Edaureen The Ninth (a.k.a Doreen Sheridan)

@dvaleris.bsky.social

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Professional book critic, amateur cellist, full-time polymath. Occasional game designer, perpetual game enthusiast. Mom of 3 in the DMV. Arsenal till I die. S/H https://linktr.ee/dvaleris

My phone lockscreen featuring my kids' future stepdad Declan Rice in a suit and tie, smiling at me, from his photoshoot for British Vogue.
The Jason Momoa sneaking up on Henry Cavill meme, only labeled with Jorginho on Jason and Bruno G on Henry.
An Asian woman in green glasses and a pink floral dress grins widely while holding up a Panini World Cup 2026 sticker of her kids' future stepdad Declan Rice.
A dark-haired, brown-skinned woman sits on a grey couch while wearing a pale yellow Saka 7 jersey over a patterned skirt.
An Asian woman in red satin is wearing a pink, Hello Kitty-stamped sheet mask while lying in bed.
An Asian woman in hunter green glasses, the 2012/13 Arsenal home jersey and a navy skirt holds up a replica of the Premier League trophy while getting broadly.
An Asian woman in green glasses and red lipstick smiles at the camera while wearing the Arsenal 25/26 third kit. Across the table from and behind her are approximately twenty of the five hundred people packed into the sports bar with her.
The Arsenal badge is proudly displayed on a black background in a window. It is not a flag but a tea towel secured to a curtain rod with bobby pins, lol.
Saka menu from Nando's Peri-peri Chicken restaurant in the Washington DC area.
Screenshot from the quoted video of NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani smiling while holding a soccer ball, with the words "just like Arsenal -- we got it done." .
A shiny crying heart.
A shiny crying heart emoji.
An Asian woman in a white top with a cherry print cries after watching the hard-earned victory video posted by Arsenal Football Club, while smiling bravely at the camera, her fist half-obscuring her mouth.
An Asian woman in green, a white T-shirt with a cherry print and a blue skirt smiles at the camera.
An Asian woman in green glasses, red lipstick, an Arsenal 24/25 home jersey and a blue and white floral skirt, with a patterned handbag strap across her chest, smiles at the camera while on the Metro.
A smoldering stick of palo santo lies next to a jar filled with ice melt, on the lid of which lie a tumbled bloodstone and aventurine. Arrayed on the other side of the jar is a selection of raw crystals.
An Asian woman in green glasses and a blue hoodie clenches her first while making a determined expression.
A smiling Asian woman in green glasses and dress smiles at the camera while holding out the clear quartz and amazonite she was working with through the second half of the Arsenal Champions League semi-final.
A hand holds a large clear quartz and a hunk of rough amazonite, with a cluster of bracelets on the wrist beneath, including the matte Amazonite beads from earlier in this thread.
A wrist with a bracelet of assorted matte amazonite, with a small penguin charm in the middle to center community.
An Asian woman in green glasses, wearing the Arsenal 24/25 third kit jersey, smiles at the camera while sitting in a sports bar.
An Asian woman in green glasses and a floral Ulla Johnson for Kamala Harris jacket poses with two white men in glasses in front of a big screen TV featuring information about the movie One Battle After Another.
A smiling Asian woman in green glasses, a blue and pink flowered dress and a pink sweater holds up a tumbled amazonite and bloodstone in the palm of her hand.
An Asian woman in green glasses and deep berry lipstick smiles at the camera while pointing to the Arsenal badge on her 23/24 season away jersey. Over the jersey is a light jacket designed by Ulla Johnson for the Harris Walz campaign.
In a screenshot of the post from Whimsy Bunny Doodles that asks "Which bunny are you?" the gif has landed on Nerd Bunny, which is objectively correct.
An Asian woman takes a full length selfie in a cloudy set of mirrors. She is wearing an off-white dress with stylized red, blue and black flowers and a full skirt that hits just below the knee; a white fringed shawl with pastel pink and blue flowers on it, and pink heels.
Blond, blue-eyed Swedish football player Viktor Gyokeres sits on a couch while wearing tastefully neutral casual clothing and a pair of spectacles. He looks like he's about to hand me a novel he read that reminded him of me before offering to rub my feet while I lay back on the couch. It is, needless to say, a VERY attractive photo.
An Asian woman in dark green glasses and a periwinkle dress holds two bottles from the L'oreal Elvive Hyaluron Plump line, of shampoo and conditioner, in front of her. Her dark hair is pinned back.
A frustrated Viktor Gyokeres bites on the hem of his own Arsenal jersey during the game vs Bournemouth April 11, 2026.
14 raw crystals of different colors are arrayed in an oval around a stick of selenite and a lit candle.
A sawed off stump is propped up on a sidewalk, near a bus stop sign. In the grass a ways away is the cut down trunk of a tree.
Luigi Mangione stares off into the distance next to the words "A better world is possible."
On a black table are arrayed a lit candle in a glass holder, a column of selenite, an ash-tipped stick of palo santo with the words "Bad Bitch" burned into it, and seven different crystals lined up in a column.
A brass-effect butterfly clip inset with black crystals perches delicately on the asphalt.
An Asian woman in green glasses, wearing the yellow Arsenal away kit from Saka's debut season, sits in a bar and looks glumly at the camera.
An Asian woman in green glasses and red lipstick smiles at the camera while wearing the yellow Arsenal away kit from Saka's debut season.
An Asian woman in green glasses snuggles down beneath an ornately patterned white and ecru throw while smiling at the camera.
Four hands of Arsenal fans of various race and gender clink their shot glasses together.
A messy desktop with a screen displaying a satellite error code in various colors.
An Asian woman in green glasses and the Arsenal 25/26 third jersey smiles at the camera while holding up a coffee-filled mug emblazoned with a saint-like icon over the words St Totteringham's Day in Gothic script.
An Asian woman and two white men grin at the camera. Behind them is a big screen TV with Pedro Pascal and Joaquin Phoenix facing off, the word "Eddington" and a brief description beside them.
An Asian woman in red lipstick, green glasses and the Arsenal 25/26 third jersey sighs deeply and looks down, as the kids do.
An Asian woman in red lipstick and green glasses, wearing the Arsenal 25/26 third kit and the Stella McCartney x Arsenal hoodie, smiles at the camera and flashes a peace sign.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Selina Meyer giggles nervously before saying "what the fuck" through gritted teeth.
An Asian woman in red glasses takes a mirror selfie with her phone. She's wearing off-white fleece pants, a black undershirt and an oatmeal colored sweatshirt that says "I'm A Big Deal In The Resistance".
A photo of the band Nine Inch Nails performing onstage, surrounded by swirling lights in the shape of silhouettes, taken from above and to the band's right.
Six nerdy gamers sit around a table strewn with dice, character sheets, maps and various accoutrements, smiling at the camera while celebrating our DM. Perhaps unusually for a D&D group, there are four woman, one man and one non-binary player. Five of us are white, while I am Asian.
An Asian woman in red glasses and a black dress with white and blue flowers strewn on the fabric smiles while holding up a white mug. On the mug is a stylized icon of a man in clerical vestments holding a cannon. The words "St Totteringham's Day" are printed in Gothic script underneath.
A smiling Asian woman in red glasses and lipstick wears her Gyokeres 25/26 Arsenal third kit jersey under the Stella McCartney x Adidas hoodie while riding a bus into the city and the Arsenal bar.
A pan filled with sauteed udon noodles, shrimp, sliced carrots and bok choy, glistening with a brown sauce and sprinkled with black and white sesame seeds.
A Valentine with a picture of Viktor Gyokeres in the 25/26 home Arsenal jersey, on a dark pink background with the words "You'll always score with me To: From:" to his right (the viewer's left.)
A screenshot of a BlueSky heat map showing the user's position being closer to the Paleontology & Paleo Art and Transformers Fan (!) communities rather than the Arsenal Football Club Supporters and American Soccer Community where she belongs.
An Asian woman in red glasses and a burgundy sweatshirt holds up an adorable square sticker featuring an orange cat in wizard robes and a hat, holding up a wand with a glowing d20 on the end, under the words Kat Abughazeleh for Congress IL-09.
Screenshot of a text conversation between me and a Chelsea-supporting friend I met through puzzling, after the final whistle of Chelsea's comeback against West Ham, finishing 3-2 after being down 2 at the half. Him: Had that all the way, never a doubt Me: Bruh, I did an entire aura cleansing ritual for Gyokeres last night, I am 100% with you in the delulu Also, Chelsea was a Jeopardy! question last night! Rest assured: I booed Him: You never let me down.
A screenshot of an Instagram story by DvalerisActual, set to the tune Crystalized by The xx, with the caption "It's been so long since I've Etsy Witched that all my crystals have disappeared, laugh sweat emoji. Anyway, a cleansing and clarity ritual for Gyokeres, as promised to chat." On a black table, in front of a white framed window through which you can see only darkness, is a shallow red teak container. There is salt at the bottom. In it is a bracelet of pale blue, cream and tan beads; a small glass jar with a piece of broken ice in it, and a metal feather with jet beads at the end. Surrounding the container are a small metal mallet, the container's carved cover, and a lit candle with the word "present" on it. Dangling over the candle flame is a metal star-shaped infuser.
A meme of Viktor Gyokeres touching his hair at the bald referee, with my caption "Alright, lad, let's shut the haters up again today."
The "Inside You There Are Two Wolves" meme with two wolves, one dark, one light, facing off. One wolf is labeled with the meme of a derpy figure wearing the Arsenal badge saying "No thanks we are top of the league" to someone offering them a brain. The other wolf is labeled with the meme of a Chad saying, "I'm having a bad day" to which the Arsenal badge facing him responds "Not bad enough, let's make it even worse."
An Asian woman in red glasses and an Arsenal reindeer sweatshirt smiles at the camera in three-quarter profile.
A watercolor postcard with a graceful fawn-colored mergoat stepping daintily over its aqua green fish tail.
The Star card from Yoshi Yoshitani's Tarot of the Divine lays atop a copy of Ahu Tiiko: Night Edition.