Mary Ebejer

Mary Ebejer

@mebejer.bsky.social

Writer. Editor. Researcher. Mom to three amazing grown-ups. Gran to three equally amazing littles. Dog mom (in spirit 🥲). Cat mom. Self-care is a radical act of resistance.

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Fantastic account to follow. The modern art comparisons are especially delightful. Want to believe with all my heart these are created by someone with an encyclopedic knowledge of art history. In this day and age, they might be AI search generated, so feeling conflicted by the joy these bring.

ArtButMakeItSports@artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social

Lamentation (flipped, detail), by Gerard David, 1515-23, 📸 by Roberto Schmidt

Making Gone with the Wind in the 1930s would be like making a movie about the 1950/60s today. It was relatively recent history.

ContempraInn 🌹@contemprainn.bsky.social

Scarlett O’Hara’s wardrobe in Gone with the Wind (1939) ranks among the greatest achievements in cinematic costume design. In order of appearance, these 22 restored dresses trace her journey, between love, loss, ambition, and survival.

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This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal

Transplanted one of the final bits left of a once glorious dracena that my father gave me. He passed 15 years ago and this beauty slowly followed suite afterwards. I’m still counting on a resurrection of sorts, or at least a clawing back from the brink. And now we wait …

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RIP to the great British writer #TomStoppard, who gave us Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Brazil, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Shakespeare in Love, Arcadia, The Real Thing, Leopoldstadt and one of my favorite movies, Empire of the Sun. A master with words. #Writersky #Screenwriting

Guilty 🎯😂

Jo Wolff@jowolff.bsky.social

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

Flying from Grand Rapids to San Juan PR for a conference today. Everyone without exception … TSA, airlines, airport employees … are incredibly friendly and chipper. Did they all attend a new training focused on “aggressive customer service”?

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BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

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"I carry the weight of these political threats with a perseverance forged by family & the scientific community. My mom & grandma’s humble lives & wisdom give me the mental toughness to... give back to the community through my education. " Let's be like Amanda and #StandUpForScience. zurl.co/IlEbe

zurl.coAmanda Finn | In Defense of EducationI didn’t grow up dreaming of being a scientist. I grew up around hardworking people who believed in education as a path to a better life. Both my mother and […]

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To bring the reader right into your characters’ experience, you need to collapse narrative distance. A few simple language shifts can take your reader from watching people on the page to feeling like they’re right inside the scene. Insight from Alex Von Tol.

janefriedman.comImmersive Interiority: How to Collapse Narrative Distance to Get Emotion on the Page | Jane FriedmanA few simple language shifts can take your reader from watching people on the page to feeling like they’re right inside the scene.