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Emma Butler

7 days

Posting this again for different time zone people and also cos I’m quite proud of this episode - it’s the first one where I felt ‘yeah, actually maybe I can do this podcasting thing’

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Episode 4 is out! Be warned - this one contains spiders…

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Emma Butler

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6 months

You know what I’d loveto see - a display of historical clothes in lighting and setting of the era. Victorian gowns in a gaslit drawing room, Tudor gowns in a candlelit hall, 60s dresses in a dim nightclub. I’d like to see how the fabric looks in the setting it was designed for

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3 years

Sister Frances has been glorious in the last few episodes #CalltheMidwife

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1 year

@CSMFHT Oh the same thing happened to me as a kid! Read the sanitised version, found the less sanitised version, said ‘cool!’ and carried on with that obsession forever. All nerdy kids do this, I think.

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6 years

@chloemmx Anyway, back to the original tweet - I know exactly what you mean, I have clothes in my wardrobe ranging from a size 8 to a 16 - all of which fit me. Cannot figure out what size I am. I daren’t buy any clothes without trying it on - so no internet shopping for me

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1 year

@obidjarins My feeling was he was thinking he’s in charge of the shop now, and he has to do bookshop things but he’s not quite sure what that is but he knows it involves moving books around so he does that randomly. He’s basically cosplaying bookshop owner

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6 months

I think something of the magic of a dress is lost when it’s in plain white box with bright electric light when it was designed to seen by candlelight against a panelled wall, or in a nightclub with red shaded lights

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5 years

Love Aziraphale’s look of ‘I really hate you but I’m too polite to express it’ at Sandalphon here

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#GoodOmens #OnePerfectShot

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3 years

@the_tweedy I know someone who went to the doctor and tried to tell him all the things she was feeling - he stopped her and said she could only discuss 1 symptom per visit. She picked 1 he diagnosed her - and she collapsed 2 days later because totally misdiagnosed her cos he wouldn’t listen.

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9 months

@staidindoors I saw Barbie in a cinema full of teenage girls and their mothers and the looks of realisations, of recognition, of what they felt turned into actual words and acknowledged was quite moving. That monologue may be something we all know, but it still needed to be said and shared

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6 months

And - if possible, seeing people wearing the gowns so we can see how they moved and changed colour as the folds fell differently.

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4 years

@DailyMirror This isn’t romantic or brave - this is stalking a woman who deliberately gave him a wrong number to get rid of him. Get rid of that soft focus picture and the romantiscised story and present him how he really is - a man who won’t take no for an answer

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1 year

Deanna Troi is, and always has been, glorious #Picard #PicardSpoilers

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1 year

@emilykmay ‘Because I don’t want to’ is such an underrated reason for not doing something. People always seem to want a ‘important’ reason for not doing things but ‘I don’t want to’ seems perfectly valid

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2 years

Just in case anyone thinks Tommy Lee Royce’s escape is unbelievable - it did really happen in real life #HappyValley

Man jumps out of dock and flees courtroom after being jailed for assault

Nicholas Bunclark had just been handed a 16 month prison sentence when he made his escape

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1 year

@BlondeHistorian I was in the launderette once when this bloke came in and said ‘do you work here’ ‘no’ ‘ok, I need these things washed’ ‘I don’t work here’ ‘I need them done now’ ‘I still don’t work here’ ‘I have to do it myself? I don’t know how?’ ‘There are massive instructions on the wall’

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4 years

I do wonder if the drop of custom at WH Smith’s is less to do with COVID and more to do with reducing the magazine and book and stationary stock to stock massively overpriced chocolate bars and bottles of water no-one ever wants

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1 year

@KariDru That would be a lot better for me - I hate answering ‘good’ although I know it’s expected because it’s a lie - ‘hanging in there’ works well. I might try that

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1 month

Slightly disturbed by the amount of smoke currently pouring out of the roof of Somerset House…

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1 year

@baddestmamajama I’m never ever getting married but if I do it’s a ten minute ceremony in a local registry office with minimal witnesses and then an afternoon in a local pub garden with about ten close friends. There’s are far better things to spend the money and time on.

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@Mailonlinepics No, not the Mail. I thought I’d blocked you

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2 years

@thekareem Annual request for the Oscars to be a good fun show celebrating movies again, and not a four hour comedian’s routine interspersed with some people reading off cards.

