gov Ferguson is from Washington State Standard)
headlines from KUOW station in seattle, including "Washington state exploring options to fight Trump's travel ban" and "Gov. Ferguson prepares for possibility of Trump deploying troops in Washington" more KUOW headlines, three of which are on the anti-I/CE protests KUOW "Trump tracker" to show Washington state's legal challenges to the administration
June 12, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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ooh ooh here's two articles also 24 hours after the announcement on another Seattle news site

the first is all of 335 words!

oh, and one about how I/CE is disappearing people seeking asylum while they're at courthouses for their hearings

so . . . progress, I guess

certainly better than komo
K5 home page with two small articles about Seattle's mayor not cooperating with ICE when they're inevitably deployed and another about ICE disappearing people from courthouses
June 12, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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"Sinclair's television group reaches approx. 38.7% of US television households and includes FOX, ABC, MyTV, CW, CBS, NBC, Univision and Azteca affiliates"

the illusion of free choice for news, I guess??? for nearly 40% of US households????

(yes, I knew this was a thing, but it still infuriates me)
"KOMO is a WA based station and an ABC Television affiliate owned and operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group. Sinclair, Inc. is one of the largest and most diversified television broadcasting companies in the country today. Sinclair owns and operates, programs or provides sales services to 163 television stations in 77 markets, after pending transactions. Sinclair's television group reaches approximately 38.7% of US television households and includes FOX, ABC, MyTV, CW, CBS, NBC, Univision and Azteca affiliates."
June 12, 2025 at 12:01 AM