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Thirdbird

@thirdbird.bsky.social
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Just another aging fandom librarian.

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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Pre-nor'easter cemetery sky, HOW is it this color
A vivid purple and orange sky above a tree-lined cemetery with outlines of monuments just visible below the tree line
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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I gritted my teeth and signed up for the AI Essentials online course they've been shoving on us at work, because knowledge is power and I want to know the enemy in order to be able to combat it more effectively. Hold me, friends, I'm going in.
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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Oh wow, I'm outdoors and it's actually CHILLY
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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
At long last on this sad day I am getting around to this podcast (it's been on my list since a random library patron walked in and all but begged me to listen to it with tears in his eyes) and yeah it's...really good, I should have heeded that random guy eight years ago
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Stacy Fakename @missp.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The thing is that Dinios Kol cant help that he is beautiful and bisexual and horny in the middle of books that are DEEPLY unsexy and horrifying and I love that about him
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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Anyway, I am fostering a cat this week for @amyelizbennett.bsky.social and she is a super polite cutie little sweetie pie who loves cuddles in case you know anyone in the NYC areas looking for a new friend
A small white and tabby cat lying peacefully on a blue sofa being the softest sweetest little beast you've ever seen
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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Just sat and watched my college kid type up a business email in clear, formal, grammatically correct and properly spelled English without using AI and I am so relieved and proud (yes I know the bar is on the floor these days but many of my adult colleagues cannot do this so I'm impressed!)
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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Hiiiiiiii it's very nice here in horrible Florida
Ocean waves, blue sky, fluffy clouds
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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Escaping the heat wave at Riis Beach with my friend's huge shade tent and Dungeon Crawler Carl 5, we are are actually a little chilly in the breeze
A pair of knees with a Kindle propped up on them in the shade of a beach tent and the beach in the foreground
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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I just climbed up and down a five story elementary school speaking to twenty-nine classes in six hours with one fifteen-minute break and I am never, ever, EVER doing that again
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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Oh! I loved her. Nicest author I ever worked with. She sent flowers and a card when my daughter was born and I couldn't believe she remembered a lowly associate editor like me.
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Ingrid Ask Me About Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service @ingridblythe.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Pour one out for one of the smoothest voices to ever do it and while everyone is sharing their own excellent favourites from Tony Head's body of work, please enjoy this voice-off with Roger Allam from John Finnemore's radio sitcom, Cabin Pressure.
youtu.be
Cabin Pressure s3 - Rotterdam
YouTube video by Pozzitive Comedy
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fenfrond art 🐌🍻🐛 @fenfrond.neocities.org · 04/06/2026
Persepolis is available to read for free on internet archive. archive.org/details/pers... archive.org/details/pers...
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PERSEPOLIS : Marjane Satrapi : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
book topic: light comic.note: press the Zoom in and Zoom out buttons so that the writing is visible.see the front cover of the book here.read second book here.
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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Overheard from one of the kids in the Teen Tech Time room at the library: YOU SON OF AN AI...!!!
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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Oh gosh I love not writing SO MUCH, I can do ANYTHING I WANT TO now, I feel like I turned in all my final papers and it's suddenly summer
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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I finished my long-ass Dept Q canon retelling psychic powers AU! Carl/Akram with a generous side of Carl & Hardy, rated M, 47.5K words. Hallefuckinglujah! Time to sleep for 1000 years. archiveofourown.org/works/80209851
A title card for a fic titled SEEING BLIND by thirdbird, with art featuring an x-ray of a skull and neck from the tv show Dept Q
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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I apologize for the person I become when I'm trying to finish a long WIP. It will happen again.
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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Invisible Child by Andrea Elliott Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard Thank You For Your Service by David Finkel In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides
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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Deep in the hollow-eyed death march stages of my long (for me) WIP, it's been over two months in the trenches and the end is not yet in sight, being a human is a distant memory, someone come hand feed me an orange so I don't die of scurvy
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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Oh my god, what a program! They played part of the Sønderho Bridal Trilogy with a choral arrangement and I got EMOTIONAL. I felt like Murderbot trying to keep its face under control around the humans!
A program for the Danish String Quartet performance with the Danish National Girls' Choir at Carnegie Hall 
The Danish String Quartet takes a curtain call along with the Danish National Girls' Choir at Carnegie Hall
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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Gonna try to go get a glimpse of the Bryant Park Woodcock, wish me luck
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a small brown and white bird with a long beak is standing on the ground .
ALT: a small brown and white bird with a long beak is standing on the ground .
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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
What movie did you watch over and over as a kid?
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a woman is laying in the water with a cowboy hat on and says `` why 'd it have to be snakes ? ''
ALT: a woman is laying in the water with a cowboy hat on and says `` why 'd it have to be snakes ? ''
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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Quote this with your AO3 fic with the most kudos: I don't link to my AO3 from this account, but let's just say I wrote some very explicit BBC Sherlock fic in the year 2011 and my kudos emails will never allow me to forget it in this lifetime
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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
To struggle through trying to write this fic with a head cold or to get lightly baked and watch Bridgerton on my sick day...
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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
The World According to Garp! I was a sheltered thirteen-year-old. It gave me some really warped ideas about what being a grownup and having sex was going to be like. But I read it until the covers fell off and then went on to The Hotel New Hampshire, so I guess I enjoyed being warped in that manner.
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Watching this now and it's the most unhinged production of Earnest I've ever seen. It's like the fae have stolen all the roles are are spoofing what they think humanity is. It rules.
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The Importance Of Being Earnest (Full Show) | Take Your Seats | National Theatre at Home
YouTube video by National Theatre
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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Woke up to an illustration of the last fic scene I posted in my inbox and if there's a better feeling in fandom I don't know what it might be?? Artists are magical
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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Thirdbird cause of death: figured out how this chapter ends while en route to work, won't get to write it until lunchtime, WHY WAS I BORN TO SUFFER IN THIS MANNER
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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Post someone who looks good in a dress
Jodie Comer perched on some porch steps wearing black boots, stars and stripes socks, and a blue flowered dress showing A Lot of thigh and causing me to feel extremely bisexual
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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Post a picture you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed
A bright yellow sign by the interior back door of a city bus that reads WATCH YOUR STEP; graffitied above and below the lettering in marker are words FUCK TRUMP and STAY WOKE
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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Help, I foolishly read something clearly labeled Dead Dove and am now crying and trying to spit out the taste of decaying dove
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Rachel Koteen @rck6.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
By the way, if you enjoyed watching the US Women's hockey team kick butt in Milan, you will definitely enjoy Take the Ice, my documentary about the early days of professional women's ice hockey. www.taketheicemovie.com
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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Buffy, no idea what platform I just found it accidentally while looking at fan sites, newly 30. I read my first Angel/Spike story and said "oh" about fifty times, went out and ran around the park two times in the 95 degree heat, then came back in and got out a notebook to start writing my own.
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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I never knew, or had completely forgotten, that 30 degrees F could feel so gloriously mild
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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
I have made 0 progress on my new WIP today but I have finished crocheting my first resistance hat!
A bright red crocheted hat with a braid and tassel
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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
no new pictures where you at mentally
A screenshot of a twitter post from 10/7/20 by user Christina (@floozyesq) which reads

