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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 1h
watched about half of backrooms & while it is sort of disappointing taken on its own terms, it’s a much better adaptation of the magician’s nephew than I ever expected. that’ll teach me to have my biases set by the discourse of the day more later, got to get back to the wood between the worlds now
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 4h
last year I bought the tiniest poinsettia in a 3-inch plastic container, counting on it to die when I forgot to water it for long enough. but it did not die after pretty close to a year it shamed me into buying a real pot & then doubled in size like overnight. these are a poinsettia’s tricks
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
want to know a horrible secret when I want to say something heartwarming about my early influences I mention my mother giving me simone de beauvoir’s memoirs of a dutiful daughter for my 13th birthday (along with the second sex). because she hoped the title would improve me, I think (it didn’t). but
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
(no slight is intended to the creative powers of dolly parton, I just need an exact famous comparison & she‘s it) you know how people lose their minds when they hear dolly parton wrote both jolene & I will always love you in the same day? or same week, whatever
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I enjoy fran lebowitz & her wonderful ability to pair something that sounds good with a really enjoyable disregard for its truth, but a provocative remark is not an argument. I make them all the time, I should know. she certainly does. yes, nobody knows how to read anymore, but oprah didn’t do it
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
the iced coffee person is clearly insane but before I finish that sentence I have to say I have interviewed people several times and my final reports to highers-up was, in every case, hire em all & let god sort it out. I looked for the smallest stupidest reasons to recommend & often found them
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
whenever I read an imaginary herman melville book in my sleep I like to follow it up by reading a real herman melville book in my awake without any delay, in order that my ideas about literature should remain as grounded in fact as may be possible. you can call this a superstition if you want
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
they make these back-to-sleep melatonin tablets that are supposed to work faster than other melatonin delivery systems, although they do not say why, & therefore be ok to take pretty much any time you think it would be nice to fall asleep. they mostly don’t work at all except every once in a while
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
THiS is the book they based the new reacher season on?? nobody told me, I guess because they didn’t want the untrammeled gales of my unbounded disgust to wash down thundering over the flimsy barricades & rickety weatherproofing of the fact that it isn’t their fault
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
got an unspeakable haircut from a guy who wouldn’t stop telling me how his chatbot says he’s emotionally unstable for him I broke my unbreakable rule (never tell a man with scissors near my ear what to think about robots) it was necessary. for all the good it did me
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I need to overpay for laundry detergent & all the ones with powerful cleaning agents are called repulsive names like ’funk murder’ (& worse), but the nice pretentious ones with attractive packaging had a brain parasite scandal the other year & I can’t remember if they ever fixed it probably, right
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
here I am just drifting through an e-list from one of the 6 or 7 booksellers I haven’t got a secret mortal grudge against because I don’t know them…nice collection of photo-postcards, “women with glowing orb”, always nice to see; cadaver photomontage, a classic…& bang all at once there it is—
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
sad thing when a magazine published before I was born has a better idea of what to sell me than all today’s loathsome targeted ads combined what do women want? occult reference books, perfect bosoms, & cigarettes (back cover, not pictured) my bosom’s already perfect but they weren’t to know that
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I‘m sorry I really don’t want to be someone who takes petty disputes to the court of public opinion but as you will hear I am left with no other choice went to my own local hardware store this evening as I have a perfect right to do & asked an employee where they kept the potting soil
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
roy orbison as I live and breathe he can’t fool me with that cheap mustache
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I can’t post about celebrities because I don’t post about celebrities so I won’t post about celebrities. but the raw strength required to go out & get a new french boyfriend exactly like the old french boyfriend in every visible particular
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
whenever I hear anybody say anything—I mean read, not hear, people who have conversations out loud don’t say these things—but whenever I hear anybody say ”my priors,”my mind goes immediately & peacefully to the “please sir, my wets” line from the good old spaghetti hands tweet
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
what a footnote it isn’t even true, the french pastry name guy endore’s delicacy forbids him to render in english isn’t untranslatable, “as such” or otherwise. it’s just extremely rude
“ *Untranslatable as such, but signifying apple fritters”
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
giving alison espach another try, even though she killed a kitty cat last time I tried to open my heart to contemporary light literature with no ghosts. she can do conversations & it’s amazing how many people cannot. besides, every 3 pages or so there’s a sentence I like
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
visiting the queen of indices
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
fuck I’ve lost my cat, I need a detective won’t assume she ran off to the big city to be a waitress or a dope fiend. she wouldn’t & if she did she’d leave a note time lost is cat lost!! or is it could it be— false alarm she’s here she was just using nature‘s perfect camouflage, my birthday rosebush
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
haven’t heard back yet on whether the reacher people included any of the book moments I specially requested be faithfully represented in the next season they wouldn’t have not done it, would they? I feel like I made my case pretty well
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
ground loebs are deplored as an invasive species & a nuisance to amateur landscapers due to the difficulty of eradicating all volumes once the root system takes hold. in maturity, however, growth slows & ground loebs are useful, even vital, to the mid-atlantic cat, whose preferred habitat they are
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I don’t want to make light of an extremely stupid situation but I am never ever going to understand that nick the new garbage wizard creep isn’t cousin succession because that’s a different nick. I promise you I have tried to understand this. I am trying right now
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
what’s your favorite thing to tell your cat that makes you a bastard even if it isn’t a mean thing, because you know she hasn’t got the context for it I‘ll go first when theodora will not stop with the peeping I tell her her complaints will be logged & addressed in the order they were received
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
the thing john crowley gave me that time can never take away was his epigraphs. usually when I call up a memory & try to situate myself in it at a particular age, if I pick a year I am making it up. I don’t know how other people do it. but I can be sure his influence fell on me around 16, because
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
doing some moderately fruitful reading of kurt enoch’s memoirs, but they are pretty harrowing due to the way every time he gets down to business & starts to give me some gossip about this or that publishing house he is interrupted by at least one world war
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
they put out a trailer for dunc three, the return of duncan idaho: guess who’s back, back again? duncan’s back, tell a friend (as it is known) a damn month ago & nobody told me because it hasn't got any vampires in it!!! people only tell me about things with vampire in them these days
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
for some reason I watched the bourne identity one night recently when I couldn‘t sleep, I guess I hoped for a lot of wigs & double-crosses but there were only a few of each. plus it was peculiarly hard to follow for a movie where not much happens, nobody really talks, & I already knew the plot so,
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
my favorite guy in heliodorus’s Ethiopian Story is kalasiris, unless that isn’t his name or unless it is two different guys a) the original of my dumb achewood “it is impossible to have a good day“ tshirt b) want to hear the saddest story you ever heard? you will want to buy me lunch first
“The old man replied that he could not have a good day, since fate refused to grant him one.“Would you like to tell me how and when you fell victim to this atrocity?” asked Knemon. “Later,” he answered. “Now it is time to attend to the stomach.”
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
fondly (?) remembering the couple of times I was ordered to write some at-best misleading & as-usual frankly false pitch for early computing books concerning alleged “a” “i” relevance that either did not exist or relied on implied equivalence between two or more absolutely unrelated uses of the term
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I am aware that titles & approximate plots are among those things that can’t be copyrighted & I am also aware that my great devotion to reading scary-house garbage for unknown purposes leads inevitably to half my brain & body mass replacing itself with recycled styrofoam. but jeez
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
my favorite mean remark about a film w/ a classical subject is what vincent canby says about cacoyannis’s Trojan Women, in passing, in his review of something else I never saw it so I can’t say if he is correct except insofar as it is correct to be the world’s biggest bitch when the fancy takes you
“This sort of film provides a valuable service if you can’t read”
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I think today what I thought nearly ten yrs ago, that the wilson translation is ham-handed & tin-eared & about the best that can be said of it is that it wipes the floor with rbts. fagles & fitzgerald. not that it wouldn’t have done me worlds of good to have had her as prof for certain greek classes
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
got for the cat the animatronic fish thing that flops around in death throes when touched. she likes many horrible things, why not this, I thought. mainly I was curious to see would she make a mortal enemy of it or fall in love but first she gave me a speaking look, or a gimlet eye, don’t know which
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
death is just like the kind of older relative who always reads your entire wedding registry or childhood christmas wish list specifically to ensure they get you something that isn’t on it, feeling very good about bringing a little old-fashioned originality to these materialistic times
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
read the article from a couple days ago abt the nyc “book hoarder” with my defensive spectacles on but it turned out I did not need them since his “studio“ is about the size of my 1bd, suggesting better layout, & therefore I do not need to justify owning somewhat fewer books. not that I am counting
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
don’t quite understand the upset I mean of course nicholson baker is bad for anybody’s erotic development, especially adults. but if you‘d rather your kid surreptitiously unfold one page at a time of like anais nin or whatever, you can commission that on etsy easy. I haven’t even looked but I’m sure
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
together we drowned out the buzzes & bangs as best we could by watching The Saddest Music in the World together she was calm throughout but so, so angry every time the windows rattled she would shed another tiny cluster of hairs, released straight up like a little cloud of dandelion spores
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
the only time I feel really good & strong about living in dc in the summer is when I see new yorkers falling apart over temperatures three full degrees cooler than than it is here even if you go by what it allegedly “feels like,“ it’s 112 here & only 108 there
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I am not only a current dc resident, I was at lollapalooza 1994, & I won’t have it retroactively belittled only side stage acts I remember were the verve & the flaming lips, I couldn't tell you crowd numbers, but it wasn’t a bit like this. there were absolutely some people there. maybe even several
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
dear alive composers there is too much music out there for one piano, four hands. when I realize I cannot play it by myself, it makes me feel Bad. when they say classical music is elitist, this is what they mean. please therefore write more works for one hand, four pianos. thanks
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
what a brave, noble man stick to your guns, dr matthews never come to the future, they’d eat you alive I mean they would be extremely tedious at you
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
extremely good skies lately usually I keep my eyes on the ground because if you don’t say hello to a raccoon as you pass by, she tells her friends & relations & pretty soon the whole neighborhood has a poor opinion of you, even the squirrels. but there are things to see if you’re willing to risk it
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
usually I don’t really approve of people who have a defined & very specific ”type,” as it speaks to a longing for the days when you could order a fully assembled spouse out of the sears-roebuck catalogue. dull. an exception is the woman who loved false dmitries so much she married two of them
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
a librarian who can’t read and won’t tell the truth will never run out of outraged online support from people who don‘t want to think or verify anything at all
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
selwyn had better suffer greatly in the coming pages. or I will have to climb bodily into this book & feed him to his own printing press
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
there was this one bach transcription I wouldn’t shut up about, a while ago, but I gave it up for a time bc I could feel one of the nerves or tendons that runs from my wrist to my elbow bunching up under tension like a paper clip does just before it snaps from bending it too much
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
taking a brief break from the evil world with an evil book a rosalind ashe, but not the one everybody talks about & reprints. this one is about a young idiot with a haunted sublet. “haunted” isn’t really the word, there’s an evil objet in a locked cupboard. decor visible &invisible persecutes her
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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
tried to creep myself out with some backrooms youtubage but I could barely get up one good scare because of the way every video breaks off every 15 seconds to deliver an important message about this or the other dc city council candidate local politics are important but they will never be spooky
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