Ryan Leigh Dostie

@RyanDostie

Author of FORMATION, repped , non-fiction, military fiction, contemporary fantasy, combat veteran, ancient history lover, linguist, she/her

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Joined November 2015
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    22 Jul 2019

    If we, the victims, know how the system treats those who report, so too do our rapists. Decades of continual evidence have shown that our reports will be met with derision, our careers threatened, and we will endure alone. So what do they have to fear?

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  2. 23 hours ago

    I’m delighted & honored to be included on this list ❤️

    Somerville Public Library in Somerville Massachusetts
    It's 🔌! Celebrate with a book from 📚. Our friends at SPL created a list of recommended reads in honor of :
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  3. Mar 4

    My child: I like your tummy! It looks like you ate a lot of good stuff! Got called fat by a five year old in the most positive way ever

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  4. Retweeted
    Mar 3
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    Other enlisted memoirs include ’s War Flower; ’s Formation; ’s Just Another Soldier; Matt Young’s Eat The Apple.

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  5. Retweeted
    Feb 28
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    I will point out that there’s an amazing non-AWP mil-vet panel on March 2nd with and And will be chatting with Kirstin Valdez Quade in May as part of the same series.

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  6. Feb 26

    Getting my COVID vaccine shot on Monday! Excited but also...irrationally nervous? Too many conservatives in my family telling me over and over again on how it’s going to kill me! 😩

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  7. Retweeted
    Feb 25

    May 6: Broken and Invaluable Institutions, with and Kirstin Valdez Quade In the wake of crises exposing the weaknesses of American institutions, these writers have explored the complex ways institutions shape our lives, for good and ill.

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  8. Feb 24

    Sigh

    Distracted boyfriend meme with Me looking lustfully at a vampire WIP that will never sell while all my other WIPs look on in horror
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  9. Feb 24

    This is an important read. No one should ever have to work for an entire year for their doctor to take them seriously

    I need non-fat people to read this and then read it again.
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  10. Retweeted
    Feb 23

    EXCLUSIVE: Marine who turned to TikTok in a viral post to express her frustration with how the military handled her sexual assault case tells : “I am not a one in a million story, I am lucky I have been able to stay safe” “I am not responsible for what I did not break”

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  11. Feb 24

    I do think that maybe it could be a separate project, a second book, if I ever manage to make this first one work. But the idea is kind of exciting! And I eventually fell asleep lol

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  12. Feb 23

    I started thinking about the POV of a main character in my novel who isn’t shown, sort of wondering what her version of the story would be like, & now it’s all I can think about and NO! I will not start over an 80k book! No! but I also can’t sleep now and it would be so good—

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  13. Feb 21

    How can this even be legal? And honestly, I wouldn’t pay! They’re going to ruin my credit? Have at it. I’d rather have bad credit than pay a one month $17,000 electric bill

    this is just insane and cruel beyond belief
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  14. Feb 20

    Every cute sweater or shirt I find on a rack and yell “Yes!” then pull it out, hold it up and realize it’s made to display under boob

    what are we? old millenials what do we want? ratty sweaters that cover our fingertips and hang down past our belly buttons IS THIS TOO MUCH TO ASK
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  15. Retweeted
    Feb 18

    Why do women have to film themselves literally crying out for justice for you to give a damn?

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  16. Feb 19

    Any time someone says “well then maybe women just shouldn’t serve!” I say, “A study by the Department of Veterans Affairs revealed close to 50,000 male veterans screened positive as being victims of some form of military sexual trauma.” (across all MOSs, not just combat arms)

    Terrible people on this app keep using SA cases as arguments to keep women out of the force, as if combat arms men haven't been getting assaulted by their battle buddies for literal decades under the guise of hazing and unit initiation. Segregation isn't going to root this out.
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  17. Feb 19

    Oh god, my heart breaks for her. It’s so much worse knowing the military doesn’t care and won’t change. Institutional betrayal is gut wrenching

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    This is what happens when you report your assault in the He admits his guilt and then is retained by the Commanding General after everyone else recommended do not retain. this is bullshit.
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  18. Feb 17

    Rush Limbaugh being dead means I no longer have to hear my family defend to the death whatever shit storm comment he most recently said. He will not be missed.

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  19. Feb 17

    I wonder if there’s a study done somewhere on how many bisexual women end up marrying men and why. I feel like every fellow bisexual woman I know is married to a man.

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  20. Retweeted
    Feb 16

    Marriage is passive aggressively shouting “did you mean to leave the burner on?” ten minutes after dinner is over even when you know they did not, in fact, mean to leave the burner on.

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  21. Feb 17

    Yeah because institutional betrayal is so much better 🤬

    I took this photo at a Military Sexual Trauma protest this summer. I’m over men telling MST victims that we are “lucky to have been raped in the military” because of better processes. I assure you NOTHING about being raped by your brother, your teammate who you train with is...
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