I'm a scientist in ancient hominids who gave birth to a half neanderthal child 🙀

Butter Friend Crabs .... And that's when I realize they're not that into me 😂

But also, insomnia spiral hours

There's no autism in my family obviously but every Christmas my dad takes all the chocolates out the selection tub, sorts them into their types so he knows where he's been short changed, and then carefully replaces them in the tub so they are correctly mixed in their correct proportions.

The problem with feeling the tension leaving my body and collapsing totally exhausted after family Christmas is that I have to go to work tomorrow 🫠

Seasonally appropriate relisten

I cannot tell you how excited I am that 2026 is a kākāpō breeding season let's gooooooo

Yes please this can we stop measuring our success in $$ and start measuring it in happy

I so don't understand us sports and the whole drafting thing and whatnot

UK based pals, proton VPN has a 50% off deal for the 2 year VPN plus plan right now! If you're looking for a VPN because of *gestures to our fuckass government*, this one comes highly recommended! protonvpn.com/pricing

Many mental breakdowns. Met pirate friends. Made pirate friends. Wrote things, many of which I'm proud of (much better at giving fictional characters happy outcomes) Dropped hours to improve my life Many many spirals about so many things (A mixed bag, trending positive I think)

Come get your #ouizzy #ofmdfic !! Delphi has written a fantastic thing for me as part of the canyon gift exchange. archiveofourown.org/chapters/199...?

Christmas classics

Yesssss. It's all about human stories.

Delicate and real and heartbreaking

I'm literally shook that pining while fucking wasn't a canonical tag before, and I gotta wonder if that's a split between pining while fucking, and fucking while pining driving down the numbers.

Happy Christmas Adam!

My canyon gift exchange fic is up for @violetsmith.bsky.social ! Prompt was: "Ouizzy - Izzy protecting/hiding Frenchie" - canon era, post S2, everyone lives archiveofourown.org/works/76254581

Time to post my Canyon Christmas gift for @dinoromance89.bsky.social ✨️ I loved your prompts and chose stizzy/spooky adventure, so! Here are the idiots fresh off the scariest ride in the park! Stede is ENTHUSIAST and loved it and Izzy...well, Izzy loves Stede :') #ofmdfanart #canyonchristmas #stizzy

Chris Rea is not making it home for Christmas

All I'll say is that the only t rated long fic I've written was my very first one, before I was properly acquainted with fandom, and that's not by chance. There were so many discussions going on during the writing process that made me feel shit about wanting to write a 'wrong rating' fic at all.

Izzy when Steddyhands visits the Christmas markets. www.instagram.com/reel/DSb7YG3...

Getcha recs here, some magnificent ones in there

“you came back.” “never left.” #heatedrivalry #skip #scotthunter #kipgrady #ofmd

🥰 Happy exchange gift day @dracothelizard.bsky.social ! 💛 A little fic about Roach getting a warm meal. archiveofourown.org/collections/...

Anyone got recs for partners supporting partners in a non sexual way (zero "I like it when you X cos it's hot, I gotta fuck you" please? Rn mentally I need to read that love isn't conditional on making yourself hot/sexy/consistently sexually available.) bonus points if it's not depression/illness

UK folks - don’t forget to check you have the meds you need for the Chrimbo period And remember there are processes (incl. NHS 111) to get emergency supplies of repeat prescriptions Inspired by a post from @scaryboots.bsky.social on IG

Yaaay (will I manage to read A Book? Idk)

It's nuts, people. And it's also insane.

Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:

Read iiiit

Go! Listen!

This piece I did went crazy on Tumblr so I'm sharing it here. It's a pic of Blackbeard from Our Flag Means Death!

friendly reminder that you didn't waste your year. any moments of happiness or comfort. any small accomplishments, they all matter. this has been a really hard year, and simply surviving is something to be proud of.

for #FicRecFriday (on Friday!) I want to rec @caladria.bsky.social 's Second Star to the right, and the podfic by @pilotpirate.bsky.social . We all know Caladria is the fucking best but have you let her crush & rebuild you through the medium of peter pan yet???? archiveofourown.org/works/555770...

Is there anything more upsetting than going to bed and realizing that you never got the sheets out of the dryer

Loving getting to spend my Saturday morning scrolling through all the beautiful art

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

every so often I think about the time i saw someone say that tv is seriously lacking in slow-burn relationships these days (true!) and how it’s so much more satisfying when characters don’t get together ‘til season 2… SEASON 2??? you think TWO SEASONS is a slow burn????? bro we are so fucked

Seems like overkill

Love it when you're spiralling about a thing in a fic that you read ages ago but it won't leave you alone (untaggable, asked for recs to avoid, was in there anyway 😭) And you KNOW it's stupid and yet, and yet. sometimes you need a good cry about it, I guess.

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online friendship is crazy. like yeah we go way back. we talk about weird shit exclusively and we've seen each other in person between zero and four times

This continues to be both a delight and a gut punch

♥️

Wrote a lot more in the first half of this year than the second (as blink said, work sucks, I know, and there's TRAUMA and BURNOUT) Plotting TWO long fics that weren't AUs of anything else, just my ideas, is my highlight. I never thought I could do that. And beta reading for more people!

So how profane am I @profanity.accountant

Five animals I've seen in the wild Sloth Hummingbird Red squirrel Sea turtle Bottlenose dolphins

Deepest darkest most controversial secret: I have no idea why people have issues with tomatoes as fruit. They LOOK like a fruit on the vine. They act like a fruit.