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shinraalpha.bsky.social
Words From Darran
@shinraalpha.bsky.social
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Punk-ass book jockey. Smol science writerer. Invisible ghost in the streets, visible ghost in the sheets.

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my Lockwood & Co legacy edition boxset from @litpinsandco.bsky.social arrived!!
November 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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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
An array of Usborne children's books on an array of subjects from Ohysics tl Architecture An array of Usborne children's books (spine on) on a range of subjects from the Human Body to Mindfulness.
November 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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A screenshot of an Onion Article headline that reads "HEARTBREAKING: the worst person you know just made a great point"
October 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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A tumblr screenshot from user clarabosswald that reads: "i asked chatgpt" "i asked grok" well i asked the alethiometer and it said Followed by a series of emoji representing different symbols on an alethometer
October 2, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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today is my birthday and i spent it being a weird bookish hermit by the seaside, unlike every other day.
A photo of someone reading a book by the sea. The beach is stony. The book is open with a mushroom bookmark resting in the pages, and a cup of coffee on the table behind it. Only just in frame are some fingers holding the book open, fingernails painted black. A sunset over the sea at Brighton beach.
September 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Rapture's started xx
A photo of the sunset over Brighton beach. Spears of golden sunlight are emerging from a hole in the clouds like the voice of god
September 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
a screenshot from the BBC News homepage, with a headline reading "Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan arrested at Heathrow over this X posts"
September 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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me until 6.30pm thinking about prep for tonight's session when I am DMing (we start at 7pm)
An outline of a head filled with chaotic black swirls. A speech balloon is coming from the mouth saying "oobh i got plany off time"
August 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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A panel from a comic. A person is looking out of a window at a silhouetted cityscape and is saying "what a stupid time to be alive" in a speech bubble
August 8, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Screenshot of Futurama in which Hermes is threatening to throw himself from the Planet Express building, and Bender is yelling "Do a flip!"
August 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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it is Brighton Pride once more and i am again reminded of this bit from Hannah Gadsby
A screenshot from Hannah Gadsby's stand-up special Nanette, in which they are discussing watching Mardi-Gras as a child. The text reads: I used to sit there and watch it and go, "Where... where do the quiet gays...go?" A screenshot from Hannah Gadsby's stand-up special Nanette, in which they are discussing watching Mardi-Gras as a child. The text reads: Where are the quiet gays supposed to go? The pressure on my people to express our identity and pride through the metaphor of party is intense.
August 2, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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i just got advertised this mug and it has irrationally annoyed me you DON'T ROLL TO HIT WITH A FIREBALL those should be d6s you clout chaser
A mug with a design saying "i said i cast fireball" on, with a fire-y d20 dice below the text
August 1, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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My band (Pigeon Lips go find us online) played a gig last week and we prepared a big stupid Sonic Youth-y cover of Avril Lavigne's Complicated and it was so fun when people realised what it was after a very long moody intro
July 31, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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me when i fall for uruk-tooslow for the 19th consecutive day
July 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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A meme taken from Spiderman 2, where Peter Parker (played by Toby McGuire) is saying "Harry, I already said I supported it, you don't need to sell it to me"
July 30, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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😇
Screenshot of a discord server with everyone yelling at me
July 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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A tweet, seemingly from Jeremy Corbyn in Jan 2016. It reads "Here we... here we... here we fucking go!!!"
July 3, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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June 18, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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today I went to see the aids memorial quilt and a musical about Section 28 with my pal CJ who I met on a Tim Burton forum when I was 16 years old lmao
June 14, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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i've started watching Succession (10 years late as per) and i think the fastest i've ever changed my mind on a character is this guy. 1 minute in? oh he's just a sad pathetic little wife guy! 2 minutes in? put that man in the Hague for his crimes (personality)
a picture of Tom from Succession with a shit-eating smile on his stupid face
May 27, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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probably that time i broke my ankle on the first day of a music festival (Wednesday) and just carried on until I got home (Monday) because I thought it was a sprain
A photo of a foot and ankle in a blue tent. There is extensive dark purple bruising to the ankle.
May 26, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Homer Simpson leaning out a car to yell "NERD!" at a passing nerd
May 23, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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i have been reading the very excellent It Came From The Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror, and this from Carrow Narby's essay "Indescribable" made me feel so (ironically) seen that i can't stop turning it around in my brain
A photo of a paragraph from the book It Came From the Closet, in which the essayist discusses their experience of gender: "I cannot explain what bothers me so intensely about this utterly mundane and necessary process of observation and interpretation. I can only say that it feels like a grave intrusion. Perhaps it is simply the indignity of it, the unwelcome reminder that I am whatever it is that I am. As ludicrous as it is, I resent that anyone could presume to observe and taxonomize me without my permission or consent, without at least consulting me first. What's more, the impudent observer might be wrong about what they see. For one thing, I am not a woman. I wouldn't know how to correct anyone about this, though, because I am not a man either. I am not something in-between, or some third-gender category like nonbinary. My gender identity does not have a name, because I do not have a gender identity. My gender is void, the null sey, nothing. But it is impossible for anyone to look at me and see nothing. I cannot make myself unseen."
May 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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miss u bestie 💜
A photo of Ponyo, a common octopus.
May 13, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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these violent delights have violent ends.
A photo of the stage at Shakespeare's Globe. The staging is designed to look like a saloon in the old west.
May 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM