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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The problem with playing a game that had such a long early access is that many guides are out of date.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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The worst excesses of prog rock (Yes, Genesis, Jethro Tull) were vetoed when he had passengers, but other than that: The Corrs, Bruce Springsteen, Queen, Dire Straits, Elvis Costello, Kate Bush, Air, lots of film soundtracks.

I never get separate right first time. What’s the second vowel? There’s no way to know!

And Matt gets to just play! So happy for him! #CriticalRole

So excited to fall in love with them all. And for anyone intrigued by Critical Role but overwhelmed by the amount of existing canon (extremely fair), this is a new campaign in a brand new world! Great jumping on point!

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I am searching for an old vid! Trying to track down a Merlin vid called Ghost of Myself by Sharona Lee / Lee-fragilidad. This is the archived LJ post but no working links. web.archive.org/web/20120324...

#grief I miss having a best friend so, so much. I have a cornucopia of wonderful people in my life, but this Phoebe-shaped void is still so vast and still hurts so much. She’s still the first person I want to tell about so many things. She would have loved the #hatchling so much.

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"Tell my wife I'm running late using the base lexicon of 2013 tumblr marinaded in 12 years of increasingly abstracted in jokes and shared grudges to the point that we are truly insufferable to anyone else but each other"

Ahhhhhh I’m so excited! My boy, my precious boy! … when exactly he is planning to sleep, between this and D20 and Worlds Beyond Number and his baby. Who can say!

Hiiii my beloved assholes!

Me and Julian, every day

I don’t remember a time before Star Trek, I must have watched TNG in utero! By the time I was 7, most days after school I tried to get my homework done before 5 so I could watch whichever DS9 or Voyager episode was being rerun on Sky One that day.

Oh nooo, anyone else playing Date Everything on the Switch, learn from my suffering and know that there’s a bug that can wipe all of your saves out of nowhere. 😭 Apparently a fix is on the way but it’s too late for me! Also if you have Nintendo Online you can backup your saves to the cloud.

Out in the UK today!! 🎉🎉

Most of the year, I love the big south-facing bay windows in the living room, and that this sturdy old house is great at keeping the heat in. And then a heatwave comes around, and those features are very suboptimal!

A Critical Role episode? With Taliesin, Matt, Aimee and Robbie?? Yessss