Litsy

My ears burn daily
with the knowledge of the lies
you spread about me.

Hope nobody minds — some of my haikus are a little dark but I find it‘s excellent therapy!

#haikuhive #haikuaday #poetry

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AnnCrystal
I also find Haiku to be healing 👏🏼🐝👍🏼☺️🐝💝. 6d

TheSpineView @AnnCrystal Writing is always helpful. 💛🐝💛 6d

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Eggs Those who mind don‘t matter; those who matter don‘t mind 6d

jdiehr I love moody haiku 👊🏻💛 6d

lil1inblue My haikus tend to get a little dark, as well. Writing is so therapeutic! 💛 🐝 💛 6d

dabbe It's only through the dark that we can find the light. 🖤🐝💛 5d

julieclair The beautiful thing about these haikus is that we all get to share a little bit of ourselves in all our real-ness, and know we will be supported. 💝 5d

JenlovesJT47 @Eggs such an excellent reminder!! 🤗🖤🐝💛🐝🐝🐝 5d

JenlovesJT47 @AnnCrystal @TheSpineView @jdiehr @lil1inblue writing is the best and cheapest therapy imo! 🤗🤗🖤🐝💛🐝🐝 glad you people get me. ♥️ 5d

JenlovesJT47 @dabbe also an excellent reminder! 🤗🖤🐝💛 5d

JenlovesJT47 @julieclair yes! I‘m enjoying getting to know all of you. This outlet has been invaluable to me the last few weeks. Love seeing what everyone comes up with. 🤗🖤🐝💛🐝🐝🐝 5d

dabbe @JenlovesJT47 I should have ended with “but sometimes the dark f---ing sucks pond water!“ #imho 🖤🐝🖤 5d

JenlovesJT47 @dabbe absoforkinglutely!!! ❤️‍🩹🫂 5d

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dabbe

Memorial Day | Christin Ditchfield

While we celebrated yesterday to honor all who have valiantly served our country, the current president posts this absolute crap. Besides the SHOUTING CAPS and heinous words about pretty much everybody, he doesn't even thank ONE military person who died while in service. I just can't wrap my head around understanding ANYONE who voted for this sub-human. My face would burn with shame. Mr. President, I wear the badge of SCUM with pride.
#ranttime

kspenmoll It should not be inconceivable at this point yet it is. Not just scum-evil incarnate. 👹 #ranttime (edited) 3w

Aims42 https://www.instagram.com/p/DKJCNc3Ahf0/?igsh=M3FqODBpaG5udThw 👈 Someone fixed it so it‘s more accurate 😂 3w

dabbe @Aims42 OMG, thank you, thank you, thank you! This restored my sanity. 🤣😍🤗 3w

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dabbe @kspenmoll 🎯🩵🎯 You have to read what @Aims42 shared below. It will restore your sanity as it did mine. 😍 3w

Aims42 @dabbe You are so welcome 🥰💖 Also, who knew I‘d be following a “Did he die today” account on Threads 😆 No other posts besides; “No”, “Sadly not” and “Alas, today is not the day. But there‘s always tomorrow” 🤣 That was definitely not on my 2025 Bingo card but here we are 🤦‍♀️ 3w

dabbe @Aims42 Matt and I pretty much wonder that every single day when we wake up. We also don't go through life wishing for someone's demise, but if it saves our democracy, we do hope. That just shows how fucked up this country is right now. 😞 3w

Aims42 @dabbe Right?!? 😳🫠 What‘s truly fascinating is that there is zero reference to who the “he” is, but you know instantly who it is 😆 You are so right, it shows exactly how insane our country has become in just 127 days (from Jan. 20th to today) 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 3w

TheBookHippie What‘s so bad is - He‘s just saying the quiet part out loud …. His followers agree with every word. 😵‍💫 They‘ve been mostly underground since before Timothy Mc Veigh- and even before that they were enslavers. This is “the confederates” dream. If he dies -it‘s Vance. Who is more deliberately evil. We have a reckoning. I hope we endure. Thankfully no one likes Vance. 😝😫 it‘s my only hope: that it all crumbles. 3w

Liz_M If the Dems to regain the house in 2026, H. Jeffries is third in line. Just saying. 3w

Suet624 He‘s despicable. 3w

ChaoticMissAdventures The people I really don't get are veterans, my uncle has built his whole personality around his (short) navy service, and he has spent the last 9 years fawning all over this disgusting man. I just do not get it. 3w

