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Cheryl

@cherylwriting.bsky.social
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Fondly remembering haunting used bookstore stacks. Writer of stories. Owner of impressive TBR piles.

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Happy Caturday #cat #calligraphy youtu.be/qEfqJ_1bCKc?...
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How to write Cat font alphabet
YouTube video by 書道家 東宮たくみ
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Never feel guilty for borrowing books from a library. Authors LOVE libraries. And libraries pay authors a small sum every time one of their books is borrowed (which in many cases comes to more than the percentage earned from the sale of a book in a discount outlet)...
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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Latest package of bliss (books) has arrived from #betterworldbooks ...including the Joe Hill prompted by @stinasdemons.com 's mention ::rubbing-hands-delightedly::
stack of books, spines of : King Sorrow (Joe Hill), The Gathering (Anne Enright), Her Little Flowers (Shannon Morgan), Black Dogs (Ian McEwan), The Other Valley (Scott Alexander Howard)
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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Lucky #Portland (OR) #film www.criterion.com/current/post...
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Next Stop: The Criterion Mobile Closet in Portland, Oregon
For our first trip this year, Criterion is bringing the Mobile Closet to PAM CUT in May, along with some exciting additional programming.
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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
personal best yay me take the woo-hoos where you find them 🧩 Puzzle #985 🤔 5 guesses ⏱️ 19s 🔗 alphaguess.com/985
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alphaguess: a daily word game
Guess the word of the day. Each guess reveals where the word sits alphabetically. Played by 300k+ people every month.
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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 14/03/2026
Reading an article on the intricacies of training "AI" & it sounds like tech is spending m/billions of dollars to ask experts & laypeople to come up w every possible question & answer humans can ask about every single possibility/topic & that's not a machine learning anything, it's a cheat sheet
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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Supporting this Kickstarter now within its last 24 hours would be very happy-making. Thanks for your consideration. (It's not me, but it's a great idea and person) www.kickstarter.com/projects/ras...
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The "Tramble, Tarot, and..." Podcast
Not just a tarot podcast. "Tramble, Tarot, and..." is where I show how tarot connects to daily life by putting myself on the spot.
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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Very excited about this proposed (Kickstarter) vid-podcast from @rashunda.bsky.social (pls consider, especially if #tarot is a thing with you) www.kickstarter.com/projects/ras...
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The "Tramble, Tarot, and..." Podcast
Not just a tarot podcast. "Tramble, Tarot, and..." is where I show how tarot connects to daily life by putting myself on the spot.
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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Alert: Criterion are having a sale again. 30% off through 22nd, I believe. Unsure if there are any country restrictions. criterion.com #film #video
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The Criterion Collection
Discover important classic and contemporary cinema from around the world. Browse our continuing series of Blu-ray and DVD editions, featuring award-winning supplemental features.
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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Perhaps from now on, when I'm feeling cranky, I'll just say, "I'm feeling Darwin-y today." thx @lettersofnote.com news.lettersofnote.com/p/oh-my-god-...
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Oh my God how I do hate species & varieties
Unhappy Birthday Charles Darwin
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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Very excited about this proposed (Kickstarter) vid-podcast from @rashunda.bsky.social (pls consider, especially if #tarot is a thing with you) www.kickstarter.com/projects/ras...
kickstarter.com
The "Tramble, Tarot, and..." Podcast
Not just a tarot podcast. "Tramble, Tarot, and..." is where I show how tarot connects to daily life by putting myself on the spot.
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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Ah! An extra, a surprise, from this VitalFarms egg :)
cast iron skillet holds four eggs in the process of being cooked "over easy"; one is a double-yolked egg! Yolk colors are rich orange. Pan is black. Whites are half-cooked.
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pixelgraphix @pixelgraphix.de · 05/02/2026
Ein Tintehörnchen 🐿️🖋️ #squirrel #drawing #mastoart #zeichnung #inkdrawing #sketch #fountainpen #KleineKunstklasse
Schwarze Zeichnung eines Eichhörnchens von hinten. Der Schwanz fällt nach rechts.
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Olivia Pumpkin Portlander 🐙🎃🍋🐊🦋☂️ @sallyfisherprice.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
This is all I needed to see on the internet today. Tapping out.
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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Ah! This is so great! (thx for the many times you lifted my spirits :) )
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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Let's just say that I'm *very* impressed with my first order from JetPens ... I mean. Yeah, products are excellent. Variety...pricing...all good. But even the packaging when it arrived...I half expected to uncover a handblown glass orchid or something. vv pleased with this new find. jetpens.com
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JetPens - The Best Pens & Stationery From Japan & Beyond
Fine writing instruments, office supplies and art products imported from Japan and Europe. Bestselling brands include Pilot, Uni, and Zebra. Free US domestic shipping for orders over $35!
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Stream 4,000+ Public Domain Movies on WikiFlix: Silent Classics, Academy Award-Winners, Hitchcock Films & More
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Stream 4,000+ Public Domain Movies on WikiFlix: Silent Classics, Academy Award-Winners, Hitchcock Films & More
Humanity was already enjoying motion pictures a century ago. But the ability to do so at home still lay a few decades in the future, and the ability to pull up a movie on demand through a streaming se...
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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
I love the creatures on the home page!! congratulations on the new website @emilyhare.com
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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
an admirable list this is inspiring, even
