Elliot Rae

Girl Guides ready to sell as over 17K cases of cookies arrive in Calgary Some fundraisers are more fun than others. Saturday morning, a lot of Calgary girl guides got ready to launch their biggest fundraiser of the year when more than 17,000 cases of cookies arrived in Cal...

I love that this is newsworthy. I needed some good news today. And that's a lotta cookies.

Are you team:
🍫🍦 classic chocolate/vanilla?
or
🌿 mint chocolate?

@cmcalgary.bsky.social Burning question for us westender’s answered … its Cynthia’s No Frills.

How was it?! I've actually never worked a day shift. I like sorting the money 😅🤣

Oh, yeah, it's a whole thing! I can't take photos in here but there is a little marquee behind the cashiers tonight that says (scrolling) something like "supporting Outlink Centre for Gender & Sexual Diversity." Charities are eligible to participate in casinos every few years and get a cut of the $

“I don’t know anyone with Long Covid!”

I promise you that you do.

Long Covid is an invisible illness. You won’t know someone is impacted unless they choose to tell you.

Many folks hide their disabilities because the world is NOT kind to disabled people. Be an ally. Be someone we can confide in

Alberta's charitable casino model is fascinating. Like, do people who show up to gamble know what's happening with the money? Or do they have a "SURPRISE! You've been supporting GAY PEOPLE!" moment when they walk up to the cashier?

(and yes, I'm volunteering at a casino tonight.)

Cover art for audiobook version of 'They Both Die At The End' by Adam Silvera. The silhouettes of two people walk across a moonlit bridge, city skyline in the background in shades of blue. The people's shadow is a grim reaper figure.

🎧📘 They Both Die At The End by Adam Silvera
📆 Finished reading Feb 9, 2025

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sad??? meh. idk, I wanted to like this one but I didn't.

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Cover art for audiobook version of 'I Hope This Finds You Well' by Natalie Sue. Background is bright pink and orange with the title in 3D block letters over the scene of an office with a water cooler, overturned plant, desk in cubicle, email notification, and person lying on the ground behind the cubicle.

🎧📗 I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie Sue
📆 Finished reading Feb 5, 2025

😬💼☕

witty, tense, realistic

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Book cover of 'A Prayer for the Crown-Shy' by Becky Chambers. A warm sunrise or sunset over a tree-lined, hilly landscape. A bike wagon drives a winding path that runs through the hills.

📙 A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
📆 Finished reading Feb 3, 2025

🌊🌳😌

heartfelt, hopeful, relaxed

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Audiobook cover for 'I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy, read by the author. The background is a pastel yellow. A photo of the author in a light pink dress peeks out of a darker pink rectangle in the lower middle of the page. She looks off into the distance holding a pink urn.

🎧📒 I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
📆 Finished reading Feb 2, 2025

🎬🤱🏻🍝

emotional, candid, tense

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Book cover of 'Several People Are Typing' by Calvin Kasulke. A computer motherboard in the background, with a sunset on top of it, and a stick person face down at its desk.

📘 Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke
📆 Finished reading Jan 31, 2025

🧑🏻‍💻☠️👀

unsettling, absurd, timely

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hey if someone has attempted to make your gender illegal in the past month, merely surviving rn is a big enough contribution to the Revolution imho

I hope so too! Now I get to dive into the sequel (and into her other books) but damn I just really want more with these characters. Mosscap is so earnest.

Book cover of 'The Wild Robot Escapes' by Peter Brown. A variety of pipes in different sizes are pictured. The titular robot stands on top of a thick pipe near the top-middle of the cover.

📕: The Wild Robot Escapes by Peter Brown
📆: Finished reading Jan 30, 2025

🚜👵🏻🪿

cute, quick, predictable

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the president called trans americans dishonorable, messy, liars and i’m supposed to sleep and go to work tomorrow

Oh my gosh. I laughed. I cried. I smiled. Great length, too, for the amount of introspection (untangling sense of self from work) that really hit home.

Not to mention writing an agender/non-binary character so effortlessly, with more depth and personality than just their pronouns. Chef's kiss 🙏🏻🍳

Book cover of 'A Psalm for the Wild-Built' by Becky Chambers. Title and author name are written in blocky, all-caps text. A person on a bike wagon holding a cup of tea rests at the bottom of a winding path, surrounded by foliage. A silver robot stands near the top of the path, its hand outstretched toward two glowing butterflies.

📗: A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
📆: Finished reading Jan 27, 2025

🌱🤖🍵

comforting, reflective, funny

(Sidenote: Many people have recommended Becky Chambers' books to me. Now I understand WHY. Dedication: "For anybody who could use a break." YA OK. HEARD. 😅)

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Book cover for 'Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir' by Kai Cheng Thom. Various cartoon images in pastel colours on a light pink background. Blue hands with long red manicured nails frame the title. One hand holds a cigarette. There is also a pocket knife, a slice of red velvet cake, two swarms of bees, and a mermaid tail.

📒 Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom
📆 Finished reading Jan 23, 2025

💅🏻🪄🏳️‍⚧️

whimsical, surreal, heartfelt

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I shed more than one happy tear. Anyone who's trying to find their "place" in the world can relate, no matter how old they are. Looking forward to reading the rest!

I feel a bit of comfort when I try to remind myself that what I make doesn't have to be "good." Like, it just has to "be."

Planning to come by! Working on my submission for the upcoming issue of From the QILT2BAG+ zine. Objects in motion stay in motion (or something like that) and so do Elliots, I've found, so that's what I'm gonna try to do. 💗

Well, ain't that the truth... Sigh. Back to it, then.

Book cover for 'The Wild Robot' by Peter Brown. There is a cartoon robot standing tall atop a pile of large rocks, surrounded by water and pine trees. The sun shines red in the background. The robot's eyes glow white.

📘 The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
📆 Finished reading Jan 23, 2025

🥲🤖🪿

charming, joyful, funny

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Book cover for 'She of the Mountains' by Vivek Shraya, illustrated by Raymond Biesinger. Geometric figures inspired by Hindu deities in shades of vivid green and black. The title text and author's name are magenta.

📙 She of the Mountains by Vivek Shraya, illustrated by Raymond Biesinger
📆 Finished reading Jan 11, 2025

🌱💗✨

lyrical, heartwarming, subversive

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Book cover for 'Homes: A Refugee Story' by Abu Bakr Al Rabeeah with Winnie Yeung. There is a cityscape, presumably Homs, Syria based on the setting of the book, but not entirely sure, as the background.

📗 Homes: A Refugee Story by Abu Bakr Al Rabeeah with Winnie Yeung
📆 Finished reading Jan 10, 2025

🌄🌛❤️‍🩹

earnest, authentic, captivating

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Book cover for 'Next Time There's a Pandemic' by Vivek Shraya. Depicted are a grid of CRT television screens in technicolour hues. The uppermost screen has two photos of Vivek's eyes, made up with winged eyeliner. She is wearing a bindi.

📕 Next Time There's a Pandemic by Vivek Shraya
📆 Finished reading Jan 4, 2025

💐🥹🧠

reverent, introspective, hopeful

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For anyone curious (but mostly just for me), here are the books I'm reading this year, as I finish reading them, with a little backlog to start.

I feel kinda meh about ⭐ ratings and reviews so I'm gonna go with emojis and adjectives.

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Saying “our event is raising money for skipping stone” is not a “I don’t have to pay performers” free pass. Especially when those performers are trans!

🧦 🎶

Four panels on the outside of a black concrete tiled building wall. Bold white text on black strips, stylized like a dictionary definition, reads as follows: "CREATE. [kree-yet] V.verb :to make or produce"

How do you find the energy to create when it all feels so futile?