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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anne Carson ♥️

God's Bouquet Of Undying Love

April snow.
God is waiting in the garden.
Slow as a blush,

snow shifts and settles on God.
On God's bouquet.
The trees are white nerve nets.

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Maya Williams @emmdubb16.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

📸: Kat Moraros Titus Andronicus 🩸 🥧 🗡️ events.ticketleap.com/tickets/feni...

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the lakeshore undead @thecorlew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

started 2026 as a freelance internet writer ending 2026 as a guitar and bass teacher and bookstore manager also I have a book coming out also I have another kid that's a year of growth my dudes

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You Are Good @youaregood.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Patreon and Apple Podcast subscribers will get not one but TWO bonus episodes this month!

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Ally Ang @theoceanisgay.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

my life is based on a true story

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Sara Wilcox @sawilcox28.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The "Hellfire" discussion was everything I hoped and more.

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Maya Williams @emmdubb16.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I saw a TikTok that painted Miley in the right during her live altercation with **i* Mi**j years ago… Yes, Mi**j is not great today, but we’re not going to revise the history of Miley’s racism during her Bangerz era, my goodness. Like, she wore locks and everything!

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Maya Williams @emmdubb16.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

😍😍😍😍😍😍 great to know! Thank you!!!

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You Are Good @youaregood.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We’ve got a Hunchback of Notre Dame bonus episode ready for your ears!

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Frollo from Hunchback of Notre Dame

ALT: Frollo from Hunchback of Notre Dame

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What did YOU call all the sodas at once and was it an affront to the concept of mental health awareness?

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Kay E. Bancroft’s writing is meditative, cleansing, and compulsively readable: recounting a feminine childhood transformed into something monstrous until seen through a new lens. sundress-publications.square.site/product/bloo...

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Maya Williams @emmdubb16.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Maine based friends of all ages, register for Generations in Verse at Royal River Community Players!! 😍🧡😍🧡😍🧡😍

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Maya Williams @emmdubb16.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

😍🥰🙏🏼😍🥰🙏🏼😍🥰🙏🏼

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You Are Good @youaregood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

NEW EPISODE! In which we talk a whole lot about mental health and Girl, Interrupted with our great friend @emmdubb16.bsky.social!

YOU ARE GOOD
Girl, Interrupted
Special Guest:
Maya Williams

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My newsletter has been a lot of fun lately I think, and it would be cool to me if you subscribed!!! www.thatsmarvelousnewsletter.com

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Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Here's a meaty meditation on being medicated for ADHD after not having been for quite some time. It's about all sorts of things, but largely it's about relief and it’s about grief. It's especially for you if you ever feel alone in related struggles.

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ADHD Relief and Grief, and other Odds and Ends

Okay, Happy Sunday. Below are a number a stories and other odds and ends that have caught my eye lately, and below that is meaty meditation on being medicated for ADHD after not having been for quit...

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Maya Williams @emmdubb16.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Drunk History is BACK!!!!!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. —Toni Morrison

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

That couldn’t be allowed to happen across North America—in the seat of the empire whose support makes the genocide and occupation possible. 2/2

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Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's okay because we're gonna spend the entire Hunchback episode talking about how the iconic incel villain song "I'm So Horny and Confused About It I Need You To Die"

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Maya Williams @emmdubb16.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Me Usually: I love to read everything and do a deep dive on as much as possible before I’m ever on a podcast. Me with Bonus Material with @alexsteed.bsky.social : I…I…I didn’t read the book for this one…it’s too sad okay?!!!!

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In case you don't have a copy, it's always nice to support an indie publisher: boaeditions.org/book/your-em... (Audiobook with me reading this collection also available at that link)

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Maya Williams @emmdubb16.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I don’t like Ryan Reynolds because I don’t like his wife. I don’t like Brad Pitt because I love his ex-wife.

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Maya Williams @emmdubb16.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I don’t like fumbling in front of pretty people 😅😅😅😅😅😅

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Congratulations to beestung's nominees for the Monarch Literary Awards! Willow Sipling E.K. Bartlett KB Brookins Michal ‘MJ’ Jones Loren Maria Guay Lichen Birch Wiley Helen Robertson Yufan Lu Claire Star Finch tr. Sam Nartus-Fois Read them at www.beestungmag.com

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Willow Sipling
E.K. Bartlett
KB Brookins
Michal ‘MJ’ Jones
Loren Maria Guay
Lichen
Birch Wiley
Helen Robertson
Yufan Lu
Claire Star Finch tr. Sam Nartus-Fois

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You Are Good @youaregood.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Billy Elliot had us thinking about the kindness we encounter in our lives.

