okay but lists i would created with this feature: - “merry christmas, please don’t call” yaoi - twists that blew my tits clean off - teenage girls and the rage that never ends - cried my eyes out 10/10 - horror that left me looking like that one mcdonalds drive thru worker meme comic (complimentary)

i don’t know if i’ll ever find my way back to academia. i want to, but i don’t know if i’ll have the brainspace or the self discipline or the time. but i do have -checks notes- seven absolutely BANGING essays i want to write and one day publish

WHY I LOVE HORROR: Essays on Horror Literature by @raforall.bsky.social Becky Spratford is out today! This book will stand the test of time as the eternal response to the question of why we love horror. A special gift. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ it deserves all the awards! www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like "A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act." fuck yeah

hehe >:3 ascension reading time

and by the by, having now finished shoestring theory HOLY TRINITY OF SHOESTRING THEORY, EVOCATION AND SORCERY AND SMALL MAGICS my bitchy blonde wizards and their enemies to lovers dark haired boyfriends ✨ (and to add, the third in the trio is a dark-skinned woman who cares deeply for them both)

Veryich feeling this energy today

people may say the main thing preventing me from getting going on a PhD is forming a concrete thesis i say it’s the fear of getting in touch with the faculty member i formed a slight parasocial relationship with at age 19 and now have to contact again because he’d be the best person to supervise me

i use this account mostly for academia and book stuff but like. ✨it’s a little bit funny✨, yknow

No amount of “fuck the US, fuck Israel” can convey how wrathfully and irreparably these institutions need to be destroyed. Burnt to the ground. This can’t be fixed, this can’t be reformed. This is rot. I can’t even… I’m sick over this.

daily art affirmations

i need @thestorygraph.com to have a feature where you can make lists like on letterboxd. i need this i have read THREE books that i can best describe as “the world’s BITCHIEST cunty blonde wizard gets unwillingly shoved into a fantasy mlm enemies to lovers story” and i gotta clump them together. pls

come work in uni admissions we have. UCAS brownie

some of my darling friends ran their first #empirelrp player event today! thoroughly enjoyed unsettling everyone who normally knows me as a shrewd urizeni cambion meeting my sweet, welsh-accented marcher lad! (dagged mantle and all patches except the sheep brooch and bounders patch were made by me)

I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.

Because there’s never a bad time to share Chuck Jones’s rules for the Road Runner, here are Chuck Jones’s rules for the Road Runner

in the future ecosocialist UK we're going to do all sorts of Wicker Man shit on flying ant day

moth on the golf scores what crimes will she commit (love moths big enough to hear the wing beats and the thumps as they give themselves concussions on the ceiling)

me after finishing tell me i’m worthless boy howdy. a process has occurred. hm.

we do what we can to fight AI i work in university admissions at an all-department meeting this morning we had a speaker talking about the different things that help bring people to our website i flagged the frequent queries we get about programmes we don’t offer that google AI has just hallucinated

problems with having a moth in your kitchen: catching it: ❌ killing it: ❌❌❌!!!!!!!! getting it to stay still long enough so you can take a photo for inaturalist: ✅✅✅

you love to see it

shoutout to the syrian hamster for having the perfect discovery story for me to do 5D chess palestinian advocacy in a perfectly IC manner at larp

As ever: on what was this AI trained? Was it, for example, the voices of pro audiobook readers and actors in copyright works?

came home to see my parents this weekend and god. the environment in this country is so fucked but nothing beats sitting on that back patio looking into a shropshire field with the grass just cut, huge sky above hares in the field bats every dusk and just now, the first kite i’ve seen here

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the fun conclusion to this line of thoughts is that i get a few chapters into what should be a fantastic book for me, and i have to pause reading it and pick up something else, something lighter and safer, because TWO DAYS after i start reading a book about trans horror, this shit happens

