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Melanie 🏳️‍🌈

@mellusions.bsky.social
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Glass artist - the hot, melty kind 🔥, serious knitting, cross stitch, book reading, and film addiction(s). Also, cats. (she/her)

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Melanie 🏳️‍🌈 @mellusions.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
My hippie mother kept a copy of 70’s era Our Bodies, Ourselves on the bookshelf that I would flip through alone when I could as a child. Wayyyyy too much childbirth and sexy time stuff for a kid, honestly. Horrifying. Reading it as a teenager was, uhhh, different. 🤭
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Melanie 🏳️‍🌈 @mellusions.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
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Melanie 🏳️‍🌈 @mellusions.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Nothing like waiting until Christmas Eve to set a nice holiday table. 🎄🎅🏼🎄 Red is good for Valentines so I’m good til March! 😂
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Melanie 🏳️‍🌈 @mellusions.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
‘Tis the season to wear cheap costume Christmas jewelry and make my earlobes cranky for a month afterwards. Cant stop, won’t stop. MERRY CHRISTMAS! 🎄
A pair of Christmas tree earrings with gold metal for the hoops/details and multi color rhinestones as ornament balls.
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Melanie 🏳️‍🌈 @mellusions.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
It's not just a cursed timeline we live in but also one where the Catholic church gets to rehab it's image? *screams* Me, a person who lived in one of the most Catholic states in the US when they had an ironclad grip on local schooling, charities, hospitals & doing what they want to your children.
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Melanie 🏳️‍🌈 @mellusions.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
She loves when I drag the shark costume out for Halloween. Loves it! 😈😹😈 #cats #halloween
Grumpy looking long haired gray cat with yellow eyes wearing an open mouthed shark hat for Halloween.
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Melanie 🏳️‍🌈 @mellusions.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Is it normal now to do a blood test on an 11 week kitten? Feels scammy to me but I haven't had a kitten in over a decade so...? (Just feels like leukemia would pop up symptom wise on it's own pretty quickly without needing an expensive/invasive test for ALL kittens for it??) #cats #kittens #scam
Small white kitten with blue eyes playing with a black cat toy on a colorful puffy quilt. Pink toe beans also shown. :)
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Melanie 🏳️‍🌈 @mellusions.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
New baby alert. No name yet but trending towards Luni or Bunny. 🐰 #cats #kitten
9 week old white kitten lounging on a bed with a colorful quilt in background.
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Normal people should be able to send their electric bill to people who make or enjoy AI slop, not my circus, not my monkeys
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Melanie 🏳️‍🌈 @mellusions.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Love science, believe in science, science is (overall) good but jfc these Moderna covid shots never get any easier. Hellllllo my old friend, malaise, sparking all over pain, crushing headache and fever. We crush our bones now so that we might live tomorrow. 😣
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Melanie 🏳️‍🌈 @mellusions.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
That 2.5 seconds from ELATION to *cold sweats* whenever Concerned Ape announces another Stardew Valley update is coming is a real journey. Whew. Gotta start limbering up my atrophied *125 hours spent in record time per new save file* muscles to prep. #StardewValley #gaming #degentime
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Melanie 🏳️‍🌈 @mellusions.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
The HIGH I feel having my UK package get through this mess right under the wire and actually be delivered today. (Tried my best to support small, woman run businesses before they had to shut down US shipping. It’s going to be devastating to some sellers I love. 🤬)
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Hard to see Superman as a hero when you really want to be Lex Luthor.
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Melanie 🏳️‍🌈 @mellusions.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Love to randomly break my new $600 iPad mini. (Unplugged it and half the screen is toast/black.) Delayed reaction from dropping it earlier in the day? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Whelp, back to using the 6 year old obsolete one. 😬
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Melanie 🏳️‍🌈 @mellusions.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Grew up in this neighborhood during this time period. Loved the look of it but never went there. 😕 Parents really only took us to restaurants with ‘different’ food, like Chinese. Had a point, I guess. My mother honestly could cook anything the diner had just as well as they could.
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Melanie 🏳️‍🌈 @mellusions.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Greenville Gourmet, early 90's, Emerald Square Mall. It was a local Jewish deli type place that had a street level spot, great sandwiches, pickles, hand made choc truffles/desserts. The sesame chicken sandwich in particular lives rent free in my head for the rest of my life. Sooo good!
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Melanie 🏳️‍🌈 @mellusions.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Glorious day full of sunshine and light when your cat does the Big Poop!* *managing in/out flow gets pretty weird when your pet is almost 21 years old! 😬
Picture of a tortie point cat sleeping on a couch, facing away from the camera.
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Melanie 🏳️‍🌈 @mellusions.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Well, this is a random grouping of movies. lol #LetterBoxdFriday
Small pictures of the movie posters for: 
The Killing, Dinner at Eight, Klute, Enemy of the State
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Melanie 🏳️‍🌈 @mellusions.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Almost fell into the trap of leaving a comment with unsolicited Actually Correct Information to someone who was very, very wrong in their assessment of something. Whew. *deletes draft* In my defense, things HAVE been *waves arms around* crazy this week.
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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Rot in hell, Strom Thurmond
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
when you say “duhh ai writing is good actually” you’re the yellow guy. this is u
4 panel comic

