@Louiestowell I have been wandering around in my enormous oodie whose sleeves hang down way past my hands muttering 'my arms are too long'.
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Gemma
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Gemma
@GemIsWriting
SFF writer, chiefest and greatest of calamities, also sings a bit. She/her. (Mostly posting at the cloudy place.)
Isle of Man เข้าร่วม Nisan 2010
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Harper Lee’s friends gifted her a year’s financial support for Christmas so she could write whatever she wanted without worrying about money and she used it to write To Kill a Mockingbird in case you're wondering what to get your creative friends this year
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It's almost that time of year when all the tax-dodging celebs appear on our televisions telling poor people to 'give what you can' so that the government can shirk its responsibility towards the most vulnerable in our society. #ChildrenInNeed #pudsey
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Christopher Lee holding a sword in a library 2003
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I swear to the old gods, UK voters, if you even THINK about ruining my Christmas...
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: Rishi Sunak is planning to hold the next election on Halloween next year - 31st October 2024 [@thetimes]
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One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.
Muhammad Smiry 🇵🇸@MuhammadSmiry
This is Gaza.
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In a violent time, with the worst assaults on free speech since McCarthyism, the most dangerous word is 'peace'
Let's join the heroes speaking out against violence, from AR-15s here and bombs in the Middle East
This column is from the heart (click pic) inquirer.com/opinion/commen…
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I've recommended this book (and its sequel) to so many people - it's pacy, gripping and terrifying, and may very well haunt your dreams.
Peadar Ó Guilín (Also @TheCallYA @oldelephant.ie)@TheCallYA
I can't believe it. With scary season just around the corner, I haven't reminded you all to read my terrifying novel, The Call. Read it for halloween! Buy it for a friend. Give your worst enemy a copy with the last chapter missing. You know you want to. I want you to. I want...
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i am pleased to inform you all that Hercule Purrot is becoming Brave™ and scaling the Forbidding Mountain Stair
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Old people don’t evacuate. At some point you’d rather take your chances at home than try to escape. I think this is an international human truth. Every time I went into a place getting bombed, it was full of old people, disabled people, confused people. That’s who gets bombed.
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@tashkindred OK well now I need to look into perfume tumblr and opera tumblr immediately
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@GemIsWriting *very intelligent voice*: well, you see Gemma, since everything you do to your characters is a reflection of who you are as a person, while we may not be able to jail you for the murder of your fictional people, we can judge you from our moral highground where we are very pure
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i am howling with laughter but also deeply ashamed of humanity that anyone genuinely believes this
HELP
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@BooksandChokers I'm so sorry Elle, what a horrific thing to go through. Very best wishes to you.
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Last night and all of today has been filled with dealing with the police. A man threatened to stab me yesterday and we have been working out what to do next.
For now, I can no longer give my address out to people who wish to write. It has to go through the agency from now on.
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@BlondeHistorian I think people who dismiss incidents like these as not 'newsworthy' genuinely believe disabled people's lives are (and should be) a nonstop joyless struggle and can't understand why we aren't just quietly resigned to it by now.
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