We're all set up at the HalloZine fair at National Library Scotland, @ceciliabennett.bsky.social and I here today till 4pm! Pop by if you're in Edinburgh- we have Zines, art, and boooooks ✨️🐈‍⬛️👻

Attention zine fans! I'm doing the final bit of organising with @lyndseycroal.bsky.social to prepare for Hallowzine at the NLS from 11-4 on Sunday! Featuring this lovely story by Lyndsey, illustrated by me!

Edinburgh pals, I'm running a free haunted generative writing workshop at the HalloZine fair on Saturday 18th October (where I'll also be tabling with @ceciliabennett.bsky.social and some seasonal zines!) There are a few tickets left here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-haunted-...

That "give me an LLM trained only on my own work so it can generate bespoke ideas for ME" idea baffles me. Part of being creative is evolving abd growing out of past versions of your creative self. Themes that interested me at 20 don't move me now. I wouldn't want them calcified in a data set

everyone keeps saying my dryer ball holder is breasting boobily

I'm on the Smurf train now, baby

Looks like a Dorley girl has joined the M&S product development team @badambulist.bsky.social

It would be nice for my family to see me as someone who's successful and happy rather than the one with a string of catastrophically wild stories. They claim I signed up for this when I chose a career in publishing, but, like, it can't all be like this, right?!

Ok, ok hear me out: what if Yorgos Lanthimos directed a movie adaptation of The Book of Margery Kempe???

Saw this and thought of you @badambulist.bsky.social

This iconic little fact just popped up in a list I was reading of trans contributors to video games

Happy Glorious 25th of May! Truth, Freedom, Reasonably Priced Love and a Hard-Boiled egg etc.

Ah yes, the common stress responses: fight, flight, freeze, faun, and 🐸 frogs 🐸

This is doubly insane because recently they all went fucking bananas over a trans mum who breastfed. They will watch us ache to be mothers and they will deny us the chance or they will try to rip our children from our arms and then they will cry, these fake women, if they were real, would be mothers

Please share this mentorship opportunity with any publishing industry hopefuls you know in the north of the country and Scotland. Proud to be a mentor again this year www.childrensbooksnorth.co.uk/blog/childre...

Fascism likes to come up with talking points and debates so it can manipulate discourse in its favour, and we need to take a good hard look at the direction we're heading in. These people are not arguing in good faith and cis allies need to understand this if we want to see change.

Filed under: helpful notes I leave myself in the middle of the night 💁‍♀️

Royal College of Saint Almsworth's admin team: "Why is Dorley Hall considered part of our campus when we don't put any money into it?" The Dorley Girl who's infiltrated management: "Dorley Hall is mysterious and important. It's not for us to question."

@mhairiblack.bsky.social I saw Politics Isn't For Me and it's been rattling around my brain since. It was so good and eye-opening! Are you writing/would you write a book? I'm an acquiring editor so would love to chat if appropriate... 👀

I've been trying my hand at Mokulito printing this weekend, turning drawn and carved into pieces of plywood into lovely prints!

Are you a folklore enthusiast looking for your next read? Do you enjoy nautical horrors and nature being weird? 👀 Dark Crescent comes out in just 2 months, dark seasonal tales inspired by Scottish folklore...! With a beautiful cover by @jennicoutts.bsky.social✨ 🌙🌊 www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

THE ENTIRETY OF DORLEY HALL EXCEPT CHRISTINE:

Leicestershire is such a charming place!

Transition goals

love the idea that librarians across the country are all bewildered by why people keep asking about dorley

In honour of the Year of the Snake! It's Medusa's time to shine 🌟🐍

Dorley in a nutshell

What?! Why did nobody tell me that Sims 2, the best version of the Sims to ever exist, has been released?!! Downloading as we speak, see you when I emerge in 8-10 business months, after which I'll understand all needs and interactions as little progress bars that need to be kept green✨

The bird thinks of the egg, but how often does the egg think of the bird? 🤔 (Lino inspired by sparrows near my mum's house)

Enquiring minds must know! 🤷‍♀️

Some people believe trans women are overrepresented in literature. This is a statistical error. The average book contains 0 trans women. Welcome to Dorley Hall by Alyson "Egg-Cracker" Greaves, which is accumulating trans women exponentially is an outlier and should not have been counted.

Ok but what's the point of a doomsday clock if nobody reacts to it?

Let's popularise the phrase "hindsight is 50/50" to reflect the fact that we're always inventing narratives to explain why shit happened

What if this was my next print?

My newest go at printing!

Gonna be a bit blowy tomorrow so my landlord has sent me an email explaining how to make sure their property doesn't get damaged.

The United States of Dorley

I worked on this one and think it's the bee's knees! Well deserved @sjbakerauthor.bsky.social ! 🌟

In today's music opinions, King's Cross by the Pet Shop Boys is very underrated

Experiments in drypoint etching using a pasta maker and the packaging from a candle

So my job includes talking to distributors about the new titles we have coming up, which means that in just over an hour, I'll have 3 sentences to explain Secrets of Dorley Hall to our US sales reps. Uhhhhh

Anyone who says trans women must disclose our trans status in any situation is either dangerously ignorant or actively malicious.

Ok but I made this on my lunch break and ... should I pitch it as a new Dorley mug design?

Broke: his work was always crap and he gave me the creeps, so I suspected Woke: I'm glad I wasn't a fan so I don't have to deal with those particular emotions Bespoke: anyone can be a terrible person, but the more beloved someone is, the more social power they have and can abuse

Welcome to Dorley Pub

Let's go Dorley let's go @badambulist.bsky.social

Dorley Hall was invented by Big Conditioner to sell more Conditioners. This is the real Dorley agenda. (I never realised this either and now follow this advice every time I shower.)

Starting my year as I mean to go on...