Former Victorianist/current HS teacher. ✍🏻 romance. Rep by Tara Gelsomino. Tell me all your Austen jokes. Free romance 👇 https://linktr.ee/colleenkellyauthorhttps://bsky.app/profile/colleenkelly.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/colleenkelly.bsky.social/post/3mjf7vdpics2sTold a story in class this morning about using my opera glasses to bird watch because teacher brand consistency is important13 Apr 2026 15:52 +0000at://did:plc:tpyjs6vfgnfldntrkxf6etzj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjf7vdpics2shttps://bsky.app/profile/colleenkelly.bsky.social/post/3miplmmevec2lIt is my toxic trait as a teacher that I find this terribly charming05 Apr 2026 01:23 +0000at://did:plc:tpyjs6vfgnfldntrkxf6etzj/app.bsky.feed.post/3miplmmevec2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/colleenkelly.bsky.social/post/3mhqqdfhfnc2zOkay, today’s student-led poetry selection was just trolling me23 Mar 2026 18:55 +0000at://did:plc:tpyjs6vfgnfldntrkxf6etzj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhqqdfhfnc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/colleenkelly.bsky.social/post/3mhegqz7qzs2oThinking about how my high school students are all in on using LLMs to brainstorm and edit and make PowerPoints and (sometimes, some of them) even write their work for them but they also rib each other mercilessly when they catch someone using it and hate when they can tell that their teachers have18 Mar 2026 21:31 +0000at://did:plc:tpyjs6vfgnfldntrkxf6etzj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhegqz7qzs2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/colleenkelly.bsky.social/post/3mh6izycaes2iThe most shocking thing to me about the heated rivalry phenomenon is that, almost 4 months into this, there are still so many people who say words on tv for a living and can’t pronounce “rivalry”16 Mar 2026 12:56 +0000at://did:plc:tpyjs6vfgnfldntrkxf6etzj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh6izycaes2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/colleenkelly.bsky.social/post/3mgfw3ymg6k2cIt’s time to get REALLY SERIOUS about paperwork flow in my classroom. That’ll show ‘em (‘em is me)06 Mar 2026 18:13 +0000at://did:plc:tpyjs6vfgnfldntrkxf6etzj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgfw3ymg6k2chttps://bsky.app/profile/colleenkelly.bsky.social/post/3mg4e7szrs225I wrote the most romantic scene of my entire romance career today: a man clearing everyone out of a woman’s room so she can sleep off a hangover undisturbed02 Mar 2026 22:59 +0000at://did:plc:tpyjs6vfgnfldntrkxf6etzj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg4e7szrs225https://bsky.app/profile/colleenkelly.bsky.social/post/3mg44xkulmc2mThis question brought to you by the slow-rolling mental breakdown John and Michaela’s lack of Scottish accents have induced in me (okay so if the Scottish aristocracy is culturally and by education English, as their accents suggest, then… ) [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Mar 2026 20:50 +0000at://did:plc:tpyjs6vfgnfldntrkxf6etzj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg44xkulmc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/colleenkelly.bsky.social/post/3mfrp3q2rhs2eDrop whatever you’re doing and read the opener to this right now and then CRY that you can’t write this good (And then go back to making Hamlet Act III slides) [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Feb 2026 17:15 +0000at://did:plc:tpyjs6vfgnfldntrkxf6etzj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfrp3q2rhs2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/colleenkelly.bsky.social/post/3mf7zrfh47k2sI just taught “the second coming” to my least interested freshman and was feeling bad that i didn’t do enough scaffolding with poetry annotation last week to get them ready but then I told myself I’ll treat it as a formative benchmark rather than a summative and now I dont feel bad anymore19 Feb 2026 16:38 +0000at://did:plc:tpyjs6vfgnfldntrkxf6etzj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf7zrfh47k2shttps://bsky.app/profile/colleenkelly.bsky.social/post/3mf5zvhsajc2yAnother evil pairing [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Feb 2026 21:35 +0000at://did:plc:tpyjs6vfgnfldntrkxf6etzj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf5zvhsajc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/colleenkelly.bsky.social/post/3metw2ndm4k2eDiabolical match up. I hate you [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Feb 2026 20:59 +0000at://did:plc:tpyjs6vfgnfldntrkxf6etzj/app.bsky.feed.post/3metw2ndm4k2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/colleenkelly.bsky.social/post/3metaymnm6k2wIt’s Valentine’s Day. I don’t care who you are or where you’re from, you should be reading a romance today. And The Somerset Sins has 5 extremely messy siblings all finding their love stories in the same volume, so it should be this one! books2read.com/u/4jVOel14 Feb 2026 14:43 +0000at://did:plc:tpyjs6vfgnfldntrkxf6etzj/app.bsky.feed.post/3metaymnm6k2w