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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 18h

listening to the wendy's emo album (and other brand new sentences in the english language) & it's so deliciously & deliberately derivative while being totally sincere (on the part of the performers) i'm having a blast

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 19h

pre-emptively explaining myself like "no, see, I use it like a record for ME, each one has a meaning" when confronted with my habit of giving two stars to literally anything that asks for ratings because "what? it was okay! i learned some stuff!" is apparently not the way it's generally used

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i love that books are starting to reflect the ideal of a fully accepting & understanding society but i cannot stop the knee-jerk cringe at what comes across as, like, "very special episode" speak instead of how real people talk

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

me, if i were a sportsballer: i'm going to retire my rival™️: /breaks my record me: ...perhaps one more game

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

WHOSE walk up music is the opening riff of I WRITE SINS NOT TRAGEDIES?? i have several questions

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

bc i generally don't read or care for organized crime fiction, this is how i've been keeping their made-up jobs straight: boss > captain > flint consigliere > quartermaster > silver underboss > master / bosun > de groot caporegime > first mate > gates / billy soldiers > mate associates > able seamen

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

this character: i wonder what kind of person my new boss is me: dude, he just told you to talk to his consigliere, you don't have to wonder

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

watching LWTWJO, weeping over being late to nominating henrietta & valentina for yuletide

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

really falling down on my (made-up) job of Saying Something about the books i've read

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

yelling "VIKING IS A JOB" at the cover copy of a book that cannot hear me & will never change

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

me: what's a game like neko atsume the internet: there's this, but you've to do this, and that, and the other— me: so it's nothing like it at all

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

turned on the first episode of LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE (the new one) during dinner & the number of times i had to remind myself that this is a show for children—

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

bullied into fantasy sports, participating in the only way i know how: letting whoever it was i was matched with tell me how i did

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

watching ken burns' AMERICAN REVOLUTION in class when we finish early & the care they take to really sit with the fact that ol' g. dubs was a giant racist is just—magnifique

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

there is a tone of voice that i use with some of my students that is, like, aggressively calm & considered & i perfected it while moving furniture

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

never a good sign when i start calculating how much actual time* i have left in an audiobook in an anticipatory way (*i listen at 2.1x speed)

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

love it when they let you just sit with the crowd noise after a big hit, really let you feel the space even though you're not there

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

the core ask, the biggest suspension of disbelief for a majority of the sports romance series i've been reading, is that somehow—SOMEGODDAMNHOW—a front office managed to field—to sIGN—an entire team without realizing every single one of them was some form of queer

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

this movie had someone's head get shit and then explode & the thing i am hiding behind a pillow from & shuddering at the thought of is LEECHES

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

the way these books keep the new couples a mystery because no one ever uses anyone's first name until it's their turn to fall in love

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

listened to the game, read a whole book. game over, can't focus long enough to get through a few pages. i'm sure this means nothing.

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

announcer: he swings and misses a lot other announcer: mhmm announcer: but when he hits it, he hits it

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

this book i'm reading is so melancholy without actually being sad? like i'm just sitting here with these feelings for no reason

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

god, i miss reclists. scrolling through someone's hand-coded list of Things You Should Read, half of which link to Somebody's Blog, a few of which had me download a .txt file—there's nothing like it

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

me, going on: if there were such thing as, like, a secular convent— my brain, accurséd with knowledge: you're describing a commune

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

love to be reading something historical & come across something i've ever only seen in a fictional context

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

yeah, i'm a witch. a woman in this capitalist hellscape.

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

niche posting: getting real tired of being shaken like a cocktail being made by an over-eager bartender on the 7000-series metro trains coming in to vienna

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

made it a point to go see this in person! i cannot oversell how Large it is (or how impressive)

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

another day, another text from my mother casually destroying me because it consists solely of "Ok."

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

i think we should stop reviving things. what's dead should stay dead.

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

my sister is watching VERONICA MARS, which is causing me to remember plot points from VERONICA MARS & oh, my god

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

paul gross says "fuck" so easily, so fluidly, so FLUENTLY in SLINGS & ARROWS!! it's honestly some of the most natural swearing i've ever seen on screen

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"he was a racist, before racism was invented" the sickness of this burn ABOUT VOLTAIRE in this book about climate change

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

realizing now that i...do not actually know the verses to I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU. i thought i did, but no: those are actually the verses for TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

is it so hard to ask a silly daily game to be ai free? APPARENTLY

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

i've been spoiled by my home, wherein i've heard my neighbors exactly twice & it was because they were using an industrial vacuum, because i'm dog-sitting rn at some else's & i can hear. everything.

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

every time there's a "here's a bunch of free ebooks" sale that's, like, time-limited, i end up just clicking through all the links and buying everything with the intention of letting future me sort it out

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

not our superintendent writing "please, for the love of god, put your kids on the bus" in a district-wide e-mail

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

TODAY I (re-)READ: @aribaranwrites.bsky.social 's HOME ICE ADVANTAGE (Penalty Box #3), largely because I saw the ARC for book 5 on Edelweiss & thought "I gotta keep studying up"*

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

TODAY I READ: a string of hockey romances, including: 》Avon Gale & Piper Vaughn's GOALIE INTERFERENCE & TRADE DEADLINE 》Eden Finley & Saxon James' CHARMING PUCKBOY 》Brigham Vaughn's CHEAP SHOT all of which i think i found on a rec list of himbo romance

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

TODAY I READ: an ARC of @hernibsen.bsky.social 's CHILDREN OF EMPIRE, a Critical Role tie-in novel for the Mighty Nein that i JUMPED ON, kudos to the author for carrying through these distinct, compelling voices so clearly & entertainingly

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

TODAY I READ: an ARC of @melissacaruso.bsky.social 's THE LAST STAR IN THE VOID, the last book in THE ECHO ARCHIVES, which simultaneously asks (with equal weight in the narrative): "what if altruistic actions still have world-rending consequences" & "what do i get my girl for fantasy valentines"

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

reading reviews of eco-friendly laundry detergent & the number of these things that don't even tell you how well said product CLEANS CLOTHES—

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

went on a trail ride yesterday, really came to the conclusion that anyone who has ever looked at someone else on a horse & thought "oh no, they're hot" was lying

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

TODAY I READ: an ARC of @fozmeadows.bsky.social 's GODBURNED, which is a mystery wrapped in a recovery wrapped in the mortifying idea of being known. my only beef with this book (which is now on my "to buy" list) is that the front page said "MAPS TK".

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

TODAY I READ: an ARC of the (re-release? UK release?) of @alexandrarowland.bsky.social 's YIELD UNDER GREAT PERSUASION and the related THE LIGHTS OF YSTRAC'S WOOD, two very different stories (one's more of a romance, the other has the edges of a fairy tale) in the same universe

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

TODAY I READ: Richard Zacks' THE PIRATE COAST and Len Travers' THE NOTORIOUS EDWARD LOW, some of the last gasps of pirate summer

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

TODAY I READ: an ARC of Ashlyn Kane and Morgan James' PLAYING HIS GAME, which has one of the best reasons for fake dating i've ever seen, like they tripped backwards into that one craigslist post

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

TODAY I READ: an ARC of @eliawinters.bsky.social 's THE ROOMMATE SUBTEXT, a warm, funny, and delightfully kinky modern take on THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL

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