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Holly Pelesky

@hollypelesky.bsky.social
1.2K followers 420 following 3.2K posts

feral woman • writer • librarian • bi af • on a constant quest for comfortable silence • tweets as if it’s all ephemeral

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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 43m
trees, privacy, weather, brewery, old movies, art museum, lattes, fucking, skylight, records, reading, cigarettes, fields
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 21h
he just said chuck norris sucks to his dad and i’m pretty sure a fight is about to ensue
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 23h
oh god i’m about to play clue with him and his dad
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
i’m gonna be honest the family group chat is a bunch of catty bitches being bitchy
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
i want to be a writing professor one time so i can tell people what constitutes Good Literature and rewrite history
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
raising a kid who always wants to be around me when i always want to be alone is gas breaks gas brakes
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
for the photo album of a day in the life
porch with a garland of leaves and gory chains, the garden overgrown, the garage full, the shadows popping off
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
on my days off i surprise my youngest son at the bus stop and make him tell me about his day on our walk home
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
adding to the nobel conversation
hammock reading the years by annie ernaux
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
i’m not rich, no. i have more debt than assets, my car has been gasping its last breath for months. but i have fresh flowers in a vase i can see from outside my window
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
both aarik and his dad are artist hippies who know a little too much and we stan
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
my theory is no one is prepared to parent in these times we landed in so just be kind and say no sometimes
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
you guys i am now an expert on arizona ask me anything
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
my dad stood me up two weeks ago but it’s fine bc now i get to take his dad around the train museum
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
my grandpa always had like nine boxes of cereal and some of them were stale because he only bought cereal when the kids came around and he was building a collection
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
any way tonight i asked aarik’s dad when he first knew aarik was smart and he told me. and it was so special to see a parent get to brag about their kid for a minute
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
omg he’s a rock dad descended from a rock dad
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
do any of my mutuals have a hookup at mesa public library? i wanna put a jimmy eat world library card in aarik’s stocking
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
those early days of autumn when the trees are just beginning to change and the days get shorter and the last few minutes before dark are filled with shooting hoops and riding bikes
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
going out to eat as a family of six just feels right tbh
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
dads love me
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
why does your brother’s friend look exactly like rowley jefferson i ask
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
if i was an adult in the classifieds era i’d be unhinged
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
she grew up in drama so she never considered it toxic until the damage was already done. but now she could make a mountain of a molehill and trick someone else into seeing a mountain too. her partner called her moira rose sometimes but affectionately. neither of them got enough attention bc neither
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
one day when all this settles i’m gonna tell you the wild tale of september 2026 and how we made it out for october 2026
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
you guys we’ve been playing winner stays in for two days straight in nba jam and not to whine but my thumbs hurt
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
you always make me almost cry when we play nba jam my stepson said
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
you were such a daddy up there is the perfect day to night transition slur
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
i could make a quilt of all the things you bought me that i didn’t like, she mused aloud
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
i love you so much, you’re such a specific person, he said
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
what do i wear to meet his dad
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
early october, 2026
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
girls are so wild horses
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
oh god, he feels like golden state she said to herself, looking up at the nba jam game about to begin
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
the appeal of nba jam is never knowing for sure whether you control the second player in some small way
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
i’m feeling the impending death of a vehicle and honestly it’s too soon
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
that’s what happens when we make fun of our dads—god gives us coughs he said to one of our children
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
i got aarik to watch succession with me so every night i’m driving home with new anticipation of what we’re gonna see and discuss next
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
i don’t know how to say i’m a remarkably bright creature in a job interview but i’ll do my best to
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
omg you guys no one will let this woman merge at school drop off the systems are all collapsing
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
let’s get mall massages, then pedicures. i’ll take you around on the motorized panda, i’ll take it into the elevator, then we’ll have to go on foot. i’ll buy you shoes, you buy me underwear. you buy the record, i’ll pick the entertainment
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
i hate ai too but sometimes i stare at ai art too long to feel surreal
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
i’m so tempted to buy a christmas puzzle and he’s not here to stop me
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
getting my steps in (at the mall again)
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
i’m trying to be better with money but there’s always an occasion to buy him a new pair of skater shoes
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
i got my youngest son to try on a leather jacket and he said it feels like a wallet
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
we made a whole book of love poems which i know is overkill but also is it
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
a patron just recognized me at the library. where do we know each other from, she asked. we used to teach poetry together, i told her. oh right, she said, years ago, before all these kids
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
so hot you know how many books i have checked out, he just said to me
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
nba jam as aphrodisiac
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