Spodumene @spodumene.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Sometimes, life takes you into unexpected places, and suddenly you're cheering for the Chicago Cubs in their must-win game against the Padres, meanwhile your sister is crying out in protest, "Haven't we switched to hockey now?!." 0101
Spodumene @spodumene.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Zero effort whatsoever to understand how other people communicate, meanwhile they judge a person's intelligence by how well they speak English. Like sorry that this person speaks five languages so they mispronounced hyperbole, or whatever 121
Spodumene @spodumene.bsky.social · 15/09/2026North American English only speakers are the worst, and they seem extra special stupid about Russian? If they're not just making shit up based on questionable vibes, they're bitching/joking about how Russian names are sooooo hard, and sooooo long and how can they be expected to learn them?! 140
Spodumene @spodumene.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I'm sorry, I just barked out a very loud laugh. Man, and I thought the HOCKEY details were bad... 150
Spodumene @spodumene.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Please go here to see Ricochet's detailed post on this binding: www.tumblr.com/post-and-out...tumblr.comPost by @post-and-out · 13 images💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 1 · Ficbind: A Bouquet Falling from Your Lips · The upside of knowing an author well is that you can giftbomb them without worrying it'll be weird. (Note this doesn't stop me from eith… 000
Spodumene @spodumene.bsky.social · 12/09/2026They're immensely cool, like I can't get over how INGENIOUS it is, bound together in harmony and yet seperate like that!! I must have turned it over in my hands at least a hundred times by now 110
Spodumene @spodumene.bsky.social · 12/09/2026It's so cool; I'd never seen this style of binding before, but it's incredibly nifty. A perfect form for a duology to take, like how perfect is that for two interlocking stories?! Very impressed 😍 110
Spodumene @spodumene.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I am! Thank you so much for telling me this; I'm so glad the story touched you, and stayed with you 🩷 010
Spodumene @spodumene.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Aren't they just completely amazing?? Awe inspiring work from these people 010
Spodumene @spodumene.bsky.social · 11/09/2026So basically: I'm very lucky, and hugely spoiled, and everyone should go tell Ricochet that she's amazing, because it's true, and she should be encouraged to make more and more fabulous art 380
Spodumene @spodumene.bsky.social · 11/09/2026More pretty title pages with story-relevant details 😍 160
Spodumene @spodumene.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The spine of the second book, Vernalization, where you can see the edges of Effloresence have been decorated by silver flower blossoms 140
Spodumene @spodumene.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The cover showing the title of the first story, where you can also see the title printed down the spine 150
Spodumene @spodumene.bsky.social · 11/09/2026So yesterday's unexpected package contained one more special surprise: a beautiful copy of my tgcf hanahaki duology, handbound 'dos-a-dos' style, which means two seperate books have been bound back-to-back to create one single volume with two distinct halves 1141
Spodumene @spodumene.bsky.social · 11/09/2026It's seriously so perfect, I couldn't have designed it even half as well as she did! I am very lucky 😊 010
Spodumene @spodumene.bsky.social · 11/09/2026It's amazing, I keep reverently petting the cover lol 010
Spodumene @spodumene.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Aw, thank you so much! I'm seriously floored by all the attention to detail packed into this book, it's truly stunning 000
Spodumene @spodumene.bsky.social · 11/09/2026It's seriously so amazing, I'm just stunned by how beautiful she's made it 😍 110
Spodumene @spodumene.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I took a few! And if you'd like to see a few more, I linked the binder's tumblr post all about it 110
Spodumene @spodumene.bsky.social · 11/09/2026If anyone would like a more detailed look at this work, I highly recommend you go here: www.tumblr.com/post-and-out... The binder is Ricochet, and her press is Salted Lemon Press. She does some really amazing work, so please, go give her a looksee!tumblr.comPost by @post-and-out · 10 images💬 6 🔁 0 ❤️ 2 · Fanbind: Tempo Rubato · This is the fic I started to fanbinding for. That was about 5 years ago. The year it was finished, I told a friend I wanted to gift it to the author but was… 3184
Spodumene @spodumene.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Also included are a selection of reviews, all of which are memorable and precious to me, because each one encapsulates a moment in time where we connected, just for a moment, over a story 1140
Spodumene @spodumene.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Everyone's favourite chapter, where the musical notes seem to vanish from the piece... 1100
Spodumene @spodumene.bsky.social · 11/09/2026We open with music sheets from Liszt's Sonata in B Minor 1100
Spodumene @spodumene.bsky.social · 11/09/2026It's seriously chonky. About 6cm chonky. With gorgeous, irridescent edges, blue and silver like rainy musical notes 1140
Spodumene @spodumene.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Today I received an unexpected package containing a most remarkable gift: a handbound tome chock full of so many personalized details, I'm not even sure where to start 5366
Spodumene @spodumene.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Today's corporate drones are so painfully incompetent. Making appointments, moving those appointments, missing those appointments, rescheduling those appointments, then phoning at a completely random time, because people don't have lives to live, amirite? Like fuck off, I just want to watch baseball 080
Spodumene @spodumene.bsky.social · 10/08/2026This goes way beyond cringey, directly into horrifying 100
Spodumene @spodumene.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I should note: this was my secondary fandom account; my main account, which I DID delete, would have been 27 😆 060
Spodumene @spodumene.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Aw, that's excellent. Is there anything more joyful than dancing? Wishing you many more happy moments that inspire you to dance dance dance! 010
Spodumene @spodumene.bsky.social · 08/08/2026There must be good things coming down the pipe. There absolutely must be! I know it's so hard to hang in there, but I am rooting for you all the way 110
Spodumene @spodumene.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Argh, well, I hope your next adventure is a million miles better than this one 🩷 111
Spodumene @spodumene.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Sometimes I really wish I could bitch about this more openly, because screaming into the online void offers a different sort of catharsis, but shit's too small for anonymity not to be a bit precarious, so. Oh well 050
Spodumene @spodumene.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Trying to explain this haughty, queerer-than-thou melodrama to my friend so that she understands why the public career failure of its chief participant is so funny, but it's so stupid it sounds fake, and I'm just like, "Listen, when I say she ran over herself with her own clown car, just trust me." 160
Spodumene @spodumene.bsky.social · 18/07/2026I'm so sorry for your loss. Max was so special. I'm very honoured that I got to meet him. You guys gave him all the love, and I'm sure he felt it every moment he was with you 010
Spodumene @spodumene.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Oh my gosh, Liz, I'm so sorry. Max was a special little guy, and you and Tracey gave him the best life. Sleep well, little guy ❤️ 010
Spodumene @spodumene.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Couple goals, for real, and the way he just casually held her afterward, just rest his arm around her shoulders, no biggie 😍 000
Spodumene @spodumene.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Right? It's been so long since I wanted to inject a drama straight into my veins. I adore both the leads, they are both so excellent, and with such good chemistry, I am just--! 110
Spodumene @spodumene.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Hi-five! I am also slow and might be putting off watching the last five episodes because I never want it to end... 110
Spodumene @spodumene.bsky.social · 05/07/2026We'd had a convo about "Why so much P&P, why not more Persuasion??" about a week before she linked me to the post and said, "SEE? WE NEED YOU!" And then she tagged me in a writing meme that demanded I cough up the first sentence, and voila. TR began posting two months later 120
Spodumene @spodumene.bsky.social · 05/07/2026I'm pretty sure it was that same tumblr post that my beta reader used to push me into finally writing that damned AU... 120
