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Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I miss when horror movies were more frightening than checking my bank account

Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

October may be here but real Halloween-heads know spooky season isn’t limited to just one month. ANY night of the year can be a fright night if you have an internet connection and even a passing interest in current events

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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

me and the girls are gonna scream into the void until our vocal cords snap, come thru if you're free

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Amanda Patterson @amandaonwriting.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Frankenstein's monster #booksky #memes #frankenstein

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Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

After two weeks, we finally have hot water again! Huzzah!

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Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Two nights ago, where I live and my home experienced catastrophic flooding and and we had to evacuate. We are thankfully all safe and back home but we are now in the long and devastating process of cleaning up and throwing away so much of our lives.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Why didn't the eagles just fly Odysseus straight to Ithaca

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Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Somewhere in the afterlife, Upton Sinclair is radiating unprecedented levels of disappointment and contempt

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Stephen Monteith, World's Greatest Secret Author @stephens.website · 17/07/2026

I started writing a joke about a cyclops, but I knew nobody would like it.

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Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Guys you’re not going to believe this but I think those beautiful crooning creatures were just telling me what I wanted to hear :(

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Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The Sirens said it was cool if I wanted to come over and listen to their beautiful songs and they won’t even crash my ship against the rocks because they can sense I am pure of heart

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Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Tomorrow I will be locked in but today I was unprecedented levels of locked out

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Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world. - John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

(lazily pulling the lowest hanging fruit off the pun tree): Nobody is going to like the new Odyssey film, you know

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Maybe it’s just me but I think if Mitch McConnell’s head is filled with inactive tissue and his body is being kept artificially alive by machines, we should have a mechanism that makes him also not a sitting US senator anymore.

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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

I will dispose of the first myth as quickly as possible. The “secret” is skill. If you haven’t learned how to do something, the people who have may seem to be magicians, possessors of mysterious secrets. In a fairly simple art, such as making pie crust, there are certain teachable “secrets” of method that lead almost infallibly to good results; but in any complex art, such as housekeeping, piano-playing, clothes-making, or story-writing, there are so many techniques, skills, choices of method, so many variables, so many “secrets,” some teachable and some not, that you can learn them only by methodical, repeated, long-continued practice — in other words, by work.

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Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, unable to get considered for a position they were overqualified for because a mediocre man was also interested in it

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Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Easy to see how the sun melted poor Icarus’s wings on days like today, Helios and that golden chariot of his are NOT playing 🥵

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Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

“I just like people to be bestowed with my knowledge” - my youngest son explaining why he feels compelled to teach people everything he knows about Pokémon whether they will it or not Yeah, baby, I know all about infodumping. There isn’t a neurotypical brain cell in this entire family

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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Dumpster behind the White House filled with checks and balances

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Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

One minor inconvenience away from just letting him pull the green ribbon off my neck at this point

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Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I fear receiving news via video content optimized for social media sharing is doing to our brains what we watched Fox News do to our parents’

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Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

"I asked ChatGPT" Oh, really? By chance, have you ever tried Amontillado? I've got a fine vintage stored away if you'd like to come home with me and sample some. Just ignore any chains you see, they're for later *wink*

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Michael Bazaco @mcbazacophd.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Am I being over-sensitive here or does the term “side effects” have an inherent negative connotation and therefore this headline is sci-comm malpractice? The “side effects” are reduced risk of serious cardiac complications and reduced risk of all-cause cardiac events. Benefits. That’s the word.

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COVID Vaccine Linked to New Side Effect, Especially in Older Adults

The COVID vaccine was linked to a new side effect for older adults.

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Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I fear instead of having somewhat entertaining mid-life crises when they hit a certain age, women just get diagnosed with immune disorders

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Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

If I were an eccentric rich person I would turn all my writer friends’ books into movies and pay to make them however they wanted, under the very serious condition that I got to choose all the music for the soundtracks, every single song and when they played, no questions asked

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Pat Wahler @patwahlerauthor.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Writing on a tight deadline is stressful but at least the financial return is really bad.

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Storytime for Chicago library kids with LeVar Burton at the grand opening of the Obama Presidential Library 🤯✨📚 @obamafoundation.bsky.social

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Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

microdosing the fires of Mordor by stepping outside in summertime

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Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

so much depends upon not picking poets with no sense of self- control as your roommates

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Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

This heat is getting unbearable. Thank goodness I put those plums in the icebox earlier to chill! They’re really going to hit the spot, so sweet and so cold

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Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Have you ever even THANKED the bell for tolling? That’s what I thought. You probably don't even realize it's been doing all this FOR YOU the whole time

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Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Microdosing bliss by allowing myself (1) ignorance

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Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Hello, sharks. Today I am asking for the arc of the moral universe to bend quicker

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Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Re: Shakespeare adaptations for teens Ms. Perky brainstorming synonyms writing about sex is as Shakespearean an act as it gets

Still from 10 Things I Hate About You of Ms. Perky trying to come up with a different word for 'engorged'

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Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Unfortunately I can’t go outside and enjoy the sun because I still haven’t forgiven it for what it did to my close personal friend Icarus

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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Props to CNN’s chyron writer:

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Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Rip van Winkle walking into the woods to get away from people who were bothering him and not waking up until they were dead is more inspirational each year

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Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Fourth base is taking them down to your basement to crack open that fine cask of Amontillado you've been saving

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Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Working on a summer body but in a Mary Shelley way

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Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I'm going to be writing about book adaptations and I'd love to share the experience with you! Soon I'll set up an interest form for people who want to talk with me about the adaptations they love/hate/can't wait to see - keep an eye out <3 ko-fi.com/i/IS0B2212L89

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Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I never want to see another woman with imposter syndrome, women should only have Lady Catherine de Bourgh syndrome which is when you know before you ever even TRY doing something you’re going to knock it out of the park

A still from Pride and Prejudice 2005 showing Lady Catherine de Bourgh and the words "If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient."

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Strategic Tape Reserve @strategictaper.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

They should build loads of data centers all over the place that contain huge quantities of books that people can borrow for free if they fill out a form to get a data center card and promise to return the books on time and don’t make too much noise in the data center.

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Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I love trees in a very Tolkien way. I feel best when I can see them, places without them feel evil, and if you’re cruel to them, I think the trees should rise up and chase you down to make you suffer for your crimes

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Graphic novels turn kids into lifelong readers. They challenge readers, transform reluctant readers into readers, they bring joy. They boost vocabulary, increase reading comprehension for brains that take in information differently. They tell a story. Graphic novels are real reading, real books ✨📚😊

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/04/2026

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

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Pat Wahler @patwahlerauthor.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I don't judge an unreliable narrator. There are days I'm not even a reliable writer.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I specifically requested no more metaphors

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