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andrea shea
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edits comics
makes soup
won degrassi trivia with @taylortetreau.bsky.social
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I don't know that it changed me so much as it formed me—I recently revisited HOPE WAS HERE, having always generally cited it as my favorite book from childhood, and realized my humor, my ethics, my understanding of family and of love and what's worth fighting for and how all mapped to its pages.
The cover of the book HOPE WAS HERE by Joan Bauer. The title is stacked at the top in a yellow handwritten font in a box with a blue background and a red border. The rest of the cover shows the sun setting on the New York skyline (complete with the twin towers!!! wow I only just noticed that!!! this book was extremely published in 2000!!!!!), and i the foreground there's a sedan with its headlines on driving away with a U-Haul trailer behind it.
November 12, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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This was a harrowing read across the board--a collection of stories I'd seen or read or heard over the last month but to see it all totaled up was something else entirely.

And then I got to Kingsbury's follow up note:
A screenshot of a postscript from the author of the linked article: "As an aside, one of the horrifying things I discovered while writing this piece was this site called factually.co, which ranks high in search engines and uses Large Language Models to create fake “fact checking” articles. They’re running multiple articles pretending Rev. Black wasn’t shot with pepper balls at Broadview, which, to be clear, is definitely a thing that happened." The screenshot features words that are blue and underlined, indicating links to sources.
November 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Post you from a different era.

I've kind of always looked exactly the way I do now in a vampire-esque way but for about one (1) year I was a vampire with bangs.
a very low quality image circa 2008 of three girls standing in front of a raggedy ass high school field. two of the girls are holding hands and posing in opposite directions, one knee up and one arm extended/finger in the air. the third girl is leaping forward through the first two with her arms extended in a "superman" type pose. the girl on the right is me, but WITH BANGS. the other two girls are Not Me and their faces have been obscured by a smiley emoji and an upside down smiley emoji respectively, indicating my current feelings on each of them.
November 7, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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A slack message from my friend Taylor that reads, “Is she 34 or 24!!!” wrt my decision to see a concert on the same day as the concert, which is a very 24 year old move if I do say so myself.
November 6, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Wore my most millennial outfit (forever 21 fish print skater dress and black tights with stompy boots) to see Garbage play the Palladium with @andykhouri.bsky.social after impulse buying a ticket at…4:30PM today.

Shirley Manson, the woman you are!!!
A very very very zoomed in and low quality image of Shirley Manson, the platinum blond lead singer of the band garbage, bathed in a pink light as she sings into a microphone that’s held in her right hand while she extends her left hand out with fingers wide. The drummer plays behind her, and the background lights are blue and pink.
November 6, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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The sickos meme (a man with furrowed brows in a black t shirt that reads SICKOS with his face and hands pressed against a glass window looking in from the outside, with a dialogue balloon above him that reads “YES… HA HA HA…YES!”) repeated easily 100+ times to the extent that the edges of the image are blurring.
November 5, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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Gritty the orange furred hockey mascot in a cream and orange Betsy Ross costume very Americanly knitting the original 13 star US flag against a yellow background.
November 5, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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PROP 50 WIN WE ARE OFFICIALLY LIBBING! THE FUCK! OUT!!!!!!!!!
A screenshot from the webtoon true beauty of the main character in goblin mode celebrating in the ugliest and most sincere possible fashion.
November 5, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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help
A WhatsApp chat with my mom where I share a screenshot of an Instagram profile named “Kit So” (which are names associated with her, it’s complicated) with a profile picture of my mom and a button asking if I would like to follow back, indicating that she’s following me. Below the screenshot I ask what I feel is a straightforward question: “Mom, do you have a second Instagram account” She responds, very not straightforwardly, “Kind of…Kit So” To which I respond, “I don’t understand what that answer means haha”
November 2, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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unearthed my definitive Comic Book Editing Take screenshot while looking for something else and taking it as an opportunity to tap the sign
A 2023 tweet from me, Andrea Shea that reads: "Assistant editor work is 80% administrative and 20% creative. Associate editor work is 80% administrative and 50% creative. Editor work is 80% administrative and 80% creative." This is a quote tweet in response to a Chris Arrant tweet that reads: "Comic industry people: What's something about your job that you wish more people understood?"
October 31, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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what do you mean his dad's cousin isn't his aunt I don't understand the premise
math lady meme--four close-up shots of the same blond woman's face as progressively more complex math text is floated to the left of her head in white as her expression grows progressively more lost/confused
October 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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little blanket worm
A little black dog’s snoot sticking out from under a blanket with lots of fringe over the head. Little black dog’s whole head sticking out from under the blanket now, throwing some severe side eye at the camera.
October 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Hell yeah, Adonis me.
An email confirming donation to the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank
October 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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screenshot of the full Mamdani quote I wanted to skeet because it was too long for the character limit: "And while it would be easy for us to say that, 'This is not who we are,' as a city we know the truth--this is who we have allowed ourselves to become. And a question lies before each of us: will we continue to accept a narrow definition of what it means to be a New Yorker, that makes smaller, every day, the number of those guaranteed a life of dignity? Will we remain in the shadows, or will we together step into the light?""
October 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Speaking of books, this was my first read of the day and it was an all-out banger—TOO SOON by Betty Shamieh.

I’ve been so fucking thirsty of late for books with bitchy (complimentary) and utterly human women leads after one too many mousey girl romance novels and this book delivered in triplicate.
A book cover with a cream background and a simple but beautiful drawing of a dark and bushy haired woman in a flat, lighter green, who looks over her shoulder at the trader. She wears a yellow crown on her head. Over her face and body, the title of the book—TOO SOON: A Novel—in all caps red sans serif font that looks almost like it was written with poster markers. Along the bottom, the author’s name: Betty Shamieh.
October 24, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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And shout out to the only other celebrity memoir that matters:
The audiobook cover of I’M GLAD MY MOM DIED by Jeanette McCurdy. The title and author are up top in pink serif letters, and just below them is Jeanette herself in a pink rectangle—blond, wearing a pink shirt, a pink urn, and a strained expression. The rest of the cover is yellow and features quotes from Lena Dunham (“An important cultural moment.”) and Jerrod Carmichael (“Impressively funny.”)
October 20, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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my perfect son, my beautiful boy
a scraggly dog with black fur, lying on his back on a light blue couch, head thrown back and mouth open
October 19, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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a tan chihuaua squinting at something off screen and to the left, with a small human hand photoshopped to its left dramatically pointing down in the same direction as his line of sight. at the bottom of the image is the word BLOCKED in white.
October 17, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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👹👹👹👹👹
a bowl of soup with a dark yellow hue, with Napa cabbage and scallion greens piled up to the top. Behind it and out of focus, a can of Asahi beer and a woven basket of napkins. All of this is sitting on a wooden table.
October 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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enhance
A message thread with Rob that contains an unplayed video of a bedroom with a blur of a tiny black dog with glowing demonic blue eyes at the center near the play button. Underneath, a text: “Your son spent several minutes not remembering how to come to bed last night before I decided to take a video of it for you.” Zoom in on the tiny demonic blur dog, though some text message is still visible. Even more intense zoom in on tiny blur dog.
October 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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at least I made a train friend
adorable floopy dog with short tan fur laying under a train seat, looking directly at the camera
October 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Holding myself accountable—it took me just a little of my lunch hour to write this! You can too!

TransFamily Support Services provides all the information you need if you click through the link, and even in a greeting card’s amount of space I was able to considerably personalize the message.
A blue envelope with messy handwriting in a darker blue ink pen addressed to Governor Gavin Newsom at 1021 O Street, Suite 9000, Sacramento, CA 95814. In the upper right hand corner is an orange forever stamp with an abstract black bunny. In the upper left hand corner is my name—Andrea Shea—in the same messy handwriting in dark blue ink with my address obscured for obvious Internet safety reasons.
September 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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goose chase meme in which panel 1 features a goose looking skeptical while asking "whose civil rights are being traded off,adam" and panel 2 features a goose chasing a man in a puffer jacket who's running away as the goose shouts after him "whose civil rights are being traded off???"
September 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Inside you are two wolves
A blue tiger with enormous yellow eyes, small pointed ears, and a derpy smile. On top of his head sits a snide looking magpie in a black hat with 3 eyes, all of which are looking at you with snide derision.
September 19, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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I operate almost entirely on Libby these days but I keep my card on my keys too. 😌
a set of gold and silver keys, an AirTag in a green holder, a very very beat up Griffith observatory keychain, and a Los Angeles public library keyring card all held together by a worn green carabiner
September 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM