Rae Leaver Rahman
@raeleaverrahman.bsky.social
#author
Writer and creative busybody. Theatre and lit stuff, mostly.
Also have a fandom account - ask me for it if we know each other!
Writer and creative busybody. Theatre and lit stuff, mostly.
Also have a fandom account - ask me for it if we know each other!
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Reminder: if you are worried about AI replacing you as an artist: don’t use AI voices,
If you don’t want composing to be handed over to AI: don’t use it to write text.
You get the idea.
If you value your job: protect others jobs too.
If you don’t want composing to be handed over to AI: don’t use it to write text.
You get the idea.
If you value your job: protect others jobs too.
September 2, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Reminder: if you are worried about AI replacing you as an artist: don’t use AI voices,
If you don’t want composing to be handed over to AI: don’t use it to write text.
You get the idea.
If you value your job: protect others jobs too.
If you don’t want composing to be handed over to AI: don’t use it to write text.
You get the idea.
If you value your job: protect others jobs too.
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What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
The Globe lets you take tinnies in
The Globe lets you take tinnies in
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
Free movement of people within the EU does not mean you can just go live in another EU member state without satisfying any conditions.
Free movement of people within the EU does not mean you can just go live in another EU member state without satisfying any conditions.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
All business software is terrible and the more expensive it is, the worse it is.
All business software is terrible and the more expensive it is, the worse it is.
June 17, 2025 at 7:21 AM
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
The Globe lets you take tinnies in
The Globe lets you take tinnies in
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How to be a writer, no. 1256899
1. Write
2. Think about writing
3. Worry about writing
4. Write some more
5. Be the envy of social media with your fictional playboy lifestyle
6. Tea
1. Write
2. Think about writing
3. Worry about writing
4. Write some more
5. Be the envy of social media with your fictional playboy lifestyle
6. Tea
June 17, 2025 at 8:03 AM
How to be a writer, no. 1256899
1. Write
2. Think about writing
3. Worry about writing
4. Write some more
5. Be the envy of social media with your fictional playboy lifestyle
6. Tea
1. Write
2. Think about writing
3. Worry about writing
4. Write some more
5. Be the envy of social media with your fictional playboy lifestyle
6. Tea
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I’ve never forgotten this picture from 2016 and how it completely reshaped my understanding of how the media covers protests.
But if a few people in masks start lighting stuff on fire? Then you have news. This creates an *enormous* attentional advantage towards the most violent and chaotic kind of protest.
June 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I’ve never forgotten this picture from 2016 and how it completely reshaped my understanding of how the media covers protests.
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A very special book for this year’s spooky season in a very beautiful edition. Unquiet Guests:
Chuck Palahniuk
Grady Hendrix
Kirsty Logan
Matthew Holness
Claire Fuller
Irenosen Okojie
Will Maclean
Ally Wilkes
Clay McLeod Chapman
Alison Moore
Pre-order here: www.waterstones.com/book/unquiet...
Chuck Palahniuk
Grady Hendrix
Kirsty Logan
Matthew Holness
Claire Fuller
Irenosen Okojie
Will Maclean
Ally Wilkes
Clay McLeod Chapman
Alison Moore
Pre-order here: www.waterstones.com/book/unquiet...
June 7, 2025 at 7:34 AM
A very special book for this year’s spooky season in a very beautiful edition. Unquiet Guests:
Chuck Palahniuk
Grady Hendrix
Kirsty Logan
Matthew Holness
Claire Fuller
Irenosen Okojie
Will Maclean
Ally Wilkes
Clay McLeod Chapman
Alison Moore
Pre-order here: www.waterstones.com/book/unquiet...
Chuck Palahniuk
Grady Hendrix
Kirsty Logan
Matthew Holness
Claire Fuller
Irenosen Okojie
Will Maclean
Ally Wilkes
Clay McLeod Chapman
Alison Moore
Pre-order here: www.waterstones.com/book/unquiet...
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“What I’ve come to learn is that representation without redistribution – of power, resources or decision-making – is not justice. And working within institutions that aren’t prepared to listen, adapt or truly share space only goes so far.”
