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Christine SF #PirateBrainrotPersisting 🏴‍☠️
@amphelise.bsky.social
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40-something, queer, socialist, fantasy writer, medieval reenactor, inclusive Christian, artist. Trains, archaeology, history, fantasy & sci-fi, bird watching & plants. Perth Aussie in the UK. Autistic & ADHD. Trans rights are human rights. She/her. 🍊🏴‍☠️
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It really, really does not.
Cambridge Dictionary definition for utter, confirming that it means “say”. Merriam-Webster definition for utter, confirming that it means “say”. Collins definition for utter, confirming that it means “say”. Dictionary.com definition for utter, confirming that it means “say”.
November 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
amphelise.bsky.social
Not enough sleep, sooo much walking, so many people, so many new friends, so much laughter. Our Flag Means Death #TheWeeCon is coming to an end with an incredible drag show and party. I’m absolutely exhausted but so, so glad I came.
A white woman with brown hair and glasses seated in a low-lit hall & bar, with blue and pink lights
November 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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My actual face seeing this
A white woman with brown hair pulling an awww pouty lip face
November 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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We’re sat next to each other in the workshop 😁
November 2, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Seaglass wrapping with @heyhayley.bsky.social at WeeCon
A piece of soft green sea glass wrapped in silver wire.
November 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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On my way to #WeeCon!
A white woman with glasses and long brown hair, wearing a turquoise jumper, sitting in a red-upholstered train seat. The background is the view out of the train window, blurred by motion.
October 31, 2025 at 8:01 AM
amphelise.bsky.social
There’s something about having their wild theories punctured by facts from someone who looks like this, that sends them absolutely livid.
A plump white woman with long brown hair and glasses wearing a black graduation cap and a red and blue graduation hood over a black graduation gown. She is standing in front of a garden bed full of flowers and a university directions sign.
October 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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I’ve got one too 😊
A photograph of clouds with a half rainbow, with a shed, lawn and trees.
October 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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#ArtDuringRPG - more face-drawing tutorial work. This is the best face I have ever drawn.
A graphite pencil drawing of a face surrounded by straight hair.
October 19, 2025 at 8:09 PM
amphelise.bsky.social
The “never tried a curry” thing is absurd, but I do have to point out that “cury” as used in Middle English is actually unrelated to the modern “curry”. Convergent linguistic evolution!
A screenshot from etymonline’s page on “curry”, reading “The Middle English term curry, cury, curye, etc. meaning "cookery; culinary art; concoction" (late 14c.) is unrelated to the Dravidian word or its eventual adoption into English. This word is from Old French queverie, "cookery; culinary art," ultimately from Latin coquus "cook."”.
October 18, 2025 at 12:33 PM
amphelise.bsky.social
She could have just said oops in the first place 🤦🏽‍♀️
Screenshot of Lemon explaining that she meant to reply to a different post.
October 17, 2025 at 9:17 AM
amphelise.bsky.social
Post you from another era.

Age 15, 1996.

