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Kacy Tillman

@kacytillman.bsky.social
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English Professor at UTampa. Early Americanist now researching Romantasy! Take my survey: t.ly/4JufY. Author of Stripped & Script: Loyalist Women Writers of the American Revolution: www.umasspress.com/9781625344328/st….

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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Someone said to me today that they don’t read Romantasy because so much of it is bad. I am truly baffled by this idea, which ppl always say to me. Much litfic is bad. Many thrillers are terrible. Every genre has shite books. But ppl only use that excuse to dismiss books women read and write.
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
This is Taryn and Flinn’s story. It’s simple but sweet: they’re thieves in a rival gang. They have to find 3 objects while being bound together because of a curse put on them by a maiden. It’s literally forced proximity and also fake (but of course not fake) marriage. I enjoy this series.
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I too was born to be a skunk ornament in a crone’s cottage. (Also Jesikah Sundin’s Bound by Ravens is too slept on.) #romantasy #jesikahsundin #crones #books
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I’m a Romantasy researcher and the number of folks who said they turned to this genre after giving up on Bible studies is FASCINATING
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Listen so hard right now. Lyla Sage. Writing about ghosts. And love. While working in an antique shop. You need this. #romance #lylasage #soulsearching #books
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
All of Mas’s shifter books but when I tell you I devoured them . . .
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
And it’s not even necessarily true bc we know AI can now simulate human errors to sound real but I nearly weep for a common splice these days.
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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The SAVE act would mean that, if you are a married woman who took your husband's name once married, you would no longer be able to vote. This is HR 8281 if you want to read it for yourself and it's already passed the house. #saveact t.ly/m_rc1
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SAVE Act Would Undermine Voter Registration for All Americans
Congress should reject this antidemocratic and ill-conceived bill.
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
I’m in the mountains in TN & mom casually mentions that she saw a “massive shadowed creature on two legs with hooves swaying back and forth while looking in the window” last night around midnight. We are on the second floor. 😳
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
It’s science that sneeze-screaming makes the sneezing stop sooner.
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Dad and I watched George C Scott’s 1984 Christmas Carol every Christmas Eve. The composer, Nick Bicat, never released the soundtrack but will mail it to you if you can track down his email address, which isn’t hard. Now, each year, Bicat sends us new songs and updates as “stocking stuffers.” 🥰
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
When the queen of audiobooks writes and then narrates her own book, the situation is going to be 🔥 #juliawhelan #audiobooks #skyreaders #audiosky #roadtrip #amreading #thankyouforlistening
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
I’d be friends with guy 3.
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
We listen and we don’t judge: I always watch Unsolved Mysteries hoping that one episode will end with a surprise announcement that they have, in fact, solved the mystery.
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Being middle aged involves having a favorite Publix because you can’t be bothered to learn a new layout of a different store. #Publix #Florida #middleaged
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Workshopping replying “you can get glad in the same pants you got mad in,” my East Texas piano teacher’s favorite phrase, to grade grubbers this semester. #academicsky #skystorians #highered #professorsaretired
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I did unpresentations this year because I didn’t want any more death by PowerPoint. They were also fantastic.
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Giant. Mystery. Drones. Over New Jersey. www.npr.org/2024/12/11/n...
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Thanks so much, Bryan!
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Stephen Shapiro @stephenshapiro.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
OK, it had to be done. Let me know if you want to be listed (or de-listed) (I barely know what I'm doing, though). go.bsky.app/6TKRCda
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Thanks! I love CBB
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I may have arrived at Scrooged past the nostalgia threshold date?
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I can tell a lot about you by how you rank your Scrooges. Obviously it’s George C Scott, Albert Finney, Michael Caine, Scrooge McDuck, in that order?
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
When you’re a professor administrator these are the hardest two weeks because as an instructor I am DONE but now I have to field grade grubs and complaints but I just want to bake cookies and read fairy smut.
