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Jane O'Sullivan
@sightlined.bsky.social
Art writing & fiction in Vault, Meanjin, Apollo, Art Guide, Art Monthly, Okay Donkey, Milk Candy Review & New Flash Fiction Review
Secret sewing habit 🪡
janeosullivan.com.au
Freelance journos too...
I was just talking to @fordwalker.bsky.social about this: after using Scrivener, going back to Word for edits feels like *punishment*.

Yeah, it’s what the publishers use. We gotta track those changes.

And yet. It’s like being put in stocks.
Me: OK, I need to indent this single line.

Word: how about the whole document?

Me: no!

Word: WHOLE DOCUMENT DONE 🙂

Me: Arghhh.

Word: yaaaaay indent!

Me: UNDO, UNDO

Word: *indents everything you've ever written in both the past and future*

Word: I'm a word processor!
January 19, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Spider bite update day 3: swelling finally going down + light bruise settling in

He's ok, no pain, but I sure would like to know what kind of spider it was!
January 17, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Came home to find a note under the front door from the kid's best friend: "Tell me what you did on holiday I need to know! ps my dad will orgienise it with your parents"
January 15, 2026 at 8:38 AM
Spider bite update: his ankle is still swollen almost 24hrs later, yowch
Beautiful waterfall, lovely spot for a dip, 10/10 etc... until kid got bitten by a spider
January 15, 2026 at 12:44 AM
Beautiful waterfall, lovely spot for a dip, 10/10 etc... until kid got bitten by a spider
January 14, 2026 at 2:31 AM
ah yep definitely glad I did that
January 10, 2026 at 5:43 AM
Trying to prepare for a 43C day by taping cardboard boxes to the windows
January 9, 2026 at 10:07 PM
have not even opened scrivener for three weeks, who even am I?
January 7, 2026 at 6:10 AM
some truly joyful photos in LOVING: Photographs of Men in Love 1850s-1950s in Canberra
It was a photo that, if leaked, was illegal. Now it's on public display
What started as a chance discovery of an old photo at a Dallas antique store has spawned a collection of more than 4,000 images of male couples, more than 100 of which are now on display in Canberra.
www.abc.net.au
January 7, 2026 at 2:33 AM
it was gooood
little after work swim anyone?
January 6, 2026 at 8:04 AM
little after work swim anyone?
January 6, 2026 at 7:11 AM
happy hot cross bun day x
December 26, 2025 at 1:01 AM
happy christmas x
December 25, 2025 at 7:55 AM
"oh that was good... that was really really good"

my youngest now in category five nutri-grain coma (oldest still muttering, could've sworn it was lego, etc etc)
ahaha wrapped a box of nutri-grain and put it under the tree and the kids are going wild trying to guess, one thinks it's a jigsaw and the other is convinced it's lego, why is this so fun
December 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
2025 was a big year with some big changes 〰️

Time for cherry season now. Wishing you & yours a chance to rest and recharge over the summer break. Like so many of us, I'm hoping 2026 brings the world some calm and peace x
December 24, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Reposted by Jane O'Sullivan
December 23, 2025 at 2:02 AM
"you're such a bad liar mum, we KNOW it's lego!"

can't believe they're still shaking it but here we are
ahaha wrapped a box of nutri-grain and put it under the tree and the kids are going wild trying to guess, one thinks it's a jigsaw and the other is convinced it's lego, why is this so fun
December 22, 2025 at 9:49 PM
removed massive huntsman from kitchen sink, most professional and accomplished I've felt all year
December 21, 2025 at 9:35 PM
ahaha wrapped a box of nutri-grain and put it under the tree and the kids are going wild trying to guess, one thinks it's a jigsaw and the other is convinced it's lego, why is this so fun
December 20, 2025 at 11:28 PM
DONE. And now we beach.
My one job today is checking references in an essay and it is going to destroy me
December 19, 2025 at 4:57 AM
My one job today is checking references in an essay and it is going to destroy me
December 18, 2025 at 10:29 PM
giving the en dash in this exhibition title a hard stare
Women Photographers 1900–1975: A Legacy of Light | NGV
Women Photographers 1900–1975: A Legacy of Light celebrates the wide-ranging photographic practices of more than eighty women artists working between 1900 and 1975. Featuring prints, postcards, photob...
www.ngv.vic.gov.au
December 18, 2025 at 2:04 AM
"Roughly, 22,000 new Australian books are released each year." ‼️
December 17, 2025 at 8:11 AM