Happy happy birthday to @singlecrow.bsky.social and @gorgeousnerd.bsky.social!

my husband’s latest psychic damage sortie: “How about a TV show where two hockey players are too busy banging to notice that aliens have landed. Heated Arrivalry.”

Bless them

The #hatchling is at an age where she can toddle over and throw her arms around me. Best feeling in the world! 🥹

“I asked chatgpt and it said” why are you telling me this. tell your priest and then do your penance

1995, studying in Prague for a year. I went to Bucharest by myself, fully intending to shell out for a hotel since there wasn’t a lot of backpacker-level tourist infrastructure yet. Showed up to the hotel to check in & the desk clerk took one look at me and said “You can’t stay here.”

Waited at baggage reclaim at Heathrow near Stephen Fry.

Watched the #HeatedRivalry finale and ahhhh what a perfect end to a perfect season.

I’m entering The Teenager as potential winner of #Duvetknowitschristmas He’s had to move from his bedroom to the unconverted attic Cardboard floor & headboard is a nice touch which I’m sure he appreciates He think it looks like he’s living in a meth den #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

Very happy to have helped this into existence :D spoilers for 1x05

It's 20 December and here in London we have 17 hours of darkness. so, as I do, I commend to you Sing For The Coming of the Longest Night, co-written by me & my bff @krfabian.bsky.social: a solstice poly romance, complete with jolly vicars, haunted theremins, & deep, sweet, weird-ancient magic. ❄️🎄🏳️‍🌈

😂 perfect

😍😍😍🧦

Yesssss

Earlier this year, I got made redundant. I’ve been able to stay on in my team for a little while doing short term contracts but that’s now also come to an end, and my last day is this Wednesday. I’ve been job hunting since March but so far, no luck. It’s a weird, sad time.

Two episodes into #HeatedRivalry and having an excellent time!

this is a good excuse to post my all time favorite Star Trek meme

One of the best-sketched characters in an incredibly character-rich show: a fascist whose (potentially real!) redeeming qualities are continually undercut by his monumental pride, bigotry, entitlement and pettiness

I’ve been miserably ill for the last ~12 hours in another incidence of our household not having been fully well since October, so, bump!

Love meme! gdgdbaby.dreamwidth.org/314179.html?...

Really glad to see the Good Law Project jumping straight in on this, some really useful info in here.

Aw, hello pals! I have not made very many standalone posts this year but it’s always nice to chat to you all.

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Introduce yourself with four spaceships.

For one week only, get my F/F romance advent calendar novella for 99p! Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali. One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1! books2read.com/u/bPOa0d

Did work experience with a charity my mum volunteered at and realised that charities actually had paid employees! Then did a bunch of activism at uni and figured that once I graduated I’d combined the two. Started with an internship with a disability charity and have been bopping around ever since.

Two extremely charming things the #hatchling has started doing recently are giving us spontaneous little kisses and saying ‘hooray!’ a lot. She’s such a sweetheart! And full of joie de vivre.

Help us.

So I wrote two books. both are set in London, in winter, in 2021. One is an alternate future history, a sparse love story where a spad and civil servant work on Brexit together and fall unwillingly in love; the other is a sports anime, a post-pandemic f/f romance. here they both are:

Really enjoying how many people learned from my last tweet that James Acaster got dumped for Mr Bean. He's very funny (and sweet) about it.

Yay, New York! Sending love from London. Sadiq Khan and Zohran Mamdani don’t have that much in common beyond being left wing Muslim mayors of major cities who make Trump et al absolutely lose their minds, but it is a good time.

ok queen

Yesssss

Checking into a small hotel in Dublin with @krfabian.bsky.social a million years ago, the woman at the desk recognised my name and presumably panicked that this made it look like she remembered us bc we were lesbians, tried to cover with ‘oh, you have a memorable name!’ I do not.

Oh thank god, finally cleared it.

The problem with playing a game that had such a long early access is that many guides are out of date. I keep looking up things for Hades II and then seeing this post was written a year ago and the abilities have changed since there. Keep seeing that I use the axe’s block, which no longer exists! 😭

And the toddler parent 4 word horror story: “no plans this weekend”.

I can do it in half: “cabinet reshuffle”.

So excited for this!

The #hatchling has started really liking to have a book to look at in the buggy when we go to the childminder’s. Reading on her commute! What an excellent tiny Londoner.

Last calls! (Including for me, oops!)

www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti... oh no, I’m so sorry for the inconvenience! Oops!

Today’s Spelling Bee feels very prejudiced against British English, we love a word ending in ‘aff’! But no, ‘caff’, ‘faff’, ‘naff’, all not allowed.

I don’t hate the new iOS ‘liquid glass’ look but it does mostly make me feel like someone’s really gone overboard with the sharpen tool in a very early 2010s tumblr sort of way.

The most accurate recreation of DS9 I've seen.

My cosy Welsh Christmas F/F romance novella, All Is Bright, is out on October 9 and available to preorder right now! It's got one chapter per day from December 1-25, so you can read advent calendar-style, or just inhale it all at once. books2read.com/u/b6E0y0

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