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@jenreadsromance

Romance critic & freelance editor. Half of Fated Mates. Angel Reese Fan. She/her. www.jenreadsromance.com

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Grammarly was always ick, but this is obscene

06.03.2026 18:08 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Read. When you feel powerless, when you feel overwhelmed, when you find yourself doom scrolling, when you are bored. Just read. It's one of the most empowering acts. Read.

07.03.2026 03:00 πŸ‘ 52 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

I just saw!!! it’s such a great feeling. More books in the hands of kids!! ❀️❀️❀️❀️❀️

07.03.2026 06:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

this is like

the thesis statement of our times

07.03.2026 03:12 πŸ‘ 3064 πŸ” 722 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

It's valid to tell people "I have plans" if your plans are to sit on your couch. That's a type of plans

07.03.2026 02:12 πŸ‘ 2401 πŸ” 338 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 24

that's my president

06.03.2026 18:26 πŸ‘ 691 πŸ” 83 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 0

I think they might have better luck spending two thousand dollars holding a press conference where they detail who made the key decisions to collaborate with the Trump administration, how and when they were fired, and explaining what would stop that from happening again.

06.03.2026 13:16 πŸ‘ 7518 πŸ” 1604 πŸ’¬ 205 πŸ“Œ 51

I'm sorry, but how dare Arike get even cooler?

06.03.2026 17:51 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

FREE ARIKE

06.03.2026 17:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Get more from Piper J. Drake on Patreon creating fiction, non-fiction, podcasts, vlogs, etc.

My friend Piper really needs help with her medical costs. She has advanced cancer and is trying to get some quality of life as her time runs out (yep we're there)

Please consider supporting:
Link to her Patreon: www.patreon.com/piperjdrake
Buy her books if you can, or RT this?

06.03.2026 17:15 πŸ‘ 56 πŸ” 93 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

I saw this yesterday and I have been thinking about this analogy like nonstop ever since, it's so perfect. the new spirtualists and their tech seance. Especially interesting bc there was a huge rise in spiritualism after the 1919 flu pandemic.

06.03.2026 17:40 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This shit is the new spiritualist movement to these weirdos, I'm convinced.

Talking to the chatbot is the new talking to a medium/attending a sΓ©ance.

05.03.2026 04:02 πŸ‘ 69 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

This has nothing to do with the specific content here, but Polymarket adopting the language of news, here with BREAKING, and with Texas election results earlier this week, is BAD. Polymarket is not and will never be a news org or break news. It's a betting app. It's Draft Kings for sociopaths.

06.03.2026 17:09 πŸ‘ 2019 πŸ” 510 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 14

yeah, the X-Files one is interesting to me because I trust Ryan Coogler! But Firefly?? i just don't get it.

06.03.2026 17:21 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

why can't they just let things die? "we own the IP so let's dig it out of its grave" is just so boring and bankrupt.

06.03.2026 12:35 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

there are not enough strong words for the email I would have written.

05.03.2026 20:00 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

[Exit Murderer.]

05.03.2026 18:25 πŸ‘ 5449 πŸ” 1272 πŸ’¬ 45 πŸ“Œ 46

This is my actual objection. Our entire jobs have been transformed overnight into entirely different jobs, of far less social worth, and with zero relationship to the reason most of us got into them in the first place. All we want to do is contribute and AI billionaires are like HAHA NOPE.

05.03.2026 19:40 πŸ‘ 53 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

it's just so disheartening, and I teach middle school!

I know what my job is, and if the only way to get it done is to eliminate technology altogether, then that's what I'll do. I went back to doing everything on paper this year, and it's been better for me and them.

05.03.2026 19:44 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

even worse, it philosophically and materially changes my relationship to my students. now i am a cop rather than a teacher. I have no interest in that role. i have no interest in policing children.

05.03.2026 19:36 πŸ‘ 76 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

The bitterest pill about AI cheating for me is that AI'ed assignments take much longer to grade than honest assignments because they turn grading into an investigation.

So when the student spends less time, I spend more. Fun!

05.03.2026 19:10 πŸ‘ 73 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 6

she is absolutely not.

05.03.2026 19:23 πŸ‘ 1223 πŸ” 93 πŸ’¬ 45 πŸ“Œ 0

very aspect of life in this country is designed so that people do not form bonds or relationships with other people, it's wild to watch in action. Never seen divide and conquer applied this rigorously to a domestic population that is not under foreign occupation

05.03.2026 18:04 πŸ‘ 1876 πŸ” 467 πŸ’¬ 61 πŸ“Œ 20
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pre-annoyed is SO REAL. i saw this meme last week that was a version of this: I hope no one at work pisses me off, unfortunately, I work at the pissing-me-off-factory.

05.03.2026 17:22 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Whenever @fatedmates.net ends an episode saying β€œGod I love Romance” I am always 100% of the time thinking heck yes.

28.02.2026 03:33 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sincerely, Your Inconvenient Wife by Julia Wolf β€” Fated Mates: Romance Books for Novel People Things are looking very wild out here in the real world so you deserve a deep dive on a book by an author with a big backlist and we are here to give you just that! Today's episode is on Sincerely, Y...

Things are looking very wild out here in the real world so you deserve a deep dive on a book by an author with a big backlist! Today's episode is on Sincerely, Your Inconvenient Wife, a modern day marriage of convenience story from Julia Wolf's The Harder They Fall series.

04.03.2026 13:57 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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Fighting Toxic Masculinity, One Spicy Romance Novel at a Time When toxic masculinity is at an all time high, we need examples of what healthy masculinity looks like and the best place to find it is in the pages of sexy romance novels

I wrote about why open door romance is actually really important right now and why it's beyond time for people to stop dismissing all open door romance as smut with no value.
Inspired by an observation on a @fatedmates.net podcast!

whatmovesyou.substack.com/p/fighting-t...

02.03.2026 18:18 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

i absolutely believe someone can hack the light.

05.03.2026 16:33 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

i have the dumbest possible question now, but how can you tell that someone is wearing meta glasses?

05.03.2026 16:21 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

I think about this ALL THE TIME.

05.03.2026 16:07 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0