Panel 1: Pink Guy holds up a stack of paper and says: I’m a writer, could you read my manuscript?
Yellow Guy, walking dismissively out of shot: gross no

Panel 2: Robot moves into shot. A panel in its stomach is full of scraps of text.
Robot snatches manuscript from pink guy and says: Gimmie that

Panel 3: Robot stuffs manuscript into its mouth

Panel 4: Robot bends over and proceeds to shoot a sludge of disgusting paper mulch into Yellow Guy’s smiling open mouth
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Melanie 🏳️‍🌈 @mellusions.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
You have to have not had a period in a year to 'technically' be in menopause but, let's be honest, it's really the day you throw the emergency tampon away that's been in your purse all these years. Then you know it's OVER. 🥺
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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 28/02/2025
And it's pretty neat techcrunch.com/2025/02/28/b...
techcrunch.com
Bluesky-based Instagram alternative Flashes launches publicly | TechCrunch
Instagram alternative Flashes publicly launched its Bluesky-based photo-sharing app on the App Store this week, gaining nearly 30,000 downloads in its
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ayumi shinozaki | 篠崎あゆみ (she/they) @ayusheknows.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Friendly reminder that Joann Fabrics isn’t closing because it’s a bad business. It’s closing bc it was bought by a private equity firm. This is also what is happening to Hooters and what happened to US Toys R Us and Red Lobster. These companies are being dismantled intentionally.
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Melanie 🏳️‍🌈 @mellusions.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
🍿 🎥 Just a relaxing evening watching cops that are bad at their jobs and beautiful, icy cool villains. 👩🏻‍🍳 💋
Movie poster for To Live and Die in LAMovie poster for King of New York
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Melanie 🏳️‍🌈 @mellusions.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Went with a mashed banana and a little melted butter instead of the eggs. Was….fine? Little crumbly. (Obviously not a great sub if you don’t want them tasting banana-y. I ain’t mad at that tho.)
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Melanie 🏳️‍🌈 @mellusions.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. The neighbors chickens have stopped laying for over a month and I am now forced to hunt/procure eggs like a pleb for the first time in 3-4 years. Buying eggs is easy, right? RIGHT?!? (Off to google eggless cornbread...)
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Melanie 🏳️‍🌈 @mellusions.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I’m not saying the news has been bad or anything but I’ve *quite literally* eaten 2/3rds of a jar of chili crisp in a week trying to chase some joy. As far as stress eating goes, that’s not a…..terrible fixation? I think? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Melanie 🏳️‍🌈 @mellusions.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Whelp. I didn't *quite* finish reading the 1,700 page trilogy (Farseer) I started last week to immediately begin the newest dragon smut book (Onyx Storm) that came out today. Plans. RUINED. Dragon smut will have to wait another day. 😁 #books #blueskybookclub
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Melanie 🏳️‍🌈 @mellusions.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Goodbye 2024, you sucked. My mother died, my 18 yr old cat had a disabling stroke, died 3 months later, husband broke his ankle in July &, due to complications, is STILL not back to work, my 20 yr old cat is actively dying right now, I had food poisoning, a foot injury……yeah. I’m EXHAUSTED. 😩
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Melanie 🏳️‍🌈 @mellusions.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Have five books currently in progress (!!!) and it sure would be nice to finish 3 of them to hit 50 books read for the year but whewwwww is my attention span broken this month. 😑
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Melanie 🏳️‍🌈 @mellusions.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I know Bluesky has the juice because the amount of times I write a totally banal comment to a post, proof read it, decide it's not worth getting 'noticed' over, delete it, and just move on has gone up by like........700%. (Or something. I'm admittedly making up numbers here.)
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Melanie 🏳️‍🌈 @mellusions.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Actual snort laugh while in a quiet waiting room. AMONG US. Hahahahaha! I get not being ‘hip’ to video games but did no one do even a cursory search on this game? (Answer is no, obviously.)
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Li Chen @exocomics.com · 04/12/2024
precious memories 💖
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Melanie 🏳️‍🌈 @mellusions.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Both loathe and love this ornament from Michael’s. Creepy is fun! I like creepy! Creepy is also creepy and maybe I don’t want this living in a box in my house year round. 😬😳
