There is nothing like the joy in this world of offering your hand to a puppy to let them sniff it and the puppy taking the offer and experiencing a world of olfactory exploration and discovery.

Joyce missed a trick in not having everyone yell at stately, plump Buck Mulligan for dragging his shavings all over the shop. Far from a literary leader Seamus comes across as a bit of hack. #SpeirGorm Some dose to clear up after him. 😠

About that gay 🌈 Ice Hockey TV show that's doing the rounds. The #LGBTQ+ focused one from the US. I've been kicking around a novel about trans #pride 🏳️‍⚧️ existence within the football (soccer) world for a while.⚽ I need the time to get my other books out, first, and some cash from them to support me!

My home made Indian style spice bag chips. I'll definitely do these again. 😋🍟 I might soften some onions in a spiced butter for them next time. And they definitely need a garlic mayo. 🌟

If necessity is the mother of all invention then the dread of going outside in the cold with a head on me has driven me to throwing half the spice press over oven chips to avoid going to the takeaway. 🍟🧂

This will be one of the images eventually for sale on whatever I site I manage it (link in bio, haha) A true cultural icon, the saviour of breakfast, lunch and dinner, the legend that is The Potato🥔 Waffle Perfect for any kitchen, or, perhaps, hanging on the wall in your office for teams meetings.

Went out last night to celebrate finally getting my business setup. Partook in a bottle of wine. Craving sausages this morning and plans to work on my solo and/or group game of Traveller are postponed until the takeaways are open. It didn't help that I woke up to a freezing cold house. ☃️🏳️‍⚧️ 🖤🍺

It's weird looking at this. Me actually putting something out there to "earn money" by myself, through myself. Pretty much the end of a ten year battle with various bodies. I thought I was shaking from the momentousness of it all. And the new battles to come. Nope! I forgot to put the heating on. 😆

The first session of my @mongoosepublishing.bsky.social Traveller🚀 #SoloRPG ✍️ #TTRPG is online, with fully typed text.🌈☘️ Set in the Spinward Marches it starts in Arden, an authoritarian planet in the neutral territory between The Zhodani and the Imperium.🖤🍺 #Sci-Fi buymeacoffee.com/nodyesyes/ar...

With my Buy Me a Coffee up and running and the first sesh of my #SoloRPG being readied for posting I'm fully aware of how nice it'd be to have art for it. 🎨 Good art costs money. My writing skills📝 (not on evidence on the social meejes) took me a decade to develop. It's the same with any art. 📈 🖤🍺

I set up my Buy Me a Coffee yoke, and my own personal website so I can get off substack. This is costing me a bomb but I'm sick of waiting around for other people and "organisations" to get their stuff sorted. 🌈☘️ I'm too old and too tired for nonsense. See you in hell! 🖤🍺 buymeacoffee.com/nodyesyes

It's fecking hilarious watching all the journalists, influencers and politicians flee X for BlueSky. Their morality can only be tested so far! Sure, they'll tolerate racism, homophobia, misogyny, transphobia and funding outright blatant fascism and Nazi politics, but some things are Just Too Far!!!

Start of Act 1 - Scene 2 of my solo @mongoosepublishing.bsky.social Traveller 🚀 #TTRPG. I'm increasingly tempted to set up a blog for this #RPG ✍️📖 On one hand I don't want to turn it into an obligation but on the other I want to share with people how valuable it is for switching off. #speirgorm 🤖🏳️‍⚧️☘️

IREXIT 1916!

In the Dáil @micheal-martin.bsky.social talking about "services" for the disabled. I don't want supervised fingerpainting. This time he talks about "Third level education." That's great, but when business refus to adapt to disability and offer make-do jobs education means nothing. ☘️🌈 #spéirghorm

This was me/my last night, and at 3am ☕🍺☕😴rolling up the main Player Character for my @mongoosepublishing.bsky.social Traveller🚀 solo #TTRPG game. I finished Act 1 - Scene 1 an hour ago. 8 pages of text. I'll get it uploaded at some point. Might even type it up! It really cleared my head.🫧🧠☔ 🖤🍺

I began my solo @mongoosepublishing.bsky.social #Traveller 🚀 #TTRPG last night. Much more enjoyable and relaxing than video games, for me at least. I sat down with pen and paper (wahey! stationery!) and be creative. I used my brain. I got to write. Thinking of sharing more of this! 🎲 #Sci-Fi #Pens

Dogs have it figured out. This corgi is living my dream.