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I’m in a Romantasy reading group on FB and it’s the only way I use that platform now. It’s delightful and my TBR is huge.
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Once I nervously approached an editor about my first book at a conference. First time pitch. The editor pretended not to be himself (I knew him by sight but he didn’t know me) and said he wasn’t there at the moment. I just had no idea how to handle that.
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I’m a humanist and cannot get it through my head that the word data is plural.
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I remember a time when it was possible to be unreachable. I’m not nostalgic for much, but I’m nostalgic for that.
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
My TikTok feed is alternating Wicked choreo, ads for skin care products, and live streaming various coups. It’s like one of those flipbooks from childhood, only a dystopian hellscape.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
South Korea: convenes a legislative majority at 1 AM that fights through police to get into session, then votes unanimously to reject wannabe autocrat's martial law efforts. US: legislative majority rolls over to wannabe autocrat, minority reelects the same innefective leadership it's had for years
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
“Officers were allegedly overheard coordinating to break detainees’ arms or legs, with instructions from their superiors to target the liver and head.” www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
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Georgia protests: What’s behind them and what’s next?
Demonstrations broke out after PM Irakli Kobakhidze postponed EU membership talks until 2028.
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
The generational resistance to giving or receiving Christmas lists is baffling to me as a xennial. We moms are overtaxed with the mental load. Just tell us. TELL US FOR GOD’S SAKE
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
If I could do this for like 3 weeks uninterrupted I seriously believe I would solve all of my problems.
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I have not but I’ll check it out!
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I’m 2 books shy of doubling my original reading goal of 52 books in 2024. What should my last reads be? #reading #skyreaders #fable #romantasy #thrillers #blueskyreaders #fantasy #books
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I’m not in here.
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I just really need someone to talk with me about Jonathan Bailey flamenco dancing in #wicked #dancingthroughlife #jobathanbailey #wickedmovie
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Show me your fun Thanksgiving break reads. #reading #booksky #broadbent #romantasy #nyaxia
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 20/11/2024
Are we doing it right? #NewYorkerCartoons nyer.cm/CTZvmGD 🖊️ @jasonadamk.bsky.social
Two people frown at a phone. One says to the other, “Bluesky seems to be the app where you post about being on Bluesky.”
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This audiobook is a weird hilarious delight so far if you need to listen to something other than news for a minute. #audiobooks #hollowplaces #books
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
It’s actual agony for them. Try skibidi rizz as a riff. Even worse.
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Hm but how about Dollhouse and Dr Horrible’s sing along blog?
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Brand new to bluesky and just discovered starter packs. OMG I missed so many of you from 🐦! #vastearlyamerica
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Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I've created a starter pack for those researching and writing histories of the Atlantic world. If you are working in any field that falls within, or is related to, Atlantic history you are welcome. Just reply below and I'll add you. go.bsky.app/E8itZWt
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Me to husband: Did you take my keys? Husband: They're definitely in the broom closet with the vacuum charger. Me: That is OUTRAGEOUS. I am not so senile that I would put them there. Also how would you know that. Offensive! <mutters to Brain: he better not be right> Me: <Finds keys in broom closet>
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Me: Brain, I need my keys. We have a loaner and no spare and have to get the kid to school. Brain: Here are the lyrics to an Alanis Morissette song you haven't heard in 20 years. Me: No thank you. Just the keys. Brain: Sorry. <sniffs like the doorknocker in Laybrinth> Can't help you.
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I can’t tell if my dog Harley Quinn is enraged or posing for adoration at her school today. Atticus Finch, her brother behind her, is apparently awaiting his own adornment.
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
“Professor, the YouTube creator I’m citing for the book bans paper is called Maple Syrup. So would MLA refer to them as Syrup, Maple?” 😂😂😂
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Kacy Tillman @kacytillman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
is there an #amwriting on here? I'm too new to figure out how bluesky is different from X
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