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I sort-of deserted this site for a while, as it seems to be swirling around the bottom of the toilet pan during a flush. Poking my head back in. How's life here in Musk Rat Hell?

@AnnaliseErrico Wahey! So well deserved 💜💜💜

Just a little update!💖

writing & editing my wips despite being SO sleepy. i am very brave.

this disability pride month, shout out to everyone who was convinced they weren't disabled for years despite living in constant pain and, by the time they received a diagnosis, had done irreparable damage to their body 😖big love to you & stop beating yourself up about it.

@CWritesFiction My award.... For WHAT???

@BlRadley YAY for less pain and also what's this??? 🏆 oh! your award for Sitting Funniest In A Chair

Forgot to say before but... Guess who finally has proper NHS ankle and wrist braces for EDS??? This bish! I've got a way to go, but it's lovely being able to walk again with, uh, only moderate rather than debilitating pain.

@TheReadingLemon @Waterstones I'm so glad I got to sign your copy! 😭😭😭 thank you for persevering, my lovely lemon

I am literally begging that if you see someone in a mask in a small space with you, instead of saying “do you want me to mask?” Just say “oh let me put a mask on!” That way it’s courteous and not putting the person masked in a position where they have to say yes

Waiting at the bus stop after a long day Ambulance blue lights past I instinctively stick out my hand to hail it like a taxi cab

Eeee! Thank you so much for the recc 😍 it's lovely to see Strictly out in the wild!

Eeee! I'm excited!

LET'S DO THIIIIIS

me v. the last chapter of my next first draft:

@jcalkins_wb oh gosh, I know that pain! I hope you can get past those 10K words and plough ahead.

@BlRadley Don’t be me. By the time I get to 10K words, I start going back and revising/editing rather than FINISHING THE DAMN FIRST DRAFT! So many beginnings abandoned. (Image copyright INKYGIRL.COM.)

me when I reread my current scribblings on the next novel: 😍 me when I realise it's actually pretty dang good: 🥰 me when I realise I've only written 10K and need to actually finish it: 😑

of course, on the day I have to go nil-by-mouth for a medical procedure, I wake up yearning for cheese

Devoured Babel by R. F. Kuang over the weekend, so obviously the only option is to go back to the beginning and read it again, slowly, savouring every rumination on translation and imperialism, and every etymological explanation. I can't reccommend this book enough! 😍

the next draft is away! .......now to start looking at my Camp Nano project...

I am. so close to finishing Liesmyth. (xe say, just as xe said last week, and the week before, and the week before, and - )

Ohmigosh so exciting!