Shae Connor

@shaeconnor.bsky.social

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Science editor slash romance writer. Likes: baseball, musicals, Disney, democracy. Dislikes: fascists, working in the office five days a week. Now actually in Atlanta, not Atlanta-adjacent. 🏳️‍🌈

A faded but legible red X in the style of the X-Files logo.
The cover art for Rough and Tumble, featuring a young man with red hair and pale, freckled skin kissing the forehead of a young man with dark hair and tawny skin.
A black backpack with red and white flowers and white dots scattered across it and the Kate Spade New York logo across the top.
A can of "Naughty or Nice" snack mix from Williams-Sonoma
A red coffee mug with a white logo showing mountains and trees that reads "NAUGHTY LIST SURVIVOR"
A plate of scrambled eggs, raisin toast, and cheese grits, with a cup of coffee in a Waffle House mug.
A pile of debris in an otherwise empty lot where a BP gas station used to be.
Heavy equipment pulling down the canopy of a gas station across the street from me
A tall white man with short brown hair, holding a coffee cup; a shorter white woman with white hair wearing a black shirt with LOVE IS LOVE on it in rainbow colors, plus a Bi Pride heart sticker; and a slightly taller woman with curly brown hair, who's holding a Pride fan up behind us.
Cover of Megan Frampton's The Devil's Charm, showing a dark-haired white woman in a blue ballgown cuddled up to a dark-haired white man whose shirt has fallen off his shoulders, oh dear!
Green baseball outfield with the All-Star Game logo: an asymmetrical star with a script ASG in the middle.
A blue background with a drawing of a crown with a red X through it and the words NO KINGS
Me: middle-aged, pale skin, glasses, and shoulder-length wavy gray hair.
A Precision Tune Auto Care sign advertising "Free egg with $200 purchase"
Me wearing a bright pink t-shirt that reads "It's fine, I'm fine, everything's FINE"
A white woman (me) with pale skin, gray hair, and glasses, wearing a beige sweatshirt with green lettering. The shirt reads WE DON'T TALK ABOUT BRUNO. There's a black line drawing on the side of the character Bruno from the Disney movie Encanto.
Sign for Aloha Isle Refreshments in Adventureland at the Magic Kingdom
A parking area with several cars and trees beyond, all covered in an inch or so of snow
Image shows a severity scale titled French Toast Alert System, with five color-coded categories, bottom to top: Low (green): Sufficient supplies of eggs, bread, and milk Guarded (blue): Cold front moving in; plan your attack Elevated (yellow): Snow in forecast; hit the stores now High (orange): Supplies rapidly depleting, act fast! Severe (red): Shelves are bare; starvation imminent!
An large arched mirror framed with an intricate gold floral design and gray metal edging, and with shiny green and gold tiles on the wall in the background, a polka dot floor, and a vent in the ceiling. In the mirror is me, wearing glasses, jeans, duck boots, a beige short trench coat, and a green scarf, holding my phone in one hand to take the picture and a floral backpack in the other.
Me, a mid-50s woman with gray hair, wearing glasses and a sequined set of Minnie Mouse ears. Behind me are the stairs to the other floors of my apartment complex
A white woman with gray hair wearing sunglasses and a black shirt that has an "I Voted" sticker on it
A white ghost figurine with black eyes, a wavy pointy head, a wide open mouth, and his hands up in the air.
An image of two Canada geese standing on a sidewalk.
Radar image showing heavy rain across most of north Georgia, a red swath with a dotted line at the center showing the projected path of Hurricane Helene, and a blue dot right along the dotted line indicating where I live.
A blonde, pale-skinned white woman dressed in a green laced-up top with the laces undone leans into the bare chest of the tanned, dark-haired white man behind her. His hands grip her shoulders. In the distance is a white galloping unicorn. The tagline reads, "In the mists of myth, they found passion and triumph."
A large pumpkin muffin with icing in a swirled design (courtesy of Dunkin Donuts)
Weather for the Atlanta area, showing a high of 83F today, 73F and rainy tomorrow, and similar cooler-than-usual temperatures for the next few days.
Me wearing a blue paper hospital gown.
A single fried chicken drumstick, sitting on a paper towel
Several pieces of fried chicken on a tray
Me wearing Minne Mouse ears and standing in front of the (purple-lighted) Cinderella's Castle at the Magic Kingdom
Empire State Building, taken from Top of the Rock, NYC
The shadow of a colander showing the crescent of the eclipse of the sun at about 50%
The shadow of a colander showing about 50% eclipse of the sun
My sister and me mugging for the camera
Various cheeses, meats, and olives arranged on a tree-shaped serving platter.