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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 02/10/2026

Look how pretty the sprayed edges on Jaclyn Moriarty's Time Travel for Beginners are.

A white hand holding a copy of Jaclyn Moriarty's Time Travel for Beginners with its rainbow sprayed edges. The cover is black with a swirling rainbow galaxy beneath a white title and gold author name.

Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 20/08/2026

Just declared a very loud, 'Get fucked!' to this mother, quoted in the SMH article about gender quotas being introduced for NSW selective high schools and opportunity classes. I love the journo's fact-based dig at the quote that ends the article.

Screenshot of a newspaper article that says, 'She did not let him know about gender quotas. "These kids are so little, there's already so much pressure. There's no need to add more, saying you're a boy, you're at a disadvantage," she said.
For the 2027 intake, there were 2076 first-round offers made to girls and 2188 to boys.'

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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 10/06/2026

I feel so goose meme about this. Who is excluding girls from the parks? Would improving infrastructure encourage girls to use a park? Or is it a matter of who feels entitled to the open spaces?

Goose meme asking 'Who's discouraging girls from using parks?'

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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 23/04/2026

The refashioned prom dress in Pretty in Pink was actually good. It worked for the character and the time in which the film was made.

Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech painting. A white man wearing a tan jacket over a blue checked shirt stands in a meeting, mouth open to speak.

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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 24/02/2026

Copilot sucks but this AI overview for the definition of 'bargearse' made me laugh. How did poor Bandit end up alongside it?

Copilot overview of the definition of 'bargearse' alongside an image of Bandit from Bluey, an anthropomorphised blue and black blue heeler dog, holding a piece of homemade meat lovers pizza.

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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 07/11/2025

I'm not much of a movie person, but I have watched four movies this week, so fill yer boots with my last four watched.

Neon-coloured poster for the movie Night of the Zoopocalypse. There's a cartoonish baby hippo, wolf and mountain lion. Don't see this movie. It is lazy and cynical and bad.

Movie poster for K-Pop Demon Hunters. Enough said.

Movie poster for Sinners. Hot people in 1930s clothes in front of a setting sun. No guns. One guitar. Some hats and pearls.

Movie poster for animated kids movie The Addams Family 2. They're creepy AND they're kooky. And they're dressed for a seaside holiday.

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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 17/10/2025

My impulse, when those posts asking you to post an iconic movie scene or line or character come around, is ALWAYS to undercut the pretentious answers with something from Grease. Or Xanadu. Or Point Break. Or Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead. eg

Kids sitting on a house's roof, with two kids standing and skeet-shooting crockery. The text reads: 'The dishes are done, man.'

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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 26/07/2025

Just for my own satisfaction.

A list of songs including: Marryuna - Baker Boy; No Aphrodisiac - The Whitlams; Labour of Love - Frente; Great Southern Land - Icehouse; (He'll Never Be An) Ol' Man River - TISM; Under the Milky Way - The Church; The Honeymoon is Over - The Cruel Sea; Deeper Water - Deadstar; Can't Get You Out of My Head - Kylie Minogue; ! (The Song Formerly Known As) - Regurgitator

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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 18/07/2025

Love to know the publisher's reasoning for 'sunk' in this subtitle rather than 'sank'. I wage the 'sunk/sank' battle in every second edit at least; having the mistake legitimise on a cover hurts.

Screenshot of a book cover featuring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton as Cleopatra and Antony with the title CLEOPATRA AND THE UNDOING OF HOLLYWOOD: How One Film Almost Sunk the Studios.

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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 15/07/2025

Using op shop stock to comment on recent events is a new one to me.

Grey plastic dehydrator with the handwritten label: 'Used once for drying mint (not mushrooms). In great condition.'

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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 11/07/2025

I have THOUGHTS about this but I wanna keep my job in publishing.

Promotional Instagram post for a book called The Mushroom Tapes by Helen Garner, Sarah Krasnostein and Chloe Hooper, which Text are publishing in November 2025.

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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 10/07/2025

November 2025 for Helen Garner, Sarah Krasnostein and Chloe Hooper.

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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 06/06/2025

The pizza in question.

A slice of delicious homemade pepperoni pizza, despite my kid's suspicions.

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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 18/04/2025

Crocheted my feelings into this. Not sure it really helped and the 7yo won't let me take it out of the house in case Nazis punch me instead.

Black crocheted tote bag with purple crocheted text that says, 'Read book - punch Nazis'. The bag sits on an orange background.

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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 15/03/2025

Comp copies! Loved working on these titles.

A copy of the novel Dancing with Bees by Anna Maynard sits on a brown background.

A copy for the novel Barren Cape by Michelle Prak sits on a brown background.

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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 07/02/2025

Meta AI. Truly a most useful research tool.

A still from The Simpsons showing a blue-haired man in a tan jacket placing an imaginary crown on the head of a blue-haired woman holding a cigarette in a purple cigarette holder. Beneath the image is Meta AI's suggestions: 'Queen of Harpies' backstory' and 'Queen of Harpies' powers and abilities'.

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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 01/02/2025

Two-month work marathon is over so I can take a weekend off. Channelling my feelings about the state of the world into some craft.

The beginnings of a crochet project in black yarn with lavender yarn intarsia. There's a ball of lavender yarn and a crochet hook in the shot, which has an orange-tablecloth background.

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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 18/12/2024

Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?

Portrait of a dark-haired woman in a white dress sitting on a yellow lounge beside a sleeping grey cat beneath the words, 'I want to make it perfectly clear that while I sincerely believe that women can do anything, I personally want to do nothing.'

