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Evie @evieghj.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

4 is a good start but if you REALLY love a book, you can do better! ...I may or may not have 8 copies of LOTR, not counting adaptations, around in this apartment... ...and two more still at my parents... ...and my mother's old set that was the first one I read...

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Evie @evieghj.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

THREE deliveries in four days that just outright ignored explicit and clear delivery instructions, and two of them who somehow decided not only that, but that leaving a package on a concrete slab *right on the sidewalk* *between tables at the Bridgehead* was a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

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Evie @evieghj.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If the sun rise, the fans will have a tantrum. If the sun does not rise, the fans will have a tantrum. If the sun enters a weird quantic phase and rises and does not rise simultaneously, the fans will observe it as part of their tantrum.

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Dan Shive @danshive.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“Show, don’t tell,” is absolutely terrible advice that can ruin a writer. The intent behind it can be GREAT advice. The three words themselves left to interpretation, the most natural interpretation being to always show over tell? Absolute poison.

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Evie @evieghj.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Relatedly, without the craving for sequels and pressure to write them, we'd have stopped at the competent, fun children fairy-story original, and never gotten the genre-defining 20th century fiction landmark sequel. Sometimes, writing sequels *matter*. (Hobbit/Lord of the Rings).

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Evie @evieghj.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I can still hear my mother waking me up that morning, telling me about planes, the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Usually, when a nightmare wake you up, you wake up from it. But that day, the nightmare that woke me up didn't go away once I opened my eyes. Parts of it still haven't.

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Evie @evieghj.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I kinda would love to see a better balance between a twenty first century, socially conscious form of the old heroic/epic romance kind of fantasy and the more modern novel-style (more centered on the protagonist(s) and their inner feelings and reactions, with a larger emphasis on "realistic".

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Evie @evieghj.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Fandoms are a festering breeding ground for Karens.

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Evie @evieghj.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Canadian messing up the dialect quiz reporting in! Okay, New England with a broad swath of connections elsewhere and some traces of southern is probably pretty close to French First Language Québec English who had southern friends in the early internet days.

A color shaded map of the united states reporting which region my English is most like in red (New England, parts of the East Coast, and to a lesser degree Florida and California) and least like in blue (Great Plains and Upper Midwest)

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Evie @evieghj.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Whelp. Five years old phone, significantly in need of replacement, and now the only phone/phone os makers I'm not furious at are the ones I somehow trust even less than the ones I'm furious at. Do not love these options.

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Evie @evieghj.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This would be a valid cause for using the Trumpian name in the US. Not for the both-sideism inflicted on third countries, as if the American names had any legitimacy there.

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Evie @evieghj.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Herstory is also a name that work in precisely one language and not in any of the very many other languages where the word for inquiry into the past is *still* some form of historia/histoire/history, but no masculine pronoun look anything like "his".

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Evie @evieghj.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I never thought I'd see the day the Pride Parade marched to the joyful peal of church bells flying.

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Evie @evieghj.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It is my sad duty to report that Loblaws has officially ruined all “No Name” parodies forever.

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Evie @evieghj.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The Cobra Chickens may be assholes, but they're OUR assholes, and anyone trying to suggest they have anything in common with the orange turd, if Canadian is a traitor, and if not is an enemy.

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Evie @evieghj.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

You know, as much as I try not to judge people by their reading preferences, I really have to wonder about people who see a "character who deserved better" discussion and whose go-to answer is an omnicidal supernatural abomination with nigh-unlimited power because their defeat was "cheap".

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Evie @evieghj.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I say y'all because English is my second language and my english is a mosaic of the different writers and friends I actually got to practice the language on. One of the big pieces thereof being an online friend from Texas. She used it; me using it just came with the package.

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Evie @evieghj.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

There's nothing like BlueSky Trending listing "Lunar eclipse lights up night sky" to remind you how useless all those automated systems are.

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Evie @evieghj.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Mad men lying in screens are no basis for a system of toponymy.

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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

-It is still Lake Ontario -It is still the Gulf of Mexico -It is still the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. -He is still a pedophile. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

You fuckers made me do it. The Racist Academicals Patter Song.

[RACIST ACADEMICAL]
I am the very model of a racist academical,
With footnotes and citations to make bigotry seem credible,

I traffic in ideas that have long since been discredited,
Like human races being real and IQ is inherited!

I’ll sign an open letter that legitimates my bigotry,
My gender ideology is thuggery and piggery,

If criticized it’s academic freedom I will hide behind,
My high and mighty principles shan’t be questioned by your tiny mind!

[CHORUS OF CHUDS]
His high and mighty principles shan’t be questioned by your tiny mind!

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Evie @evieghj.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dear universe: No, we didn't mean THAT eighty years old home alone 2 cast member!

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Evie @evieghj.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It's broadly what I do, with one caveat - if the thing I'm buying is a product associated with a particular country/culture that we're not actually having beef with, I will treat the import as equal to the Canadian homemade.

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Evie @evieghj.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

AI free absolutely yes, tech free probably means I never get out of being the C- student I was in tech free humanities classrooms (Vs the straight A student I was with electronic note taking in law school) But one-size-fits-all is in vogue right now and fuck those who are too far outside the norm.

