Amanda

@camanda.bsky.social

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grumpy elder millennial 👩‍🦳 Ocean State native ⚓ leftist and left-handed ⬅️ current hyperfixations: Love 365 💞 Fire Emblem 🐉 vintage Coach handbags 👜 my Akita puppy 🐻 historical romance novels 📚 and synthwave 🌌 she/her ♀️

Destiny 2 local chat in the Tower WhenDestiny3#8931: your name isn't helping the cause nobody plays destiny 2#9196: ty
still from the movie Steel Magnolias where Clairee (Olympia Dukakis) is telling Truvy (Dolly Parton) "if you can't say anything nice about anybody, come sit by me"
“You’re not the same as you were a few days ago,” he murmured. “You’re no longer a wallflower, nor a virgin, nor the helpless child who had to endure life with the Maybricks. You’re a viscountess with a sizable fortune, and a scoundrel of a husband. Whose rules will you adhere to now?” Evie shook her head in weary confusion. She discovered that as Sebastian worked the tension out of her back, her control over her emotions seemed to dissolve at an equal rate. She was afraid that if she tried to speak, she might cry. Instead she remained silent, squeezing her eyes shut and fighting to keep her breathing even. “So far you’ve spent your life striving to please others,” she heard him say. “With a rather poor rate of success. Why don’t you try pleasing yourself for a change? Why not live by your own rules? What has obeying the conventions ever gotten you?”
the top two shelves of the small bookcase that houses all my romance novels; they're both already full of historicals
tricolor Akita lying on a tile floor and watching me expectantly (I do not have snacks)
comment on the HistoricalRomance subreddit in a discussion about Loretta Chase's Difficult Dukes trilogy: "In my mind the three of them have two brain cells between them and one and a half of those belong to Blackwood."
title page of Loretta Chase's My Inconvenient Duke signed by the author and inscribed to meeeeee
passage from My Inconvenient Duke by Loretta Chase And she did not want to spend the rest of her life trying to be somebody she was not. Spare yourself the charade, Blackwood had said. "Don't you want to marry me?" she said. He blinked once, twice. "Certainly not. Who'd want to marry you? A lunatic, perhaps. An ancient duke with one foot in the grave." "He's two and forty!" "Pitiable, doddering thing. If he marries you, he may look forward to an earlier-than-anticipated demise. As do I. But I at least am used to you. No shocks in store. A strain upon the nerves, certainly. Excessive fatigue, absolutely. But you'll have to work harder to kill me. Still, if you'd rather not take on the challenge of reducing me to a drooling half-wit-" "On the contrary, I look forward to it," she said.
a tricolor Akita with a silly stripe down the middle of his face sitting on a well-loved sofa
2 mass market paperback copies of Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas, one of which is much fancier than the other
near-complete first edition mass market paperback set of Lisa Kleypas's Wallflowers series (Secrets of a Summer Night, It Happened One Autumn, Devil in Winter, Scandal in Spring, and A Wallflower Christmas). only missing the prequel novel Again the Magic, which I do have but not the first edition
5 paperback versions, 4 of which I have read and are among my favorites, plus Tempt Me at Twilight (Hathaways #3) by Lisa Kleypas which I haven't read yet. the others are One Dance with a Duke and A Week to Be Wicked by Tessa Dare, The Truth About Cads and Dukes by Elisa Braden, and Romancing His Convenient Viscountess by Maggie Weston
picture of mass market paperback copies of Lisa Kleypas's Wallflowers series - Again the Magic (prequel), Secrets of a Summer Night, It Happened One Autumn, Devil in Winter, Scandal in Spring, and A Wallflower Christmas (novella)
photo of my Kobo showing I have downloaded an advance reader copy of Lisa Kleypas's new novel Queen of Lombard Street
fawn/black/white/brown female Akita on a couch with a pillow under her leg
fawn/black/white/brown female Akita lying on a rug
the stepbacks for Tempt Me At Twilight, It Happened One Autumn, and Scandal in Spring. a "stepback" is when the front cover is innocent and tame and then you open it and there's the naughty clinch artwork
photo of four paperbacks I found today, top row is Tempt Me At Twilight, It Happened One Autumn, and Scandal in Spring. Bottom is Again the Magic. All by Lisa Kleypas
tricolor Akita with a silly white stripe on his face sitting by a sliding glass door. he has his head lifted so his nose is straight up in the air because he hasn't mastered the art of "turning around"
Fire Emblem Heroes - Duo Elincia
Fire Emblem Heroes - +10 Ascended Elincia with some stuff I stole from Rearmed L'Arachel
Fire Emblem Heroes - +2 base Resplendent Elincia with an upgraded kit I stole from a brand new unit
