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Rose | Y. R. Liu @rosefae.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Going through some old files and found these doodles I'd made when I was reading through Moby Dick with my friends (🧵 1/3)

Ishmael clinging to Queequeg's arm. Queequeg has a question mark over his head.

Ishmael: "I demand to know what kind of person I'll be rooming with! This is an outrage!"
Innkeeper, pointing to the side: "That's him"
Cut to a view of Queequeg with a harpoon spear strapped to his back, surrounded by imaginary flowers and sparkles.
Ishmael, teary-eyed and holding his hands over his mouth: "He's perfect"

Ishmael stands in front of Queequeg, arms outspread as if defending him. "I've known Queequeg for a day and a half, but if anything happened to him, I would kill everyone in the room and then myself."

Ishmael stands on the deck of a ship, one foot on a crate, one arm raised in gesticulation, the other arm over his heart: "For we all of us belong to the first congregation, every mother's son and soul of us."
A sailor: "Sir, this is a whaling ship." The words "whaling ship" are written over the crossed out word "Arby's"

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Rose | Y. R. Liu @rosefae.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Some days I'm mostly fighting my ADHD. Some days I'm mostly fighting my migraines. Some days I'm mostly fighting both??? Hello how is this fair?????

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Rose | Y. R. Liu @rosefae.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Coming out of hyperfocus like a diver coming up for air, closing my 20 million moz docs and stack overflow tabs

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Rose | Y. R. Liu @rosefae.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Someday, I'm sure I will miss how affectionate and huggy my toddler is. When that day comes, I would like to be reminded of how much I don't miss getting smeared with mayo and egg yolk.

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Y. R. Liu @yrliu.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Canada Fiction Fest is happening now until July 4, featuring panels, readings, and a showcase of Canadian books of all genres (including mine!) Come check it out! fictionfest.ca 🍁 #CanLit #ReadCanadian

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Rose | Y. R. Liu @rosefae.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I am begging small mom & pop restaurants to stop using AI generated pictures. Believe it or not I want to see what your food actually looks like.

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Rose | Y. R. Liu @rosefae.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

First thing my toddler said to me this morning: "Mama, there's lines on your forehead." Anyway happy birthday to me I guess.

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Y. R. Liu @yrliu.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

For those of you looking to read through all the SPFBO books this year, 25 of us are in an itch bundle right now for $25! Come check it out. itch.io/b/3592/spfbo...

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Rose | Y. R. Liu @rosefae.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Happy Ides of March to all who wish to stab Caesar

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Y. R. Liu @yrliu.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

The International Women's Day itch bundle is up! $32 for 32 books by/about women & gender minorities! itch.io/b/3556/inter...

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International Women's Day by Niranjan and 32 others

International Women's Day: 32 items for $32.00

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Rose | Y. R. Liu @rosefae.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Look, if you would fire an unpaid intern for a certain mistake, maybe you should also fire the AI for making the same mistake. (Yes this is a subtweet.)

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Rose | Y. R. Liu @rosefae.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Hear me out: what if Gabriela and Jolene are singing about EACH OTHER???

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Rose | Y. R. Liu @rosefae.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

My kid, after playing with her bath crayons all of bath time, now watching me clean her scribbles off the bathtub: 😟 Me, who really should've seen this coming: "Um, sometimes the beauty of art is in its ephemerality." Evidently, she disagrees.

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Y. R. Liu @yrliu.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

The annual r/fantasy megasale is back! This time featuring so many books that the sheer number of covers caused the website to bug on iOS. 😅 megasale.yrliu.com All books are free or 99 cents, and each purchase or download benefits charity.

Text over a starry background: MegaSale 2025. Dec 26-27. All books are free or 99 cents, and each purchase or download benefits charity. URL and QR code to URL: https://megasale.yrliu.com/

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Rose | Y. R. Liu @rosefae.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

A reminder to everyone (me) that erased frixion pen ink turns dark again if exposed to cold. So if you have a student who wrote their exam in erasable pen, avoid transporting their exams through the outdoors in winter.

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Rose | Y. R. Liu @rosefae.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

When I have a fever, I get tired and fatigued and just want to rest, like most people. When SO has a fever, he gets super restless and can't sit still. Guess who our child takes after.

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Rose | Y. R. Liu @rosefae.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Finally got around to finishing Everything is Tuberculosis. Oddly light read (in a good way!) for such a heavy topic.

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Rose | Y. R. Liu @rosefae.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Tis the season for a million little project ideas and zero time to do them.

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Rose | Y. R. Liu @rosefae.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Crow guardian of the grading pile. (Crow plushie from @secondlina.com )

A plushie crow sits on a pile of tests. There's a sticky note on the top test that says "To Be Graded".

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Rose | Y. R. Liu @rosefae.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Starting an evil Durge BG3 run for the achievements, had to make it silly to make it palatable to me. Meet Perfectly Ordinary Human John Bhaaldursgate and his dream guardian, The Cooler John Bhaaldursgate.

A generic beige human man with a twirled villain mustache

The same beige human man but now with fabulous purple streaks in his hair and mustache, eyebrow piercings, metallic purple makeup, and a face tattoo.

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Rose | Y. R. Liu @rosefae.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Just realized that I haven't reblogged this on main? So uh, here, I'm reblogging this on main.

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Rose | Y. R. Liu @rosefae.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Asked my toddler if she wanted to eat something. This was a mistake as she's now extremely upset that I keep offering her pedestrian foods like cheese or yoghurt instead of the mysterious promised mana known as "something".

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dr lee cyborg @leeborg.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

October is blindness awareness month and you might have noticed that recently I've been talking more about vision in general lately. I'm going to answer some common questions and give you some facts. First, blindness is a spectrum. Only 10% of us see nothing, most have residual/some usable vision

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Rose | Y. R. Liu @rosefae.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I have been told it's ADHD awareness month. I was not aware of this. I faintly remember perhaps being aware of it last year, but I must've forgotten it in the interim. This is likely due to the ADHD. Perhaps we should have an awareness month for ADHD awareness month.

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Rose | Y. R. Liu @rosefae.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

My home likes to surprise me with random games of "why is there an [object] in [weird location for said object]?" Is it: a) my toddler b) my ADHD or c) a fey trickster spirit?

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Rose | Y. R. Liu @rosefae.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I have discovered what causes children with autism. It's *checks notes* adults with autism fucking.

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Rose | Y. R. Liu @rosefae.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Shoutout to my hypermobility for allowing me to twist my leg into a position where I can get a good angle to drain this blister on my foot.

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Rose | Y. R. Liu @rosefae.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

What I always want from apps like Focus Friend (and what they rarely ever have) is something like a "stopwatch mode" that counts up instead of down. Timers don't work for my brain, but I want the bean to knit socks!

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Rose | Y. R. Liu @rosefae.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Reverse scope creep is when you start the summer with lofty ambitions of rewriting this textbook, and by the end of it you settle for some line edits and rearranging a few chapters.

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Rose | Y. R. Liu @rosefae.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Is the bookshop employee who only recommends sapphic books in the room with us right now?

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Rose | Y. R. Liu @rosefae.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Writers, describe your WIP in the worst way possible. Several people with no self worth and a martyr complex fight over who's gonna be the saddest.

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Rose | Y. R. Liu @rosefae.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Line 8 of page 187 of The Whisperer in White: No, it wasn't light, but a long, thin gash through reality itself 👀 3 tags: @amweald.com @ormakal.bsky.social @eric.sadbutbuildingworlds.blog

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Y. R. Liu @yrliu.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

To celebrate Canada Day, here's an itch bundle featuring 16 Canadian fantasy and sci fi books. Check it out! 🇨🇦📚 itch.io/b/3114/the-c...

A red-tinted image of a stack of books beside some text.
The text reads: The Canadian Science Fiction & Fantasy Bundle. June 30 to July 6. $20 USD for 16 Great Reads.

