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stonebird.bsky.social
lapis / Rae A. Shell
@stonebird.bsky.social
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(they/them) Actually Autistic writer. Non-Writing Activities: Hugging pets, Crocheting, Embroidering, playing and getting emotional about Video Games, Info Dumping about Special Interests, or falling in love with Stationery.
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She (Kyrie) thinks I know something and is meowing at me until I reveal it. Cats are fun.
Kyrie the cat (a gray-brown tabby) perched on top of a lavender slipper next to a dog toy. Now she is sitting close to Kipper the dog's treat ball
July 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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So today was the day to take "What's What" off and check on my pressed flowers. I think they came out nice.
A pressed dandelion (yellow) and a pressed pansy (purple originally, now looks more indigo) on a sheet of parchment paper
June 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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A look at a piece of decor I got for my room, in time for pride.

You can buy it here (I'm not sponsored I just like it)

www.inprnt.com/gallery/outo...
A photo of a print on my wall. The style is reminiscent of illuminated manuscript but more trans flag colored. It depicts a knight (with a trans flag cape!) riding a horse and attacking a dragon. The text reads: "A world without trans people has never existed and never will"
June 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Repost with your first crush

When I was really little, my brother read to me via RPGs on the SNES. Terra Branford was the best Final Fantasy Protagonist and I will say that though I have only played like half the games. I apologize for nothing. I am 100% right and still stand by this choice.
Terra Branford Final Fantasy VI (III in the US at the time)'s sprite. Terra Branford's (FF III at the time, but canonically Final Fantasy VI) in-game portrait. She has green hair though the Yoshitaka Amano art had her as blonde. No offense Amano but I stand by the Green Hair
May 29, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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New Month New Maru
A wall calendar of YouTube cat Maru who is a Scottish Fold but with regular cat ears. In this photo, the April photo, it is just him with the Cherry Blossoms / Sakura petals. The text in JP is just the first bit of a popular JP folk song about Cherry Blossoms.
April 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Blessing the timeline with Mr Mittens. This exhibit is called: Yes *I* probably don't need my Anti-SAD lamp on again for another 6 months, but Mr Mittens does, so it stays

I must stress: these are different instances of him staring at my lamp. He does this nearly every day
Mr Mittens the cat (an orange tabby) on my messy desk staring at an Anti-SAD lamp that is on and beaming light He is pawing at the lamp trying to let the warm light on so he can be kissed by sunbeams. He does not succeed
March 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Not exactly. Authors usually are expected to have portraits of themselves on author pages of various publications. I don't like photos of me, so I commissioned this to be my author "photo" because otherwise I just post a photo of Mr Mittens, one of my cats.

I SHOULD get some OCs drawn though 🤔
Mr Mittens an orange tabby cat is sitting on a bookshelf filled with graphic novels and comics. He has big, wide eyes like he's a sweet, innocent, child... or possibly he sees something he wants to hunt.
November 30, 2024 at 3:51 PM
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Boost your avatar!

My avatar was ALSO made by @himbosuplex.bsky.social who is currently taking commissions. Worth it a bajillion times over!
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My Profile Picture, a drawing of a curly haired person with glasses, smiling and holding a cat. The picture is done in orange and purple, my favorite colors.
November 20, 2024 at 11:04 PM
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Okay now that I have this calendar (and of course my Hobonichi Cousin) I am as ready for 2025 as I'm going to get! 😤
It's a wall calendar. Of famed internet cat Maru. He is pictured in a bowl. The title is "I am Maru". It mentions the youtube channel and something about a QR code.
November 19, 2024 at 7:43 PM
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I have to thank Chris Andrews and Bart Smet, for stepping up and translating these. I cannot stress how much The Book of Lies Trilogy affected me when I read it (yes because the twins from Mother 3 are named after the characters from that book) in early adulthood. 1/x
Ágota Kristóf's short story collection "I Don't Care". It is notably I must stress, In English A bound collection of Ágota Kristóf's plays. In English! This is just the Sickos Guy. because *I* was the one going "Yes... Ha ha ha... Yes!" as soon as I learned these existed in English
October 17, 2024 at 4:51 PM
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Got my mail-in ballot recently. Hoping to start it soon and finish and mail it by the end of the week. Mr Mittens is impeding* democracy! 😠

* Trying to annoy me in the hopes I will give him greenies
Mr Mittens, an orange tabby cat is sitting on top of a laptop in this photo. This is not what's literally happening as I try to scroll BlueSky, but I don't usually get good photos of him trying to stroll across the keyboard repeatedly.
October 7, 2024 at 2:33 PM
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Show me a picture that has your energy, without downloading anything new, not a selfie
A comic, possibly a New Yorker Cartoon, showing a white man as a Janitor talking to a Man of Color with a beard. A van that says "Writers Cleaning Service" is in the background. The text is: "The Process is simple: You tell me to get some writing done and then, to avoid getting started, I clean your whole house."
September 23, 2024 at 7:16 PM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was number 1,616,271! I guess that means I have seniority over... 8,383,729 users. Those users have to call me "Senpai" even in English so my life is a little like a Persona game (in a good way, please in a good way)
The Bluesky butterfly is in the corner. It's the celebrating 10M users image. It shows that I, lapis / Rae A. Shell joined on October 19th, 2023, and I'm user number 1,616,271
September 20, 2024 at 2:30 PM
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.
Buster the rabbit from the PBS show Arthur looking up from a computer, the text saying (so presumably he is also saying) "You really think someone would just do that, just go on the internet and tell lies?"
September 3, 2024 at 6:30 PM
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Without downloading new pics, describe your gender in one image.
Yes-Man Jr (a member of a gang in Onett) from the SNES game EarthBound
July 25, 2024 at 4:13 PM
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If you see this, post a cat
Mr Mittens the cat (an orange tabby) laying on my planner, a Hobonichi Cousin. He looks comfy.
June 18, 2024 at 7:06 PM
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If you have read these annoyed posts, as a reward, have a photo of Mr Mittens. Thank you for your time
Mr Mittens, an orange tabby cat, laying in a hammock that we made for him, that has a sock monkey patterned fleece as its base. He is also resting on my plaid blanket scarf.
March 30, 2024 at 4:21 PM
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A while ago a pen pal sent me a bracelet made of lava stone beads and some unidentified stones. It's supposed to help with my anxiety (I can add scents to the lava stones). It broke one day, and I DID repair it, but I did such a bad job I wanted to take another try. This is my version
A Bracelet made of lava beads, agate, and a blue stone and a green stone I can't identify (I assume probably Turquoise and Jadeite but I'm not certain). It's on the blue background of a notebook
October 24, 2023 at 2:45 PM