im teaching my mother to play candy crush. this feels like a butterfly effect turning point that i will live to regret

ohhhh my god this is BEAUTIFUL their pose and expressions are soooo tender 💕🥺

WAHEEYYYY my local neonazi has been arrested

i'm doing line edits and im sad to say that i finally understand why my wife is endlessly beating me with hammers about overusing semi-colons

i am painfully aware that i haven't read a single book since july. but i think there should be an option on goodreads to say that it's because you've been proofreading your own stupid book 16 times

getting careers advice from pokemon concierge the way the lord intended

my mother, frustrated, trying not to swear: oh sodding baloney!

Beautifully Welsh response to the English roundabout/flyover flag-shagging nonsense. "FLAGS, IS IT?' Spotted in Pontllanfraith.

im making homemade apple granola to ward off the tide of sadness slowly chasing me

anyway promoting myself feels, as usual, absolutely unbearable

look ma i'm a professional writer doing professional writer things (if anyone missed it i have a funky substack now) open.substack.com/pub/kthomasi...

living on a main road in the city is wild. im watching three dudes scrapping outside my house. one of them is wielding a drawer like a weapon. what a time to be alive

daily affirmations: it is amazing that i have written 175,000 words of a book no-one asked for. it seems like a lot of effort to finish it!! but look at how much effort i have already put in!!!

summer isn't over yet! there's still time to make this one memorable <33

ughhhhhHhhhghghgh LET ME BE FREEEEEEEE

deeply embarrassing to me but hello i am starting a substack for my Real Grown Up Novel Writing person and if anyone wants to subscribe over there that would mean a lot 💕🕺 kthomasin.substack.com?r=1ec9aj&utm...

forcing myself to make a grown-up substack for grown-up writing is its own kind of saw trap

tell the soft animal of your body to stop that. stop that! drop it... Drop That Cheese

im going to a proper grown up professional Writers Room today and im gently bricking it. imposter syndrome telling me i will be shot on sight

accidentally made a cup of tea with 4 sugars in it so i think im going to complete my novel today as well as every chore i've ever had

Rivendell - watercolour and acryla gouache on paper My vision of the city of Rivendell, complete with a tiny fellowship crossing the bridge as they embark upon their journey. ✨ Prints avaiIable ✨

Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet

my mother listening to an anecdote without fixating on an irrelevant detail for 20 minutes challenge: Failed.

iloveyou.txt.vbs / MR. ROBOT // mr. robot/tyrell wellick /// archiveofourown.org/works/69559386

😳💞💖💞💕💖💕❗️ #wangxian

discovered that asda sells pierogi ruskie so excuse me while i never eat anything else ever again

the problem with working out the final plotholes at the end of my novel is that doing literally anything else is easier than working out the final plotholes at the end of my novel

got a good grade in therapy today AND i pet a cat in the cathedral grounds

People love it

recruiters get back to me within a month of my job application challenge: failed.

me, writing anything, over and over again: hm. this scene needs more urgency. oh. now this dialogue seems impractical in such a hurry. perhaps less urgency. hm. more urgency. well, now this makes no sense. less urgency. or perhaps more urgency. or perhaps less. or more.

Harpy!

so many writing jobs want a portfolio of your written work and i'm like. hm. well. i dont have any articles, per se, but i can certainly offer you an awful lot of gay fanfiction

important question: in pokemon, does chansey get paid for doing human work? does chansey need to unionise? is chansey capable of advocating for themselves. and by extension is chansey capable of consent

List of resources in the thread ❤️🖤🤍💚

once again struggling with writing my wip, facing the knowledge that all i really want to have written is critically acclaimed shogun series 1 episode 9 crimson sky starring anna sawai

using a vpn to google "how to stage a coup" for writing research purposes. just in case

have an enormous deep tissue bruise on my hip/butt/thigh 😥 got fucken Bodied at roller derby and landed maximum force on the same spot 😭 ow ow owie

it does not matter how good you make your game’s block/parry system; I will not use it. My defense is “punch more.” I cannot be taught

got too into a jigsaw puzzle today and now my eyes hurt. and i can't even complain abt it bc wife has been telling me for 6+ hours to "get a life"

#thelockedtomb I was rereading Gideon the Ninth and this one line stuck with me so I spent several days illustrating it

at this rate im going to have to dedicate my book to the F1 movie bc its soundtrack is basically the only thing i've been listening to for the past 20,000 words

officially unemployed lads lets fucking gooooooo

caught speeding AGAIN.... goddamnit. they can never keep a bad bitch down (they can and they do)

listening to the soundtrack for the descent again for the first time since i last wrote horror and i forgot how HARD it goes oh my god

Ivysaur warmup from the other day.

got a buyer for our flat can i get a wahoo

William Carlos Williams if he was in an open marriage:

I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.

writing job applications and i truly am just spewing a load of horseshit