Joy Barlow 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@inscrutablejoy.bsky.social
She/her, grumpy sometimes, safe to talk to unless you're shitty
FUCK THE NHS! /Third Strikes,/ another related sequel following on from my earlier story /First Day,/ concerning transphobic shit about to go down in comprehensive high schools across the UK. Reading this story will make the NHS very sad. archiveofourown.org/works/90035521
Third Strikes - Catherine Cowie (cathycowie) - Original Work [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
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I’d meant to put this up a few days ago, but I was busy writing. Chapters 1 – 3 of the Untitled Novel Project [first draft] A headless body discovered while a brook is trawled for algae, brings a detective who’d fled his small country town back to investigate. www.patreon.com/catherinecow...
Flashpoint | Catherine Cowie
Detective Reynolds has dragged in a suspect for the murdered body in the brook, still yet to be firmly identified… but is he the culprit or
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Also on Patreon, due for public release a fortnight today (28 August) Fifth Column A permanent injury to a trans student crosses the line for some staff of the school, and the Resistance forms against the ‘gender-critical’-dominated administration. www.patreon.com/catherinecow...
Fifth Column | Catherine Cowie
The change in ethos at CHS was already unconscionable, but physical harm to a transgender student crossed a line for some of the teachers. A
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New on my Patreon! Fiction to make the NHS sad! The students at the fictional (mumble) London High School go DIY! www.patreon.com/catherinecow... With veiled references to a purveyor of useful info who is definitely not @katie.bzky.team To be released for public tier tomorrow.
Experiencing "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" in realtime Just once, I'd like to be the mouse
My eldest child just told me they're reading Homestuck and asked me if I knew what that was I've never been prouder
By popular demand, here is everything you need to know ahead of the Women's Professional Baseball League season that starts tomorrow:
everything you need to know about the WPBL
here's your WPBL-101
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Part one of chapter 50 of THE SISTERS OF DORLEY is now out on Patreon! Part two to follow... when it’s done. www.patreon.com/alysongreave...
The Sisters of Dorley — Chapter 50 — Part One (13.3k words) | Alyson Greaves
As noted here, July has been a rough one. Three whole and somewhat separate terrible things happened, all of which both interrupted my writi
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god every so often I go on twitter to scroll and it’s like, oh, that’s where the world’s supply of crying laughing emoji went
Being demisexual in a strip club is surreal Years ago I accidentally wound up in one, had a nice conversation about vinyl collecting with one of the dancers, and got to see a Motorhead tattoo somewhere I didn't expect Of course I tipped, I'm not an asshole and I'm sure the tattoo cost quite a lot
it's genuinely way more enjoyable to be kind to people and positive on here imo, and the dopamine hits just the same
friends, please: don’t use transreads dot org they claim to support trans authors, but take our entire texts, post them for free, fundraise off it, and have the gall to claim it’s about preservation they are literally taking money from trans creators and make it harder for us to keep creating
I’m having to take a few days off from writing to heal, so I put up the draft of the first scene of the sisters of dorley chapter 50 www.patreon.com/alysongreave...
PREVIEW: The first scene of The Sisters of Dorley chapter 50 | Alyson Greaves
I’ve hit a rough patch with my chronic pain, so it‘s going to be a few days of very little writing—possibly none at all. So I thought I’d up
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Bela Lugosi says trans rights (seriously look it up)
Look I just really want a whole shelf full of Queer Sweet Valley High okay
Joy Barlow 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@inscrutablejoy.bsky.social · 2mo agoThinking again about a special print edition of the series where each chapter gets its own binding and cover and a handful of line art illustrations, lined up on my bookshelf like it's Babysitters Club
nobody spotted any typos so far, but I did call something a trunk that should have been a tailgate (now fixed) anyway, pretty good chapter, I thought
alyson “end journalism” greaves@badambulist.bsky.social · last mo.WHEN YOU FELL FROM HEAVEN Max moves from New York to California to start again. And Taylor, newly crowned captain of the cheer squad, sees someone with potential. CHAPTER 35: IT’S A LEI, ACTUALLY Now live on Patreon for all $5 members!
WHEN YOU FELL FROM HEAVEN Max moves from New York to California to start again. And Taylor, newly crowned captain of the cheer squad, sees someone with potential. CHAPTER 35: IT’S A LEI, ACTUALLY Now live on Patreon for all $5 members!
When You Fell from Heaven — 35 — It’s a Lei, Actually (29.1k words) | Alyson Greaves
I’ll be moving on to Dorley for a bit now, and hopefully squeezing in some other stuff, too!
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"don't kinkshame" doesn't mean I have to participate
dropped a lil preview of the new chapter because I’m hitting levels of tiredness heretofore unbeknownst to womankind, and thus won’t get the chapter done by tomorrow. aiming for a full release on the 1st or the 2nd. in the mean time, the (draft) first scene is up on patreon
v quick update—and the first scene from When You Fell from Heaven chapter 35 | Alyson Greaves
I had hoped to get the next chapter of When You Fell from Heaven out before the end of the month, but I have one or two too many scenes left
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Happy 19th anniversary to the resignation of Tony Blair Wondering why Starmer didn't wait a bit to match resignation days with him tbh
Most of our furniture and about half of our cookware is 1962 or older, and there's a set of cast iron pans from the early 1800s that's in near-daily use; some of the furniture was already antique when it was brought west by wagon train
Pookleblinky@pookleblinky.bsky.social · 2mo agoI always like thinking about: what is the oldest object you regularly use, the oldest thing you're using in your normal everyday life
the phrase "they could sell ice to an eskimo" is outdated and racist. please consider using this alternate, non-offensive phrase i just made up instead : "they could sell deodorant at an anime convention"
This story has one of the most deliciously hateable pseudo-antagonists I've ever read Prom Queen/head cheerleader magic user vs. amoral supernatural being with absurdly powerful magic (including mind stuff), no respect for boundaries and a monomaniacal mission of binding (and bedding) the protag
There's a new post up on Patreon! www.patreon.com/posts/161577...
people are calling this chapter “oh my god” and “god damn it”
alyson “end journalism” greaves@badambulist.bsky.social · 2mo agoWHEN YOU FELL FROM HEAVEN Max moves from New York to California to start again. And Taylor, newly crowned captain of the cheer squad, sees someone with potential. CHAPTER 34: DOUBLE SUPER ULTRA MURDER Now live on Patreon for all $5 members! www.patreon.com/alysongreave...
