Mae 美妍
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Mae 美妍
@atfruitbat.myatproto.social
She/her. Chinese Singaporean immigrant in the UK. Writer. Shortlisted for the Hachette Children’s Novel Awards 2025.

Here's where I write about writing:
https://bsky.app/profile/maetang.myatproto.social
My partner told me the blood donation service started doing this. When he's given blood it's gone all over the country - further afield that you might initially imagine. It's cool to know where my blood went!
November 7, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I really hate how when there's mass violence now, the police have to make a point of saying the perpetrators are born in the UK. Because otherwise the default assumption is that it's going to be immigrants. And we all know that would be an excuse for the racists and xenophobes to attack us
November 2, 2025 at 1:05 PM
This was true of Twitter. It's true of Bsky. It's the thing Bsky has never wanted responsibility for, and so continually fails to handle well. It's the main reason no one will wind up paying to use this place. No one should, because the moderation is inconsistent.

www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/2...
October 4, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Good write up about American Christofascism. We can expect Farage and Reform to try to enact that in the UK, especially to justify their desire to do violence to immigrants, people of colour, gay folks, trans folks.

www.milwaukeeindependent.com/column/chris...
September 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
What's a pic that belongs in the hall of fame?
(Xiao Zhan edition)

#XiaoZhan肖战
September 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
OMG I would have played an entire game just about these two! If you are also playing Road to Empress, don't forget to check out the video extras after the chapters, because you get so much more of their romance in those. Like almost an extra 10 mins of background and tragic, romantic love story. 😭
September 11, 2025 at 10:18 PM
So anyway
September 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
And on avoiding false equivalences:
September 8, 2025 at 9:58 AM
More details:
September 8, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Walked past this "Kier Starmer the OAP harmer" graffiti on a local wall, dating from the days Starmer cut winter fuel payments to pensioners.
September 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Stereotypes about the "decadent East" again.
August 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Went for an evening walk with my partner. Then we played some shuffleboard.
August 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Ooooh. At least I was expensive to murder. 😂

The quiz is both fun and extremely informative, BTW.
August 2, 2025 at 1:03 AM
The female gaze
July 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The face I'm submitting to Bluesky for verification.
July 11, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate to the drive, and for a while I could not enter, for the way was barred to me. There was a padlock and a chain upon the gate. Perhaps they shouldn't have fired their project manager after all.
July 10, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Youku app notifications are extremely weird. Like someone smashing together random tropes, but in a way that feels distinctly off.
July 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
My partner sent me this graphic of the Glastonbury site overlaid on York. It's huge.
June 29, 2025 at 11:02 PM
What athlete's expression will stay with you for the rest of your life?

Pretty much any of the Buster hugs, really. This is an especially nice one, because Tim Lincecum looks like a gleeful squirrel, as Buster hoists him up like a kid ecstatic at winning the biggest cuddly toy at a funfair. 😂
June 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
As far as animals with particular expressions go, I also really like the viscacha
June 14, 2025 at 7:07 AM
We went to see Shonen Knife in York today. As usual they were amazing. The set had new songs, old favourites and at least one or two tracks they don't play as often, so definitely something for everyone.
June 6, 2025 at 9:47 PM
(Mais pas avec un iPhone, parce que Charlie Stadtlander dit que ça c'est construit par les jeune femmes Chinoise avec ses petits mains)
May 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Take the fictional characters quiz and post the first four you know:
openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...

OK. Yeah, I suppose so.
May 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
If you see this, post a ship that makes you happy

(Will probably never get over these two, and don't even want to! 😂)
May 7, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Ed Davey talking sense in this. Probably along with the Greens, the only real opposition to Reform.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
May 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM