'If brotherhood is the only true form of love, then let me call you brother.' ––Keetje Kuipers

What the hell, it's on my timeline, might as well repost it.

Finally done with the last-minute edits to my article for an international commercial publication. It was so nice to see the layout for the article. And because I'm the only one who cares about my writing career, I shall go and celebrate by myself.

'Migration is the story of longing is the story. To risk rupture for rapture.' ––Patrycja Humienik

'In memory of them, in memory of their inedible beauty, today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. In other words, for the elimination of violence by the little Trujillos that rule in so many homes.' —Eduardo Galeano, 'Children of the Days'

I will not linger where I'm not wanted. Leaving is liberating but it doesn’t make me feel like I've shed an unnecessary weight. If anything, there's a heaviness that wasn't here before—all this love that now has nowhere to go.

Such a beautiful book. It deserves all the prizes.

In the throes of a flu. Wide awake at 4 A.M. I think I wrote something yesterday, maybe even drew some sketches. I can't remember. Nothing is in my head apart from deadlines. Deactivated my X account again. Realised yet again that the more time I spend on social media, the more solitary I feel.

I’ve only just started reading #FMLComix, but I already have a feeling it will be one of my all-time favourites.

Current favorite comic: FML by @kellysue.bsky.social. YA, a rock band, with a gritty true crime backdrop, set in war-ravaged Portland #comicsky

So what If you find yourself crying at 2 in the morning? There will still be sunrise Another day to spend in the world Knowing you did not drown in the shadows.

Almost 1 A.M. here and still thinking about how life can break you in so many ways, the unfairness of it all.

grieve is the name i give to myself. i carve it into the bed frame. i am make-believe. this is an archive. it hurts to be a story. ––from 'Gay Incantations' by Billy-Ray Belcourt

'Stone did not become apple. War did not become peace. Yet joy still stays joy. Sequins stay sequins. Words still bespangle, bewilder.' ––Jane Hirshfield, 'Counting, New Year’s Morning, What Powers Yet Remain to Me'

I hate how I'm so careful with money most of the time, and then I wake up at 4.30 in the morning and end up buying a £50 bacne spray that's not even for myself.😩

White people deciding who is Black. White people deciding how brown people should identify. Non-Jews deciding who is Jewish. Predatory capital cackling and cackling as inequality soars to extremes. Nearly 6 decades on this planet, all this education, just to have my intelligence assaulted daily.

'If you turn your back on the light for too long, the light doesn't die, it just stops trying to find you.' Thank you, Kae Tempest, for this beautiful, beautiful album. #translivesmatter #kaetempest #selftitled

Hi, pardon me, hello: mass protest in the face of fascism is a great idea and in fact the only thing that works to actually combat it. anyone saying otherwise is an idiot. sorry, i cannot anymore with this shit. do the fucking reading!

As a person with OCD who has to engage with the world and evaluate its most pressing issues on a regular basis, I am really struggling to cope these days. Back to therapy when I go home, I guess.

A new exclusive Byline Times report reveals how the corporation is enabling the far-right of British politics

Only brought one physical book with me on this trip. I'll probably make up for it by buying a whole load while I'm here. Anyway, I like how the book colours match my Moleskine cahier.

Managed to retrieve this from my cupboard of childhood treasures. I love you, Jill Sobule. Thank you for the music and the stories.

Reading Agnes Martin

Why am I writing about funerals on a sunny Sunday afternoon? 🥲 #AuthorSky #AmWriting

Friday madness #ArtSky #pencildrawing #sketch

Just finished Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones. Damn.

Waking up to devastating news for British trans people facing a truly awful ruling from their Supreme Court. This follows a manufactured campaign of lies, panic, and ignorance based on a playbook now unfolding in the US. I know the fight continues, but my heart is with you today and always

I’ve been having such a rough time lately but at least my old faves are dropping amazing new albums so I still have a reason to live. SABLE, fABLE from Bon Iver is out now.

Just saw a Filipino girl on IG wearing a 'Glory' jacket, getting to ready to watch Perfume Genius in London this evening, and now I know how it feels to die of envy.😢 2025 is definitely not my year.

These days, I'm ostensibly writing AUs that are actually just stories that I want to write about loneliness and grief. On the one hand, I enjoy writing them. On the other hand, only a few people are reading them. 😥 Oh well. #AuthorSky #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

Not a child anymore but this still happens to me. Not sure if it's anywhere near cute or charming.

Tbh, at this point, you'd have to be a downright idiot not to see this.

Me on the inside vs me on the outside 🙃 #ArtSky #Drawing #PencilArt

Probably one of the longest sentences I’ve ever written, apart from when I was in year 1 and wrote pages and pages of punctuation-less stories, to my teacher’s delight (read: frustration). #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Fiction

Could 5 hours of music from a whole load of wonderful musicians cheer you up and help communities affected by the LA wildfires? Yes. Available only until midnight PST. goodmusiccomp.bandcamp.com/album/good-m...

Rough day. Only Anne Carson can comfort me right now. #BookSky #AnneCarson

I've only just started reading Patrick Nathan's The Future Was Color but it's already killing me. #BookSky #PatrickNathan #TheFutureWasColor

A gay guy, a Black man, and a woman walk into a flight deck— that’s not the beginning of a joke, but just a regular day at work! There was so much DEI on this plane that we could hardly get in the air. Luckily my limp wrists were able to wrestle the heavy jet back to the ground 💅🏼

Not exactly comfort reading but this will do for company tonight. #BookSky #Europides #AnneCarson

🔴‘My Son Was Murdered or Sex-Trafficked and the Police Don’t Care’ - Julie Davis Part Four of a five-part special investigation by @danevanswrites.bsky.social, @tomlatchem.bsky.social & Nuria Villa into a missing person’s case with dark criminal undertones bylinetimes.com/2025/01/31/m...

It’s me and my refusal to use photo references for their faces against the world. (No photo references because this will probably go into a book.) #wip #ArtSky #Procreate #digitalart #art #illustration

Today's brunch: congee and Chen Chen #BookSky #poetry

New short story exclusively for my supporters on Ko-fi.com. If you like queer romance, please consider becoming a supporter (for as low as £1) to access this and all my other new fiction (link in my bio). #BookSky #writingcommunity #amwriting #fiction #art #romance #queerliterature

Don't mind me, just relearning to draw female faces and figures after a year of drawing only (two) men. #wip #art #drawing #artist

I should be writing but I just cannot put this book down. I bought into the hype, but I'm actually enjoying it. #BookSky #Uketsu

Stepdad: Oh, the lesbians are back. Me: Yes, they are. I've given up on correcting him because I think it's really cute how he keeps mistaking them, especially P, for women. These two will be on the cover for my new short fiction, 'Still.' #art #drawing #fiction #writingcommunity #amwriting

NEW: meet Sergei. This is the incredible story of the man who tried to warn the British intelligence services of a Kremlin plot to infiltrate the Conservative Party. And the backstory behind our podcast Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

I don't know—making digital art is fun, but nothing beats the feeling of shaping figures out of paper and pencils. I'll be using these drawings for the cover of my new short fiction, 'Still.' #ArtSky #AmWriting #Fiction #Art

I've just posted the prologue to my new novella 'Where the World Ends' on my Ko-fi page. Please take a look and let me know what you think. I'm excited to release this story. ko-fi.com/post/Free-pr... #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Fiction #BookSky