Picture of a glass tree ornament. Design is a humanoid human tooth with an enormous smile, braces, and holding a toothbrush.
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Melanie 🏳️‍🌈 @mellusions.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Got my stitchy advent calendar from kittenstitcher in the mail. Absolute BONKERS cost, BONKERS. In my defense, it was only available right after the election & was VERY limited. A ‘end of the world’ type purchase if you will. Look at all the wee envelopes. Very fun. :) #crossstitch #craft
Picture of a shallow box with 25 different/colored/sized numbered envelopes in it.Picture of closed up box the envelopes are in. Covered in a graphic with various stitching items (threads) and some Christmas decor (pinecones)
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Melanie 🏳️‍🌈 @mellusions.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Had a genuine gut punch of a moment when I realized that every single thing I have worked on for a few months is completely gray and maybe also about dead things. Fuck you, grief! You sneaky fucker. 😕 Have course corrected with some pink socks and goofy turkeys. 🫤 #crossstitch #knitting #grief
Photo of five small Halloween themed cross stitch pieces and one pair of striped knit socks, all done with gray colors.
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Melanie 🏳️‍🌈 @mellusions.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
One of those "open link to an embroidery advent calendar, get excited over it, think how much your mother loved embroidery, fall immediately down 100 flights of stairs, collapse into broken bits at the bottom for the rest of the day" type of day. It's fine. People should be remembered, no? 😐
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Melanie 🏳️‍🌈 @mellusions.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Actually kinda crazy how things have skyrocketed in the last week. I’ve been here over a year and, for the first time since then, it feels like this place might ACTUALLY win the social media Hunger Games that has been going on since Elmo stunk up the bird app.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 16/11/2024
your body my choice how bout your ass my stiletto motherfucker
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Melanie 🏳️‍🌈 @mellusions.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Ah well, nevertheless. Thankfully I still take the little blue pills* I got the 1st time around bcse the adrenaline was actually starting to kill me. Outside of harming marginalized ppl, I don’t think I care this time. Burn it all down. Maybe that’s how you fix it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ *beta blockers. 👍🏻
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Melanie 🏳️‍🌈 @mellusions.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
Did the thing. Still feel bad. Blergh. 🤢
Photo of a trio of spooky ceramic ghosts with an I Voted Early sticker on front.
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kilgore trout @kilgoretrout.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
basically my philosophy on whether you have a real job or not is that if you can constantly fuck up and be hilariously wrong all the time without facing any financial consequences then you don’t do real work, you are a rodeo clown without the lethal dignity of the rodeo
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Melanie 🏳️‍🌈 @mellusions.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
Doesn't feel like a whole year has gone by, just in general, I tell you that. Jesus.
Shows my account is  user #917,795
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Melanie 🏳️‍🌈 @mellusions.bsky.social · 16/08/2024
Boo, thrilled as ever, full on diva mode, like *I* am the one who made her go outside. Snapped a pic because tomorrow we say goodbye. 😢 Almost 19, survived a stroke this spring, still stomping around and being the most annoying, stubborn little creature ever. Bless her. 😞
Beige color cat with dark brown color points looking grumpy with trees in the background. Not grumpy because today is her last day alive. She’s always grumpy.
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Melanie 🏳️‍🌈 @mellusions.bsky.social · 02/08/2024
Week number SIX coming up of unrelenting cloudiness and dampness/dewpoint stuck in the 70’s. This summer is starting to give me some S.A.D. like it’s mid-winter or something. 😡
Picture of a weeks worth of weather, forecasting nothing but rain.
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Melanie 🏳️‍🌈 @mellusions.bsky.social · 11/07/2024
Random period after six months of nothing and, lordy, I don't miss this crap. At all, at all, at all. 😡 It's just complete bullshit that women feel this poorly basically 25% of the time for decades of their life and society at large is like "this is fine". 🖕 #menopause
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pussyfullawasps 🗡️ joa (they) @pussyfullawasps.bsky.social · 16/06/2024
happy pride, y’all
booty pride flag made of curvy butts in all the flag colors
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Melanie 🏳️‍🌈 @mellusions.bsky.social · 07/06/2024
Well, I'm turning on reposts for the first time here to see how it goes..... I suspect it will only last a day before I turn it off again. lol
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