Aims42 @TheBookHippie The one slice of hope I hold onto is if VampyVance does succeed the old poopy diaper Cheeto, that VampyVance is not nearly as charismatic and appealing to the cult that Trump has indoctrinated. You‘re right, nobody likes him 😝 3w

dabbe @Liz_M Short of Satan himself, there is no one more evil than Drumpf. #imho 3w

dabbe @Suet624 🎯🩵🎯 3w

dabbe @ChaoticMissAdventures IKR? 🎯♥️🎯 3w

dabbe @Aims42 @TheBookHippie
Is #vampyvance the lesser of two evils? 🤔 Hard question. 3w

Aims42 @dabbe Hahaha! Choosing between them is like, “would you rather break your dominant arm or break both your legs?” 😆 3w

dabbe @Aims42 #exactly!!! 🤣 3w

Deblovestoread Thank you for posting my thoughts! 3w

Susanita Zelenskyy did it better: https://thehill.com/policy/international/4025259-zelensky-lauds-americans-defend... 3w

AlaMich Every holiday. Every damn holiday he posts an unhinged rant like this. 3w

dabbe @Deblovestoread 🩵🎯🩵 3w

dabbe @AlaMich He is completely deranged. Completely. 3w

dabbe @Susanita #justaweebit 💚💜💚 3w

JenReadsAlot I just cannot understand people still supporting him. Never will. 3w

AnnCrystal 😢🇺🇲🙏🏼. 3w

dabbe @JenReadsAlot 🎯🩵🎯 2w

dabbe @AnnCrystal 😞🇺🇸🤞🏻 2w

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dabbe

The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax | Arthur Conan Doyle

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes @Cuilin
#LadyCarfax

IMHO, this one was a dud. We never even get to know what was really up with the Lady Carfax! And Holmes was the rudest to Watson in this one; he was quite the jerk.

Thoughts, Sherlockians?

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eeclayton The plot was interesting and it held my attention. But I wasn't amused by Holmes' attitude in this one. 2mo

CogsOfEncouragement I figured out the two bodies in the casket. I was on the edge of my seat to see if she was going to be found dead or alive. I thought Watson was being quite bad at the job and then Sherlock told him the same. Though, it almost seemed like Doyle was mad at Watson to write it this way. lol 2mo

Librarybelle I didn‘t mind this one. Holmes‘ attitude was a bit off putting and reminded me of a strict adult reprimanding a bad child. 2mo

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Cuilin @Librarybelle @eeclayton agreed. Sherlock‘s temperament in this one is off putting. 2mo

AnneCecilie I‘m always fooled and it doesn‘t seem to matter that I have read quite a lot of these stories by now. I wish we had gotten to know more about the how 2mo

dabbe @eeclayton 🎯! 2mo

dabbe @CogsOfEncouragement The possible murder part was interesting; I don't recall such an urgency in past stories as in this one. I didn't think Watson did that horribly, considering he doesn't have the criminal encyclopedia that is in Holme's head. And Green was a stalker who could have killed him! Watson goes through all of that only for Sherlock to severely rebuke him. Not happy with SH in this one at all. 2mo

dabbe @Librarybelle I keep wondering why SH sent him there anyway and then ended up going there. Watson does him a favor and goes, and gets nothing but shamed by Holmes. #notcool #imho 2mo

dabbe @Cuilin 🎯! Just when we think he's showing growth, too! 2mo

dabbe @AnneCecilie It bugs me when something is pulled out of the air--like Sherlock knowing about Shlessinger's ear and who he really was. For a detective story to be truly fair, shouldn't the reader have all the clues, too? Like you, though, I just love reading them and having them be solved for me. Most of the time. 🤩 2mo

AnneCecilie @dabbe In theory I agree with, but no matter how many clues I get, I never manage to get it right. Sherlock is probably doing some investigating off the page, like Poirot later would do. 2mo

dabbe @AnneCecilie We're not always privy to those little gray cells! 🤩 2mo

kelli7990 I liked this story. 2mo

dabbe @kelli7990 I'm glad you did! 🤩 2mo

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dabbe

Untitled | Untitled

#poetrymatters
#lights
@TheSpineView

#wintergames24 @Liseworks #holidaybookdragons

Best Journey song ever. #imho

TheSpineView ❤️🎶❤️ 6mo

dabbe @TheSpineView 🌉🌉🌉 6mo

lil1inblue I'm not the biggest Journey fan, but I do like this one. 🥰 6mo

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dabbe @lil1inblue I adore Steve Perry; his voice (like Robert Plant's) makes me weak in the knees. Of course, there could be other reasons, too. 🤔😂🤩 6mo

Lesliereadsalot I love this song! When I first met my husband and we would drive back and forth from our homes, this song was always on the radio. It‘s one of the few songs that actually means something to me. 🩷 6mo

dabbe @Lesliereadsalot #karma ❣️💚❣️ 6mo

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dabbe

Dracula | Bram Stoker

#SchoolSpirit
#diary
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#bestepistolarynovel #imho

AnnCrystal 📚🦇💝🦇🎬.

