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Clarissa Grunwald

@clarissagrunwald.bsky.social

Full time librarian, sometime writer, theater kid of the pit orchestra variety. I also like TTRPGs. https://clarissagrunwald.wordpress.com

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I read Hamlet in high school during a weird time, projected really hard on Horatio of all people, and now I have a musical about it. So uh... That one.

06.03.2026 00:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Phoned a friend for help unsticking an environment in the book I'm working on, and now we have radiation-eating mushrooms. Very excited about the radiation-eating mushrooms.

05.03.2026 13:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@apnews.com be joking

02.03.2026 22:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This cannot get blocked quickly enough

27.02.2026 22:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Slowly but persistently #querying a coming-of-age horror story about an identity-stealing shapeshifter and her childhood best friend. It gets weird!

27.02.2026 22:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Truth, justice, freedom, reasonably priced love, hard boiled egg

25.02.2026 02:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Guess it must have snowed like crazy elsewhere in the county, but all I've seen is a sugar dusting of actual precipitation and a blizzard of inclimate weather alerts

23.02.2026 14:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people local newspaper reporters are rarified elites instead of ink-stained wretches driving their Honda Civic to a crime scene so you know don’t have to rely on Nextdoor and the police press release.

22.02.2026 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3815    πŸ” 879    πŸ’¬ 38    πŸ“Œ 29

The way some people in the #CriticalRole fandom talk about Aabria is so reminiscent of how people used to talk about Marisha during Campaign 1. Feels like the fandom has moved beyond the misogyny but not the racism.

22.02.2026 12:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Finally finished draft #9 of the script that I have been hammering at for two and a half, and I don't hate it!

17.02.2026 01:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

15.02.2026 22:10 β€” πŸ‘ 10965    πŸ” 2782    πŸ’¬ 110    πŸ“Œ 33

Thank you! Next?

13.02.2026 16:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This Is How a Child Dies of Measles When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak

You’ve taken your daughter to a birthday party. In the air, invisible, is the measles virus. Even if she survives, the virus may never be done with her. Elizabeth Bruenig on what measles can do to a body, to a brain, and to a family:

13.02.2026 07:45 β€” πŸ‘ 204    πŸ” 111    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 12
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A Beginner’s Guide to Summoning Demons, Haven Spec Magazine "A Beginner’s Guide to Summoning Demons" by Cynthia Zhang

πŸ‘€January 2026 FictionπŸ‘€

ICYMI, "A Beginner’s Guide to Summoning Demons" is a short story by @czwrites.bsky.social about growing up a target but finding ways to fight back. Also, summoning demons. Read it as a ritual of transformation.

havenspec.com/fiction/a-be...

06.02.2026 17:20 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Post a banger that's not in English

I used to listen to this song on my morning commute every day as ritual.

youtu.be/HRKTOhyMVWs?...

10.02.2026 13:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Kids do not belong in jail.
Kids do not belong in jail.
Kids do not belong in jail.
Kids do not belong in jail.
Kids do not belong in jail.
Kids do not belong in jail.

09.02.2026 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Crazy to me when spec magazines are like, "please no vampires or robots". We've got tech bros plotting world domination and nobody's got something new to say about vampires or robots?

08.02.2026 12:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is on top of the $87M facility in Berks County.

$206 million in taxpayer money just for two building that will surely require millions in retrofitting, followed I guess by federal contracts to run them.

05.02.2026 20:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A deaf teen was violently detained by ICE for not β€œfollowing orders”.

He couldn’t hear their orders.

They denied him an interpreter.

Denied him accommodations.

This is who they are.

They target the disabled because eugenics and fascism go hand in hand.

05.02.2026 04:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1143    πŸ” 554    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 15

I am hacking away at a script and it is driving me absolutely nuts. Keep on adding and deleting scenes. But there's a cat in it, so, we persist

05.02.2026 13:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Batman parody sock puppet musical getting closer and closer to reality. We have a venue and a tentative time slot.

04.02.2026 04:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

remember back when we all doodled the current thing for warmups? we could bring that back, maybe, that was fun

03.02.2026 07:52 β€” πŸ‘ 11554    πŸ” 2794    πŸ’¬ 89    πŸ“Œ 73

Oooh

02.02.2026 14:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

One of my friends does some community theater, and every time I see him perform I'm not prepared. It is a very special thing to watch someone you know do something cool, really really well.

31.01.2026 13:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Good GOD.

30.01.2026 00:39 β€” πŸ‘ 728    πŸ” 380    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 2

Changed profile just slightly to reflect that I am not actually a recovering theater kid, and am in fact actively getting worse.

29.01.2026 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It feels kind of odd both living through the new wave of authoritarianism and the golden age of data tracking and visualization

29.01.2026 11:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A plastic dinosaur stands by a miniature snowman

A plastic dinosaur stands by a miniature snowman

Snow day at the college, but I'm at the library and so is Paulina

26.01.2026 14:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Retrospectively maybe I should have said more and more furiously. ICE should be dismantled, and those that have committed crimes in its name should be tried in a court of law. But if my home county could stop openly collaborating with them, I would take that as a step 1.

25.01.2026 16:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Have a larger story on this coming, but I’ve been embedded with this group, and this story from yesterday is part of what they’ve been doing in the city: religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...

23.01.2026 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 3850    πŸ” 1280    πŸ’¬ 47    πŸ“Œ 161