🧣🧤🍂October 21st🍂🧤🧣 A cold Tuesday, the kind of day when you start wondering where you put that pair of genuinely warm gloves. Meanwhile, some walking radiator of a person shows up in shorts like it's summer. But they do wear a seasonal jacket. Autumn is autumning quite well. #autumnvibes

I forgot what a terrible husband that man is 😩 #TheDiplomatNetflix

☔️🌬✨️October 20th✨️🌬☔️ Monday returned, as foretold. The clouds are heavy with rain. Soon, hopefully, they'll be heavy with snow. *🎶AaAahye...🎶* NO! NOT BEFORE HALLOWEEN! (Wrap up warm, drink hot tea, and don't forget your umbrella; if you get any writing done, so much the better) #monday #writing

Yes, go into the evil house at the dark of night. Alone. This will not be a problem whatsoever. #filmsky

✨️🍂⏳️October 19th⏳️🍂✨️ It's not easy to undock from days and days of stress, but everyone needs regular rest. Take the time to do nothing - *irritated grumbling* "There's this to do and that to finish!" Yes. Ok. But no one can run on empty, at least not for long. Take the time to recharge. #sunday

It's grey and cold out, staying warm and hydrated has been mandated by concerned parties, so it's back to Scully and Mulder getting glared at by local law enforcement. #filmsky

🧤🍂🌬October 18th🌬🍂🧤 Temperatures are dropping. It used to be pretty crisp outside by this time of the year, but alas the seasons have shifted because [muffled yelling]. *clears throat* Anyway. Wear sturdy shoes and wrap up warm. Those little breezes are not to be underestimated. #sweaterweather

Man 1 [traumatised]: It's out there. Man 2 [overzealous capitalist]: NONSENSE! Man 1: I tell you. It ate them. It turned them into [weird thing] and ate them. Man 2: LIAR! ARREST HIM! Scully: We did see the [weird thing], sir. Man 2: YOU BELIEVE HIM? Mulder: *squints tellingly* #xfiles

✨️📚🫖October 17th🫖📚✨️ Friday, finally. The Regular Job workweek is almost over. *happy dance* Do I have plans? Oh, nothing wild. Relaxing, decompressing. If it rains even better. *concerned noises* Party? Me? Oh no. A coffee outside tops. You go. I'm in my At Home & Happy About It Era 🙂‍↔️ #friday

And it's always 3am! Miss Ma'am, please! I have a day job, I need to sleep! 😭 #writing #writerslife

🌧✨️🎧October 16th🎧🌧✨️ We need all the good joy we can get right now. Suggestion: Find that album you haven't listened to in a while and sink into the music uninterrupted 🙂‍↔️ And: fight the algorithm. Get your dopamine the old school way: fab music, fresh air, good food, great conversation #throwback

#music Myself & I: This timeline is absolutely ridiculous 😫 Randomised Playlist: How about Skunk Anansie? You seem in the mood. *squints* Myself & I: Go on... Playlist: Sneaker Pimps, Underground? M & I: If you add Morcheeba next, I will be impressed 👀 Playlist: MASSIVE ATTACK Myself & I:

✨️🫦🍂October 15th🍂🫦✨️ Halloween is in 2 weeks Adherents are awaiting & anticipating, jumping to the left & stepping to the right, putting their hands on their hips & bringing their knees in tight *pelvic thrust & yayayayayeah* Colleagues: Brenda, why. Brenda:🎶LET'S DO THE TIMEWARP AGAIN🎶 #humpday

Scene: [Sam reads "Don't Create the Torment Nexus". Sam builds TorNex3000. Sam is miffed so many are anti-TNex3] The Ethically Aware: Sam, what was the book title again? Sam: Oh come on! What could go wrong? TEA: Everything. Sam: 🙄 *ten days later* Sam: Whoops, it ate the children. Sorry.

