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Fay Roberts
@fayroberts.bsky.social
Queer, disabled, Welsh(ish), progressive performance poet/ musician/ project manager/ event host/ musician/ award-winning voice actor. Lover of spreadsheets and creative writing. ze/zir or they/them/their https://linktr.ee/fayroberts
See a fox?
Post a fox!
January 5, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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The Liz Truss Show - Behind the Scenes
December 25, 2025 at 10:03 AM
"Felt bombastic, might delete later!" ✌️
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
(No worries if not!!)
January 1, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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lol but who participated in the destabilization of those societies?
January 1, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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I see that the NY Post is going to give Rama the Michelle Obama treatment for the next 4-8 years. Unsurprising since she's a beautiful woman of color. She's already been called petulant, angry, hypocritical, etc etc... Hope she relishes their hatred.
January 1, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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Submissions are open.

Poetry that remembers.
That mourns.
That refuses to let go.

Read the call carefully. Take your time. Send the work that needs to exist.

#PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #WednesdayWIPs #SpineEdicts #PoetryCommunity #SubmissionWindow #OpenCall #Poetry
Call for Submissions: Poetry That Remembers, Mourns, and Refuses to Let Go - The Broken Spine
Submissions Open Throughout January 2026 | Publication Later That Year
thebrokenspine.co.uk
January 1, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Just watched Lilo & Stitch (2002) for the first time. Cried a frankly UNBELIEVABLE amount throughout. How very DARE?!

(help, I'm a huge fan now)
December 31, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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"When it all began, the house had no name at all. It stood, perched and perilously alone, on a bit of land upraised like a clenched fist."

Casting for our epistolary haunted house anthology This Address Does Not Exist opens on Dec 22.

We'd like to take this time to introduce our writers.
December 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Guess I'd better finish the edits, then! 😅

This will be my first audio script EVER, and I'm really thrilled to be working with @lawofnames.com again.

Watch this space for casting calls and announcements!
And we're very excited to be able to announce that this collection will also feature @fayroberts.bsky.social 's deeply unsettling story "A Function of Power."
December 30, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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My 2025 Book Sales

Barnes & Noble: 1
Kobo: 1
Apple: 7

Amazon (Jan-June): 7

Direct (Oct-Dec): 4

Itch (May-Dec): 380

Indie authors, these stats are why I recommend Itch bundles 😉. Also, these are almost entirely sales resulting from social media posts. I had maybe 2 sales via newsletter.
December 29, 2025 at 7:27 AM
See, I didn't study history formally past the age of 14, so I don't know much, but I've heard of Neville Chamberlain, Churchill's predecessor and it turns out, well, yeah, not far off.

Paraphrased from this source: www.google.co.uk/books/editio...
December 29, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Panic attacks suck. Flashbacks suck.

Basically: trauma sucks, and abusers should be the ones feeling shame, not us.

There. I solved it.
December 29, 2025 at 1:24 AM
What that was great fun! Thanks to @jonnysims.bsky.social for the Art, @stellartim.bsky.social for the raid(!), @loujsutcliffe.bsky.social and @gentlemoth.bsky.social for modding/ chaos, and everyone who showed up, and made requests.

Hope you all have fast/ slow/ noisy/ quiet seasons as required. ❤️
December 25, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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December 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Lotta talk at the moment about AI voice theft chatbots atm. Not linking to sites because fuck that. Those familiar with my opinion on AI can probably guess my response, but to be clear: I consider the users of such chatbots to be hollow wastes of breath who are actively murdering their own souls.
December 14, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I love that we both had the same idea (literally just found out about Jonny's!).

Anyway, go and see Jonny's reading tonight/ this afternoon/ this morning depending on timezone. The batwinged head of W.G. Grace compels you!
Mods asleep, post bearded cricketer's head with bat wings telling you about my stream.
December 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Irresistible purchase from BargainBuys.

Don't.
December 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Enough of you said: You know what? I'm in... so this is happening!

YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/LEw4ANd...
Facebook Live: www.facebook.com/events/10776...
Twitch: www.twitch.tv/fayrobertsuk

See you there!
December 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
So, I got noodling on spreadsheets again and I'm very proud: I made a word count thing for the commissioned/ competition work I've been doing lately, so I thought I'd turn it into a template and share - use in good health! bit.ly/wordcounttem...
Word Count Template
bit.ly
December 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
If I was to follow the old tradition of telling spooky stories late at night (crossing midnight, UK time) on Christmas Eve, how many of you would be up for e.g. watching on Twitch/ FB Live/ other?

1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/zL0Ibq/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Definitely
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/zL0Ibq/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Possibly
3️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/zL0Ibq/3" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Nope
4️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/zL0Ibq/4" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Other (details in replies)

📊 Show results
December 21, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Me: Boxing is an incomprehensible and horrifyingly brutal spectacle to me. I just don't get it.

Me earlier this week: Okay, I might make one exception.

Me today: {whispers} Holy shit, that's beautiful.

Me right now: Okay, TWO exceptions, but that's it.
December 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Jake Paul and Andrew Tate getting the shit beat out of them the same week Ariana Grande and Cher host SNL while a gay hockey romance is the number one show in the world wow someone is really fighting to fix the timeline omg
December 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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In all seriousness the red pill Alpha Male movement’s heroes and role models are an incoherent Trump, a broken jawed Jake Paul, a humiliated Andrew Tate and a wretched Tommy Robinson. And they expect to be taken seriously.
December 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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The running theme between the Epstein story, banning trans healthcare for minors, religious homeschooling and the complaints about adult children estranging themselves is a fundamental American belief that children are property with no rights of their own
America is a culture of child abuse. Ask any survivor - we find one another, we form networks and communities.

The true scale of it would stagger and sicken you, and so it is buried, it is swept under the rug, it is denied and the survivors are silenced by whatever means are necessary.
Government of pedophiles. They're all tainted with this for the rest of their lives.
December 20, 2025 at 12:50 AM