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Melissa F. Olson, Acquired Taste @mfolson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Did you hear the one about the dog who joyously shed fur all over Mom’s car?

Melissa F. Olson, Acquired Taste @mfolson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Friends, I usually work on my own, but atm I have an interim coworker and she does NOTHING. I’m doing all the work while she sprawls across my office couch napping. What should I do?

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Melissa F. Olson, Acquired Taste @mfolson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Asked my ADHD husband to vacuum the bedroom and found him like this. I guess he found a way to make the task feel more urgent and vital. 😆

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Melissa F. Olson, Acquired Taste @mfolson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What scene makes you emotional no matter how many times you've seen it? (There are a few so I went with the seasonal pick)

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Melissa F. Olson, Acquired Taste @mfolson.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

When Mom promised a fun car ride but now the sky is attacking

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Melissa F. Olson, Acquired Taste @mfolson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Can anyone suggest additional songs for my 90s-themed workout mix?

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Melissa F. Olson, Acquired Taste @mfolson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Me: oh, what a cute picture of Brody Frankie: muther i swear vengeance upon seven generations of your line

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Melissa F. Olson, Acquired Taste @mfolson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

For the crime of abandoning him at boarding for six days during #SDCC, I am… NOT FORGIVEN

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Melissa F. Olson, Acquired Taste @mfolson.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

For 4 days at SDCC I tried to look my best/most professional. But bc I underpacked (for once) I ended up in of my husband’s T-shirt today…and after an unfortunate incident with my last skirt, I wound up pairing it w/cheap I ❤️SAN DIEGO shorts. Rolling through the airports with a very specific energy.

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Melissa F. Olson, Acquired Taste @mfolson.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Stayed an extra night after Comic-Con to visit an old friend

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Melissa F. Olson, Acquired Taste @mfolson.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

#SDCC folks! Please join me and fellow comic writers @brandonhoang.bsky.social @brandontsnider.bsky.social @kellysue.bsky.social @megfitz89.bsky.social and Tyrone Finch for a candid conversation about how we write comics! Friday at 10 am.

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Melissa F. Olson, Acquired Taste @mfolson.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Help me with my homework? Next Friday I’m running a panel at Comic-Con called “A Day in the Life of a Comics Writer.” (Panelists and descriptions below.) I’ve got some starter questions, but I thought I’d outsource this to Bluesky, too: what do you want to know about how comics writers work? #SDCC

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Melissa F. Olson, Acquired Taste @mfolson.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

In light of this, we should rethink both whom we venerate as icons of the industry and what moral issues and ideologies guide their storytelling…especially with regards to a genre as concerned with notions of justice as the superhero comic. #ComicBookWomen

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Melissa F. Olson, Acquired Taste @mfolson.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Publishers and the creators who worked for them were, at this time, content to not only take credit for creative methods pioneered by women, but also sit idly by while their male coworkers, or they themselves, sexually harassed and abused their female coworkers. #ComicBookWomen

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Melissa F. Olson, Acquired Taste @mfolson.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Today I learned that the so-called “Marvel Method” of writing comic scripts was invented not by Stan Lee, but by a female writer named Toni Bloom, who worked at Quality Comics during the Golden Age. #ComicBookWomen

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Melissa F. Olson, Acquired Taste @mfolson.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Today I learned that Patricia Highsmith worked in comics before she wrote novels. #ComicBookWomen

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Melissa F. Olson, Acquired Taste @mfolson.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

There’s an alien bug creature in my hammock tree, please advise

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Melissa F. Olson, Acquired Taste @mfolson.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Quote with a fictional band that isn’t Spinal Tap

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Melissa F. Olson, Acquired Taste @mfolson.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I never really understand Met Gala fashion, but this year seems even more bewildering than usual. I do know, however, that Patrick Schwarzenegger and Bill Skarsgard should not be left alone together.

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Melissa F. Olson, Acquired Taste @mfolson.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Part of an ongoing series called Dogs Are Not Allowed in the Office

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Melissa F. Olson, Acquired Taste @mfolson.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

If you’re trying to understand the autism experience (as you should) I highly recommend picking up a copy of @schnumn.bsky.social’s Lavender Clouds (which is available on Kindle Unlimited). My AudHD daughters have just asked for additional copies to donate to their schools.

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Melissa F. Olson, Acquired Taste @mfolson.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Documentary footage of me watching Thrash last night

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Melissa F. Olson, Acquired Taste @mfolson.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I also teach them something. That’s not in any of their textbooks: Harvey Weinstein and the #MeTop movement. And I tell them my own (relatively mild) #metoo story. One class at a time…

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Melissa F. Olson, Acquired Taste @mfolson.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

My issue with Hitchcock, and one of my issues with auteur theory, is that proclaiming directors can and should have that degree of control creates the perfect circumstances for abuse, as with Tippi Hedron

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Melissa F. Olson, Acquired Taste @mfolson.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

You fool. You’ve played right into my slides.

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Melissa F. Olson, Acquired Taste @mfolson.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Creators, reply with your current favorite craft book and let’s get a little thread going

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Melissa F. Olson, Acquired Taste @mfolson.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Knitting from the light of the candelabra while watching “See How They Run” Owning a candelabra is my whole personality now

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Melissa F. Olson, Acquired Taste @mfolson.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

When Ninja Turtles 2: Secret of the Ooze comes back to theaters and ONE person in your family grew up in the 90s.

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Melissa F. Olson, Acquired Taste @mfolson.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I am stupid excited to go see my very favorite Ninja Turtle movie in theaters for the first time. I will be devoting the rest of the day to Secret of the Ooze content

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Melissa F. Olson, Acquired Taste @mfolson.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

After actual years of me “hinting” (haranguing), my new husband decided to grant one of my more whimsical requests for my Valentine’s Day gift LET THE CANDELABRA ERA COMMENCE

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Melissa F. Olson, Acquired Taste @mfolson.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

The Other Frankenstein is my first book that I believe is worthy of the Hugo conversation. It’s about Elizabeth Frankenstein, motherhood, disability, & the ways women twist themselves around for men. With apologies for the uncool, I need to take my shot here: I’d be grateful for your consideration.

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Melissa F. Olson, Acquired Taste @mfolson.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

It’s important to pass your greatest wisdom on to the next generation. Like how to eat ribs when you hate having sticky sauce fingers.

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Melissa F. Olson, Acquired Taste @mfolson.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I just really like the outfit I pulled together to teach college students about silent film. I was one monocle or bowler hat away from going to a cliffside tea party on my dirigible.

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Melissa F. Olson, Acquired Taste @mfolson.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Listen. If your dog dies, and 5 years later you get another dog, those 2 dogs are siblings. My brindle pup is the annoying little brother of the dog I got right after college, The dog I have when I’m 70 will be *their* little sister. I don’t make the rules. This is just how dog posterity works.

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Melissa F. Olson, Acquired Taste @mfolson.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Writer here. On this most hallowed #PortfolioDay, I’m keeping an eye out for a comics artist who likes architecture and ghosts. And, in case you thought artists weren’t important, I present some of my own very best drawing.

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Melissa F. Olson, Acquired Taste @mfolson.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Please let me live the kind of life that generates this kind of headline when I die

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Melissa F. Olson, Acquired Taste @mfolson.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Well I just don’t know how to feel about that

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