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Robin Elizabeth Kobayashi
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Legal Editor by day, writer by night of Regency fantasy & historical fiction. Award-winning Austenesque spin-offs: Kirkus Reviews Best Books 2018 & 2021; Grand Prize Winner-Novella, 2024 Chanticleer Int'l Book Awards. Linktr.ee/rekwriter
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My favorite bookstore in San Francisco. It always feels magical to go inside there and look around.

#citylightsbookstore #sanfrancisco #resistance
October 24, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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Probably the only mural ever painted by Frida Kahlo, as seen on the kitchen walls of her family's red house, c. 1938. "El mesón de los gorriones" (Sparrow's Inn). The home is now Museo Casa Kahlo.

#FridaKahlo #MexicoCity #frida #artcommunity #MexicanArt
September 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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“In this hard struggle I had little refreshment but from the fountains of my own soul. Had I not clung to myself, the atrocity of others had made me a demon.” ― Edward John Trelawny, Adventures Of A Younger Son

Portrait: Edward John Trelawny by Joseph Severn

#RomanticPoets #RomanticEra #Victorian
September 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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"Party-spirit...at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few." - Alexander Pope, 1714 letter.
September 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Echo and Narcissus by John William Waterhouse, 1903, is the story of a man in love with himself and where the woman infatuated with him can repeat only the last three words he says. Oddly, that's what is happening today in America with all those women who drank the Kool-Aid.
(Fig leaf added by me)
August 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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A starving child in Gaza, August 2025. A starving boy in Mauthausen Concentration Camp, May 1945.

#gaza #wwii #starvation #concentrationcamps
In Gaza, a small child shown in starvation, the body shrunk to nothing with sticks for arms (photo credit New Yorker Magazine), compared to a similar story in a WWII concentration camp, a starving Jewish boy with sticks for arms and legs. All bone, no flesh.
August 13, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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July 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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I love a beautiful piebald horse and often include one in my stories. This is an 1877 watercolor painting of a piebald horse by Isabella Hunter, Scottish Borders.
#horse #19thcenturyart #piebald #watercolor
July 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Celebration sale! Ends Sunday! SOMETHING ABOUT LIZZY - Family Secrets Post-Pride & Prejudice, 2024 CIBA Grand Prize Winner - Novella

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#booksky #JaneAusten #histfic #freeread #ebook #historicalfiction #womensfiction #regency #writersky
Something About Lizzy - Family Secrets Post-Pride and Prejudice, 2024 CIBA Grand Prize Winner - Shorts (Novella)
May 9, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Celebration sale! SOMETHING ABOUT LIZZY, 2024 CIBA Grand Prize Winner - Shorts (Novella)

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*good thru 5/11/25

#booksky #JaneAusten #histfic #freeread #ebook #historicalfiction #womensfiction #regency #writersky
Something About Lizzy, Family Secrets Post-Pride and Prejudice, Grand Prize Winner, 2024 Chanticleer International Book Awards, SEA SHORTS (Novellas, Collections, Essays)
April 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Spring is here and so are my dwarf purple kangaroo paws.
#gardening
Purple kangaroo paws.
April 9, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Release date: 10/21/2025. Sue Monk Kidd: "Part memoir, part guidebook, and part spiritual quest, the book explores the mystery, method, and meaning of writing, as well as the creative genius that lies in the soul."

#writingcommunity #writerscommunity #booksky
Writing Creativity and Soul, by Sue Monk Kidd.
March 20, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood, but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

#Regency #Poetsky #cats
March 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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"My idea of good company … is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company." –Jane Austen’s Persuasion

Hey Bluesky, I hope the meaningful conversation continues here.

#janeausten #persuasion #regency #booksky #bluesky
Image of Jane Austen in Lyme. The sea and cliffs are behind her. She's wearing a white Regency-style gown with short sleeves. Her hair and head scarf are tousled by the wind.
March 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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John Keats died this day, February 23, 1821, age 25.

In the long vista of the years to roll,
Let me not see my country's honor fade;
Oh! let me see our land retain its soul!
Her pride in Freedom, and not Freedom's shade.
 
"To Hope" (1815)

#poetsky #johnkeats #writerscommunity
Image portraying John Keats as a young man, thinking, in nature.
February 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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I've donated again to the Pasadena Humane Society. This grey cat was severely burned during the Eaton Fire and is still slowly recovering in ICU. Turns out that her name is Skinny Minnie and her family has been found. Learn from animals: Resilience, Resistance, Survivor, Healing.
#lafires
Grey cat with bandages wrapped on each leg. She reclines on a cat bed and is being fed cat food.
February 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Deep Third - an actual POV? This insightful article (updated Feb. 2025) gives an excellent example of deep third's roots -- the free indirect discourse used by Jane Austen and others.
janefriedman.com/is-deep-thir...

#writingcommunity #janeausten
A mash-up where Jane Austen, at her keyboard, is writing Persuasion in which Captain Wentworth gives his harsh assessment of Anne Elliot's weakness in deserting him all those years ago.
February 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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The rose is red, the violet's blue,
The honey's sweet, and so are you.
Thou are my love and I am thine;
I drew thee to my Valentine:
The lot was cast and then I drew,
And Fortune said it shou'd be you.

Gammer Gurton’s Garland, 1784

#valentinesday #nurseryrhymes #regency #georgian
Image of a Regency Era young lady dressed in a shor-sleeved white gown. She is surrounded by pink and red roses. In the background are puffy pinkish clouds.
February 14, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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“I do not know what is the matter with me to-day, but I cannot write quietly; I am always wandering away into some exclamation or other. Fortunately I have nothing very particular to say.” Jane Austen

I bet she had a lot to say about being a female writer.

#JaneAusten #writingcommunity
Jane Austen at her writing desk. She is thoughtful and looking out the window, unable to write at the moment.
February 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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I watched Hard Truths, a Mike Leigh film. That was brutal, more brutal than The Brutalist. Pansy is the unhappiest person alive, snapping & snarling at everyone. Tormented by her past, she torments her family & others. A very unlikable character. And yet, you hope she can pull through.
#filmsky
Hard Truths, a Mike Leigh film starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste.
February 12, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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You never know what you'll find when you come home. Massive 525-pound bear found hiding in crawl space of Altadena home that survived the Eaton fire, which is now 100 percent contained. #lafires
bear hiding in crawl space of home massive 525 pound brown bear
February 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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I did two hours of research last night, just to write one sentence. I got up early this morning (exactly 5am!) and made more progress on my historical romantasy, where the MMC is a socially awkward young gentleman.

#5amwritersclub #writerscommunity
Young gentleman, shy in nature, attends a soiree during the Regency Era in London. He stands on his own, wearing a bashful grin.
January 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Sayonara. You had better come back in four years.
Downtrodden Statue of Liberty pulling a suitcase across a cracked, desolate street.
January 22, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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"By the by, as I must leave off being young, I find many douceurs in being a sort of chaperon for I am put on a sofa near the fire, and can drink as much wine as I like.“ - Jane Austen letter on her birthday.

#JaneAusten #Austen250 #Austen250in2025
Jane Austen contemplates life. She stands in a typical English sitting room that has a fireplace and Regency-style chair.
January 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Horse refugees from Malibu stabled at Pierce College in the San Fernando Valley. The horses were agitated and scared. Hopefully, they and their owners found some peace of mind. The stables can accommodate up to 200 horses.
#lafires
Four horses depicted, stabled at Pierce College. Photo by Benjamin Hanson/TMT.
January 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM