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@raxxq.bsky.social
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Stargazer, firefly watcher, baseball scorekeeper. Constant reader, occasional reviewer (find me on storygraph - https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/raxxq). Less frequently found in parked cars with sleeping children. Likely knitting.
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Living my best commuting life.
#kobo
#wmata
#knitsky
Kobo ereader hung from a maroon backpack with a hand holding a knitting project.
October 23, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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The first “boot day” of fall. When I inevitably remember how many socks I’d intended to darn over the summer.
#handknitsox
#knitsky
A brown booted foot with the edge of a light blue hand knit sock peeking out at the calf.
September 25, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Alternative title for this “daylist” playlist automatically generated by Spotify that don’t make me feel elderly- Seminal Tracks from Movies.

Shots fired, Spotify.
< + Add vintage golden oldies saturday eve... + Mix = Edit Sort Red Right Hand Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds in call A Girl Like You Edwyn Collins Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon Urge Overkill INXS KICK Need You Tonight INXS The Killing Moon Echo & the Bunnymen Here Comes the Rain Again - Remaster... Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart LOU REED-TRANSFORMER Perfect Day Lou Reed Mad World Tears For Fears AUTOMATIC FOR T R.E.M. Man On The Moon R.E.M. Love Is The Drug Roxy Music Perfect Day • Lou Reed 1º) Kitchen ne ... ... ... ... .•. ...
September 21, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Lots of outgoing mail for Monday.
#handwritten
#snailmail
Collection of postcards and cards, some sealed with a wax seal.
September 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Nibs up!
#fountainpens
Collection of fountain pens in a case, stuck in an airplane seat back pocket.
September 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Air travel at its finest.
#knitsky
#booksky
Kobo ereader propped on an airplane seat back. Foreground is a left hand holding the beginning of sock knitting.
September 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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It felt like a slow reading month, but the stats say it was average.
#booksky
BOOKS Highest Rated Reads @raxxg's August 2025 Wrap-Up PAGES 3,392 A BLOOMY HEAD HOURS 8.52 J WINTER BUTTER 5.0 PS: *I Hate You LAUREN CONNOLLY Two exes. fight destinations. love travels fast.... 5.0 AV. RATING 4.0 THE SHOTS YOU TAKE RACHEL 5.0 Average book length: 317 pages Average time to finish: 5 days Romance Contemporary Science Fiction LGBTQIA+ Sports fiction (100%) Compared to July... Books + 22% 2 Pages + 22% 4 6 No. of books Hours + 56% 8 10 Plus 400 Pages read/Minutes listened 300 200 100 • Pages read Day - Minutes listened digital (55%) • print (27%) • audio (18%) IN THE STORY GRAPH
September 4, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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I can think of no more perfect way to spend an early Sunday morning in a hotel than knitting and reading A Bloomy Head in a sunbeam.
#knitsky
#booksky
#abloomyhead
Foreground, mass of gray/green knitting. Background a iPad in a keyboard case with a marked up knitting pattern on the screen. A kobo ereader with a page turner attachment is propped against the iPad.
August 24, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Really enjoying doodling with the fude nib and Colorverse permanent black ink.
#fountainpen
#dailydoodle
Sketch of a cityscape on a planner page from August 6. Green Sailor fude fountain pen lays on top of the planner.
August 7, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Sometimes I go for a run when I get to my office in the mornings. A triptych.
#dc
The US Capital A fountain about quarter mile south of the US Capital. An encampment dedicated to impeachment and conviction of Donald Trump outside Union Station DC.
August 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Last night’s post Washington Pen Super Show spread. Bought more ink than I was planning to, but otherwise stayed on target.

