Victoria M. Adams
@victoriamadams.bsky.social
Probably eats swans
Repped by Sara O’Keeffe at Nurnberg Associates.
Art above by the lovely www.sharonkingchai.com
Repped by Sara O’Keeffe at Nurnberg Associates.
Art above by the lovely www.sharonkingchai.com
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Children's/YA writers in need of feedback, you can bid for a (min) 2k editorial report on the first 15k of a novel. Written by me, an award-winning author with 15 years experience and a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing. I am kind but thorough. #UKKidLit #kidlit
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November 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Children's/YA writers in need of feedback, you can bid for a (min) 2k editorial report on the first 15k of a novel. Written by me, an award-winning author with 15 years experience and a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing. I am kind but thorough. #UKKidLit #kidlit
app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
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Are you looking for a christmas present for a creative person? Hoo boy do we have the auction for you. Hundreds of creatives from 20 countries are raising funds for people fleeing Genocide in El-Fasher, Sudan. Huge names, huge items! Bid here! app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
Art by @raafaye, insta
Art by @raafaye, insta
November 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Are you looking for a christmas present for a creative person? Hoo boy do we have the auction for you. Hundreds of creatives from 20 countries are raising funds for people fleeing Genocide in El-Fasher, Sudan. Huge names, huge items! Bid here! app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
Art by @raafaye, insta
Art by @raafaye, insta
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Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
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November 23, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Nah, pal. I've heard the stories. They're not seals... 👀
November 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Nah, pal. I've heard the stories. They're not seals... 👀
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hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage: doodlemancy.dreamwidth.org/20757.html
🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky
🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage: doodlemancy.dreamwidth.org/20757.html
🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky
🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky
IMPORTANT. Mixed families, British partners of settled immigrants: please fill this survey out. We must make our voices heard. Too often, a small but loud minority prevails. Let's be louder. We are not a drain on this country. WE ARE THIS COUNTRY. It's about time someone in power noticed.
As the partner of an immigrant, this is very close to my heart. The pathways into this country have always been inhumane, but these proposed changes make them more so, relying on subjective, vague, and - frankly - Victorian notions such as 'character'. If you've got a minute, could you have a go?
For those of you in the UK, especially if you are a UK citizen, can you please take part in the consultation on changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain (Settlement) that were just proposed by the UK government. We need as many people as possible to reject these proposals. www.gov.uk/government/c...
November 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
IMPORTANT. Mixed families, British partners of settled immigrants: please fill this survey out. We must make our voices heard. Too often, a small but loud minority prevails. Let's be louder. We are not a drain on this country. WE ARE THIS COUNTRY. It's about time someone in power noticed.
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What many politicians don't realise - or want to understand - is that many of the "highly-skilled" immigrants whose labour they crave were raised by the same asylum seekers and refugees they openly despise. They take the racist political rhetoric personally, and act accordingly. Why wouldn't they?
"Record numbers of overseas-trained doctors are quitting the UK, leaving the NHS at risk of huge gaps in its workforce, with hostility towards migrants blamed for the exodus...the NHS is so heavily reliant on doctors from elsewhere – 42% of its entire medical workforce qualified overseas."
All those people, including current government, who falsely claim migrants are to blame for failings with the NHS, along with infrastructure in general, are in for one hell of a shock with how much worse things will get with Labour's anti-immigration policies.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
November 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM
What many politicians don't realise - or want to understand - is that many of the "highly-skilled" immigrants whose labour they crave were raised by the same asylum seekers and refugees they openly despise. They take the racist political rhetoric personally, and act accordingly. Why wouldn't they?
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“Are the fae open source?” is such a terrifying question in so many ways.
Turning into my father one "the problem is no one reads enough books these days" grumble at a time
November 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM
“Are the fae open source?” is such a terrifying question in so many ways.
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Definitely read @kjcharleswriter.com's thread. This is why writers look at you blankly (or tell you a PO Box in Poughkeepsie) when you ask where do you get ideas, or talk about offering them an idea & splitting the paycheck.
We have a half dozen ideas before breakfast. That's an idea--not a story.
We have a half dozen ideas before breakfast. That's an idea--not a story.
Excellent thread tying this perennial question to the appeal of ChatGPT and other superficial text vending machines for the non-writer. Applicable to artists, musicians etc as well.
