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Abbey ابي 🌻✨ @abbeyfwilliams.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

This is months late, BUT I'm absolutely over the moon to share that I'm now represented by the incredible @jenazantian.bsky.social! Her love and vision for my book left me starry-eyed, and I cannot wait to work with her on UNVEIL THE STARS and beyond! ✨

A pale blue sky and dark purple clouds against an image of grayscale clouds. Laid over the cloud images are a gold oval picture frame, purple flowers, glittery gold stars, and a cut-out image of user abbeyfwilliams. Text in the image reads, “now represented by Jennifer Azantian (at) Azantian Literary Agency.”

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Abbey ابي 🌻✨ @abbeyfwilliams.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Not sure if anyone will see this, but hi! It's been a while! A lot of good things have been happening since I was away, and I have a super belated announcement to make 👀✨

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rory g. | COME BACK WRONG @gilhouligan.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

hey yall, i just scanned my 2025 sketchbook and put it up for sale. 44 full-color pages, 100% of proceeds go to the sameer project for as long as this listing stays up! 🍏KOFI: tinyurl.com/skth25 🍎GUMROAD: tinyurl.com/sktc25 🍋DONATE DIRECTLY: linktr.ee/thesameerpro...

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2025 sketchbook (fundraiser for the Sameer Project!) - Rory G.'s Ko-fi Shop

A digitized collection of sketches, pen-and-ink drawings, and watercolors compiled from my 2025 sketchbook (and a few other places!) Includes studies ...

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Lilly Lu✨is 👀👀👀!!! @lillyluwrites.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

@michellejingchan.bsky.social & i organized a panel of ace creatives to talk about asexuality & publishing! thanks to @redgoldsparks.bsky.social @schwartzwords.bsky.social and @witchm.bsky.social for sharing your words with us, & @amandasbrews.bsky.social for giving this piece a home💜🏳️‍🌈

Expanding the script: ace stories, structures and perspectives in publishing

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Becca Podos @beccapodos.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Today begins the annual campaign for QT Library, a Boston-based queer and trans library I’m honored to volunteer with. Spaces that support queer stories and queer communities are as vital now as they’ve ever been, and it would mean so much if you’d help us to re-resource and grow 📚🌱🏳️‍⚧️ surl.lt/khsjna

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Abbey ابي 🌻✨ @abbeyfwilliams.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

At the Southern Festival of Books and already two people have come up to me to tell me they like my vibe, I’m— 😭

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E.M. Anderson | author & schism enthusiast too hot for Bluesky @elizmanderson.com · 14/10/2025

and here's a static cover reveal post for people who want to skip the book trailer and/or hate videos! cover art by Lucy Rose THE LORD OF THE WOOD releases in July 2026, from @hanoversquarepress.bsky.social! #author preorder now: gatheringvolumes.com/item/44euZQq...

the cover of E.M. Anderson's The Lord of the Wood, framed in gold with gold flowers against a dark teal background around the edges. The cover is teal with a stag of flowers and foliage growing from a twisted tree with flowers growing around it and black ooze dripping from a branch overhead. the title "The Lord of the Wood" is in large white serif text to the left, with foliage growing through the letters closest to the tree, and the author "E.M. Anderson" is in all-caps yellow text at the bottom. the tagline, in smaller yellow text, reads, "Even a beastly woodland protector needs saving..."

"When lonely clockmaker Arthur Throckmorton loses his way in an enchanted forest, he meets the hero of his childhood bedtime stories: the Lord of the Wood. But instead of the mythical figure of his dreams, the Lord of the Wood is a grim man turning into a beast and losing power over a dying forest. If they can’t save the forest before he becomes a beast completely, Arthur will lose the man he's falling for—and never see his family again." Text is in a textbox against a murky image of a forest, with the cover of E.M. Anderson's The Lord of the Wood below the text, all against a dark teal background with gold curlicues in the corners.

The cover of E.M. Anderson's The Lord of the Wood on a dark teal background with golden leaves overhead, surrounded by yellow text reading: plant magic; sentient forest trying to oops! murder people; intensely homoerotic shaving scene; the one who heard the stories and the one who was in the stories; hopeless romantic who's clueless about his own sexuality; Beauty & the Beast inspired by not a retelling; dual-POV brother/sister; love interest turning slowly into a beast; wound-tending.

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Abbey ابي 🌻✨ @abbeyfwilliams.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

A silly little snippet from my #amquerying YA contemporary fantasy ✨ (if you like your characters on the disastrous and irreverent side, this book is for you)

An image of a snippet from UNVEIL THE STARS. Text reads:

I freeze. Make the mistake of looking up and into a pair of ice-blue eyes—inhuman eyes that shift in hue like a twilit sky—and three increasingly ridiculous thoughts occur to me:
1.     Oh, god, there’s a jinni in the coffee shop.
2.     Is nothing sacred anymore?
3.     This is how I die, without even getting to order my silly little latte as a treat.

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Lilly Lu✨is 👀👀👀!!! @lillyluwrites.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

A love letter to BTS, for fans by fans 💜 Happy to announce this joyful book I’ve been working on since 2022 with @featherfully.bsky.social & @majablanque.bsky.social Inspired by BTS’s music, Maja & I want to speak ourselves: the book is BDS-friendly & a portion of proceeds will go to Pal ARMYs.

Book announcement from pub weekly! Maja’s beautiful art of BTS roleplaying as Jin’s bodyguard on the top

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 09/10/2025

It cannot be made clearer. If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Abbey ابي 🌻✨ @abbeyfwilliams.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

THE STARDUST THIEF x IF I HAVE TO BE HAUNTED When the treacherous, shapeshifting jinn steal her sisters, a girl with OCD must navigate the jinn’s hidden realm and face monsters real and imagined to save them before a vengeful jinn king wreaks havoc on the mortal realm. #DVpit #YA #F #ND #MENA

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Abbey ابي 🌻✨ @abbeyfwilliams.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

THE STARDUST THIEFxSPIRITED AWAY When Leila’s sisters are stolen by the jinn—the treacherous, shapeshifting spirits from her grandmother’s tales—she must navigate their dangerous hidden realm using everything she knows from the stories to survive or lose her sisters forever. #DVpit #YA #F #MENA #ND

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Abbey ابي 🌻✨ @abbeyfwilliams.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

16yo Leila’s to-do list: 🔘Survive junior year 🔘Manage her OCD 🔘Avoid the treacherous jinn Also on her list: 🔘Journey to said jinn’s realm to save her sisters 🔘Kiss her (cute) magical ally 🔘Stop a vengeful ruler from wreaking havoc on the mortal realm What, like it’s hard? #DVpit #YA #F #MENA #ND

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Abbey ابي 🌻✨ @abbeyfwilliams.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

SPICE ROADxSPIRITED AWAY Leila lives by 3 rules for survival: never look at the jinn, never talk to them, & never draw their attention. But when the treacherous spirits from her sitti’s tales steal her sisters, she’ll do anything—even strike a deal with a jinni—to save them. #DVpit #YA #F #MENA #ND

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Abbey ابي 🌻✨ @abbeyfwilliams.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

It’s been so lovely interacting with everyone and seeing all the incredible stories out there during #DVparty this week! Days like this make me endlessly grateful for the writing community 💖 Wishing everyone the best of luck tomorrow! I can’t wait to cheer y’all on ✨

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Abbey ابي 🌻✨ @abbeyfwilliams.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

For the last day of #DVparty, here's a peek at my next WIP: a BEST HEX EVER x THE EX VOWS romance in which a witch who's sworn off love begrudgingly returns to her magical hometown to save her family's bakery with the help of the (maddeningly bewitching) estranged childhood BFF who broke her heart 💘

An image of light blue forget-me-not flowers against a pale background. Text laid over the image reads, "It started with a kiss beneath the moon blossoms at midnight."

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Abbey ابي 🌻✨ @abbeyfwilliams.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

For day 5 of #DVparty, I’m sharing the playlist for my YA contemporary fantasy, UNVEIL THE STARS ✨ #YA #F

An image of the moon against a pale sky filled with dark purple clouds limned in orange. Purple text at the top reads, “unveil the stars ✨.” On the left side of the image is a pale purple audio player box with the pink album cover for BTS’s “Map of the Soul: Persona” and the song title “Mikrokosmos” by BTS. On the right side of the image is a playlist of songs, including their album covers and song titles: “Francis Forever” by Mitski, “Sophie in Exile” by Joe Hisaishi, “Wildflower” by RM, “The Bus Song” by Jay Som, “Cosmic Love” by Florence + The Machine, and “Spring Day” by BTS.

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Abbey ابي 🌻✨ @abbeyfwilliams.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

For #DVparty day 4, here's my Arab folklore-inspired YA fantasy as a meme, starring my disastrous, perpetually anxious MC who can see the jinn 👻 (comic by Hannah Hillam)

Image of a comic by artist Hannah Hillam. Panel 1 features the caption, "Goodnight moon" and a drawing of a cat looking up at a crescent moon outside a window. Panel 2 features the caption, "Goodnight tree" and a drawing of the same cat next to a potted tree. Panel 3 features the caption, "Goodnight jinn only I can see" and a drawing of the same cat looking warily at a trio of scary ghosts in the corner of a room.

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Abbey ابي 🌻✨ @abbeyfwilliams.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

For #DVparty day 3, here are the opening lines of my folklore-inspired YA contemporary fantasy ✨ (Gorgeous art in the background is by sethpuertoluna from Twitter!)

A background image featuring art by sethpuertoluna. Laid over the image is a snippet featuring the text:
Chapter One
There's a jinni outside my window.
At least, I'm ninety-nine point nine percent positive there is one, if the green eyes peering at me like glowing half-moons are anything to go by.

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Abbey ابي 🌻✨ @abbeyfwilliams.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

For #DVparty day 2, I'm introducing the main character and love interest of my Lebanese YA contemporary fantasy with unhinged AO3 tags and text posts (because, let's be real, they're both on the disastrous side) ✨ Gorgeous art by joleanart 💫

An illustration of a dark-haired girl and a dark-haired magical boy in a forest, by the artist joleanart on Twitter. Screenshots of various Archive of Our Own tags and Tumblr and Twitter memes surround the characters on both sides.

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Abbey ابي 🌻✨ @abbeyfwilliams.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Happy #DVparty day 1, y’all! Here’s a moodboard for my Arab folklore-inspired YA contemporary fantasy featuring: 🗡a stabby ace girl who sees jinn 🏔️a hidden magical realm 💕a tight-knit Lebanese American family 🗝️secrets, banter, and (gasp!) betrayal 💫anxiety/OCD themes #YA #F

A 3-by-3 icon moodboard for Unveiling the Stars, featuring the following images from left to right: the Gapstow Bridge in New York’s Central Park; a hand with flames dancing at its fingertips; a fountain with roses in the water; a dark-haired Lebanese girl staring into the distance; a quote that reads “We are living, breathing stories, made up of the tales others tell us and those we tell ourselves: light, dark, and the shadows in between”; a cat sitting in a window at night; giant redwood trees in a forest; a dark-haired boy surrounded by foliage; and New York City in the autumn.

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Abbey ابي 🌻✨ @abbeyfwilliams.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Writer friends, don't miss this amazing opportunity for editor feedback on your first 10,000 words and synopsis from the wonderful @phoebeannmorgan.bsky.social at The Honest Editor! honesteditor.substack.com/p/a-chance-f...

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Abbey ابي 🌻✨ @abbeyfwilliams.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

THE STARDUST THIEF x IF I HAVE TO BE HAUNTED When the treacherous, shapeshifting jinn steal her sisters, a girl with OCD must navigate the jinn’s hidden realm and face monsters real and imagined to save them before a vengeful jinn ruler unleashes chaos on the mortal realm. #preDV #YA #CF #ND #MENA

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Abbey ابي 🌻✨ @abbeyfwilliams.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

THE STARDUST THIEF x SPIRITED AWAY When Leila’s sisters are stolen by the jinn, the treacherous, shapeshifting spirits from her grandmother’s tales, she must navigate their dangerous hidden realm using everything she knows from the stories to survive—or lose her sisters forever. #preDV #YA #CF #MENA

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Abbey ابي 🌻✨ @abbeyfwilliams.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

