Just made myself cry with my own PowerPoint...

Ok. This is driving me crazy and I am falling down a rabbit hole!!! Help. In the Epic of Gilgamesh the relationship between Enkidu and Gilgamesh is translated as 'beloved' 'brother' 'friend' 'partner' and 'companion' depending on the translator. 1/

Today's lunch was a bowl of chicken eaten with my bare hands and a mug of cottage cheese... seriously... I'm eating like a terminally ill zoo lion.

I expect the extreme right to lie. But I'm exhausted when I see the left editing images, using AI and misrepresenting things. The truth is enough, we don't need to stoop to the level of liars and tyrants.

Today we moved my father into a care home. Today has been one of the worse days of my life. Today has been an enormous relief and release. Today my mother can start painting again. Today I had to hold my father and cradle him. Human emotions are an insane cocktail...

'Hey. ❤️ you big time. Night night.' Is my: 'I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world'

I know it's not the point. But AI art has this really unique kind of ugliness to it. Even when it's vibrant, or convincing... when you look carefully there is this terrifying absence: Looking into the eyes of an AI avatar is like putting a small part of your soul into a meat grinder.

Delighted to be speaking close to home this coming weekend. If you're in and around Gloucester on Sunday 15th would be a DELIGHT to see you there! www.eventbrite.com/e/sacha-cowa...

Proud to serve aboard the HMS Havock (congrats if you can spot me...) under the wise leadership of Captain husband. Those space pirates didn't know what hit them! 🫡 #BridgeCommand

Weird folk online: Greek mythology was full of beautiful white people. When adapted it needs to be cast only with beautiful white people!!! This is OUR heritage!!! Actual Greek mythology: Just... like... SO much incest.

Loved this book by @sachacoward.bsky.social lgbthotline.org/uplifting-qu...

I would end worlds for him 😭

Improv is normal, not cringe, and not a cult... definitely 100% not a cult...

Ferbruary #oldknees

When I do corporate queer history talks I always feel like a scrappy little Orphan from a Dickens novel. 'Cor blimey guvnah, you got fizzy wa'er from a tap? Why, sandwiches wiv the corners all cut orff! Wow, its like wot 'eaven must look like! Narr, a whole lanyard... for me?!!!'

Yes. The left can be a bit annoying and cringe... but you know what's worse than annoying and cringe?!

Only person on tube. Is apocalypse?!

This LGBT+ History Month, pick up a celebration of queer history like you've never seen it before. To truly understand who queer people are today, we must confront the twisted tales of the past. 30% off as part of our @lgbthm.bsky.social promotion until 28th Feb. @sachacoward.bsky.social #booksky

Me and the incredible @cemeteryclub.bsky.social are running two tours of Soho this LGBT History Month. Grab a coffee, stay warm and let us tell you some wonderful, beautiful and scandalous queer history! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-place-to...

Who let this large frightened golden retriever into the art gallery private view?!!! *Me, frozen in horror by the snack table*

I should not be allowed to 'network' alone. Yesterday at a preview I confidently walked up to a man I recognised but could not remember where from... As we were talking I realised I didn't actually know him. So for five whole minutes I long-form apologised and then walked away.

Went to @queerbritain.bsky.social private view last night. This was the piece that hit the hardest. Part of a quilt memorial to those who died during the HIV crisis. Here's to one day revealing the beautiful life beneath this panel and celebrating him for who he was. X

Continuing on my neverending quest to ensure unsigned copies of my book become a collector's edition!!! 😅 Thanks at @gaystheword.bsky.social, it never stops being awesome seeing 'Queer As Folklore' in your hallowed halls.

Feeling pretty upbeat this morning. Step out of my mum's house. Big intake of breath. 😃 'Well, what a beau-' *slips on first step, falls into postman, we both scream*

Me to myself in the gym sniggering: 🎶 Make a lich go on and on! It's a necrinonomenon! 🎶

I'm coming up with a new DnD campaign character which is complete wish fulfillment... what if your beloved childhood authors didn't turn out to be regressive bigots or woolly centrists? Wild eh?!!

On Sunday 8th I have the perfect hangover cure! A videogame themed tour of the British Museum. Go on, you know you want to! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-videog...

First set of queer history tours of The British Museum are kicking off this Friday evening! Would be lovely to have you along. I'm keeping in all the messy bits... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-to-s...

More bargains from @manchesterup.bsky.social. @sachacoward.bsky.social book is fucking outstanding, great to see it find a home here after the shitshow with its previous publisher. Perfect fit. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🙏💘

Delighted to be at the @dulwichgallery.bsky.social for their fabulous #LGBTQplusHM evening event on the 21st of Feb. Performances, tours, life drawing and camp joy galore. Grab a ticket and I'll see you there. www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/whats-on/out...

This book is like Raymond from Animal Crossing but for folklorists.

I'm proud of us...

I've been running this D&D campaign for two and a half years. today we FINALLY get to the end boss, evil magic crackling from his fingertips, and they turn him into a killer whale and cast power word kill, I am sat there checking the rulebook like god fucking damn it he's dead

'I'm really into Celtic history' The sweetest they/them you've every met. OR The most unhinged white supremacist you could possibly imagine.

I really struggle to read but I have after 20 years ( lol ) I have been able to read a few chapters of a book. That I am gen interested in. Shocker. I think I have to work myself up to something like “ young mungo “ which my friend still asks me if I finished it….. @sachacoward.bsky.social x

Dad has been in hospital for 3.5 weeks. I wanted to call something out... something beautiful yet unapplauded. The nurses attending to him are Polish, Indian, Filipino, Nigerian, Ugandan and Somalian. Imigrants. And they treat my sick and confused dad with such respect. /1

'Won't someone think of the children?!!!' Scream the folks who, it seems, think of children altogether too much...

My husband made me a gym playlist 🥰 *Hits play* 🎶 Call me Mr Vain 🎶 😐

I have been laughing at this for a solid five minutes.

Sitting on the National Express just outside Cirencester, looking like a tired old circus lion called Pierre.

This photo is from 2019. I was doing a cemetery tour with a friend who was very very late. I was a weretiger, it made sense for the tour you just have to believe me... A bunch of gen-z's asked to take a photo of me because I looked like a divorced furry.

Weirdest of flexes *flicks hair* nurses love me!

I'm sorry if this makes you ugly cry the way it does me, but I think this is one of the most powerful things ive seen on the subject. #Alzheimers youtu.be/oBL00v7RreQ?...

I'm having a really rough time with dad, he has Alzheimer's and this month has been particularly difficult for all of us. So I did what I haven't done since I was 15... I wrote a bad poem. X

What can those of us outside the USA do right now? Is it protests outside the US embassy? Lobbying our own leaders to stand up against this regime? Honestly and openly, how can we help?

Girl... please. #TheTraitors

An overly expressive gay labradoodle and a devoted carer for a parent with dementia?! I honestly couldn't be more happy! I did a cry!

God that wasn't just good telly that was *licks fingers* bloody Shakespeare!!! #TheTraitors

I love Stephen. The face of a doomed WW1 officer and the wardrobe of John Travolta. #thetraitors

So its a show about deceit and intrigue in a Scottish castle? Yeah! So we're thinking slow motion owls. Scary slow versions of pop songs. Cloaks. Graves. Skulls. Perfect! Druids. Yeah exac- Wait.... What was that las-? Lots of druids. #TheTraitors