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thewritermab.bsky.social
ɱairéad • semi-hiatus☃️
@thewritermab.bsky.social
33rd edition 🇨🇦 • she/her • ace • deaf / HoH • disabled • writer / gamer / reader • research hobbyist • shy VN dev 📸 • disability + accessibility advocate
https://linktr.ee/theWriterMAB
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long time writer dealing with almost a decade worth of a writing slump + hiatus, im mairéad / mai from canada who is deaf/hoh, disabled and ace. love talking about mysteries, research, video games, accessibility, disability, nature photography and sightseeing. 🍁
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If your parents don't accept you as a queer person, a thousand million trillion loving, accepting aunties and uncles exist online to show you love is on the other side of that door when you break away.

You're not alone.
Queer elders exist.
And understand.
June 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Did you know Sabrena Swept Away, my upcoming middle grade fantasy, is available for request on NetGalley and Edelweiss? Now you do! 🩵
May 29, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Friends, can we help Saeed and his family today?

Thank you.
May 27, 2025 at 2:05 AM
been listening to clair obscur ost nonstop since hearing the opening menu theme.
May 13, 2025 at 4:02 AM
just wrote a little scene and dialogue that destroyed me…but it’s not even from any of the books of the current series before this series. why must i do this to myself????? 😭😭😭 #amplotting #amwritingkinda #TBJC
May 13, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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it's been a while since i've posted arcane, but here's my tribute piece for the Art of Arcane exhibit by Gallery Nucleus!

this piece was a little wish fulfillment because i wanted to see these guys together ☀️

If you're able to attend, the show runs from May 10-25!
May 11, 2025 at 11:27 PM
grief can either steal you in pieces or all at once, so remember to forgive yourself in those moments when doing your best to heal and move on. 💕
If you’re over 30, quote this with some life advice 🤌🏼
May 12, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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I’m not throwing myself into the discussions on indie budgets, weird pedestals and underdog fantasies, but I do want to say a lot of the confusion could easily be dismantled if there was more transparency in the game development process.

From funding to dev cycle to production to ship.
May 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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This will be incredibly useful for those of us who can't wear the jewellery!

MedicAlert introducing technology that will allow 911 dispatchers to access records www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
MedicAlert introducing technology that will allow 911 dispatchers to access records
MedicAlert bracelets are well known to most Canadians — a distinctive piece of jewelry that allows first responders to identify medical conditions in emergencies.
www.ctvnews.ca
May 11, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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If today is a hard day for you, I see you, I feel you.

Please know you are not alone.
Self-care is the goal of the day. If you can't do it solo, reach out!
If you have loved ones for whom today is a hard day, please check in with them. ❤️
May 11, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Nearly 300 follows on Kickstarter 👀✨
The Hollowed Night #2, a love note to Victorian Horror & campy 2000s action movies, launches on KS soon!

In a foggy city, a vampire spawn, a werewolf and a dark witch conspire to kill the most powerful monster hunter of their time… and get revenge for all those they lost...
May 9, 2025 at 12:19 AM
*rises slightly before collapsing back into recovery mode*

on the upside, clair-obscur trouble de rature, courbera eiffel~ 🗼
May 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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payhip.com/ElliottDunst...

you should buy my books. and then. i can get. my farmshare and then i won't have to go to the foodbank for the next......ages. i love my farmshare.
Elliott Dunstan Works
Elliott Dunstan is an Ottawa-based writer and poet with a fascination for mythology, trauma, mental illness and queer representation. His work touches heavily on trans liberation, anarchist ideologies...
payhip.com
May 8, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Again, reminder that this is the Canadian line for Trans Lifeline.

Don't share that this is just a generic hotline. It's for trans folks and they don't have the people power to deal with an influx of cis folks right now.

If you're cis, call a warm line in the next skeet.
April 28, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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🐟🪷🌈🌈
April 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Thanks for being here
April 23, 2025 at 2:11 AM
still dealing with health issues but have to say, my right leg wanting to be in cramping mode for a couple days now has been…something.
April 16, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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it moves now
April 14, 2025 at 2:33 AM
*resurfaces briefly to say she’s still recovering and playing xenoblade chronicles x: definitive edition and is adoring it tremendously* 🥺💕 #MABplaysXCXDE
April 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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If you don't want to be reviewing (or promising anything) you can also buy the pretties

They're 15% until my April 9 release, and I bundled them up 🥰

💙📚

itch.io/s/149276/all...
March 21, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being. 🌟🫶
Kindly give even a little its mean the world to us and help a-lot in our awful situation. Help me by sharing so i can keep my family alive in Gaza.
March 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)
March 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Nothing Without Us Too, edited by @taliacjohnson.bsky.social and me, is our second multi-genre disability fiction anthology. It won a 2023 Prix Aurora Award, and the foreword is by Amanda Leduc! Discover these 27 stories starring disabled protagonists! #SpoonieAuthChat

books2read.com/nwutoo
March 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
when going back to the basics means rewriting and overhauling your writing notes, characters, worldbuilding and more after too long of a writing hiatus. 😩 #amplotting #amwritingkinda
March 13, 2025 at 11:58 PM