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Geek, Dad, Gray Ace, He/Him. Enjoys reading words off paper, sometimes puts them there as well.
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Lost Talent Chapter 1
Someone had swapped the labels on the potion bottles, and of course it was Mina’s job to sort it out. It was lucky Mr Bergamot had recognised that ‘Abington’s Peaceful Slumber’ shouldn’t have been a s...
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So! I have a very barebones website now! Here is the first chapter of my debut novel: Lost Talent, which I will be self publishing in spring 2026.
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Since today is the crowdfund launch, but I've got hours to kill yet...
1 like = 1 lore drop from The Chosen One Con 😎
1 like = 1 lore drop from The Chosen One Con 😎
November 12, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Since today is the crowdfund launch, but I've got hours to kill yet...
1 like = 1 lore drop from The Chosen One Con 😎
1 like = 1 lore drop from The Chosen One Con 😎
This acheives nothing more than a transfer of public money to big tech companies. I'd love to know the costs of this and how much mental health support could have been bought instead.
Oh good grief.
Like today's kids aren't struggling as it is.
I swear, there's not enough #tea in the world 🤦♀️
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Like today's kids aren't struggling as it is.
I swear, there's not enough #tea in the world 🤦♀️
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
All schools in England to be given AI-generated pupil attendance targets
Unions decry move, saying it will put more pressure on headteachers without tackling absence from classrooms
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:12 AM
This acheives nothing more than a transfer of public money to big tech companies. I'd love to know the costs of this and how much mental health support could have been bought instead.
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Those with power and platforms who believe in human rights and social progress - if you don’t start speaking up now then you have welcomed in fascism
November 11, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Those with power and platforms who believe in human rights and social progress - if you don’t start speaking up now then you have welcomed in fascism
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My feelings about the BBC are largely in line with my feelings about the NHS.
I think it is vital we have a publicly owned and funded broadcaster and its enemies are my enemies, but I *detest* the way it's talked about as some gift to the peasantry we're supposed to be fawningly grateful for.
I think it is vital we have a publicly owned and funded broadcaster and its enemies are my enemies, but I *detest* the way it's talked about as some gift to the peasantry we're supposed to be fawningly grateful for.
Revealing division in my timeline between (1) my insider friends who have lived privileged lives who are very keen that we defend the BBC and think it's important it survives and (2) my outsider friends who feel (at best) ambivalent about the BBC's survival.
November 11, 2025 at 8:12 AM
My feelings about the BBC are largely in line with my feelings about the NHS.
I think it is vital we have a publicly owned and funded broadcaster and its enemies are my enemies, but I *detest* the way it's talked about as some gift to the peasantry we're supposed to be fawningly grateful for.
I think it is vital we have a publicly owned and funded broadcaster and its enemies are my enemies, but I *detest* the way it's talked about as some gift to the peasantry we're supposed to be fawningly grateful for.
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A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
Talking Oglaf with Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne: 'We'd stay up all night drawing stuff to make each other laugh' - The Comics Journal
Other than some time off every year for Christmas, Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne have delivered a new Oglaf comic, skewering fantasy tropes with absolutely not safe for work humor, every week since 2008...
www.tcj.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
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I fear we are seeing in the UK what has become abundantly clear in the US: for all their power and privilege, elites and institutions are absolute cowards in the face of right-wing authoritarianism. Weak, weak, weak, as Tony Blair once said
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I fear we are seeing in the UK what has become abundantly clear in the US: for all their power and privilege, elites and institutions are absolute cowards in the face of right-wing authoritarianism. Weak, weak, weak, as Tony Blair once said
I was talking to my daughter about how to kill vampires in D&D and she asked: if a centaur was turned into a vampire, would you put the stake in the heart of the human part or the horse part?
November 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I was talking to my daughter about how to kill vampires in D&D and she asked: if a centaur was turned into a vampire, would you put the stake in the heart of the human part or the horse part?