SPICE ROAD x SPIRITED AWAY Leila lives by 3 rules: never look at the jinn, never talk to them, + never draw their attention. But when the shapeshifting spirits from her sitti’s tales steal her sisters, she’ll do whatever it takes—even strike a deal with a jinni—to save them. #preDV #YA #CF #MENA #ND

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Today is #PreDV, the pitch practice event before #DVpit! Post your pitch drafts with #preDV from 8AM-8PM ET Post as many pitches or revisions as you need feedback on! Provide feedback for other participants on their pitches & make new friends! more info at dvpit.carrd.co #writersky

#PreDV
September 29, 2025 from 8AM-8PM ET
Practice your #DVpit pitches using #preDV!
Give fellow #DVpit hopefuls feedback on their pitches.
Got o dvpit.carrd.co for more info

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

#preDV is tomorrow, MONDAY, September 29, 2025 from 8AM to 8PM Eastern Time! Marginalized Creators join us to practice your pitches for #DVpit, get feedback from agented authors, give each other feedback & encouragement! Make friends, polish your pitches & get excited for #DVpit! #writersky #booksky

#preDV
September 19th, 2025
8AM - 8PM ET

Join us for our practice event, #preDV on Bluesky!
Come with your best pitches and receive feedback from agented authors.

All participants are welcome to also give feedback and make friends during the community event before October 8th's #DVpit.

More info at dvpit.carrd.co

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2025

Call Gavin Newsom's office like you called ABC/Disney/Sinclair/Nexstar

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Megan Piontkowski Illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

"How to Report ICE" zines available as of 9/20: CA, Chicago, CO, DC Metro, DE, FL, Indianapolis, Kansas City Metro Area, MD, MA, NC Triangle Area, much of NJ, NM, NYC, Philly, Pittsburgh, Portland OR, RI, Rochester NY, St. Louis Metro, VA, WI drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Hand holding black and white zine with hand illustrated title “How to Report ICE and Help Keep Our Neighbors Safe”

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Abbey ابي 🌻✨ @abbeyfwilliams.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

In honor of diving into the #amquerying trenches, please enjoy this utterly ✨breathtaking✨ art of Mirza, Samir, and Leila from my book, UNVEIL THE STARS. The artist (@/sethpuertoluna on twitter) did the most incredible job bringing this soft, magical scene to life, and I couldn't be more enchanted 💕

A painting surrounded by a midnight blue border decorated with intricate pink roses, crescent moons, swords, jasmine vines, and Arabic motifs. The painting itself depicts a room inside the hollow of a tree, featuring a dark-haired boy in traditional Lebanese clothing, a jinni in the form of a black cat, and a dark-haired girl in modern clothing sitting on a crimson majlis sofa before a wooden low table bearing a silver tea set. Ornamental Turkish lanterns in varying colors dangle from the ceiling of the room, while the tree's leafy boughs and a cloudy blue sky are visible behind the trio on the sofa, along with an ornamental panel latticed with geometric patterns. Carpeting the floor of the room are a Persian-style rug, flowering vines and leaves, and potted plants.

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Abbey ابي 🌻✨ @abbeyfwilliams.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Meet the MC and LI in ✨UNVEIL THE STARS✨, my SPIRITED AWAY x THE STARDUST THIEF, Arab folklore-inspired contemporary fantasy. They're a 10, but... (meet-cute gone disastrously wrong version) #UnhingedPit #ya #f #q

Image of a dark-haired girl in a forest surrounded by the following text:

"...she beheaded a flesh-eating ghoul right in front of him (rip)"

"(to be fair, she gave him advanced warning)"

"(he's lucky she didn't stab him, too)"

Image of a dark-haired boy in a forest surrounded by the following text:

"...he accidentally knocked her out with magic and bound her to a tree"

"(it was self-defense, okay?)"

"(also, she was pretty and he was flustered, it's fine)"

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Abbey ابي 🌻✨ @abbeyfwilliams.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

UNVEIL THE STARS, my Arab folklore-inspired fantasy, as AO3 tags and unhinged posts, feat: 🗡a stabby ace girl who sees jinn 🏔️a hidden magical realm 💕a tight-knit Lebanese American family 🗝️secrets, banter, and (gasp!) betrayal 💫anxiety/OCD themes #UnhingedPit #ya #f #q

An image of a dark-haired girl and a dark-haired magical boy in a forest. Screenshots of various Archive of Our Own tags and tumblr and twitter memes surround them on both sides.

