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Helen Laird
@helenlaird.bsky.social
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EM A&E consultant (ER attending). NHS. Leadership. Bit political. Anti-racist. Screenwriter. Medical script consultant. She/her 🏳️‍🌈 Trans ally 🏳️‍⚧️ #scriptsky
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Here I go getting my Lyra fix. #TheRoseField
Cover of the book of dust volume three the rose field by Philip Pullman. Stormy desert golden hues a couple of silhouettes of people on camels.
October 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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My thoughts align with @manbehavingdadly.bsky.social on this.
Flowchart written by Simon Harris. Starts Am I allowed to display an England flag arrow to Are you going to be a massive racist wankpuffin? Yes - No you may not. No - Yes you may.
August 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Love the land of roar.

On a darker and more YA note. The Girl with the Fierce eyes has an intriguing world of ocular castes woven into ocular magic. Real page turner of a debut novel and my friend @sophiavahdati wrote it!
Book cover. The girl with the fierce eyes by Sophia Vahdati. Rising up from a stormy sea stands a haunting looking girl with dark skinned and black curly hair and piercing magical blue eyes.
August 8, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Are we allowed to add YA books here? I’ve just finished reading The Girl with the Fierce Eyes by @sophiavahdati.bsky.social and the occur magic is wonderfully woven into an alternate world of ocular castes. It’s her debut novel.
Me holding a copy of the girl with the fierce eyes. By Sophia Vahdati. A stylistic swirling stormy sea of waves with a dark skinned, curly haired girl standing hauntingly with piercing blue eyes.
August 8, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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I practically had to be dragged on this camping holiday. Lucky for me my wife is both clever and incredibly patient.
My legs reclining on a camping sofa with a lovely green fields and some oak trees behind. Fleabag script on my lap.
May 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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This is a mood!
Damp doggo stares at the camera with a “I’m so done with the day” face.
May 24, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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I love that my child looks at this cool bag and thinks. This is a frog, it needs eyes. Genius! 🐸
Green cuboid cool bag. It has sticky outy eyes taped to the top.
May 17, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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My incredibly talented friend @sophiavahdati.bsky.social is getting her first YA published and just had her first cover reveal!

Absolutely stunning!
On a background of stormy seas a brown-skinned girl with a blue dress stares out at us. Her eyes glowing magically. The girl with the fierce eyes by Sophia Vahdati. Your eyes decide your destiny.
May 11, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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BOOK COVER REVEAL!

So excited that my incredibly talented writer friend @sophiavahdati.bsky.social is getting her first book published.

I cannot wait to read this beauty!

The Girl with The Fierce Eyes

#booksky #yabooksky
Book cover “The Girl with the Fierce Eyes”, Sophia Vahdati. On a background of swirling seas a brown skinned girl stands alone staring at us with piercingly fierce eyes. “Your eyes decide your destiny”.
May 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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I know I’m getting into the nitty gritty of my WIP when shiny new story ideas pop into my head. #scriptsky
Meme of the man with checked shirt walking with his girlfriend (WIP) turning back to ogle at another woman (New story idea).
May 6, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Photo of kim jong un with shave sides and long top hair.
March 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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I am so excited to get started on this tasty morsel of a script. What a design! The ecclesiastical reference. The Guinea pig! #Fleabag #scripskyuk
A book with biblical looking design. Words gold embossed. Title Fleabag. The Scriptures. Author Phoebe Waller-Bridge. A gold embossed little Guinea pig is bottom central.
February 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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New meme drops
New meme. Dog giving majestic side eye.
January 10, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just .gifs
#FilmSky
#Movies 🎬📽️
#moviechallenge

Day 18

#KyssMig (#KissMe)
Gif from the movie Kiss Me. In a dark fishing shed, close up of Frida bringing her lips close to Mia’s. Mia lingers for a moment in both lust and hesitance. Frida tentatively move her hands to Mia’s waist.
January 6, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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A remake of the graduate from Mrs Robinson’s perspective.
Photo from The Graduate movie. Mrs Robinson sits in the Bed with her stocking half way down her leg looking down.
January 5, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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There’s some in the southwest. Just put the tree back out in time for a dusting.
A Christmas tree with a light dusting of snow.
January 4, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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I have a couple of film cameras, just lacking in time sadly. Most of my photography is on the phone these days. The periflex was my dad’s first camera and the minolta was my first SLR.
Two old SLR cameras. periflex and minolta.
December 31, 2024 at 11:14 AM
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Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just .gifs
#FilmSky
#Movies 🎬📽️
#moviechallenge

Day 12

#TheLivesofOthers
No gif available so have a poster instead.
Movie poster of “The Lives of Others” a collection of 3 photos. A man looks through binoculars at the viewer. A couple gaze into the distance looking concerned. The back of a man’s head wearing headphones.
December 31, 2024 at 10:38 AM
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Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just .gifs
#FilmSky
#Movies 🎬📽️
#moviechallenge

Day 9

#TheLongKissGoodnight
Geena Davis in the long kiss goodnight with bleached blond hair dressed in black. Rifle on her back. Snow behind her lowers her gun and moves forward.
December 28, 2024 at 10:05 AM
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Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just .gifs
#FilmSky
#Movies 🎬📽️
#moviechallenge

Day 7
Movie poster of “Cry Freedom” showing large picture of denzel Washington with Kevin Kline in the foreground.
December 26, 2024 at 10:13 AM
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Creative wrapping. Vintage Lego. ❤️🎄
A vintage Lego, 3 level build. The top has 2 animals in a boat with “merry Christmas wifey” written on a card. 2nd level some other animals with a pig playing the tuba. Close up of vintage Lego. A pig playing the tuba with 2 animals behind holding a sign saying “presenting pig”. Vintage Lego animals next to a Lego box with a sign on top saying “if a pig playing the tuba isn’t to your taste open the box”
December 26, 2024 at 9:54 AM
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Age yourself with your first computer.
Amstrad COC 464 with green screen and tape deck.
November 18, 2024 at 11:36 AM