RHS ambassador for communities quits, saying he was made to feel a ‘nuisance’
Tayshan Hayden-Smith says Chelsea flower show celebrates ‘exclusivity over equity’ and he was naive to think he could bring change
www.theguardian.com
May 17, 2025 at 9:33 AM
“What I’ve come to learn is that representation without redistribution – of power, resources or decision-making – is not justice. And working within institutions that aren’t prepared to listen, adapt or truly share space only goes so far.”
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I wrote about exactly this a few months ago!!!! youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/the-one-wh...
April 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I wrote about exactly this a few months ago!!!! youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/the-one-wh...
Continuing to consider process as part of my substack Restoration, which looks at creative restoration through a number of lenses open.substack.com/pub/raeleave...
Efficiencies
Much of my last week has been spent thinking about efficiency.
open.substack.com
April 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Continuing to consider process as part of my substack Restoration, which looks at creative restoration through a number of lenses open.substack.com/pub/raeleave...
I’m sure others have already said it but Common People, the first ep of s7 of Black Mirror, is absolutely gut wrenching to watch as a person with a health condition in a marriage. I can’t sleep after watching.
The reason it’s so effective is yes, it has something to say about the potential…
The reason it’s so effective is yes, it has something to say about the potential…
April 20, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I’m sure others have already said it but Common People, the first ep of s7 of Black Mirror, is absolutely gut wrenching to watch as a person with a health condition in a marriage. I can’t sleep after watching.
The reason it’s so effective is yes, it has something to say about the potential…
The reason it’s so effective is yes, it has something to say about the potential…
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Are you an aspiring poet, an activist interested in experimenting with creative ways to respond to injustice, or looking to try something new, using words as your toolkit? Come along for an evening poetry workshop with acclaimed writer and activist @sarahmaintains.bsky.social
shorturl.at/lCdan
shorturl.at/lCdan
Poetry Workshop with Sarah Clancy
Aspiring poet or writer? Come along to Rua Red for an evening poetry workshop with acclaimed writer and activist Sarah Clancy.
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April 18, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Are you an aspiring poet, an activist interested in experimenting with creative ways to respond to injustice, or looking to try something new, using words as your toolkit? Come along for an evening poetry workshop with acclaimed writer and activist @sarahmaintains.bsky.social
shorturl.at/lCdan
shorturl.at/lCdan
I need to find something else I love which is accessible to me as my health stops me doing so many of my old loves. Because everything I love is either being destroyed by AI or is inaccessible because my health has got worse.
I’ve been afraid to say I’m struggling to keep it together but. Yeah.
I’ve been afraid to say I’m struggling to keep it together but. Yeah.
April 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I need to find something else I love which is accessible to me as my health stops me doing so many of my old loves. Because everything I love is either being destroyed by AI or is inaccessible because my health has got worse.
I’ve been afraid to say I’m struggling to keep it together but. Yeah.
I’ve been afraid to say I’m struggling to keep it together but. Yeah.
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me seeing a new AI trend all over my socials
April 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
me seeing a new AI trend all over my socials
Also yet again I think much of the anti-asexuality stuff we see is from people on that spectrum who don’t realise it, who think that nobody is actually sexually motivated (they are) because they’re not (or they’re in situations where their needs are being bulldozed.)
April 7, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Also yet again I think much of the anti-asexuality stuff we see is from people on that spectrum who don’t realise it, who think that nobody is actually sexually motivated (they are) because they’re not (or they’re in situations where their needs are being bulldozed.)
The reason asexuality is part of the lgbtqia grouping is because that grouping exists because of people othered by being excluded from heteronormative societal standards. Asexual people historically have been punished for not engaging in sexual desire! That’s facts baby!
April 7, 2025 at 10:05 AM
The reason asexuality is part of the lgbtqia grouping is because that grouping exists because of people othered by being excluded from heteronormative societal standards. Asexual people historically have been punished for not engaging in sexual desire! That’s facts baby!
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So weird, that this was a company anyway. It's like finding out that hopscotch has gone bankrupt
Less than a year after a full-throated embrace of AI, NaNoWriMo is shutting down :
April 1, 2025 at 9:05 AM
So weird, that this was a company anyway. It's like finding out that hopscotch has gone bankrupt
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What happens when you are a natural born people-pleaser… and also a critic?
@anyaryan.bsky.social has been called ‘heartless’ for being a theatre reviewer, and yet she hates conflict. Here, she reflects on the competing urge to be honest, and to be liked
@anyaryan.bsky.social has been called ‘heartless’ for being a theatre reviewer, and yet she hates conflict. Here, she reflects on the competing urge to be honest, and to be liked
'How could my words have made someone feel so terrible?'
