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topazlit.bsky.social
Lindsay (she/her)
@topazlit.bsky.social
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www.topazliterary.com
Editor and writer, conscious language advocate, library assistant, cat mom, can usually be found reading. 🌈📚
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Portrait of a cat who is not allowed up on the mantle, actually
A bad tabby cat sits in high alert on top of a fireplace mantle among plants and paintings.
November 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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This smol baby *tucked herself in*
A grey and black tabby cat looks composedly at the camera from atop a bed. She is fully snuggled under a cream knitted throw that is tucked right up to her neck.
November 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Goodnight from Sylvie, may you and she have dreams of dancing cats tonight
A tabby cat is stretched out on a couch in golden light. She is asleep. Her back legs are resting against a cushion with a screen print of a tuxedo cat in a bright pink tutu dancing with abandon.
October 7, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Evergreen
A comic titled "Humpty Dumpty had a great fall." There are four pictures in a grid, showing Humpty Dumpty, an egg with a face, and stick arms and legs, enjoying autumn activities. He is jumping in a pile of leaves, hiding in a pumpkin patch, going for a walk, and sitting on a wall as leaves drift down around him.
September 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Book cover for Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
September 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Tonight's biscuit-making
September 13, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Timeline cleanse
A golden brown and black tabby is loafing on the top perch of her cat tree, gazing into the distance with pensive green eyes. (Not pictured: her usual activities, which are running, destroying things, stealing food, and farting.)
September 13, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Pro cat tip: for optimal birdwatching, pancake yourself beneath your seat instead of on top of it. Leg splay optional but recommended.
A wicker stool with a cream blanket draped over it sits in front of a patio screen door. The bottom half of a grey tabby cat is sticking out from underneath it, flattened to the hardwood floor with legs splayed in opposite directions, disturbingly similar to a spatchcocked chicken.
July 30, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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#SoapWeek I am an unabashed fan of the soap opera and for #SoapThrowbackThursday I need to talk about 90s GH and Robin and Stone. Oh my teenaged heart IYKYK
A screenshot from General Hospital circa mid- to late-1990s, showing the characters of Robin Scorpio and Stone Cates leaning against one another and looking pensive.
July 11, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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It's important that you all know that Goldie curls up on the corner of my desk every day while I'm editing.
A golden brown and black tabby cat is sleeping snugly on a pale blue blanket on top of a desk. There are two houseplants behind her and a large window overlooking a garden.
July 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Right on schedule ✅
A post by @myke_olsen that says "By your 40s you should have: - two or three good friends (they 800+ miles away) - a chronic illness, maybe - a pet's ashes - a weird collection"
June 8, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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today's tableau
Two grey tabby cats sitting side by side in little cushioned window beds, looking outside into a springtime garden backyard.
April 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Just made a couple of little purchases of a couple of little books by @sharangbiswas.bsky.social and @yarntheory.bsky.social 👀

(@neonhemlock.bsky.social) 🤏📚
The cover of North Continent Ribbon by Ursula Whitcher. It shows a bright blue sky with white cumulous clouds above a green landscape of hills, mountains, and a valley. There are white structures amid the landscape—a circular building on a mountainside, domes in the valley, a fence or rail traversing across the ground, and a narrow white tower looming up into the sky with thin coils winding around it. A small figure stands in the foreground wearing a cape and possibly a long braid, looking out over the vista. White birds are in the sky. The cover of The Iron Below Remembers by Sharang Biswas. Two people stand on a balcony overlooking a reflective body of water. They are holding hands, though one is facing away from the other and stepping towards the edge. The water is light purple in the foreground but near the horizon it is reflecting deep purple and teal growth along the shore, so that long wavy tendrils appear to dip down into the water. Above the purple is lush green growth, and above that, a pale blue textured sky.
March 30, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Went to a cat café this afternoon and this little floof with only one eye climbed immediately into my lap and made biscuits for half an hour, I am deceased
A long-haired soft grey and peach cat is cuddled up in a woman's lap with all four feet, as well as her face, pressed into the woman's stomach.
March 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Ugh, I'm sorry to hear that! I hope you feel better soon, and here is some more cat tax to speed your healing.
A very bad tabby cat is crouching in a cupboard filled with very breakable cups and classes, looking guilty.
March 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Happy adoption anniversary to Goldie and Sylvie. It's one year today that we brought these two barely socialized girls home from the shelter. It's been a joy to watch them get comfy and used to being loved. 💕
Goldie, a skinny brown and black tabby with a white chin and a tipped left ear, is sitting on a mantle next to some books looking upwards with pensive green eyes. Sylvie, a soft and round grey and black tabby, is cuddled into a plush gray robe on a couch, having made herself a nest of maximum coziness. She is looking sleepy and thoughtful.
March 18, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Tell Adonis that Goldie says hi
A tabby cat sound asleep on a turquoise paisley blanket with her tongue sticking out an absurd amount.
March 15, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Just leaving this here for you
A brown and black tabby cat sits on a marble countertop looking at you. An extremely basic image editor has been used to badly draw a scribbled pair of black sunglasses onto her face. Success! This cat looks like a total badass, rather than the goofball that she is.
March 10, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Repost with the first album you bought with your own money
Cover of the self-tilted album Tiffany, from 1987. The singer has long windblown red hair with spiky bangs and is looking wistfully at the camera with her hand up by her cheek.
February 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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come on, baby, let's do the twist
take me by my little hand
and go like this
A brown and black tabby cat is fully stretched out on a pale blanket with her back legs turned towards you and her shoulders twisted away from you. Her wee striped arms are hovering aloft in the air, and yet, somehow, she is fast asleep with a serene look on her face. Her belly is spotted like a tiny leopard. It should be noted that only moments ago she was tearing around the joint like a demon.
February 15, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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And now, a sequel (or 2?) is in the works! If you have a survival recipe and want to share, you can use this link to contribute to this project, which is full of compassion and also HILARITY. 🧵4/4

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
An image of a dry block of ramen noodles crumbling apart against a cream background. The text reads "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: WE'RE EXPECTING."
February 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Screenshot from Star Trek. The caption reads "People: How have you been coping with everything going on in the world? Me: (blank space)." Spock looks with concern at Kirk, who is looking down with a "what are you gonna do" expression. There is a tabby cat badly photoshopped onto Spock's shoulder and a white floofy cat badly photoshopped into Kirk's arms.
January 31, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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A brown and black tabby cat is stretched out on her back with her arms up in the air and her spotted belly showing. She is fast asleep on her favourite pale beige blanket.
January 31, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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If you're feeling like losing yourself in a story world for a bit, you couldn't do better than picking up @kerstinhall.bsky.social's gorgeous novel Asunder.
Book cover for Asunder by Kerstin Hall. It shows a young woman with chin-length light brown hair in profile, looking pensive. Gold light with sun spots drift around her, the colour concentrated in the top left corner and fading to white in all directions. Within her pale arms, shoulders, and torso are ghostly hands clasping each other.
January 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Never has something been more accurate:
The words CLICK RETCH REFUTE
January 16, 2025 at 3:10 AM