What. 😞

🍂☁️🌬October 14th 🌬☁️🍂 A moody Tuesday, grey and grey and grey alike. Meetings that could have been emails. Emails that lead to meetings. Paperwork. People. *sighs* This is the other side of fall, the dark side of the autumn mood. *oldhead grumbling* I told you. It's that kind of day. #writing

I shall stick to Old Bill, please and thank you. Though, Joyce would be someone to write "barberous onion-eyed horn-beast" with a straight face 🤔 Same with "bawdy clay-brained strumpet" and "foul-reeking toad-spotted hedge-pig". *considers* Nope: It's Old Bill for me. 🙂‍↔️

You knew essentials by heart (home, gran, close friends, that one auntie), fave takeout, and some random extension. Also, as a kid, there was a certain mystery to your Mom's address book, like an ancient script full of mythical coding. The actual phone book was a brick, though, phew. #throwback

✨️🍂🌤October 13th🌤🍂✨️ Monday returned, unbidden. And yet, there is coffee and sunlight and moments of peace. May you have a week full of uneventful, boring things like a walk in the woods and chocolate. *raises coffee cup* To good conversations, warm hugs, and laughter among friends. #monday #mood

🌬🌧🧤October 12th🧤🌧🌬 Sunday, a quiet day. Grey skies, bright and cold. Winter is on the move. Get a hot cup of your favourite beverage, eat something good, then go and spend a day enjoying Life, lived. There is only so much if it to be had on this here our blessed Earth. #sunday

✨️🍜🌧October 11th🌧🍜✨️ Saturday, cold and grey. Winds are picking up, promising rain. A great day to slow down and make a hearty soup, curl up warm, and enjoy a bowl in peace and quiet. That is, if you are so inclined. #autumn #weekend

✨️☂️🧥October 10th🧥☂️✨️ The days are getting colder, the coats are getting thicker, and it's raining more and more. *checks weather app* ☁️☁️🌥☁️☁️ Hm. *squints into the sky* Definitely need an umbrella, only which coat? These are the important questions 🙂‍↔️ #friday #autumn #writing

Writer in 1900s: Do NOT build the Torment Nexus. I repeat, DO NOT (!) build the Torment Nexus. NO Torment Nexus. Torment Nexus: BAD. VERY BAD. DO NOT BUILD. EVER. 2025: Oh look, they built the Torment Nexus. *global scream* Torment Nexus Builders: It works! #booksky #writing

*pertains to Subway image only* Promised: Age of Aquarius Delivered: Skynet-Matrix 1.0, possibe Blade Runner prequel, perhaps Dune. Yikes, this timeline 😮‍💨

☕️✨️📚🍂October 9th🍂📚✨️☕️ Outside is all grey skies and rain. What a lovely time to stay inside and read some poetry. #booksky #poetry

🍂✨️🍎October 8th🍎✨️🍂 Chasing the puppy through multicoloured leaves. Coming home to a hot lunch or a much-needed cup of tea. The sudden scent of cinnamon. And your neighbour brought you homemade appletarts, hot and steaming. Take a few moments to enjoy this amazing season 🧡 #writing #autumn

Accurate. Aggravating doesn't even begin to describe. Offloading PR and Marketing onto authors who only want to write is [expletive-riddled rant] 😤 #writing #publishing

🌬🍂🌦October 7th🌦🍂 Autumn is here and it is glorious 🧡 Hot drinks & Happy writing! #writing #writingcommunity

We need more hopeful, fun stories that don't get lost in the sauce (of marketing) while taking interpersonal dynamics seriously. Stories where, for 90+ minutes, you really do escape into another world and pick up a positive message on the way. More of that please & thank you #movies #writing

FINE. I'll watch K-Pop Demon Hunters. Oooooh. This is nice. #animation

✨️🧣☕️October 6th☕️🧣✨️ Monday has returned, as forewarned. Wrap up warm and enjoy your coffee. *ping* Friend: Watch this! You're still over there? Friend: YES! Folks are IRATE! HAHA Didn't you sleep? [Watches TikTok] Oof.😯 Friend: IKR?😆 Youch. Friend: [Capt. Holt GIF] Vindication! 🤭 #monday

🥧🍂✨️October 5✨️🍂🥧 Sweater Weather. Read, write, go outside, or just sit at the window and watch the sky. *whispers* But the Terribles? What of them? *opens Grímm Faírytales* "A Red Cloak for warmth is good and well, but hark what lurks in Familiar Places. There you must beware." #sunday #writing

Is anyone getting any writing done? #writing #writingcommunity

🍂🤎🌬October Fourth🌬🤎🍂 Saturday. The perfect day to wrap up warm and disappear into a good book. *checks Demonology I* "Tis important to strengthen your Spirit. The Horrors may persist, but such demons cannot fathom a humble peace. Find ye yours. Rest well and prevail." #reading #booksky #writing

The one person who could make "My Child" the worst thing you heard all day. She's right up there with Gul Dukat. Horrific Woman. Excellent villain, though. Kudos to the writers' room. #DS9 #writing

✨️🍂🤎October Third🤎🍂✨️ *opens Demonology I* "These be the Witching Dayes. Yea, times of Magicks, Rites, Incantations, and Spells. Cast ye the Deep Magic! Rekindle t'Ancient Flame! The Thieves of Joy are haunting our dayes, dragging Innocents to the Porches of Hell." Wow. Accurate. #booksky #writing

🍂🧡✨️Another Day in October✨️🧡🍂 *discrete happy dance* Writing Season has commenced: Yes! Reading Season has begun: Superb! *hums happy tune* The Horrors may persist, but so do we: Defy the madness with a hot beverage and baked goods. Enjoy the little things! (And eat some fruit) #writing #autumn

🍂🧣🧡Finally. October. 🧡🧣🍂

How do you MISS a concert performance? Irresponsible.

Walked right into that fluffy boy's house and just ate the Eat Me biscuit like she forgot what happened last time 😒 Also, did that carpenter ever get that damnable Walrus?

When you're told, "You're old enough now," prepare yourself. You are about to hear The Lore. Is it remotely sane? Never. Does it explain *a lot*? Always.

I bought cake forks because of this very situation.

*sends audio clip* Why is he talking like that? Friend: IKR?! So weird Friend: And she's NOT impressed Rose-tinted glasses? GONE Friend: TRASHED! I read somewhere that a crush is just a lack of information So what's love then? Friend: AI hallucination Savage 😆 Friend: Sounds true? Issa LIE

*More Tea is Spilt* People were sending then-wife pics but it wasn't computing? Friend: She trusted him. Oof. When did it click? Friend: She asked why [name] was in town. He got this super guilty look. Boom. And he's shocked she hates his ass? Friend: Literally. Wants sympathy too. Excuse me?

*Friend Spilling Tea* Wait wait wait - so, he was famous for being married? Friend: Yes. And then he wrecked his marriage in front of everybody? Friend: Yes. So why is there a podcast situation now? Friend: No idea. It's weird. Wait, isn't that the ex-wife? Friend: Yes. Explain everything.

There's an MC I'm currently anti-rooting for 🙂‍↔️ *character is shocked things stay difficult* Wait, you really thought this would be easy? Ahahahahaha No. *character suffers* Oi. You did [spoiler]. Why are you so incredibilized things got Very-Much-Not-Easy? Are you ok? #reading #booksky #writing

The horrors persist but there is coffee. #monday

I still can't get over the fact that they built a brain-eater. A publically accessible zombie. What kind of timeline is this? #reading #booksky #writing

So, ChatGPT wrecks your cognitive abilities? As in, it basically eats your brain? *squints* You mean, they built a brain-eating machine? *whispers* They literally built a zombie? #reading #booksky #writing