manifesting open.spotify.com/track/7t2qN4...

knuckle tats that say “SOUP TIME”

absolutely cannot stand lin from duolingo stories. always doing whatever she wants instead of listening to her friends and never punished by the narrative for her indiscretions

I hate to dwell on the horrors, but more horrors about the links between the transphobic "Gender Critical" movement and Epstein...

my dad called me to ask if it was true that dungeons and dragons, the game that, and this is a direct quote, “the pocket protector dorks played when I was in high school” was now selling out madison square garden and when i said yes he told me he now needed to expand his worldview

checking my place in the library’s hold queue for the heated rivalry books like it’s the stock exchange

If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

Experience so far of reading “Piranesi”: wow this is weird, interested in what’s going on, oh he excavated at Orkney I wonder if he worked with that one professor I had, ooo this is a cool world concept, WHALLEY RANGE MENTION

i'm laid out recovering from surgery and ao3 is down?? who at the organisation for transformative works is out to get me

Despite being obsessed with videos of people getting goofy on post-surgery pain meds, I sadly do not get goofy. This time I woke up, asked if the surgery went ok and if my partner had been told I was awake and when the nurses said yes I just lay down and quietly thought about Heated Rivalry

My surgery isn’t until this afternoon and I can’t eat until then and I’m being so brave about it

a hysterectomy, or as I call it, middle surgery

Was reading tips on surgery recovery and it said not to make any major decisions while coming down from anaesthesia but joke’s on them because the last time I had major surgery I spent the anaesthesia comedown planning how to propose and that worked out great

In Labyrinth (1986), Sarah is shown as having a poster for Cats on her bedroom wall, and the fact that she was a Cats The Musical Teenager really explains why all that stuff happens to her

T should be available without a prescription even if it means some cisgender men explode their hearts or whatever

Look I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, if you want to know what I looked like 10 years ago you’ll just have to start fostering a loving and meaningful friendship with me so that 10 years from now we can look back on the people we are now in fond recollection

neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now

"A tattoo on a woman is like putting a bumper sticker on a classic car." If you've never seen an illuminated manuscript, just say so. If you've never gently touched vellum in an act of worship, you can just say that! I was down at the scriptorium and nobody knew your sorry ass!

Been feasting so lavishly on the beautiful huge asses of Heated Rivalry that the bare ass moment in Marty Supreme felt like starving

Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

My partner told me that I approach video games like a speed runner except without the speed running

There’s a road near me that’s 20mph but everyone drives it at 30. A side effect of this is all the driving instructors use it to teach how to drive the speed limit even when you don’t want to. And a side effect of that is everyone ends up driving at 20 because they’re stuck behind a learner driver

After a year on the waitlist the hospital has let me know that my hysterectomy is scheduled for next Tuesday (lol, lmao even) so if anyone has any hot tips on recovery or what to expect on the day lmk

Holidays are over, and I'm motivating myself through the marking and emails by sharing the cover for Claiming Land, Claiming Water: Borders and the People Who Crossed Them in the Early Modern Atlantic with @pennpress.bsky.social. Please indulge me! www.pennpress.org/978151282925... #skystorians

In pursuit of my goal of seeing more local music I went to a local jazz music jam night and I had a great time. So if I do nothing else towards my goal I have had one good night and isn’t that what it’s all about

No nuance Monday: if you’re wondering if a guy is a “performative male” or if he’s just Like That, the answer lies in his socks

This guy tried to tell me that football chants aren’t camp and his evidence was that one of the main chants for his team is “based on a Fleetwood Mac song”.

Convincing girls at the bar to watch heated rivalry by showing them this photo shoot imageamplified.com/connor-storr...

This week was really dragging me down and then I went to a consultation meeting as a union rep where I got the management side to say “we’re going to re-evaluate based on the points you’ve raised, we’ll schedule a follow-up meeting” and now I’m jazzed up enough to run a marathon. Love this shit.

Saw a man wearing crocs in the snow leaving the post office carrying a parcel from dr martens and instantly knew everything about how his past few days have gone

If you’ve been wondering “wow where has Lois been” the answer is “applying for citizenship and therefore taking a social media hiatus so the home office can’t Get Me” but now I’m British officially so here I am xoxo

I tried watching Downton Abbey and I couldn’t do it because the whole time I kept going “why is every servant such a bootlicker?? Rise up comrades you have nothing to lose but your chains”

Last night at 3am while we were making drunk chicken nuggets I made my wife listen to “I’ll Believe in Anything” with the lyrics up so I could explain why it was such a good soundtrack choice. So yeah, I’m normal about Heated Rivalry

In 2026 my goal is to see more local bands so if you wanna go to club nights with local artists in Manchester that might be bad hmu

My smart watch keeps telling me off for having a high heart rate and I’m just fucking making pie crust. Fucking pie crust and the fucking necessary butter temperatures and the not overworking it.

My accomplishments over the Christmas holidays include turning my in-laws into Rosalia fans. They asked us to put on Lux for their Christmas Eve relaxation pleasure

Random sign of the state of US politics right now: A drunk woman at the pub asked about my accent and when I said I was American instead of saying “why are you over here?” like every other drunk woman for the past 14 years, she said “it’s a good thing you’re over here”

If you asked me today what I’ve been thinking about it’s mostly been this description of Catholicism

update: I never heard from him again

went to go see “black sabbath: the ballet” last night and enjoyed it for thoughtful reasons like how they connected metal & classical music, combined art forms, etc. but also I like whenever ballet dancers are forced to do styles that are about being crazy and imprecise because they do Not like it

Was hanging with my friend’s child who was pushing this lil puppet in & out of a container & I went “yeah get it in there” & he started saying “get it in there” to himself so when I gave him back to my friend I had to be like “hey I might have accidentally taught him something that’s gonna haunt us”

why does the village not have a fat bear week themed club night

huge shout out to the battered italian man last night who, mid way thorough act 2 of starlight express, said at full volume: ‘okay enough, thisa getting silly now’ you are my hero

just got hit with the world’s most intense craving for a brown cinnamon sugar pop tart

A couple months ago a guy I went to high school with messaged me and was like “hey I’m gonna be in the UK in September, it would be great to catch up!” But he never told me when or where he’d be. So all month I’ve been walking around like…is it here? Is he here now?

Was reading this on the train and an old lesbian came up over to me before she got off at her stop and went “it’s a good book, isn’t it?” 💜💜💜

to turn off autoplaying video on the bluesky mobile app select the icon in the top left corner go to settings go to content and media make sure "autoplay videos and gifs" is toggled off

Went to go pick up my hold from the library and delightfully discovered that the person with the library card number right before mine is reading the same series that I am

This frontispiece in my book just made me laugh a lot. Is this Buddhist reincarnation, or some other form of afterlife?

The thing that Buffy, Lucifer, and Suits has in common is that there’s a character that’s spoken of before they’re seen and you think “who could possibly be cast who could live up to the hype” and then they hit you with DB Woodside, handsomest guy in Hollywood