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Florence McGrath
@flothulhu.bsky.social
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AKA The Polka Dot Assassin. Artist, Sci-fi/Fantasy writer, fictional weasel wrangler, theic, robot wannabe. Scot in South Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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I see people asking if social media sells books. Can’t speak for everyone but ALL my purchases this year have been from posts on here, and that’s been a lot.
This morning I bought a book after someone posted they didn’t enjoy it much, BUT it sounded right up MY street.
Post them books, doooo it.
Image of a large stack of books with the words, you can’t buy happiness but you can buy books and that’s kind of the same thing.
October 5, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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It’s a hard life for Mousecow. She got up to the window to watch the birds and the wind blowing the trees but it was all a bit too exhausting so she had to have a nap 😂
#MondayFeelings #BusyCat
Mousecow, a ridiculous floofy white and tabby cat has collapsed into a nap after the extremely tiring job of having a look out of the window.
September 15, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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It’s already on the shelf bwahahahahaha!
September 9, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Book mail! Today I got this lovely book with its beautiful cover. Always love a book by @frasierarmitage.bsky.social
He’s a fantastic writer, if you haven’t already, you need to check his books out! 🔥

He’s also a lovely person and has biscuits 🤩
Novel by Frasier Armitage called Cage of Stars, lying on a grey desk. It’s got a fantastic cover with a Robot wading knee deep through some sort of liquid on an alien world.
September 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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My lovely @gigerpunk.bsky.social added lights to the bookcase that’s now next to our bed! The books are all on at last, instead of lying around in piles but they’re subject to change and still to be arranged as I want.
It’s now looking cosy and lovely 🥰❤️
#Shelfie #BackOnMyBullshit
A wooden bookcase in a room lit by a small beside lamp. The bookcase has shelf lighting so all the books can be seen clearly. A shelfie of the bookcase there are a good number of books on it ranging from children’s books by Richard Scarry to Stephanie King novels and art books.
September 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Mmmm new pencil smell 🤩
22 Mitsubishi hi-uni drawing pencils in a metal tray. Pure bliss in wooden smell form ❤️
September 4, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Those are our old, faded, beat up, carried around in our bag copies. Our other ones are on the downstairs shelves ⬇️
Bookshelves containing nearly all of the Discworld book, bar a few Tiffany Aching ones.
September 1, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Off to life drawing tonight!
#SouthWales #Art
August 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?
David Lynch in a black jacket with his arms folded, he has a red AIDS ribbon on his lapel and a cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth. His expression looks like concerned curiosity. Which I imagine would be his expression if he was my therapist.
August 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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No cheating. Post your Lock Screen.