The agony of bad reviews when you're a critic - and also a born people-pleaser
exeuntmagazine.substack.com
April 1, 2025 at 9:58 AM
What happens when you are a natural born people-pleaser… and also a critic?
@anyaryan.bsky.social has been called ‘heartless’ for being a theatre reviewer, and yet she hates conflict. Here, she reflects on the competing urge to be honest, and to be liked
@anyaryan.bsky.social has been called ‘heartless’ for being a theatre reviewer, and yet she hates conflict. Here, she reflects on the competing urge to be honest, and to be liked
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For anyone thinking to themselves ah yes I'm having a nice day but what would really be the icing on the cake is 300,000 words about #LesMis, my creative–critical PhD thesis on the novel and its adaptations, including fanwork, is available online for free! hdl.handle.net/10779/uos.24...
Same-sex desire and intimacy in Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables and Its adaptations: a creative and critical study
Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables has a profound relationship with its queer fans. Fans testify to the novel’s importance in their lives and, through substantial self-reflexive creative and critical online...
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March 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
For anyone thinking to themselves ah yes I'm having a nice day but what would really be the icing on the cake is 300,000 words about #LesMis, my creative–critical PhD thesis on the novel and its adaptations, including fanwork, is available online for free! hdl.handle.net/10779/uos.24...
Wild to say but treat your potential partner as a person is up the top. Actually be interested in them.
Stop dating to impress your mates.
If you want to date a model-level beauty, you have to bring something to the table too. That lifestyle isn’t cheap and the gym is a hobby in itself.
Stop dating to impress your mates.
If you want to date a model-level beauty, you have to bring something to the table too. That lifestyle isn’t cheap and the gym is a hobby in itself.
Question for the room: What is some non-toxic dating advice you would give to straight men?
Given how commonly it shows up on these accounts and in the responses, I would suggest not following your romantic interest on social media!
Given how commonly it shows up on these accounts and in the responses, I would suggest not following your romantic interest on social media!
Pledged to stop making "are the straights ok" jokes after reading Richard Reeves' book but man, Dating TikTok is testing me
www.tiktok.com/@afraidofnow...
www.tiktok.com/@afraidofnow...
March 17, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Wild to say but treat your potential partner as a person is up the top. Actually be interested in them.
Stop dating to impress your mates.
If you want to date a model-level beauty, you have to bring something to the table too. That lifestyle isn’t cheap and the gym is a hobby in itself.
Stop dating to impress your mates.
If you want to date a model-level beauty, you have to bring something to the table too. That lifestyle isn’t cheap and the gym is a hobby in itself.
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P.S. All reskys of this much-appreciated. I'd love to have these all gone by the end of the day as our house currently has 5,000+ of my backlist in it (you'll know why if you check out my Substack) and we'd like to clear less convoluted routes to our fridge, bed and kitchen sink.
Decided to give away this entire pile of my 2022 book Notebook for the price of postage today. If you can pay more, great. If not, no problem. Pop a reply below if you'd like one. It's a short, silly book, but sometimes a bit serious, too, and people tell me it's a good easy gateway to my writing.
March 17, 2025 at 9:29 AM
P.S. All reskys of this much-appreciated. I'd love to have these all gone by the end of the day as our house currently has 5,000+ of my backlist in it (you'll know why if you check out my Substack) and we'd like to clear less convoluted routes to our fridge, bed and kitchen sink.
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Oh, this is great.
Really interesting article, this part stuck out particularly well to me:
March 16, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Oh, this is great.
Earlier this week I came back from a short residential stay at @gladlib.bsky.social and it was just what I needed. Time to think, to read, to research, to write. 8k new words and 8 books read!
March 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Earlier this week I came back from a short residential stay at @gladlib.bsky.social and it was just what I needed. Time to think, to read, to research, to write. 8k new words and 8 books read!
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A reminder they willfully misinterpret the concept of 'woke' and now they are blaming us for a concept we didn't invent. These people are mad. But what's madder is that it worked???
March 3, 2025 at 9:15 PM
A reminder they willfully misinterpret the concept of 'woke' and now they are blaming us for a concept we didn't invent. These people are mad. But what's madder is that it worked???