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ellie maybe @ellie.thecancellations.com · 19h

Spotify for artists hates our music so much that they're making people unlisten to it

A screenshot from Spotify's artist app that says negative 1 person is listening right now

ellie maybe @ellie.thecancellations.com · 07/10/2026

6. Ogre (alt text includes full text) CAN YOU TELL WE GOT THE NEW PRICES FOR OUR HEALTH INSURANCE TODAY CAN YOU #inktober2026 #flashfiction #writingcommunity

6. OGRE

Lost another finger at the factory? Macrospora in the rations again? Don’t have the bankroll to join an insurance cult? DON’T WORRY! Your closest OMEGACORP GENERAL REVITALIZER & ELECTROCOAGULATOR — or OGRE, for short — is located at [ENTER PATIENT LOCATION TO POPULATE]. Just look for the big green box, pay up, and step in!
Quality of care relies on YOU! How much treatment do you need? $1,000? $2,500? $10,000? STRAPPED FOR CASH? Get strapped down and enjoy half-off all treatments when you sign our Calibration Contract! Survival not guaranteed.
Need meds without all the mess? NO APPOINTMENT NECESSARY! Scan your government-issued ID, birth certificate, credit report, thumb print, medical records, and free-walking permit at the chute to try your luck! Prizes from bupropranalol to strychnine to GLP-X — which will heal YOU?
OMEGACORP LOVES SPOOKY SEASON! All Death is 13% off through October! Offer not valid on Painless or Instant packages.

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ellie maybe @ellie.thecancellations.com · 07/10/2026

Spouse printed me a cool pink tree for jewelry photography. I still need to figure out a flatlay setup bc you can't see how they'd wear, but these do look really neat I think!

Earrings with swirly purple beads and holey triangles hanging from the pink tree

Chaos chain with different off-white beads and chainmail bits slung over the pink tree

Opera necklace tangled in the Pink plastic tree. The necklace has swirly purple beats and chainmail bits.

Chainmail jester necklace with blue goldstone beads on the pink tree

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ellie maybe @ellie.thecancellations.com · 06/10/2026

He likes to lay on his with his head hanging off on the floor sometimes! This stack was just for vacuuming, he (obviously) doesn't mind the thickness lol. The thickest/sturdiest bed we got is actually that bottom one and it was like $35 from Costco! He loves it

A black and tan dog sleeps in his dog bed but his head is on the floor outside of the dog bed

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ellie maybe @ellie.thecancellations.com · 06/10/2026

5 Smack (alt text includes full text) in just under the wire. i do not like this word so this one was tough to get going. i'm so tired it may not make sense. ta da. #inktober2026 #flashfiction

5. SMACK

Floth has a wind so bitter it reminds me of my mother. Nothing like Ursa 29’s operatic baritone; or Tau Ceti k’s gusts so frisky they’d smack your ass every time they kicked up. The locals say it’s Flothyska herself, checking in to see if we’re looking after her only child.
Well. We aren’t. We cooked this planet like the last three. In record time, too, Turns out Floth’s got oil. And even though we’ve been renewable since Earth 2, a few dorks with nothing to contribute got hard over a finite resource and drilled straight through.
Usually we’d just leave; adopt the Flothysks and strike out on the black sea yet again. But the Flothysks said no! Burnt our ships. Laughed about it. So we get to die with the planet for once, like we should’ve light-years ago. It’ll be nice to see mom again, anyway.

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ellie maybe @ellie.thecancellations.com · 03/10/2026

If you are like me & love pumpkin spice anything but find PSLs overbearingly sweet, this recipe is my gift to you: Blend canned pumpkin & canned coconut milk 1:1. Add cinnamon+ if you want. Add to coffee. Ta da! 🎃🥥

A squeeze bottle of pumpkin-guts-orange creamer with a blue tape label.

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ellie maybe @ellie.thecancellations.com · 02/10/2026

Oops, that one was a whole exchange...

Sender: Welcome to Actually True Australian Facts! Did you know that Australia was teh first continent to send a craft to Mars? Scientists say the first boomerang in space is due back on earth in the year 2041. Wow!
Recipient: That's amazing. Didn't I send a kangaroo up in space back in 69, too?
Sender: No, you don't want to know what we did with the kangaroos in 69.
Sender: You'll need to tune into Actually True Australian Fucks for that information.