Had this for a while, but I can’t bring myself to change it cos…trilobites!
My phone Lock Screen. A neutral warm gray background with colourful depictions of different varieties of trilobites laid out as in an image from a science textbook. I unfortunately could never find the artist or origin of the image. I love it though.
July 26, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Met some bees today! Lookit the fuzzy butts 😍🥰
Lovely bee, wings spread in the middle of a beautiful pink echinacea flower TWO fuzzy bees busying themselves in the centre of a bright pink echinacea flower. ANOTHER fuzzy bum bee having a lil rest on an echinacea flower.
July 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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I had some lovely book post today! Can’t wait to read these and then pick up the third on the 27th of May! A birthday present to myself I think 🎉
Two lovely fantasy books lying on a wooden coffee table, The Sword Defiant, and The Sword Unbound, by Gareth Hanrahan. They are just waiting for the third book to be released and join them.
May 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Repost with a photo of yours that would make a good album cover.
A picture of a shabby, burgundy coloured wooden panelled door, surrounded but red wall and dim lighting. The door is the brightest point in the picture.
March 16, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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After my last post I just got a gift in the post from my lovely man @gigerpunk.bsky.social via @gingertotty.bsky.social!
I am squeeing so much about my lil ghost friends 🥰😍
I love them so much!
Two little painted stones in a gauzy bag. The stones are painted like ghosts, the larger one is a happy ghost carrying a sign that says boo and the small stone is an anxious ghost that looks scared of its own shadow. Inside lid of the box they arrived in has a hand drawn doodle of both ghosts saying boo. It’s very cute! The stones out of their bag, sat on my table next to my cup of tea in an octopus mug (cos why not) and a small bowl Of tasty tasty bbq pork crisps. The backside of the stones on the same table. The large ghost has a very cute lil bum drawn on and the little stone says BOO, in a speech cloud.
March 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Twinkle Star Sprites, no idea if you’ve played it but it looks like the kinda bonkers thing you’d enjoy/tolerate.
The cover of a Japanese release retro video game called Twinkle Star Sprites. A manga style cute girl is front and centre her mouth open in a joyful shout, one arm in the air. Lots of other mad characters surround her. It looks colourful and bonkers. Probably shite but it’ll be cutesy shite.
February 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Is this MEME enough? Click the pic ❤️
FIASCO KITTY has the BLEP tongue. Fiasco is a very handsome floofy cat, various shades of grey, white and ‘blue.’ He is staring intently off camera, no doubt at something vastly spectacular, and sticking his tongue out. He is splendid indeed.
January 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Post you from a different era
Me, in my mid twenties with very dark almost black, burgundy hair. I’m dressed all in black with a gothic cross necklace and what looks like a slightly mischievous smile. I have cropped the pic to remove my old friends as I don’t know if they’d want to be shown.
November 21, 2024 at 7:45 AM
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Fascinating talk and demonstration at the Cowbridge Art Society by Richard Gilbert. Absolutely adored these large scale charcoal works of the Ghost Trees from his recent exhibition at Croft Castle.

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November 12, 2024 at 11:12 PM
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20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookChallenge

Day 3
The Stars my Destination - Alfred Bester
Cover of The Stars my Destination by Alfred Bester. The cover is coloured in an orange/yellow/green palette. A bald man with heavy tattooing all over his head and face looks out of the picture. A spired building is in the background against an orange sky with green clouds.
September 24, 2024 at 10:09 PM
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20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookChallenge

Day 2
Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake
The cover of the Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake. The cover shows a dark corridor in a castle, a ghostly image of the character Steerpine can be seen on the wall. The cover is old and creased.
September 23, 2024 at 9:33 AM
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20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookChallenge

Oh go on then, I’ll play.

1: Les Liasons Dangereuses - Choderlos de Laclos
Cover of Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos. An 18th Century lady accepts a kiss on the cheek from a gentleman, the both look slightly disheveled as though possibly in the process of undressing. Ooh la la!
September 22, 2024 at 11:16 AM
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Thank you! The are gorgeous! All I could find yesterday was one puffball 😟
September 22, 2024 at 9:09 AM
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Good news! Today my test line is very faint. Huzzah!
And also my lovely man @gigerpunk.bsky.social had flowers delivered to cheer me up cos I’ve been fed up with Covid and also back working (from home).
It was such a lovely surprise. He really is the best 🥰❤️
Covid test with a very faint positive line at last Beautiful bouquet of flowers, deep red roses, pink, white and mauve smaller flowers.
August 22, 2024 at 2:55 PM
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In today’s Covid report:

Today starts with grumbly, gravelly expletives and an overall blanket of unpleasant sweats. Aches and pains expected later with a 60% chance of headaches in the coastal regions.

Now over to Tim with the sport.
A Covid test with a very definite red line in both the control and test spaces, indicating another bloody positive test. Boooo.
August 19, 2024 at 9:36 AM
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I got this key-ring and stickers in the dealers hall at WorldCon. I think the table was FunnyBonesCo(?)
They look like they’d try and sell you dodgy dvds in the pub, and I love them more than real Pokémon!
Keyring of Bulbasaur done in a sinister, shady style. He looks like he’s been up to shit. It has sparkles that aren’t that visible in the pic. It is everything. Stickers that accompany the bulbasaur keyring, done in the same shady style. They look like they will fuck your shit up. Seriously. I love them.
August 14, 2024 at 12:45 PM