#AllIsBrightAdvent day 13: finally a longer instalment! \o/ …when i’m too sleepy to enjoy it… /o\ might fold this one into tomorrow 😂

show went really well, I had a great time and a lovely cheering squad <3

It’s my very first skate show today! I’m in the baby beginners “we can move around without falling over” number and the finale but I’ve had so much fun at rehearsals, especially at the dress rehearsal today getting to see what all the other numbers are 😍🤩⛸️

#AllIsBrightAdvent day 12: oh, this one is small but perfectly formed, i love it so much!! 1) love that Bethan does everything ro music, same Bethan 1a) I wanna know what band t-shirt 😂 2) love that she’s coming round to the lights & warming up to the village 3) everything about the photos, i cannot

y’all weren’t kidding, the sound quality on qobuz is unreal

…i meant to do Joan Baez ffs 😂🤦🏼‍♀️

New hair! Including a hidden friend!

It’s happening!! (cc @rosiebee.bsky.social)

(and if you don’t think i’ve been chasing @usuallyhats.bsky.social around the flat with either my new kazoo (THAT SHE BOUGHT ME) or the lyrics to this you don’t know our household as well as you thought 😂)

#AllIsBrightAdvent day 11: in a moment of weakness i read this instalment last night 🙊 (it was after midnight!! 😂) not much to say today, but it’s nice getting another piece of how Bethan’s world fits together, including foregrounding her work dissatisfaction (also! panad! drink! i’m hilarious 😂)

(so far bluesky advents are still fun 😂)

#AllIsBrightAdvent day 10: Mali’s procrastination with this form is relatable but also real anxiety inducing 😂 also i think i might start reading more romance now i know i’m demi aroace, attempting to pinpoint allo behaviour is fun 😂

#wickedforgood #spoilers truly adding Glinda to Wonderful is so inspired and does so much for every single theme and character arc I will be shocked if the stage shows don’t start incorporating it

just got back from second viewing of wicked: for good and it’s still excellent, help

#AllIsBrightAdvent day 9: (why didn’t I thread these too? You may well ask but idfk) I have a lot to say about day 9 so buckle up 😂 1) Bethan and Ihintza text JUST like our friend group does, excellent queer rep, feel v catered to 😂 1a) including stupid gay walks for our stupid gay mental health 😂

#grief oh my god i miss my mother. truly none of the previous losses prepared me for this one. i don’t know what happens when we die but i do know for a fact our dead take pieces of us with them when they go.

(Yeah, this still isn’t hard mode, I watched this one six times in the last ~2 weeks 😂) Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

(You can tell something about the shape of my day by when I do my advent posts 😂)

#AllIsBrightAdvent day 8: aw, poor Mali. I feel like today is a good example of Llin taking her time showing us how isolated both Mali and Bethan have become without realising it. Also Mali is a kind of all weather outdoorsy I am never going to be, I hate being wet too much. 😂

#AllIsBrightAdvent and the penny about Meinir drops, poor Mali 😂 sort of glad this one’s so short, less time spent with her mortification, poor scone 😂

Someone in another time will remember us and I have never, Irene*, found you more annoying *Peace Sappho is cheating tho imo cuz translated fragments are easy 😂

Hi Blue Sky! Anyone in or near London fancy a ticket to Kate Rusby’s Christmas show this evening? One of our party is poorly alas :( (Ticket was £40) Kate Rusby is a total delight, strong rec! www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/kat...

#AllIsBrightAdvent “But maybe that would have happened anywhere, back then. Maybe it wasn’t the place but the time that had hurt her.” <3

Hello from whatever this is 😂

#AllIsBrightAdvent day 5: i love today’s insight into Mali’s POV here, her willingness to self reflect on the last few days is incredibly endearing, and pairing it with Bethan’s POV warming to the lights is lovely. (Having my sense of the passage of time synched to the characters’ is fun actually)

So I’m fine but last night I had a nosebleed so dramatic I ended up sent to A&E. It took 2 hours to stop, with the first 15-20 mins being unspeakably gory. Medical advice is it was prob a weather related one off but further investigation will be needed if I have more. So that was fun.

But I DID cancel my Spotify subscription effective 15/12 so I’ve got 9 days to get moved over to Tidal

Left the house without a hanky and I feel kinda naked 😂 I’m also going ice skating later and that’s prime hanky needing territory unforch for me

#AllIsBrightAdvent oh the clashing weight of Bethan & Mali’s not yet shared grief for Meinir is a lot in day 4’s instalment. The fact we know they’re both hurting about different aspects of the same loss but they don’t yet is a lot. I’ve v much been there, sadly in a much less delightful genre 😂

#AllIsBrightAdvent aw, boo, today’s is so short! 😂 Also a perk of knowing the author is i’m pretty sure i’ve spent a lot of time in the coop Mali and Bethan’s coop is based on. 😂

Judging by my whatsapp messages this afternoon I better find something to do with myself that isn’t lovingly pester my employed friends 😂

let’s start a band is weird guys. it’s basically two songs in a trench coat. and that’s fine, i just need a fandom that suits both.

Plot twist: self earwormed by my own Amy MacDonald #MusicAdvent. Some observations: 1) someday the right fandom for the whackass TOTAL SHIFT in let’s start a band will dawn on me 2) someday i’ll make a farscape vid to the furthest star 3) someday i’ll make an ALOTO vid to this time’s everything

SHAME on everyone who has pushed and paid for this. You are not feminists. You are not allies. You KNOWINGLY work with ultra-conservative and far right organisations. SHAME on you. Also, your daughters think you’re shitheads.

oh no i love this 🤩😍 #christmascheer

How many blue sky advents can i keep up with? Let’s find out together 😂 #MusicAdvent

Read today’s #AllIsBrightAdvent instalment on the tube and v much enjoyed getting physical descriptions for both protags at this stage! Also, one shouldn’t assume these things, but I’m gonna: I think I inspired Bethan’s Jem and the Holograms pyjamas, and I want them 😂

…what do you mean i only get to read day 1 today #AllIsBrightAdvent

#AllIsBrightAdvent starts today! I'll be sharing BTS info, Welsh context and other non-spoilery bits and bobs related to the day's chapter. You can use the hashtag to react as you read, too! Plus, it's still on sale for today (Dec 1) if you haven't grabbed it yet: books2read.com/u/bPOa0d

(i’m a bit loopy this morning due to cramps, having had to clean up a minor blood bath, and not having had breakfast yet.)

y’know, once upon a time, possibly in 2020 or 2021, i bought two advent candles. i never finished burning the first one (cuz i went to canada for xmas, so, 2021) and in all the recent clearing out i’ve yet to unearth the second one. ???

WHAT THIS IS PERFECT TIMING I’VE ALREADY HEARD IT TWICE

just took a big fall* landing hard on my already injured knee - woof! relieved to find it was more of a shock than anything else and the knee and the rest of me seems fine (*while ice skating 😂)

just spotted a kid wearing a hoodie for a GREEK football team - deep cut 😂

OK my clearance finally came through so I think it’s safe to say I got a job! :D A really cool one! :D Applied in August, interviewed and offered in October, start date tbd! :D

I just adore live music, did we know 😂

ok but never mind concerts, introduce yourself with five musicals you've seen: Wicked Hamilton Evita Chess Operation Mincemeat (only 5?! this hurt)

Five concerts I’ve seen: Taylor Swift Placebo Indigo Girls Great Big Sea Sondheim at 80 Prom (Got overly in my head about gig vs concert 😂)

aww yes this is a full delight 😍🤩 :D

I’m currently grappling with my tendency to put the most negative spin possible on all things pertaining to me, so this seems like a good exercise. I am, totally unrelatedly, coming up empty tho. 😂 (I have been collecting a lot of compliments on my skating outfits lately)