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marie
@thewildbluesky.bsky.social
she/her • elder millennial bi mom • medievalist by training • pro rare book & manuscript nerd • here to talk #ofmd 🌈🏴‍☠️ & share archival treasures

if you know me in real life no you don’t 😅
a sudden email saying head of a key department is “no longer employed” at the library has me running to my work wife all “what the hell is going on in towels?” and she looks at me like 🤨 and i am once again reminded that not everyone is crew, and that’s ok. i guess. maybe. #crewforlife #ofmd
November 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
happy halloween from this millennial librarian, the swag i made for our spooky books event, and a fun non-edward-teach-approved binding from our collections. #ofmd #crewforlife
October 31, 2025 at 9:18 PM
spotted this accidental stede from a 1970s children’s reader in the archive today. #stedebonnet #ofmd #crewforlife
October 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
you guys my 9yo made some kpop demon hunters fan art today. we found the print at goodwill yesterday & went at it with colored pencils this afternoon. he even added the magpie! 😍💙🐯
October 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
omg you guys, could this be a good thing for a potential #ofmd 3? 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼#crewforlife
October 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
texts i get from my husband when he’s watching cartoons with the kiddos. i love that we’ve all convinced our friends and family that the world would just be all-around better with #ofmd s3 in it. “my boyfriend” is rhys, btw 😂 #crewforlife
October 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
the absolute definition of bisexual panic. 😅
September 2, 2025 at 8:16 PM
you guys, i got 5 hours of sleep last night, so i’m spending money i do not have on caffeine, and i have to teach a dozen students about medieval bibliography tonight from 6 til 8:30. all i want to do is go home and ofmd (yes it’s a verb now). anyway, here’s wonderwall (a pretty manuscript page).
August 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
just some casual fascism on my commute in washington dc today. they’re there every morning. watching us.
August 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
this! here’s yours truly and my stede-coded spouse enjoying a lunch there (we’re in the dc area, so about a 40 min drive away)
August 28, 2025 at 1:45 AM
i finished reading “howl’s moving castle” aloud to my family today and now i can’t stop thinking about an #ofmd AU and obsessing over who would be who. i mean in many ways howl is obviously ed and in others he’s so stede-coded! all i know for sure is that izzy is calcifer 🤷🏻‍♀️🔥🏰
August 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
i just came home to my family watching “jumanji” and when i googled rhys’ character i was treated to this hilarious AI mixup with a different movie character: “a koala who is known for his feisty and immature personality, and his hatred of being called cute and cuddly.” i mean, it’s not NOT rhys…
August 12, 2025 at 9:10 PM
ugh, covid round 3. i’m scared because i’ve had post-viral nonsense both other times, but is it weird that as a mom with a full-time job a silver lining is having time to read fic in bed? any recent recs? i missed fettering-fest and need to catch up on june and july content in general. 😫🤧🏴‍☠️🌈📚?
July 23, 2025 at 9:28 PM
a family friend & parent of a trans kid (now thankfully 18+) alerted me to this today. children’s national, which serves the greater washington dc area, had “paused” gender-affirming meds in january. there’s a contact form at the link below if you’re so inclined: www.childrensnational.org/contact-us
July 19, 2025 at 12:37 AM
ugh just when i think i couldn’t be any more in love with rhys, he posts a snap like this with his sweet little eyebrow furrow and boyish posture. i am so endlessly charmed and endeared by this dork. 💖
July 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
putting this out there for crew struggling w/ family of origin: we (neurospicy fam of 4) survived a vacation with my narcissistic dad & appeasing mom, all while bonding w/ my brother (bipolar) like i haven’t since i was a teen. water may not always find its own level, but we can build an aqueduct.
June 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
greetings fellow sluts! /pos

at work we’ve been sorting and rescanning our pamphlet collection by call number and this morning we got to the Ds, meaning i found myself hollering across the workroom “just bring all the D and DP to me!” and i was trying so hard not to blush and give myself away. 😳
June 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
roach would 100% order this and be enraged when the chocolate didn’t instantaneously appear. when it finally did show up, he’d be pissed again that he couldn’t just like point at the tin to make the drink appear. frenchie would agree that it was bogus and that cats were definitely involved somehow.
June 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
grandparents have the kiddos this afternoon so spouse & i stopped in at our local. i look away from the fries for ONE SECOND and he does this, waggling his eyebrows and saying “wakey wakey!” reader, he is not perfect but i’m so happy i married someone who gets it 💖
June 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
woke up to a bunch of new 🏴‍☠️ finch pals! feeling the love 💖 now enjoying coffee with the fam at our local indie — the colors & shapes of our order make me happy, so i thought i’d share. also honestly anything on a tray makes me think of them…
June 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
seems like a lot of us are having bad brain times at the moment — myself included. is there anyone else still using finch who might want some new friends? here’s a pic of my birb pippin for the algo. would love to have some pirate pals on the app! 🏴‍☠️🌈🐥
June 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
the 5yo “graduated” from preschool today. usually i don’t buy into the american impulse to make A Big Deal out of everything, but right now i’ll take any reason to celebrate. 🎈🧑🏼‍🎓
May 30, 2025 at 9:48 PM
full poem

forty singing seamen
crew out fairy ship,
laughing out some spanish ballads
on the mirror of the sea.
we are a queer people —
voyagers, mutineers —
bound together by sailors’ knots and
other poems.
here goes a ships with a cargo of books,
to the city of dreams.
May 29, 2025 at 7:36 PM
page 9

here goes a ship with a cargo of books,
to the city of dreams.
May 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
pages 6-8

voyagers, mutineers —
bound together by sailors’ knots and
other poems.
May 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM