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Ella Dawson @brosandprose.bsky.social · 23h

We're libbing out on the Rebel Ever After feed this week because my guest is @ksl.bsky.social, political strategist and author of ONE TO WATCH, FANG FICTION, and SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/0nYP...

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This week's roundup of romance novels published today is live on Bindery. I had to gush about THE GILDED ROSE by Joanna Shupe, one of my favorites of the year. Read here: rebeleverafter.binderybooks.com/item/Hs6seiA...

The Gilded Rose by Joanna Shupe (Avon) — Shupe’s new Gilded Age romance is a no holds barred twist on Beauty and the Beast that asks: What if Belle married Gaston? The Gilded Rose is heavy on angst, exploring how difficult it was for married women to escape domestic violence before no-fault divorce existed. I didn’t find it triggering as a survivor, but I recommend reading with caution if you are sensitive to physical abuse and spousal rape. Zane, our Beast character, is the perfect love interest for a woman rebuilding her autonomy. He does everything he can to help Caroline find freedom, and then joy, at the right pace for her. The Gilded Rose is one of my favorite books of the year, and one of the most important. (Listen to Joanna’s episode of Rebel Ever After here.)

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Chicken WingDings 🇵🇸 @ebridget.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Ms Rachel from the top ropes

From Ms Rachel's account on Threads, she writes, "CORECIVIC, a company that makes hundreds of millions locking up KIDS in immigration detention
has a PAC that's sending campaign checks to Senator Susan Collins of Maine.
Susan Collins chairs the Senate committee that writes ICE's budget.
ICE is CoreCivic's customer.
The company gets paid out of a budget she controls, and it pays into her campaign."

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I think it is very good and inventive until the very last episode, at which point it takes a hard turn into stupid and muddy fuckery

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I’m shocked by how much Mike Flanagan fucked up a very simple and powerful story

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No like I think he should die in prison, this is inexplicably horrible and bad and I have no idea what he was thinking

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Oh no don’t get me wrong this is a horrible horrible show

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That final episode of Carrie… jail for Mike Flanagan.

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Amazon Prime knows I’m a degenerate leftist, all my commercials during Carrie are for cat litter and Plan B

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went rogue at dinner with my grandmother and started showing her friends all my tattoos

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I'm getting in the habit of sharing selfies on OnlyFans after my book events while my makeup is all nice 😇 onlyfans.com/2809911164/b...

a selfie of Ella with impeccable eyebrows and makeup

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my mom has become obsessed with Bosch, a television franchise that has been around forever and somehow I have never once heard of

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thank you, that's so helpful! I was seeing mixed reviews of the Traveller b/c of the lack of wrist rest and some battery issues, but it seems sleeker

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oh that's very good to know, ty

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Democrats Have a Bill Maher Problem

I cannot say this clearly enough: Bill Maher is much worse than you remember him being. He's a hateful bigot, and his show is widely available on CNN and HBO. He validates the worst fascist ass-kissers who think they are old school liberals but really just hate trans people.

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Establishment Democrats obsessing over Hasan Piker’s every move seem to have no issue talking to Maher, despite his decades of open bigotry.

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That's helpful, thank you! I hadn't heard of BOOX, these look so pretty

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Ella Dawson @brosandprose.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Has anyone used a Freewrite Traveler or Alpha? I'm thinking of investing in one to draft my second book but I've got sticker shock. Would love to hear from users!

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editing podcast audio and my goodness I have a disney princess voice at times, no wonder people assume I'm 22 years old

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Ella Dawson @brosandprose.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

don’t talk to me or my daughter ever again

A selfie taken from below of Zoey, a black cat mean mugging for the camera, and Ella

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We're 8 new members away from me reading and reacting to this terrible propaganda romance about a liberal woman who falls in love with “a big-hearted, truck-driving guy who follows hockey, not headlines"! Subscribe to torture me for a good cause: rebeleverafter.binderybooks.com

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I wrote about the books that made a reader and then an author. Where My Reading Lore Started: rebeleverafter.binderybooks.com/item/L5fVz3q...

a photograph of Ella as a toddler eating a vanilla soft serve ice cream in a mcdonalds booth. collaged around her are the covers of "I Spy Spectacular," "Harry the Dirty Dog" "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician's Nephew," "The Phantom Tollbooth," "Amelia Hits the Road," "The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly Stupid Tales," and "Meet Molly."

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just the woman I want to write a love story!!!

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literally ALWAYS about republican men and democrat women, always always

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Mitch @mgmcconeghey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I was looking at used copies online so I could do promotion holding the book and the idea of paying even $4 made me so upset that I logged off in a huff

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You should subscribe just because Ella is awesome and doing awesome things, but I'm not gonna pretend I'm not looking forward to her having to read this.

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We were getting close to hitting 60 members but there's always churn at the end of the month, so I need your help reaching our next goal in the Ruin Ella's TBR pledge drive!

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ændra. @aendra.com · 08/10/2026

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Absolutely spot-on by @anildash.com here: "The best artists around you are invisible to you, and the most important statements by activists that you care about are being silenced. It’s not a conspiracy, it’s a system working as designed."

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We are going to kill “unalive” - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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