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i amar prestar aen @oakleaf.bsky.social · 3h

Starting the day off right: getting both my cats high af on catnip for my amusement 😂

i amar prestar aen @oakleaf.bsky.social · 3h

Me: thinking about how it’s cold season and everyone is getting sick My parents: going out to lunch with friends from out of town Me: so you’re not masking or anything right Mom: no I’m done with that Great I really enjoy you being done with doing something that protects me!!! I love that!!!

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 4h

This quiz sees me.

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i amar prestar aen @oakleaf.bsky.social · 4h

Writing while sleepy: who knows what typos I leave behind for future me 😂

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Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 17h

We went and found the Lego sukkah. It’s in Oak Park, MI, and it was built by Menachem R., with help from his nieces and nephews. During the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, you build a booth and eat meals outside in it. They’re usually made of wood but he got funky with this one!

Twilight photo of a colorful sukkah built out of giant Lego blocks of every color, with a wooden roof with branches across the top. It has an open weave pattern of blocks, with larger openings at the top.
There is a door on one side. It sits in the driveway of a suburban yard.

Color photo of the back of a sukkah built out of giant Lego blocks, sitting in a suburban driveway. It is intensely colorful, with different colors of blocks mingled all together. In some sections there are patterns and in others it is more random.

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i amar prestar aen @oakleaf.bsky.social · 18h

He’s giving himself a peaceful day of perfect weather in a quiet forest, walking with his hound and his son, foraging food, maybe meeting up with their friends for a picnic

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i amar prestar aen @oakleaf.bsky.social · 22h

Cannot believe my cat’s anxiety medication costs more than mine does lolsob

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Magical creatures don’t exist, eh? Roughly 400 million years ago, before the birth of trees, there were giant mystery cones called “Prototaxites,” which grew nearly 30 feet tall. We literally have no idea what they were. Plant: no Mushroom: no Animal: no Tell me this isn’t a little bit magic

Sunset with giant mystery cones Prototaxites https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/prototaxites-fossil-explained-why-this-prehistoric-colossus-still-baffles-scientists-1773173

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i amar prestar aen @oakleaf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My friend is reading the Queen’s Thief books for the first time and I’m So Excited for her

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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Journey's End. Sam Says Farewell by Joan Wyatt. Find this painting really captures the mood of the moment. #Tolkien #TolkienTrewsday @timbolton.bsky.social

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i amar prestar aen @oakleaf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Realizing my planned ending for this book forces both my main characters to relive the absolute worst moments of their lives like. Whoops lol

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Onagadori Rooster. Ink and gouache on Fabriano Medioevalis, 85 × 132 mm, 2022.

Drawing in black ink, primarily in silhouette, of an Onagadori rooster with long flowing tail covert feathers on a plum blossom branch. The rooster's comb and wattle are the only spots of red. The piece is smaller than a postcard and is photographed with the traditional Chinese brush it was drawn with.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 29/09/2026

This is one of my top three shows of all time. Of. All. Time. Mostly funny, occasionally frightening or revelatory or startling or eerie or poignant or beautiful. It leaves me in awe of the baffling blob of meat and ideas that is humanity. But mostly it’s really, really fucking funny.

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i amar prestar aen @oakleaf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Happy Milo Monday to all who celebrate! May you, too, sit on a throne of victory over this week like a perfect ginger loaf

An orange cat loafing on a chair with a red tasseled cushion

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i amar prestar aen @oakleaf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Man sometimes you really do just see a tumblr post that cracks something open you’ve been struggling to articulate for years huh

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i amar prestar aen @oakleaf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

lrp I find myself stumbling over magical cure stories in my own work a lot, bc like… I would love someone to be able to make me feel better actually. Part of the fantasy OF MAGIC is that someone could make the pain stop. I write a lot of disability similar to mine so it’s hard to not project that

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That said, the fact that there is so much interest makes me feel like I should mention them at least a little. This thread in no way can stand in place of working with a sensitivity consultant with lived experience! Here is a brief, nonexhaustive list of harmful disability tropes in fiction.

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I knew the phrase 'queen of air and darkness', but didn't know Housman came up with it. Pretty metal poem.

Her Strong Enchantments Failing
AE Housman

Her strong enchantments failing,
Her towers of fear in wreck,
Her limbecks dried of poisons
And the knife at her neck,

The Queen of air and darkness
Begins to shrill and cry,
'O young man, O my slayer,
To-morrow you shall die.'

O Queen of air and darkness,
I think 'tis truth you say,
And I shall die tomorrow;
But you will die to-day.

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i amar prestar aen @oakleaf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Neet and Blum forcefully reminding me that I am, in fact, bi WHEW (They’re so cool they’re so delightful) youtube.com/shorts/C-uuX...

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Who wore it best? #couple #funny #fashion

YouTube video by Neet Fitness

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i amar prestar aen @oakleaf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Howwwwww am I gonna finish this booooooook

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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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i amar prestar aen @oakleaf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sudden and inexplicable urge to play old school runescape lol

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fluxxxxx @fluxxxxx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I have a bright orange frame and I could not find I picture that would fit in, so here is my best attempt at drawing one. #art #bskyart #painting #tradart #watercolors #SciArt #sunset #clouds #mountains

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i amar prestar aen @oakleaf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🎶Hey ho the wind and the rain🎶

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i amar prestar aen @oakleaf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

lol so many yeah, the whole series takes place over the course of about 12-13 years, but just the third book alone has gone from high summer now to the middle of winter. Will it be spring again by the time it ends? Who knows but that would be poetic #QueerWritersChat

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i amar prestar aen @oakleaf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I want to say walking in the woods, but given my mc’s job, that’s an all seasons activity. So I’ll go with the harvest festival, for sure. A time of both joy and sorrow, of feasting and celebrating, but also of preparing for the cold to come. #QueerWritersChat

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i amar prestar aen @oakleaf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Probably summer, ironically, since summer is my least favorite season. But for them, summer is a time of warmth and plenty, because they live off the land and fairly far north #QueerWritersChat

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i amar prestar aen @oakleaf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hello #QueerWritersChat! I’m oakleaf, still working on the last act of the epic fantasy trilogy I never meant to write 😂 I’m having a great time but this project got absolutely out of hand and I am looking forward to finishing it even though I’ll miss my guy and his dog and his scary elf friends lol

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i amar prestar aen @oakleaf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Is there a game on or something??? Because a whole bunch of people just started cheering and screaming and setting off fireworks?????

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i amar prestar aen @oakleaf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oh my secondary mc definitely. Technically his boyfriend is more powerful (they’re a battle couple), but in terms of taking hits and sheer tank stubbornness, secondary mc for sure. He’s survived *a lot,* and tbh I’d be more worried about anyone who tried to punch him than about him XD

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

They’re trying to close the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philly (or The Dinosaur Museum as it was known in my house when my kid was little.) Here’s a thread with a simple way to help keep it open. It’s been around since 1812 for goodness sake!

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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think the most “adult who was in a gifted and talented program as a kid” thing I could have done to myself was become an author. Just giving myself endless homework and a need for people to be proud of me forever.

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i amar prestar aen @oakleaf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My one gripe about working from home is when everyone else is ALSO home and has decided to do housework all day all around me and it’s Friday afternoon and I’m tired and frazzled and now I can’t use the kitchen

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MGCoco★ @mgcoco.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! Mooncakes featuring imprints of Tolkien heraldic devices 🥮 🌕 #Tolkien #LOTR

Mooncakes with Earendil, Idril, and Luthien's heraldic devices on them.

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i amar prestar aen @oakleaf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Imma be so real right now I am SO happy about the cool weather but I am NOT ready for it to be October on the calendar. Things need to SLOW DOWN so I can CATCH THE FUCK UP

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i amar prestar aen @oakleaf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The fun thing about having an mc who is deeply *not* a hero character is finding the ways he still has agency and still nudges the story along. He isn’t winning battles. He isn’t fighting the bbeg. He’s not a commander or a king. He’s a guy taking many small heartfelt actions with major consequences

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Gabe 🏳️‍⚧️🦇 “Fealty” WIP 17.5k/100k @theeldervampire.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#WeeknightWriters The Witch of Eden Hollow is out on October 9th (TWO WEEKS!!) It's a T4T queer fantasy romance novel in which the 3 MCs (Elias 🏳️‍⚧️, Sterling 🏳️‍⚧️, and Avery 🏳️‍🌈) stand up against a Puritan cult and its cruel leader. Uni Link: books2read.com/u/mZR9kD Itch: gt-anthony.itch.io/witch-x-hunter

Background image: a patch of daisies in the middle of the forest at sunrise.
Top Text: A Grieving Witch, His Vengeful Hunter, and a Feud between Piety and Magic

In the middle is the book cover for "The Witch of Eden Hollow" by G.T. Anthony
Forest green cover with pale goldenrod font. There is an emblem centerpiece in the middle of the cover depicting a ring made of woven branches with wilting vines wrapped around it. In the middle of it is a brown hare. Behind it is a background of a patch of daisies.

Bottom Text: Coming 9th October, 2026

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

me: no worries (galadriel voice) but they were all of them deceived, for another worry was made

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i amar prestar aen @oakleaf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It’s the good old time and energy equation. When I have time to write, I rarely have energy. When I have energy… I’m supposed to be using it for something else. And the ending of a Big Story takes a lot of attention to craft! Anyone have a nice writer’s retreat I could go on lol #WeeknightWriters

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i amar prestar aen @oakleaf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Whoops I kinda already did this in the intro round lol Basically it turns out being chronically ill is super isolating and loneliness also like. Really sucks actually! But I have friends and I have therapy and I’m muddling along as best I can. Thank goodness I’m an introvert lol #WeeknightWriters

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i amar prestar aen @oakleaf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hi #WeeknightWriters! I’m oakleaf, still chipping away at the last act of my accidental epic fantasy trilogy. The writing is… going? Slower than I’d like, but… going. This week has been very weird, between the intense holiday on Sunday and Monday combined with intense isolation. Loneliness is hard

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i amar prestar aen @oakleaf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nothing to see here. Definitely not a picture with a cat in it

A couch with a colorful throw blanket over the back. A grey cat’s butt and tail stick out from under the blanket

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