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Itchtoscratch
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Gay erotica writer producing stories at a rate which feels like an object approaching the event horizon of a black hole. Hot. https://www.inkitt.com/Itchtoscratch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Easily the most fun in music so far this year. Gaga is fun but Mayhem is still a fairly typical soft rock/pop album to me. But DJ Koze’s fizzing clattering paintbox of sounds and voices and colours is something I am loving listening to over and over. #music #djkoze
Album cover art for DJ Koze’s new album, Music Can Hear Us. An abstract, almost primitive styled cartoon of a figure stands in the foreground against a black speckled background which looks like space. This impression is highlighted by the magenta and red paint splash in the centre of the image which reminds me of those photographs of galaxies and space phenomenon you see. The title runs along the bottom of the image daubed like painted in white
April 12, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh is exceptional and feels like a timeless classic to me (also accept that Gideon the Ninth is the absolute dogs bollocks wonderful). I feel like Tesh got recognition for this, but deserves much more?
Cover of Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh. Against a black background, the face of a bearded man, made from vines, leaves and foliage, is intricately made out.
April 4, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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In honour of international Trans Day of visibility, I wanted to shine a spotlight on trans artists whose work I’ve loved. Last year I read Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White and was bowled over by his visceral post-apocalyptic story of transformation and the monstrous- go read it! #tdov
The rather glorious cover of Hell Followed with Us, picturing a young trans teenager in blue jeans and a red crop top, with many wings sprouting from their back, each with a red eye, hovering above a ruined urban skyline
March 31, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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In honour of international Trans Day of Visibility, I wanted to share some of the artists whose work I have loved. Maya Bouldry-Morrison records as Octo Octa, and her dance music is joyful and physical. Her album Resonant Body is a particular favourite of mine. #TDOV #nolgbwithouttheT
Octo Octa’s album Resonant Body depicts a slightly abstract almost naive painted landscape. The earth of orange broken by a river and clumped greens and browns of trees. The background is lighter and trees are more visible. A broad rover cuts through the scene and almost hidden on first view is a small figure, possibly unclothed, back to the viewer on what could be a meditative pose.
March 31, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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no cheating ..post the last photo you took of your pets
My baby gurl spaniel, matador bull toy gripped in her mouth, looking gorgeous with her long curly ears and little white blaze on her chest
March 15, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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How to alarm your partner when he’s away with work: a primer. I guess it’s gonna be one of those days.
Clumsy thumb text fails: Just walked the dog. Fucking in the shower to clear my head. Oh god. Ducking. Ducking in the shower. Delivered
February 25, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Bay of Pigs by Destroyer. 11 minutes you will never ever regret.
The beautiful and oddly haunting cover of the album Kaputt by Destroyer. It depicts in black and white what looks like the edge of a park. There are benches behind a low wall. On the wall stand four figures with a fifth sitting off to the left. They look out over the tops of trees behind which is a hazy town skyline backed by more distant towering mountains.
February 21, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Big Boys is simply one of the best and most moving comedies I have ever seen. And Jon Pointing’s performance as Danny is astonishingly good. #bigboys
Promo photo for Channel 4 comedy Big Boys, featuring the two main characters Jack and Danny.
February 10, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Deep breaths. #vaporwave #nowlistening #mallcore
Fiji Waterfalls by Eco Virtual an early (?) vaporwave artist. The album artwork is a drawn eye but the iris is a blue cloudscape.
February 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Apologies for forgetting ALT!
Like a right geek, I have lovingly laid out my complete for now collection of the first time Fighting Fantasy books with their original artwork and cover design. The first seven featured a round star with book number in the bottom left corner. Books 8-10 saw the branding change to the familiar green serrated top banner and uniform green spines.
February 8, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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The way I feel such satisfaction having these back in my life. These bad boys are forty years old. I’ll never understand why they abandoned the star cover design. Brand identity smothering character. Never mind, the preciouses are mines again, all mines! #fightingfantasy #📚💙 #booksky
February 8, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Despite my place of work being, in many ways, a waking nightmare, sometimes there are views like this…
The sun rises on a foggy morning over a frosted field. An old wrought iron fence, encrusted with frost and tangled with plants and trailers occupies the foreground. On first impression, you might even think this was a good place to work.
February 7, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Underground
Overground
#sondering free

The people
around me are
Complex you see

Making their
Ways through the
Trouble and strife

Remember
We each have our
Own inner life.

