Linda J. Lee
@lindajeanlee.bsky.social
Folklorist, educator, instructional designer. Over-educated cat lady who nevertheless persists. She/her. #AskAFolklorist
Romancelandia is a fractious community with more grudges and feuds than most people could dream. And during @romancingthevote.com everyone sort of agrees to put down the weapons and do This Thing together for a greater cause, because community is bigger than who we want to hang out with.
Very nervous about tomorrow’s blog on Patreon so have some out of context quotes from it as a treat 💜
I, too, want to be in a place in my life where I can decline to have a conversation if the vibes in the general environment are not to my taste. That’s a bit of a power move.
Hey friends! If you're new around here, Mr. Bree has been a special ed teacher for 22 years & works in a Title I school where his self-contained classroom has endless adventures in learning life skills & cooking & this year gardening! This is our yearly wishlist drop if anyone wants to help!
Classroom list 2026 | Amazon Gift List
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For your convenience, the Pride and Prejudice live-posting super-thread 📚
So I’ve started Pride and Prejudice, and already I feel bad for Mrs Bennet.
This evening was weirdly stressful, so maybe we unwind with more Pride and Prejudice.
So I’ve started Pride and Prejudice, and already I feel bad for Mrs Bennet.
While we wrap up our auction this year, can we remind you for Fated States, which is about to kick into high gear for the coming election season? fatedmates.net/fatedstates
FATED STATES — Fated Mates: Romance Books for Novel People
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ELIZABETH: Should we… expose Wickham? JANE: I don’t know about it. What do you think? ELIZABETH: Well, I guess we shouldn’t be the ones to do it since it’s Darcy’s account and not our story to tell. AND we have this precise discussion about abusers to this very day!!!! JANE!!! AUSTEN!!!!
I can’t believe I’m having feelings at this remarkable pitch over a book that’s mostly made up of visits and letters.
He ends with “I will only add, God bless you,” and I imagine that between that comma and “God bless you” was a vast wasteland of time where Darcy must have agonized over whether or not he should unravel more of his feelings before ultimately resigning himself to Elizabeth’s rejection and despair.
My mom just called to tell me that she went to a museum about the Underground Railroad, where one of the exhibits talked about the locals having horns that they would blow to warn people when the slave catchers were in town “It’s just like your whistles!”
all right fam it's time for "Give Us This Day Our Daily Thread," in which your favorite internet lesbian breaks down what's new and hot in the world of Schism Watch 2026 please hydrate, stretch, and get a snack, we have a LOT to go over today
like forty of you tagged me in this, which brought me great joy, and I promise you a thread later tonight that is going to make you all SCREECH. you won’t believe the shit these guys are saying
Good evening! We've officially crossed 200K donated on the ActBlue account.
we keep warning them and no one believes the romance authors are gonna come with an army
LOL @romancingthevote.com broke the internet 😂😂
bidding on ZOOM BOOK CLUB FOR HATERS is now closed, with a total of 200 live and 502 recorded slots sold. Grand total = $27,550 raised for voting rights! thank you thank you thank you to the heroes of @romancingthevote.com for organizing this and raising almost $233,000!!!!
I have already confirmed that @tessadare.bsky.social is going to sign the 6969 invoice as part of the prize, because we have to respect game.
My favorite part: rigging this bid so that @tessadare.bsky.social’s Squirrel David finished at 696.90.
Romancelandia 🤝 The Pope crashing institutions with our petty joy
a special thanks to Pope Leo for the schism that was a real one
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WE DID IT! We've raised $100,000 for voting rights, and it hasn't even been a full day. Thank you all so much--now let's see what we can do over the next four days!
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Romancing the Vote 2026
Silent auction 'Romancing the Vote 2026' hosted online at 32auctions.
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absolutely losing my mind that the Star Trek D&D one-shot (where @nome.bsky.social is going to DM me, my friends @erinbiba.bsky.social and @carloscisco.bsky.social, and two lucky winners through a murder mystery on Risa) is currently at $1,000, tied with the signed edition of HEATED RIVALRY
Star Trek D&D One-Shot
Auction item 'Star Trek D&D One-Shot' hosted online at 32auctions.
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It's really worth remembering, as news moves of Bessent calling Zelenskyy a "special-needs child," that we really did make a lot of progress against disability slurs. By 2019 Special Olympics had shifted the "end the word" campaign because it was so successful.
Perry: The return of the r-word
"These days, the r-word slur has become a staple of the American right wing, uttered with few professional or social consequences," David M. Perry writes.
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