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Mel / MJ (she/they) @emjayenzed.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Darkspear Dash day in World of Warcraft! Donated and dashed/lagged all the way to Silvermoon, powered by rainbow pride! Thanks to the heroes at @warcraftcares.bsky.social

The fit, featuring a Zandalari troll paladin with pink hair

Got disconnected 3 times in the starting area due to rainbow powered lag! This screenshot shows some of the runners

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Mel / MJ (she/they) @emjayenzed.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The upstairs mezzanine level has a “kafa” (coffee) bar and seating as well as more bookshelves to browse.

Entering the cafe level, with seating areas, bookshelves and a fireplace

View of the interior of the upper level, with different seating options, fireplace & coffee bar encircling a space open to the downstairs. A view outside is visible from a green-curtained window. A flower basket hangs from the ceiling above the open space.

Close up of the coffee bar, made from Suramar benches and decor. Stacked white coffee mugs sit amongst coffee bags & a brewing machine. A sink and fridge adjoining the serving bar, with the coffee machine in business filling a customer’s order.

Peering down through the open space upstairs to the bottom floor of the bookshop.

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Mel / MJ (she/they) @emjayenzed.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The stairway to the upper floor of the bookshop, where the coffee bar is

Wooden stairs leading up, with a ”Kafa” sign on the right-hand wall pointing up

The upper floor, with bookshelves and seating area

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Mel / MJ (she/they) @emjayenzed.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Really enjoying the new housing content in World of Warcraft. I’ve been a hardcore player some years ago but now all I have time & energy for is cozy! So I’m building a bookshop with a coffee bar upstairs, inside 1 room of my house, for the @wowkea.bsky.social @meggoart.bsky.social May challenge!

Screenshot of a building in the World of Warcraft MMORPG. It is the interior of a bookshop, with a book sign overhead and stairs that lead off to the left, up to a cafe. There’s lots of wood, red, purple and gold tones.

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Mel / MJ (she/they) @emjayenzed.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

You’d never know that I’ve been in my biggest reading slump of the last decade for 6 months now. Definitely found some amazing new faves this year, including @wiswell.bsky.social and @cayemarsh.bsky.social so 2025 wasn’t a complete wash!

2025 reading wrap-up summary for my StoryGraph account, showing that I finished 146 books & my top genre was Fantasy.

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Mel / MJ (she/they) @emjayenzed.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Birthday book haul! My spouse organised with a bunch of my fam & friends to get me books and it made for the loveliest surprise to go collect them from our local indie bookstore today 😭🩷 and then we visit some Little Free Libraries & I picked up a few 2nd hand books there (and dropped off 20). 🇳🇿 📚

Photo of a stack of new trade paperback books including “The Rose Field” by Philip Pullman, “The Book of Elsewhere” by Keanu Reeves & China Miéville, “The Waiting” by Michael Connelly and “The Raven Scholar” by Antonia Hodgson

Photo of a stack of new paperback books including “The Will of the Many” by James Islington, “The Impossible Fortune” by Richard Osman, “Great Big Beautiful Life” by Emily Henry, “We Love you Bunny” by Mona Awad and “Swordheart” by T. Kingfisher

Stack of used books including a “Where’s Wally?”, “Fill the Tin” cookbook by Sophie Gray, hardcover copy of “Cultish” by Amanda Montell, Sarah Water’s “The Night Watch”, and “One Virgin Too Many” by Lindsey Davis

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Mel / MJ (she/they) @emjayenzed.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I won a giveaway hosted by my fave bookstore in Auckland, Time Out, so went in today to pick up my prize: a copy of Katabasis by R.F. Kuang! Love any excuse to go to Mt Eden, but a free book is the best one yet. Beautiful cherry blossoms lining side streets & good coffee were an added bonus. 💙📚🇳🇿

Photo of the trade paperback edition of “Katabasis” by R.F. Kuang; featuring a black and white cover with gold foiled accents. The book rests on a paper bag, and a cardboard bookmark branded with the details of the Time Out Bookstore in Mount Eden, Auckland, rests atop the cover.

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Mel / MJ (she/they) @emjayenzed.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Between 1974-1982, my Koro Ron was the keeper for four different lighthouses: Mokohīnau, Cape Brett, Portland Island & Cape Reinga. It was a wild & difficult lifestyle, but both Koro & Nana Val loved it. It was their version of retirement after Koro left the army. #kikorangi #nz

Photo of Ronald Allen, a lean, bearded white man, leaning against the driver’s door of a rust-spotted pale blue Jeep.

Photo taken by Ron Allen of his wife Valerie through the glass panes of the Cape Reinga lighthouse. She is a dark-haired, tanned-skinned, middle-aged woman smiling broadly, wearing a red polo neck jumper and coat. The lighthouse bulb is visible, blurred, in the foreground.

