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L. D. Lapinski / Lucy Lapinska

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Less than Human. More than Machine. Abigail was created to replace a dead woman. But Emancipation looms, & so does her choice: stay in a life she was deigned for, or discover what it means to really live. SOME BODY LIKE ME, April 2025. Preorder now:

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L. D. Lapinski / Lucy Lapinska

@ldlapinski

5 years

Adult life be like

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@ldlapinski

8 years

GUYS I AM CRYING

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L. D. Lapinski / Lucy Lapinska

@ldlapinski

6 years

Writing culture is closing Twitter on your laptop because you need to work, then immediately opening Twitter on your phone to see what the other, smaller, Twitter is up to.

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@ldlapinski

3 years

Obsessed with this

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L. D. Lapinski / Lucy Lapinska

@ldlapinski

5 months

Meanwhile, in the UK today

𝘒𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘦

@Ktmoodles

5 months

Happy April 25th

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L. D. Lapinski / Lucy Lapinska

@ldlapinski

7 years

RT if you'd at least consider tasting it.

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L. D. Lapinski / Lucy Lapinska

@ldlapinski

7 years

BB8's determined little head-down roll RT if you agree

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L. D. Lapinski / Lucy Lapinska

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2 years

People in their mid-to-late 30s waking up to yet another financial disaster

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L. D. Lapinski / Lucy Lapinska

@ldlapinski

9 years

An important gif:

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L. D. Lapinski / Lucy Lapinska

@ldlapinski

7 years

Saw this on tumblr, and I believe it.

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L. D. Lapinski / Lucy Lapinska

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4 years

This. This is the greatest pair of pages in children’s literature.

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4 years

Me minding my All those emails own business I sent saying we on this Sunday would ‘discuss evening. this in January’

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L. D. Lapinski / Lucy Lapinska

@ldlapinski

1 year

Morning lads

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L. D. Lapinski / Lucy Lapinska

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6 years

Dog owner, physically restraining a barking, snarling animal: Ah, don’t mind him, he’s as soft as grease really, he won’t hurt you! Cat owner, pointing at their peacefully sleeping pet: That’s Toby. Don’t go near him, he’s a bastard and he’ll have your arm off.

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L. D. Lapinski / Lucy Lapinska

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8 years

Today is going to be a shit mental health day for so many of us. Here's what you can do:

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@ldlapinski

3 years

Everyone go home, The Norwegian Postal Service have won Christmas this year

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4 years

The year is 2035. Everyone who can works from home. All the now-empty office block buildings have been converted into urban farms and gardens. The verges beside the roads have remained unmown for years, and insects are flourishing.

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L. D. Lapinski / Lucy Lapinska

@ldlapinski

6 years

I am a big fan of all the new MCU posters, but these are my favourites.

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L. D. Lapinski / Lucy Lapinska

@ldlapinski

2 years

Went to the bookshop and found some celebrities

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L. D. Lapinski / Lucy Lapinska

@ldlapinski

7 months

Imagine if in school PE they’d actually taught us how to be strong and take care of things like muscle mass and bone density instead of (badly) teaching us how to play a sport we had no interest in, in the rain.

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L. D. Lapinski / Lucy Lapinska

@ldlapinski

6 years

good morning let’s talk about Leticia Wright’s suit now

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L. D. Lapinski / Lucy Lapinska

@ldlapinski

6 years

More of this, please.

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L. D. Lapinski / Lucy Lapinska

@ldlapinski

4 years

I’m literally begging you all to unfollow and deplatform JK*R because god damn she’s not even trying to hide her bigotry anymore. Buy the books second hand if you have to buy them at all, tell your friends who aren’t Online, just pls do these simple things for your trans friends

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L. D. Lapinski / Lucy Lapinska

@ldlapinski

8 years

If your thoughts are catastrophising, interrupt them with a safe behaviour. Draw. Make art. Talk. Do not go online to confirm your fears.

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L. D. Lapinski / Lucy Lapinska

@ldlapinski

9 months

Can’t stop thinking about this tbh

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L. D. Lapinski / Lucy Lapinska

@ldlapinski

8 years

Change your environment. Turn off Twitter, rolling news, wifi. Decrease the size of your bubble. You don't need other people's reactions.

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L. D. Lapinski / Lucy Lapinska

@ldlapinski

5 years

Guys. What if @neilhimself has been playing the long game trolling us all? and what if we’ll sit down on the 31st to watch #GoodOmens . And hit Watch Now. and then and then the Bohemian Rhapsody movie starts to play

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L. D. Lapinski / Lucy Lapinska

@ldlapinski

3 years

This. This is why. 💜🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💜

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@ldlapinski

3 years

So you agree? That being misgendered is hurtful and inappropriate and should be something we protect people from?

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@ldlapinski

1 year

What I particularly enjoy about Teams is how, when you rsvp to an invite, the link to the meeting disappears never to be seen again

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@ldlapinski

8 years

Take care of your physical needs. Wash. Eat. Drink. Walk. Take your meds.

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L. D. Lapinski / Lucy Lapinska

@ldlapinski

3 years

Y’all know you can add gifs to your track changes, right?

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@ldlapinski

3 years

THIS is why you donate to AO3. They will actively defend your right to produce “transformative works”. Not-for-profit fanmade works are what keeps interest in any story going during fallow periods. This is a real donkey move from the beeb.

Katherine💖

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3 years

BRB just vibrating with rage Why not kick the fandom that kept interest in the show alive for over a DECADE when it was off air. Great idea. 🙄

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@ldlapinski

8 years

Do not feel guilty for cutting off the internet. Your environment is often the easiest thing 2change. You are not bad for avoiding the news.

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@ldlapinski

8 years

Once upon a time there were four little rabbits, and their names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail and Peter. And then the murders began.

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@ldlapinski

2 years

Heartstopper getting a shoutout in the House of Commons as positive trans rep yessssssss we love to see it @AliceOseman

GAY TIMES

@gaytimes

2 years

"That visibility has changed lives." 🏳️‍⚧️ At the UK Parliamentary debate on trans conversion therapy, Labour MP @LukePollard says that Heartstopper's trans representation is saving lives, @Yazdemand ❤️

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4 years

I see Hans Christian Andersen is trending. Never forget the time he visited and then refused to leave Charles Dickens’ house for weeks on end and eventually had a public tantrum on the front lawn after his book got a bad review. 10/10 most relatable author

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@ldlapinski

4 years

My books are here 😭❤️ My books. That I wrote. They’re real and they’re here and I sobbed into the first one I picked up. I am SO HAPPY. ✨🧳✨

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@ldlapinski

5 years

Being in your 30s is just spending all your time working out what kind of headache you’ve got. Not enough caffeine? Too much caffeine? Dehydrated? Overhydrated? Tired? Too much screen time? Stress? Something incurable? Who knows.

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@ldlapinski

3 years

The way she WHIPPED off those glasses

Scott Bryan

@scottygb

3 years

Vox pop of the day goes to @Channel4News

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@ldlapinski

2 years

I am bursting with joy to announce on #NonBinaryPeoplesDay my next book with @HachetteKids - JAMIE! This is the book of my non-binary heart - a story of joy, friendship and acceptance. Stunning cover illustration by superstar @harryewoodgate 💛🤍💜🖤

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L. D. Lapinski / Lucy Lapinska

@ldlapinski

3 years

“My friends actually call me Liv…” 🕷🕸🧬🐙⚗️

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@ldlapinski

5 years

One of the many reasons I cannot recommend the #GoodOmens script book enough. It really is a different adaptation all over again. ‘Missing’ scenes, @neilhimself ’s hysterical description, and an opportunity to marvel at how the cast and crew translated it…

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@ldlapinski

6 years

A uniform isn’t really gender-neutral if it defaults to masculine-coded clothing only, just saying. 💅🏻

Times Politics

@timespolitics

6 years

The change to trousers comes as schools opt for gender-neutral uniforms to cater for transgender pupils

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L. D. Lapinski / Lucy Lapinska

@ldlapinski

6 years

...Would you be my new best friends? #DoctorWho

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@ldlapinski

5 years

I don’t have a soundcloud, so here’s my manifesto instead: 1. Be kind to people less fortunate than you 2. Vaccinate your kids 3. Fuck TERFs 4. Billionaires are evil

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L. D. Lapinski / Lucy Lapinska

@ldlapinski

6 years

My grandad told me that you only got a chocolate-ended cone in a Cornetto if you were very lucky, and I believed him for years, and thought I was just the luckiest person ever, until I learnt the truth.

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@ldlapinski

4 years

Thor said gay rights

BBC News (UK)

@BBCNews

4 years

Incredible 'lightning rainbows' illuminate UK skies

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L. D. Lapinski / Lucy Lapinska

@ldlapinski

7 years

Idea vs First Draft

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@ldlapinski

8 years

If you feel unsafe, or that you might harm yourself or others, seek help. Practice safe behaviours until the urge passes.

