Deck the Halls with Boughs of Harding (she/her) 🏳️⚧️
@lhardingwrites.bsky.social
Mum friend transitioning to mum. Recovering medievalist. Writer of gothic, fantasy and horror. Displaced northener. True foodie. Culinary Cenobite. Pigeon möther. Synth/BM gremlin. Writing at patreon.com/lhardingwrites and https://ko-fi.com/lawrenceharding
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*ears perking up, I appear from my burrow like a meerkat made of knitwear*
New Midsomer Murders you say? I do love a late Christmas present 👀👀👀
New Midsomer Murders you say? I do love a late Christmas present 👀👀👀
New Midsomer Murders tonight on ITV1. Needless to say, it's crackers. My Radio Times pick of the day #MidsomerMurders
December 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
*ears perking up, I appear from my burrow like a meerkat made of knitwear*
New Midsomer Murders you say? I do love a late Christmas present 👀👀👀
New Midsomer Murders you say? I do love a late Christmas present 👀👀👀
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It's not just about pronouns. It's about respecting our bodies as *our* bodies. It's about allowing us the medicine to take care of ourselves.
It's about being neither disgusted nor fetishising us but treating us as people.
It's about being what we say we are, not "the best of both worlds".
It's about being neither disgusted nor fetishising us but treating us as people.
It's about being what we say we are, not "the best of both worlds".
December 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
It's not just about pronouns. It's about respecting our bodies as *our* bodies. It's about allowing us the medicine to take care of ourselves.
It's about being neither disgusted nor fetishising us but treating us as people.
It's about being what we say we are, not "the best of both worlds".
It's about being neither disgusted nor fetishising us but treating us as people.
It's about being what we say we are, not "the best of both worlds".
18th-century civil servant who spent months of the year touring the countryside being rude about innkeepers.
Ok, this I can live with.
Ok, this I can live with.
Well, now I'm an English professor...
December 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
18th-century civil servant who spent months of the year touring the countryside being rude about innkeepers.
Ok, this I can live with.
Ok, this I can live with.
On the one hand, wedding scenes cry out for lavish descriptions of food.
On the other hand, can I afford another rabbit-hole of inventing an entire food culture?
On the other hand, can I afford another rabbit-hole of inventing an entire food culture?
December 29, 2025 at 7:05 PM
On the one hand, wedding scenes cry out for lavish descriptions of food.
On the other hand, can I afford another rabbit-hole of inventing an entire food culture?
On the other hand, can I afford another rabbit-hole of inventing an entire food culture?
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🪽 QRP with your wing art! 🪽
December 29, 2025 at 12:51 AM
🪽 QRP with your wing art! 🪽
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Might want to avoid this rape apologist. He is on here, though he's not posted much.
December 29, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Might want to avoid this rape apologist. He is on here, though he's not posted much.
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Taking a sledgehammer to the boring men movie discourse party by telling people that my favourite Christmas film is Lake Mungo.
December 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Taking a sledgehammer to the boring men movie discourse party by telling people that my favourite Christmas film is Lake Mungo.
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Was trying to explain 00s secondary school homophobia to a teenage cousin today and it was like I was speaking in Icelandic to her.
okay going by the tv show where the teenager coming out as gay has universal support in 1987 I’m starting to think people don’t know just how *recent* any level of societal acceptance was and that being under the age of 35 means you can’t process a time when it wasn’t a settled issue
they will
they will
December 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Was trying to explain 00s secondary school homophobia to a teenage cousin today and it was like I was speaking in Icelandic to her.
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I do wonder if anyone’s ever done any research into rich activists getting so deep into a good cause that they spin right around into bigotry. does seem to happen a disproportionate amount
December 28, 2025 at 11:26 AM
I do wonder if anyone’s ever done any research into rich activists getting so deep into a good cause that they spin right around into bigotry. does seem to happen a disproportionate amount
Pantsing a scene can be so revealing. Just letting the characters talk and pull out themes in your writing you didn't know were there (and will probably have to reckon with further down the plot).
I introduced two ad hoc elderly lady characters as counsellors to pad the numbers and now they are going fully chaos aunt on one of my protagonists about their Feelings
No matter how hard I try, the pantsing always gets me.
No matter how hard I try, the pantsing always gets me.
Me: *trying to plot a council of war scene*
Shortcloak: Oh yeah, did I mention that we're yearning here?
Thorn: Yes. Yearning.
Me: OK, we can yearn at the war council, that's fine.
Thorn: Burly, serious yearning.
Me:
Me: Of course, lord princess.
Shortcloak: Oh yeah, did I mention that we're yearning here?
Thorn: Yes. Yearning.
Me: OK, we can yearn at the war council, that's fine.
Thorn: Burly, serious yearning.
Me:
Me: Of course, lord princess.
December 28, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Pantsing a scene can be so revealing. Just letting the characters talk and pull out themes in your writing you didn't know were there (and will probably have to reckon with further down the plot).
