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Halla Williams
@hallawilliams.bsky.social
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Mostly writing SFF and singing now I’m no longer acting or teaching English. Tequila and coke, please. Post-cancer chronic fatigue can do one. She/her. Hallawilliams.net
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Looks perfectly safe.
A tabby cat (Alfie) lies precariously in the top cubby of a grey cat castle. His curved back is protruding way over the edge.
December 7, 2024 at 5:54 PM
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This is the most limited kind of lap there is. But I’ll take what I can get!
Dark tortie cat Marigold sits on my ankles facing away from me and the camera.
November 23, 2024 at 11:48 PM
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If it fits I… hang on…
Cat (dark tortie Marigold) too big for a box trying anyway to sit in it.
November 13, 2024 at 8:07 PM
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It’s box season. Mags would be chuffed if she understood the joy to come.
Marigold, a dark tortie cat with bright orange eyes is a tight fit in a cardboard box overflowing with packing paper. She looks thrilled.
November 13, 2024 at 4:45 PM
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Found this behind a den my child and I built. Stranded behind a spaceship (that became a sweet shop). For one to live, the other must die!
A glass fruit bowl containing a yam that has sprouted upwards a long way and a wizened, blackened banana.
July 14, 2024 at 1:07 PM
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This goddess is Victoria Bourne from Hangover Square. I was blown away by their performance of the whole of the new album, Rewire. Folk electronica gorgeousness.

Photos by Tracy Johnson
A statuesque, blonde white woman in a slightly ruched, full-length scarlet dress with long sleeves that ripple as she moves, wearing red, high heeled boots sings into a microphone, beautifully lit on a dark stage. A guitarist plays in the shadows behind her. The same woman stands with her arms raised so the sleeves look like red wings. She is lit mostly from behind by a spotlight so she shines on the dark stage.
May 13, 2024 at 9:38 AM
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Tufty-toed guardian of the tower.
A grey cat tower. Through the doorway of the turret pokes a fluffy tortoiseshell paw. Through the window, an amber eye and part of a black face can be seen.
April 12, 2024 at 6:19 PM
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King of the Night. Do Not Disturb.
A fluffy tabby (Alfie) sleeping on a starred bedcover with one of his huge paws over his face.
February 15, 2024 at 7:51 PM
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Just found this in my photos, reminding me I was on The Tiny Bookcase podcast in December. We read each other our stories and discussed them and then we talked writing, singing and probing 😅 The picture is me as a goblin singing my heart out. Check it out on any podcast app or visit their website.
A quote from the podcast says “I was quite excited by the way you said mushrooms.” And the attribution says Halla, positive shroom feedback episode 157: Tongues
February 3, 2024 at 7:49 PM
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Am booked for Glasgow Worldcon in August! So excited to meet up with old friends, new friends and Transpatial Tavern internet friends!
Circular Worldcon logo showing planets and famous landmarks.
January 24, 2024 at 9:15 AM
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Magnificence!
Alfie the floofy caramel and chocolate tabby lies nonchalantly on some nice cushions. His enormous tail and leg are off the edge of the sofa. His ruff is extra floofy because of the cold weather.
January 24, 2024 at 8:56 AM
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I think it may be stuck. The cat is purring.
Sand picture stuck with two mountains of sand above the bubbles and one between them at the bottom. It’s beautiful.
December 25, 2023 at 11:00 PM
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Cat meditation
A large circular sand picture where bubbles hold up very pale to dark red sand until it drifts down to form another sandscape. The cat is not pictured but is a fascinated fluffy tabby (Toby).
December 25, 2023 at 10:50 PM
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An empty advent calendar is the best place to sit! Crinkly nice.
A fluffy tabby (Toby) sits on the broken foil and plastic of the inside of an advent calendar.
December 25, 2023 at 9:28 AM
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This is my stand-in Alfie for the night! Even let me brush him! Gawjus!
Fluffy, light-brown tabby sleeping with nose in tail.
December 24, 2023 at 9:46 PM
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Love it when the bus driver stops exactly where you are waiting and gives you a big smile! Well done First Bus!
Halla smiling on a bus with a flashy gold necklace and a scruffy coat on.
October 26, 2023 at 5:56 PM
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This one is a fan of unboxing too.
Tortie cat sitting pretty with cardboard box and washing basket, wishing for entertainment.
October 19, 2023 at 10:43 PM
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On the other hand, this one keeps choosing a spot with zero to recommend it!
A dark tortie cat (Marigold) is curled up in a ball for the night on the carpeted but otherwise bare floor right next to a wall near a closed door. Other options were available!
October 14, 2023 at 11:32 PM
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It’s turning colder here in Bristol, England. Time to get cosy.
Fluffy brown tabby (Alfie) sleeping sprawled among blankets and cushions on a grey armchair.
October 14, 2023 at 7:00 PM
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A nervous start but it went awfully well. Reading from my first published work - goal achieved! Fantasycon, I loved you!
Shona Kinsella, Chair of the British Fantasy Society, in a white shirt and corset, and Halla Williams with her hair down and glasses on her head in an off-the-shoulder blue and white top. They are sitting at a long table at the back of the picture with an audience sitting in the foreground. Halla looks nervous but ready to read to the audience of Fantasycon attendees.
September 22, 2023 at 11:20 PM
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We are not amused.
Marigold, a dark tortie cat sitting at the top of a cat castle with staring orange eyes.
September 22, 2023 at 11:11 PM
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Batman cannot help you now.
Alfie, a tabby cat, sitting by a knocked-over Batman projection lamp.
September 21, 2023 at 9:40 AM
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Welcome… to the dark side
A duvet cover with Star Wars storm troopers and Darth Vader etc on. In the foreground, Marigold the tortie cat gives the camera side eye. Her face is partly lit.
September 19, 2023 at 9:34 PM
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Fantasycon in Birmingham was wondrous, especially hanging out with this beauty, having deep and meaningfuls, and seeing (and meeting) many old friends and new. Learned loads too. Attended the launch of my first published work in an anthology and read aloud from my story Draw the Dead. Exhilarating!
September 18, 2023 at 10:47 PM
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Crouching tiger, camouflaged cat
September 18, 2023 at 10:42 PM