Victoria Janssen
@victoriajanssen.bsky.social
I love cats, comics, and houseplants. She, her. SFWA Romance Steering Committee member. Writer of "A Place of Refuge" hopepunk space opera: https://books2read.com/rl/aplaceofrefuge
may be a long shot since I hardly have followers, but does anyone know a good, trans-friendly family lawyer based in the twin cities? have someone facing a potential custody battle over a trans kid whose other parent does not accept her and is trying to take her back to a red state
I've been tearing through @dandock.bsky.social's I AM THE NIGHT (not literally, because I try not to damage books). It's not just a history of a great cartoon, but also of the TV animation landscape at the time. If I were the kind of person to write in books, I'd be highlighting so many great lines.
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really fit in." As Penguin didn't fit in with both the stronger villains or with regular humankind, "Birds of a Feather" made him [a symbol of the barriers between the haves and the have-webbed-fingers.] The loneliness was key to many of the rogues, according](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pncax7jngzwrr4i64kirkgbx/bafkreiaewhyqu6pw5xnov7aatpz34kwck3gya53ljtpsfnryv6noowp2ja)
Really good chicken helmet. Best chicken helmet I’ve ever seen maybe.
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a young woman is covering her mouth with her hands while wearing a leopard print sweater .
Alt: a woman blowing a kiss with heart emojis
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Question for people who have uploaded a few supporting documents to the Anthropic Copyright Settlement: Will they accept a zip file? #AnthropicCopyrightSettlement Signed, writer trying to reduce own stress before returning with uploads.
My August #Reading Log is sparse because I was mostly reading my #TBRChallenge book for the month (The Hundred Days by Patrick O'Brian). victoriajanssen.com/2026/09/my-a...
My August Reading Log | Victoria Janssen
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A Shire horse that has entered the record books as the world's tallest living horse could exceed his current height as he is still growing. Hugo, who lives in Towcester, England, has already reached an "abnormal" 199cm tall, about 6.5ft, or 19.2 hands. 🧪🐴 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
World's tallest living horse based in Towcester 'still growing'
Hugo the shire horse enters the record books as the world's tallest living horse.
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Trenches weren't the only killer in #WWI. Infectious diseases, malnutrition and shell shock claimed as many lives as combat itself, and wartime #censorship even gave the #Spanishflu its misleading name. Read below! #skystorians #history #academicsky #edusky #health
World War I Diseases and Health Conditions: How Illness Shaped the Great War
Behind the trenches of World War I lurked a quieter killer: disease. Discover how typhus, malnutrition, mental trauma and mass migration shaped the health of soldiers and civilians alike, and how cens...
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As an actual disabled critic, BEING HEUMANN is a landmark for disabled representation that abled audiences aren't going to immediately grasp its power. An essential piece of disability history in an era when our rights are being eroded. My review is live: thefilmmaven.com/being-heuman...
Being Heumann Review: The Disability Representation We've Been Waiting For
We finally broke the Tod Browning "Freaks" record for most disabled cast members!
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My friend Carin Berkowitz was recently diagnosed with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) & is now searching for a liver donor. If you are blood type O (+/-) & healthy, you could be a match. Please spread the word & help her beat liver cancer! givealiver.com #CancerSucks #skystorians #histsci #histSTM
Fantasizing about being at a baseball game instead of at the dayjob.
Wheeeee! SALE ALERT on all of @upmississippi.bsky.social’s books, including on film, pop culture, and Black history. SLAVE REVOLT ON SCREEN: THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION IN FILM & VIDEO GAMES 🇭🇹🔥🎬🎮🗃️ is now only $15, this week only! www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Slav...
Slave Revolt on Screen
Recipient of the 2021 Honorary Mention for the Haiti Book Prize from the Haitian Studies AssociationIn Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games author Alyssa Goldstein Se...
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University Press of Mississippi@upmississippi.bsky.social · 5d ago🍎🚍️ UPM’s Back-to-School Sale is live! 📒🎒 From September 9-18 all books are 50% off through the UPM website: buff.ly/pZd3UpL Whether you’re getting ready for a new semester or a life-long learner, grab your favorite titles while the sale lasts!
L.A.!!! The real reason to come is so you won't miss this fantastic documentary, BLACK ZOMBIE. Screening is Friday at 7:30p. But afterward, yes, come for the Q&A with me! And hell yes, I will sign books for you if you bring them. :)
KIYOSHI final push: Help us tell this activist’s story! gofund.me/5e9a9dda3
Donate to KIYOSHI final push: Help us tell this activist’s story!, organized by Keith Brand
Born in a Japanese American incarceration camp, Kiyoshi Kuromiya d… Keith Brand needs your support for KIYOSHI final push: Help us tell this activist’s story!
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And the live streaming link for the Murderbot panel event is: www.youtube.com/live/9j7LLOp...
Acclaimed Apple TV Series “Murderbot” at Texas A&M
YouTube video by KAMU Public Broadcasting
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Martha Wells@marthawells.com · last wk.Just heard this event will be live-streamed and recorded, as some people were asking. I should get more details of where to go to look for that soon. #Murderbot #booksky
TFW you realize your lunch is still in the fridge at home. Sigh.
Escape to Refuge! Former rebel guerillas go to ground on a utopian planet. There's banter, bakeries, gaming, therapy, a lot of snow, and a solstice celebration. 💙📚 🌈📚🪐 #cozy #hopepunk #spaceopera #specfic books2read.com/b/aplaceofre... bookshop.org/beta-search?... victoriajanssen.itch.io
Available now at your favorite digital store!
A Place of Refuge Omnibus: A Cozy Space Opera by Victoria Janssen
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Still need to catch up with The Green Man's Holiday, before The Green Man's Debt is published later this week? Good news! The ebook is a UK Kindle 99p deal throughout September and price-matched elsewhere. So you could buy both titles for £5.98... just saying... 😁 www.amazon.co.uk/Green-Mans-H...
Without question, the WEIRDEST letter I have ever transcribed is this one from 1815, in which Thomas Waite imagines the words he has written to be "little ninepenny ghosts, stark naked, for they will not afford themselves winding sheets - Some shrieking for rice puddings and others for wood lots" 🗃️