Doo-be-doo-be-doo
Doo-be-doo-be-doo-be-doo-be-doo-be
Doo-be-doo-be-doo
doo
Doo-be-doo-be-doo-be-do…

#vss365 #wombles
Two wombles, maybe Orinoco and an Uncle, honestly I don’t know. Imagine a badger crossed with an aardvark cosplaying as Sherlock Holmes and something vaguely Scottish. Adorable puppet heroes from the 70s, most likely to terrify today’s children for nebulous reasons.
February 1, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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#vss365 #conjure
When the fever doesn't break When the pain it wracks and aches Flannel heating on your brow Eyes growing dimmer now. Medicine has reached its end No sign that you're on the mend Helpless at your side I sit Holding on to how we fit. Science helpless Prayer gone #Conjure me a new outcome! But it's still just you and me It's okay. Let go. Be free. #vss365 The poem is accompanied by a black and white close up picture of held hands. Picture credit: Image by <a href="https://pixabay.com/users/mivargof-10988759/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image&utm_content=3964554">Mirka</a> from <a href="https://pixabay.com//?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image&utm_content=3964554">Pixabay</a>
January 30, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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I’m going in. #booksky #📚💙 #fightingfantasy #rpg #nostalgia
A picture of Steve Jackson’s Fighting Fantasy book, House of Hell. The cover is a phenomenal illustration by Ian Miller. In front of a dilapidated old house wreathed in fog, strange twisted beasts and demon like figures writhe as if part of the creeping branches and foliage around them.
January 29, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Ooo, congrats! How many of you did it take? I’m still weirdly excited about my shiny dynamax Krabby!
A shiny Krabby from Pokémon go. It is a lime/snot green with little pincers waving on the air.
January 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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I’m sure I read these WAY back in the day, but I’ve mostly got a memory of the glorious cover art. Maybe time to revisit…?
Cover of Dragons of Autumn Twilight. A frantic battle scene with a helmed woman with flying blond hair and raised sword drawing the eye. In the background men are engulfed in dragon flames.
January 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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#vss365 #vsspoetry #lace

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His #laces dance and dangle. Untied, I'm not sure how I feel about that. Unaware of risk. Light feet, bright steps, no thought I have never seen him trip. But still I conjure danger. Grinding escalators Closing carriage doors. Wait, I say, Hold still. Kneeling down before him Twisting, looping, knotting tight. There. #vss365
January 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Oh my god, forgive me but I feel like I’ve just discovered eBay and am currently on a nostalgia rampage recovering all my 1980s #fightingfantasy style books. And it is filling me with joy.

Anyone remember these with the same fondness as me? #booksky #rpg #📚💙 #💙📚 #gaynerd #gaygeek
A picture of a series of 1980s solo rpg fighting fantasy style books, including the iconic Warlock of Firetop Mountain and the first Lone Wolf adventure Flight from the Dark.
January 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Just finished listening to the excellent audiobook version of Zen Cho’s wonderful Black Water Sister. Fantastic narration by Catherine Ho. I really enjoyed reading a book set in a culture and context about which I know very little. Really recommend this queer story of family, spirits and gods. 💙📚
Picture of the bright tropical floral cover of Black Water Sister by Zen Cho.
January 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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My eyes open slowly to morning light and you.
You’re turned away and curled, breath soft as lapping waves.
I spoon against your curve, #sweet heat in the mapping.
You murmur as you wake, twist in sheets to face me.

#vss365 #alexandrine
Two men are pictured from the chest up. They are shirtless and their faces are close to one another, as if about to kiss. Photo by Ketut Subiyanto: https://www.pexels.com/photo/close-up-of-two-men-kissing-4830972/
January 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Who would #guess what lies
Beneath the pond’s frozen skin -
Dormant stirring life.

#vss365 #haiku
A black and white image of a frozen pond edged by a snow capped wooden fence and trees. Image by <a href="https://pixabay.com/users/wal_172619-12138562/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image&utm_content=6856629">wal_172619</a> from <a href="https://pixabay.com//?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image&utm_content=6856629">Pixabay</a>
January 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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He didn’t let me watch. Said it was a kindness. But his kindness was a shrivelled thing. I could still see her #silhouette quailing through the tarp. Her sisters’ heads tracking her ascent. Hear her snivels as she rose. The trumpet fanfare scream. The crowd’s held breath explode. The thump. #vss365
Photo credit: Philomena Famulok. A grimy silhouetted image of a woman on an arial swing, observed by three other silhouetted figures
December 19, 2024 at 3:38 PM
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Old man!
Your time has come!
I #challenge for your place!
Your amber eyes are dull as wax…
Your grace.

#vss365 #cinquain #poetry
A glorious close up photo of a lion. Image by <a href="https://pixabay.com/users/alexas_fotos-686414/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image&utm_content=3576045">Alexa</a> from <a href="https://pixabay.com//?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image&utm_content=3576045">Pixabay</a>
December 16, 2024 at 10:26 PM
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TRANSA is so good; I can’t understand why I’m not seeing more about this everywhere! Streaming and available here redhot.bandcamp.com/album/tra-a?...

#transa #music
Cover to Red Hot Org’s compilation album TRANSA. A goat wanders in front of a shed with a mossy roof. The orange logo TRANSA (with inverted N and S) is seen on the clapboard sidings
December 16, 2024 at 3:00 PM