Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺

Thanks so much to the judges who have selected my novel in progress for the Historical Adventure category. #Manumission is set in the years following the global pandemic that ancient historians call the Antonine pandemic. #HNS2026 #AmWriting #HistoricalFiction

@DiegoYYC Yes. I’m in a wait and see situation too.

@KatesfWriter I just did the same and have a similar first impression. Will have to wait and see how things continue.

Am I absolutely crazy to return to X? Engagement is poor and it seems more Wild West than when I took a long break. I’d love to know how others feel about X now. I still mourn the #Twitter Days. It wasn’t perfect but miss the #Archaeology, #History, #Book and #WritingCommunity

@paulinemorgan56 Happy Easter 🐣 to you too Pauline. Hope you’re having a great day.

@KatesfWriter Happy Easter from a sunny, cold North East coastal town. 🐣🐥

We survived Storm Dave in Northumberland. The winds were vicious, howling around the eaves, whistling down the chimney, a steady roar. But it’s quieter now. All blown out. And some of the plum tree blossom has clung on. Happy Easter 🐣

@Kestrel_Bates That’s good to hear.

@KatesfWriter I wasn't here for the golden age of Twitter, but there seems to be plenty of author and agent engagement and support happening. I'm happy to be here. 😀

@EugeneCann17 Good luck!

@KatesfWriter A few perspex sheets blown out. An easy fix if I can find them.

@christiwhittem Nice to see you too.

@KatesfWriter Hello back to you! Good to see you here again

@clerotto Happy Easter 🐣

@KatesfWriter What a night it was indeed. Happy Easter 🌼🌿🌸

@EugeneCann17 Hope it’s not too much damage.

@KatesfWriter Vicious in Scotland too. I'm on greenhouse repairs the second the snow stops.

Happy Easter! Life imitating art. Fresco of dish of eggs from the Praedia of Julia Felix, #Pompeii and an exhibit of eggs that astonishingly survived the AD 79 eruption in Herculaneum. 🥚🥚🥚#EasterDay

‘Stars were seen as if falling from heaven’ #OTD in 1095, according to Symeon of Durham. ‘Not by ones or twos,’ says the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, ‘but so thickly that nobody could reckon it.’ 📸Jason Hullinger

@DBBell65 @lampwright4 Haha! I did run, but kept my account open. I don’t blame anyone for leaving. I was struggling to see the point of being here when I checked out. It’s why I asked the Q. I was hit with a wall of toxic, hostile, and fake posts. I felt lost among it, my voice mocked and diminished.

@KatesfWriter @lampwright4 I'm with you entirely. Such a change after people left. But it's the fault of those that left. Ran away from their followers without even a thought for them. Selfish lot!

@for_fi @MedMilMedicine Love it.

@MedMilMedicine Here’s one @KatesfWriter

Here for Easter, the magnificent Rabbit Fish - 14th century, British Library, Add. MS 11390, f. 59r

@deanpb_author Twitter is a word that sort of suggests community. It’s like the cosy in cosy crime. X just doesn’t give off welcoming vibes.

I’ve been here almost 15 years and seen it rise and fall. Some bits are good, like the fact that you can easily spot the scamming brigade in Africa, specifically Nigeria. Some things are not great, but at least they’re fair: there are equal numbers of far-right and far-left opinions, and it’s no longer one-voice-only. Other bits are awful, scammers are through the roof. But I do think Twitter (it’ll never be X) has the best writing community.

@reath66847 It’s all voices are equal, but some are more equal than others.

@KatesfWriter It's becoming algo dependent, and checkmark biased in very heavy handed way. There are still good ppl here, many in the writing communities, but the "free speech" platform is more of a pay the price for free speech platform.

@HelenParusel A few are commenting here, which is nice.

@KatesfWriter I returned recently and am finding engagement poor. Are there any bookish people left?

@RAMoulds And I’m originally from Cork.

@KatesfWriter There are still lovely, interesting, and funny people around. It takes a bit of effort, but it can be worth it.

@christiwhittem Hello 👋

@KatesfWriter Some writers, archaeologists, etc are still here!

@DanNEO_SS I don’t know. Do they?

@KatesfWriter Do hashtags mean anything these days? I don't think so. 🤔

@for_fi No not that. 40% of the full monthly price for 3 months. £1 would definitely be worth a try though.

@KatesfWriter The £1 for a month? No harm in trying…

And are there any tangible benefits to paying for that verification?

@for_fi Ah. That’s sort of what I thought. It’s on offer now and was just wondering.

@KatesfWriter I tried it for a month when it was on offer. Meh.