Racheline Maltese

@racheline.bsky.social

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Award-winning romance author writing happily ever afters about difficult people with complicated lives. SAG-AFTRA. Figure skater. Former journalist/media analyst. They/them.

A black and white goose way too close so all you can see is it’s long neck and dinosaur mouth.
Poster for “Otherworld” a short-lived 80s TV about running from fascists after accidentally falling into an alternate universe. Poster shows a white family of five clutching each other in an adventuresome way with some bad smoke effects at their feet.
A black & white yearbook page from 1990. Four graduating seniors’ headshots are visible. Clockwise from upper left they vibe as - girl in band, startled artsy goth with Romulan haircut, future stock broker, hair metal goth.
Two tabby cats are nappy in a white Adirondack chair. One is looking at the camera and has the caption “uh-oh”. The other one has the caption “Zzzzz”. To the left of them is a grey tabby staring at them. He’s a little pudgy and is totally calm, but has the caption of three angry face emojis, reflecting the supposed cheating drama that isn’t actually going on amongst these TNR’d colony cats.
Screenshot of an email with the subject line “14 Words Only Americans Understand”
A grey plushie rat wearing a white skirt made from scrunchies. Black and teal bows and plastic flies decorate the skirt and the rat has multiple ear piercings and is wearing several necklaces including on with two red cherries.
A baby jackalope in pastel colors tattooed on a pale upper left arm. Dark ribbons surround the jackalope who is also in front of a green shield. Tattoo by Jessica Valentine.
Jake, a white and grey feral cat who lived in the streets for 12 years seen inside he double height crate an he adjusts to indoor life. He’s hissing and squinting his eye but it looks like a smile.
A fresh tattoo on a white nonbinary person’s upper arm. It’s a jackalope with a coy facial expression rendered in greys white and pink on a green disk with greens behind it and a burgundy ribbon draping down across its paws
Street cat, Jake, is recovering from the loss of his bonded cat Millie. He is twelve years old and just beginning his inside journey. He has white fur that seems rough and a bit dirty and he has a great spot of fur on his left ear and eyebrow. He is sitting on a soft bed in a crate as he acclimates and goes through quarantine and getting. Freedom and thriving coming soon!
A small black and white cat sits in the shadows. Her name was Millie and she was loved for twelve years on the streets of Brooklyn and for two days inside with a warm bed and her bonded buddy Jake.
A white cat seen through the bars of a carrier. Streaks of light decorate the fur.
A white with black feral cat and a black with white feral cats snuggling in a box. They look a bit rough but sweet. They are twelve years old which is about five years older than most street cats survive for. Can you give them a soft place to land?
A freshly done black and grey shaded hammerhead shark tattoo with a little heart in the top of its skull. Tattoo is on the back of the arm of a pale white person above an older scrimshaw/folkart style tattoo of interlocking hearts/keys.
A white non-binary person in a burnt orange figure skating dress with an asymmetric neckline and stoning at the waist and throat. The skirt is two layers and in two shades of orange. The skater has chin-length dark hair with grey streaks and it’s pulled off their face. They are wearing white skates. Behind them are hockey glasses and bleachers
A sleeveless figure skating dress in terracotta and burnt orange. It has ruching running from the left shoulder to the right hip, and stones around the neckline and waist. There are also stones scattered throughout the torso.
An image showing that my Miriam Webster word for 2026 is perilous
An ad on the NYC subway featuring two infants - one Black and one white. The Black infant is wearing a white bow that suggests the baby is assigned female. Text between the two babies reads: pickyourbaby.con IQ is 50% genetic.”
A white non-binary person in a pink sports bra and navy blue leggings doing assisted pull-ups in a gym. Their weight is partially supported by blue resistance bands as they develop strength and form for the unassisted version.
A grey cat with a tiny white marking on her forehead and nose sniffing someone’s fingers. She has yellow eyes and is available for adoption in NYC.
A white woman with long light brown hair and a white non-binary person with short dark hair streaked with grey. They are both wearing wedding dresses and flower crowns and are seated at a table eating plates of appetizers at their wedding. Hand-dyed wooden flower in shapes of blue, peach, and brick red decorate the table.
The film poster for Metropolitan, showing a group of white wealthy-seeming teens in formal wear sitting around an Upper East Side living room gossiping.
A first place award in the 50-59 age category for the Ice Cream Social 5k that I ran in August.
Blue and pink sidewalk chalk in Brooklyn that says “The Proletariat loves Zohran. Billionaires love Cuomo.”
Two large grey tabby cats with white paws. They are curled up together on a blue and white cushion on a white Adirondack chair in a backyard. They are gay and in love.