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L. D. Lapinski / Lucy Lapinska

@ldlapinski

5 years

Been trying to think why Good Omens on tv made me yell with delight, where HDM made me cry with happiness, and I think I’ve nailed it: With GO, it’s like they filmed the book page for page and put it onscreen With HDM, it’s like they filmed the inside of my brain &did the same

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L. D. Lapinski / Lucy Lapinska

@ldlapinski

8 years

If you feel safe to, create. Express your mood in a controlled way.

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@ldlapinski

6 months

SO THIS HAPPENED

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@ldlapinski

3 years

Me, agreeing Future Me, to do stuff doing stuff

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L. D. Lapinski / Lucy Lapinska

@ldlapinski

4 years

Concept: A karaoke bar where the only choices are Horrible Histories songs.

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L. D. Lapinski / Lucy Lapinska

@ldlapinski

2 years

Jamie is an 11yo non-binary kid, who finds out their secondary schools will be split - one for boys and another for girls. And when Jamie realises that neither school has space for them, they decide to take matters into their own hands... Preorders are GO!

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@ldlapinski

3 years

You ever sit with your glasses off and think about how you’d never survive day to day life as a medieval peasant

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@ldlapinski

5 years

It’s official: @PaulKidby @neilhimself and @terryandrob have created the stuff of dreams.

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@ldlapinski

4 years

A kid on your street has just turned 18. They have their photo taken holding their first universal basic income cheque. They’re going to volunteer to join the Ocean clean-up crews out in the Pacific, though there’s not much left to be done, now.

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@ldlapinski

1 year

For the love of god, before it’s too late, give us Ke Huy Quan as an adult Shorty who steals artefacts from museums and returns them to their proper owners. Throw in Harrison for a cameo, bang, instant blockbuster.

Tessa ☮️ 🕊️ 🏳️

@Tessicat

1 year

You can tell Ke Huy Quan is a good egg because Harrison Ford is nice to him.

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@ldlapinski

1 year

More media promo should just involve lies tbh. Everyone just sit there and spout untruths, let trust go out the window, keep us endlessly on our toes

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@ldlapinski

6 years

Reading kidlit really ruins you for reading LitLit because you constantly expect something to HAPPEN in a chapter rather than just having to endure the author’s thinly-veiled commentary on their divorce as the MC stares at the bleak shadows cast on the wall by their antique lamp

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@ldlapinski

4 years

So, one thing that was giving me The Sads about lockdown was the fact I wouldn’t be able to see my book on a shelf in a shop, but then....... TESCO!

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@ldlapinski

4 years

You walk into the old city, and look up at the plants streaming down the skyscrapers like green waterfalls, listen to the buzz of insects flying up to visit the urban farms feeding the world. You feel the sun on your skin. You see someone you love. And they love you, too.

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L. D. Lapinski / Lucy Lapinska

@ldlapinski

5 years

I am beyond thrilled to be able to tell you all this!! THE STRANGEWORLDS TRAVEL AGENCY, my debut series, is coming out in Spring!!!

The Bookseller

@thebookseller

5 years

. @HachetteKids signs MG series by debut author @ldlapinski :

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@ldlapinski

4 years

Gender? No thanks, I’m way too cool and handsome for that. #InternationalNonbinaryDay #NonBinaryPeoplesDay

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@ldlapinski

4 years

Homeschooling day nine squillion Teacher: today we’re going to learn about subordinating conjunctions Me, a published author with a Masters degree in English: What in the fresh hell is that

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@ldlapinski

2 years

Happy second birthday to The Strangeworlds Travel Agency! ✨🧳✨ To celebrate, I’m giving away this pack of Strangeworlds goodies including: All three books, all three collectible bookmarks, double sided postcards and a Society pin! ✨🧳✨ RT&F to enter, UK only, ends 13th May!

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@ldlapinski

8 years

@BookLoverx Breasted boobily is my favourite phrase.

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@ldlapinski

4 years

You go to the library, where they’re holding a talk on life in 2020. They talk about C19, and how it changed the world. How, in the face of a pandemic, the human race became kinder, more humble, and generous. You sit and you listen to the talk, and smile behind your cloth mask.

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@ldlapinski

2 years

I’m less bothered by the fact that Roald Dahl books have existed unchanged since 40, 50, 60 years ago than I am that books are still being published today with the same harmful tropes and representations 🤷

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@ldlapinski

4 years

I’m going to bed. I’m going to be a published author when I wake up. How nice is that.