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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 10/12/2024

Comp copies! Thrilled to have worked on these deliciously readable novels. Available in 2025!

A book, THE KNITTING CLUB AT WAGTAIL RIDGE by Janet Gover, on a brown background. The book cover features a brown-haired woman smiling at a pair of alpacas standing in a green field in front of yellow hills and a homestead.

A book, THE INHERITANCE by Kate Horan, on a brown background. The book cover features an illustrated green bottle from which red wine flows to create stylised deep-purple silhouettes of two women's faces. The tagline reads, 'Families lie. DNA doesn't.'

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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 03/12/2024

I'll take any chance to talk about my first car - a 1960 FB Holden. I'd been obsessed with this make and model for years before I got one when I was 18. Three-speed manual ('three on the tree'), front bench seat, after-market seat belts. It was like driving a 3-seater lounge.

A white 1960 FB Holden with black-painted fins.bthe car is all curves and chrome.

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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 26/11/2024

Tell us your birth year by sharing the cover of an album that was released the year you were born.

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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 23/11/2024

Well if this isn't the perfect writing prompt for a 'fake relationship' romance, I don't know what is.

A Facebook post advertising a job for a couple to work as housekeeper and gardener on Islay - 'Whiskey Island' - in Scotland.

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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 12/11/2024

Without thinking, retweet with the first Simpsons joke that comes into your head.

The woods at night. Lisa Simpson hanging from a rope held by her brother, Bart, who looks worried. Lisa looks sad and is saying, 'Duh. A challenge I could do.'

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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 18/05/2024

Adventures in picking songs for a playlist by scrolling through every song alphabetically.

A list of songs that goes: 1995 by the Whitlams, 1996 by the Wombats and 1997 by Washington.

A short story in a list of songs titles: Hello by Adele, Hello by the Cat Empire, Hello You by the Arctic Monkeys, Help by London Grammar and Halp is on It's Way by Little River Band.

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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 18/05/2024

I have temporarily been chosen by a small black cat.

A small, glossy, black cat curled up against a pink and orange plaid blanket–clad thigh on a red blanket. The cat's name is Toastie.

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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 28/01/2024

Not to be that guy who shares posts from the bad place but this seems important for book lovers of Melbourne. The owner of Robinsons Bookshops.

A series of bigoted tweets by Susanne Horman, owner of Robinsons Bookshops.

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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 27/01/2024

The 6yo loves watching parody songs on youtube, so I introduced him to the original version of one of his favourites. It happened to be Eminem's 'Stan'. 'How do you know so much about this guy?' 6yo asks, and 22yo me weeps, having realised we have become Marge Simpson.

Marge Simpson wearing a cap and nightgown and sitting in bed saying, 'Music is none of my business'.

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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 20/01/2024

Oh, hey, the movie that so deeply traumatised me when I saw it at the cinema that I had nightmares for two weeks is available on Binge.

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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 12/01/2024

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?

Mrs Jessica Fletcher, crime fiction author and sleuth extraordinaire. I'll be fine.

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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 17/12/2023

It really is very big.

Martin Place's very large Christmas tree decorated with what seem to be beach balls.

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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 07/12/2023

The 6yo Wrote a letter to Santa at school. I know the first item is an Among Us crewmate but the other two items are...a lipstick and a card? A light sabre and a box? 🤷

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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 30/11/2023

I see your ADHD wrapped and raise it with the Autism wrapped. 😁

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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 22/11/2023

Do you think the school office staff would be offended if I rang and offered my proofreading services? Because some of the notes that come home...

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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 12/11/2023

We studied Modern Poets (Sylvia Plath and Denise Levertov) and Modern Drama (plays as per photo below 🫠). Possibly explains my final mark for this subject.

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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 12/11/2023

Found my Year 12 3 Unit English trial paper in a bag of random junk.

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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 09/11/2023

Repost with one of the greatest villains in cinema history. #filmsky

Cha-Cha DiGregorio comin' to steal your man.

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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 01/10/2023

Sunday morning baking: pain au chocolat.

Five whole pains au chocolat and one broken open to show the gooey chocolate innards.

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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 27/09/2023

Please, lord, may I never succumb to calling a bluesky post a 'skeet'. Because there's only one true Skeet:

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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 17/09/2023

Figured I couldn't do any more harm to an almost dead crepe myrtle sapling so I pruned it harshly...and look! New growth a week later.

Two short crepe myrtle branches obscured by small red-tinged green leaves in front of a window.

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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 09/09/2023

Took yesterday off work and broke my reading-for-fun drought with this perfect little novel that's been on my shelf for at least 5 years.

A photo of Siri Hustvedt's The Summer Without Men, the cover of which has a woman's red silhouette bisected by the book's title against a vibrant yellow background.

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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 02/09/2023

Minecraft Steve cake as requested by the birthday child. Little bit pleased with myself.

A cake in the image of Minecraft Steve, who has white skin, blue eyes and brown hair. He wears an aqua shirt and royal blue pants, along with a vacant expression on his face.

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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 01/09/2023

Spent the day in the kitchen as the festival of the birth of the child begins. Apparently iced biscuits are where it's at for classroom celebrations. Thank god 5 and 6 year olds are more interested in sugar than finesse.

Sugar cookies iced with Among Us crewmates in various colours with varying degrees of success.

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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 30/08/2023

Was sceptical of the announcement while grocery shopping that Woolies' instore radio is available on the iheartradio app, but then it played three bangers in a row, so...

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