My favourite purple (slightly rebellious) aesthetic.๐ ANAHERA, my debut novel, wonโt take you quite where you expect it to go. Just give it a chance!๐๐
Available from Amazon, Kindle, Book Depository, Barnes&Noble and WH Smith.๐
@KariDru
I usually reply with, โWell, Iโm upright.๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธโ
This seems to get a mix of amusement and shared understanding in response.๐ Then you can just sail onwards.
@sueveneer
@richardbranson
The reality is that money buys you FREEDOM - from the prison of debt, from having to worry that the next car repair will send you under, from being stuck in a situation because you cannot afford to move...Those with plenty of money do not have the same pressures. They have choice
@sueveneer
@AndrewBooton
And a reality bypass. He has enough money to pay for the power to cook it, enough to afford the house he lives in and enough money to be smug about not understanding the reality of other peopleโs lives. What is his weekly wage?
@Verity_Holloway
That made me laugh.๐ I do something similar when Inkblot bounces up to strangers, as I bellow, โPOLITE!โ so he will tone it down a bit.
(He is not a small dog and very friendly.)
@ask_aubry
When the baby pops out, his response to anything parent-related will undoubtedly be, โI didnโt give birth to it, nothing to do with me.๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธโ
@ask_aubry
Thatโs not a prank, itโs pure abuse. I wouldnโt even have confronted him, just gone straight to a lawyer and left. And I would have shared his messages with everyone. No contact, youโre gone.
Iโm getting heartily sick of blokes (and some women) demanding that feminism be โniceโ to everyone. Fuck that shit. Feminism is not about being nice, itโs about striving to right a massive imbalance created by patriarchal attitudes which specifically targets women.
@seankent
@DrBeverley
There are far more decent people in this world than we think. Every country Iโve travelled through has contained so many individuals who were kind and helpful when they didnโt need to be. This is a lovely example of how decent our species can be, despite the darkness.
Follow Isabella through the Anahera Gate to a world of competing goddesses, chaotic storms, giant psychic cats you can ride, sweary soldiers and tiny alcoholic dragons. The food is rather good too. Just watch out for the Drw-ad who are out to โcollectโ you.
@AsFarce
I know what happens when you have weird things going on with your heart and the male doctor says, โitโs probably anxiety.โ
He was lucky not to get punched.
Thankfully, a much younger, female doctor took time to investigate and treated me appropriately. That seems quite rare.๐ฌ
I am angry.๐คฌ
Wed, I had brekkie in my favourite cafรฉ, surrounded by the most lovely, funny, kind elderly Mฤori ladies.
Today, in my local cafรฉ in HN, old white ladies: โItโs all about THEM now - Maari Day, I mean, Matariki.โ โTheyโre dividing this country.โ
Me: โFirstlyโฆโ
Has anyone in Aotearoa/NZ filled in one of those Vote Compass surveys? The questions are worded in a very particular direction and thereโs this ๐๐ปhighly concerning one. ๐คจ
@sarahvanpelt
Margo had one of my favourite lines ever, on tv:
โIt is an Englishwomanโs right to defend her castle in any way she sees fit - whether it be a flintlock pistol or a flamethrower.โ
๐คฃ๐๐๐
@AubryAndrews
He doesnโt feel bad, he feels smug. Knowing how few women there are in STEM industries, he deliberately ruined the career of one before it had even started, using the oldest trick - a womanโs reputation.
@YHAOfficial
@HJJoyceEcon
I am a life member of the YHA. I will no longer be if you put women and girls at risk (and under pressure) like this. It is absolutely not on.
Someone is fixing to burn down my school!๐คฌ He poured 40 litres of petrol around my library/classroom last night. So help me, you will need police protection if you burn down my library.
@davidmbarnett
Builder was stressing about supplier being late. I texted, โI can appreciate your frustration, and when youโre annoyed I want to duck behind the sofa and wait for it to subside.โ Autocorrect changed the โdโ in โduckโ to an โfโ. Builder cracked up laughing the next time we met.๐
At the start of the academic year in September, for no reason other than mischief, I put a llama figurine next to the stairs in the writing & journalism office.
Instead, colleagues just started adding (anonymously) to the Falmouth Zoo each weekโฆ and we never talk about it.
My dear friend from Ukraine made it to Poland with her two young girls.๐ฅบ๐ Her husband, a lovely man who teaches literature, stayed behind in Kyiv to fight, to protect their family and neighbours.
For all my autistic friends who swear they can hear the aurora, the Sami name for an aurora is โguovssahasโ - which roughly translates to โthe light you can hearโ
Merry Beltane in the south and Samhain in the north!๐ฅ๐๐ The world turns, we mourn those weโve lost and look towards the next dawn. As always, letโs light up the darkness with our deeds.๐
My lovely next door neighbour (a talented florist/artist) left this sweet bouquet and a tray of lush grapes and figs on my doorstep, trying to cheer me up because Iโve had Covid and a chest infection.๐ฅน๐ฅฐ
@darafaye
That absolutely enrages me.๐คฌ As a teacher (and human๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ) I am hugely protective of my students and canโt even begin to comprehend how anyone in that position could act like that. That lad is valuable in his own right and deserves to learn and grow in safety.๐ฅบ๐
It is a glorious dawn in the Shire/Aotearoa.๐ There is much to do to sort out the chaos, but we are all capable of being that light in the darkness.
@shazzt
@kmarch67
@donalynbooks
Iโve done that too.๐And I completely agree with you - whatever gets them reading (and creating their own) has value.
Utter bastards! ๐คฌThree years Iโve managed to avoid the plague. Three sodding years! The next anti/vax, anti-mask conspiracy nut job I come across is going to get punched in the throat.
We all imagine diving into new worlds, but how challenging would it really be to survive? What if you were dragged through a gateway into a place of magic...and you had none? Welcome to a world of scented magic and chaotic storms: