Sacha Coward

@sachacoward.bsky.social

LGBTQ+ history dude (He/Him) 🌈 Research, Tours & Escape Rooms. Mermaid lover. Lifts heavy things for attention.

You know what the best thing is in the world? Better than drugs? Better than sex? Better than chocolate? Better than renaissance paintings of cats? Lesbians unprompted complimenting your arms.

I've been working bloody hard finishing off the first draft of my next book 'Space Invaders'... but as a big positive (because of the subject matter) playing videogames LITERALLY counts as research! 🏳️‍🌈🎮

Me sitting on a bed in Cyprus, I'm holding a Nintendo Switch with a sticker of the Pokémon Ditto in the colours of the trans flag.

Water park: Husband goes on the slide graceful as a swan. Sacha gets stuck after first drop then slowly squeaks along before tumbling out like the contents of a pneumatically unblocked toilet.

A reminder that the 'you' that you see in the mirror is not necessarily a real reflection of you. The mind has incredible super villain powers to warp your experience of your appearance. I see a frail 14 year-old... Something bad happens between my retina and occipital cortex.

Me: Sacha, no more weird ancillary projects! Ok? NO MORE! Local bookshop: We're doing a 24 hour readathon for charity, will you sit in the window dressed as a vampire? Me: 🧛‍♂️

Me: Hi, just trying to get onto my email Google: I literally have no idea who you are Me: It's me, I'm on a different computer. Here's my password Google: I'm going to need to speak to Sacha Me: I AM Sacha!!! Google: Yo Sacha Me: Yeah?! Google: There's some ugly weirdo pretending to be you

Me: So I want to send a Google document to this person. Google: Ok! Me: Great. Send. Google: Yeah... I'm not sure they have permission... Me: I literally sent it. Please give them permission. Google: Ok! Me: Great so the- Google: ALERT! SOMEONE IS ASKING FOR PERMISSION!! DENY PERMISSION?!!!

Note: If you are doing a crossfit session and the trainer makes a nervous whistling sound when looking at the weights you've picked out TREAT THIS AS FAIR WARNING!!! YOU HAVE OVERESTIMATED YOURSELF AND YOU MIGHT DIE!!!!!