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Abbey ابي 🌻✨ @abbeyfwilliams.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Introducing my #agentsguide to UNVEIL THE STARS, my Arab folklore-inspired YA contemporary fantasy in which a Lebanese American teen with anxiety and OCD must navigate a perilous magical realm to save her sisters from the jinn 🧞✨ #amquerying soon 👀

An image of the moon against a pale sky filled with dark purple clouds limned in orange and white sparkle graphics. Text reads, "a guide to UNVEIL THE STARS, a YA contemporary fantasy, 99 k words."

An image of a blurred purple and orange sky. Text at the top of the image reads, “pitch and comps,” followed by, “Perpetually anxious, full-time disaster Leila Njeim lives by three rules: never look at the jinn, never speak to them, and never, ever draw their attention. But when the treacherous, shapeshifting spirits from her sitti’s tales steal her sisters, she’ll do whatever it takes—even strike a deal with a jinni—to save them.”

An image of the book cover for THE STARDUST THIEF by Chelsea Abdullah surrounded by the text, “inspired by Arab folklore,” “the power of stories/storytelling,” and “found family.”

An image of the film poster for SPIRITED AWAY by Hayao Miyazaki surrounded by the text, “reluctant hero in a hidden spirit world,” “overcoming deadly trials to save family,” and “manifestations of fear/anxiety.”

An image of the book cover for THE BURIED AND THE BOUND by Rochelle Hassan surrounded by the text, “Lebanese MC with a family secret,” “eerie, whimsical fairytale vibes,” and “dark entity threatening the veil between realms.”

An image of the book cover for IF I HAVE TO BE HAUNTED by Miranda Sun surrounded by the text, “magic, monsters, and mayhem,” “banter-fueled adventure/romance,” and “girl inherits ability to see spirits.”

An image of a blurred purple and orange sky. Text at the top reads, “what to expect.”

A 3x3 moodboard with images of New York City trees and buildings in the fall; a hand producing flames; a fountain with roses in the pool; a girl with dark hair; the quote, “We are living, breathing stories, made up of the tales others tell us and those we tell ourselves; light, dark, and the shadows in between”; a window at night with a cat on the sill; tall redwood trees; a dark-haired boy in a forest; and more New York City trees and buildings in the fall.

Text surrounding both sides of the 3x3 image moodboard reads: “banter, betrayal, and (gasp) secrets”; “an ace, neurodivergent MC with a magical sword? In this economy?”; “tight-knit Lebanese American family”; “swoony, golden retriever LI with forest magic”; “snarky jinn guide with a Heart of Gold”; “set in a magical Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and a hidden spirit realm inspired by Lebanon and Arab folklore”; “strike a bargain with the jinni outside your window, y/n?”; “ATLA-style elemental magic and shenanigans”; “the real villain is the OCD/anxiety we battled along the way.”

An image of a dark-haired girl and a dark-haired boy in a forest. Hand-drawn stars and hearts surround their heads. Text at the top of the image reads, "excerpt." The excerpts reads:

His eyes narrow, unimpressed. “While I’m grateful to you for dispatching the ghoul, which I certainly could’ve done myself—”
“Forgive me. I didn’t realize you were handling it so well.”
“—your presence here in my forest seems highly suspicious.”
I scoff, causing the vines to bite into the softness of my stomach. “Your forest?”
“Yes.” He erases the distance between us in a heartbeat, his warmth enveloping me like a sunbeam through trees: soft, unexpected, and a little dizzying. Irritation fans the flames in my cheeks. “My forest.”
“So, instead of thanking me like a normal person,” I say acidly, “you decided to, let me check my notes...knock me out and bind me to a tree.”
“I needed to make sure you weren’t about to take me out along with that ghoul.” His glance drops to my lips. Lingers there for a breath before dragging back up to meet my gaze. His mouth curves, wry with amusement. “I’m sure you understand.”

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Abbey ابي 🌻✨ @abbeyfwilliams.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Hi, friends 💕 Not sure if anyone’s still here and I know it’s been a ridiculously long time, but I’m working my way back online and hoping everyone’s doing okay 💖

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