No one knew I was queer, but I’m not sure how 👀
A photo of a white teenager with bobbed brown hair, round glasses, and a slightly nervous smile. She is sitting on a sofa and looking off to the side of the photo. She is wearing a tight black t-shirt, blue jeans, and a leather necklace with a bead pendant on it.
October 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Absolutely!
A Feast of Rupert de Nola with ingredients from the carvings of Seville Cathedral, Autumn Crown 2025 First Course: Armoured Hens Baked chicken drumsticks, butter, spelt flour, salt. Unarmoured Hens (gluten free) Baked chicken drumsticks. THIS Isn’t Chicken (vegan) Roasted pieces. Sage Omelette Beaten eggs, fresh sage, salt. Creamy Ginger Sauce Pine nuts, fresh ginger, lemon juice, sugar-free rose water, salt. Hearts of Palm ‘Clams’ in Casserole Hearts of Palm, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, mace, salt, fresh coriander, fresh parsley, vegetable oil. Pottage of Cracked Wheat Bulgur wheat, Massel beef-style vegan stock, vegan margarine. Gluten-Free Couscous Maize flour, Massel beef-style vegan stock, vegan margarine. Pottage of Peaches Peaches, crystalised ginger, honey, lemon juice. Second Course Lamb Casserole Diced lamb, orange juice, Massel beef-style vegan stock, cinnamon, cloves, ginger. Lamb Casserole sans Orange Juice Diced lamb, Massel beef-style vegan stock, cinnamon, cloves, ginger. Cheese Fritters Eggs, mature cheddar cheese. Chard with Herbs Fresh chard, fresh parsley, fresh mint, vegetable oil, salt. Rice with Stock Rice, Massel beef-style vegan stock. Figs ‘in the French Manner’ Semi-dried figs, white wine, cinnamon, cloves, grains of paradise. Side Course Deep-Fried Fruit Empanadillas Mixed peel, mixed dried fruit, dried apricots, glacé cherries, glacé ginger, shortcrust pastry. Marzipans Almond flour, icing sugar, rose water. Gluten-Free Jam Tarts Gluten-free shortcrust pastry, plum jam.
October 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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A screenshot from etymonline.com reading grenade(n.) "small explosive shell," thrown rather than discharged from a cannon, 1590s, earlier "pomegranate" (1520s), from French grenade "pomegranate" (16c.), earlier grenate (12c.), from Old French pomegrenate (see pomegranate).
October 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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#drawtober experiments
A pencil drawing of a little girl with pointed ears holding a mushroom like an umbrella.
October 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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I’m sure there is some very meta statement here about not trying to #drawtober one’s coffee before drinking one’s coffee.
A very dodgy coloured marker drawing of a green mug half-filled with coffee.
October 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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#ArtDuringRPG - pencil sketch of Kennedia coccinea (coral vine) from a photo I took near Northcliffe, Western Australia, in 2009.
A coloured pencil drawing of two pink and orange pea-shaped flowers with green and brown in the background.
September 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Place names like this are why I still have trouble believing England is a real place even though I live here.
A screenshot from England’s interactive map of river level gauges. One gauge has been selected, and the name of the gauge is shown below as “Peakshole Water at Goosehill Bridge, Castleton”.
September 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Literally just saw a post about this type of scam and zing, here’s one in my inbox! Perpetrator’s handle is skyanne00.
Screenshot of scam attempt from user @skyanne00
September 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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#ArtDuringRPG
A coloured pencil and fine liner drawing of a splendid fairy wren perched on a rock, with eucalyptus leaves and grass in the background.
September 7, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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@scattermoon.bsky.social this just came up in my Facebook memories… my screenshot of your tweet and the sketch @vagariesofmine.bsky.social made in response 😂
A tweet from Scattermoon stating that she woke up at 4am and tweeted “reverse spiders?” then went back to sleep. A sketch by Vagaries of Mine showing a “reverse spider” with eight bodies and one leg.
September 4, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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In honour of our 13th wedding anniversary, have four adorable pictures of my wife (right) and I 😊
Two white brunette women in white wedding dresses, holding bouquets of white and red flowers, standing on a brick bridge in a garden. Two white brunette women in white wedding dresses, holding bouquets of white and red flowers and touching foreheads Two white brunette women in white wedding dresses, holding bouquets of white and red flowers on a lawn amongst shrubs Two white brunette women in white wedding dresses, holding bouquets of white and red flowers, kissing
July 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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This is who runs this account
A brown-haired 3 year old white girl in a pink t-shirt, crouching on a brown carpet with mid-20th-century brown and orange furniture in the background. She has been sorting Playmobil and Lego figurines into a blue cardboard egg carton, and is grinning at the camera with her eyes closed.
June 18, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Reminded of the time I was scrolling through scans of my late paternal grandmother’s photos and noticed one called "honeymoon-weird overprint of cat". It did not disappoint.

Circa 1950. @catsofyore.bsky.social
A scan of a black-and-white landscape photo of a river or reservoir framed by trees and with hills in the background. About three quarters of the way across the picture, an image of a black-and-white cat oriented the other way is superimposed over the landscape.
June 16, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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May was a shit of a month, between some work stress, having a tooth out, the space left behind getting infected, and losing my beloved Sophie-cat to old age. But June is here, it’s Pride, and my honeysuckle is thriving and smells like heaven. Brighter days ahead, I hope.
A very large and exuberant honeysuckle vine covered in pink and white flowers. A wooden fence is in the background. A close-up of pink and yellow honeysuckle flowers with the sun streaming through them.
June 2, 2025 at 7:20 AM