Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 14/04/2025I learned Spanish immersively and a lot of it had to do with finding other words for things until I could ask someone or look up the term for something. It helped me a lot. 010
Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Please tell me you do Swanday on a regular basis. I’m a huge fan of them. And they’re very young around here. 110
Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 14/04/2025I had decades of “what the heck is wrong with me?” before finding that I got violently ill at breakfast and loved eating eggs and toast at breakfast. 100
Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 14/04/2025I have a friend who went to Canada because the US dismissed the credible threat against her family in El Salvador. She’s alive because Canada looked at murder and called it a threat. I’ve known for two decades that this is where the US thinks those who should just give up and die should be kept. 000
Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Seriously, I was glad to have another nurse! 020
Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 13/04/2025I want to make the family member who gloats that computers will replace me as an author watch the episode. 010
Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Moved everyone to New Zealand. True story from the first trump administration 110
Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 13/04/2025My friend had her husband’s visa to the US revoked at the airport when they were moving the whole family. His family had to leave without him and he had to stay with friends. After weeks of the US refusing to let him in and their daughters being convinced they’d never see daddy again, they 1/2 110
Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 13/04/2025It’s my favorite episode until Vincent and the doctor. 010
Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 13/04/2025She reminds me of Martha and her impulses to help. 010
Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 13/04/2025For anyone who doesn’t know, Cedro is cedar. Sidra is cedar. I’m glad I didn’t tell these nice people that there was a cider of Lebanon across the street. 110
Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 13/04/2025When I think of cedars, I always remember giving a tour in Spanish. There was a cedar of Lebanon on my tour route and someone asked specifically about it for the first time. All I could remember was the Spanish word for CIDER. I wound up saying “the huge tree is one from Lebanon.” 120
Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 13/04/2025I just read Mask of Fear and want to get more into the early empire and then the time at which we finally see the alliance ally itself. 010
Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 13/04/2025 But Andor returns in 10 days! I need to rewatch for self-care. 110
Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 13/04/2025A friend of mine got me that book for my birthday. 000
Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Lake reached by the Panama Canal. #blueskyartshow #photography #nature 0120
Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Watch Readswithrachel on YouTube. She documents what it’s like to raise kids in that state and what republicans are trying to force through. 010
Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 12/04/2025When I went to Istanbul, I saw tiny streets and alleys heading up from this one road, so I picked one and walked up its cobblestones. There, I found a store of Turkish delight, wonderful art, and clothing that was better quality than at the bazaar for better prices. I love alleys. 010
Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 12/04/2025I grew up in Massachusetts and all the Kathryns had to have an identifying nickname. Florida hates individuals so collectively. 110
Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 12/04/2025#blueskyartshow #photography. Clouds over the Merrimack River. Lowell, MA. 0201
Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Vaguely reminds me of the friend who realized she can get me through panic attacks by making me discuss my work in progress in detail. It helps me redirect what makes my brain feel like it’s exploding. 010
Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Doctor Who wasn’t exactly subtle today (I laughed when they acknowledged “planet of the incels”), but I love Belinda being a nurse as a grounding point. Thousands of years from home, she did her job. And her challenging the doctor on consent and boundaries made me appreciate her. #doctorwho 2271
Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 11/04/2025My work is here to say, “How can I get enough good karma to score tickets?” I’m hoping that having early access as a perk will make it happen. 031
Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 07/04/2025My titles tend to get borrowed from the Bible. I didn’t intend for it to be that way. 010
Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 07/04/2025MC1: I have a confession to make. If I dump my boyfriend, I might start turning into a swan every morning. MC2: you think that’s weird? My stepmom is a Greek fate. Just let me know if you start molting. 010
Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 07/04/2025#writingcommunity. I realized today that my current MC was getting her BA in psychology in 2012 in Boston and it took me a lot of research to figure out that she wasn’t an undergrad at BU. She got her MSW at BC. Why care? I almost made two books’ MCs college roommates. Conversation could be 1/2 110
Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 07/04/2025My brain assumes you mean Father Merrin. But I could be really off. 010
Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Lol, I have this with animated songs and Star Wars. Still have “at the beginning with you” inextricably linked to a tribute to Luke and Leia. 010
Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 07/04/2025I read it in the time of life where I realized growing up doesn’t necessarily mean you know how to write healthy relationships. I reread it recently and holy mother of his, did I not change my mind about that. I still love Threepio’s song. 010
Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Fun. It’s the favorite movie of many of my friends and one of them got the charity zoom version. Absolutely fantastic that way. I just don’t seek it out on my own. 010
Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Years ago, a friend said, “if you need to fix Kaki, bring her to water.” This is why my self-care is often along the Charles River. #photography 170
Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 07/04/2025I hope you enjoyed both. I haven’t knitted in years and last saw that movie for charity in 2021. 100
Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Queen Leiaverse started with the fact that Leia never joined the rebellion after having to take the throne under imperial occupation. Cassian Andor didn’t get the Death Star plans, so the Alliance failed to destroy it the first time and boy, does it get AU from there on out. On fic number 2 of 4. 010
Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 07/04/2025#fanfic I remember the day my friend asked me to write her a story where Bail Organa told Darth Vader that his daughter’s birth mother was Padme to save her from the Empire. Did not expect to get to that scene and then go, “oh, crap. I have to write the rest of the war with this context.” The 1/2 120
Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Curious which post this is replying to. Such a valid perspective. 000
Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Happy Asexual Awareness Day. Im demisexual, which falls under that umbrella. So was my first novel’s protagonist. We’re here. We’re real. We’re not weird, alien, or robot as has been suggested by people I know. 040
Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Can’t tell if the title is a typo. Bold authorship claim. 000
Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Back when I started #writing a character, a friend introduced me to “Orpheus.” It fit the love story of this person and her husband perfectly. Yesterday, I realized that “if the bottom drops out, I hope my love is someone else’s solid ground” is about the story of her adopted daughter. I cried. 030
Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 06/04/2025#writingcommunity I have to admit that I’m trying to not be afraid of my WIP. This isn’t the first book I’ve written. It’s my first murder mystery. But I have so many things hiding under the surface of the premise that it feels like a potentially awful lasagna instead of a nuanced tale. 030
Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Its April 3 and I’m still finding people who didn’t realize it’s a prank. It’s making me so happy to have a gentle laugh. 020
Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 01/04/2025It’s the sequel to it being forbidden to track covid numbers. 000
Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 01/04/2025I’m going to hell for having this much fun writing this. But all those quotes are from real interviews and you should look up Tim’s 2012 prank. Apologies to Claudia Gray and Mark Hamill in a sorry/not sorry style. 061
Reposted by Kaki OlsenKatherine Clark @whipkclark.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Here's my message this #TransDayOfVisibility: Our power begins and ends with the solidarity we have with one another. @housedemocrats.bsky.social stand with our trans neighbors to defend the best of what this country stands for: opportunity and freedom for all. 215529
Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 28/03/2025My sister claimed that people and sunsets are more beautiful than photos depict. My sunset from last night disagrees. I’m very fond of it. 040
Kaki Olsen @kakiolsencreative.bsky.social · 27/03/2025I spent a little too much time reading about Han Solo’s rich stepfather and the Cloud People while reading up on Leigh Brackett, but boy, did I enjoy this list. 110