A HellGate headline that says “Eric Adam’s embraces transphobia, the last recourse of desperate losers”
A crowd of people under a tree next to Prospect Park watching Mamdani speak and most of them didn’t even know this was happening.
A small grey and white kitten hiding under a box in a cat hammock.
Screenshot of CNN.com making it clear that trans topics had nothing to do with this shooting despite everyone jumping to conclusions due to their hate of the week.
The ears of an orange cat peek above the moulding over a door. He’s living up there.
A grey tabby cat named Moscow wearing a black hoodie and sulking. He’s sitting on an iPad on a couch.
A screenshot of a skeet from @owenow who is stealing tweets and content from other bskyers. Block him.
A screenshot of the top of the CNN home page. White type in a red box reads: START THE DAY HERE Trump declares federal control of DC police. Millions expected to lose food stamps. Taylor Swift announces new album.
A magazine rack featuring issues of “what If” that posits what the world would be like if Lennon and Monroe had lived to old age, something about alternate British monarchy history…. And then a bit (non-alternate) thing about Hitler. So a bunch of fake history and Hitler. Which really is exactly where we are right now.
Cover of Tracy Chapman’s self-titled album.
A wooden board propped up on a residential street. In big handwritten letters it asks “how can we protect our community from ICE?” Someone has tried to cross all the text out but it’s weak. The suggestions and comments are many. They include “don’t open doors”, “self-defense classes”, “call out fascism”, and “satan never wins.”
A freshly healed black and grey tattoo on lightly freckled white skin showing a snail or sea slug carrying a sailboat. In the lower right part of the frame is a small older tattoo of an abstract star that suggests the snail boat is space-faring and also may be in an old map of the heavens.
A black tattoo on a white arm of a snail/sea slug carrying a sailboat on its back through the stars. Artist is Phia Walla and they have an incredibly light hand. Very easy tattoo to sit for.
A sticker on a light pole reading: Donald and Andy
A sticker on a light pole in Brooklyn. The white on black text reads “Eric Adams cares more about this sticker than the 30 people who have died in NYC jails under his watch.”
A packet of green apple flavored “salt stick” chews for electrolyte support in extreme heat.
A small, green-eyed tabby cat named Daphne who was discovered to be intersex at a routine TNR spay appointment that turned into removing testicular tumors where ovaries had been expected. Daphne is doing well now, and is estimated to be eight years old, far too old for life back on the street. We need a socialization foster (no experience needed) to help this cat learn to enjoy humans so that they can retire inside. Daphne needs some additional routine medical care, but is expected to have a normal lifespan and we only need a commitment from you of a few months!
A small brown tabby cat with green eyes, white whiskers and a small ear tip. An outdoor rescue, Daphne was humanely trapped for TNR. We are currently working on Daphne’s medical issues and socialization.
A tabby cat with white whiskers green eye staring up into the camera. During spay surgery cat was discovered to be intersex. Intersex cat says fuck the binary
A small cow-cat with an ear tip looking at the camera skeptically. She is in the lap of someone in a red sweater with long hair who is petting her. No human face is visible in this photo. It’s all cat!
Tiny plastic lizard magnets arrayed on a metal baking sheet as the die glue dries. All six colors of the pride flag are visible although not arranged in order here. Orange and purple lizards are in the front, yellow, red, green, and blue are seen further back.
A movie poster in a bus shelter for Mickey 17 that has been altered to read “17 More Luigis”. Robert Pattison’s face has also been replaced by Luigi Mangione’s.
A bright orange window sign advertising a new veterinary service. It reads “Veterinary care so good you’ll ask if we take humans”
Frederick Douglass’s grave in Rochester NY. People have left an American flag, flowers, coins, stones, and a single blue marble.
A tiny plastic pink flamingo magnet set against the backdrop of Long Island city. If you find one bring it home or move it to somewhere new, whatever delights you.
A food truck emblazoned with a giant screeching bald eagle in front of an American flag, a collage of hamburgers and other food stuffs, and the words “Bite Me” across it all in bright green.
A lone tree without leaves at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon at sunset.
Cover to gay romance novel Starling, featuring a 20-something, white, red-headed man’s headshot positioned against a cityscape of Los Angeles tinted the same orange as his hair.
Cricket, an elderly white cat with a tabby helmet at saddle is napping during hospice care. Behind her is Smudge, an elderly black cat she usually fought with and who is allergic to her own hair, sitting vigil. All the way in the back is Moscow, a large grey tabby named before the war in Ukraine, also sitting vigil. All our hearts are broken.
A white woman with long brown hair kneeling on a wooden deck and cuddling a chonky outdoor feral cat with tabby markings and a dopey smile.