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Belle Chapin

@bellechapinbooks.bsky.social
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She/her. Author of quirky romance novels. Broken Records and Mother Road available now.

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 08/03/2026
Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman
Carmen Sandiego from the 90s cartoon
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Beverley Kendall Author 👩🏾‍💻📖🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇾 💙 @beverleykendall.com · 01/03/2026
This regime has been hell on my writing.
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James “Vamp” Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
“Nightmare Before Christmas” and “Home Alone” are on Disney / Hulu. “Waiting for Guffman” and “Best in Show” are rentable. “A Mighty Wind” and “For Your Consideration” are on YouTube w/ add. “After Hours” is rentable. “Beetlejuice” is on Fubo and rentable. “Beetlejuice 2” is on HBO Max.
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Jay Campbell @habeassnarkus.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Godspeed Catherine O'Hara - comedic genius. I like to think when she got to the pearly gates, St. Peter said "Cookie? Cookie Guggleman?" and everyone had a huge laugh. 🤣😭
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Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Catherine O'Hara & Eugene Levy performing "A Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow" from A MIGHTY WIND at the 2004 Oscars🌈💔
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Haunter @holybible.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Why is James Cook trending did the hawaiians get his ass again
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Frida Kahlo and her pet deer, Granizo, 1939 #WomensArt (photograph by N.Muray)
Monochrome photograph featuring a woman in a dress squatting down with her arm around the neck of a small spotty deer
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Teresa @classicalsongbird.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I highly recommend having two knitting WIPs on the go: one challenging, one easy. That way, you can choose what matches your brain that day.
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Belle Chapin @bellechapinbooks.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
whyhunger.org
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WhyHunger 2025 - WhyHunger
WhyHunger works to end hunger and advance the human right to nutritious food in the U.S. and around the world.
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 02/10/2025
“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall 💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
IF YOU SEE A BAT CRAWLING AROUND ON THE GROUND DURING DAYLIGHT HOURS, LEAVE IT ALONE. IF YOU WANT TO HELP IT CALL ANIMAL CONTROL. DO NOT APPROACH THE BAT, DO NOT TRY TO AID THE BAT ON YOUR OWN, AND FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY DO NOT BREASTFEED THE BAT. TELL YOUR FRIENDS.
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@AuthorMsBev @authormsbev.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
So interesting. www.openculture.com/2025/09/an-a...
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An Art Conservator Restores a Painting of the Doomed Party Girl Isabella de’ Medici: See the Before and After
Some people talk to plants.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
“Get Smart” premieres 60 years ago tonight, on NBC. “I was sick of looking at all those nice, sensible situation comedies,” Mel Brooks said. “They were such distortions of life. .. No one had ever done a show about an idiot before. I decided to be the first.”
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I miss shows like Heroes where you'd have a pretty tight opening season that is basically a self contained story and then another 4 that consist of 3 guys and a bag of heroin randomly pulling words out of a bag and placing them in sentences
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Rachel Ignotofsky @rachelignotofsky.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
The “king” of the Permian Period was Dimetrodon! And although he may look like one, he is NOT a dinosaur. Dimetrodon are synapsids and are stem-mammals. Illustration from my book DINOSAURS 📚 buy here: a.co/d/92GBeXk #paleoart #permian #paleontology #fossiladdict #prehistoric #evolution #dinosaurs
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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Get games - help cats 💙🐈‍⬛ My #TTRPG fundraiser for #Ohio rescue @alley-aristocats.bsky.social is slowly inching toward its $2500 goal We can’t cross the finish line without you! Can you give us a boost? $10 gets you a collection of charming cat-themed games #CozyCatJam itch.io/b/3118/cozy-...
Two adorable kittens, one black and white, one gray are held against the chest of their foster mama. Between the kittens is the logo for the Ohio-based rescue, Alleycats & Aristocats. The logo sits inside a pink heart. Beneath the kittens is a simple banner with the words: get games - help cats. The URL provided is itch.io/b/3118/cozy-cat-jam
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Belle Chapin @bellechapinbooks.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Reworking how I market myself and where my efforts need to lie. Writing is rare at this point, because my spoons are so very low. But there’s something freeing about reworking the rest.
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Belle Chapin @bellechapinbooks.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
name a non-LotR character who is a cool and good person but would nevertheless set land speed records for getting fucked up by the One Ring
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garfield is reading a book while holding a remote
Alt: garfield is reading a book while holding a remote
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@AuthorMsBev @authormsbev.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
An interesting look into creating characters. www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com/writing-bett...
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Writing Better Character Conflicts With the 5 Conflict Management Styles
Here's how writers can apply the five conflict management styles to create richer, more realistic character conflicts in your fiction.
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veeagainsttheday 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️#CrewForLife @veeagainsttheday.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Hello, law firm in Aotearoa New Zealand? Yes, I need to sue Taika Waititi for his delivery of "you mean just curl up into a ball and die?" Thanks I'll hold
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The Autistic Coach | Mati (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
People don't understand what autistic inertia is all about. It's basically the crux of everything.
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I’m Not Procrastinating
The autistic experience of being “stuck,” why it’s nothing like laziness, and how to stop making it worse.
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Belle Chapin @bellechapinbooks.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Post one of the most haunting shots in movie history from a film made before the year 2000.
Joel Grey in the mirror ending from Cabaret
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'Nathan Burgoine (he/him) will be at Can*Con! @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Last re-skeet: Y’all know how I feel about this sort of thing; how frustrating (and, sometimes, outright harmful) it can be when identity is stripped of verisimilitude and impact.
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The Shoulder Check Problem
Like a lot of my blog posts here, this one was sparked at a specific time over a specific conversation, but over the years I’ve seen this particular topic come up again and again like waves on a sh…
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Belle Chapin @bellechapinbooks.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Honestly too depressed to write.
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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 30/07/2025
i'm sorry for posting facts:
meme:

two books
left book: THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY

right book (much fatter and split into blue and red, red is far longer than blue):
THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY IF MERRY & PIPPIN HAD A GUN
red: defeating Sauron
blue: taking the gun away from Merry and Pippin
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Belle Chapin @bellechapinbooks.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Along this line, I’d love to be an art restorer. Way past potato Jesus standards too.
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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” -- James Baldwin
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Dani Fiend 👹 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
idk petting a cat with your foot hits different
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.
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Dani Fiend 👹 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Tempers are hot. Spare other queer creatives your wrath. Put it where it belongs. With fascists and the companies complying with them. 🫶
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Belle Chapin @bellechapinbooks.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
🎶Has-been rockstar 🎶Neurodivergent rep 🎶Found family 🎶Hurt/comfort 🎶Marriage of convenience #romance #booksky Link: books2read.com/BrokenRecord...
Broken Records by Belle Chapin
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Belle Chapin @bellechapinbooks.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
📖 Grumpy/Sunshine 📖 Road trip romance 📖 Bisexual rep 📖 Hurt/comfort 📖 Age gap 📖 More literature puns than you'll ever need in your life Book link: books2read.com/u/4EjlMl #romance #booksky #romancelandia #mmromance
“All I’ve got is my wallet, my phone, and this tuxedo, which is starting to smell like pot and unfulfilled expectations.” from Mother Road by Belle Chapin
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/07/2025
among the many things they don’t tell you about having kids is the amount of money you will shell out to buy various berries
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Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
You are never going to get a perfect score on grammarly or prowriting aid. Your never are going to get every typo. Honey, sometimes done is better than perfect!
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mankrik's wife guy @byelacey.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
it’s my favourite ship dynamic
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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
My favorite Superman scene from the comics is when Supes learns who Billy Batson (the superhero Captain Marvel/Shazam) really is, asks "Who did this to you?" and then *immediately* flies to the Rock of Eternity to give the Wizard a bollocking for putting that amount of responsibility on a child.
Billy Batson, after messing up as Shazam/Captain Marvel reveals that he is a child to Superman.

Superman asks "Who did this to you?"Superman goes to the Rock of Eternity to give the Wizard who gave him his powers a bollockingSuperman goes to the Rock of Eternity to give the Wizard who gave him his powers a bollocking
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Jessica Pickens @hollywoodcomet.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Remembering Connie Francis, who has passed away at age 87 💔 www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-n...
Connie Francis, wearing a blue, grey, & purple striped shirt with her arms behind her head. She's in front of a backdrop with red music notes
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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
line readings I can't get out of my heard: this "What?" in From Here To Eternity
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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
One of the things they don't tell you about when they're prepping you to be a new parent is that eventually the sound of a squalling baby--not a crying baby, but a baby screaming--will make you want to immediately intervene to find out what's wrong, why the baby is screaming, and how to fix it.
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'Nathan Burgoine (he/him) will be at Can*Con! @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
We are not a sub genre. I loathe this so much. We belong in all the categories, damn it. Here, have a blog from almost ten years ago: apostrophen.wordpress.com/2017/11/06/n...
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Not That Kind of Sub
[Edit to add: This one has become a topic that pops up again and again. It was originally written, as it mentions below, in a response to an #RWChat discussion. But it’s like a weed. It grows…
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Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
When this scene was shot, Madeleine Lebeau, an actual French refugee who made it to the US, is singing the anthem of a nation that may never again exist. seveninchesofyourtime.com/cinemas-grea...
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Cinema’s greatest scene: ‘Casablanca’ and ‘La Marseillaise’
Casablanca is widely remembered as one of the greatest films of all time, coming in at #2 on the AFI’s top 100 list and similarly regarded by many other critics. You can quibble with its exac…
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shiftedshaped - emily mae @shiftedshaped.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Make this run go nuts.. PBS is Punk .. 💪🏽
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PBS has always been punk, From Mr. Rogers' unflinching kindness to Reading Rainbow's encouragement to think for yourself. The PBS is Punk Tee celebrates that legacy through the iconic PBS logo dressed up to fit your personality. It's a love letter to growing up curious, caring deeply, and questioning everything. For those who see PBS as a rare symbol of hope, prioritizing education, access, and community over profi, this shirt wears that belief loud and proud.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Our thoughts are with North Carolina, New Mexico, and Texas. There are many ways to help, whether by donating or, if you’re able, volunteering on the ground. 💚
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Belle Chapin @bellechapinbooks.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
I honestly would be fine without pasta.
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Kodo and Sangha! @kodoandsangha.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
If there’s one thing I could impart about being a wheelchair user, it’s this.
Not all wheelchair users are paralyzed!
@nicolebelieves
In fact, most people using wheelchairs do so because they are dealing with chronic illness, chronic pain, and unfortunately sometimes both!
the stereotypes just aren't true and prove to be harmful when people assume someone is "faking" their disability because they move their legs
Sources: Disability Compendium 2017 Annual Report
U.S. Census Bureau 2016 American Community Survey
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U.S. Women's National Soccer Team @uswnt.ussoccer.com · 05/07/2025
Happy Birthday to the one and only, Megan Rapinoe 🎉😎
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Kevin Daly @kevinddaly.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Happy Eva Marie Saint Day to all celebrating. The legend turns 101 today.
Eva Marie Saint, an icon, attends the Oscars.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 04/07/2025
Happy Please End the Day With the Same Number of Fingers You Started It With Day
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
In general it’s fine to post “we’re fucked” on your own account because you might feel that way and it might be therapeutic to say how bad everything is, but it’s not fine to reply “we’re fucked” to everyone and everything because that might not be what other people need to hear all the time
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