Francisca Staines
@franciscawrites.bsky.social
Author of MG & Picture Books • https://franciscastaines.com/ 🇲🇽 All around book nerd with a weakness for mystery, fantasy, sci-fi, dogs, and tacos (not always in that order)
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
#Naturalisticgardens are always a bit chaotic. This one (mine) certainly is. Agastaches, altheas, echinaceas, globe thistles, rudbeckias, dusty millers & scabiosas (among others) growing happily despite drought & extreme heat, all because chaotic gardens are resilient habitats. #Gardening #wildlife
Because I miss the cool and gray of autumn afternoons, here are five spooky #mg books that anyone -big and small- will enjoy... #BookSky #KidLit #ScaringIsCaring #MGHorror 💙📚
Althea officinalis growing in my #naturalisticgarden Also know as the marsh mallow, the root of this lovely plant was used by Egyptians and Romans to make marshmallows, by grounding it and mixing it with honey.
Thinking about that time I made a clip about five of my favorite sci-fi books... #BookSky #scificlassics #scifibooks 💙📚
A few of the magnificent blooms of this summer. No watering. A bit if a drought. Plants are doing well. #gardening #naturalisticgardens
The difference a year makes... Same place one fourteen months apart. All plants were grown from winter sowed seeds. #TheWildGardener #Gardening #NaturalisticGarden
I love the brightness of this croscomia blooms. Tiny but showy. #SummerGarden #SummerBlooms #Gardening
Favorite quotes from favorite books, "There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape. If I am not satisfied in the one, I will indulge the other." ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein 📚💙📚👀📚
A quote for Thrusday, "What she had begun to learn was the weight of liberty. Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one." ―Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan 💙📚👀 📚🌏
Name a movie that flopped at the box office but is actually great #FilmSky
Titan A.E.: Fight the Good Fight, Precious!
Alt: A scene in Titan A.E. "Fight the Good Fight, Precious!"
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Edward the Red Panda@edwardbaillargeon.bsky.social · last mo.Name a movie that flopped at the box office but is actually great #FilmSky
Absolutely knacked after a week of packing, moving, unpacking, and trying to fit eight years of having a too big house into a just the space we need house. Even after donating, and selling, and giving away furniture and lots, and lots of stuff it still feels like we're bursting at the seems..
Cartoon House Blows Up
Alt: Cartoon House gets bigger and bigger until it blows Up
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Great #horror "You let me eat up all papa’s anger so it wouldn’t poison you. You didn’t mind that he ruined me as long as you were unspoiled & safe. If you ever loved me, it was because I was a soft thing you threw down into the bottom of a pit to break your fall.” ―Ava Reid, Juniper & Thorn 💙📚
There's no better time to nap that when it's raining heavily outside. #cairnterriers 🐕🦺 #cutedogs 🐶 #sleepingdogs 🐕
A lovely afternoon defined by the colors of summer: Two peacock butterflies on a field of lilac. #gardening #wildgarden #wildlife #summergarden
A little mistake, clicking on the wrong button, prompt by idle curiosity, turned my website into a mess. It took about six hours to undo the damage. It's not the same as it was, but I like it, and I think is easier to navigate than before. franciscastaines.com
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#Kidlit goes harder, achieving awesomeness... "I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this. It's as though for the first time I realize how much just being alive makes my body ache. But I don't want that ache to stop." ― Shannon Hale, Book of a Thousand Days. #BookSky 💙📚 #YAFantasy
A new entry from my #illustration learning journey. This time, a portray of our dogs who love to explore the hedge at the end of the garden, even climbing a few branches to get a better view. #kidlitart #digitalart #cutedogs
