Happy International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia 🏳️‍⚧️Today on my Substack I wrote about moths 🦋

People are talking about the wrong man’s mental illness.

Happy #InternationalWomensDay Here’s how to succeed as a woman open.substack.com/pub/yvetteca...

When you’re not emotionally ready to bin the makeup they discontinued a year ago:

Pancake Day

As someone with bipolar disorder type 1 who has seasonal depression - every single day of January I told myself ‘just get through January.’ It’s over! Hallelujah! It’s basically spring:

Happy February aka LGBT+ history month 🏳️‍🌈

I was reading about social media trends for 2026 and a big one is IRL communities as a pushback against everyone being online and that totally makes sense but that also sounds familiar, I mean I don’t think cults are a new invention

I just don’t think I have the energy for this platform as well as the others, can you just all follow me and I’ll leave?

Can’t really remember what I post on this place any more so here’s a ‘definitely not a scam’ text I received over Xmas.

Happy New Queer - read my newsletter here yvettecaster.substack.com/p/happy-new-...

Thank you Vanguard Bath and @bathecho.bsky.social for supporting us and helping us spread the word about how we send gifts and decorations to children in hospital www.bathecho.co.uk/news/communi...

One thing I think about more than is probably normal is how different languages interpret dog barks. For example, in French it’s not ‘woof woof,’ it’s ‘ouf-ouf’. Anyway, remember to greet French dogs accordingly when you’re abroad.

Our 2025 festive tree decorations are available to buy online now! We’d love to see your photos of them on your tree - remember to tag us and use the hashtag #ChristmasForCAMHS www.christmasforcamhs.org.uk/decorations

Last year one of our trustees, journalist @yvettecaster.bsky.social won Travel Connection Group’s charity champion award. She’ll be back this year at #TravYuleBaubles25 talking about Christmas For CAMHS, what we do and how you can help us spread festive joy. Come and say ‘hi!’

We’re thrilled to be taking part in #TravYuleBaubles25 this evening to talk about what we do and to celebrate the achievements of top travel journalists, creators, PRs and industry insiders 🥂🎄Read more about our mission here:

Last year we delivered more than 1,100 gifts to young people in CAMHS wards across the UK. Help us do even more this year.

This week’s Late In The Gay (my newsletter about coming out aged 43) is about lesbians, sex toy drawers and Leeds open.substack.com/pub/yvetteca...

Today’s Late In The Gay newsletter is up now yvettecaster.substack.com/p/i-keep-dan...

Are we still doing things here? Tbh I totally forgot this app existed

Who could possibly have predicted I would come out this year…? 🤣

Latest edition of my Substack Late In The Gay - this one about LGBTQ+ allies open.substack.com/pub/yvetteca...

Sure, I’ll lean in, right after I’ve dropped off my Mum at her dentist appointment, taken my grandad to lunch and babysat my niece and nephew after work

Happy Father’s Day - here’s a blog about lesbian porn yvettecaster.substack.com?utm_campaign...

Am I the only one watching Virgin Island screaming ‘why don’t you go to the pub?’ and/or - ‘travel back to a 90s house party & drink Metz & I guarantee not a single one of you will still be a virgin past 1am’?

Some belated #WorldBipolarDay thoughts

March 30 is Mother’s Day and World Bipolar Day. Here’s Mum & I chatting about ours open.spotify.com/episode/6uKR...

May your Friday night arrive as swiftly as the rate at which the post-Ozempic media has pivoted from ‘shaming fat women’ to ‘shaming ex-fat women for being saggy’

Maybe I *did* have a child…

Definitive proof that AI is not working… yet

Ah spring, the official season of exes popping back up like crocuses

What I would like to know about social media is: what if you actually hate creating and watching short videos?

Thank god for March

An upside of recent weight loss: I am visible to men A downside of recent weight loss: I am visible to men

V proud of this heartbreak playlist, it has cured me (well, that & Saturday night) 💔 open.spotify.com/playlist/13R...

2xMariah gigs in one year = best thing about 2025 so far www.heritagelive.net/whats-on/mar...

Yes, of course I’m on Flashes, have you even met me? www.flashes.blue/profile/yvet...

Tuesday. Wake up. Download the next social media app (today it’s Flashes - ‘the new Instagram’). Wish I was dead. Repeat.

Good news - we have two new trustees! @charliclement.bsky.social is a neurodivergent & disabled speaker, writer & creative who has lived experience of mental health difficulties & autism, and @heynaomiii.bsky.social is a passionate activist & podcaster. Welcome, Charli and Naomi🎄

At what point watching Severance does it become entertaining and not an anxiety-inducing, nerve-wracking slog? At episode 7 and it still feels like some kind of endurance test. Unlike eg Bad Sisters / Desperate Housewives / Succession it takes itself far too seriously

Sometimes I like to imagine that all the characters an actor plays are the same person. Watching Heretic certainly answers where ‘missing’ Daniel Cleaver was anyway.

You’d think putting actual cameras in mental health units to monitor people (many already experiencing paranoia) would be a bigger story than non-existent benefits cheats but what do I know? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I get why people are mad because the anti-meds ideologues never shut the fuck up, but there will already be a bunch of social prescribing stuff in your area that's generally for people who are kind of isolated and might benefit from group activities. It's not for me, but it has its place.

It's not"comedy on prescription". It's an intervention from a charity that could be 1 option for someone receiving social prescribing support. It's not NHS - social prescribing systems are partnerships across health, LA, & voluntary sectors. No-one commenting has any idea what they're talking about

And, in other news, let’s all enjoy the casual reference to ‘the Broccoli dynasty’ - which doesn’t at all sound like the baddies in an Aldi Christmas ad 🥦 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

More in the news today about young people claiming benefits for mental illness. I can’t stress enough how difficult it is to receive benefits when you have a mental illness. There should be more focus on all the people struggling who are entitled to benefits but can’t or won’t claim them.

The only thing worse than a smug married; a Guardian piece by a smug married www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘Women who report being raped get no traction, while accused rapists like Stephen Matthews keep swiping – and assaulting.’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

All local council members and MPs should be banned from owning a car and have to get about using their bikes, local buses & trains, maybe then they’d finally take green transport outside of London seriously

Was intrigued by the “extraordinary visual spatial skills that have been described in some bipolar patients” mentioned here and thought for a minute I might have a superpower - til I remembered I can manage to get lost in the local corner shop #bipolarlife www.thetimes.com/uk/arts/arti...