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@ldlapinski

2 years

I’ve had enough of this. I want AUTUMN. I want BREEZE. I want ORANGE. I want CRONCHY LEAVES. I want PUMPKIN SPICE. I want CARDIGANS.

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@ldlapinski

2 years

@BernieTranders

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@ldlapinski

2 years

Me, an award-winning published author with a masters degree in English looking at my nine year old’s homework: What in the name of Christ is an expanded noun phrase

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L. D. Lapinski / Lucy Lapinska

@ldlapinski

1 year

How it started How its’s going

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L. D. Lapinski / Lucy Lapinska

@ldlapinski

7 years

On my way to #mcmBHM17 as Aziraphale. Thank you, @neilhimself , for co-creating such a wonderful book! #GoodOmens

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@ldlapinski

4 years

The virus never went away, and young people struggle to understand old footage of crowds and concerts. But humans never stopped being together. They came together in different ways. They saw what was truly important, and they poured their hearts and funds into preserving it.

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@ldlapinski

4 years

I’m selling this limited edition Good Omens script book, signed by @neilhimself , with all profits going to @Genderintell ! Please take a look if you can:

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@ldlapinski

1 year

“What’s this show about?” Not telling you.

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@ldlapinski

4 years

Happy Friday! Let’s have a giveaway, shall we? ✨Win a signed book, postcards, a bottle of magic*, a Strangeworlds luggage tag and the sold-out-everywhere enamel Strangeworlds suitcase pin!✨ RT&F to enter, open worldwide, closes 24/7. No giveaway accs, and Good Luck! ✨🧳✨

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@ldlapinski

4 years

I cannot stress enough how much you need to give a Discworld adaptation to the writers of Ghosts and pretty much no one else.

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@ldlapinski

2 years

First tagged review saying the budding romance between two thirteen year old girls was “unnecessary”. Well, the joke’s on you. Nothing I write is necessary. I do it because I want to.

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L. D. Lapinski / Lucy Lapinska

@ldlapinski

1 year

Ten signatures in my copy of Good Omens (not all pictured of course), and none of them are @neilhimself . Can the tv companies pull their finger out and start paying their writers so he can come off strike and do some GO2 promo? 😭

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L. D. Lapinski / Lucy Lapinska

@ldlapinski

9 months

Meals on the 23rd are just another level of surreal. Like the fridge is full of delicious festive treats and I’m here making spag bol out of a jar like everything’s normal and it’s just a regular Saturday

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@ldlapinski

3 years

Update: They’re safe.

L. D. Lapinski / Lucy Lapinska

@ldlapinski

3 years

Waiting to hear if my partner's family made it out of Kyiv is a game I'd rather not be playing tbh

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@ldlapinski

7 years

BEST DAY EVERRRRRRRRR ❤️❤️❤️

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@ldlapinski

6 years

Something like: “I don’t know. None of the characters ever told me, and I never needed to know in order to tell the story” should be seen as a fabulous and legit answer to world building mysteries.

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@ldlapinski

3 years

Who’s 34 today? Why, tis I. 🎈

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@ldlapinski

5 years

Cover proofs!!!! Look at that foil!!!! I’m yelling!!!!

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@ldlapinski

4 years

The Mr made me a suitcase birthday cake! With non-binary flag colours as the interior! I feel so loved 😭❤️

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@ldlapinski

2 years

Oh god please stay colourful when you’re cooked my mental health needs this one

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@ldlapinski

6 years

Just caught him trying to secret-read under the table.

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@ldlapinski

4 years

Happy Pride to me, from @AliceOseman 🖤🤍💜

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@ldlapinski

6 years

What a day, lads.

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@ldlapinski

4 years

The Strangeworlds Travel Agency is out now! Step into a suitcase and travel to magical new worlds! ✨🧳✨Available from all good bookshops. Hive: Amazon: Waterstones:

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@ldlapinski

3 years

Being the only person on Twitter who isn’t watching the police show

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@ldlapinski

21 days

Breaking news: I am no longer based in Nottinghamshire. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 We have upped sticks and relocated to just outside Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish book festivals, book shops and schools PLEASE invite me over! I can’t wait to meet you! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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L. D. Lapinski / Lucy Lapinska

@ldlapinski

3 years

If you’re writing non-binary characters and you have a section in your novel explaining their gender and pronouns… consider why you have done that for them and not for your cis characters. Normalise writing beyond he and she. We don’t need an intro.

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@ldlapinski

1 year

Please, my son, he’s very sick

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