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Y. R. Liu @yrliu.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Me: "You can have one cookie." My toddler: "Two cookie." Me: "One." Toddler: "Three cookie." Anyway please buy my books so I can buy this child more cookies. Or buy the #PrideBookFair itch bundle! itch.io/b/3076/pride...

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Pride Book Fair - Fantasy by Claudie Arseneault and 18 others

Pride Book Fair - Fantasy: 18 books for $35.00

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Rose | Y. R. Liu @rosefae.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Thinking about everyone I knew in elementary through high school... I want all of them to magically know what a funny little weirdo I turned out to be.

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Anne @inkythoughts.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I heard artists can get shares on their birthday, as a treat 🪷 #Illustration #Art #OCSky

Digital illustration of Endres, a young man with long hair and festive attire, standing amids a see of floating and glowing sky lanterns at night while holding one lantern with both hands, a serene expression on his face.

Digital illustration of three different goldfish swimming through the water, framed by lily pads and willow leaves.

A digital illustration of five lotus flowers in the water.

Digital illustration of Endres and Gou kissing in front of the fullmoon at night. Gou is floating in mid-air as though taken by a gust of wind, Endres holds Gou's face tenderly with his left hand while holding a paper lantern in his right. There are flower petals flying around them.

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Rose | Y. R. Liu @rosefae.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Sometimes you gotta lie to your toddler and tell her that the reason she can't watch more Sesame Street clips is because Elmo is tired

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Y. R. Liu @yrliu.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Canadian SFF authors: I'm putting together an itch bundle to run the week of Canada Day (June 30 - July 6). Please fill out this form if interested! 📚📦🇨🇦https://forms.gle/VCgpewTdQuTVKRKQ8

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Canadian SFF Bundle 2025

This is the form for joining an itch.io bundle for Canadian science fiction and fantasy books, which will run from Monday June 30th to Sunday July 6. By "Canadian", I mean books that take place in Can...

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Rose | Y. R. Liu @rosefae.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

For anyone having trouble finding the new Kobo ToS, the link within the email works fine, but in case you can't find it, here it is: cdn.kobo.com/merch-assets... Notably the bit about AI is in line with what was said in the CEO's thread.

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KOBO WRITING LIFE TERMS OF SERVICE

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Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Lots of questions about Kobo, #kobowritinglife and how, when and why we are using AI. Putting "AI" in the same sentence as "authors", "books" or "publishers" makes a lot of alarm bells go off, and for good reason. 1/

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Rose | Y. R. Liu @rosefae.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

I can confirm that Mallorie is great! Highly recommend!

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Rose | Y. R. Liu @rosefae.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

The migraine/period combo should be illegal.

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Rose | Y. R. Liu @rosefae.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Hot take: if you think books should cost pennies because "art should be accessible", I agree! Here is a list of alternative ways you can pay me: - Roof repairs - Electricity - My prescription medication - Childcare Oh what's that? It's easier to just give me $5 instead? Okay I thought so.

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Rose | Y. R. Liu @rosefae.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

My neck feels really sore and stiff today, and as my anxiety keeps reminding me: there's just no way to know if it's because I slept weird, psychosomatic, or tetanus.

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Y. R. Liu @yrliu.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Come spring, flowers would bloom from the despot’s decaying corpse. Nature heals. Nature reclaims.

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Rose | Y. R. Liu @rosefae.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Me, rereading a story I wrote before my own diagnosis: "Wait, this character is neurodivergent? I don't remember making this character neurodivergent."

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Rose | Y. R. Liu @rosefae.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

"I think therefore I am." If you're outsourcing your ability to think, what even are you?

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Y. R. Liu @yrliu.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

The creature raised its claws and bared its fangs, all six of its mouths slavering venom. It responded to the world the only way it knew, the only way it had ever been shown. #whistpr #creature

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Rose | Y. R. Liu @rosefae.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I love how Pokemon Sleep ingredients have names like "snoozy tomato" and "soothing cacao" Can't wait for them to add more ingredients like "sleepy rapini" and "melatonin mango"

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Rose | Y. R. Liu @rosefae.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Sometimes being an adult is deciding to have ice cream for breakfast

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