Stephanie Allen

@stephallen

Fantasy writer and tired millennial who works in special education. Former gen ed teacher, school library assistant. Completed three degrees before being diagnosed with ADHD. Probably trying to find coffee right now. She/her.

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Stephanie Allen@stephallen· 11d

Usually I just unsubscribe and move on, but I had some feedback to provide.

Another text message that reads “I don't support candidates who throw trans children under the bus.”

Stephanie Allen@stephallen· 11d

No ❤️

A text message that says “Hi, it's Marie Gluesenkamp Perez.

Is there anything I can say to convince you to support my reelection campaign in Washington?”

Stephanie Allen@stephallen· 19d

My sister is a labor and delivery nurse and told me she got to field a phone call from a pregnant patient where the patient had a fever and didn’t want to take Tylenol because autism and my sister basically had to be like, “Well, cooking your fetus in your womb is also bad for them.”

A screenshot from the Autism and Vaccines webpage on the CDC website that was last updated July 22, 2026. The screenshot includes the following “key point”: The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.

Stephanie Allen@stephallen· Jul 4

Reposting with alt text because it’s crucial that everyone gets to know that Adam Sandler officiated the wedding.

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Stephanie Allen@stephallen· Jun 28

I just clicked the big, blue button to "explore repayment plans" in the email the Education Department sent me and this is where it took me. Thanks, so helpful! (Please don't give me advice. I'm not looking for advice.)

A Federal Student Aid webpage that just shows a giant 404. The zero is a sad face.

Stephanie Allen@stephallen· Apr 6

I’ve had this cactus for like seven years and this is the first time it’s flowered 🥺

Pink and white flowers on a Christmas cactus.

Stephanie Allen@stephallen· Apr 2

Tweet from user @felipetmedinaa that reads

WRITING TEACHERS: Show don't tell!
SHAKESPEARE: Whaddup, audience. I'm the villain. My favorite things are puns and murder.

Stephanie Allen@stephallen· Mar 16

The Pokopia font meme and it says "beware the ides of march".

Stephanie Allen@stephallen· Mar 13

POV: you live in a post-apocalyptic hellscape and you're slowly rebuilding society by watering plants and befriending your neighbors

A screenshot from the game Pokemon Pokopia. My character is standing next to a hillside with a field of pink and purple wildflowers behind her as a bulbasaur jogs away, saying "Let's get this place HUMID!"

My character sitting on a wooden stool in front of a campfire. The landscape around me is a mix of greenery and brown, dry earth.

Stephanie Allen@stephallen· Feb 23

What's in my bag? Idk, it's a black hole. picrew.me/ja/image_mak...

A cartoon-style collage of what's in my bag (a pink backpack with strawberries on it), which include things such as fidgets, a book, a notebook, assorted writing implements, sweet snacks, etc.

Stephanie Allen@stephallen· Feb 14

Speaking of, can I just say how unhinged labor and delivery is in this game? (I took this screenshot to show my sister, who is a labor and delivery nurse.)

A female sim lies in the middle of a machine that has, like, a cylinder thing around her torso? A doctor is standing at her feet, looking at a monitor, as a robotic arm brandishes the heart it just removed from the sim in the machine.

To be clear, she is in the machine because she is giving birth.

Stephanie Allen@stephallen· Feb 9

In all honesty, I’ve been spending all the commercial breaks working on a coloring page.

A partially completed coloring page that says FOCUS ON THE PRESENT in bubble letters that are surrounded by succulents. I’m coloring in assorted shades of green and blue with pops of pink and purple.

Stephanie Allen@stephallen· Feb 8

Started working on the Lego succulents set my brother got me for Christmas.

Three very small succulents made from Legos. Two of them are spiky and various shades of green, and the other one is orange.

Stephanie Allen@stephallen· Jan 24

I’m gonna tap the sign again. (Source: www.cdc.gov/disability-a...)

An infographic showing 28.7% of U.S. adults have some type of disability.

Stephanie Allen@stephallen· Jan 14

Sometimes I like to look in the photo album on our Switch and right now there’s a collection of screenshots one of my kids took of his Camerupt getting stuck in random places in Lumiose.

A Pokemon stuck on some scaffolding in a Parisian-style city. The Pokemon looks like an orange bovine with little volcanoes sticking out of its back. He is very large.

The same Pokemon as before, now stick trying to climb the ramp off of a dock on the edge of a canal.

Stephanie Allen@stephallen· Jan 6

Anyway, here are some screenshots from Scarlet and Z-A.

My Pokemon Scarlet character taking a selfie in front of a Clodsire sitting in the middle of a grass field.

My character in Z-A enjoying a cup of coffee on a Parisian-esque sidewalk as a Heracross stares adoringly (I assume) up at me.

My Z-A character is now standing in a stone courtyard, making heat hands in front of a tree full of Kakuna.

My Scarlet character making a cheesy grin while an Ogerpon sleeps behind her.

Stephanie Allen@stephallen· Jan 4

I caught them all.

A screenshot from Pokemon Go showing a veritable horde of little blue penguin-like critters surrounding me.

Stephanie Allen@stephallen· Jan 1

Already doing it

Merriam-Webster declaring my 2026 word to be “bed rotting”.

Stephanie Allen@stephallen· Nov 8

Speaking of, I spent some quality time with my trash sons in Z-A.

My Pokemon Legends: Z-A persona, squatting in a faux Parisian alley amongst the trashcans and cardboard. I have my eyes closed and a cheesy smile on my face as three Trubbish are lined up in the background. The Trubbish look like small green trash bags with arms and eyes and they are my trash sons.

Stephanie Allen@stephallen· Oct 28

None of my favorite Pokémon are in Z-A, but I've decided it's okay because my Aromatisse is an adorable Muppet who crushes it in battles, and it's super cute that she gets to follow me around.

A screenshot of a video game character sitting at a Parisian-inspired cafe with a fluffy pink Muppet-owl-looking Pokémon standing next to the table. The character (who is me) is wearing overalls over a green sweater, and she is grinning cheesily at the camera with her eyes closed.

Stephanie Allen@stephallen· Oct 18

Please tell me you've seen this

The cover for a Frog and Toad book, except the title has been changed to "Frog and Toad Are Antifa".

Stephanie Allen@stephallen· Oct 4

Helping!

A small stuffed Wooper from Pokemon sits on my desk, smiling blankly. In front of him is a stack of postcards that say “On Tuesday Nov. 4 Pennsylvania votes”. He has no arms, but he’s a creative little bean who can definitely use his mouth to hold the pen that’s sitting on top of the postcards.

Stephanie Allen@stephallen· Sep 19

Wooper also enjoyed our ride.

A small, light blue Wooper stuffie poking its head up from amongst the detritus in my purse.

Stephanie Allen@stephallen· Aug 18

This is literally the only way I’ve ever drawn birds 😆 #DrawABird

A squiggly line that I declare to be a bird.

Stephanie Allen@stephallen· Aug 1

Not sure what types of family vacations Spotify’s algorithm thinks I’m going on?

A screenshot of a Spotify playlist entitled “boss fight family vacation Friday morning”. The first song is “Shake It Out” by Florence + The Machine.

Stephanie Allen@stephallen· Jul 30

If you live in WA, you can find evacuation maps! dnr.wa.gov/washington-g... But I think this tweet covers the main points to remember.

A tweet from @waDNR that's the meme where one thing shakes hands with another. This one has Kate Bush and "us during a tsunami" and underneath a shaking hands emoji, it says "encouraging you to run up that hill"

Stephanie Allen@stephallen· Jul 22

I haven’t posted about Wooper in awhile. He continues to be a very good bean. Right now he’s helping me build some lotuses!

A small, stuffed Wooper sits on a desk, apparently reading a Lego instruction booklet upside down while a partially build lotus flower lies nearby. Wooper looks like a blue axolotl with no arms, and has a giant smile on his face. He has no thoughts in his head, like the precious bean that he is.

Stephanie Allen@stephallen· Jul 18

My Sim must have bad luck or something, because this is the second husband she's had who's died by laughter 😳 (I turned off luck from the new pack because it was annoying and yet HERE WE ARE)

A screenshot from The Sims 4 of a Sim starting to laugh himself to death in a darkened bedroom while his stepdaughter sleeps in a bunkbed right above him, completely undisturbed. (He'd gone in there to use the full-length mirror to calm himself down!)

Stephanie Allen@stephallen· Jul 10

Spotify consistently makes me feel attacked, but I think this might be the most brutal one yet.

Screenshot of a Spotify playlist entitled "classic rock oldies thursday morning". The first four songs are visible and include selections from The Killers and blink-182.

Stephanie Allen@stephallen· Jun 23

If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to bluesky (Artist: @thefireseal on Instagram)