Did we know, gang, that you can wildcard filter on AO3? EXCLUDE "*/NAME" will filter *all* ships with that character. maybe I'm the last to know!

As the EHRC Code of Practice comes into force, we’ve compiled a new Oxford toilet guide highlighting unisex/gender-neutral provision. 38 facilities across the city for when you need to go. Read it here: oxfordclarion.uk/oxford-publi...

Oxford public toilets: Where to go when you need to go

We are all the Clarion – and, sometimes, we all need the loo. And especially if you're pregnant, have an unreliable postnatal pelvic floor, are looking after children, or just need to spend a penny wi...

oxfordclarion.uk

I’ve just learned that Ray Bradbury’s short, “There Will Come Soft Rains”, is set today, August 4th, 2026

My bookshelf railway investigators have kept me company through much railway regulation* * I also pose them when writing sex scenes. Don’t tell the Office of Rail and Road

Andrew@generalising.bsky.social · 2d ago

Still testing the 4x5 but I think I'm getting the hang of it. Here's the bookshelf railway investigators* * long story

do you need Shetland fic with big swoony feelings and also daemons and witches? I THINK YOU DO.

Iona@singlecrow.bsky.social · 2w ago

I wrote another Shetland fic, at the behest of beloved @llincathryn.bsky.social and @twistedsoup.bsky.social! I'm so pleased I was able to write this one, friends, and I think it's good. One you can read without the canon, also. archiveofourown.org/works/88933421

heatwave advice from Americans and Indians: "just go outside after it gets dark" in this place it never gets dark

A hill I have recently wished to die on: a sex scene does not work without the author thinking through permission and consent. Maybe these characters Would Never; that's ok, if you've thought about it! but how these characters would or wouldn't is 100% crucial to who they are as people & in bed.

anyone got a pro hockey romance they love? mm, mf, ff, other, all great, but please no female figure skater falls for male hockey player. (pro writing, not pro hockey)

I’m having… not a great day.

I've not watched a lot of Shetland, but this fic was magical and well worth a read hardly knowing anything about the fandom

Iona@singlecrow.bsky.social · 2w ago

I wrote another Shetland fic, at the behest of beloved @llincathryn.bsky.social and @twistedsoup.bsky.social! I'm so pleased I was able to write this one, friends, and I think it's good. One you can read without the canon, also. archiveofourown.org/works/88933421

I cannot handle how much I love this fic, it is SO GOOD 😍😭😍😭😍😭

Iona@singlecrow.bsky.social · 2w ago

I wrote another Shetland fic, at the behest of beloved @llincathryn.bsky.social and @twistedsoup.bsky.social! I'm so pleased I was able to write this one, friends, and I think it's good. One you can read without the canon, also. archiveofourown.org/works/88933421

Icymi! I do love this one.

Iona@singlecrow.bsky.social · 2w ago

I wrote another Shetland fic, at the behest of beloved @llincathryn.bsky.social and @twistedsoup.bsky.social! I'm so pleased I was able to write this one, friends, and I think it's good. One you can read without the canon, also. archiveofourown.org/works/88933421

I wrote another Shetland fic, at the behest of beloved @llincathryn.bsky.social and @twistedsoup.bsky.social! I'm so pleased I was able to write this one, friends, and I think it's good. One you can read without the canon, also. archiveofourown.org/works/88933421

typed in title of one of my own stories to find it, fucking AI tells me it sounds pretty and with AI's help maybe I'll write good some day

I learned how to shoot the duck on my second try

Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social · 2w ago

Okay, my QUESTION OF THE DAY is… What is your weirdest actual accomplishment? Not the biggest necessarily…but the weirdest?

didn't even skate, roller or figure. stayed at home all day ate sweets and wrote 2000w of A Fanfic like I was 12 actual years old. highly rec having worked so hard for nine months they owe you five days off for free.

Iona@singlecrow.bsky.social · 3w ago

ice hockey tonight, and tomorrow only skating and fanfic, yes yes yes.

my justified true belief that Piers Corbyn died in April and no one has yet informed him is certainly coming to a middle

Andrew@generalising.bsky.social · 3w ago

There are THIRTY FOUR CANDIDATES in Clacton, dear goodness. www.tendringdc.gov.uk/news/clacton...

I love this

usuallyhats@usuallyhats.bsky.social · 3w ago

I wrote another Shetland fic! Just over a thousand words of Tosh and Jimmy's friendship: archiveofourown.org/works/88728931

ice hockey tonight, and tomorrow only skating and fanfic, yes yes yes.

Canary Wharf Tube have taken down their special Harry Kane Kaneary Wharf roundels *already*. brutal, and also, hilarious

So I love skating, roller, figure and apparently also hockey, but I’ve hit a firm plateau in terms of improvement, which depresses me. like, I just want to get better, ok, because I am not very good.

No one saw this coming, naturally: can anyone rec f/f hockey romance? I’m reading one called Like A Power Play which so far I like.

At the very least I don’t think Count Binface is going to lose his deposit, and that, alone, is the greatest

I went swimming in Middle Dock at Canary Wharf with C today and it was great! Lovely long pool set in the dock itself but w/ nicer water, underneath the sprawl of buildings, and today at least the unheated water temp was 19.5 deg. (Big, hopeful, lonesome sign: WETSUITS FREE ALL JULY)

I went to my very first ice hockey practice tonight and had a lovely time on the ice! I am so terrible at all forms of organised sport! Still a lovely time!

I too think we should cap London croissant pricing at £1. A sound policy.

A short thread of MPs who have resigned in order to contest their own by-election: 2016: Zac Goldsmith resigned to protest his own government's policy of expanding Heathrow. Defeated by Sarah Olney, a Lib Dem, who also opposed expanding Heathrow.

Gavin Freeguard@gavinfreeguard.com · 4w ago

In case you were wondering (from when David Davis quit to fight a byelection in his own seat, 2008) www.theguardian.com/politics/200...

I'm cranky, my day has ended early, ask me anything. (lbr, I'm always cranky, but some of you I think do enjoy it. ama!)

So this is a little mean cos they rly meant well & were trying their best! But i once had a copyeditor ask why they couldn’t find a Gaelic phrase I had used in any source. ….apparently they thought it was a dead language. Like Latin or Norn.

S R Jones @aegisimmemorial.bsky.social · last mo.

If you see this, please tell me the worst/most baffling bit of creative feedback you've ever recieved. Mine is still the time somebody told me my aliens had names that were too alien. Not that they were unpronounceable, just that they didn't sound enough like human names.

What I’m getting rn is that a lot of English people have never stayed up late before