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ellie maybe @ellie.thecancellations.com · 02/10/2026

My spouse changed his Android Auto voice to "Australian Woman 1" (or whatever). Google recently removed the Google Assistant option from AnAuto, and AW1 has become more...emphatic as Gemini (🫠). Recently, I've been sending him Actually True Australian Facts for AW1 to read to him on his drive home:

Drive safe and thank you for tuning in to Actually True Australian Facts. Did you know that our national STD is chlamydia thanks to the loveable and promiscuous koala? It's actually true, mate!

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ellie maybe @ellie.thecancellations.com · 02/10/2026

I haven't done Inktober since ~2018. Which is fine, because I suck at drawing. But writing uses ink, right? So... This year I'm doing it with flash fiction! 150 word limit, and I'll thread them all under this post as I go. Idea swiped from @quietsnooze.bsky.social 🖤 #inktober2026 #flashfiction

Inktober 2026 Official Prompt List
1. Apple
2. Relic
3. Miniature
4. Cactus
5. Smack
6. Ogre
7. Panic
8. Stinky
9. Ram
10. Mystical
11. Rescue
12. Toss
13. Flimsy
14. Lady
15. Hooray
16. Gangly
17. Contraption
18. Flightless
19. Confused
20. Lounge
21. Hero
22. Beacon
23. Dapper
24. Bake
25. Fracture
26. Zip
27. Dumb
28. Trophy
29. Tusk
30. Cookie
31. Flex

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ellie maybe @ellie.thecancellations.com · 01/10/2026

this is easily the worst name and logo i have ever seen

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ellie maybe @ellie.thecancellations.com · 01/10/2026

I realized my new spider earrings from @peculiarityshop.bsky.social match the necklace I just finished a couple days ago perfectly, so I'll at least be keeping this one thru spooky season... 🕷️

Spider earring with purple gem that matches a long chain & bead necklace almost exactly.

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ellie maybe @ellie.thecancellations.com · 29/09/2026

Creativity accountability thread, day 62: Crappy workday at the job I hate. Barely made it. Finished this opera necklace. Counts double cuz I ran out of the small rings and had to disassemble part of another WIP to do it, heh. I will take a less shitty photo soon.

A hand holding a long necklace. It's made of purple and dark blue beads, Byzantine and swirly chainmail links, and round chain.

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ellie maybe @ellie.thecancellations.com · 28/09/2026

Creativity accountability thread, day 61: Played with jewelry again. A little obsessed with the necklace I'm making. Might keep, even though I'm not much of a purple person.

An orange and pink cloud shaped tray covered in beads, jump rings, and chainmail bits.

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ellie maybe @ellie.thecancellations.com · 26/09/2026

Creativity accountability thread, day 59: I worked on some jewelry and then I went to my writing group. Now I am very very very very very tired, so here's Dog telling me he doesn't want to howl a second time

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ellie maybe @ellie.thecancellations.com · 25/09/2026

Creativity accountability thread, day 58: Wrapped* up the chaos chain today, except for the clasp situation, which I will probably change up once I can justify another supply order (meaning I need to set up the damn shop on my website already). *Hehehe

A tattooed person wearing a silver chain necklace wrapped as a choker three times. The sections and types of chain and beads are all mismatched, hence: chaos chain.

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ellie maybe @ellie.thecancellations.com · 24/09/2026

Creativity accountability thread, day 57: Managed to dig my way out of a scene edit that derailed my momentum this weekend, so that's pretty cool. This guy really did not want to let me write today, though.

A black and tan large breed dog lays on the back couch cushion like a jungle cat preparing for a nap. Ellie's laptop is in frame with a word processor open.

A black and tan large breed dog lays on the back couch cushion like a jungle cat taking a nap, but closer.

A black and tan large breed dog lays on the back couch cushion like a jungle cat who just woke up from his nap, but much closer.

The back half of a black and tan dog has moved up and rolled off the back couch cushion onto Ellie and her laptop.

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ellie maybe @ellie.thecancellations.com · 23/09/2026

So I picked this up on a whim because I was so invested in @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social's universe in The Space Between Worlds that it haunted me and tinted everything I read after it for months...and I had no goddamn clue this was set in the same world. WONDERFUL SURPRISE. #booksky

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ellie maybe @ellie.thecancellations.com · 23/09/2026

Creativity accountability thread, day 56: Added some length to my chaos chain today!

Ellie's hand with a long chain draped between her fingers and over her wrist. It uses different types of stainless steel chain and chainmail weaves, and also has beads in moonstone, Jasper and opal. All the beads are off-white with grey and black patterns.

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ellie maybe @ellie.thecancellations.com · 19/09/2026

Every once in a while I wonder whether I should have chosen a different life path

An ACH transfer from ASCAP for domestic publishing royalties for $1.78

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ellie maybe @ellie.thecancellations.com · 18/09/2026

Hello Bluesky, this is Dog('s shadow).

The elongated shadow of a dog's neck and shoulders. You can see his goofy tongue hanging out. You can't see it in the photo, but he's excited to be looking at a turkey.

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ellie maybe @ellie.thecancellations.com · 18/09/2026

Tell me you lived in Nashville between 2020 - 2025 in 5 song titles:

Katie Pruitt's new album Fools for the Fleeting. Track list: 1. Matching tattoos
2. The aftermath
3. Blackout
4. Disaster
5. Little boxes
6. Not Scared to Die

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ellie maybe @ellie.thecancellations.com · 13/09/2026

Creativity accountability thread, day 46: Today I made a chainmail worm for Wormie World (my partner 3D printed & painted its friend in the photo). Also got a good chunk of editing in. Hit 45k in the manuscript. Oops.

A 3d printed screamy worm and a squiggly chainmail worm. Both are pink.

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ellie maybe @ellie.thecancellations.com · 11/09/2026

i have no business even looking right now given my financial situation but please tell this melty monstrosity that if she doesn't sell today i'm coming for her later 🚫

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ellie maybe @ellie.thecancellations.com · 10/09/2026

Creativity accountability thread, day 43: I am a human productivity yo-yo. Hit a stride with the edit, added ~700 new words, and gave myself chicken fingers.

OP's manicure: goofy yellow chicken faces on one hand, and overeasy eggs on the other.

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ellie maybe @ellie.thecancellations.com · 09/09/2026

Renew the joke domain I haven't done anything with in 10+ years? In this economy?

Renewal reminder email for France isn't real dot com

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ellie maybe @ellie.thecancellations.com · 08/09/2026

🎶enshittification of everything🎶

A screenshot from Google Maps saying "Google Maps can't find Chicago, Illinois. Make sure you search is spelled correctly. Try adding a city, state, or zip code. Try Google Search Instead."

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ellie maybe @ellie.thecancellations.com · 04/09/2026

Creativity accountability thread, day 37: Little bit of editing today. Plus I gave myself this sloppy Lisa Frank as a Trill manicure and now I'm trying my hardest not to chew it off.

Photo of a white person's hand. Their fingernails are painted in a tacky lilac purple with black and yellow spots reminiscent of Trill people from Star Trek (or leopards for people who aren't big nerds).

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ellie maybe @ellie.thecancellations.com · 02/09/2026

ICYMI: Tiktok has been trolling Luke Bryan's infantile new track "Down Goes the Whiskey" — the chorus of which is a Speak'n'Spell of DUI instructions — by ratio-ing every single one of his videos with the comment "fart goes the butt".

A screenshot of the Tiktok interface. At the top is a video of Luke Bryan with the caption "to the bar goes the truck". The comments read:
theaquaexpansionproject: fart goes the butt (74,500 likes)
Southwest Airlines: zoom goes the plane (3,036 likes)
krista: slam goes the clam (18,300 likes)
G: Down goes the volume (33,100 likes)

For context, the original video had about 10,000 likes at the time of the screenshot.

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ellie maybe @ellie.thecancellations.com · 25/08/2026

Human Gets an On-Site Job: A Story in Three Photos

A black and tan dog stares at a closed door, in disbelief that Father has walked through it without him.

A black and tan dog lays in his dog bed next to the door. He hugs a bone with his paw and stares into the distance, despondent because Father has not yet returned.

A black and tan dog smiles up at Father, a beardy man his Millennial uniform: a ninja turtles T-shirt and a Pride themed trucker hat from a macrobrewery. Dog is relieved the man has returned from his workday at the Human Factory.

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