#dcpenshow
#fountainpens
Large collection of items on a black table. Pen magazine on the left, a sewn fish drawstring bag, a collection of ink sample vials, bottled ink, a glass dip pen, two business cards, and a notebook open to a mostly open spread with a pen resting on top.
August 4, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Lovely solo day with a much needed lunch break. It helps to go to the DC Super Show with a Plan.
Sunny table. Foreground shows a bowl of gazpacho and a bowl of guacamole. Background is a hand holding a Kobo ereader with the cover of Rosie Danan’s Fan Service. Taco About 46: Hand written shopping list for the Washington DC pen show. Washington Pen Show 2025 shopping - carbon black ink glass dip pen (under 150) - handle For wax seal - new melting aven - interesting ink, shimmer - replacement converters (standard, sailo) - converter for mustey pen? - syringes Vendor The Write Stuff Florida Fountain Pen Garney Vanness Dancing Spiral Bungubox Palimpsest GW Pens Gabby Wax Toyooka Craft Mod Girl Day Art Store Sakura Dragon Location - Room - Reason 82 Room 3 stationary, stickers 101 Room 3 washi tape 108 Room 3 ask about custom pen from willow wood 207 Premium Foyer ink 211 Premium Foyer ask about custom pen from willow wood 216 Premium Foyer paper, glass dip pens 415 Room 1 looks cool 442 Room 1 notebooks 451 Room 1 ask about custom pen from willow wood 503 Room 4 looks cool 529 Room 4 planner/ paper 533 Room 4 wax, wax seals 541 Room 4 stickers, stamps, washi
August 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Took a break from posting wrap ups, but here we are.
#booksky
Image of raxxq’s July reading statistics wrap up. One five star book - Duke of my Heart by Kelly Bowen One 4.75 star book - Scot and Bothered by Alexandra Kiley One 4.5 star book - These Summer Storms by Sarah MacLean 9 books read total. Some other less interesting information about minutes listened and reading format.
August 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Daily doodle from Friday. With bookmark.
#doodle
#fountainpen
July 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Will trees ever *not* be my default #dailydoodle?
Unlikely.
#fountainpen
#penandink
#kinbor
Image of a sketched tree in the corner of a notebook page.
July 2, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Today’s #dailydoodle
#fountainpen doodle featuring FWP poison envy and… others. Who knows, I mix stuff up.
Cityscape doodle in black with a crescent moon in yellow/orange with purple/blue sky.
June 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Catching up on my personal book reviews. I don’t post them anywhere. I feel like it makes me a better reader, and hopefully a better writer when I pay attention to what I like and don’t like in a book. And it’s an excuse to use my fountain pens.
#booksky
#handwriting
#fountainpens
An open notebook. Pen with handwriting in blue on the left side and orange brown on the right side, and three capped fountain pens. Reviews for the books The Architect by Nikki Sloane (3.6) and Mafia Mistress by Mila Finelli (4) on the respective pages (not particularly legible).
June 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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I guess my Bluesky is just gonna be cheeky graffiti from here on out.
Round bumper sticker on a yellow cement parking pylon. Says “don’t buy a swasticar” with an image of Elon Musk giving a N*zi salute.
June 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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My two youngest kids are five years apart. So, it’s been probably four or five years since Her Right Foot was part of our regular rotation. Youngest found it, beloved and tattered on the shelf this afternoon, and said “we’ve never read this book!”

Text from a page of the book Her Right Foot by Dave Eggers. The text sits above an illustration of a barbed wire fence. “Liberty and freedom from oppression are not things you get or grant by standing around like some kind of statue. No! These are things that require action. Courage. An unwillingness to rest.” Text from a page of the book Her Right Foot by Dave Eggers. The text sits above an illustration of a barbed wire fence. “Liberty and freedom from oppression are not things you get or grant by standing around like some kind of statue. No! These are things that require action. Courage. An unwillingness to rest.” Title page of Her Right Foot by Dave Eggers, illustration of a young person looking up at the statue of liberty’s raised right foot.
June 21, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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There’s something so satisfying about a Sunday start month.
#penandpaper
#paperplanning
A month calendar page marked June with the dates marked out in blue ink on an office desk.
June 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Read some excellent books last month. Still have some reviews to get in, but at least logged my ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️s.
#booksky
#storygraph
StoryGraph May wrap up graphic showing @raxxq's May 2025 Wrap-Up BOOKS : 13 PAGES : 4,641 Highest rated reads: HEATED RIVALRY 5 stars Flirting with Disaster 5 stars. Managed 4.75 stars. HOURS listened 3.92 AV. RATING 3.78 Average book length: 376 pages Average time to finish: 7 days Bar chart showing most common genres: Romance Contemporary Fantasy Historical Poetry Pie chart showing fiction (92%) nonfiction (8%)
June 2, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Sideline knitting. 🧶
#littleleague
#knitting
View of a little league baseball field with a hand holding in progress knitting in the foreground.
June 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Had a bit of a pen cleaning incident today. 🖋️🫟
#fountainpen
#inkyfingers
Left hand with faded blue ink across the back of the hand.
May 28, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Sometimes, the reward for getting out of bed to write, is catching an American Goldfinch out the front window.
Image of a small yellow bird facing away to show its black and white wing feathers. Perched on a butterfly bush branch.
May 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Yesterday’s fountain pen doodle plus washi sticker.
#fountainpen
#planner
#dailydoodle
The right hand corner of a gridded calendar page with a sticker of a line drawing of a bird, surrounded by a doodle of rain falling from gray clouds with three red flowers growing from the bottom of the page.
May 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM