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Senda (she/her)
@senda.bsky.social
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level 17 worker/parent multiclass | 🌈 ✨ADHD ✨🌈| she/her | I verb ttrpgs and read books

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Northern lights in CO this evening—amazing to see!
Pink northern lights over my neighborhood, closer to the horizon Pale green streaks of the northern lights over my neighborhood
November 12, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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When the shelf talker is a personal attack
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A picture of a bookshelf with Gideon the Ninth centered. Attached under it is a small sign that reads “Gideon the Ninth: 2019, Harrow the Ninth: 2020, Nina the Ninth: 2022, Alecto the Ninth: ?????”
November 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Book crawl second stop: Blue Swallow Coffee
Read 52 pages here.
A cup of iced coffee and an iced matcha on a table with a copy of “What Moves the Dead” and a kindle with “Project Hail Mary”
November 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Book crawl first stop: Spicy Librarian
@dnapjil and I on the couch at the spicy librarian with the books we bought
November 4, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Just recieved my Dark Olympus Kickstarter from @kateerobert.com and can I just say: WOW. Does not disappoint. The black sprayed edges that sneakily reveal additional artwork are just the cherry on the top. I hope when the series is done we’ll get the chance to match these with the rest! 💙📚 🌈📚
Dark Olympus Kickstarter special edition: a slip cover in black and gold done in an art nouveau style. Inside are the books Nein Gods, Electric Idol, Wicked Beauty, Radiant Sin, Cruel Seduction. The spines match up into a city scape in gold on black. The gold and black front covers of the books. Under the book jacket, an example of the artwork stamped into the canvas covers of the books in black in black.
November 3, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Day 4 of @fridaytea.com’s Locked Tea sampler: IV for Fidelity
The description says SMOKEY and they are not lying.
Seems well made but smoke isn’t a flavor I love for drinks (whether tea or cocktails), so maybe this one just isn’t for me.
A tea packet with the label: IV. FOR FIDELITY Ingredients: Black teas, black currant, mulberry leaf, natural black currant flavoring, pine smoke
July 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Day 3 of @fridaytea.com’s Locked Tea sampler: III. For the Crown
This one is very nice. I can see the gold in the package but I think my filter removed it from the actual tea I drank. 😆
I mostly get the honey/vanilla/chili but once I read the ingredients I caught on to the raspberry on the back.
III. FOR THE CROWN Ingredients: Black tea, honey granules, raspberry, red chili flake, corn silk, natural vanilla flavoring, gold lustre dust* *full ingredients list online
July 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Locked Tea Sampler set from @fridaytea.com day 2: II For the Shield
This tea is a flavor profile I drink a lot of—bergamot and black tea. The peppercorn and coco nibs add a little complexity that is really nice. I would happily drink this one as a go to morning cuppa.
Photo of a small sampler pack labeled: II. FOR THE SHIELD Ingredients: Black tea, goji berry, black peppercorn, cacao husk and nib, bergamot oil
July 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Day 1: the Undying. I wasn’t sure what to expect from this one as it’s tea, almonds, and coffee beans—I actually liked it much more than I expected to. It was nice just with sugar but I did add milk too.
A small sample bag of loose leaf tea with the label reading “I. THE UNDYING Ingredients: Puer tea, roasted coffee beans, almond, fig, linden, natural almond flavoring”
July 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Finally opening the Locked Tomb sampler set I was so excited to get that I immediately hoarded it and never tasted. The set comes from @fridaytea.com and I’m very excited. My intention is to thread my opinions here.
A mug and sugar bowl sit on the counter next to a box labeled “locked tea sampler: 9 different Locked tomb inspired teas, 3-5 cups each.”
July 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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This quote from The Future of Another Timeline by @annaleen.bsky.social is still living rent free in my head weeks later—it’s indescribable if you haven’t experienced it (and I hope you haven’t yet but we all eventually will). I loved this book for this and many more reasons. 💙📚🪐
I hugged her and listened for a long time. We talked about how death feels like abandonment, especially when you lose your mother. “Mothers are a primordial force that links us to our history,” Anita said through tears. “When they die, it’s like some of history dies too.”
April 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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(As an aside, we can’t ALWAYS be serious, so while our game was in an underwater kingdom with the mermaid queen, we did have the Narswol.)
On journal paper in simple lines is drawn a narwhal with two beefy Trogdor style muscle arms instead of side fins.
January 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky 📚💙
Day 18
The cover for Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle by Thor Hanson. On a stark white background, a detailed feather is silhouetted in black. In block capital black letters that spill slightly over the spine in height is the word “feathers”.
December 10, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky 🪐📚💙
Day 17
The cover of Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey. Against a green sky and strange orange sun, a golden dragon spreads its wings diagonally across the whole space in flight. It’s smooth a muscular; more aliens looking than what you get in fantasy books. On is back a woman raises an arm to wave or maybe shake a fist—she’s very small on its back. The peaks of alien rock formations rise behind them.
December 8, 2024 at 5:55 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky 🪐📚💙
Day 16
The cover of Mossflower by Brian Jacques. In medieval lettering the majority of the cover is text that reads: Long ago before Redwall Abbey was built there was no freedom for Woodlanders… In the frame surrounding this text are a mouse wearing a cloak and carrying a broken sword, a ribbon emblazoned with a quiver and arrows, a badger, and a pirate ship with many oars on the sea. The small text above reads “the triumphant prequel to Redwall.”
December 8, 2024 at 7:00 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky 🌶️📚💙
Day 15
The cover of Sunstone Book 1 by Stephan Sejic. On a beige background a monotone pink collar forms a heart shape.
December 6, 2024 at 4:25 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky 🪐📚💙
Day 14
The cover of Gwinna by Barbara Helen Burger. In a dreamy painting, a girl with golden curls and brown owl wings tucked down her back wears a moss green dress. She is seated on the ground with one bare foot peeking out, and she is surrounded by animals: two rabbits, a bear, a chipmunk, a brown owl on a branch over her head, and a fox with her hand resting on its back. A small white owl sits on her other wrist. A wind rustles the grass and leaves around them, and they all look in the direction it blows.
December 5, 2024 at 2:26 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky 🪐📚💙
Day 13
(Again I am representing the entire finished series here.)
Volumes 1-4 of Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe. Vol 1: a pink woman rides a blue grey horse through a field of pink grass. In a mirrored upside down a blue man with white hair stands amidst blue grey buildings as the sky. Vol 2: a pink woman with her eyes closed clutches the back of the suit of the man in front of her. He is blue with white hair. In the background a tall blue grey skyscraper rises with a pink tree growing out of the top of it. Vol 3: the blue man looks up adoringly at the pink woman, who floats above him with her arms around his neck looking back at him (also adoringly). Vol 4: on a green field (the implication of grass), the pink woman winks at us with her arms wrapped around a yellow man who has his face buried in her neck and his eyes closed.
December 4, 2024 at 1:48 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky 🌶️📚💙
Day 12
The cover of Wicked Beauty by Katee Robert. On a dark green background and matching dark green layer of apples sits one bright shiny golden apple.
December 3, 2024 at 3:53 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky 🪐📚💙
Day 11
The cover of The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley. A woman wrapped head to toe in fabric to protect her from the desert heat and sand rides a large chestnut horse with only a suggestion of a saddle. The horse is mid-gallup turning towards the viewer, mane flying. A cloak billows behind the rider as her eyes look out of the cover, and in her hand is a sword glowing with blue flames. Blurb at the top from the Washington Post reads: “McKinley knows her geography of fantasy, the nuances of the language, the atmosphere of magic…”
December 2, 2024 at 1:45 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky 🪐📚💙
Day 10 (I completely forgot about this over the holiday 😅)
The cover for Terry Pratchett’s book Guards! Guards! A weathered looking man in basic armor is centered on the vague idea of a cityscape. A cigar hangs from his mouth. In the sky behind him, a dragon rises behind the title text. In his hands he holds a small bug eyed dragon as if it is a grenade launcher. This was the first time I ever encountered Terry Pratchett and I was hooked.
November 30, 2024 at 4:01 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky 🪐📚💙
Day 9
The cover of The House On The Cerulean Sea by T. J. Klune. In a cartoonish style and vibrant colors is an outcropping of stone out over a calm sea. At the very end of the outcropping is a large brick house with many windows, a little like a school house. There is a windy road leading up to the house and two windswept trees guard the way. The jewel toned sky has streaks of pink clouds painted by the sunset.
November 27, 2024 at 3:52 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky 🪐📚💙
Day 8
The cover for Kingfisher by Patricia McKillip. Misty blue green water fills the space. Through the swirls you can make out the face of a woman in profile with her eyes closed.
November 26, 2024 at 2:04 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky 💙📚🪐
Day 7
A book cover. In a black background, the cover reads “Why are people into that: A cultural investigation of Kink” with the author Tina Horn at the bottom. The letters are large and serif and colored in a gradient of the bisexual flag from top to bottom.
November 25, 2024 at 2:40 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky 💙📚🪐
Day 6
The cover of Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly. In muted colors and mist, a somewhat alien or insecticides dragon looks down at a woman in a ragged dress that it holds in its front claws. Its eyes are luminous and have no pupils and its snout sharpens into a pointed beak. In the background two figures pause as if unable to decide what to do with the scene they’ve walked into. The additional text reads: To slay a dragon was nearly impossible. To save a dragon—ridiculous! Or was it?
November 24, 2024 at 4:15 PM