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asha

@ashiepants.bsky.social

storyteller, essayist, teacher, pop culture nerd MFA @ UIowa NWP

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New sign of aging: the way my jaw dropped at a tiktok ad for sheets

19.02.2026 04:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Bad Bunny might influence enough whites to learn how to roll their Rs, the strength of which could topple capitalism

15.02.2026 22:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Alba took me out lol

09.02.2026 01:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Lady Jaja

09.02.2026 01:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Real nerds have a favorite Jeopardy champion

08.02.2026 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You think you’re pretty cool and hip for your age and then you find yourself smiling warmly at the Jeopardy players β€œfun facts.”

07.02.2026 22:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When you’re browsing through their LinkedIn, it’s too late.

20.01.2026 23:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Every single episode of Sisters (1991): C’mon, we’re sisters!

06.01.2026 08:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

O’Hare so big it’s like landing in Wisconsin and then taking a bus to the airport gate.

03.01.2026 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When Patti LaBelle said β€œI don’t know the words” to This Christmas she was right, no one knows the words.

24.12.2025 23:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Girl, no

17.12.2025 02:38 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Stupid Times Call for Stupid Writing Maybe your writing isn’t too stupid. Maybe your writing isn’t stupid enough.

Yes. It's getting really hard to suspend my disbelief for competence porn in these times... rs-benedict.com/2025/11/29/s...

01.12.2025 03:49 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Heat on, ceiling fan circulating. It’s winter once again.

01.12.2025 07:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is he cute or does he have a beard? πŸ§”πŸ»

21.11.2025 08:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It is high time we Jean Val Jean, and there’s way too many Javerts out there. Russell Crowe Javerts at that.

21.11.2025 03:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Pssst, the great battle was against fascism. It’s always against fascism. All your favorite heroes are fighting fascists. All of them.

30.10.2025 22:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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they’re rage-baiting literary and high fantasy nerds, now, and/or don’t understand Tolkien at all.

Don’t just get angry! organize, support your community, vote in local elections!

30.10.2025 22:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’d love a series about what Michael does between Halloweens. Taking driving lessons, learning just enough about the current culture to stalk teens, etc

30.10.2025 03:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

do you ever remember a long forgotten obsession and briefly wonder how you got here from there?

16.10.2025 07:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My other β€œactually” opinion/fact is that Stephen King’s The Shining and The Shining (1980) are not the same thing.

03.10.2025 02:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, there is a Stephen King canon. Of course there is.

03.10.2025 02:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My book snobby β€œactually he’s Frankenstein’s monster” take is the girls are not twins they’re just dressed the same. (Also bc Kubrick made them twins. They are not canonically twins)

03.10.2025 02:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Most movies about writers give me writers guilt that I should be writing but The Shining really does it to me

03.10.2025 02:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

She just gave $937!

20.09.2025 07:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So no one else thought this was Hank Hill?

20.09.2025 06:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What are we calling posts here? How do we verb it? Bluesky-ing? Sky writing?

20.09.2025 06:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œI noticed you looked a little toe up” my cat when she starts grooming me, probably.

20.09.2025 06:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I was accused of virtue signaling and figure I should just embrace it.

I pride myself in knowing how to pronounce Buttigieg.

19.09.2025 23:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe I should try hard drugs?

14.09.2025 03:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The other day I started watching a Mel Gibson movie but I stopped myself because I hate that guy. Proud

04.09.2025 04:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0