Had to think about this one but my origin story book is probably the (almost) complete omnibus set of Cadfael books my parents got me to stop me finishing my Christmas book by Boxing Day like I did every year
Went on to do a PhD in medieval saints' lives & write daft monastic dark fantasy stories 🤷
Went on to do a PhD in medieval saints' lives & write daft monastic dark fantasy stories 🤷
Back home, and found my Christmas present from when i was about 10:
The Cambridge Encyclopedia.
It will surprise none of my followers to learn this book is my origin story.
The Cambridge Encyclopedia.
It will surprise none of my followers to learn this book is my origin story.
December 28, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Had to think about this one but my origin story book is probably the (almost) complete omnibus set of Cadfael books my parents got me to stop me finishing my Christmas book by Boxing Day like I did every year
Went on to do a PhD in medieval saints' lives & write daft monastic dark fantasy stories 🤷
Went on to do a PhD in medieval saints' lives & write daft monastic dark fantasy stories 🤷
I've reached the "cold spicy coconut rice on toast for breakfast" stage of Christmas leftovers and I'm pretty happy with my life choices.
December 28, 2025 at 9:57 AM
I've reached the "cold spicy coconut rice on toast for breakfast" stage of Christmas leftovers and I'm pretty happy with my life choices.
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Hey, fair warning for any people who programme lit events/festivals. Convicted stalker Sarah Stovell is publishing her books under the name of Mollie Kendrick now. She specfically stalked a writer she met on retreat for FIFTEEN YEARS.
www.hexham-courant.co.uk/news/2393909...
www.hexham-courant.co.uk/news/2393909...
December 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Hey, fair warning for any people who programme lit events/festivals. Convicted stalker Sarah Stovell is publishing her books under the name of Mollie Kendrick now. She specfically stalked a writer she met on retreat for FIFTEEN YEARS.
www.hexham-courant.co.uk/news/2393909...
www.hexham-courant.co.uk/news/2393909...
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Mourning Doves, 2025 🎨
Acrylic on canvas textured paper
8x10
. . .
Painting for my mom for Christmas
. . .
#mourningdove #painting #birds #birdpainting #hillarywhiterabbit
Acrylic on canvas textured paper
8x10
. . .
Painting for my mom for Christmas
. . .
#mourningdove #painting #birds #birdpainting #hillarywhiterabbit
December 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Mourning Doves, 2025 🎨
Acrylic on canvas textured paper
8x10
. . .
Painting for my mom for Christmas
. . .
#mourningdove #painting #birds #birdpainting #hillarywhiterabbit
Acrylic on canvas textured paper
8x10
. . .
Painting for my mom for Christmas
. . .
#mourningdove #painting #birds #birdpainting #hillarywhiterabbit
I introduced two ad hoc elderly lady characters as counsellors to pad the numbers and now they are going fully chaos aunt on one of my protagonists about their Feelings
No matter how hard I try, the pantsing always gets me.
No matter how hard I try, the pantsing always gets me.
Me: *trying to plot a council of war scene*
Shortcloak: Oh yeah, did I mention that we're yearning here?
Thorn: Yes. Yearning.
Me: OK, we can yearn at the war council, that's fine.
Thorn: Burly, serious yearning.
Me:
Me: Of course, lord princess.
Shortcloak: Oh yeah, did I mention that we're yearning here?
Thorn: Yes. Yearning.
Me: OK, we can yearn at the war council, that's fine.
Thorn: Burly, serious yearning.
Me:
Me: Of course, lord princess.
December 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I introduced two ad hoc elderly lady characters as counsellors to pad the numbers and now they are going fully chaos aunt on one of my protagonists about their Feelings
No matter how hard I try, the pantsing always gets me.
No matter how hard I try, the pantsing always gets me.
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Varg [setting out mousetraps, sticks of dynamite, etc] I'll get him, I'll get him if it's the last thing I do
Euronymouse [holding a pair of scissors next to a giant suspended weight labeled ACME] squeak
Euronymouse [holding a pair of scissors next to a giant suspended weight labeled ACME] squeak
January 15, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Varg [setting out mousetraps, sticks of dynamite, etc] I'll get him, I'll get him if it's the last thing I do
Euronymouse [holding a pair of scissors next to a giant suspended weight labeled ACME] squeak
Euronymouse [holding a pair of scissors next to a giant suspended weight labeled ACME] squeak
Me: *trying to plot a council of war scene*
Shortcloak: Oh yeah, did I mention that we're yearning here?
Thorn: Yes. Yearning.
Me: OK, we can yearn at the war council, that's fine.
Thorn: Burly, serious yearning.
Me:
Me: Of course, lord princess.
Shortcloak: Oh yeah, did I mention that we're yearning here?
Thorn: Yes. Yearning.
Me: OK, we can yearn at the war council, that's fine.
Thorn: Burly, serious yearning.
Me:
Me: Of course, lord princess.
December 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Me: *trying to plot a council of war scene*
Shortcloak: Oh yeah, did I mention that we're yearning here?
Thorn: Yes. Yearning.
Me: OK, we can yearn at the war council, that's fine.
Thorn: Burly, serious yearning.
Me:
Me: Of course, lord princess.
Shortcloak: Oh yeah, did I mention that we're yearning here?
Thorn: Yes. Yearning.
Me: OK, we can yearn at the war council, that's fine.
Thorn: Burly, serious yearning.
Me:
Me: Of course, lord princess.
Come for the excellent creature-collector, stay for the delightfully niche puns about Merseyside.
Cassette Beasts is free on Epic Games Store for the next 24 hours. Another mystery freebie tomorrow buff.ly/aadJJDg
December 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Come for the excellent creature-collector, stay for the delightfully niche puns about Merseyside.
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US readers! There are 25 *finished copies* (that's the hardback with sprayed edges) of THE WOLF AND HIS KING available in this Goodreads giveaway for the next two weeks: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
Book giveaway for The Wolf and His King by Finn Longman Dec 27-Jan 10, 2026
Enter to win one of 25 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Dec 27-Jan 10, 2026. Historian and wordsmith Finn Longman’s atmospheric retelling of B...
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December 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
US readers! There are 25 *finished copies* (that's the hardback with sprayed edges) of THE WOLF AND HIS KING available in this Goodreads giveaway for the next two weeks: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
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Thinking about how moving away from people-first is a growing trend, and how this is something quite important. It's been on my mind since my local McDonald's refurbished, and there's a reason for that.
December 27, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Thinking about how moving away from people-first is a growing trend, and how this is something quite important. It's been on my mind since my local McDonald's refurbished, and there's a reason for that.
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Released this year, my best collection to date! It’s weird and horrifying. And illustrated!
Mad Days: Stories and Curses is available on Amazon and Bookshop, ebook is only $1.99!
Amazon
bit.ly/4lZImtq
Bookshop
bit.ly/41USpIQ
Mad Days: Stories and Curses is available on Amazon and Bookshop, ebook is only $1.99!
Amazon
bit.ly/4lZImtq
Bookshop
bit.ly/41USpIQ
December 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Released this year, my best collection to date! It’s weird and horrifying. And illustrated!
Mad Days: Stories and Curses is available on Amazon and Bookshop, ebook is only $1.99!
Amazon
bit.ly/4lZImtq
Bookshop
bit.ly/41USpIQ
Mad Days: Stories and Curses is available on Amazon and Bookshop, ebook is only $1.99!
Amazon
bit.ly/4lZImtq
Bookshop
bit.ly/41USpIQ
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Thanks Gabino!!
#FridayReads it’s time to read BETWEEN THE LINES…book one of #ThePlanarPages by @dhalerambo.bsky.social
Dive into a fantasy mystery adventure across worlds with investigator Fiona Thorne.
The fifth & final book is out January 15th.
www.dhalerambo.com/the-planar-p...
#FridayReads it’s time to read BETWEEN THE LINES…book one of #ThePlanarPages by @dhalerambo.bsky.social
Dive into a fantasy mystery adventure across worlds with investigator Fiona Thorne.
The fifth & final book is out January 15th.
www.dhalerambo.com/the-planar-p...
December 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Thanks Gabino!!
#FridayReads it’s time to read BETWEEN THE LINES…book one of #ThePlanarPages by @dhalerambo.bsky.social
Dive into a fantasy mystery adventure across worlds with investigator Fiona Thorne.
The fifth & final book is out January 15th.
www.dhalerambo.com/the-planar-p...
#FridayReads it’s time to read BETWEEN THE LINES…book one of #ThePlanarPages by @dhalerambo.bsky.social
Dive into a fantasy mystery adventure across worlds with investigator Fiona Thorne.
The fifth & final book is out January 15th.
www.dhalerambo.com/the-planar-p...
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It’s the last #FridayReads of 2025 AND folks have book money, so let’s share some books! Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Here’s a festive little monster full of magic, violence, friendship, revenge, and ghosts.
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December 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
It’s the last #FridayReads of 2025 AND folks have book money, so let’s share some books! Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Here’s a festive little monster full of magic, violence, friendship, revenge, and ghosts.
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
bookshop.org/p/books/hous...
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Boxing Day writing is reading over the WIP novel so far. It's been a few weeks break from it and, actually, I'm pretty happy with the first fifth or so I have written.
I also found a whole chariot tournament I'd forgotten I'd put in, which was fun.
I also found a whole chariot tournament I'd forgotten I'd put in, which was fun.
December 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Boxing Day writing is reading over the WIP novel so far. It's been a few weeks break from it and, actually, I'm pretty happy with the first fifth or so I have written.
I also found a whole chariot tournament I'd forgotten I'd put in, which was fun.
I also found a whole chariot tournament I'd forgotten I'd put in, which was fun.
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Met a ginger cat with a slight wobble in its back legs that made it almost do an anime girl run, and there must be some sort of reverse catgirl isekai where an anime girl gets zapped into the body of a completely mundane cat and gets to do normal cat stuff instead of being sexualised all day.
December 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Met a ginger cat with a slight wobble in its back legs that made it almost do an anime girl run, and there must be some sort of reverse catgirl isekai where an anime girl gets zapped into the body of a completely mundane cat and gets to do normal cat stuff instead of being sexualised all day.