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I’m going for my second cycle of chemotherapy tomorrow, and I’m warned the side effects only get trickier. All I can do is try to be brave 🥹

People should read. I'm tired of people not reading. Please, if you can, PLEASE, read! Read everything, but especially fiction! Read comics! It will help you with empathy AND make you smarter. Please, read.

He knew exactly what he was doing. Don’t get shy now, man, you bought the cake; eat every slice.

It's 14 April in Singapore, so Happy #PortfolioDay! I've written prose, comics, narrative podcasts, and a text-based game. One of my goals is to get a Marvel Comics credit—even just a short story—but I know I have to prove myself, so I'm looking for North American comics work. Here's my website:

New hair. Who dis?

I stay unimpressed.. Their stench wafts from a mile away.

In Turkey, an elderly man who earns his living by shining shoes is visited every morning at the same time by a cat that asks to have its fur brushed. The man never turns down this little friend.😍👍💙

My newsletter has around forty subscribers. If I can get maybe a hundred, I'd feel better about using Instagram even less. So, if you're so inclined, please sign up. It's a lot like what I'm like here, only more organised and with a photo of my cat in ever edition.

I’ve named my pain management medication combos that get me through my #chemotherapy cycles of #paclitaxel + #carboplatin. Tramadol Sandwich for general join pains staggered throughout the day (1000mg paracetamol taken with 50mg tramadol) Not M&Ms for acute pain when necessary (200mg ibuprofen)

Luckily he hasn't got to be up early tomorrow morning.

Buy absolution for your Cis Sins by sending me money, valid today only:* ko-fi.com/derekdesanges * you can send me money other days but it won't absolve your sins. also that photo is hella old.

However, I also feel that if you do pay for their work—and want to talk about the artist instead of just the art—at the very least admit that you supported them knowingly and acknowledge that you've contributed to other's harm, rather than vehemently defending said monster to excuse your purchase.

Round 1 of chemotherapy done.

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Remembering Gilda Radner on #WorldCancerDay. A gifted and brilliant comedian and actress--the first performer cast on 𝘚𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘦--Gilda Radner died of #ovariancancer on May 20, 1989, at the age of 42.🕯️ #BabaWawa #RoseanneRoseannadanna ❤️

Spoken by women who walk in the shoes - "Underfunding in gynaecological cancer research is costing women their lives". www.womencan.org.au/underfunded #gynaecancer #uterinecancer #endometrialcancer #ovariancancer #cervicalcancer #vaginalcancer #vulvarcancer www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYwC...

I have #OvarianCancer Stage 1 C1. I am lucky to have caught it early. Purely because it got too big, too fast and ruptured inside me. Causing sudden immense pain that drove me to the hospital for immediate surgery. Survivors’ guilt now sits by me while I wait to hear if I’ll need chemotherapy.

Happy Birthday to Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and a massive thank you to her for inventing rock and roll She was born on March 20th, 1915

Taking care of business. We need to do this and move on.

Post a gif of who you wanted to be as a kid

I am an excellent writer with an MA in English Lit, but in the last six months have been repeatedly accused of using AI to produce my work. I am now deliberately sabotaging my own copy so it seems more plausible that I wrote it. I hate living in this timeline.

Therapist here. Reading fesshole fills me with hope that I'll never be out of work.

Help… I just had surgery. It hurts to laugh 😂

my only really useful life advice is attach the file before you write the email and fill out the address LAST.

My hubby @waynereewrites.com isn’t fond of potatoes and carrots stew. Almost as if he never watched ACME cartoons growing up. He’s in Australia this week for a literary programme exchange. His parents are staying at our place and his mom made Corn Beef Stew… These are tears of joy 🥔🥕

Binge watching true crime while on stay home post surgery rest. “Gas stations have sophisticated security cameras.” Ok, calm down… It’s not Interpol.

Owl reference in latest Bridgerton season 😏 Transphobes can fuck themselves into irrelevance.

My mom and sister cross stitched this picture for my daughter. I’ve tried to x stitch but can’t get the hang of it. #Doberman

Steve is nagging at the universe's unanswered fruit-related questions again. Stop it, Steve. It's a fruitless endeavour.

It’s @waynereewrites.com otter twin.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: can Netflix just take all the money they give Dave Chappelle and any other transphobic and bigoted hack, and just give it to Taylor Tomlinson instead?

My kind of peoples 😂

Dinner date with my husband, Barry Gibb 🍕🐢 @waynereewrites.com

The floof I coparent with @waynereewrites.com #mynameisluca

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Today, I mentioned to my husband that I’m undecided as to how much longer I’d like to let my hair grow out. One of those hypothetical sharing one does out loud. His response, “well if it starts getting in the way of wiping your bum - I’d say that’s an ideal indicator.”

Today, on the train, in our squeaky clean city of Singapore, I saw a young woman with a child who didn’t look any older than perhaps 5. The child looked normal. She had no visible tattoos. Her hair didn’t seem dyed. I noticed scabs all over her skinny legs. Her eyes were bloodshot. She was vaping.

Freelance work's been spotty and I have cat vet bills to pay. If you're able and are so inclined, please help out with however much you can. ko-fi.com/waynereewrites

When people say Singapore has no culture, I point out that there's a metal fan who does secret nasi biryani drops via private, sometimes anti-fascist-themed Instagram posts. (That photo doesn't do his biryani justice. It's actually really good.)

Crazy Rich Asians. The Singaporean wet dream.