Every single time I have, against my better instincts, accepted a proofreading job, I’ve opened up the document to find it requires extensive copy-editing. For which I am not being paid 🙃

I feel like when you’re starting over as an adult you should at least get to start from the middle. But no.

Can’t go to an event I’ve been looking forward to for WEEKS because someone else decided to go to another event I attended while they were still sick and now I am too. I’m so frustrated 😭

I ate the most insane amount of absolutely incredible food with @imeldamajeure.bsky.social and @mkay.wtf at 963 in Berlin tonight and it was all so good. Genuinely one of the best meals of my life. They pretty much had to roll me home and I have gone straight to bed because I’m too full to think.

Had an exceedingly lovely weekend and still thinking about how cute I felt in my froofy pink princess dress and @bennettmckenna.bsky.social’s very chivalrously donated leather jacket 🥰

Sometimes someone reblogs your post on tumblr and you go oh, those are some mildly interesting tags, so you go to their blog and discover they’re doing Beatles time travel AIDS crisis discourse, and you think ah, no, despite your tags I think there is no potential for connection here.

Hey pals, I’m looking for videos or podcasts on the theme of inspiration, building intrinsic motivation, finding purpose, hopefulness, being content, that sort of thing. Anything that makes you feel inspired/hopeful! Does anyone have any suggestions? Book and music recs also v much appreciated!

Apparently the Heated Rivalry girlies (gn) are writing BDSM AUs? Nature is healing 🥲 All this time I’ve been saying we need protected nature reserves where they aren’t being outcompeted by omegaverse and it turns out Men’s Hockey RPF has been doing this vital conservation work for us all along 🫡

I’ve just badly fucked up my hair dye (was close to growing out the greys, decided to try to bleach a few strands, terrible idea, never do this) and now I’m so sad, please send me cute animal pics 🥺

Lots of tech dudes think the "idea" is the important part of creating, not the creative journey you take through work to give that idea actual meaning. Ideas are the easiest, cheapest and least fulfilling part of it. Giving ideas life through work, and sharing that work with others, is the stuff.

Do you ever just watch bironic’s multifandom Starships fanvid and experience Emotions about sci-fi. because I sure do. m.youtube.com/watch?v=bTGd...

I was going to pace myself and stretch #Deadloch s2 out over several days but it’s so fucking good and I’ve had such a rubbish mental health week so instead I’m rolling around in it like a croc in body parts. The Kates are absolute geniuses.

Starfury continues to be awful to guests and fans shocker: www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/wha... Just further evidence of Sean Harry being awful—he was horrifically rude and unpleasant to the OFMD cast at Republic of Pirates. I wouldn’t even consider going to another Starfury con.

Hey could someone go to 2003 real quick and get me one of the big veggie spring rolls absolutely dripping in oil I used to get from the kiosk at the train station after hanging out with my friends. Thanks, appreciate it 💖

Every winter I go “woe, the darkness is all-encompassing and nary a ray of light penetrates my cave of despair” and every March I go “wow these windows are fucking filthy” and marvel at the difference once I’ve cleaned them. Setting myself an alarm to do them in October and January this year. 🧽🪟

I have some thoughts about how deeply shitty it is to willfully replicate the misogynistic trauma trans men grew up with being perceived as girls and told that we’re inferior for our gender, by continuing to tell us that we’re inferior for our gender for being men, too.

Just discovered I can buy a 10kg bag of glass filling beads so I can make a weighted pillow heavier than anything anyone will sell me to put on my chest and crush the anxiety out of me. About to be unstoppable 👍

Did you know if you are not very cool you can just put on the album Dummy by Portishead. Problem solved.

What's your favourite song that has a long title, say at least 6 words long? I really like wordy songs so I thought finding long titles would be easy but apparently not? I think my current favourite in the category is A Complete List Of Fears Ages 5-28 (Approx) by The Yellow Dress

@disastershipblonde.bsky.social V I just dreamed that Con O’Neill was on a show looking like 30 years younger and I went “God, they must be letting him moisturise again. He looks so *juicy*.” and then immediately had to go find you and tell you that yea verily Hornigold lives within all our hearts.

This is *fascinating* (h/t @mkay.wtf)

I require a tug 😏

It's a beautiful morning to be bisexual and annoying

I wish July lasted as long as January. I’m so done with winter.

DO THE HORRORS NEVER CEASE????

Thissss. At *best* it makes you sound like a Ferengi.

I would be such a rubbish sense8. I’m bringing absolutely nothing to the table. Everyone else in my cluster just like 😒 would it really be such a loss if Whispers gets this one

Okay I have bemoaned not having a bath for two years now and last week I cracked and bought an enormous folding bucket that fits in the shower. Verdict: the bucket is amazing. I live there now. #mybucket #getinthesoup

Started rewatching sense8 and once again Bae Doona if you are free on Thursday or in fact any other day give me a call so I can take you out and stare at you and buy you a fancy drink with a parasol in it.

This lady is ca8ty on Instagram (mysteryfashionist is the interviewer) and she has SO much cool stuff!! I just spent ten minutes browsing her posts. I love her shirts and jumpers with little characters interacting with the fabric. www.instagram.com/ca8ty/

they should invent tasks you can actually complete

relapsed

My fandom cup floweth over, y’all 🥰 Found out tonight that wilfriede0815 recorded podfic of Murder Is A Love Language, my (E! noncon!) Deadloch sex comedy fic, and made it SO much sexier and funnier than the original. I love it and am feeling all fuzzy about it 🥰 archiveofourown.org/chapters/201...

Morning reblog because look at it!! My lil guys!! I went to bed with such a big smile on my face over this ☺️☺️☺️

The wonderful @emcolbs.bsky.social just sent me the glorious picture she drew for my winning craft fair commission bid—it’s the final scene from Hands Full of Flowers, my steddyhands hanahaki slowburn 🌸 I adore it and am so so honoured and grateful that em was willing to take on such a huge piece!

I am shocked—shocked!—to discover there is yaoi going on in this establishment!

Just signed up! I’ve been doing a habit pledge with gywo for the past two years (6 more days of writing to hit my goal this year!) and I cannot overstate how great it’s been for my productivity. Highly, highly recommended for anyone who needs a little gentle accountability!

Excited for this! @siren-events.bsky.social always puts together a fantastic set of people and I love hearing about the work everyone behind the scenes put in 🍊

“act your age, not your shoe size” joke’s on you they’re the same. EU 39.5

The Murderbot Humble Bundle is back!! An absolute steal. Come be unhinged about robots with me 🤖🦾

We’re in the darkest month of the year now, my loves, so snuggle up and be kind to yourselves. Here’s my favourite solstice song; the whole album is lovely, and highly recommended. m.youtube.com/watch?v=iOrn...

Guess I should dust off all of these old @netflix.com #SaveOFMD edits from last year.

a story is like a building. you have to keep working on it, making it taller; if you don’t, it’ll never be finished. you have to stop perfecting the foundations and start on the walls. of course the roof may still fall in later but that’s a different problem.

👀 👀 👀 GUESS 🤨 who just 🍽️🍽️🍽️ ATE a 🍊🍊🍊 clementine 🍊🍊🍊 and is NOT 🙅🏻‍♀️🙅🏻‍♀️🙅🏻‍♀️🚫🚫getting ⚠️ SCURVY ⚠️ (bad!!! 🤢) this year???? 💪 #clementine #myclementine #inacaverninacanyon #NOSCURVY2k26

Further to that last retweet—absolutely, one million percent, use your good ideas and you will find there are more underneath them. The perfect idea you’re saving for some nebulous right time that will never come is standing in the way of all the better ideas behind it.

It was Downey who coined the phrase in the LEVERAGE writers room “future episodes do not win out over present episodes”. Trust me, you’ll have more ideas. You’ll die full of them.

there is actually not a single job currently done by humans, no matter how "skilled" or "unskilled", that AI can adequately replace, which kinda makes burning down all those trees seem...not worth it

Just filled in my Secret Santa wishlist and included an “easy mode” option consisting of one (1) readily available item that costs exactly the amount agreed on. I think I should be sainted actually. Now I’m going to shake the rest of my family until they fill in their wishlists.

Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/

What they don't tell you about editing is how much time you'll spend looking at phrases like "stainless-steel balls" knowing it's grammatically correct and consistent with your other compound adjectives and still trying to find a good reason to format it as "stainless steel balls" instead.