screenshot from The Storygraph showing my to-read pile has grown to 355 books
comment on /r/romancebooks that reads "I’ve judged books by the names of the characters. If your MMC is named “Razor” or “Kage” or something similar, I can’t read it."
comment on latest Defunctland video Walt: What am I gonna do with this? Statues are for dead people. Kevin: Walt soon became a dead person, and
screenshot from my Storygraph account showing that I read the last 5 volumes of The Way of the Househusband in a row. I actually read the last 7 today but only 5 will fit.
The cover of Weird Al's Poodle Hat
Fire Emblem Heroes - skill description for Ice Prince's Seal. It's 2 paragraphs.
Fire Emblem Heroes - +10 Legendary Hríd
pre-order screen for Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties for PS4 and PS5
tiny blue 2nd gen iPod Mini sitting in the middle of a pair of Sennheiser HD600 headphones. the earcups are about the size of the Mini
Akita puppy on leash in the street looking askance at the camera
picture of my Akita puppy Koji on his leash in the street
my Akita hanging out on the sofa
screenshot of an incoming call I received from the town of "Lcmxhvkdtqgmh, Rhode Island"
Fire Emblem Heroes - +10 Resplendent Linde
screenshot from Fire Emblem Heroes showing that I have merged Legendary Hríd to +10 because I'm a fucking idiot
Akita puppy sitting on a worn-out brown leather sofa looking very refined and handsome indeed
screenshot from the Fire Emblem Heroes app showing that Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones is now available on Nintendo Switch Online
me telling my Akita to say something funny and he does
Akita puppy on leash sniffing in a pile of leaves with trees and a river in the background
screenshot of my DMs with Erika where she confirms that DOG DAY AFTERNOON Pacino did, in fact, awaken something in her
Akita puppy with a Dole banana sticker between his eyes
screenshot from the PlayStation app showing I havw pre-ordered LIKE A DRAGON: PIRATE YAKUZA IN HAWAII
Akita puppy sitting next to a couch looking enormous but he's only 10 months old and not quite 80 lbs
screenshot from Fire Emblem Heroes where I'm summoning on the Valentine's Day banner and got 2 off-banner 5* heroes and a 4* special on the same ring
meme titled "Types of Headaches" showing four bald heads in profile. They each have some red shading showing where different types of headaches are felt. The three "normal" types of headache are migraine, hypertension, and stress. The last one is completely shaded red and I have labeled it "I think this Coach bag is from the '70s" because no it isn't stop telling people this bag is from the '70s oh my god I lksdjglskdjglkjsdg
screenshot from the Nintendo Music app showing "Cool Cool Mountain" from Super Mario 64 - the "album art" is a screenshot from the game of Mario holding the baby penguin while the mama penguin stands in her pool
an Akita puppy on leash looking up at the camera, snow and leaves on the ground
Akita puppy sitting on a brown pitbull while a white pitbull looks on warily
my friend Red in Discord on Microsoft Teams: "teams is hell. teams is pain. never in my life shall I ever be requested to write and share a file through teams not be lost to mental anguish. never in my life shall i love teams. my heart holds no quarrel for other programs for it is filled with the hatred of teams"
my hand holding my Switch controller sitting on my lap which is swathed in blankets. Koji the Akita puppy looms ominously before licking my hand and wiggling his curly tail
screenshot of my Switch home screen showing four romance visual novels by Voltage Inc (even if TEMPEST, Masquerade Kiss, Kings of Paradise, Oops I Said Yes)
picture of an Akita puppy lying on his belly with his back legs stretched out. his tail is curled and he's looking at the camera
Akita puppy lying on a carpet on his belly with his back legs stretched behind him, aka a "sploot"
a screenshot of YouTube chat from the Taskmaster Series 7 stream. the task is "add an extension to the Taskmaster house." this is an infamously disastrous task for the Phil/James/Rhod team, so chat is full of "oh no" and "oh god"
Kings of Paradise (Taki's Route) - Scene is the backseat of a car. Taki, to MC: "Your recipe mnemonic whatever book was a surprisingly good idea. Your grades would've been a little better in school if you'd thought it up back then."
Samuel Beckett's WAITING FOR GODOT except I changed it to say WAITING FOR MOMO because we're always waiting for Momo
An Akita puppy tilting his head backwards to look at me, who's sitting behind him
screenshot from my Switch profile showing that I just started the Switch version of Kings of Paradise, right above my 60 hours of hyperfixation I mean playtime in Oops I Said Yes. Both are romance visual novels by Voltage Inc