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Holly Wade Matter

@weemallard.bsky.social
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Writer. White-knuckle knitter. Bunny mom. Superannuated Pre-Raphaelite stunner. Punk- and Goth-adjacent. My novel, Damned Pretty Things, and my related novella, The Circus, the Garden (and Mario Lanza), are out from Aqueduct Press. I like perfume.

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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 28m
When we first got the two rat girls, I played a game with them called Swoop and Scoop. I'd sweep one up from the floor, tickle her, set her down again, and then do the same for her sister. They would each wait patiently at my feet for their turn. It was pretty darned cute.
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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 1h
I love George the Station Cat so much. I think his book will be our Christmas present to ourselves this year.
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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 1h
Email from Aetna Medicare Advantage: I'll still have that policy coverage for next year. I can breathe again.
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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 1h
1,800 steps to Safeway.and back, where they had the *world's largest* display of Brach's candy corn. I am now well supplied, and have had a bit of exercise to boot.
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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 2h
Related: Do I order four pounds of Brach's candy corn from Instacart, or do I maintain an acceptable level of self-respect?
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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 2h
Important:
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A Candy Corn-Scented Perfume Offers Consumers an ‘Ode’ to Nostalgia for the Fall Season
Brach’s has released a limited-edition fragrance, Ode to Candy Corn, which combines notes of vanilla, sugar and honey to capture the essence of the kernel-shaped confections. The perfume arrives just ...
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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 3h
Finished the first season of Hospital Playlist. On to the second! p.s. the lil actor who plays U-ju is officially the cutest child who ever existed.
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Cute U-Ju and his father (Jo In Sung): hospital playlist season 1
YouTube video by Kdrama News
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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 3h
Contemplating going back to the Wallingford Walgreens to get another two-pound bag of candy corn....
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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 3h
What a cool idea!
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Fwank @gaymerotter.bsky.social · 6h
Starting a challenge called oktober where for the whole month everything is going to be ok
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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 5h
Throwback Thursday again: time to bust out these babies.
Photo of a crackly black ankle-boot with four metal buckles.
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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 5h
Throwback Thursday. I have absolutely no idea, including why I took the photo.
Purple print on white background reads "Exempt Human Specimen."
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 6h
Strange Horizons Fiction Submissions are open now! Check out our website for the fiction guidelines including the link to our Moksha submission portal ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti... (The window closes when we reach 1,000 submissions. Stories must be 5,000 words or less.)
2026 Fiction Submissions
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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 5h
Simple Minds - Theme For Great Cities
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Simple Minds - Theme For Great Cities
YouTube video by fery2
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The 70s Guy @stevenw888.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The late great Marc Bolan would have been 79 today if he were still with us. Sadly, both he and Mr Bowie have shuffled off their mortal coil. Only Elton left now... miss you Marc! #MarcBolan #bornin1947
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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 6h
What an amazing action shot of Stan!
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Ashley @ashleysays.bsky.social · 19h
If one more Instagram ‘chef’ tells me not to use pre shredded cheese…that’s all I’m going to use for the rest of my life because fuck you that’s why
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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 6h
Happy October to all who celebrate.
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Jess Pendley @jesspendley.bsky.social · 9h
Putting "make coffee" on my to-do list just to feel something.
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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 6h
Okay, you guys.
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Nisi Shawl @nisishawl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
📢 New From @writingtheother.com 📢 Dialogue and Dialect Workshop 2026 👇🏾 Check it out! 👇🏾 writingtheother.com/dialogue-and...
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K. Tempest Bradford @ktempestbradford.com · 10h
In this craft-focused webinar you'll sharpen your dialogue skills & learn how to represent dialect on the page through short lectures and hands-on exercises led by author, editor, & WtO co-author @nisishawl.bsky.social. 📅 Nov 21 🕘 10a–3:30p Pacific 💰 $175 writingtheother.com/dialogue-and...
on the right, Nisi Shawl, a light-skinned Black person stands in front of the ocean holding a magic wand and wearing the white clothing of a goddess incarnate. on the left, name of the class
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Nisi Shawl @nisishawl.bsky.social · 7h
Constructive workers ahead!
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Tom Marcinko @tommarcinko.bsky.social · 21h
Other #writing advice I always liked: “There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” —Somerset Maugham #WritingCommunity
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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 21h
Woo hoo! (Also, good advice.)
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Tom Marcinko @tommarcinko.bsky.social · 21h
#writing advice I heard in a classroom and took to heart: “The view through your eyes is unique.” —Gardner Dozois #WritingCommunity
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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 23h
I guess I'd better get up and make some damn meatballs.
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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 23h
I died. Then I showed it to G. and died again.
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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hwasa can just lie down on the stage and still be charismatic as hell.
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화사 (HWASA) - ‘Good Goodbye’ at Rock in Rio 2026
YouTube video by HWASA
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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Heaven.
A wedge of Irish soda bread, heavily buttered, with one bite taken.
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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’m guest editing the next issue of Agita; send me your weirdest <1000 word stories about weird art. Authors from marginalized backgrounds encouraged and prioritized. No AI bullshit. The weirder the better. agitamag.com/submissions/
Issue 3: Ekphrasis
Between October 17 and November 17, guest editor Zachary Gillan will accept submissions of weird flash fiction that features ekphrasis.
Ekphrasis is the verbal representation of a work of visual art.
Weird fiction is a verbal representation of the world, in order to unsettle it.
We want stories that live at the intersection of the two. Pieces that emphasize the eerie power of weird art, whether fully ekphrastic or embedded within a traditional narrative. How does the weird seep in as reality is doubly estranged from these two layers of representation? Cursed paintings, uncanny statues, haunted mezzotints-send us your stories of weird art.
Publication date: February 1, 2027
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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Good on you, Backpack!
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A cool thing to do for October would be to befriend one millipede per day, entering November with a loyal army of millipede friends ready to do battle for you.
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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Jo Jung-suk may just have surpassed both Gong Yoo and Hyun Bin in my pantheon of favorite Korean actors. In this scene, he goes from tipsy goofball to dead serious, and conveys so much with so little.
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Cho Jung-seok gets the liquid courage to confess | Hospital Playlist Ep 11 [ENG SUB]
YouTube video by Netflix K-Content
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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One of the most underappreciated unforeseen consequences of the smartphone/streaming/social media era is the elimination of boredom as a key driver of creativity. Without boredom, there just isn't enough impetus for most people do go out and learn and do things.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One of the unforeseen consequences of losing Puss is that we're sleeping in until 8:30 or 9:00. We used to always be up at 7:00 to greet Puss, give her her breakfast, and have coffee with her. I feel guilty, like I'm letting things slide. And I just plain miss her.
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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Quite the rabbit hole. Available at Project Gutenberg. Some (sadly timely) entries about food adulteration. Pretty sure I read about this in an Albert Campion mystery. Enquire Within upon Everything - Wikipedia
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Enquire Within upon Everything - Wikipedia
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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The old videotape rack, which never quite made it to the basement, has finally fulfilled its destiny. Hooray for Costco and local coffee.
Six large bags of Cafe Vita coffee beans on a videotape rack.
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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My mother did *the best* Grover voice.
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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I get daily savings-event emails from both Webs and Knit Picks. I sure hope neither are going under.
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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Happy birthday, Elizabeth Gaskell! I freakin' love your novels. Sincerely, Holly, who would have loved taking tea with you
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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In other news, getting down to the platform just as the train is arriving is one of life's little pleasures.
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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know I am six years behind on this, but Hospital Playlist is one of the best dramas I've ever seen. The four leads, friends since medical school days, are human, affectionate with each other, and just delightful. The supporting cast members have their own unique stories, trials, and triumphs.
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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Physical therapy: my knee hurts because my hips suck, so all my exercises are hip (hop happenin') exercises.
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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In other news, @gsnorgathon.bsky.social has baked me a loaf of his incomparable Irish soda bread, just to cheer me up, because he's the sweetest human being on earth.
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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At the physical therapy clinic. A woman here has just said she doesn't know her shoe size.
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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I do believe I'm more depressed today than I've been in a long time.
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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Whoooooosh!
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House Rabbit Society @houserabbit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sign up for our new Cats & Rabbits Zoom class, which explores body language, training techniques, and tips for safely sharing a multispecies home. Register now at houserabbit.org/classes. A recording will be sent after the class for those who register but aren't able to attend.
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