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The only scenario that satisfies people like this is total submission. So unless you're willing to do that, they will fight you tooth and nail all the way. You might as well just take everything from them; they'll act like you have anyway.
November 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The only scenario that satisfies people like this is total submission. So unless you're willing to do that, they will fight you tooth and nail all the way. You might as well just take everything from them; they'll act like you have anyway.
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Astonishingly, the ZELDA game franchise somehow managed to survive this launch...
November 9, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Astonishingly, the ZELDA game franchise somehow managed to survive this launch...
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This is an entirely uncontroversial view in international law and usually taught in 101.
November 9, 2025 at 7:42 AM
This is an entirely uncontroversial view in international law and usually taught in 101.
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every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours
November 9, 2025 at 2:55 AM
every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours
November 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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For, erm, reasons, I stumbled on this…and boy, oh boy, am I not remotely surprised: www.equity.org.uk/news/2024/wo...
Working class creatives at ‘lowest level in a decade’ | Equity
Equity’s Class Network has responded to new research showing that working class representation in the creative industries is at the lowest level in a decade.
www.equity.org.uk
November 8, 2025 at 7:08 AM
For, erm, reasons, I stumbled on this…and boy, oh boy, am I not remotely surprised: www.equity.org.uk/news/2024/wo...
The Second chapter, of 'Lost Talent' a YA contemporary fantasy coming in april 2026 is up on my website now.
It's about what happens to four friends after they graduate from magic school and learn that maybe their teachers didn't have their best interests at heart...
It's about what happens to four friends after they graduate from magic school and learn that maybe their teachers didn't have their best interests at heart...
Lost Talent - Chapter 2
Mina read the parchment as Heidi shrugged on her coat. The scrawl of ink from a modern biro stood out against the rough parchment. It brought back bad memories. The message was simple. “I think my son...
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November 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The Second chapter, of 'Lost Talent' a YA contemporary fantasy coming in april 2026 is up on my website now.
It's about what happens to four friends after they graduate from magic school and learn that maybe their teachers didn't have their best interests at heart...
It's about what happens to four friends after they graduate from magic school and learn that maybe their teachers didn't have their best interests at heart...
People should get on this. I'm no buzzkill, but fireworks seem to be getting louder and more powerful every year. Bonfire night and new years eve is absolute terror for cats and dogs.
There is no reason that our cities and towns need to sound like warzone twice a year.
There is no reason that our cities and towns need to sound like warzone twice a year.
Since this is STILL going on where we live, I’m sharing this again.
Contact your MP if you’ve had enough of this bullshit firework nonsense going on for over a WEEK! 😡😡😡
action.dogstrust.org.uk/page/178980/...
#dogs #fireworks #fireworksfuckoff #dogsky
Contact your MP if you’ve had enough of this bullshit firework nonsense going on for over a WEEK! 😡😡😡
action.dogstrust.org.uk/page/178980/...
#dogs #fireworks #fireworksfuckoff #dogsky
Help Protect Dogs from Firework Fear | Dogs Trust
action.dogstrust.org.uk
November 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
People should get on this. I'm no buzzkill, but fireworks seem to be getting louder and more powerful every year. Bonfire night and new years eve is absolute terror for cats and dogs.
There is no reason that our cities and towns need to sound like warzone twice a year.
There is no reason that our cities and towns need to sound like warzone twice a year.
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STOP having "conversations" with ChatGPT and START talking to your stuffed animals like a normal person
everyone needs to grow the fuck up and start playing pretend with toys
November 7, 2025 at 2:00 AM
STOP having "conversations" with ChatGPT and START talking to your stuffed animals like a normal person
Growing up were there any moments in movies that traumatized you?
November 7, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Growing up were there any moments in movies that traumatized you?
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Eastercon is the UK's annual science fiction convention for book lovers & writers
Iridescence, 2026's Eastercon will be at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel, 3-6 April 2026. Tickets on sale now
Guests of Honour include @rjbarker.bsky.social @emmanewman.bsky.social & @drkarenlord.bsky.social
Iridescence, 2026's Eastercon will be at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel, 3-6 April 2026. Tickets on sale now
Guests of Honour include @rjbarker.bsky.social @emmanewman.bsky.social & @drkarenlord.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Eastercon is the UK's annual science fiction convention for book lovers & writers
Iridescence, 2026's Eastercon will be at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel, 3-6 April 2026. Tickets on sale now
Guests of Honour include @rjbarker.bsky.social @emmanewman.bsky.social & @drkarenlord.bsky.social
Iridescence, 2026's Eastercon will be at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel, 3-6 April 2026. Tickets on sale now
Guests of Honour include @rjbarker.bsky.social @emmanewman.bsky.social & @drkarenlord.bsky.social
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It's publication day TOMORROW! So last chance to enter this preorder giveaway! 👇🏽
🌊IT'S PRE ORDER GIVEAWAY TIME!!🌊
It's 6 weeks til THE SALT ORACLE is unleashed!
To celebrate, anyone who sends proof of a pre order will be in with a chance of winning 1 of 10 sets of these gorgeous oracle cards & a signed bookplate!
geni.us/saltorac
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
It's 6 weeks til THE SALT ORACLE is unleashed!
To celebrate, anyone who sends proof of a pre order will be in with a chance of winning 1 of 10 sets of these gorgeous oracle cards & a signed bookplate!
geni.us/saltorac
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 10:24 AM
It's publication day TOMORROW! So last chance to enter this preorder giveaway! 👇🏽
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ICYMI my first piece for @thedailytism.com was published today. I warn you: if you find it funny you will also, by defintion, find it horrifying, and that also means you probably have some kind of weird brain.
This is, in every possible sense, me.
thedailytism.com/audhd-womans...
thedailytism.com/audhd-womans...
AuDHD woman’s driving lesson looming on horizon like macabre spectre of death
An AuDHD woman was forced to reckon with the transience of existence this morning when she remembered halfway through brushing her teeth that she has a driving lesson in three days, it has been rumour...
thedailytism.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
ICYMI my first piece for @thedailytism.com was published today. I warn you: if you find it funny you will also, by defintion, find it horrifying, and that also means you probably have some kind of weird brain.
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OH MY GOD IT'S HAPPENING MILLENNIALS AND BISEXUALS EVERYWHERE REJOICE #TheMummy
deadline.com/2025/11/new-...
deadline.com/2025/11/new-...
Brendan Fraser & Rachel Weisz In Talks To Return For New ‘Mummy’ Movie From Universal; Radio Silence To Direct
A new 'Mummy' movie to star Brendan Fraser & Rachel Weisz is in the works at Universal, with Radio Silence set to direct, sources tell Deadline.
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November 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
OH MY GOD IT'S HAPPENING MILLENNIALS AND BISEXUALS EVERYWHERE REJOICE #TheMummy
deadline.com/2025/11/new-...
deadline.com/2025/11/new-...
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October wrap-up now out for free, for anyone curious to see what I've been up to. Catch some sneak peeks at my WIPs if you dare.
www.patreon.com/posts/142410...
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October 2025 | Eva I.
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November 2, 2025 at 6:33 PM
October wrap-up now out for free, for anyone curious to see what I've been up to. Catch some sneak peeks at my WIPs if you dare.
www.patreon.com/posts/142410...
www.patreon.com/posts/142410...
An oligarchy that tells every-one that it is a meritocracy.
The setting is strongly satirical of modern britain, so...
The setting is strongly satirical of modern britain, so...
How do the politics of your book's world work? Is it a monarchy? A democracy? Theocracy? How does it affect your characters? #WritingPrompt
November 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
An oligarchy that tells every-one that it is a meritocracy.
The setting is strongly satirical of modern britain, so...
The setting is strongly satirical of modern britain, so...