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My friends are too nice #comics #comicstrips #friendship #talkingintrees #rabbit #squirrels GET THESE BY EMAIL: https://rooniecomics.com/comics/mean-a-lot/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=post&utm_content=rooniecomics

SQUIRREL (thinking): My friends mean a lot to me. | The rabbit smiles at the squirrel. The squirrel grimaces. | SQUIRREL (thinking): I just wish they weren't so smug about it.

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Artist: alleyralkyrie

#mentalhealth #chronicillness #chronicallyill #autoimmune #depression #bpd #autism #friendship

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📚 Betting on You by: Lynn Painter

When seventeen-year-old Bailey starts a new job at a hotel waterpark, she is less than thrilled to see an old acquaintance is one of her coworkers. Bailey met Charlie a year ago on the long flight to Omaha, where she moved after her parents’ divorce. Charlie’s cynicism didn’t mix well with Bailey’s carefully ...

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When seventeen-year-old Bailey starts a new job at a hotel waterpark, she is less than thrilled to see an old acquaintance is one of her coworkers. Bailey met Charlie a year ago on the long flight to Omaha, where she moved after her parents’ divorce. Charlie’s cynicism didn’t mix well with Bailey’s carefully well-behaved temperament, and his endless commentary was the irritating cherry on top of an already emotionally fraught trip.

Now, Bailey and Charlie are still polar opposites, but instead of everything about him rubbing Bailey the wrong way, she starts to look forward to hanging out and gossiping about the waterpark guests and their coworkers—particularly two who keep flirting with each other. Bailey and Charlie make a bet on whether or not the cozy pair will actually get together. Charlie insists that members of the opposite sex can’t just be friends, and Bailey is determined to prove him wrong.

Bailey and Charlie keep close track of the romantic progress of others while Charlie works to deflect the growing feelings he’s developed for Bailey. Terrified to lose her if his crush becomes known, what doesn’t help his agenda is Bailey and Charlie “fake dating” in order to disrupt the annoying pleasantries between Bailey’s mom and her mom’s new boyfriend. Soon, what Charlie was hoping to avoid becomes a reality as Bailey starts to see him as not only a friend she can rely on in the midst of family drama—but someone who makes her hands shake and

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Find compliments where you can. #webcomics #animalmeme #conversation #friendship #talkingintrees #bunnies #squirrel GET THESE BY EMAIL: https://rooniecomics.com/comics/its-hard-to-talk-to-you/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=post&utm_content=rooniecomics

FLYNN: I find it hard to talk to you. | FLYNN: But... No one else is around, so what choice do i have? | A pause. | ROONIE: That's the nicest thing he's ever said to me!

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Andrew O’Hagan: On Friendship
16 October, Glasgow. Tickets £5–£15

From the bestselling author of MAYFLIES and CALEDONIAN ROAD, a celebration of what makes us great: our friends.

In these personal reflections, Andrew O’Hagan explores friendship through music and poetry, memory and history, illuminating the many ways and reasons that people come together, and how our lives are all the better because we do.

https://www.waterstones.com/events/andrew-ohagan-in-conversation-with-kirstin-innes/glasgow-sauchiehall-street

#Scottish #literature #friendship #AndrewOHagan

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“I first met Edna O’Brien on a mild spring evening in 2009. There had been a party to celebrate the 70th birthday of Seamus Heaney and I was running late, so I put up my hand for a taxi and a rumbling black cab drew to a halt. The door swung open and Edna stepped on to the pavement like Ophelia out of the weedy brook. She was a vision in black velvet and volumised hair.”

—an extract from ON FRIENDSHIP by Andrew O’Hagan

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📚 Better Than the Movies by: Lynn Painter

Perpetual daydreamer Liz Buxbaum gave her heart to Michael a long time ago. But her cool, aloof forever crush never really saw her before he moved away. Now that he’s back in town, Liz will do whatever it takes to get on his radar—and maybe snag him as a prom date—even befriend ...

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Perpetual daydreamer Liz Buxbaum gave her heart to Michael a long time ago. But her cool, aloof forever crush never really saw her before he moved away. Now that he’s back in town, Liz will do whatever it takes to get on his radar—and maybe snag him as a prom date—even befriend Wes Bennet.

The annoyingly attractive next-door neighbor might seem like a prime candidate for romantic comedy fantasies, but Wes has only been a pain in Liz’s butt since they were kids. Pranks involving frogs and decapitated lawn gnomes do not a potential boyfriend make. Yet, somehow, Wes and Michael are hitting it off, which means Wes is Liz’s in.

But as Liz and Wes scheme to get Liz noticed by Michael so she can have her magical prom moment, she’s shocked to discover that she likes being around Wes. And as they continue to grow closer, she must reexamine everything she thought she knew about love—and rethink her own ideas of what Happily Ever After should look like.

A USA TODAY and New York Times bestseller

Perfect for fans of Kasie West and Jenn Bennett, this “sweet and funny” (Kerry Winfrey, author of Waiting for Tom Hanks) teen rom-com follows a hopelessly romantic teen girl and her cute yet obnoxious neighbor as they scheme to get her noticed by her untouchable crush.

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They were completely and totally focused on the task at hand, which had absolutely and satisfactorily nothing to do with work.

How quickly the day passed!

Gone Sailing framed print -- https://stevehendersonart.com/featured/gone-sailing-steve-henderson.html?product=framed-print

#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #weekend #sailing #sail #sailboat #boat #boating #blue #water #fun #friends #friendship #decor #homedecor #fedigiftshop #men #mancave #outside #outdoors #washington

Framed print of an original oil painting depicting a group of four men on a sailboat, on a calm and blue sky day.

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Who set up Prince Kreshanaris?
Who wants him dead or thrown into prison?

Answers are difficult to find when you end up in custody of the royal guards after being marked as a criminal.

Even worse, said guards also grabbed a young Earthling woman who only wanted to help.

Steps of Courage is is now available as an ebook in my store:

https://shop.hannah-steenbock.de/b/twinworldscourage

If you enjoy fast-paced adventures, this is for you.

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Promotional image for the book Steps of Courage, Mages of the Twin Worlds Book 1 by Hannah Steenbock.

On a gradient background (from teal to light brown), an eReader mockup of the title sits to the left. The top is dominated by a banner reading: "Out in my store now!"

On the right, there are a few paragraphs of promotional text, they read:

Prince Kresharanis walked into a trap.

The one master Crash trusted completely sent him to Earth. He evaded a guard and snuck through a portal to the forbidden world.

But guards were waiting for him on the other side...

At the bottom is a notice saying:
Coming to all other stores on November 10th.

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I send thanks to the buyer from California who purchased a coffee mug of

Gone Sailing -- https://stevehendersonart.com/featured/gone-sailing-steve-henderson.html?product=coffee-mug

May you relax with this mug, with a smile.

#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #fedigiftshop #coffee #mug #sailing #sail #friends #friendship #men #weekend #relax #leisure #boat #boating #blue #freedom #sale #gift #marine #nautical #sea

Coffee mug featuring a painting of four men in a boat, sailing on the bay.

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📚 Flesh by: David Szalay

Teenaged István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. Shy and new in town, he is a stranger to the social rituals practiced by his classmates and is soon isolated, drawn instead into a series of events that leave him forever a stranger to peers, his mother, and himself. In the y...

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Teenaged István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. Shy and new in town, he is a stranger to the social rituals practiced by his classmates and is soon isolated, drawn instead into a series of events that leave him forever a stranger to peers, his mother, and himself. In the years that follow, István is born along by the goodwill, or self-interest, of strangers, charting a rocky yet upward trajectory that lands him further from his childhood, and the defining events that abruptly ended it, than he could possibly have imagined.

A collection of intimate moments over the course of decades, Flesh chronicles a man at odds with himself—estranged from and by the circumstances and demands of a life not entirely under his control and the roles that he is asked to play. Shadowed by the specter of past tragedy and the apathy of modernity, the tension between István and all that alienates him hurtles forward until sudden tragedy again throws life as he knows it in jeopardy. “Spare and detached on the page, lush in resonance beyond it” (NPR), Flesh traces the imperceptible but indelible contours of unresolved trauma and its aftermath amid the precarity and violence of an ever-globalizing Europe with incisive insight, unyielding pathos, and startling humanity.

Shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize | Finalist for the Kirkus Prize | Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence

From Booker Prize finalist and the shrewdest writer on contemporary

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Long-haired Dachshund portrait - hand painted acrylic painting.

Find the story behind the painting here:
https://karen-kaspar.pixels.com/featured/long-haired-dachshund-portrait-karen-kaspar.html

#dog #dachshund #pets #dogs #friendship #MastoArt #art #painting #FediArt #FediGiftShop #artist #arte #InteriorDesign #MastodonArt #BuyIntoArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #TraditionalArt #kunst #contemporaryArt #creativeToots #ArtForSale #handmade #giftideas #gifts #memories #artwork #ArtAdventCalendar

Long haired dachshund portrait is a hand-painted acrylic painting in portrait format by the artist Karen Kaspar.
It shows the head and part of the body of a reddish-brown long-haired dachshund against an abstract background in strong blue tones. The dog stands on the ground and looks up at the viewer with a loyal dog's gaze from expressive brown eyes. The pet's long reddish-brown fur is painted in waves with loose brushstrokes.

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📚 My Friends by: Fredrik Backman

Most people don’t even notice them—three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world. Most people think it’s just a depiction of the sea. But Louisa, an aspiring artist herself, knows otherwise, and she is determined to fi...

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Most people don’t even notice them—three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world. Most people think it’s just a depiction of the sea. But Louisa, an aspiring artist herself, knows otherwise, and she is determined to find out the story of these three enigmatic figures.

Twenty-five years earlier, in a distant seaside town, a group of teenagers find refuge from their bruising home lives by spending long summer days on an abandoned pier, telling silly jokes, sharing secrets, and committing small acts of rebellion. These lost souls find in each other a reason to get up each morning, a reason to dream, a reason to love.

Out of that summer emerges a transcendent work of art, a painting that will unexpectedly be placed into eighteen-year-old Louisa’s care. She embarks on a surprise-filled cross-country journey to learn how the painting came to be and to decide what to do with it. The closer she gets to the painting’s birthplace, the more nervous she becomes about what she’ll find. Louisa is proof that happy endings don’t always take the form we expect in this stunning testament to the transformative, timeless power of friendship and art.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A Most Anticipated Book of 2025: Goodreads.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that

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Long-haired Dachshund portrait - hand painted acrylic painting.

Find the story behind the painting here:
https://karen-kaspar.pixels.com/featured/long-haired-dachshund-portrait-karen-kaspar.html

#dog #dachshund #pets #dogs #friendship #MastoArt #art #AYearForArt #painting #FediArt #FediGiftShop #artist #arte #InteriorDesign #MastodonArt #BuyIntoArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #TraditionalArt #kunst #contemporaryArt #creativeToots #ArtForSale #handmade #giftideas #gifts #memories #ArtAdventCalendar

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Chances are we all have suffered or know someone who is suffering from depression. It’s natural to want to help those we care about, but choosing the right approach is important. Claudia Giolitti-Wright, a psychotherapist in New York, cringes when clients with depression report back on what their friends or family members inevitably say to them: “But you have so much to be grateful for!” It is, she believes, the No. 1 worst way to respond when someone opens up about their mental-health struggles. Read more from @time:

https://flip.it/wb3.K6

#Culture #Psychology #MentalHealth #Friendship #Communication

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I send thanks to the buyer from Iowa who purchased a metal print of

Gone Sailing -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/gone-sailing-steve-henderson.html?product=metal-print

May the artwork take you out onto the water on a perfect day, filled with sunshine, freedom, and companionship.

#art #artwork #sailing #sailboat #boating #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #washington #water #weekend #sale #friends #friendship #men #four #water #seascape #painting #artist #decor #USA #fun

Metal print of an original oil painting depicting four men in a sailboat out on the bay.

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We who loved sincerely; we who loved sae fiercely.
The snow ne’er looked sae barrie,
Nor the winter trees sae pretty.
C’mon, c’mon my dearie – tak my hand, my fiere!

—Jackie Kay, “Fiere”
fron FIERE (Picador 2011)

30 July is International Friendship Day 🤝

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/fiere/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #friend #friends #friendship #InternationalFriendshipDay