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🦇 Artist, AuDHD, Disabled, Goth
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March Reading Stats 📚

I spent the majority of March incredibly sick. Don’t get normal sick on top of chronically sick, I do not recommend it! But I’m still happy with my reads.

📚💙 #thestorygraph #storygraph #booksky #reading
April 2, 2025 at 8:25 AM
🥀📚 Happy World Book Day! 📚🥀

📖 One of my favourite books: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

📖 A Book I recently finished: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

📖 A Book I want to read next: The Lamb by Lucy Rose

#worldbookday #bookish 💙📚 🩸📚 #gothicliterature #books #horror
March 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or have influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.

5/20

#booksky 📚💙 🩸📚
#Books #gothic #vampires #carmilla #gothicliterature #gothiclit
February 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Austen’s books have gotten a TikTok romance book makeover and I am feeling really perturbed by this. 😳
We don’t need to overly re-market classics, to the point they become unrecognisable, or akin to works that are MUCH different.
💙📚 #janeausten #books #booksky
February 28, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I watched John Carpenter’s 1988 ‘They Live’ last night and how is this more relevant today? 😩
“The poor and the underclass are growing. Racial justice and human rights are non-existent. They have created a repressive society and we are their unwitting accomplices.”

🩸 #horror #80shorror
February 28, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Today I’ve written another thousand words for my autistic burnout book, I’m trying to do it in bursts to compartmentalise/stop myself getting too absorbed, in order to avoid me falling into a pit of upset about it. It is working, but I wish I could just fall in and hyperfocus.

#writing #autism
February 21, 2025 at 10:27 AM
I’ve decided to start compiling my ‘Booket List’ a Book Bucket List aka the books I want to read before I depart this mortal coil. There are a few that came to me obviously and quickly, but now I’ve hit a wall.

What would the top books on your Booket List be?

💙📚🩸📚 #booksky #bookish
February 21, 2025 at 10:23 AM
It’s such a brain flaw that you can read while simultaneously going down a thought rabbit hole. Why not stop reading to think? Just a little pause, and let the thought take the lead?
Sincerely,
Someone who’s just read the same page 3 times 😩

#booksky 📚💙🩸📚
February 14, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Praying to the Kindle/ereader gods 🙏

📚💙 #booksky 🩸📚
February 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
January’s Reading Wrap-up ✨
I really enjoyed everything I read (finished reading) this month! Mostly dark fantasy with a few Gorey books sprinkled in for the joy of it.

One of my goals this year is to read slowly, deeply, and intentionally.

#booksky 📚💙 🩸📚 #thestorygraph
February 1, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I’m finally starting the process of thinking about my autistic burnout (2019-present) thanks to therapy asking me to perhaps discuss it. I’m thinking perhaps a good way to process it would be to write a short book on autistic burnout? Memoir-esque, personal, illustrated?

#autism #audhd #booksky 💙📚
February 1, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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"I'm sorry that you suffer from autism"

i’m not suffering from autism i’m having a great time actually being hyperfixated on my interests.
January 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
One of the most frustrating aspects of my chronic illness is the orthostatic intolerance. What do you mean I bend down and see stars? Sometimes I can’t even hold my head up at all without feeling like I’m going to pass out.

#chronicillness #disability #pwme #mecfs
January 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Honestly there’s ✨ nothing ✨ more exciting than receiving an ARC of a book. You picked ME!? You have given little old me a copy?! Mine own self?! 😦😍🤩

#booksky 📚💙 🩸📚
January 29, 2025 at 2:08 PM
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”

- Maya Angelou

#fuckfascists
January 24, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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January 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
January 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Insane to see a 53 year old man still get the “he’s just autistic boy, he doesn’t understand 🥲” treatment but if someone’s in a mood and experiences my monotone voice I’m an insufferable cunt.
January 21, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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for those who believe nothing can get better: you don't have to get in the way of those who do
January 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
One horror film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just posters

4/20

#horror #horrorsky #horrormovies #trickrtreat #anthologyhorror
January 22, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or have influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.

4/20

#booksky 📚💙 🩸📚
#Books #gothic #lemonysnicket #bretthelquist
#bookchallenge
January 22, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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it feels like TikTok got bitten by a zombie and is hiding the bite
January 20, 2025 at 5:10 AM
I thought Heretic was brilliant, so eerie with intelligent ideas & dialogue. It’s definitely one of my favourites for 2024, which was an incredible year for horror! 🩸

#horrormovies #horrorsky #horror
January 21, 2025 at 10:26 AM
I feel at a loss for words, this is horrifying, disgusting, and terrifying to think of what’s to come.

Solidarity from across the pond 🖤
#gothsagainstfascism
January 21, 2025 at 10:17 AM