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Genevieve Williams, writer of things
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SFF writer, hardingfele player, tracker, librarian. Longer writings and book reviews at welltemperedwriter.wordpress.com. masto: welltemperedwriter@wandering.shop, insta: datamuse. SFWA, Codexian. Back Shakespeare Adjacent on Kickstarter!
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Here is our latest CDS allotment laying claim to Wonderbook
A gray brown tabby-tortie kitten rests one paw on a copy of Wonderbook by Jeff VanderMeer, which rests on a wooden tabletop.
November 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Keep scrolling till I hit this
A diagram depicting the chemical structure of dopamine, with text reading Congratulations. You've scrolled so far you found the dopamine. Credit: @Funny Cam
November 8, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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We are now!
A combination of the laughing and crying emojis
November 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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"We will be heading out soon"
Text says "Caption this with the 2nd to last text you sent." Image is the corner of a room that looks like a murder scene with blood on the walls and a chest with a lamp and a small TV which has, on its screen, an image that looks very much like a naked butt.)
October 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Though I've occasionally seen raccoons do this, I'd never had this gait show up in tracks until I trailed one over an open landscape. Here, the canonical side-by-side of their extreme overstep walk morphs into...a lope! #trackinglife #OregonDunes #wildlifetracking
A trail of raccoon tracks across rippled sand. The tracks are in patterns of four: a front foot, another front with the opposite hind landing on top of it, and then a hind foot. This is characteristic of a lope or galloping pattern.
October 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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In a month we’ve gone from “yes I will happily scarf down that defrosted raw hamburger that was literally the only meat available” to “this food has been out of the can for more than five minutes so I don’t want it”
A gray tabby/tortie kitten, eating from a metal food dish, on a linoleum kitchen floor.
September 4, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings re-make, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:
Gomez and Morticia Addams from the Addams Family movies of the 1990s.
August 30, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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How fortuitous that the Cat Distribution System made a delivery this week
A tortie-tabby kitten with golden brown eyes, sitting on a human lap and attempting to climb their torso.
August 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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The #ShakespeareAdjacent #Kickstarter is nearing its final week! Peep the opening of my contribution in the replies:
An invitation to back the Kickstarter for the anthology Shakespeare Adjacent, with the book’s cover showing a portrait of William Shakespeare, sitting in front of a laptop and holding a smartphone. He has a pair of earbuds in and is wearing a digital watch. In the background are modern objects: a digital photo and an electric lamp.
July 14, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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The #Kickstarter for the anthology #ShakespeareAdjacent is over 1/3 funded! My story, "Bitter Waters; or, the Villain's Appointment" situates a beloved romantic comedy in a post-apocalyptic western. It's got #tracking and robot horses and wide open landscapes and I had a great time writing it.
An invitation to back the Kickstarter for the anthology Shakespeare Adjacent, with the book’s cover showing a portrait of William Shakespeare, sitting in front of a laptop and holding a smartphone. He has a pair of earbuds in and is wearing a digital watch. In the background are modern objects: a digital photo and an electric lamp.
July 2, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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I just finished TAing a yearlong track and sign class and will be taking an eval in a couple of weeks. Here are some lovely muskrat tracks from the last class!
Small animal tracks in wet sand, front feet with four toes and hind feet with five.
May 23, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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I love this because of how real it is
A comic showing a hiker and a naturalist walking together. The naturalist points out the many interesting things along their path, after which the hiker observes that they’ve gone three feet in the space of an hour. The naturalist replies, “Three amazing feet!” Comic by BirdAndMoon.com
May 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Post your favorite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only
Actor Morgan Freeman as God in the movie Bruce Almighty: a Black man with salt and pepper hair, dressed in a white suit and sitting in a white room. He is facing the camera with his hands spread.
March 20, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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Another for the ROUMD division
A gray tabby cat asleep curled in a ball on a green plaid blanket
March 4, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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One of my favorite signs from today, I won’t say where. Do you know who? #trackinglife
A western redcedar tree showing prominent claw marks, 4 in parallel and several inches long.
February 23, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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As someone brought up Catholic he just exemplifies the other half of this meme all the time
Text meme: Every lifelong Catholic I’ve ever met is like I think we’re supposed to give this food to poor people and every adult convert is like the Archon of Constantinople’s epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the Eucharist clearly states women shouldn’t have driver’s licenses
January 30, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Did not sleep through the alarm this morning, by which I mean this furry bastard got me out of bed to provide breakfast.
Gray tabby cat sitting on the armrest of an office chair, tail curled around forepaws, looking off to the right in three-quarter profile.
January 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Nice Odyssey reference, there, I think.

(From The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman.)
A page with the following text: “Dinadan rode until finally he came to a land where the names Arthur and Camelot had no meaning at all and produced only puzzled looks, and there he rested from his travels. He didn’t know it, but by then he was the very last knight of the Round Table still alive. All the others were gone. And when at last his time came, too, he lay down on a hot dry hill in the shade of an ancient silvery-leafed olive tree, alone except for his horse, and a single tiny perching bird that almost seemed to glow from within, as if it had swallowed a star, though it could just as easily have been a trick of the light.”
January 7, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Can confirm. (This is from a trip my husband and I took there in 2010.)
Sunset with the sun just touching a distant horizon of mountains and low-lying clouds, beneath a clear sky. In the foreground, a field of snow criss-crossed by tracks of various origins and ages, with one shoveled-out trail leading away from the viewer toward the forest in the middle distance.
December 22, 2024 at 10:16 PM
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Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the One Ring
Susannah Harker as Jane Bennett in the 1995 miniseries adaptation of Pride and Prejudice
December 22, 2024 at 9:04 PM
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It's not just humans who use driveways and roads! #Wildlife will often make use of these easy, clear ways to get around. #trailcamtuesday #blackbear #conservation #trackinglife
Side view of a black bear walking along a gravel roadway, with vegetation in the background.
December 4, 2024 at 2:14 AM
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That look that cats give you hits different when the cat is a lion. #Namibia #etoshanationalpark #trackinglife
A lioness reclining on sandy soil, head turned toward the camera.
November 15, 2024 at 6:11 PM
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As a certified wildlife tracker I can attest that porcupine tracks are the cutest
A set of tracks in dry sand, showing an oval palm pad with the pinpricks of four claws out in front. Each track is 7-8 cm long including claws.
October 11, 2024 at 3:58 PM
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50!
Middle-aged white woman in glasses and a light brown broad-brimmed hat, standing in front of a safety fence. Behind the fence is the Vesuvius crater.
September 16, 2024 at 4:15 AM
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Repost with a favorite book from your childhood.

(Still waiting for this, and the rest of the series for that matter, to get a proper adaptation.)
Cover of the YA novel The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander, showing a young man with a drawn sword walking around a giant black cauldron, with three witch-like women assembled behind it. Behind the women, a full moon rises.
August 25, 2024 at 2:35 AM