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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Don't be fooled by this bill's name-- this is a book banning bill that will exclude LGBTQ books from all public schools NATIONWIDE. Call your congresspeople and tell them to VOTE NO on this nakedly bigoted book banning bullshit. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Monday fit check- Star Wars tie today. I need Arcane ties

Photo: blue shirt, suspenders, Star Wars tie

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

That moment the medical assistant is reviewing your chart where it clearly states you yeeted everything due to cancer, but she still grills you on why you’re not taking birth control. I 👏 don’t 👏 have 👏 a 👏 reproductive 👏 system.

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Happy #bivisibiltyday from your friendly neighborhood bisexual and my new “mom of a college kid l” mug

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

T-minus 2 weeks to taking our only child to college, and I’ve become *that* mom. “Do you need more socks? Underwear? Does your jacket fit? How about snacks? Should we get more snacks?!?” She’s literally going to a university in the middle of the city with family nearby, but WHAT IF SHE NEEDS KLEENEX

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

How many more families must go through this before we finally say enough is enough?

Except from MN Mayer Jacob Frey’s speech

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Starting a new book is like playing Baldur’s Gate 3- I spent a lot of time developing my characters and plan, but now I’m 10,000 words in and I’m just following them around, trying to figure out where they’ll go.

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Working on a new project and my FMC rides an Indian Scout motorcycle. Went to the local dealership today so I could sit on a a few. They let me turn them on and sit with the rumbles. I felt like a badass and was like, “well now I want a motorcycle.” Terrible idea. But it was fun to think about

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

The way I had a visceral reaction yesterday when I heard of the passing of Dobson. That religious and physical abuse trauma is real, y’all.

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

When all you want is a burger, but it comes with a side of existential dread. Sir, I thought this was a Wendy’s.

Wendy’s sign reading “misfortune awaits. Lucky you.”

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Summer quarter is over, grades are posted, and I finally have time to work on a new project. Y’all, to be writing with fervor again feels SO GOOD. And I really really like these new girls. They’re the mouthiest and boldest yet 🤣

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

The horrors persist, but I was just approved for @a.m.bellefleur ‘s latest, so joy remains. (And yes, I recognize my privilege that I can even enjoy an ARC right now while others are fighting for their lives. I hate this timeline. But I love sapphic love. I contain multitudes)

Photo of an “accepted request” for Alexandria Bellefleur’s “Playing for Keeps”

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Cavalcade of Authors is hosting an info booth at Renfaire in September. Should I be grading papers? Yes. Am I instead sword shopping so I can dress up as the badass lady Captain of the guard from my book? Obviously. Every girl needs a sword

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

More solid feedback from beta readers. I’m not even sorry

Screen shot of a text: “I want (redacted) to be happy, but if (redacted) ends up being a Tallin, instead of an understanding partner, I will riot. I will government name you.”

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Working on my new project and writing about keelhauling with my favorite pirates on in the background. Already this book is off the rails from the outline, but then again, that was bound to happen. As per usual, I’ve lost all control.

Photo: laptop and a television with Black Sails on in the background

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Hello from me and my bedhead. Trying to get some grading knocked out so I can write for the first time in a bit

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Spent a lovely day in our historic downtown arts quarter, promoting Cavalcade of Authors, our annual teen writing conference. And then I got home and saw the horrific news. I can’t stop a war, but we’ll have our COA booth at Pride tomorrow, because books don’t stop bombs, but they do save lives.

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

My kid is graduating on Friday and I am both so very proud and also so very sad. Mostly proud. But still…gathering photos for the grad party is killing me just a little bit. I’m pretty sure I took this picture about 5 minutes ago.

Photo: little girl with a backpack, in a Minnie Mouse t-shirt

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Exciting day when not one, but TWO of your preorders drop at the same time. Made even better when your mobile bookshop literally delivers because they’re in the neighborhood

Two books: Dream on Ramona Riley and Summer Girls

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Sometimes, teaching college kids is pushing them beyond their comfort zone and showing them that they can face challenges. And other times, you must tell the overwhelmed Type-A kiddo (taking 5 classes) that their plate is too full, and their mental health is far more important.

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Shopped local for Independent Bookstore Day!

Photos of women standing in front of bookstores

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

We’ve officially hit the season where we are wishing our child goodnight at 7:24pm. Not because it’s their bedtime, but because it’s ours.

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

That moment when you think you see your ms in the #revpit #10queries teasers and go back and check your actual submission and realize you somehow cut the metadata from the first line when you copy-pasted into the form. And now you feel like a dumb dumb 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Bilbo ducking down and declaring “I’m not at home” anytime someone knocks on his door is a total mood.

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Happy #weneeddiversebooksday ! Just spent the morning grading, and now for some drafting of my queer romantasy.

The author holding a “read with pride” mug

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

“I would not be an author today, writing about books where children can see themselves- where books can serve as windows, mirrors, and sliding doors- if not for the books that I read.” Thanks for a great discussion @boonewrites.bsky.social & @suma-subramaniam.bsky.social

Authors Mary Boone, Suma Subramaniam, and Steph Kentscott

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Stopped by one of my favorite indies, Island Books, and found my friend @boonewrites.bsky.social ‘s new baby and picked up a copy. Everyone needs a copy, tbh.

Holding Mary Boone’s Childrens book PEDAL PUSHER

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

“They shouldn’t be playing horror movie trailers during the basketball game. Children and I are watching and it’s scary.” -me, a fully-grown adult

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Another set of finals in the books. And now to grad a gajillion essays..

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I need Chappell Roan to make an entire country album. That’s it.

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Another day of the woke agenda, aka, trying to teach the youths how to write the essays. Also trying to decide if this black shirt/gray plaid tie combo makes me look like a singing waiter. Because the world is a dumpster fire and this is obviously an important concern.

Photo of the author in a black shirt and gray tie

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

“…teachers do not hold bombs or knives, they are still dangerous enemies. They fill us with insidious revisionist ideas….” -Ji-li Jiang, RED SCARF GIRL. A book I can’t stop thinking about for no particular reason.

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Another piece of quality feedback on my manuscript. Sorrynotsorry

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Thinking about Kipling’s “If” today as I watch a statesman keep his cool in the face of willfully ignorant bullies

POETRY FOUNDATION
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream-and not make dreams your
master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And—which is more—you'll be a Man, my son!

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

"People say I’m to blame—my face in particular. So beautiful, it launched an armada. But it’s all bullshit. Men blame women for their sins, and I’m no different. So, no, I didn’t start this war. But I’m sure as hell going to finish it." Warrior Daughter is sapphic Helen of Troy x Throne of Glass.

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

The amount of time spent staring blankly during the drafting process is, well, it’s a lot of time. See also sighing heavily, muttering “okayyy,” and the making of facial expressions usually reserved for anger or frustration.

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Me in class today: “I’d normally encourage you to focus on critical social and/or political issues, and you can! But if you’re feeling overwhelmed and hopeless right now, pick something you’re interested in that’s not going to send you into a spiral.” The way they literally sighed in relief

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Updating my class homepage Bitmjoji to reflect current events

Bitmoji of myself drinking from a straw while dinosaurs run as comet slams into earth

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Listen, as an English professor in the Pacific Northwest, I know I’m supposed to be indoctrinating my students in “wokeness,” but I’ve spent all week reminding them that having Chat GPT write their paper for them because they were “too busy” is still not okay. So…maybe next week.

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Me, fully masked, checking in: “I’m (coughs like a barking seal) here for (coughs) a chest (coughs) X-Ray.” Admissions person, also coughing, but not masked: “Oh man. I feel you. I’m getting an Xray later. They think I have pneumonia.”

media.tenor.com

a woman is saying i 'm sorry , what ?

Alt: a woman is saying i 'm sorry , what ?”

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

When you walk your students through their first assignment and have them annotate their work. Nailed it

Student note quoting:

"If I see any of you write this, I will spray you with a spray bottle and yell 'Bad!'"
-Professor Scott, 2025

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

“I was really mad at myself for making that mistake, but then I remembered my pre-frontal cortex is still developing.” -Student today 😂

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Our boy Rollo (right) is having a tough time. He’s only 2.5, but when I got home from work Monday, he couldn’t walk without falling down. Many hours at the dog ER later, they DX’d him w/ITP-he has no platelets; we don’t know why. So he’s on high dose meds. BUT, he did ask for cheese today!

Photo of a husky mix and a German shepherd

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Me heart is breaking for those affected by these terrible fires in LA. I lived down there for 7 years and have many friends who still do. May the wind die down and the rains fall soon

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

No parking near my building because of construction. Drove across the hinterlands for a spot and got to my room at 7:55 for my 8am class, half of whom were waiting. Projector didn’t work so I had to punt (without my PowerPoint) and go old school. An absolute banner way to start winter quarter. 😂🤦‍♀️

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

My niece, all of fifteen, beta-read my romantasy for me and just finished it. I’m now being bombarded with all-caps texts yelling at me. I’d call that a success.

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Senior year is hard. Sometimes you just gotta take your kid a Blizzard

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Steph Kentscott @skscottwriter.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Have I listened to the "Arcane" soundtrack on a loop for the past week? Yes I have. Have I been able to listen to the whole thing without bursting into tears? No I have not. Those who’ve lost people will get it. That ball in the box keeps slamming into the grief button, and yet, I keep listening.

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