Me: it's okay to be a person struggling with productivity during a prolonged crisis
My brain: not u though 
Me: not me though
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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Can I get a sticker for each of the books I finish reading this weekend out of the...uh...seven I'm currently in the middle of? No, six, I just finished one!
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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Well, if anyone wants to cry today...
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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Electric Avenue by Eddy Grant. This was in the days when you had to wait for your fave song to come on the radio and then hit RECORD really fast on your boom box, which was loaded up with a blank tape at the ready. I recorded it 3x in a row so I wouldn't have to rewind in order to listen on repeat.
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Hipster Vampire Amy @lasrina.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
THE HUMAN BRAIN: so we’re going to need between seven and nine hours of sleep every night in order to function HUMANS: okay THE HUMAN BRAIN: and I’m gonna do everything in my power to make sure we never, ever get it.
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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I am so happy for everyone who is joyfully splashing in the seas of heated rivalry fandom and am not at all feeling like Carol Sturka watching the hive glumly from my own fandom's small and rapidly draining puddle. Not at all!
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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Today is the first day I've had NOTHING to do since mid November and I am spending it nursing a bad sore throat and watching Chernobyl, that perfect cozy winter tale for a sick day
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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Wow, I was spoiled for the end of #HeatedRivalry ep 5 and it STILL made me shriek aloud - I get the hype now! What an excellent fic to watch on my tv screen
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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Loads of drama with the 19yo this year, not fun, but there is really nothing like having fandom friends who will send you unpublished snippets of fic for your current preferred pairing when you are down, the healing vibes are immaculate
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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Oh no oh no oh no no no Fuck, I don't know what to say about this, I knew he had a lot of issues but it fucks me up all the same, I don't know that I've ever had someone who played a character I was in love with die before and I hate to see this news so much. RIP my Ray
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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Finally making time for #HeatedRivalry, currently on ep 3, and is it wrong that I'm so much more into the nervous barista and David Rose's ex-boyfriend than the other couple?
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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
I guess technically twelve - five WIPs and seven posted fics - but only one of the WIPs is actually a thing, the others are like, a sentence or a few paragraphs that are going nowhere. But, wow, I posted seven stories this year! All in the space of three crazy months!
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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Man, I have such a bad track record with Noah Reid. March 2020, show canceled for obvious reasons. November 2023, I was sick. December 2025, he gets injured. Sorry I cursed you by buying tickets to your show, Mr Reid! At least I got to see you in Toronto that one amazing time!
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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif
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a man in a suit and scarf is standing in front of a wooden wall and looking at the camera .
Alt: Taika Waititi as Viago the vampire in a suit and scarf is standing in front of a wooden wall and looking at the camera . - from What We Do In The Shadows (2014)
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Thirdbird @thirdbird.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Things I may have finally got through my head in this round of fandom: 1) write nice long comments on people's fic whenever you can 2) do not engage in fandom drama if you can possibly avoid it 3) yes, people will probably like that really dumb story that you thought was too self indulgent to post
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