Have wanted to write "quickly" for many many days, but between being unwillingly busy all weekend, the heat, and the football, it is simply not getting done

imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar

Was worried hair place had made me too blonde after not dyeing it for a year but literally no-one at work has noticed any difference so it's probably fine

there's currently delays on 9 tube lines... victorian infrastructure collapsing let me go home when it's home time please

I am easily bought (work gave everyone one free ice lolly, yippee)

Oh, guys, apart from fandom I have to admit there's just really not much that's bringing me joy right now

I challenged myself to write my current WIP really quickly, as quickly as I can, which I never do, and I just can't, it's still moving very slowly. I do not understand how some people can churn it out!

Not to stereotype about every single venue in Hackney having a DJ with a laptop in it but I just went into a corner shop in Dalston to get a water and somehow there was a DJ with a laptop crammed in there, banging out the tunes

As soon as I do actually get to writing there's more football, when will the endless football cease ⚽♾️

They’re calling it the quote on British politics that ended the need for all other quotes

girl who is going to be okay

one reason I think I can never quite get into the fun in the summer sun mentality is that I have to be so careful about skin protection. summer = careful outfit plan, full sunscreen application, carrying mini sunscreens and remembering to reapply, hat, before I can even think about leaving the house

After a year of no colour, have caved - going to a new place for a patch test. My need to be very slightly blonder than my natural hair colour no not too much.

questioning the person who has tagged one of my lennon/mccartney fics with 'rare pair'. it's john lennon and paul mccartney.

Saw the yougov poll and just have to accept I'm way out of step with most people on approval/disapproval of social media ban for under 16s then.

perhaps did not clock that by going to a gig in manchester on a bank holiday I have to pay this much a fortune on train to manchester, staying in manchester, on a bank holiday. pain. (the museums are free tho)

Welcome to the UK, where soon 17-year-olds will be legally allowed to drive, join the army, work a full-time job, have sex and even vote but not watch YouTube past their bedtime.

liking olivia's 'stupid song' especially the 'nobody's wanted somebody more' bit

Looking at a good housekeeping recipe book from the 90s to get some ideas and they were definitely assuming you had a full drinks cabinet back then because every single recipe is like whack in some sherry! now add the marsala!

ohhhhh, the football has begun... absolutely wall to wall AI ads this time around too (blorbo angle: I hope my blorbos who like football are enjoying the endless football)

I'd love for these two to go over to Belfast and tell the Protestant gangs setting fire to people's houses that they want to be Irish.

so depressed by AI rewriting being integrated into employee recognition platforms. Please tell me I'm not wrong in thinking most people would prefer a message actually written by their manager that just says 'good wiork' [sic] than the words no human wrote this turns into if you press the AI button.

this was so depressing www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

was in belfast last week and came back telling colleagues who had last visiting a long time ago 'it's changed a lot in the past 10-15 years!' (and it has!). but. y'know. it has and it hasn't. obviously this isn't most areas or most people. all that infrastructure is still ready to go

I feel like I have been working on this job application for 7923473 years

(I'm still off sick) what the hell since when has homes under the hammer started at 11.15 not 10am this is Wrong

okay I posted the fic but the price I pay is I still have a job app to finish and I'd only felt a bit of sinus pain the past couple of days but today it has all exploded into a horrible cough and I've taken the day off work but correctly! because I'm sleep deprived and feel awful

too tired to cook properly so I had breakfast for dinner (buttermilk pancakes and maple syrup, bacon, mushrooms) and it was ridiculously good

Wes Streeting an important reminder this pride month that gay people can be evil and stupid too 🌈

I always think editing/writing up a few thousand words of fic from first draft will take like two hours tops but it takes SO much longer than that

oooooooof rivals

Unfortunately simply still too Succession-pilled as obviously this is an exhibit about the Troubles but it immediately made me think of Logan Roy's "The future is real, but the past, well. It's all made up." (and how the show treats the variance of memory in general)

Obviously I'm fine but midweek trip to another UK city cost more than expected, looking at budget for rest of month, haven't got my hair coloured in a year but realise I can't afford to for at least another 2-3 months, looking at at least another year of paying all bills, food etc for 2. Sucks.

surely I would have absolutely zero problems if I lived here themodernhouse.com/sales-list/t...

Applied for a job today that (amongst many other more key things) said previous experience of using copilot was essential so I just. Ignored that bit. (What you were supposed to have previously used copilot for was unspecified.)

oh god I've completely lost it at this

there has been so much football in london recently - multiple cup finals all month long, then a victory parade tomorrow. world cup starts in two weeks. M&W "It will never be finally decided who has won the football!" sketch remains eternal.

Been able to contribute quite a bit of new research to current fandom which is just so much fun. Now I just need to write more fic than I have been doing as well.

I knew that tidy up the library game would be like a highly addictive substance to me, and it was. I played 5 hours without even noticing and I have to go to sleep now but I'm not! Done!

I was incorrectly under the impression that it did have to be food ordered for and eaten by children, but no, Rachel Reeves says Small Plates Summer

Unfortunately I have to do stuff out this bank holiday weekend but it's TOO BLOODY HOT

I love RIVALS it's fun it's funny it's cheesy it's sexy it's british it's period it *is* trashy but it's reassuringly expensive and done w/ wit and charm. Takes me back to when I was a teenager obsessed with Hotel Babylon and Footballers Wives. I think the UK can do these types of shows really well.

why are so many comedians just doing presenting now. it's so fucking boring. do some comedy please

Truly horrifying! (And good writing.)

Started retinol again and my skin is purging awful. Need to carry on and push through

I'm not the follow police, but oh Neil Gaiman has reactivated his account here. Trying to rehabilitate after GO3, would you look at that. What a shit

Got slightly obsessed with reading through the tags on this post (on AO3 tagging) because people have very strong feelings! But of course these strong feelings can be contradictory. www.tumblr.com/greenycrimso...

Yes, I do want the new big open-world driving game set in Japan... Place vs Place Japan (although I thought I could buy the UK set one for cheap now only to find it has not been on sale since end of 2024. Damn it)

All my recent fandom and fic-reading interest has involved either people from Manchester or people from Scotland and please save me from the phonetic accent spelling-out, oh god please save me from the phonetic accent spelling-out

Between the x2 marches in direct opposition to each other in town yesterday (plus FA cup final) and a local race event today, I have essentially been trapped at home this weekend ("oh no", I complain at this state of affairs. ""oh no"")