Some recent #hatchling delights: - she’s into playing hide and seek but when I finish counting she jumps up and goes ‘here I am!’ - she says ‘no please’ instead of ‘no thank you’ - she runs into my arms every time I pick her up from nursery, it’s the best

I think our most heroic parental sacrifice to date has been the fact that our one a/c unit is in the hatchling’s room, not ours. God last night was bad.

He lives in a pineapple under the sea.

“In the beginning, Doctor Who was created. This has made a lot of Doctor Who fans very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move”

Since I just dropped it on Discord, here is a link to the Vienna Teng and Dessa vids spreadsheet, started by purplefringe and maintained by me: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Reminder that Klingons say TRANS RIGHTS BRING HONOR TO YOUR HOUSE

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Much love to everyone going to Vidukon online and in person this weekend! Sorry to miss you all! I’ll be back, one of these days.

Mrs P taught religious studies and philosophy and was far more interested in her students’ opinions and hosting interesting discussions than she was in drilling the syllabus into us. She did a session on Plato’s cave in that weird gap between GCSEs and A-Levels that changed everything for me.

Things are really bad here these days. Below are some excellent links and resources on the current #transphobia shitshow. #ukpol

A music teacher told 7yo me I couldn’t sing, and I just fully accepted that as fact for years and resigned myself to only ever doing non-musical theatre. So many school plays I missed out on! Finally made up for lost time and was the lead in a musical at the Fringe, so suck on that Miss E.

Help, it’s again.

#dimension20 this season is such a good time

Not much I can say about #goodomens s3 without being spoilery but I watched it, I liked it, I’m back in my feels and listening to a bunch of Hozier again.

Tricky Times

(I make a "mouth" with the side of my hand and draw little eyes above it) Richard Dawkins: hmmmm (I put lipstick around the "mouth") Richard Dawkins, suavely: well hello

It’s just not that deep, my guy. 🤦‍♀️

I still think about this Dirty Laundry clip about Paul the accidental Uber driver at least once a week, it’s so good. youtu.be/eqZl13hxZPE?...

i panic everywhere, not just at the disco

Tidying up and unearthing various misc artefacts. krfabian.bsky.social: ah, the Trowel That Never Touched Earth Me: a lacklustre Doctor Who episode K: but a surprisingly good Fall Out Boy song!

The #hatchling is 2! She has such a good heart and a joyful spirit and is the best little girl in the whole world, in my entirely unbiased opinion. She loves books and drawing and dancing and baby animals and being the best baby bean!

To my delight, it’s a Garak/Bashir Yuletide fic I wrote back in 2011. archiveofourown.org/works/299064

Finally up to date on #ThePitt, and, oof! It’s all so good and also so distressing.

www.theguardian.com/culture/2026... this is so sweet!

This is actually fully appropriate. That five year old needs to learn boundaries.

(Two gentlemen who would never give me gross messes to clean up! Never!)

#emeto welp, I have now cleaned up sick from all three of the small mammals that live here this week, and perhaps we could not do that any more? So much laundry, so much cleaning, ugh. Poor wee poppets, but also poor large mammals dealing with it all!

Really spending a remarkable amount of time atm juggling job applications/interview prep and looking after a sick toddler/being sick myself. This whole job hunting thing was meant to be easier now I’m out of work but events do keep conspiring!

💛🕯️ 5 years, somehow, since our beloved Auden was born and died. It means the world to us that so many of you keep them in your hearts. If you’d like to light a candle or donate in their memory, we’d love to know about it.

The #hatchling watching me finish my insulin injection this morning: ‘my turn my turn!’ 😂 under no circumstances, baby girl.

me, dead and at the gates of Hell: but why I am going to the ninth level, for betrayers? who have I betrayed? a demon, poring over his book: it says here that you made Rodger get up off your lap after he was comfortable. me: I didn’t know that counted. a demon: it’s the main thing we look at.

I also got this, which made me cackle

Important discovery - extinct animals count! rose.systems/animalist 179 animals listed 🐻🐻🐻‍❄️🐨🐼🦘🐦🐦🐊🦏🦛🐆🐅𓃬🐜🐍🐍🐍🐍🦌🦌🫎🦣🦖🪳🐛🪱🪱🦟🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🐞𓆣🪰🐛🕷🕷🐦🐦🐦🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🕊🐓𓅘🐹🐰🐭🐀🐖😸🐄🐕‍🦺🐺🦊🦊🦝🐦🐦🦎𓆈🐛🦎🦕𓅱🐟🦈🦈🐡🐠🐛🐛𓆏🦗🐛🐸🐦🐦‍⬛🐦𓅣🦩🦉🐋🐬🫍🐋🦤𓃴🦬🦢𓅨🐦🐦🦜🐦🐦🦓𓃱𓃻🦧🦍🦐🦀🦞🦐𓃦🐦🐦🐃🪲🐛🐝🐛🐛🫅🪲🦭🐧🐙𓇼𓆉🐢𓃘🐴𓃰🦚🦄

So @amymariemason.bsky.social is currently teaching the #hatchling to say ‘synergy’ and ‘deliverables’, we’re having a great time. 😂

Phoebe and I met at school, and I’m still in touch with a lot of my friends from then. Four us live relatively near each other and all had babies within six months, which has been so nice!

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

This is very cool, going to give it a go!

we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff

I saw the Bridge’s production of Into the Woods yesterday, really enjoyed it! My first Sondheim! Had an awful lot of feelings though and booked it out of the theatre before the curtain calls were done to make extra sure I would be home before the hatchling’s bedtime 😭

I hope to get a signed version up at some point, but in the meantime, I made a festivid! Firewood, The Pitt. ‘Everyone knows you're going to live / So you might as well start trying’ Sorry not sorry about all the feelings! archiveofourown.org/works/78614536

I’m out and can’t do any cross posting from the festivids accounts rn, but reveals are up! archiveofourown.org/collections/...

Marshal, we should witness a double event within seven days

Could someone explain to the #hatchling that she’s supposed to arbitrarily stop listening to the fun new songs everyone was teaching her in December? We’ve had Jingle Bells on repeat this morning, which is no better or worse than any other kids song tbh, I’ve tuned it out, but also it’s February 😂

So many amazing vids! Go, watch, comment!

Exact go-live time depends on how many vids come in last minute, etc! I’ll definitely be awake, bc toddler, but may not be firing on all cylinders, bc toddler.

Before you post making fun of Greg Bovino for being short, remember: he won't see it. Not unless you hold him under the arms and pick him up to see the big computer

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