I've had a few 'what do you do' convs recently, and everyone on hearing I'm an author comes out with "so how do you come up with ideas?", just like every book or movie about a writer has them staring numbly into space because they don't have an idea for the next book. And look, that is Not It.
November 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Definitely read @kjcharleswriter.com's thread. This is why writers look at you blankly (or tell you a PO Box in Poughkeepsie) when you ask where do you get ideas, or talk about offering them an idea & splitting the paycheck.
We have a half dozen ideas before breakfast. That's an idea--not a story.
We have a half dozen ideas before breakfast. That's an idea--not a story.
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Up now on my Publishing Peptalk substack including,
What to put in your sessions,
How to get work,
How to control the kids (featuring a VERY funny story from the brilliant @sarahcrossan.bsky.social who does amazing school visits)
open.substack.com/pub/abielong...
What to put in your sessions,
How to get work,
How to control the kids (featuring a VERY funny story from the brilliant @sarahcrossan.bsky.social who does amazing school visits)
open.substack.com/pub/abielong...
How do I ACTUALLY do a school visit?
From getting them to doing them
open.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Up now on my Publishing Peptalk substack including,
What to put in your sessions,
How to get work,
How to control the kids (featuring a VERY funny story from the brilliant @sarahcrossan.bsky.social who does amazing school visits)
open.substack.com/pub/abielong...
What to put in your sessions,
How to get work,
How to control the kids (featuring a VERY funny story from the brilliant @sarahcrossan.bsky.social who does amazing school visits)
open.substack.com/pub/abielong...
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we NEED to bring this archetypical character back. We've gone too long without lil scrungly guys, society is suffering, young men have nothing to look up to
November 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
we NEED to bring this archetypical character back. We've gone too long without lil scrungly guys, society is suffering, young men have nothing to look up to
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CREATIVES! A gang of us are organising an auction raising funds for mutual aid groups in Sudan, amid the war on civilians. Can YOU contribute to the auction? Perhaps a piece of art or music? Signed books? Embroidery? Half an hour of creative mentoring? Sign up here! www.sudancoup.com/auction
Creatives4Sudan Fundraising Auction — Keep Eyes On Sudan
Creatives coming together to raise life-saving funds for the people escaping genocide in El-Fasher, Sudan
www.sudancoup.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:09 AM
CREATIVES! A gang of us are organising an auction raising funds for mutual aid groups in Sudan, amid the war on civilians. Can YOU contribute to the auction? Perhaps a piece of art or music? Signed books? Embroidery? Half an hour of creative mentoring? Sign up here! www.sudancoup.com/auction
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Shabana Mahmood casually saying they're gonna take migrant's jewellery off them has got me thinking about that scene in Schindler's List where the Jewish family wrap family heirlooms in bread and swallow them.
What the fuck are we?
What the fuck are we?
November 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Shabana Mahmood casually saying they're gonna take migrant's jewellery off them has got me thinking about that scene in Schindler's List where the Jewish family wrap family heirlooms in bread and swallow them.
What the fuck are we?
What the fuck are we?
One hundred million, trillion percent, and no, their balding, middle-aged self is not my 17-year-old dream K thx bye
As a former teenaged girl, I want grown men to know that teenaged girls think they are gross.
November 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
One hundred million, trillion percent, and no, their balding, middle-aged self is not my 17-year-old dream K thx bye
"If you really want to know a nation, and to experience its collective mind, instead of tying tatty flags to lamp-posts you might want to get thee to a library, any library, but especially the British Library..." Zadie Smith on culture and the British library: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Does Britain value culture any more? Ask the striking workers at the British Library | Zadie Smith
The dispute over pay at this great national institution gets to the heart of our misplaced priorities, says novelist Zadie Smith
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
"If you really want to know a nation, and to experience its collective mind, instead of tying tatty flags to lamp-posts you might want to get thee to a library, any library, but especially the British Library..." Zadie Smith on culture and the British library: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
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Did men ruin life on land
and can sending them to sea fix it
and can sending them to sea fix it
November 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Did men ruin life on land
and can sending them to sea fix it
and can sending them to sea fix it
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"Taking the fear out", an old Cypriot ritual:
* A pan face-down over a fire.
* Think of what you fear, the ritualist's hand on your head.
* Two caged birds close by.
* Water poured onto the pan so it hisses.
* Leap over that and the fire.
* The birds will absorb your fear.
#WyrdWednesday
* A pan face-down over a fire.
* Think of what you fear, the ritualist's hand on your head.
* Two caged birds close by.
* Water poured onto the pan so it hisses.
* Leap over that and the fire.
* The birds will absorb your fear.
#WyrdWednesday
November 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"Taking the fear out", an old Cypriot ritual:
* A pan face-down over a fire.
* Think of what you fear, the ritualist's hand on your head.
* Two caged birds close by.
* Water poured onto the pan so it hisses.
* Leap over that and the fire.
* The birds will absorb your fear.
#WyrdWednesday
* A pan face-down over a fire.
* Think of what you fear, the ritualist's hand on your head.
* Two caged birds close by.
* Water poured onto the pan so it hisses.
* Leap over that and the fire.
* The birds will absorb your fear.
#WyrdWednesday
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The pang of envy I just felt shattered my third chakra. See you next year, Trim. I want to party with the Puca
Last night I went to the Puca Festival in Trim, Ireland.
It's all fun and games until someone unleashes a giant demonic hare.
It's all fun and games until someone unleashes a giant demonic hare.
November 2, 2025 at 9:58 AM
The pang of envy I just felt shattered my third chakra. See you next year, Trim. I want to party with the Puca
Everyone is listening to Lily at the moment, while I'm drawn always and ever back to Florence. Something bracing about the lack of sugar. No, you don't have to choose! I'm just going to put her here, OK? In sunglasses, channeling Patti Smith www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7XL...
Florence + The Machine - One of the Greats (Official Visualizer)
YouTube video by FlorenceMachineVEVO
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October 31, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Everyone is listening to Lily at the moment, while I'm drawn always and ever back to Florence. Something bracing about the lack of sugar. No, you don't have to choose! I'm just going to put her here, OK? In sunglasses, channeling Patti Smith www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7XL...
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A long-ago tyrant named Mandy
thought a likeness in stone would be dandy,
but the statue fell down,
leaving only a frown,
and the rest has become rather sandy.
thought a likeness in stone would be dandy,
but the statue fell down,
leaving only a frown,
and the rest has become rather sandy.
October 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
A long-ago tyrant named Mandy
thought a likeness in stone would be dandy,
but the statue fell down,
leaving only a frown,
and the rest has become rather sandy.
thought a likeness in stone would be dandy,
but the statue fell down,
leaving only a frown,
and the rest has become rather sandy.
It's time for the English to return to the Old Ways, find the hidden tomb, wake the true High King who will draw his sword, cleave the veil between worlds and chase away all demons with a light that is both Song and Terror
“It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die” says Musk.
It is time for the government and everyone else to finally accept Musk is a national security threat.
It is time for the government and everyone else to finally accept Musk is a national security threat.
October 29, 2025 at 4:59 PM
It's time for the English to return to the Old Ways, find the hidden tomb, wake the true High King who will draw his sword, cleave the veil between worlds and chase away all demons with a light that is both Song and Terror
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I was going to post snarkily about how a library is better than a ballroom, but became distracted by thoughts of a bibliophilic Cinderella. Cinders wants to read at the Institut de Paris, but has no pass. Fairy godmother appears to give her a metro ticket and lifetime membership. There is no prince.
"Housed in the Palais de l’Institut in Paris, La bibliothèque de l’Institut de France was founded in 1797 and serves its five academies. It preserves about 1.5 million works, more than 10,000 manuscripts, and countless prints, maps, and artworks."
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 1000 Libraries
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 1000 Libraries
October 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I was going to post snarkily about how a library is better than a ballroom, but became distracted by thoughts of a bibliophilic Cinderella. Cinders wants to read at the Institut de Paris, but has no pass. Fairy godmother appears to give her a metro ticket and lifetime membership. There is no prince.
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Thread of mask-friendly costume ideas! :)
(And now I totally want to pull together a Stevie Nicks costume. 😂)
(And now I totally want to pull together a Stevie Nicks costume. 😂)
October 27, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Thread of mask-friendly costume ideas! :)
(And now I totally want to pull together a Stevie Nicks costume. 😂)
(And now I totally want to pull together a Stevie Nicks costume. 😂)