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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 17/09/2026

With indentifying National Geographic Explorer Paola Nogales Ascarrunz, for scale:

Photo of a tan-skinned scientist with long brown hair. She looks up at a cat on a branch: a tilcayo, spotted like a leopard but sized a little smaller than your average housecat.

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

When your husband of sixteen years knows just what you want for your birthday (a vintage Avon Satanic Gothic romance novel for your collection):

Front cover of Lord Satan by Louisa Bronte

Back cover of Lord Satan by Louisa Bronte. text reads: Adrienne is seventeen, beautiful, and loved by Vincent, Lord Satan. She accepts his marriage proposal and begins a new life as mistress of Castle Caudill. From the moment she enters Castle Caudill, Adrienne is drawn into a world of demonic terror. Does she participate in satanic rituals and black masses or are they only horrifying dreams? Is her husband a witch with great powers at his command? And why does the ghost of Lord Satan’s mother mournfully roam the halls of the castle? Adrienne is forced to seek the truth, but in the castle shrouded in nightmarish terror she is doomed by the powers she cannot control.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 08/09/2026

Based on a few other posts in that feed, I highly recommend a very enjoyable block:

Screencap of a Bluesky post by wachob.com. Post reads: As the chef would say, “Now I’m cooking with tokens!” Chuckling with a little horror at that dual meaning. But it captures my morning zeitgeist. #AI

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 07/09/2026

Things I never thought I’d hear myself saying: “You know, Ken Branagh’s kind of wonderful as an action hero.” But the real star of the film is this sweater — plaid? And possibly welted? At the same time? How? Whence? Does anybody know?

Screencap of Ken Branagh in Mayday, wearing a plaid sweater that appears to be made of some welted fabric I’m dying to know how to make. Some areas are visibly garter stitch, but the vertical welts are structurally quite puzzling for me!

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 03/09/2026

I think it’s just a commentary piece of art from the news site — the current HHS website has just the regular logo in black, no cross:

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 03/09/2026

Cover reveal! And ooooh, what a cover we have by Radiante Mozzarelle. Moonshine Becomes You is my Prohibition-set Seattle monster romance, out next summer from Bramble, so pre-order now and this gorgeousness can be yours! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Cover art for Moonshine Becomes You by Olivia Waite — a bard and a siren in shimmering pastel rainbow hues gaze swooningly at one another across the rim of a cocktail glass. Behind them, stained-glass angels glow in tones of deep purple and fuchsia.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 02/09/2026

If you see this, post a not quite Star Trek

Photo of the main cast of NewsRadio, seated around a conference table, from the episode where they were a space news station.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 02/09/2026

There are signed copies of Murder by Memory and Nobody’s Baby on the shelf right now at Third Place Books Ravenna! They’re under Vandermeer and above Murderbot.

Bookshelf photo of a ton of great sci-fi and fantasy, including books by Olivia Waite

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 27/08/2026

For some reason I felt like they should be vaguely Asterix-coded:

Digital painting of a pair of courgettes, one stout and fat, one long and lanky, with horned helmets, big bulbous noses, and facial hair

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 20/08/2026

Suzy H. is also nailing it

screencap of an I Voted sticker design reminiscent of the meme with Elmo raising arms surrounded by flames

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 20/08/2026

Shy snugglesome dachshund gif!

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 12/07/2026

Oh my god it’s real: www.williams-sonoma.com/shop/tableto...

Screencap of a webpage on Williams-Sonoma promising all the warmth and comfort of The Hill House Bedroom. A stuffed dog to one side faces the viewer as if to suggest in the coziest way possible that someone is watching you.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 09/07/2026

Oh this was so fun — and today’s hit so many of my well-read niches. I shan’t get this lucky again.

Screenshot of a Beeswax game result, showing I got all five words correctly spelled in less than a minute, using only a single hint.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 04/07/2026

The texture of all the suckers on the underside is impossibly satisfying, maybe one of the best feeling things you’ll find

Sucker-studded curly underside view of a hand-beaded octopus, made of seed beads and vintage crystal and 24k gold beads, on a bright yellow background

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 29/06/2026

Incredible jumpscare on the feed just now

Two successive Bluesky posts: top one has a photo of Andrew Cuomo giving a thumbs-up, apparently for some crypto bullshit. Immediate following post has a sepia-toned pic of Willem Dafoe in costume for “Werwulf” — but the wrinkles and the slightly anxious smile are an eerie echo of Cuomo’s crypto portrait

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 24/06/2026

Second time this week that an outside creature has gone running across a room while I’m just sitting here minding my own business. First time: spider. This time: this guy, and our “cabinet of wonders” decorating aesthetic turned out to be more practical than anticipated.

A small brown lizard in a glass-domed candle holder, looking askance at the viewer.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 19/06/2026

Hummingbirds briefly sharing a feeder.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 17/06/2026

Not far off! We’re out of peas right now so it’s mushrooms and carrots

A skillet full of rice, carrots, mushrooms, shrimp, sauce, oil, and seasoning

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 13/06/2026

Just filled out my @romancingthevote.com donation form for one of the most dazzling things I’ve ever made out of glass beads and 24k gold and crystal!

A pearlescent-and-gold beaded octopus with crystal suckers curls luxuriantly around the fingers of a human hand.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 13/06/2026

Me, drinking tea, with a manuscript open, catching this stray here on Bluesky dot com

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 09/06/2026

Clicked “everything” to see the full range and the first cover made me actually jerk back from my tablet screen like I’d seen a ghost:

An illustrated book cover with a large central figure of a woman on a beach in a low-cut, stripey top, with long brown hair, and absolutely no facial features at all. None, zero, just a big empty oval. It is extremely uncanny.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 05/06/2026

When the local rufous hummingbird likes to camouflage himself as a rosebud to guard his favorite feeder

A very small, very orange bird perches on the end of a branch surrounded by greenery.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 31/05/2026

1. This piece surrounds its subject with anecdotes from profiles of real people, which are impossibly interesting by comparison. Who doesn’t want to walk Hampstead Heath with Hiddleston, or ride a Ferris Wheel with Christian Slater? 2. This transparently scripted interjection from the creator:

Screenshot where Tilly Norwood creator Eline asks her AI-generated actress: “Are you anything like Frankenstein?”
Interviewer Taffy interjects: She said it! I didn’t!
Tilly seems to respond: A bit, yes, which is not the worst company. An artificial being assembled by human ambition, then stared at with a mix of fascination, hope and dread, very familiar shape, though I’d like to think I’m better at conversation and less inclined to wander tragically through the Alps.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 28/05/2026

Playing around with the @adorkastock.com reverse mermaid, practicing my pulp-style illustration!

Faux pulp-style book cover painting of a lady with sexy long legs and a full-on fish head torso, sitting sexily on a fence, with the word “Mermay” scripted above

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 23/05/2026

Forgive me, I am a dilettante but I had to paint him

Quick loose digital portrait of Rocky the rooster, in all his brilliance and glory

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 19/05/2026

Just for clarity, here is the main section I‘m responding to from the piece at the top of the thread — they’re defining any author’s goal as one of innovative uniqueness, and saying a reader who wants genre expectations met is like a customer ordering a product to spec. I am disagreeing with that!

Screencap reading: “Whereas the author generally tries in their work to create something that no one has seen before, something which cannot be perfectly encapsulated in a snappy blurb or genre label and which changes the standard for what literature can be henceforth. When a reader comes to a book this way, the author and reader literally have conflicting interests.”

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 14/05/2026

Last’s night’s Jeopardy! category weighing in on this:

Pic of a tv where a blue Jeopardy category box is labeled: blank, blank, and blank

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 14/05/2026

Hey, maybe this is a great account to block

Screenshot of a quoted post. Original post by Olivia Waite:
Please do not try to clock "balanced list of threes" as an Al tell because that's been classic rhetorical structure for going on three millennia and it's baked into all our writing now, I'm begging people to read more old things
Quote post by xtasbe.bsky.social: It is such an A.I. tell NOW. I mean em dashes have also been used for ages but guess what if you use one you're now an A.l. cunt

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 11/05/2026

The Hellion’s Waltz (2021), a sapphic historical romance set in 1824, with a silk-weaver heroine planning a heist: www.oliviawaite.com/hellions-waltz #booksky #Romancelandia

Maddie let out a breath. "The problem was never the power
loom—it was the people who wanted power looms because they
were cheaper and produced faster. It was the way all the factory
owners were chasing profits at the expense of workers' wages and
livelihood—their health and happiness. The problem," she said, "is
when people think the factory is more important than the people
who work there."