A playlist straight from mosher central in Cork, aka Paul St. Featuring... The former Sugababes?!? Shur why not! Light Avenue Bangers #1 - One For the Gurlies! #SpeirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Sugababes #LGBTQ #LGBT #LGBTQIA+ #Blahaj #TheDolls #Ireland 🍺🖤 - 🏳️‍⚧️🌈☘️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXAp...

I drew up a random table for @foundryvtt.bsky.social Specifically for @mongoosepublishing.bsky.social's #Traveller 🚀 #TTRPG 🤖 I went for what I know best, the denizens of ale houses. Roll 2D6 🎲 and find out what the notable public house character has about them. Be wary you don't meet the bar bore!

Online? Comfy, nice candles around you. Cosy blankets. MP3s and FLACs. The radio. The real world? Wet and smelly. Cold. No good music. Cars making noise and being a menace.

Looking at Nollaig na mBan posts yesterday, and catching up today across BSky, The 'Gram, Facebook, etc. it's amazing how much of the messages of solidarity, encouragement, and commiserations for how women have been treated apply to me, a trans woman. And I'm still denied recognition🌈🏳️‍⚧️☘️ #SpéirGhorm

After my tearjerker In Memorium goth playlist the other day I uploaded another. This time of 60s psychedelia. Flowers🌼 in your hair and all that! Image from an actual, in real life Irish public mental health facility. Great stuff, messy minds #SpéirGhorm #SpeirGorm www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofro...

Celebrating Nollaig na mBán by eating a bag of knock off Dorito cool ranch chips and a can of Coke Zero at 4pm while I don't have to do any Christmas performance bullshit for other people. There might be cheese later, too.

Social Housing, Noonan Road, Cork, 2016 These have come in for media attention the past month. Unfit for human habitation due to maintenance. I was in one 2000ish and they were lovely and cosy. You'd be delighted to have a home like that. I assume new builds will go up. #DerelictIreland #SpéirGhorm

Explaining to foreign buddies everyone in Ireland is deathly afraid of slipping on ice for fear there's an RTÉ cameraman nearby. ❄️⛄😅 #SpeirGorm #SpéirGhorm

I made a Grocery-Bot🛒 for my @mongoosepublishing.bsky.social #Traveller #TTRPG campaign.🤣 I could be carefully planning out scenarios and uploading equipment🛠️ into the VTT but what do I do instead? Write marketing bumpf for a dodgy robot company! At least it's relevant to real life, I suppose. 🤖🫠😅

I sent an email to TDs before Christmas about the Disability♿ Payment, vis a vis cost of living/independence🏠 They deserve time off, as does anyone, and their staff who'd be dealing with me. It's not like it's been a quiet Christmas politically. However I would appreciate a response soon-ish-ey.☘️🌈🕯️

Café Eco, 4am, Cork, 2016. For all our Night-Time Economy committees and plans ten years ago people were blazing trails of creating non-alcohol based, late night facilities.🌙 Did they get support in doing this? Did they hell!❌ Far too often people are inspired and policy fails them.☘️🌈🕯️ #SpéirGhorm

In these times you can look at those focusing on the local, not even politics, ensuring people have a way to pass the time and relax (I wrote about non-booze late night cafés last year,) And dismiss them as frivolous wasters. Local is where you build from though. Local feels/is real.🌈🏳️‍⚧️☘️ #SpéirGhorm

When Warhammer 40k was made in the 80s it was supposed to be satire of where we'd end up with Thatcher and Reagan in power forever. Not a prediction. Decrepit, barely alive Emperor on a gold throne and all.

Being a sensible Irish woman and taking heed of the Met Eireann weather forecasts of an extreme cold spell I have, of course, turned the heating down in every room as, and this is sound logic, "I'll be running the heating more often so need to keep the bill in check." #Smart 📈

Talking video games the other day with people in the @mongoosepublishing.bsky.social Discord, and elsewhere. I was saying I've pretty much given up video games when I can play #TTRPG with people. Reading Traveller books, and others, planning out my world and interacting with people is much better!✍️

After my tearjerker In Memorium goth playlist the other day I uploaded another. This time of 60s psychedelia. Flowers🌼 in your hair and all that! Image from an actual, in real life Irish public mental health facility. Great stuff, messy minds #SpéirGhorm #SpeirGorm www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofro...

Me every night, as I'm winding down after a tough day: "I'll just go scream at the void, I think." Everyone: "Surely it's into the void?" Me: "No, I'm screaming at the void. It needs to grow up and stop being so voidy!" I am a normal person. And I post on the internet.

I made this mixtape celebrating my metal🖤🍺🏳️‍⚧️ roots in Paul St. in Cork, traumatic teen years and someone I trusted implicitly who died early in the Covid era. RIP. It's mostly #Goth spirit🕯️🌹 but musically #Rock #Metal and @brigidmaepower.bsky.social #SpéirGhorm FU☘️🌈 www.youtube.com/watch?v=q73G...

Probably one of my favourite photographs. Paul St./Rory Gallagher Place in Cork. An isolated woman walks through a storm. It was taken at 5am Christmas time as a significant flood was building. Special meaning to me as I spent my youth as an isolated ~metal girl in Paul St. #goth #rock #SpéirGhorm

My highlight of 2025, Cork's Pride Parade!🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Facing some trouble at the moment I'm sure all the LGBTQIA+ groups☘️🌈will come together to get something just as good going. Young (and old) queer people deserve the joy and community in celebrating who we are! #SpéirGhorm www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gi2...

I want to get into the self-pub business for my fiction. I'm looking at about €500 to start, before I get into stuff like Print on Demand for selling at LGBTQ+ markets, etc. It's pretty daunting. Not least navigating of Irish bureaucracy when it comes to tax, welfare, etc. Worth it, hopefully!🏳️‍🌈☘️🏳️‍⚧️🚬

I've been pleased the last few days planning DIY hobby stuff and plotting my Traveller TTRPG campaign, at my leisure, but I feel I've reached the limit of living out of my old family bedroom and not wandering around my own home🏠seemingly looking for something☕🚬while randomly sitting🪑down randomly.☃️

Between chats with family, nibbles🥔and making merry I am spending Christmas Day browsing the Screwfix website like the Handy🛠️Tran🏳️‍⚧️ I aspire to be🌠🌈 Have a jolly🎄one #SpéirGhorm May you eat more than you justifiably should. Say, "I feel sick, I ate too much..." Then eat some more, as is tradition!🤶☃️

I never thought I'd complain about this in my life but the beef in my takeaway last night was too plentiful. It was amazing to get it all, don't get me wrong, but I actually felt like I was denying the takeaway owner's kids a Christmas, or something. I'm OK with a little more sauce and less meat.

An amazing artist!❤️🌈 I took one of her books from Cork City Library. A recently homed "homeless" fella came up to me drinking cans🍻while I sat by the Lee. We talked art, libraries and school tour visits to Dublin galleries. A moment of real connection & true heart💓with her work🖌️RIP #SpéirGhorm

Foot Selfie - *Felfie* 🦶

I dunno❔what's happening to the world! Neighbours spying on neighbours, reporting everything that happens to the secret police! 🚨🐈‍⬛ Just the other day I was walking to class✍️ and this nosy, and dare I say it, haughty neighbour shamelessly sat themselves in the window gawking👀 at me!🤣 #SpéirGhorm ☘️🌈🌟

During this Festive🎄Season☃️ may I present to you the Lord✝️Baby Jesus's👼greatest gift to humanity, The Potato Waffle🙏🏴‍☠️🦜

I wrote a sci-fi🚀 novel. I think it's good. A reader compared it to Philip K Dick. The thing is the protagonist is trans and is 'sci-fi' transitioning; a part focus. A feeling I have is it's too trans for regular readers and too weirdo sci-fi/dystopia for trans fic. I need to figure it out.🫠

Great segment on @rteradio1.bsky.social's Oliver Callan show about Broadsword Gaming🎲in Castlebar/the wider games world the other day #SpéirGhorm #TTRPG www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... Funnily, it came the morning after I spent an evening doing a starmap💫for @mongoosepublishing.bsky.social's Traveller🚀

It was so warm and cosy here I actually managed to relax a little after spending twenty minutes just sitting in the heat with a coffee. So relaxing I made some fairly important connections on some life stuff once I got home. Not earth-shattering but good to know. It'll help me in the future. <3