This is where your Harry Potter money goes

i started reading tell me i’m worthless TWO NIGHTS AGO you bastards, when i said i wanted to escape to the world of fiction i meant like. fucking earthsea not fascism transphobia horror

opening my latest read and spotting a familiar face, you know it’s gonna be a good one 👀 @lmcknighthardy.bsky.social

I've written a book that is a set of spiky dialogues between a king and a tutor to show how powerful people can justify brutal, total, murderous rule. Available online Blackwells.

one of my stupid joys is designing larp kits i adore putting loads of details into them, working colour, symbolism and little details together to make it unique and characterful it makes for a polarising process when my mum (and i) sit down to make the damn stuff, but when we pull it off? so good

i’m thinking about this again the idea i had that inspired this post was “vampire larp, upstairs/downstairs style. you play in pairs as vampire & ghoul. themes of consent (and the death of it), coercion, violence, dominance and control, autonomy and its revocation, etc etc” unfortunately..,,,,

happy #TransDayOfVisibility here’s me on the grass, having bevs with colleagues at a job where i can wear a pronoun pin and have my gender identity respected & supported, where i can speak on our remembrance & put pronouns in my email signature there are patches of sunlight where we are seen & loved

now we start the endless anxiety parade of “is it weird to start following relevant academics on here, effectively jumpscaring them for no reason”

i’m staring down the barrel of a phd gang my sincere apologies to the literature department at the university of birmingham, especially those who deal in gothic literature i will likely be back soonish to terrorise you again with batshit ideas and poor time management x

i am doing??? an unboxing video?? apparently???? @dryadbookshop.bsky.social i’m literally OBSESSED thank u so much for my beautiful package 🥰

oh very silly update on this, i’ve drawn like 20+ i think now, but i decided to stop drawing new ones and go back to the beginning to use my improved art skills on the old ones. i am The Silliest Guy

still improving on my art amid my endless quest to do all the empire eternals. anyway took a break to doodle my pathfinder PC flox of hart’s silence. he’s a catfolk omen dragon sorcerer and is based on a rusty spotted cat, meaning he is 5ft tall. he also speaks in a strong, measured northern accent

let’s talk about doing the required reading, because while i could already identify the elephant hawk moth and have encountered scarlet tigers enough to recognise the garden tiger, i remembered the species from the book well enough to identify the other two as well for the alt image ID text :3

Books I read in 2025!

Those who read our books, in particular our hardbacks, will know that we like to hide different artwork underneath the jacket on the boards. I was just having a look at some photos showing both jacket and board art. I'll post a few in the thread below. CURFEW by Lucy M. Boston (2011)

a little joy of mine when i’m finished with a good book: making a section for it on my books pinterest board

i am simply lying awake thinking about this book. it’s incredible. it broke me. i laughed with joy and wept my way through the end. the whole thing had me gripped and trembling. masterful writing with a personal heart that blazes through the entire narrative. absolutely spellbinding.

sometimes it hits me that, so far, i’ve drawn 18 full pieces of eternals from hit uk fest larp empire run by profound decisions “true” forms and “human/mortal” forms god i enjoy doing my silly art i will finish this project and no one can stop me but good LORD will it take me a whileeee

read my poem i wrote inspired by last year’s trans day of remembrance service at my job/alma mater at this year’s service today apparently it was very well received and people we really moved by it and i’m very 🥺 there is suffering in the world but there is also love rage and resistance 🏳️‍⚧️✨

sometimes as a child you need to read a book that has such a profound and indescribable impact on you that it rewires your brain and leaves a permanent afterimage there it’s important for your emotional development i think

The cover reveal you've been asking for... ASCENSION by S.T. Gibson - the hotly anticipated sequel to the bestselling EVOCATION ❤️ The second book in the Summoner's Circle series sees beloved characters return for a new dark and enthralling adventure.😮 bit.ly/ascensionSC

“stop porting your tweets across!” even mine little book threads 🥺?? my expression of literary love????

my larp nonsense is neverending. i have so many ideas i want to run and no money or braincells or time. this is unacceptable