I still need to read the actual book...I know...sorry Bram Stoker 😳👀💝. 9mo

dabbe @AnnCrystal The #hashtagbrigade is reading it starting in October--only 1 chapter a day! 🤩🤗😊 9mo

AnnCrystal @dabbe 🦇💝. I don't believe I have ever even purchased a copy for my library...I am ashamed, very ashamed 😳👀🤔! And I Love Dracula 🦇💝. 9mo

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dabbe @AnnCrystal It's in the public domain, so it's free on Hoopla or Libby if you have those library apps. 9mo

AnnCrystal Thanks 😎👍💝 @dabbe. I am too old-fashioned...I am going to keep watch for a printed book 📚😉👍💝. 9mo

dabbe @AnnCrystal 🩶🧡🩶 9mo

Eggs Lovely édition ?? 9mo

dabbe @Eggs 🩶🧡🩶 9mo

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AvidReader25

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | J.K. Rowling

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This is always my least favorite book of the series, but this time I appreciated seeing Harry‘s first trip to the Burrow. I love how he immediately feels at home and makes Ron understand that he shouldn‘t be embarrassed by it. Fawkes is the other highlight. Harry would have been killed in an instant without him. It‘s also the book where Harry feels confident (at the end) about his placement in Gryffindor.

KadaGul Look 👀 @ the puppy 🐶 face 😍 10mo

Jess861 This is also my least favourite...I don't feel like the story moves forward too much in this one.....and just big spiders 😬😬 10mo

dabbe That face! 🖤🐾🖤 10mo

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Leftcoastzen Awww! 10mo

Seabreeze_Reader @avidreader25 @jess861 I recently listened to this again on audio and it still remains my least fav book in the series, too. Some aspects of the story that don't make sense, like Ron and Harry flying the car to Hogwarts. Ron's parents could have made sure they made it through the platform. Plus, Dumbledore always seems to disappear right before some big showdown. There are a lot of coincidences which allows the plot to slowly move forward. #imho 10mo

AvidReader25 @Seabreeze_Reader oh my goodness, yes! And once you read it after having kids, you start thinking how is this school allowed? This is incredibly dangerous for kids! 🤣 why couldn‘t Dumbledore have shared more information and helped everyone out in every single book! 10mo

AvidReader25 @Jess861 yup, I always feel like I have to get through this one in order for the series to start. 10mo

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Itchyfeetreader

Talking to the Wild: The bedtime stories we never knew we needed | Becky Hemsley

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I set myself my own version of my favourite challenge #booked given it is not, for understandable reasons running. My husband and I had fun setting date related challenges and my book of poetry for WH Auden birthday was an enigma. I find poetry super intimidating but was pleased with this choice. The structure of many of the poems are deceptively simple (4 line verses, mostly alternating rhyme) but there were many poems here that will stick ⬇️

Itchyfeetreader The aurhor writes with wit but also real heart and there is an underlying sense of ‘sad but will work out okay‘ here. With that level of literary analysis I am sure no one is surprised as to why I didn‘t follow English literature beyond gcse ! 1y

dabbe As a former high school English teacher, don't sell yourself short! As a student, I hated dissecting a poem to death. As a teacher, I hated making kids do that. Overall, poetry is meant to be enjoyed and FELT. No poet ever wanted his/her/their poem analyzed to death. I love your thoughts on this book of poems, and am so glad you're embracing poetry. Don't be afraid of it; you know so much more than you think you do #IMHO. 💚💙💚 1y

Itchyfeetreader Thank you @dabbe I love that advice to feel@the poems 1y

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Bookbuyingaddict

Fair Rosaline | Natasha Solomons

I‘m not sure we can trust goodreads there‘s some fantastic books 📚 on there not rated as highly as you‘d expect but then again reading is such a personal thing ; anyway I‘m only 50 odd pages into this and I‘m loving 🥰 it , if it hadnt have been recommended to me I doubt I‘d have picked it up , must admit I can‘t remember Rosaline in Romeo and Juliet so reading the play alongside it
#februaryreads #doublespin #bookbingo
#littensloveromance

Suet624 I agree that Goodreads can not be completely trusted. Rotten Tomatoes too. 1y

Bookbuyingaddict @Suet624 oohh yes and those naughty tomato🍅 website people Iv noticed that 😂 1y

dabbe I could be wrong, but it seems to me that the reviewers can be quite harsh on goodreads with their ratings. #imho 😃 1y

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Crinoline_Laphroaig

Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen

"The deception could not continue after this;"
This is how I like Miscommunication as a plot device. Resolved in 1 Chapter rather than taking almost 45 hours. ??
#imho #janeaday
#senseandsensibilityreadalong
#pemberlittens @sprainedbrain

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