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The Hannah and the Ivy 🎄🦭 🖤🩶🤍💜🇵🇸
@tooriekep.bsky.social
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Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee 2021. She / her / hers / shö. Writer querying my first novel and writing another, library assistant, archivist, book and music enthusiast, views my own. Shetlander in Aberdeen. https://linktr.ee/tooriekep
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Eight years ago today I graduated MLitt with Distinction in Creative Writing from @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social and my dad got this snap of me standing under the campus Christmas tree 🎓👩🏼‍🎓🎄
Hannah is stood under a giant Scandinavian pine Christmas tree covered in coloured lights. She is wearing a black Vivien of Holloway tea dress with a repeating skull and crossbones pattern, thick black tights, black Red or Dead Mary Jane shoes, å black graduation robe, a white and purple hood (the MLitt colours for Aberdeen Uni) and a black trencher hat at a jaunty angle.
November 25, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Meanwhile her little brother Freddie joined me at work this afternoon. It's funny how I used to get told off for this in primary school but my current job are unbothered.
Freddie the plush axolotl - pink with rainbow gills - chilling on the reception desk at my work.
November 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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It's 6° here in Aberdeen but the sky is so clear and sunny that Twinkle decided she was going to sunbathe. I tried to explain that it's winter but she wouldn't listen, so I'll see how she's gotten on when I get home from work tonight.
Twinkle the green glow-in-the-dark axolotl sunbathing in the living room window. (Yes, the window sill is cluttered. I'm going to sort it soon, I swear)
November 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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This person is defending FWS and being TERFy in their replies to folk
Header for '@thecockthickens.bsky.social'. This account is a Reply Guy posting TERFy garbage.
November 22, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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I've been under my heated throw since I got out of bed.
My heated throw with my legs underneath it.
November 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Chuffed to bits that @daibhi.bsky.social acquired one of these bad boys from Morrisons yesterday 😎 can't wait to get stuck in. 🧀
A giant Babybel, being held in my hand for scale. Must admit I expected it to be bigger but I'm also not complaining because GIANT BABYBEL
November 20, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Every year, @aberdeenunilib.bsky.social puts up a book tree for Christmas, and it's always ready in time for Book Week Scotland. Here is this year's one. @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social
A Christmas tree made from books, with a star on top, and a Book Week Scotland garland around it. This tree is inside the Sir Duncan Rice Library at Aberdeen Uni.
November 18, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Swam 2km in 1 hr 5 min, having not swam that length in weeks 💪🏊🏻‍♀️🎉🥳
Hannah is wearing a light blue hoodie towel robe with a repeating pattern of oranges.
November 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Me seeing Kirstie Allsopp coming for Michael Rosen
The GET A JOB, STAY AWAY FROM HER meme
November 15, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Yesterday I finally got @lenniesaurus.bsky.social 's new book of poems read - it's absolutely beautiful, and the verses ooze with catharsis and passion. There's also more Scots in it. (That dog nonce' reviewer' from the Times has no clue what he's talking about and neither do his TERF cheerleaders.)
Front cover of 'Poyums Annaw' by Len Pennie. Len had an early peak with her first poetry volume, and this one continues that. It was written while she was dealing with a court case and it shows - so many of the poems are raw and visceral, and the catharsis and passion oozes off the page. We also have more Scots verses in this book which is a huge bonus. Len is one of the best poets working in Scotland today. (Side note - a huge 'fuck you' to the dog nonce from the Times who wrote that awful 'review' which was just misogynistic bullying, and also to his TERF cheerleaders who were collectively creaming their pants over it)
November 12, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Age yourself with gaming
The box art for the Super Nintendo game 'Super Mario All-Stars' - this is the original 1993 version, it was later re-released with 'Super Mario World' included also.
November 12, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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This person's account is riddled with transphobic pish.
Header for @holly-jolly.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Just stayed up late so I could finish Chris McQueer's debut novel. Absolutely brilliant work, full of humour and poignancy, that also proves to be a topical study of incel culture and what leads young men - including main character Jamie - to fall into its traps. (Full review in ALT text)
The front cover of the hardback edition of 'Hermit' by Chris McQueer. Jamie is 19, left school three years prior with no qualifications, and still lives at home with his mam, spending his days in his flea pit of a bedroom playing video games. His mam, Fiona, has no real life outside of her work and single motherhood, and she feels like a failure as a parent and a human. Both have unresolved issues - at least in part because of Jamie's dad who was an abusive husband to Fiona and who slandered her around the community after she finally threw him out - but they are each so isolated in the world that they can't even communicate with each other. This comes to a head when Fiona tries to encourage Jamie to get a job. Jamie befriends Lee through online gaming. Lee is 16, lives not far from Jamie, and is also having a tough time at home. It is Lee who introduces Jamie to the incel movement, and in turn to Seb, a thirtysomething American based in London who effectively grooms the pair and convinces them to travel down there to stay with him and get away from their problems at home. The pair accept the invite, but all is not what it seems. The novel has a two hander narrative between Jamie and Fiona, both of whom are sympathetic characters. Obviously there are points in Jamie's narrative where the heavy use of incel lingo gets uncomfortable, and Seb is portrayed as thoroughly contemptible without being two dimensional. By turns humorous and poignant, this is a timely and necessary read that goes into depth about why young men fall for cults like this.
November 9, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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The Telegraph accusing the BBC of bias
Spiderman pointing at himself meme
November 6, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Got me new Snoopy poncho on tonight - hoping it'll keep me warm on the front desk at work.
Hannah is wearing a teal poncho with a Snoopy and Woodstock pattern over a pair of rainbow dungarees. She is also carrying a couple of tote bags.
November 4, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Another one for you
Header for @theotherdane.bsky.social which is spreading transphobic nonsense.
November 2, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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This person, incidentally. @eidyngray.scot You might want to add them to that 'GenAI' block list you have on the go, when you get a minute?
The header for @maladhdroit.bsky.social This user basically accused me of ableism for refusing to use the plagiarism machine
November 2, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Joanna Cherry reading this
Still of Tom from Tom and Jerry raging at a passage in a book.
October 30, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Only ever played the Demo 1 version rather than the full one but it was fun.
The front cover of the PlayStation 1 game 'Kula World'.
October 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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My granny's cousin, Chris, who passed away two years ago this August, but whom I very much considered a great aunt because of how close she was to my granny and how much she looked out for us, especially me when I moved to Aberdeen. This is such a common thing for so many people.
Me and Chris at my MLitt graduation, 24/11/2017. We are both holding glasses of champagne.
October 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Adverts should be representative of traditional British families
A group photo of Monty Python circa 1969. L-R - Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin.
October 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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On the back of #AsexualAwarenessWeek I have just finished @erisyoung.bsky.social 's thoughtful and informative study of what life is like for aro / ace people in the modern world. As always, please hit the ALT text for a fuller review.
The front cover of 'Ace Voices' by Eris Young. This book consists particularly of surveys done by the author, as well as interviews of members of the aro / ace community who are identified only by their initials. It does also cite other sources but it's mostly these anecdotes which keep the work afloat but which also add colour and variation to it. It's definitely one of the essential books to read if you wish to learn more about aro / ace identities and learn about real experiences of community members.
October 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Yep.
An image of a blonde girl, believed to be gun enthusiast Kaitlyn Bennett, lying prone in a doorway wearing a short tie-dye dress and with a large pile of poo excreting from her upturned arse. The hashtag #doitforstate is written in red next to her.
October 26, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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The "Winnie the Pooh squinting at a piece of paper" meme.
October 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Incidentally this was in the bus stop outside the Bobbin when I was walking home from the swimming pool. Lucky for them I'll be working Tuesday night as usual or I might have come along to heckle then about it.
A poster inside a bus stop advertising the inaugural meeting of the Aberdeen branch of Your Party at the Quaker Meeting House at 98 Crown Street on Tuesday 28th of October from 7-9pm.
October 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM