Words From Darran
@shinraalpha.bsky.social
Punk-ass book jockey. Smol science writerer. Invisible ghost in the streets, visible ghost in the sheets.
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hello followers i am Darran and i write kids books. specifically the 17 books in this picture. i talk about dnd/ttrpgs, science, music and deeply weird & unsettling things. all pronouns are accepted at this store but they/them is easiest. i'm in a queer rock band called Pigeon Lips we're on spotify.
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my Lockwood & Co legacy edition boxset from @litpinsandco.bsky.social arrived!!
November 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
my Lockwood & Co legacy edition boxset from @litpinsandco.bsky.social arrived!!
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gender is boring and we should all be doing less of it
November 14, 2025 at 12:21 PM
gender is boring and we should all be doing less of it
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apparently it is #NonFictionNovember and i write non-fiction kids books so that seemed like a good excuse to share the EIGHTEEN books i have written over the past eight years. look at them all. #KidsBooksFriday #KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidLit
November 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
apparently it is #NonFictionNovember and i write non-fiction kids books so that seemed like a good excuse to share the EIGHTEEN books i have written over the past eight years. look at them all. #KidsBooksFriday #KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidLit
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There is no winning. Read a book in public, you get accused of being performative. Don't read a book in public, Joyce Carol Oates says you are a human shell with no inner life. 😞
November 11, 2025 at 8:26 AM
There is no winning. Read a book in public, you get accused of being performative. Don't read a book in public, Joyce Carol Oates says you are a human shell with no inner life. 😞
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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
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“0% woke shit”
a black man with a physical disability leads an environmental terrorist cell trying to save the planet from mega-billionaires and you play as a cross dressing twink femdomed by two different women ending and the final boss against the gayest angel of all time
a black man with a physical disability leads an environmental terrorist cell trying to save the planet from mega-billionaires and you play as a cross dressing twink femdomed by two different women ending and the final boss against the gayest angel of all time
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
“0% woke shit”
a black man with a physical disability leads an environmental terrorist cell trying to save the planet from mega-billionaires and you play as a cross dressing twink femdomed by two different women ending and the final boss against the gayest angel of all time
a black man with a physical disability leads an environmental terrorist cell trying to save the planet from mega-billionaires and you play as a cross dressing twink femdomed by two different women ending and the final boss against the gayest angel of all time
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Transphobes are already targeting the biggest star in women's soccer and baselessly alleging she's a man because she's Black. This is what trans people warned would happen. Gender policing that becomes explicitly racial.
www.outsports.com/2025/11/6/24...
www.outsports.com/2025/11/6/24...
A women's soccer star is the target of an anti-trans activist - Outsports
Barbra Banda's peers in the NWSL stood up for her when the head of an anti-trans fashion brand tried to demean her.
www.outsports.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Transphobes are already targeting the biggest star in women's soccer and baselessly alleging she's a man because she's Black. This is what trans people warned would happen. Gender policing that becomes explicitly racial.
www.outsports.com/2025/11/6/24...
www.outsports.com/2025/11/6/24...
apparently it is #NonFictionNovember and i write non-fiction kids books so that seemed like a good excuse to share the EIGHTEEN books i have written over the past eight years. look at them all. #KidsBooksFriday #KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidLit
November 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
apparently it is #NonFictionNovember and i write non-fiction kids books so that seemed like a good excuse to share the EIGHTEEN books i have written over the past eight years. look at them all. #KidsBooksFriday #KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidLit
This was my book of the year this year - full of warmth and hope, and ironically, humanity 💜
Three months to go 🩵🤖
Paperback fans, if you’ve been waiting for your chance, here it comes! SOME BODY LIKE ME arrives in paperback on 5th February 2026. It would mean the world to me if you preordered! @gollancz.bsky.social
Paperback fans, if you’ve been waiting for your chance, here it comes! SOME BODY LIKE ME arrives in paperback on 5th February 2026. It would mean the world to me if you preordered! @gollancz.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 9:42 AM
This was my book of the year this year - full of warmth and hope, and ironically, humanity 💜
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can’t tell if my antidepressants aren’t working or if they just weren’t built for this. like, zoloft was introduced in the 90s it barely needed to work then. if you got sad you could just buy a house.
November 3, 2025 at 11:50 PM
can’t tell if my antidepressants aren’t working or if they just weren’t built for this. like, zoloft was introduced in the 90s it barely needed to work then. if you got sad you could just buy a house.
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It's such a special day when your debut novel is finally released, after all that excitement and anticipation, and I just want to extend my well wishes to author Patricia Pushlady on her publication day.
October 23, 2025 at 9:00 AM
It's such a special day when your debut novel is finally released, after all that excitement and anticipation, and I just want to extend my well wishes to author Patricia Pushlady on her publication day.
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This is how I imagine JK Rowling when she posts.
October 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This is how I imagine JK Rowling when she posts.
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The news is official! I can finally tell you that my next romcom Reality Check will be out in April next year!
October 9, 2025 at 10:16 AM
The news is official! I can finally tell you that my next romcom Reality Check will be out in April next year!
"Tories will scrap stamp duty on primary residences, Kemi Badenoch tells conference"
okay but will the residences be affordable or nah?
okay but will the residences be affordable or nah?
October 8, 2025 at 12:20 PM
"Tories will scrap stamp duty on primary residences, Kemi Badenoch tells conference"
okay but will the residences be affordable or nah?
okay but will the residences be affordable or nah?
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I never do this and don’t even feel obligated to click the link (shares would be nice!) but our first fur baby needs dental surgery and, I won’t lie, I am climbing the walls with anxiety about it.
gofund.me/b8fa10852
gofund.me/b8fa10852
October 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
I never do this and don’t even feel obligated to click the link (shares would be nice!) but our first fur baby needs dental surgery and, I won’t lie, I am climbing the walls with anxiety about it.
gofund.me/b8fa10852
gofund.me/b8fa10852
tonight DMing i rolled three natural 20s in a row which i am informed is a 0.0125% chance lmao
October 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM
tonight DMing i rolled three natural 20s in a row which i am informed is a 0.0125% chance lmao
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You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.
October 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.
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Farewell to one of the greats
www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...
www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...
Jane Goodall, renowned chimpanzee researcher and animal advocate, dies at 91
"Dr. Goodall's discoveries as an ethologist revolutionized science, and she was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world," the Jane Goodall Institute said in a Wedne...
www.nbcnews.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Farewell to one of the greats
www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...
www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...
colleague: Darran is this post-it on the floor yours?
me: what does it say on it?
colleague: it says "ghosts on the brain"
me: .........yes that's mine.
me: what does it say on it?
colleague: it says "ghosts on the brain"
me: .........yes that's mine.
October 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
colleague: Darran is this post-it on the floor yours?
me: what does it say on it?
colleague: it says "ghosts on the brain"
me: .........yes that's mine.
me: what does it say on it?
colleague: it says "ghosts on the brain"
me: .........yes that's mine.