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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The only reason I can post this is because I'm roadtripping rn. I still have a week and a bit, but... 😮‍💨

orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Hey, so, if I stop posting on Bluesky for a while (until who knows when), it's because I'd rather not hand over my SSN, ID, or credit card information to stay on a social media platform. 👉👉

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I've been so busy with everything, I'm so stoked to start roadtripping. Your girl needs fresh air and to be surrounded by lots of big trees for a bit. 😮‍💨

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

You know you've got a house of fencers when both of you are like "can we fit a strip in the yard?"

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Totally unintentional, my thigh length hair tends to make my "it's hot and I want everything out of the way" styles lean historical. 💀

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

A friend said I remind her of Miss Langtree from Over the Garden Wall whenever I put my hair up in a high bun, which, yeah.

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I messed up on alt text, I forgot the Yucca in the first picture and there is no Rocky Mountain Zinnia in the second. 😬

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

A closer look at the wildflowers I embroidered, because I love them dearly.

Western Spiderwort, Wild Garlic (Drummond's Onion), Chocolate Daisy (Lyre-leaf Greeneyes), Horsemint (Plains Beebalm), Common Sunflower, Prairie Verbena (Dakota Mock Vervain), Blanket Flower, Silverleaf Nightshade

Scarlet Globemallow, Cut-leaf Germander, Tahoka Daisy, Red-dome Blanketflower, Bractless Blazingstar, Trailing Ratany, Prickly Pear, Rocky Mountain Zinnia, Sundrops (Hartweg's Sundrops), Cat-claw Mimosas, Evening Primrose

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I used Charm Pattern's Night and Day pattern, it's a lovely set of patterns to work with and I'm excited to mix and match more.

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Using your bindweed covered patio chairs to take photos the dress you made embroidered with native wildflowers. ✅️

Jen sitting on a white, rusty metal chair covered in bindweed in bloom, basking in the sunlight. She's wearing a bright yellow sleeveless dress with a square collar that's decorated with different embroidered wildflowers and white wavy rickrack trim.

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

This is especially true for little girls who did not know that girls can swordfight; coming from a former little girl who wanted to be a knight but didn't have many swordfighting women role models.

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I seldom bring up the whole being titled nobility thing, but seeing the sparkle in a little one's eyes when they find out they're holding a "princess's" sword is 100% worth it.

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I sense this will be a yearly thing, I did not plan this, I just like the vegetable patch.

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Have this year's "omg, the Scarborough Renaissance Festival vegetable patch" photo.

Jen dressed as a renfaire version of Camilla Hect from The Locked Tomb in a white poet shirt, grey gambeson, and black breeches, boots, and belt carrying a wooden sword. She excitedly points towards a small vegetable patch over a wrought iron fence.

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

My bf got me a 70s Kenmore sewing machine he found at the thrift store, and the way I talk about this baby like a project car.

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Have another soggy Cam, 'cause I had way to much fun traipsing about as her in the rain.

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

"Here's to Camilla Hect, yet another of devotion's casualties." 💀 #thelockedtomb 💀

Jen dressed as a renfaire inspired Camilla Hect from The Locked Tomb, with a white poet shirt, grey gambeson, and black breeches, tights, boots, and belt accessories. She's standing at the end of a set of stone stairs in a wooded area, holding a wooden sword in the pouring rain as she looks off into the distance.

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Just a gal in her natural habitat. (Day one of the last weekend of Scarby is in the books! Onward to tomorrow!)

Jen dressed in a green and peachy pink naiad inspired renfaire garb runs across a wooden boardwalk over a creek in a forest with joy.

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Mending my shirt for renfaire Cam, and I'm so excited to restore her to that full bishop-sleeved glory.

Jen dressed in a Renaissance Faire inspired Camilla Hect cosplay drawing a longbow off to the side.

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Lounging around while being fed mead and rosemary crackers. 💅✨️ (I'm lazing around on the couch and my beloved is a brewer who needs a second opinion.)

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

My bf's cat got frustrated she couldn't reach any of the birds on tv, so she left the room, grabbed one of her toys, and came back very adamant that I play fetch with her. 💀

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Renfair Camilla Hect throwback because we're officially a week away from travelling to Scarby! 🥹 (Bringing both Cam and my Renaissance naiad along.)

Jen dressed as a ren faire version of Camilla Hect from The Locked Tomb, looking back on a whimsically decorated boardwalk among the trees.

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

We're thankfully not in the evacuation zones (I know folks who were, but are safe now), but it's been so dry and windy that I'm still keeping an eye out.

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I'm so tired but my room smells like smoke from the wildfires.

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I am actually excited to finally have new contacts and not fling my glasses off my face every time I remove my fencing mask. 💀

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Feeling like a disgruntled vampire after my eye appointment, but I do adore my optometrist. 🤓

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

(Also confirmed my theory that The Song of Purple Summer is a song needed to hear live, omg.)

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Ahaha, guess who totally started sobbing while watching a production of Spring Awakening.

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

For context we get 3 rounds of 3 minutes to get 15 touches. That bout was in the top 5 fastest bouts our head coach has seen. 💀

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Tournament update: I'm out of the first event, but I did win a DE bout in 48 seconds with 23 touches total exchanged and only 2 doubles.

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Tournament day! Tournament day! Tournament day! 🤺🤺🤺

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Running back and forth between playing cultural catch-up to survive while also being recognised for filling in gaps with knowledge that is second-nature to the communities I was raised in sure is something.

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

It's fun to see how growing up over 9000 miles away from a place can give you such a different perspective on things.

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Apparently I've officially graduated from the "padawan treatment" after consistently holding my own during peer bouts against coaches, so that's something to celebrate.

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Something, something, May the Fourth.

Jen dressed as Princess Leia from Star Wars watering a blueberry bush in a pot with a serene expression.

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

We wrote a list of movies and assigned the first 20 to a number, then roll a D20. We keep adding to this list, and all the movies move up to replace the one we watch (which shuffles them too). We'll still pick specific ones sometimes, but "roll for movie" is much less stressful. 💀 2/2

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Bf and I devised a system for watching movies because decision paralysis, but we're also yappers who keep mentioning movies and not ending up watching them. Honestly, pretty solid. 1/2

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Love how the great outdoors can really inspire the arts; like the songs you create when you know there's a large animal on the small trail you're hiking and you don't want to startle it.

A large bison just around the corner of a narrow hiking trail surrounded by rocks and trees.

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Spent the last few days two-stepping in an old dance hall, eating good food with good company, listening to impromptu jam sessions, and exploring a canyon and sleeping under the stars with my beloved. Pretty solid weekend, very much needed.

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

My friend told me the song Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) is very me, and as someone who has listened to it on repeat, I'm positively delighted.

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I was raised by so many brilliant and strong Indonesian women. Some never received a highschool education. Some dropped out after elementary school (to support their families). All of them encouraged me to stay sharp and keep dreaming, and are why I'm so passionate about accessible education today.

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

A belated Kartini Day post! While wearing kebayas and putting on fashion shows is all fine and dandy, it's important to remember what the holiday celebrates (women's emancipation and right to education) and how there's still so much work to do.

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Also have a silly 67 to soothe the ouchies and because it's my Pal's birthday. 💕

Alex and Jen as Palamedes and Dulcinea. Alex is holding the skull wearing his glasses to Jen's face while making kissy faces, as Jen scrunches her face trying to dodge the kisses.

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

"My heart was broken, you see. So it was easier to believe -- that things had simply changed between us." 💀 #thelockedtomb 💀

Jen and Alex dressed as Dulcinea and Palamedes. Alex is dipping Jen as she's giggling and holding a skull.

Alex dipping Jen again, but she's now intently looking at the skull.

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

We went with the "thank you awfully, Master Warden" combo. #thelockedtomb

Jen and her boyfriend Alex taking a mirror selfie as Dulcinea and Palamedes from The Locked Tomb.

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Anyway, we're cosplaying Cytherea and Palamedes tomorrow, and I'm so stoked, AHHHH- (Unfortunately still haven't finished my Canaan House Cam, rip.)

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orangealpacas @orangealpacas.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Highly recommend finding a partner who also sword fights with you (and doesn't take it easy) on the regular, 10/10.

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