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Shelbey Monae @shelbeymonae.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

EYE am gonna remember this app is on my phone and use it. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. I SAID AMEN!

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Shelbey Monae @shelbeymonae.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

we had so much fun with you! we need more family dates lol

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Shelbey Monae @shelbeymonae.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Sukuna and all his arms fine as shit boy

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Shelbey Monae @shelbeymonae.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

someone left a novel of a comment telling me how they didn’t like two books I recommended and why… and then went on another video asking for… wait for it … more book recs

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Shelbey Monae @shelbeymonae.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

whatever happened to Cheri Dennis?! Anybody been by the house to check on her?

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Shelbey Monae @shelbeymonae.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I thought I was going crazy because was I supposed whom David was??

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Shelbey Monae @shelbeymonae.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

My Substack is in the top 100 🤯

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Shelbey Monae @shelbeymonae.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

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Shelbey Monae @shelbeymonae.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

got two pieces of content coming out tomorrow and i’m really proud of both… 1. a podcast episode with an author. 2. a new Substack post about grief. i feel like I’m finally looking and sounding like the person i want to be. 💜

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Shelbey Monae @shelbeymonae.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Yeah I dreamt the other night that he was in the hospital and they wouldn’t let me in to see him. I woke up and cried!

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Shelbey Monae @shelbeymonae.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

hey, forget whatever you’re reading you need to read Dominion by tonight bookshop.org/a/17051/9780...

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Dominion: A Novel

A Novel

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Shelbey Monae @shelbeymonae.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

me: i don’t hold grudges. it’s a waste of my energy. also me: over a decade ago she called my baby a cry baby and I’ve hated her ever since 🤷🏾‍♀️

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Shelbey Monae @shelbeymonae.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

i am too smart and value my time too much to deal with bullshit. it’s okay to let people live in their own delusions. i also don’t deserve to be in a space where i am constantly annoyed.

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Shelbey Monae @shelbeymonae.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

three sub genres of humans i have no desire to EVER communicate with: 1. people who don’t believe dinosaurs were real. 2. people who believe the earth is flat. 3. people who don’t think slavery actually happened and was extremely terrible.

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Shelbey Monae @shelbeymonae.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

for years i’ve felt like the odd man out when it comes to having friends or a friend group… and yesterday i sat in a room with people who are funny like me, love Beyoncé like me, and didn’t feel the need to mask… i’ve prayed for this!

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a man is crying while sitting on a couch in a room .

ALT: a man is crying while sitting on a couch in a room .

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Shelbey Monae @shelbeymonae.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

uh, in case anybody was wondering… you can fit a whole bottle of wine in @lolabeanyarnco.com sling bag comfortably without having to remove stuffs…

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Jen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Hey, as a librarian I have to tell you You don't have to finish a book that doesn't interest you. Life's too short for that. Not your jam? You have my permission to move on to the next book.

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Shelbey Monae @shelbeymonae.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

new video up on my channel youtu.be/4yCyuewViY0?...

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Shelbey Monae @shelbeymonae.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

me during that earthquake just now

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Shelbey Monae @shelbeymonae.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

YOU NEED HARDER BOOKS HEIFER! stop blaming shit on everybody else and do the work. there are levels to everything. your brain tryna expand and you just reading the same shit on a loop. SHUT UP SOMETIMES GIRL!

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Shelbey Monae @shelbeymonae.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

and the conversation about “authors writing books like we are dumb” …. yes, the girls are writing books in seven to ten business days and we can tell. BUT AND ALSO, you need to level your reading up sister. there are more authors than the 2-3 you keep in rotation.

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Shelbey Monae @shelbeymonae.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

i read a book last week that seemed like something right up my alley. it mostly was but there were bits i personally didn’t understand and know i need to go back and read it again at some point. THAT DONT MEAN THE BOOK IS BAD HEFFA!

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Shelbey Monae @shelbeymonae.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

y’all not leaving space for the uncomfortable part. it can feel very similar to dislike. it also feels similar to misunderstanding too. i still say the root of it is, yall are reading for the wrong damn reasons.

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Shelbey Monae @shelbeymonae.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

and i think there’s a difference between being open to new genres and authors and having to FORCE yourself to read these things. you can try and not like something… that’s valid. but trying new things is going into it knowing you’re going to be uncomfortable…

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Shelbey Monae @shelbeymonae.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

there are just too many books, great books at that, to read instead of forcing yourself to read something you clearly aren’t enjoying… and then continuing to go back to the author like… y’all are miserable by your own making.

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Shelbey Monae @shelbeymonae.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

y’all spend all of y’all time reading things because other people said they enjoyed it and not out of genuine interest. so everything yall rate, yall rate bad because you are chasing someone else’s exact experience.

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Shelbey Monae @shelbeymonae.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

👀👀👀 new video youtu.be/JHJw4FlCkTI?...

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Shelbey Monae @shelbeymonae.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

also add to the list of things that one Monday we found out that my blood pressure is high as the fuck again… like pre heart surgery kind of high 🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴

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Shelbey Monae @shelbeymonae.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

uh, nobody talks about the anxiety that comes with grief… my mind now thinks that me or anybody that i love is gonna die at any given moment. so I spend a lot of time trying not to panic. also my momma is traveling today 🥴🥴🥴🥴

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Shelbey Monae @shelbeymonae.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

I mean i was gonna buy it anyways but this is the added push i needed

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Shelbey Monae @shelbeymonae.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

THEN in college we had a saltwater tank. came home one weekend, my fish babies were flourishing… next weekend Nemo, Dory, the lion fish i named Henry AND THE SHRIMP was gone to glory.

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Shelbey Monae @shelbeymonae.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

if a man twenty years my senior tries to date me… i’m gon scream like Juwanna Mann

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Shelbey Monae @shelbeymonae.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

lmao you don’t remember?? i fed my goldfish that morning came home and it was GONE

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