shoutout the girl who cannot be older than 13 on my train in a shirt with marx’s face on it and the slogan “sharing is caring”

universities reaching results day without any embargo breaches ✌️

oh yeah please enjoy my #menhirsfate crew kit! swing by the faith tent to meet desdemona for help with all your shrinetending needs ✨

beautiful day for all argentina haters but especially for me, who just won my work team’s world cup sweepstake and gets a free pint (i do not drink) (it will be a crisp non-boycotted soft drink)

remember gang, you have free will. you can soak your hair in the office bathroom sink every hour to stay cool during the heat. no one can stop you.

moving day (2026, oil on canvas)

edinburgh was neat :)

shoutout to my family for letting me say “for one of our three days in edinburgh can we go to this bookshop i blorbo’d online” @argonautbooks.bsky.social are wonderful, great pride & palestine displays, & when i bought more books than i should have done they threw in a GORGEOUS high quality tote bag

having spent the last week in scotland/on the northumberland coast where it’s been balmy warm and we are now descending into hell (the rest of the country)

t shirt of protection from h*rry p*tter (we are headed to edinburgh)

gearing up to brave Big Brum Primark and there are 20 year olds dropping slurs that make me flinch in public at the station is not the vibe

it’s that time of year when we start vivisecting my mother’s tomato plants (it’s character building for them) (if you don’t do it they produce infinite leaves and no fruits)

wasps will see fucking anything and go “is anyone gonna parasitise that” and then not wait for an answer

what level of parasocial internet relationship is “i’ve followed you on tumblr for years because i love your little freak cats, but i just read your book and i really liked it, also i swear it was on my TBR before i knew you wrote it”

get told to book your appt so you call & they say she’ll call you back but when you call later she was actually sick all day so you call again & they say she’ll call you back & you say not at this time pls and they say after 4 so you call right before they close to ask what gives & they say. monday

one of the peak things i’ve got going on rn is my alma mater has peregrines at the top of its Really Big Clock Tower and they have BEBES

born to lock in forced to wait for microsoft authenticator to send me a text message

Labour MPs calling for an orderly transition but unfortunately their government needs to be at least 18 years old with four doctors to sign off first

having spent this weekend at a 1930s larp you understand intimately why everyone in those days was on something there’s fuck all to do! you just drink, smoke, and fuck around! doing it temporarily for a larp is great fun but dear god if that were my reality? deathly tedium

every god damn time i read a book and it hits one of my *major* triggers, it’s never mentioned in any of the warnings this book has a content warnings note at the start of the book like “you’re reading a murder mystery, there might be blood!!” traumatic overriding of consent via magic is fine though

sometimes you’re on your way to a weekend larp and that all gets overshadowed because you meet someone from god damn time team on the train that’s made my week holy shit

having a family member who does muay thai is an extreme endurance sport

From the first trailer of "Kindred Spirits", the new animated feature film by Tomm Moore & Cartoon Saloon (Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, Wolfwalkers) + Folivari. Coming in 2028. Full video >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQn9...

Politics of semantics 😏

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

my last christmas present got stuck in shipping hell but it’s FINALLY with me, hell yeah

Always a great sign for how things are going in your country when 21-year-olds are like “hey, I innovated a system to play bagpipes in tear gas”

L.A. TACO@lataco.bsky.social · 7mo ago

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actually no im NOT done being insane about the hiding place. it’s a coastal horror novel where the sea does not directly factor into any of the horror. that’s nuts to me. I don’t think i’ve ever encountered that before. i can’t stop thinking about how fascinating that is

elri@eyebright-iris.bsky.social · 7mo ago

need to express something about that book that has made me mildly insane my family holidays by the coast a lot, a week’s getaway at some point to beachcomb etc. 3 years ago, the house we rented (many floors & attic rooms) bothered my mum with the pervasive smell of damp it was our whitby trip rental

need to express something about that book that has made me mildly insane my family holidays by the coast a lot, a week’s getaway at some point to beachcomb etc. 3 years ago, the house we rented (many floors & attic rooms) bothered my mum with the pervasive smell of damp it was our whitby trip rental

finishing up the hiding place has me remembering my undergrad dissertation, which used mason’s first novel the wayward girls as a text i was looking at how teenage girls make their own kinds of wretched justice when wronged maybe i should go back to that piece and rewrite it to be Good, Actually