Tone 🏴 🏳️⚧️
@tonedepear.bsky.social
Been here a year without saying owt cos I'm a trendsetter. Occasional podcaster. Also sing Christmas songs. they/them. ADHD as well ofc.
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So glad this article is out! Finding these (heartrending) poems in the archive and realising what they meant remains one of my top research moments ever - absolute magic. I didn't know what I was looking for, except by instinct, and I found it; queer love hiding in plain sight.
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Pleasure and longing
On April 6, 1919, the Mapp and Lucia author, society figure and archbishop’s son E. F. Benson wrote to George Wolfe Plank: “I want you”. Plank had been a “very intimate friend” since introducing himse...
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November 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
So glad this article is out! Finding these (heartrending) poems in the archive and realising what they meant remains one of my top research moments ever - absolute magic. I didn't know what I was looking for, except by instinct, and I found it; queer love hiding in plain sight.
DM for pdf!
DM for pdf!
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So, as many of you know, Fred and George have been breaking my heart on the daily for months at this point, so I thought I'd make it everyone else's problem. (Totally writing a book).
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The great unknown romance of writer E.F. Benson’s life – Fred and George, a love story hidden in letters
The pair were seen as friends but their letters reveal a more intimate life together.
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August 7, 2025 at 6:32 PM
So, as many of you know, Fred and George have been breaking my heart on the daily for months at this point, so I thought I'd make it everyone else's problem. (Totally writing a book).
theconversation.com/the-great-un...
theconversation.com/the-great-un...
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Wine tasting in France, a beginners guide:
July 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Wine tasting in France, a beginners guide:
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Good morning, please have this incredibly jaunty London Underground tourism poster from 1915.
March 6, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Good morning, please have this incredibly jaunty London Underground tourism poster from 1915.
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[doing my daily affirmations in the mirror]
i am the horror and i will be persisting
i am the horror and i will be persisting
March 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
[doing my daily affirmations in the mirror]
i am the horror and i will be persisting
i am the horror and i will be persisting
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Top notch Victorian slang courtesy of a family chat with @sashagoblin.bsky.social : Got the morbs - "afflicted with temporary melancholy or sadness".
I think we need it in Palaeontology:
Q: How is your trigonotarbid?
A: Got a touch of the morbs I'm afraid. 315 million years back. Long morbs.
I think we need it in Palaeontology:
Q: How is your trigonotarbid?
A: Got a touch of the morbs I'm afraid. 315 million years back. Long morbs.
January 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Top notch Victorian slang courtesy of a family chat with @sashagoblin.bsky.social : Got the morbs - "afflicted with temporary melancholy or sadness".
I think we need it in Palaeontology:
Q: How is your trigonotarbid?
A: Got a touch of the morbs I'm afraid. 315 million years back. Long morbs.
I think we need it in Palaeontology:
Q: How is your trigonotarbid?
A: Got a touch of the morbs I'm afraid. 315 million years back. Long morbs.
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Watching live news coverage of the Pacific Palisades fire and Steve Guttenburg appears out of the smoke to provide a PSA.
January 7, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Watching live news coverage of the Pacific Palisades fire and Steve Guttenburg appears out of the smoke to provide a PSA.
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It's my favourite festive tradition: ANNUAL RUIN LOVE ACTUALLY DAY!
Festive joy to all who celebrate.
Festive joy to all who celebrate.
I Rewatched Love Actually and Am Here to Ruin It for All of You
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December 1, 2024 at 6:42 PM
It's my favourite festive tradition: ANNUAL RUIN LOVE ACTUALLY DAY!
Festive joy to all who celebrate.
Festive joy to all who celebrate.
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The energy I am bringing to 2025
November 22, 2024 at 6:40 AM
The energy I am bringing to 2025
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Speaking as an expert on transphobia and the gender critical movement:
Block them. Hide replies. Report them. Do not "debate" them.
The fact that they are campaigning so hard against blocking and in favour of debate/their right to harassment should tell you - it serves their interests to engage.
Block them. Hide replies. Report them. Do not "debate" them.
The fact that they are campaigning so hard against blocking and in favour of debate/their right to harassment should tell you - it serves their interests to engage.
November 18, 2024 at 10:02 AM
Speaking as an expert on transphobia and the gender critical movement:
Block them. Hide replies. Report them. Do not "debate" them.
