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27, she/her, Ph.D-haver, Autistic, Izzy Hands has altered my brain chemistry 🍓🏴‍☠️🦄
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verajoyce1998.bsky.social
Happy birthday! 🥳🎉 Please enjoy one of my all-time favourite photos of anything, ever: Hubble Ultra-Deep Field. Approximately ten-thousand galaxies, all in a tiny, TINY segment of the sky.
Hubble Ultra-Deep Field - a photograph from the Hubble Telescope showing many thousands of galaxies, all of different shapes and colours.
May 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
verajoyce1998.bsky.social
I don’t usually do this, but since we’re so close to this chapter coming out… have some silliness from the crew (to balance out the angst of the POV characters hehehe). I love writing these guys 😁
#WIPWednesday
Screenshot of black text against a white background. The text reads: “Hey, were any of you guys messing around in the pantry earlier?” Almost as one, the crew shook their heads. “Nope.” “Nuh-uh.” “Not me.” “Haven’t been in there since yesterday. Why?” “Ah, it’s nothing - everything was a little mixed up in there, is all. Good thing I was paying attention, or you’d all have had candied oranges in your soup.” “Eugh.” “That’s actually disgusting.” “Weird, too. D’you think it was the captains?” “Must’ve been.” Wee John snorted. “Oh, they would not have been popular.” “Too fucking right they wouldn’t.” “Oh, I don’t know,” Roach teased. “Could be a new delicacy. Fruit soup,” he said, waggling his eyebrows. There was a general groan of disgust. Someone made a gagging noise. “Blech.” “Think I’ll pass, actually.” “If you cook that, I’m genuinely leaving.” “Not convinced, huh?” “I’m sorry, fruit soup is not a delicacy. Fruit soup is an interrogation device.”
May 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
verajoyce1998.bsky.social
Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral baked meats
Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.

‘Hamlet’, I. ii. 179-180

#ShakespeareSunday #BardFlagMeansDeath
Stede and the crew of the Revenge, dressed in the uniform of the British Navy, looking devastated. Off-camera, Izzy is dying, and Ed is holding him. Roach, Stede, and Jim have their hats pressed to their chests as a mark of respect. Stede, Ed, Zheng, Auntie, and the crew of the Revenge, gathered in a circle on deck around Lucius and Pete, who are clasping hands as Roach officiates their marriage.
April 6, 2025 at 11:51 AM
verajoyce1998.bsky.social
It is reported thou didst eat strange flesh,
Which some did die to look on.

‘Antony and Cleopatra’, I. iv. 67-68

#ShakespeareSunday #BardFlagMeansDeath
(From left to right) Izzy, Frenchie, Fang, Archie, and Jim huddled around a table in the captain’s cabin of the Revenge, backlit by the windows. On the table is a raw, dead seagull. They are turned to face the camera, most of them with blood around their mouths.
April 6, 2025 at 11:39 AM
verajoyce1998.bsky.social
Happy birthday to one of my favourite authors 🥳 Living in hope that one day people will rediscover his amazing literary talents (and until then I will continue to shout about him to my friends and family ☺️)
Signature of the novelist ‘Hugh Walpole’, in blue ink on a beige background. Above the signature are the words ‘This is one of one hundred and eighty large paper copies printed in July 1938’, all in capital letters.
March 13, 2025 at 6:27 PM
verajoyce1998.bsky.social
Con O’Neill as Izzy Hands in ‘Our Flag Means Death’. He is wearing make up and is tied to Wee John (played by Kristian Nairn), whose back - covered by a blue sequined dress - towers above Izzy on the left-hand side of the photo.
February 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
verajoyce1998.bsky.social
Advertise your account with a Simpsons image
A still from ‘The Simpsons’, showing Lisa standing to the right of a group of teenagers on a beach. She is dressed in a tie-dyed shirt, along with shorts, a hat, and glasses, and is slouching with her hands in her pockets, clearly attempting to look “cool”. The teenagers - dressed in more muted clothes - are looking in her direction with bemused expressions.
January 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
verajoyce1998.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you or stayed with you.
One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
💙📚
20/20
#BookChallenge
Cover of Tony Kushner’s play ‘Angels in America’, containing ‘Part One: Millennium Approaches’ and ‘Part Two: Perestroika’. The cover is illustrated with a photo of the back of a person’s head, with a pair of black stone wings superimposed at the top of their spine.
December 10, 2024 at 6:21 PM
verajoyce1998.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you or stayed with you.
One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
💙📚
19/20
#BookChallenge
Cover of Elizabeth von Arnim’s ‘The Enchanted April’, illustrated with yellow and white flowers with orange accents against a sky-blue background.
December 9, 2024 at 8:36 PM
verajoyce1998.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you or stayed with you.
One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
💙📚
18/20
#BookChallenge
Cover of Richard Ellmann’s ‘Oscar Wilde’, illustrated with a photograph of Oscar Wilde in a thick, fur-lined coat, looking enigmatically out at the viewer.
December 8, 2024 at 7:11 PM
verajoyce1998.bsky.social
You may my glories and my state depose,
But not my griefs; still I am king of those.

Richard II, in ‘Richard II’, 4. 1. 182-183

#ShakespeareSunday
#BardFlagMeansDeath
Still of Izzy Hands from ‘Our Flag Means Death’. He is sitting on his bed, his clothes and hair dishevelled, holding a bottle of whisky and staring sadly into the distance.
December 8, 2024 at 12:04 PM
verajoyce1998.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you or stayed with you.
One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
💙📚
17/20
#BookChallenge
Cover of Patrick O’Brian’s ‘Master and Commander’, illustrated with an image of a compass overlaid on a background consisting of waves (on the lower half of the page), fading into a map (on the upper half).
December 7, 2024 at 11:13 PM
verajoyce1998.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you or stayed with you.
One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
💙📚
16/20
#BookChallenge
Cover of Christopher Marlowe’s play ‘Doctor Faustus’, showing a hand writing on a piece of paper with a quill.
December 6, 2024 at 1:21 PM
verajoyce1998.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you or stayed with you.
One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
💙📚
15/20
#BookChallenge
Cover of Anne Brontë’s ‘The Tenant of Wildfell Hall’, illustrated with yellow flowers on a black background.
December 5, 2024 at 5:26 PM
verajoyce1998.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you or stayed with you.
One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
💙📚
14/20
#BookChallenge
Cover of Alan Stern and David Grinspoon’s ‘Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto’, illustrated with a high-definition colour image of Pluto.
December 4, 2024 at 8:10 PM
verajoyce1998.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you or stayed with you.
One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
💙📚
13/20
#BookChallenge
Cover of Lincoln Paine’s book ‘The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World’, illustrated with a painting of a sixteenth-century Turkish sailing boat and its crew, coloured in orange, blue, yellow, and white.
December 3, 2024 at 10:25 PM
verajoyce1998.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you or stayed with you.
One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
💙📚
12/20
#BookChallenge
Cover of Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass’, illustrated with a cartoon drawing of Alice surrounded by a pack of cards whilst animals including a parrot, a goose, a rat, a lizard, and a frog scatter at her feet.
December 2, 2024 at 5:40 PM
verajoyce1998.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you or stayed with you.
One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
💙📚
11/20
#BookChallenge
Cover of Hugh Walpole’s novel ‘Rogue Herries’, illustrated with line art of a man staring out of the page at the reader, with a lake and hills in the background. In the distance, a woman is kneeling beside the lake. An eagle is shown flying over the hills.
December 1, 2024 at 10:45 AM
verajoyce1998.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you or stayed with you.
One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
💙📚
10/20
#BookChallenge
Cover of Malala Yousafzai’s autobiography ‘I Am Malala’, illustrated with a portrait of Malala herself wearing a fuchsia headscarf and looking directly out at the reader.
November 30, 2024 at 1:07 PM
verajoyce1998.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you or stayed with you.
One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
💙📚
9/20
#BookChallenge
Cover of Kaliane Bradley’s book ‘The Ministry of Time’.
November 29, 2024 at 2:20 PM
verajoyce1998.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you or stayed with you.
One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
💙📚
8/20
#BookChallenge
Cover of Charlotte Brontë’s ‘Jane Eyre’, illustrated with a bouquet of flowers discarded in the aisle of a church. The flowers are in full colour, but everything else in the image is in black-and-white.
November 28, 2024 at 12:08 PM
verajoyce1998.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you or stayed with you.
One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
💙📚
7/20
#BookChallenge
Book cover for George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’, illustrated with the outline of a pig, inside which are the words “All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.”
November 27, 2024 at 12:19 PM
verajoyce1998.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you or stayed with you.
One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
💙📚
6/20
#BookChallenge
Book cover of ‘The Riverside Chaucer’, illustrated with a painting of a man reading from a book to an audience in an idealised medieval setting.
November 26, 2024 at 2:54 PM
verajoyce1998.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you or stayed with you.
One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
💙📚
5/20
#BookChallenge
Cover of Anna Sewell’s ‘Black Beauty’, illustrated with a photograph of a black horse with its ears pricked forward, rearing up on its hind legs.
November 25, 2024 at 10:54 AM
verajoyce1998.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you or stayed with you.
One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
💙📚
4/20
#BookChallenge
Cover of Lorraine Hansberry’s play ‘A Raisin in the Sun’, depicting a house with a small plant silhouetted in the window.
November 24, 2024 at 11:35 AM