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Cassie/Nova

@cassiehart

Award winning Māori/Pakeha queer writer of speculative fiction, editor, and mentor from Aotearoa New Zealand. she/they/ia Kāi Tahu/Kāti Māmoe

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They have a fab Huia collection there!

17.12.2025 02:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Omg, my book! That's amazing

17.12.2025 02:53 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I got myself this one a month or so ago because it's so perfect

17.12.2025 02:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

#secretsantaAoNZ A huge thank you to @foxylustygrover.bsky.social and all the elves for pulling us all together again for our Secret Santa. From start when we receive the name of our Santee to finish when we get to see everyone’s gifts it is simply wonderful. Thank you thank you thank you.

16.12.2025 21:35 👍 60 🔁 8 💬 5 📌 4
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Omg Santa! You heard that I was entering my tea era and DELIVERED. I love this so much. Thank you!
#SecretSantaAoNZ

17.12.2025 02:22 👍 30 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0

Aw, thank you!

12.12.2025 18:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It really is! I need to post mine asap

30.11.2025 02:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I know. So fast!

28.11.2025 08:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think so, but i am biased 😉
Thank you

28.11.2025 06:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So much! I am surprised I'm still going lol

28.11.2025 06:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Its sweet, but the scent has faded so maybe that was Santa's scent? It feels padded, no defining noises when I jiggled it

28.11.2025 06:12 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Omg Santa! Thank you. I will not open until the 17th, as you stated. It smells good! I am so curious.
Thank you!!
#secretsantanz

28.11.2025 05:47 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0
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Happy to oblige!

27.11.2025 21:32 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Thank you! Its been a long journey to this point, but the fact I never thought I would be this well again and I am, is amazing

27.11.2025 21:30 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Literally my dream job (aside from the whole author thing lol)

26.11.2025 19:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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New Study: Gender-Affirming Care Dramatically Lowers Suicide Risk for Trans Kids Twenty-seven states in the US ban gender-affirming treatments for trans youth, including hormone therapy.

A new study reveals that gender-affirming care for transgender kids and young adults likely lowers rates of suicidality among those populations. The study found that suicide rates among all the youth who were studied dropped by over 67%.

26.11.2025 18:00 👍 95 🔁 40 💬 4 📌 11

Compare and contrast with the absolute nothing burger response we got from NZ Labour.

26.11.2025 19:13 👍 41 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0

you're so welcome! I've just spent the last ten minutes scrolling through your art when I should be writing LOL thank you for the delightful distraction.

26.11.2025 19:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm a casual librarian! Best. Job. Ever.

26.11.2025 19:10 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

all of those expressions are magical. you're very talented!

26.11.2025 19:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I'm currently working 32hrs a week (as a casual LOL), and a year ago I'd have thought it impossible. I've regained so much stamina, grown so much, take better care of myself now. It's astounding.
Which is not to say I'm not looking forward to cutting back after this run. I am tired. #chronicillness

26.11.2025 19:00 👍 22 🔁 0 💬 6 📌 0

love!!!!!!!!!!!

26.11.2025 18:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I love cats, but am in my dog era. Harlow is my bestie, soother of my soul, mostly silent companion (though her eyes and paws talk volumes).
Mystical? I love a lot of them. Selkies and kelpies, spirits and gods, vast unknowable beings, monsters in all forms.

26.11.2025 18:49 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I'm a real horror girlie (books, movies, shows) - it's my comfort place! This year has been a big K-Pop Demon Hunters one for me (movie and soundtrack), and I am still loving Vukovi, who no one else I know even knows of which is totally fine by me! lol

26.11.2025 18:47 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I enjoy gaming, but haven't had much time for it lately. Hoping to finish up some projects so I can dive into the latest expansion of Guild Wars 2 - and then there is the 20yr remaster of the first game to mess around in too!

26.11.2025 18:45 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Magic Begins! - Jaide Dee It’s finally time! 2025 has been, well, not the year that most of us were hoping for. But I have […]

Pre-orders for signed paperback copies of HedgeWitch and Concert & Consequence in paperback go live today too. These will be limited to NZ delivery to begin with. (Exception for overseas friends and whanau who can contact me directly)

GET EXCITED!

jaidedee.com/the-magic-be...

25.11.2025 02:06 👍 42 🔁 18 💬 5 📌 7

Who wants it to be 4am already so her dog wakes her up and she can drink chai latte and read her book in silence?
No? Just me?
I guess it's not for everyone!
🤣

24.11.2025 08:09 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Isn't he cute? So happy with my contribution to the work Christmas display.

23.11.2025 22:26 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I'm a sensitive b*tch, so I don't wear a lot. I can only do titanium in my ears, and a lot of necklaces/fingers etc irritate me. I mostly stick to my Aotea necklace.
It makes me SAD because there is so much cool stuff around!

18.11.2025 18:52 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Morning pages, and then editing.
#writerlife

17.11.2025 18:14 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0