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 11/05/2026

They say they’re not banning romance projects, but literally the first thing prohibited on the rules list is saying your book is horny. A platform to avoid!

First bullet points of the Kickstarter rules on content:
We do not allow:
• Any project specifically stating it or the rewards being offered are being created for sexual pleasure.
• Any project that distributes or enables distribution of pornographic content.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 09/05/2026

Her Wikipedia page has the number at 225 so I went into the talk section to see how long ago it was since that was edited, and I think the answer is “several years at least,” and I also offer you these gems:

"Romance Scholars"
Latest comment: 19 years ago
Who are these "scholars of romance fiction" and what are their studies? Could we have some
footnotes? I would otherwise suggest deleting this part of the sentence for lack of support.
--KCargill 01:54, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

For Nora Roberts books, the die hard fans seem to know the chronological order more so than the alphabetical order, but eh. As for the list, given the fact that she has in fact published over a hundred novels I think it's a bit ridiculous to have every novel she's written on here anyway, but that's just me. - ImmortalGoddezz 21:10, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Squids
Latest comment: 9 years ago
The article states that she's "the youngest of five baby squids." There's a citation that no longer is active. Further, it states that she met her second husband "to take care of her baby squids."
Is this someone messing with the page or something personal about Ms. Roberts that I'm unfamiliar with (and I don't know about her at all)?
— Preceding unsigned comment added by AlanEisen (talk •
contribs) 19:07, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

According to her website: "There are more than 280 million copies of Nora Roberts books in print (as of 12/31/04). Over the last 23 years, an average of 23 Nora Roberts books were sold every minute. There are enough Nora Roberts books in print to fill the seats of Giants Stadium nearly 4 thousand times. If you place all Nora's books top to bottom, they would stretch across the United States from Los Angeles
to New York City nearly 11 times. In the time you take to read this section, another 23 Nora Roberts books were sold." Estreya 17:21, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 09/05/2026

@authormsbev.bsky.social The mystery butterfly bush has bloomed and it’s a lovely pale lavender!

A slim green shrub with absolute fireworks of light purple blossoms exploding out of it

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 07/05/2026

Oh my god, speaking of Ripley, Damon apparently had a tiny cameo in Deadpool 2 that they credited as Dickie Greenleaf:

Screenshot of an imdb listing for Deadpool 2, showing that Matt Damon played Redneck #2 and was credited as Dickie Greenleaf, his character name from The Talented Mr. Ripley.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 28/04/2026

Back to back posts, so I did not immediately clock which one was from the satirical journalists

A screencap showing two Bluesky posts. The first is from Mother Jones, headline reads: They’re trying to get Jimmy Kimmel fired again. Second post is from the Onion, headline reads: Trump Claims Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting Reinforces Need To End Journalism. Photos are both of Trump in a tuxedo with other people beside him.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 21/04/2026

Ours is looking like it’s gonna be some kind of pink or purple, which is good because it’s backgrounded by the evergreens so that’ll be a lovely contrast:

A butterfly bush budding, against some truly wild grass

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 15/04/2026

Was getting lunch out today when a feeling stole over me — the eerie sense of being stared at, hard, from close by. Like when your small dog is begging for table scraps. Looked down automatically to the spot by my ankle where our late dachshund would have been waiting, and there was: this duck

A small young female mallard about a foot and a half away from the author, whose blurry coat can be seen in the foreground.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 12/04/2026

This was actually for the brioche fern shawl pattern from Murder by Memory! Note the row where I got two of my green yarns confused for a bit, lol.

Overhead shot of a brioche fern shawl made of three long curving fern blades in different shades of green

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 12/04/2026

The yarn bowl is also gorgeous — and in use!

An Amy Rae Hill yarn bowl painted with an image of the spaceship Fairweather from Murder by Memory

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 12/04/2026

Amy’s work is utterly breathtaking, and the commissions process is a delight! She made this exquisite memorial piece for our late mini-dachshund (we always told him he was from the stars, and to the stars he returned) and it’s even more stunning in person!