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jamie loftus @jamieloftus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

my fiancée is starring in an incredible found footage movie premiering at beyond fest next month :) come see it, yay grant

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Maya Williams @emmdubb16.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Listen to me and DeeSoul talk about the poetics of aliveness! 💜🖤💜🖤 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

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O, Aliveness!

Podcast Episode · O, Word? · September 7 · 27m

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

“Though the forms expand and contract, the language at the heart of the book is pure, unadorned and direct. In Kay E. Bancroft, we have a bold new voice, finding their own perfect pitch to scream and sing." –Angel Nafis sundress-publications.square.site/product/bloo...

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Maya Williams @emmdubb16.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I finally FaceTimed my cousin last night, and it was NOURISHING 💝

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You Are Good @youaregood.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

HELLO! Do you want a discount code to get the first month of a Patreon Membership HALF OFF? This is how we stay ad free. Crowd-funding. If you've ever subscribed or are going to right now, thank you so, so much! The code is: 8EB2E

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You Are Good — Creating a podcast.

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Maya Williams @emmdubb16.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Are there any superhero movies or shows that doesn’t have their heroes work with law enforcement or law enforcement adjacent forces? I’m on season three of Invincible where there’s an attempt at a restorative justice conversation, but it all leads back to prison and I’m not having a great time.

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jamie loftus @jamieloftus.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

i keep hijacking the bluetooth speaker from the driveway to play the pirates of the caribbean theme and it is frankly driving grant to the brink

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Mainely Mandy @mainelymandy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Eating red velvet cake and watching Steel Magnolias

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Maya Williams @emmdubb16.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I facilitated Imagination Library deliveries for my undergrad social work internship, my mom’s side of the family’s favorite cry-cry movie is Steel Magnolias, Dolly was the LGBTQ affirming Christian I’ve always looked up to, & Black folks rocked with Dolly because she rocked with us. 🎸💖

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Maya Williams @emmdubb16.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

My favorite restaurant has been playing nothing but Paramore!!! YES!!!!

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jourdain searles @judysquirrels.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

for the first time in my entire life i’m dating a guy who actually respects my mind and my work. he tells me that he thinks I’m a great critic and writer every day and I believe that’s true to him. and yet, I still don’t agree? what is wrong with me?

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

"In a poetry that is as compassionate as it is beautiful, Priest shows us how even attempting to name a trauma is a nonlinear effort, a heart’s ongoing work." —Chen Chen sundress-publications.square.site/product/flor...

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jourdain searles @judysquirrels.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

really hate how much endometriosis has gotten in the way of reading, writing, working, thinking about film, existing in a way that’s not painful, sleeping well, being present… really everything lol

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

new poem new poem new poem

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Maya Williams @emmdubb16.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

What duets of queer singers of the same sex or same gender made mainstream radio?

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

to survive—for the soul to survive—you have to cultivate a strong softness, a stubborn gentleness, the most ferocious tenderness that doesn't look away, that looks, and speaks, and holds, and carries

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Honored to have a new poem, “An Evening Discussion” in Poem-a-Day. This one’s about homophobia, societal and internalized, and different methods of responding. Also, pimples & Planet Fitness. Also, tenderness. Read without swiping + hear me read it: poets.org/poem/evening...

What if we got a gun? I whispered
from my pillow to you on yours.
I’m so against it in theory, I continued,
but in practice, & these days …
Then I burst, became
a wave of laughter, & you joined me.
We were a tidal giggle. & then I felt a huge
wobble, some cosmic shudders, perhaps from
a god with skin problems
unresolved from adolescence.
Unreleased from adolescence,
childhood, I saw how I was spiritually
still in uncomfortable overalls & overall over
none of it.

You too, it seemed, as what you
then said was, What if
I became a bodybuilder? You said,
you spoke this to me
at normal volume like it was regular info,
like we were at Planet Fitness or in Galaxy
Muscle, not in our bedroom, our bed.
What if, you said, I bodybuilt so good,
so Arnold, to the point of the world turning
totally unhomophobic? Not
a speck of homophobia left, not one
subatomic particle a miserable
homophobe, the whole damn globe,
amazing, right?
& I said, Or I could become a stronger
writer, more cutting
in my musings, more ferocious
in my music?
In bed, in response, you looked at me
fondly, probably the fondest
you’ve ever looked at me, & said, Baby.
You will. But how about we do both?

Both? I asked. Writing & bodybuilding?
Writing, you said, & the gun.

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