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Mel / MJ (she/they) @emjayenzed.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

My grandfather, Ronald Allen, was one of the last lighthouse keepers in Aotearoa New Zealand before automation. With his wife Val & two youngest sons, he lived in some of the wildest parts of NZ, making sure both passing ships and local native wildlife were safe. #familyhistory #lighthouse

Photo of a white lighthouse at Cape Reinga in the very north of New Zealand, set against a very blue sky with bush & grass-covered hillside in the background. In the foreground is a sign post with yellow branches pointing in the direction of, and listing distances to, the Equator, Sydney, Bluff, Suva, the Tropic of Capricorn, and Panama. Photo copyright Mel Allen

Distanced photo of the lighthouse, homestead, and tourist car park at Cape Reinga, set atop a bushy hillside and overlooking the azure Pacific Ocean

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Mel / MJ (she/they) @emjayenzed.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

If you see this, post a picture of a tree #ArborDay

Photo of a dark-needled tree growing out of patchy green grass, framing a soft blue ocean and clouded sky.

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Mel / MJ (she/they) @emjayenzed.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

North-West Auckland weather update! No rain, just sogginess. Video alt text: 8 second panning shot showing a sky full of blue-grey clouds and misty air above the dense suburbs of West Auckland #aotearoa #newzealand #auckland #weather

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Mel / MJ (she/they) @emjayenzed.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Sunset is my favourite time of day. Took this a few days ago; made me wish I had my actual camera instead of an old cellphone! Also, I saw a lot of dogs being walked, so all in all it was a very good evening. #aotearoa #newzealand #auckland

Photo of the moon rising at sunset in a pastel-toned sky, over a calm seaside and suburb.

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Mel / MJ (she/they) @emjayenzed.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Here’s my stoned furbaby with his catnip ball from Kat’s Garden:

Closeup photo of a black and white tuxedo cat lying on his side on a white quilt, holding a small neon yellow felt ball. His eyes are mostly closed because he is tired and happy from chasing the ball for 15 minutes.

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Mel / MJ (she/they) @emjayenzed.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

@kats-garden.nz my boy immediately fell in love with his new toy! I’m sick in bed today so it’s been a special delight to be able to watch him play. #cats #aotearoa #nz

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Mel / MJ (she/they) @emjayenzed.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

If you see this, and you're in the mood for this kind of thing, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery.

Photo of a pōhutukawa tree in bloom, with red flowers bright against a summery blue sky. The tree is rooted in a grassy bank that leads down to the white sand seashore at Little Manly Bay in Whangaparāoa, New Zealand.

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Mel / MJ (she/they) @emjayenzed.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Here’s some teefs from my boy Buck 💕

A black and white tuxedo cat is being held upside down by a barely visible person. His mouth is opened slightly & two little fangs are visible. He has long white whiskers and greenish yellow eyes.

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Mel / MJ (she/they) @emjayenzed.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

“Nona the Ninth” by Tamsyn Muir. Joy tastes best when it’s a little bittersweet.

Cover of “Nona the Ninth” by Tamsyn Muir. Image features a girl with her dark hair braided, smiling softly. She wears a graphic tee shirt and an oversized coat sliding down her arms. In one hand she carries a gas mask. In the background are skeletons and a dog with six legs, sand dunes, and an ominous night sky full of stars and a moon or planet.

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Mel / MJ (she/they) @emjayenzed.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

What is a book you found because of Booktok that ended up being a 5⭐️ read? Booktok introduced me to T. Kingfisher & I’ll always be grateful! Love all her works, but special shout out to “Paladin’s Grace” & the Saint of Steel series for being a romantasy that I could enjoy 💙📚 #booksky

The cover of “Paladin’s Grace”, a romantic fantasy novel by Hugo Award winning author T Kingfisher. The design features motifs from the book, including a sword and knitting needles, in blue, green and purple on a black background.

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Mel / MJ (she/they) @emjayenzed.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

This is my TBR shelf; it lives in my bedroom, hence the shelf of medications & skincare in the centre there. But I find looking at it very soothing because books bring me so much comfort! I keep most of my books in our living/lounge room though. #booksky #chronicallyill #skincare

A pine wood bookshelf showing four individual shelves. The top two are full of books, as is the one at the bottom. The third shelf down contains assorted medications, skincare items and a small mirror.

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Mel / MJ (she/they) @emjayenzed.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

My copy of All The Weyrs of Pern was given to me by my grandparents as a reward for passing School Certificate (5th form/year 11). They’re both gone now but I think fondly of them every time I see/hear Pern or Anne McCaffrey mentioned. Is this a #familyheirloom? 😆 💙📚🪐

The cover of “All The Weyrs of Pern” by Anne McCaffrey featuring a large white dragon perched on a console inside a space ship and a smaller, gold fire lizard pressing buttons on a keyboard with its muzzle. A large window behind looks out towards a blue planet. My hand is visible as I hold the book up in front of a bookshelf.

My hand is visible as I hold the “All The Weyrs of Pern” by Anne McCaffrey up in front of a bookshelf, open to the first page which is a brief biography of the author. Handwritten above and below the printed text is a message from my grandmother: To Melissa, Love Nana, Grandad & Ronwyn. 2000. For getting School Cert.

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Mel / MJ (she/they) @emjayenzed.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Sadly, I don’t have copies of my earliest fan creations bc after I left home, my folks had a clean out before they sold the house & everything I left got binned. But I do still have my Anne McCaffrey books, including this 1993 pb that was actually my dad’s, and the first Pern book I read! 💙📚🪐

The cover of the 1993 paperback edition of “The White Dragon” by Anne McCaffrey, featuring an illustration of a pale dragon perched on a rock cliff edge, with his rider standing beside. The book is battered around the edges & looks well-read.

The cover of the 1993 paperback edition of “The White Dragon” by Anne McCaffrey featuring a faded and cracked red spine, lying atop a pile of other books on a shelf.

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Mel / MJ (she/they) @emjayenzed.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

90% of snapchats I receive are just my husband sending me photos of our furchild. #tuxedocat

Photo of a black and white tuxedo cat laying on his side on carpet, staring at the camera with his front paws crossing.

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Mel / MJ (she/they) @emjayenzed.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

My last read of 2024 is also my last 5 star book of 2024, and will be my first purchase in 2025. “The Grimmelings” by Rachael King is a beautifully written haunting fantasy that made me feel like a kid again; horse-mad & convinced the world was secretly magical. #booksky #pukapuka

Cover of The Grimmelings by Rachael King, featuring a girl with long dark hair looking directly at the viewer, in front of a huge black horse, framed by a moody sky.

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Mel / MJ (she/they) @emjayenzed.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

TikTok has tried to tell me that a cat cleaning itself while sitting on me means it trusts & loves me. TikTok has clearly not met my cat, who definitely only does this to torture/punish me.

Photo of the head of a black and white cat which is being held upside down, with his fangs showing.

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Mel / MJ (she/they) @emjayenzed.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

My Ancestry.com.au ethnicity estimate is pretty accurate to my 4xGGPs… provided I combine Germanic Europe with England, and Denmark & Norway in with Scotland 😅🤦‍♀️ #genealogy #DNA

Screencap of my Ancestry ethnicity estimate that shows I’m 48% English, 20% Welsh, 9% Scottish, 7% Germanic European, 6% Danish, 5% Irish, 3% Norwegian, and 2% Portuguese.

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Mel / MJ (she/they) @emjayenzed.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Actively re-enchanting my life and healing my Self through connection to the sacred Earth and the power of the Goddess. #witchsky #pagansky #goddess

Photo of a small pagan altar that shows a grey resin statue of the goddess Diana holding a crescent shaped bow above her head, surrounded by a small black bowl containing water, a smokey quartz point crystal, pink flowered lavender in an iridescent vase, a lit incense stick in a holder, and a lit beeswax candle in a silver candlestick covered in was drips.

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Mel / MJ (she/they) @emjayenzed.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Today I read The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed & now I need to mainline everything else she’s ever written, stat! If you like magical forests, creepy fairy monsters & an actual grownass woman as your protagonist, then you need to smash this novella right now. Such good prose! #booksky

Screenshot of a book called “The Butcher of the Forest” by Premee Mohamed in the Libby library app. The book cover is dark, in tones of green & black, dotted with red apples, and also features orange-gold woodland creatures and a unicorn, except their heads have been replaced by skulls. The Libby app shows that the eBook was returned to the library today.

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Mel / MJ (she/they) @emjayenzed.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Repost with one of your favorite books you’ve read this year! #booksky

Cover of a book called The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett, with the tagline “A peculiar crime. A brilliant investigator. A mystery of epic proportions.” The design shows a red sky above a giant wall with a crack in it, and with giant fungi and weird foliage in the foreground.

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Mel / MJ (she/they) @emjayenzed.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Headache day today. Got an audiobook and my little buddy though, so no complaints!

A black and white tuxedo cat laying asleep on his side atop a blue blanket.

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Mel / MJ (she/they) @emjayenzed.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Hit my yearly reading goal the other day! 🙌

A screenshot of a Storygraph page showing my 2024 reading goal of 200 books has been met.

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Mel / MJ (she/they) @emjayenzed.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Reading a library book, and up pops my 3x-great grandfather! 🩷 One of my MANY Scottish ancestors.

Photo of a page from a book, showing a portrait of a bearded white man named K. B. Ferguson, who was a farmer in Blueskin Bay New Zealand.

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