iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Of course they're not my cup of tea; they're books, and books usually make poor cups. That would be an interesting way to go about tasseography, though.

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Amanda Růžičková @marvelish.me · 03/07/2026

That's me! The sound balancing is often so bad.

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Amanda Růžičková @marvelish.me · 10/06/2026

I'm so glad it says there will be a live stream! It will be pretty late here, but I don't even care.

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Amanda Růžičková @marvelish.me · 11/05/2026

Name a song with girl in the title but replace girl with squirrel: Fat Bottomed Squirrels

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Amanda Růžičková @marvelish.me · 17/01/2026

I'm rarely going to hop in my car for anything, but I might take mass transit.

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Amanda Růžičková @marvelish.me · 22/12/2025

If anyone is a fan of horror by BIPOC authors, pre-orders started today for a new book by Tatiana Schlote-Bonne, via Boozhoo Books boozhoo.binderybooks.com/item/1ILBaRy... I enjoyed her first two novels. My review of her first book can be found at marvelish.me/such-lovely-...

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Bindery Books | What Feeds Below

publishing stories that haunt and heal.

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Amanda Růžičková @marvelish.me · 22/12/2025

I grew up in Wisconsin, so for me the outside should be butter… and more cheese! A crisp, buttery cheese shell, with melty cheese on the inside.

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Amanda Růžičková @marvelish.me · 22/12/2025

I think what you meant to say is that you're writing a new short story because you love us all and wanted to provide us something new to read more quickly than a novel would allow!

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Amanda Růžičková @marvelish.me · 17/12/2025

I can see that last part, although I have pretty positive feelings about therapy (now, after getting through some things). For what it's worth, I'm not autistic but I find the careful phrasing of many of the autistic people I know super refreshing. I appreciate direct…

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Amanda Růžičková @marvelish.me · 17/12/2025

First of all, happy birthday! Do you mean published this year, read this year, or both?

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Amanda Růžičková @marvelish.me · 17/12/2025

Does your blood pressure start to rise as soon as someone says something like, "so what you're really saying is…"?

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Amanda Růžičková @marvelish.me · 14/12/2025

Non-exhaustive, but probably not non-exhausting. That sounds so draining to try to work through.

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Amanda Růžičková @marvelish.me · 11/12/2025

I've been listening to this song so much, and it's the newest addition to my "F#%k Cancer" playlist—I had it on repeat before my oncologist appointment on Tuesday. @dessadarling.bsky.social's Good Grief is also one of the small handful of songs that helped get me through losing my son.

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Amanda Růžičková @marvelish.me · 10/12/2025

Kat is one of my dearest cancer buddies, a lovely and lively person as well as a talented artist. She's the one who did my profile picture! If you can spare even a few dollars to help her, I would be grateful.

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Amanda Růžičková @marvelish.me · 29/11/2025

Again?! I already bought them once, lady! 😂

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Amanda Růžičková @marvelish.me · 26/11/2025

Kat. KAT! Art me! I'll go e-mail you.

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Amanda Růžičková @marvelish.me · 18/11/2025

It was the idea that someone might feel seen and a bit less alone that made me start sharing my poetry last year. From there I started writing reviews. Now I'm working on a novel. Reviews, for me, are all about other people—author and audience. For everything else, I'm still finding the balance.

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Amanda Růžičková @marvelish.me · 18/11/2025

This is interesting to think about! I've been a writer for most of my life, I only recently started thinking of myself as one. I wrote because I had things I need to get out. Friends eventually convinced me that I might actually be good, and that other people might get something out of my work.

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Emilius Duckberry @emiliusdraws.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

#3157 A helpful tutorial

A digital drawing of one of those drawing tutorials that says 'don't do this, do this.'
The drawing is of an almost naked middle-aged man doing a flying kick. The 'Don't do this' one has a bunch of areas circled and a cross under it. The 'Do this' one is exactly the same but without the circles and a tick instead of a cross.
The text reads 'Needlessly adding red circles will ruin your art' and a smaller bit of text at the bottom reads 'Bonus tip! Add a tick under all your art so people think you did it right.'

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Amanda Růžičková @marvelish.me · 17/11/2025

That sounds like a lot of envy to me. Anyway, congratulations! That sounds like a truly fascinating field, and a lot of work. I'm a random internet stranger, but I'm proud of you.

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Amanda Růžičková @marvelish.me · 17/11/2025

Hej, to je fakt super! Předám to dál.

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Amanda Růžičková @marvelish.me · 17/11/2025

Future Amanda would feel better if she ate something, but only at the expense of present Amanda who would have to get up and make food.

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Elsie @elsiefenris.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Read this ASAP. Seriously, this series rules. As a casual magical girl enjoyer, this series strikes a perfect balance of character work, tone, style, and vibes that tells a beautiful story about figuring yourself out, and then fighting for that life against the forces of evil.

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Amanda Růžičková @marvelish.me · 16/11/2025

Oooooh, Basil and Oregano is on my TBR list! Thank you.

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Amanda Růžičková @marvelish.me · 16/11/2025

Looking for artists! Are you or someone you know great at logo design? I'm interested in possibly getting one made for things like bookstagram, my website, etc. I'm also absolutely expecting to pay for it. I'd rather pay someone in my social circles than a total stranger.

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Amanda Růžičková @marvelish.me · 15/11/2025

Not if it's not important to you, for sure, Mr. M. A. Whiteguy

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Amanda Růžičková @marvelish.me · 15/11/2025

Sometimes the heat of their rage fuels the boiler of my heart.

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Amanda Růžičková @marvelish.me · 15/11/2025

That and awareness that sometimes we can dislike something—or even just not really think someone is useful—without that thing being inherently BAD.

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Amanda Růžičková @marvelish.me · 13/11/2025

I promise, I'm keeping it in mind. 3,200+ documented deaths out of 150,000 kids is a 2.1% mortality rate, 7x higher than the general child population. TRC estimates at least 6,000 deaths. Some experts suggest the number could be far higher.

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Amanda Růžičková @marvelish.me · 13/11/2025

Kivalliq Hall closed in 1997, 28 years ago. It wasn't initially recognised under the IRSSA but was added to the list of recognised schools in 2019. The last known death occurring in 1996 doesn't disprove the fact that that people who were involved may very well still be alive.

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Amanda Růžičková @marvelish.me · 13/11/2025

751 unmarked grave sites at one school. Not mass-graves, but certainly a mass of graves. Over 1,300 graves found at just four of 139 schools. Systematic starvation, untreated disease, bodies never returned to families. Whatever you call it, how do you have genocide without mass-something?

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Amanda Růžičková @marvelish.me · 13/11/2025

Also, the last residential school in Canada closed just 28 years ago. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission stated that deaths occurred from 1867 to 2000. It's very likely that many of the people involved are not, in fact, dead.

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Amanda Růžičková @marvelish.me · 13/11/2025

Under Canadian law you're correct, it is instead only manslaughter to kill someone through neglect, which carries the same maximum penalty as second-degree murder. So, yes, it's only mass manslaughter there, instead of mass murder.

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Amanda Růžičková @marvelish.me · 13/11/2025

Or MN, where Pipestone was: Minn. Stat. § 609.19: "Whoever…causes the death of a human being, without intent to effect the death of any person, while committing or attempting to commit a felony offense"; neglect or endangerment of a child is a felony under § 609.378

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Amanda Růžičková @marvelish.me · 13/11/2025

Com v. Pestinikas: "A duty to act can create criminal liability when the failure causes death." The Pestinikases were found guilty of third-degree murder for neglect.

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