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Jodi Ettenberg @legalnomads.com · 01/01/2026
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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Ruth Ware (whose book, *The Lying Game*, I am now reading and have been totally sucked into -- well done, madam -- has here NAILED IT ON THE EFFING HEAD.
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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Joyous Solstice and/or Happy Christmas and/or whatever you may be celebrating. For xmas card this year I tried out Procreate. Title: "Find Your Joy" (first vid I've posted; hope I do this correctly)
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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
My first go at "Engelsaugen" ("Angel Eyes") are ready to go in the oven. #baking
a pan of 20 shortbread cookies with dab of raspberry jam in center
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 867: Your authorial voice is the product of your background, your education, your experiences, all the books you have read. It may change with time, and depending on the narrative voice you adopt, but will keep the same range and register. Celebrate it. It's unique.
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Ginny Di @ginnydi.com · 01/12/2025
I love paying human artists and I hate gen AI 🩵 I'm not here to fight about whether or not AI is ethical (I've made my decision and I doubt I'm gonna change yours.) I'm just here to talk about what I and many other artists have been dealing with as we adjust to a new media landscape.
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Please note not AI. Never AI. Just as NFT means No Fucking Thanks, AI means Arseholes Involved.
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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
"Your brain doesn't believe what's true. It believes what you repeat. Your thoughts shape your feelings. Your feelings drive your actions." There's no mention of science, arguments, or evidence. That's why it's so hard to change people's minds with facts. #GoodMorning, everyone
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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Back from vet. (annual check, not a crisis, tho new issue was spotted... ) Relieved there are such things as credit cards (were that it were not so) Now having bowl of #oatmeal and farro to fortify myself.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
your moment of calm: huddled least sandpipers on a floating log
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Steve Niles @steveniles.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Happy Birthday, Alan Moore
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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Quite enjoyed the musings @catherinemccarthy.bsky.social :)
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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
yeah baseball
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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Just for the record, Cornish pasties are entirely decadent
2 baked savory pasties, a sort of pie you could hold, in a half moon shape. Very flaky rich pastry
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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
#sewing #historic
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Karen Carpenter’s Halloween @kellylink.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
All of these are good. I also a) take a shower or go swimming b) watch a terrible movie c) type out part of a story by a writer whom I love (and have very little obvious writerly DNA in common with)
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Valley Times, North Hollywood, California, October 26, 1955. #31DaysofHalloween
Halloween upcoming - Black vat stalks Lankershim boulevard in the heart of North Hollywood as reminder of Halloween activities going on throughout this weekend and Monday night. 
Newspaper clipping. Photo above text of giant black cat in the street.
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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Many (white-tailed) deer seen in walk through town/neighbourhoods to the Co-op (grocer's). On the way there, a boy and his (hoped for) harem; on way home, just the girls being naughty by nibbling rose bushes. #deer #wildlife #walk
4 of the 6-7 deer seen first seen. in empty grassy-weedy lot in neighbourhood. mature trees, some changing to red. in center, behind post of a stop sign is the male, with antlers, and intent on one of females. others nibbling and nearest one looking at me.5 female whte-tailed deer nibbling on shrubs including roses between paved street littered with leaves and a circa 1900s well-cared-for two story blue house. a 'no parking' sign can be seen next to 2 of left-most deer
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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
How can you not be altogether intrigued by this title: *The Cellar Below the Cellar Just announced for presale by Apex Book Co. www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the... #folk #horror
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The Cellar Below the Cellar
Preorder and save 30%! Release Date 2/18/26 A playfully dark, coming-of-age folk horror inspired by the fairy tale "Vasilisa the Beautiful" and the mythology around Frau Perchta, set under the blazing...
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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
@catsofyore.bsky.social Spotted a wee cat in the header photo of today's Sweary History (On this day in history) ... and it was featured in the short tale, as well. jamesfell.substack.com/p/going-over... Always enjoy your posts. Thanks :)
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Going Over Niagara Falls in a Barrel
On This Day in History: October 24
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23/10/2025
“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡
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Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI
Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.
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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 22/10/2025
🚨📣 PSA: Criterion is having a flash 50% off sale for 24 hours til noon ET tomorrow 📣🚨
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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Bat Conservation Inter'l free webinar on vampire bats. 30 October Sign-up: www.simpletix.com/e/the-social... (I am) not affiliated; just a (bat) fan
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The Social Lives of Vampire Bats - Webinar Tickets | Bat Conservation International
Join us Oct 30 for a special Bat Month webinar with Dr. Gerald Carter, the world’s leading expert on vampire bats. Discover the surprising truth about these misunderstood animals—and how science can t...
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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
This from @kristenarnett.bsky.social's latest "Am I the Literary Asshole" is going to every single artist I know who has even ever been tempted by the machine: lithub.com/am-i-the-lit...
You need to stop putting your work into these platforms, immediately. 