The fact that they are campaigning so hard against blocking and in favour of debate/their right to harassment should tell you - it serves their interests to engage.
Block them. Hide replies. Report them. Do not "debate" them.
The fact that they are campaigning so hard against blocking and in favour of debate/their right to harassment should tell you - it serves their interests to engage.
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You should be careful about whose blocklists you trust. That being said, I totally trust @swordsjew.bsky.social’s judgement on trolls (also on swords and sandwiches).
I made a blocklist for some of the new showing up to troll anti trans folks. No oxygen for these schmoes! bsky.app/profile/did:...
November 18, 2024 at 11:54 PM
You should be careful about whose blocklists you trust. That being said, I totally trust @swordsjew.bsky.social’s judgement on trolls (also on swords and sandwiches).
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I made a blocklist for some of the new showing up to troll anti trans folks. No oxygen for these schmoes! bsky.app/profile/did:...
November 18, 2024 at 11:25 PM
I made a blocklist for some of the new showing up to troll anti trans folks. No oxygen for these schmoes! bsky.app/profile/did:...
Well!
GUESS WHO'S NOT WINNING ANY MORE!
Was just writing something very pithy about having a lovely week off watching Stoke before remembering Scotland are bloody playing. And we've only bloody scored!
Ah, the sweet sweet hope before it inevitably kills.
Ah, the sweet sweet hope before it inevitably kills.
November 18, 2024 at 10:08 PM
Well!
GUESS WHO'S NOT WINNING ANY MORE!
Was just writing something very pithy about having a lovely week off watching Stoke before remembering Scotland are bloody playing. And we've only bloody scored!
Ah, the sweet sweet hope before it inevitably kills.
Ah, the sweet sweet hope before it inevitably kills.
November 18, 2024 at 9:06 PM
GUESS WHO'S NOT WINNING ANY MORE!
Was just writing something very pithy about having a lovely week off watching Stoke before remembering Scotland are bloody playing. And we've only bloody scored!
Ah, the sweet sweet hope before it inevitably kills.
Ah, the sweet sweet hope before it inevitably kills.
November 18, 2024 at 7:55 PM
Was just writing something very pithy about having a lovely week off watching Stoke before remembering Scotland are bloody playing. And we've only bloody scored!
Ah, the sweet sweet hope before it inevitably kills.
Ah, the sweet sweet hope before it inevitably kills.
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Publisher: Do you want to put an LLM clause in the copyright statement?
Me: Definitely. How specific can we get?
Publisher: As specific as you like.
Me: Definitely. How specific can we get?
Publisher: As specific as you like.
November 17, 2024 at 3:07 AM
Publisher: Do you want to put an LLM clause in the copyright statement?
Me: Definitely. How specific can we get?
Publisher: As specific as you like.
Me: Definitely. How specific can we get?
Publisher: As specific as you like.
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Slightly different wording. This is my x stitch version of live laugh love.
September 1, 2023 at 4:37 PM
Slightly different wording. This is my x stitch version of live laugh love.
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"Full Self-Driving" may have tried to kill me at highway speeds twice, but it's also $3,000 cheaper now, so it;s impossible to say if its bad or not
September 1, 2023 at 4:28 PM
"Full Self-Driving" may have tried to kill me at highway speeds twice, but it's also $3,000 cheaper now, so it;s impossible to say if its bad or not
Me reposting this knowing the only people who will get it are still marooned on the Twitter but cackling anyway
bsky.app/profile/rose...
bsky.app/profile/rose...
August 23, 2023 at 9:48 AM
Me reposting this knowing the only people who will get it are still marooned on the Twitter but cackling anyway
bsky.app/profile/rose...
bsky.app/profile/rose...
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Yknow what time it is
August 23, 2023 at 8:57 AM
Yknow what time it is
It's an entierely unoriginal thought with a sprinkling of first world problems energy, but cunting Christ alive moving house is stressful as all fuck.
August 22, 2023 at 10:19 AM
It's an entierely unoriginal thought with a sprinkling of first world problems energy, but cunting Christ alive moving house is stressful as all fuck.
August 22, 2023 at 10:18 AM
Mr & Mrs Murder, although it may just have been they were happy finishing after one series. Nevertheless!
August 20, 2023 at 3:58 PM
Mr & Mrs Murder, although it may just have been they were happy finishing after one series. Nevertheless!