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Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A heads up for everyone following this. What we *know* the Americans were demanding is quite bad enough. We don't need to add confabulation to the mix.

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Evie @evieghj.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

We’re going to endure. As we always have, as we always must. But we will remember, too. As we always do. As we remember this was you 400 years ago. This was you 250 years ago. This was you 200 years ago. It was you 100 years ago. So maybe think hard before you say this time it’s him, not you.

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Evie @evieghj.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Visibility requirements, *so our culture does not get drowned out and hidden into obscurity.* French culture and language funding, * because if we stop making new things of our language and culture, it dies* Labeling requirement, *so we can exist in our language, not another *

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Evie @evieghj.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

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Evie @evieghj.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Getting seriously tired of writing advice that amount to "you need to write your character as emotionally stunted, communication averse, bad-decision-making people in order for them to be interesting" If that's the only way you can imagine an interesting character, I pity you.

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 19/08/2026

-we've always had people who were "a bit weird". If they were lucky they stayed home or got a job that didn't require much. If they not they were institutionalized -diagnosis happens when demands exceed someone's ability to cope. Our society has vastly increased demands over the last decade

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Evie @evieghj.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Discomfort-is-good discourse hits in a whole different way when you're the kind of autistic people who were told their whole lives to get used to their "discomforts" (meaning : things that are threatening to incapacitate you) and that it was good for you to take on yourself.

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 16/08/2026

Was having a conversation on this topic just recently. A book (or story or painting or movie or whatever) is not a puzzle with a Correct Solution. It's an experience to think about and with, to chew over and then bring to other experiences.

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Evie @evieghj.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Rich inner lives is an euphemism for characters who couldn’t actually talk about their feelings in the story to save their lives but who will dump on the reader as if you’re some kind of personal therapist anyway.

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Evie @evieghj.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Someone's video: here are words that have different (grammatical) gender in Quebec and in France! Me, to @mchoule.bsky.social : ...we can't even agree from one side of the province to the other MC: yeah, like, it's une beigne, not un beigne me: ...from one side of this room to the other...

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Evie @evieghj.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 15/08/2026

On Jason Arday: I see a lot of people arguing whether he was a plagiarist or not. But as I see it: regardless of whether he plagiarized *nobody* deserves to be hounded by a media & social media mob.

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

if there's a writer you like, and you'd like to keep reading that writer's work, *you need to pay for their work*

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Evie @evieghj.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

How Anglophones feel about Les Mis vs how people who actually had to *read* Hugo (or most other XIXth century White French Male authors, really) in school feels about Les Mis is an exercise in worlds apart. (Why, yes, I said white for a reason. Or three. Or twenty. Or some other count.)

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Evie @evieghj.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

A side that spend its time enforcing rigid allegiance to The Way on its own members and bystanders is not a side worth being on.

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Evie @evieghj.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Wildly irresponsible reporting from the people who brought you half the worst transphobes in North American media and built RFK JR's career? WHO WOULD HAVE THUNK.

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Evie @evieghj.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

A very good article that explains at length why there's a whole cottage industry of stories I've taken to refering to as "Those who miss the point of Omelas".

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Evie @evieghj.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

There are two kind of wicked cultured vilains in television and cinema for the past sixty years: those who were played by Christopher Lee, and those who were inspired by Christopher Lee. So saying a wicked cultured vilain is "Christopher Lee coded" is not actually much of an observation.

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Evie @evieghj.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

MC and I tried last night. Really tried. But finding a name for "Romantasy where the characters are not behaving problematically" (which is clearly a subgenre with a market that exist) that's not going to be perceived as demeaning by *somebody* is mind-boggling hard. DnD alignments? lol

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Evie @evieghj.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

When you judge people for not being interested in uncomfortable readings, you're judging me. I'm by and large not interested in uncomfortable stories. I respect them, and the people who write them, but I rarely care to read them. I can learn and discover in other ways, which work better for me.

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Evie @evieghj.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

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Evie @evieghj.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

People read for different reason and look for different things in books. Challenge, discovery, escape, comfort. None of them is more valid than the other, and all of them (mostly) have a place in the world of books. Your judgemental takes are what doesn't.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I cannot overstate how much I hate when people are dicks about babies crying in public (especially airplanes). Do you think the parent is having a good time right now?? Do you think they are not aware of the situation??? Are you going to negotiate with a literal infant????

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 16/07/2026

Psst reporters: "A universal autistic experience doesn’t exist & reporters should seek out a variety of perspectives for their stories. People require varying levels of interventions & support—& a therapy that is helpful for 1 person may be harmful for another." healthjournalism.org/blog/2026/07...

healthjournalism.org

‘It depends’: Autism reporting requires nuance

Journalists must do more to include autistic voices and recognize the nuance in each person’s disability experience, HJ26 panelists said.

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Evie @evieghj.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The best thing about reading a very serious history of WW2 is discovering all the new spectacular creativity and absolute willingness to go "yup, he went there" historians display in dissing Douglas MacArthur.

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Evie @evieghj.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

You know what, I'm gonna spell it out. If life is a right (and it is, and should be), then we should be free not to exercise it. We shouldn't be forcing people to live. (That doesn't mean we can't make them take a step back and think, or give them reasons to live, or help what ails them, though).

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