Joanna Hastings
@joannahastings.bsky.social
Writer, editor, lover of dreams and folktales. BLM. Trans Rights. Women's Rights. Refugee Rights. Human Rights. Green Party member. We're all just walking each other home.
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Blinkered, naive, narrow-minded, presumptuous, ignorant?
November 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Blinkered, naive, narrow-minded, presumptuous, ignorant?
Solipsism? Narcissism? Subjectivity?
November 17, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Solipsism? Narcissism? Subjectivity?
The look is for the problems Olivia is describing, not for Olivia herself.
November 17, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The look is for the problems Olivia is describing, not for Olivia herself.
This is what I'm hoping for.
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
This is what I'm hoping for.
Olivia is wonderful.
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Olivia is wonderful.
Also not what they're saying. They're saying that NATO needs reinventing without the US because the US is an unstable, untrustworthy, volatile mess.
November 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Also not what they're saying. They're saying that NATO needs reinventing without the US because the US is an unstable, untrustworthy, volatile mess.
Thank you! I will find it - the answer is there, I just have to let it find its way.
November 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Thank you! I will find it - the answer is there, I just have to let it find its way.
I'll order it. It'll be fine, I'm just prone to exaggeration. It will be worth it, anyway.
November 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I'll order it. It'll be fine, I'm just prone to exaggeration. It will be worth it, anyway.
Thanks. I will order it. I'd heard that US/UK postage rates were extortionate but maybe it was overstated.
November 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Thanks. I will order it. I'd heard that US/UK postage rates were extortionate but maybe it was overstated.
I've been thinking about it all day, different ways of understanding back and front doors, different entry points, oblique ways to reach a story, the cracks that leak revelations, how a narrative can pass through a perfectly innocent-looking transition point and find that the rules have changed...
November 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I've been thinking about it all day, different ways of understanding back and front doors, different entry points, oblique ways to reach a story, the cracks that leak revelations, how a narrative can pass through a perfectly innocent-looking transition point and find that the rules have changed...
Dammit Kyla. This is wonderful. How do I get your book, without paying a million pounds per page for postage? Are you selling it in the UK? I will give [border taxes/whatever the eff it is that's jacking the price up] my life savings if I have to, but I admit I'd rather not.
November 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Dammit Kyla. This is wonderful. How do I get your book, without paying a million pounds per page for postage? Are you selling it in the UK? I will give [border taxes/whatever the eff it is that's jacking the price up] my life savings if I have to, but I admit I'd rather not.
I think this way of thinking about back doors and front doors may actually help me get moving again. Did you see @nastasyaparker.bsky.social Nastasya's post?
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I attended Stroud Book Festival and came away with more than just great books. When you're reading, do you notice front doors and back doors to a story? In your creative endeavours, how do you balance head and heart? #BookSky #WritingCommunity nastasyaparker.com/art-and-lite...
Finding a Door
This Week’s Bit of String: A dark and stormy night One rainy evening out of several rainy evenings this week, our cat Oberon got restless. He was hanging around the hallway, so I opened the front d…
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November 17, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I think this way of thinking about back doors and front doors may actually help me get moving again. Did you see @nastasyaparker.bsky.social Nastasya's post?
bsky.app/profile/nast...
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I'll try but I don't think I can do it this time. Really sad about that but will catch up later on what everyone talked about. ❤️✍️❤️
November 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I'll try but I don't think I can do it this time. Really sad about that but will catch up later on what everyone talked about. ❤️✍️❤️
Yes - I'm in it now. It can be actually terrifying. Even so, trying to push through it just makes it worse. I should know enough by now to let it take its course, accept the process, but it's so hard.
November 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Yes - I'm in it now. It can be actually terrifying. Even so, trying to push through it just makes it worse. I should know enough by now to let it take its course, accept the process, but it's so hard.
Living the dream. Enjoy it!
November 17, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Living the dream. Enjoy it!
Olivia is great. I'm hoping she joins the Greens.
November 17, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Olivia is great. I'm hoping she joins the Greens.
Oh thank god.
November 16, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Oh thank god.
Can Streeting please go too? He's rotten to the core.
November 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Can Streeting please go too? He's rotten to the core.
Nope. I was one of the ones who heard people say 'this lot are just Tory-lite' and thought, well, they're Labour, they can't really be like the Tories, they're LABOUR and their pledges look okay. So I voted for them, as I always have, all my life. I'm ashamed and sorry. It won't happen again.
November 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Nope. I was one of the ones who heard people say 'this lot are just Tory-lite' and thought, well, they're Labour, they can't really be like the Tories, they're LABOUR and their pledges look okay. So I voted for them, as I always have, all my life. I'm ashamed and sorry. It won't happen again.