Devans Eli ♒️

Screenshot of a recent Instagram post from the account of child model Lincoln Fox showing a photo of a five-year-old in a brown shirt and blue pants with the caption, "I booked a cool gig! Can't wait to share it with you guys."

A Reddit user identifies the boy who took a Grammy from Bad Bunny in the halftime show as five-year-old model Lincoln Fox and says that he was meant to represent Bad Bunny as a child www.instagram.com/the_lincfox/... www.reddit.com/user/BabySea...

the bushes were people 😂

I’m here, girl.

About - Author Devans Eli 🍪 My first children's book is baking... Click to read Author Devans Eli, a Substack publication. Launched 2 years ago.

Polished my crazy into an “About me” page 😜

www.devanseli.com/about

Where is Nora? Nora is baking.

A quick update from the bakery: The illustrations are nearly done, the cover is on the way, and Nora is getting ready to enter the world. 🍪

Thank you for waiting with me.
The bell will ring soon.

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Bullet journaling complete ✅

Maybe I shouldn’t take it personal but actually I do. I’ve been in this class for four weeks and I haven’t heard anything from her. I guess that’s what you call asynchronous learning.

I find it really annoying that my professor and my 400 level class is actually not reading any of our discussion posts. Nor is she responding.

Yup

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Protect Our Communities from Federal Overreach Send a message to your mayor and urge them to issue an executive order that defends your city’s values, safeguards constitutional rights, and keeps families safe.

Oh, and defund ICE

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Bullet journaling done ✅

Anyway, I’m gonna get back to my scholarly readings for this week. Unit 4 Anxiety disorders. As I literally have a freaking anxiety attack including somatic symptoms. Thanks, Job. Thanks, “kind” folks. 🙏🏾

So you think I’m gonna ask next time LOL 😂 after you were nasty to me?

What is the harm in telling someone privately like, “hey I can help you with that.” instead of making a big deal out of it in an attempt to undermine someone’s hard work.

Maybe it’s not a big deal but sometimes I feel like I don’t belong in the queer community because of how nasty we are to each other. Just unwarranted nastiness. Maybe it’s just me.

I didn’t realize it was a requirement to hire a queer artist to do a flyer. And not use AI. Considering that I asked people in the community for help before. And no one said responded. But when I used AI to get something done, it was a problem?

My fellow queers ripped me a new one. Love being attacked by members of my own community. Love the lack of grace. It’s very affectionate.

Can I use this space for bullet journaling?

I thought my family would disown me, and then my church would accept me. But it was the opposite.

Literally holding a physical manuscript 📝 that I printed out at FedEx. Thankful. Excited. Rejuvenated to create and inspire. #Writer #BlackAuthorSky

I’m gonna try to post more here. Need an outlet. 😫

This week has been rough. People have literally yelled at me. Disrespected me. Undermined my ability to do my job. And guess how they were reprimanded? They weren’t.

So happy for hire an illustrator who got my vision! Nora is coming!

Bottom Left to Right: Nora and Preston
Top Left to Right: Gayle and Dune.

#NorasCrumbTrails

Meet Dune in Full Color A time of waiting and wandering

January invites us to wait and wander without urgency...

Meet Dune, the yellow dog from my upcoming book, Nora Escapes the Bakery.

Here the character drop along with a reflection on patience, curiosity, and... soft starts.

www.devanseli.com/p/meet-dune-...

#NorasCrumbTrail

If you know me, you know I HAVE to include a dog in my children's book... (see next post)

Oh Lord. Hammercy. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. Today drained me…

I’m patiently waiting for the day where we’re totally Wicked Witch free.

Oil ‼️

Not the ‘defender of freedom’ eyeing another country’s oil and calling it a moral crusade. 😂