Iona
@singlecrow.bsky.social
Writer, lawyer, part-time sapphic, among other things. not Scottish, but it's complicated. (repped by Kurestin Armada; fiction and other work at www.generalist.org.uk/iona) (they/she)
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So I wrote two books. both are set in London, in winter, in 2021. One is an alternate future history, a sparse love story where a spad and civil servant work on Brexit together and fall unwillingly in love; the other is a sports anime, a post-pandemic f/f romance. here they both are:
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
So I wrote two books. both are set in London, in winter, in 2021. One is an alternate future history, a sparse love story where a spad and civil servant work on Brexit together and fall unwillingly in love; the other is a sports anime, a post-pandemic f/f romance. here they both are:
I am so delighted by this image
November 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I am so delighted by this image
the walk up from Muswell Hill to Ally Pally is lovely in autumn
November 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
the walk up from Muswell Hill to Ally Pally is lovely in autumn
why I am still a huge fan of Dishoom: they're higher-end, beloved of white Londoners and tourists, gimmicky in their way; but, they can host real Indian families, we can go in and make a racket and grill the water about his antecedents and be met who we are. anyway my mum had a lovely 70th!
November 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
why I am still a huge fan of Dishoom: they're higher-end, beloved of white Londoners and tourists, gimmicky in their way; but, they can host real Indian families, we can go in and make a racket and grill the water about his antecedents and be met who we are. anyway my mum had a lovely 70th!
Lovely day on skates today! Ice, not roller; I'm breaking in my first pair of ice skates and managed to stumble around Ally Pally for a couple of hours, and also, there was Uzbek food!
October 29, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Lovely day on skates today! Ice, not roller; I'm breaking in my first pair of ice skates and managed to stumble around Ally Pally for a couple of hours, and also, there was Uzbek food!
From a bright autumn day:
October 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
From a bright autumn day:
Shubh Diwali, friends. We’re having daylight diya in the study today 🪔🎆🕉️
October 20, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Shubh Diwali, friends. We’re having daylight diya in the study today 🪔🎆🕉️
As @latriviata.bsky.social has reported, my mum’s Diwali party went beautifully, the cake was perfect, we (=me, A, Indian friends & partners, min age 37) were the children’s table
October 18, 2025 at 10:51 PM
As @latriviata.bsky.social has reported, my mum’s Diwali party went beautifully, the cake was perfect, we (=me, A, Indian friends & partners, min age 37) were the children’s table
Reading Prince Caspian, and forgot how funny Lewis can be when he wants to be
October 15, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Reading Prince Caspian, and forgot how funny Lewis can be when he wants to be
You Are Here: Nine More Stories—my collection of SF/fantasy shorts, some prev pubbed at Strange Horizons, BCS, etc & also a new novella abt growing up & queer devotion—plus witches, spaceships, romcoms, all you need. KJ Charles called it "absolutely outstanding" www.generalist.org.uk/iona/books-a...
October 6, 2025 at 11:42 AM
You Are Here: Nine More Stories—my collection of SF/fantasy shorts, some prev pubbed at Strange Horizons, BCS, etc & also a new novella abt growing up & queer devotion—plus witches, spaceships, romcoms, all you need. KJ Charles called it "absolutely outstanding" www.generalist.org.uk/iona/books-a...
jazzing up my new gammacore device with sticker art and nail polish! I love cluster headache folk art, it’s always depicted with SKULL and KNIVES and DEMON
October 3, 2025 at 11:37 PM
jazzing up my new gammacore device with sticker art and nail polish! I love cluster headache folk art, it’s always depicted with SKULL and KNIVES and DEMON
well, if we're all doing it. there was a huge rush for Yuletide 2009 because you actually had to have an account to sign up that year - don't think I thought it was a big deal at the time!
September 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
well, if we're all doing it. there was a huge rush for Yuletide 2009 because you actually had to have an account to sign up that year - don't think I thought it was a big deal at the time!
I’m so pleased with my little zone 2 balcony garden but especially with these!
September 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM
I’m so pleased with my little zone 2 balcony garden but especially with these!
two snapshots from my commute
September 5, 2025 at 7:52 PM
two snapshots from my commute
Only from fallibility can come sincere exhortation
September 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Only from fallibility can come sincere exhortation
in case anyone was worried, why yes, the chillies did miss me
August 31, 2025 at 2:41 PM
in case anyone was worried, why yes, the chillies did miss me
my whole aesthetic these days: writing, wild swimming, hair
August 26, 2025 at 9:51 PM
my whole aesthetic these days: writing, wild swimming, hair
more life beside Coniston Water
August 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
more life beside Coniston Water
wild swimming on August bank holiday
August 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
wild swimming on August bank holiday
Coniston in another mood, plus it’s so late in the season that the brambles are ripe
August 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Coniston in another mood, plus it’s so late in the season that the brambles are ripe
A day of chilly wild swimming in Coniston Water
August 23, 2025 at 10:15 PM
A day of chilly wild swimming in Coniston Water
This is Sloane Square Tube station, and that big green thing is one of the buried rivers of London- the River Westbourne being carried towards the Thames. I like seeing it still indefatigable.
August 13, 2025 at 11:16 AM
This is Sloane Square Tube station, and that big green thing is one of the buried rivers of London- the River Westbourne being carried towards the Thames. I like seeing it still indefatigable.
I love those little moments where they’ve put a whole city on just for me
August 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I love those little moments where they’ve put a whole city on just for me
It's beautiful, and very strange - remote as all hell and felt often bleak and deserted, but we had a nice time meeting A's friends in the palatial town library, and it was the fourth of July so they were having a street party.
(pics by @generalising ofc, I could not take pics like these!)
(pics by @generalising ofc, I could not take pics like these!)
August 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM
It's beautiful, and very strange - remote as all hell and felt often bleak and deserted, but we had a nice time meeting A's friends in the palatial town library, and it was the fourth of July so they were having a street party.
(pics by @generalising ofc, I could not take pics like these!)
(pics by @generalising ofc, I could not take pics like these!)
This is what I had for lunch, because of you
August 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
This is what I had for lunch, because of you