[HIGHLIGHTED]I could get up on a high horse and give you a million reasons why you should not ever, under any circumstances be doing this when it comes to the greater collective (theft of others work and effort and time, the fact that it depletes our natural resources). But I only need tell you that you are ruining your chance at creative happiness. It’s ruining your brain. I know this because it’s making you bleed joy.[END HIGHLIGHTING]

Your letter troubled me, friend. I worry that you have decided to just let go of all thought and let a computer think for you. That’s not what writing and passion and creativity is about. It’s not art. You do not need generative AI to give you story ideas. You do not need a robot to tell you whether your work is good. Only you can do that. Stop roadblocking your own writing life.
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Book Cover of the Day:
Ed Gorey cover:
Nineteenth Century German Tales
Edited by Angel Flores
A Doubleday Anchor Original
Illustration of spider in flames with scrubby landscape and cliffside in background.
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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Joy
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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ サイミ @saimihanma.northsky.social · 13/10/2025
Does anyone here print their own zines? Since the cost of printing zines with Mixam has gone way up, I'm looking into the idea of getting a printer for zines and I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with DIY zine printing. I'm thinking it would be cheaper in the long run.
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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
So a very “fall” (autumn) day and launching right into baking mode. Strawberry pecan quick bread recipe I’m trying out here—then, this afternoon, grape pie. Excuse, pls, the condition of the oven window etc #baking
Dark gray 9” x 5” loaf pan holding 3/4 complete golden brown loaf of a sweet quick bread, as seen through somewhat grimy oven window
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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
immense and useful thread 🧵 (disclaimer: I've not finished reading it all; very long) #writing #writingcommunity
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
My cartoon for the books page in this week’s @theguardian.com
Title: Where writers really get their ideas.

A writer, holding a note in his outstretched hand approaches a cart in the park. The front of the cart reads 'Fresh ideas' and a colourful umbrella shades the server who is reaching deep into the body of the cart (much as an ice-cream vendor might) and saying:
 "I'm all out of mind-blowing concepts and heart-rending narratives, but I've got an acerbic observation, an unexpected outcome and a couple of amusing notions."
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Uncanny Japan Podcast--Thersa Matsuura👹👋 @uncannyjapan.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
The farmer behind us brought us some freshly harvested rice. He gives a bag to all the houses surrounding his fields. 💕🍚
Bag of rice on table.
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