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5 months

Oh, I am adoring #DeadBoyDetectives . I love each and every character - even the evil ones. And I am very fond of Edwin, who deserves all the best things.

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7 months

@pattymo I’m sure every voyage loses a few crew members to a mysterious illness along the way

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1 year

@JenLRossman That was you?! I started following you for the Star Trek and Dracula tweets, I had no idea you wrote the tweet I find myself quoting at people (who have no idea what I’m talking about but that’s their loss)

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7 months

@JarettSays ‘That’s tenet logic’ - oh, excellent answer! There’s someone who understands the rules of time travel..:

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1 year

@SoVeryBritish Every service I ever phone up has been experiencing a higher number of calls than usual for three years now

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@michelleeb

5 years

Can you imagine Aziraphale and Crowley as your little shoulder angel and demon? Crowley ‘eat all the chocolate! You know it’s not healthy but it’s so so good’ Aziraphale ‘well, actually - yes, do eat all the chocolate, it’s scrummy!’ #GoodOmens

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7 months

Really enjoying this era of sci-fi and horror drama podcasts - it’s so imaginative and different- Magnus Archives/Protocol, Welcome to Nightvale, Cellar Letters, Malevolent are are doing things that I just don’t get from screen horror

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6 years

When The Woman in White was published, many men wrote to Wilkie Collins wanting to meet the real Marian Halcombe and marry her. Not Laura. Marian. #TheWomanInWhite

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6 years

Fiona Shaw now leads all spy operations at any time, and this is exactly as it should be #MrsWilson

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2 years

That was all rather wonderful. Amazing handover from Shaun Evans (who has been perfect) to John Thaw. Singing a requiem, handing over the script with the last words ‘is that it’ and driving away as John Thaw drives up. Perfect way to segue from Endeavour to Morse #Endeavour

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2 years

The Lockwood and Co opening credits really an excellent example of how to tell a lot of backstory using opening credits - headlines, in this case - rather than taking time from the actual story to explain how it got here #LockwoodandCo

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6 months

@Anna_Mazz There’s a brilliant bit about this in one of the Terry Pratchett novels, about how terrifying the row of painted eggs is

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6 years

One hell of a performance by David Oyelowo in this scene, a man realising everything he has ever believed is wrong

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6 years

An act of madness or love? #LesMis érables

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8 months

@JenLRossman Oh, I’ve been waiting - the whole of Buffy twitter - has been waiting anxiously for you to get to this moment

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3 years

Matthew getting a chance to see exactly what midwives do, up close and personal, should make him appreciate Trixie more #CallTheMidwife

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1 year

@garius I reckon no matter what else they do, persuading a whole generation to never take their mask off during paintball will be their lasting cultural impact

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1 year

@Gaby_Moss But damn he was good

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4 years

Seems we all share the experience of flipping through the #Argos catalogue as a child to plan our future homes, choose our Christmas lists, and be stricken with an explicable longing for a Mr Frosty

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3 years

I love Nancy’s ‘civilian’ outfits, they’re so bright and sixties #CallTheMidwife

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5 years

Today would have been Peter Cushing’s birthday - best Van Helsing ever, best Frankenstein ever, best Star Wars villain, wonderful human version of Doctor Who, a vibrant and commanding Holmes, and an amazing, moving, brilliant Winston Smith in 1984.

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6 years

@Anna_Louii @TiggerTherese @chloemmx @drlangtry_girl 5’ 2’’ here - so I try on petite jeans but apparently petite sizes don’t go above 8 even when they say 12 on the label - they never fit around hips. I’ve just entirely given up on jeans

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8 months

@SNeurotypicals I hate it. Immediate ick. They don’t know me, why are they using my name so much? Immediate mistrust. Those people who do the ‘how to make people trust you’ training courses really need to take neurodivergent people into account cos there’s a lot of us and we buy things too.

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@girldrawsghosts Cameron Monaghan played about four different versions of the Joker in this I think, drawing on comics and movies and every one was terrifying and compelling. Just fantastic work

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2 years

Actually, I enjoyed Huw Edwards commentary of her car ride through London far more than the actual speech

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4 months

@Otto_English I didn’t have Channel 4 until 1982….

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3 years

@the_tweedy And this make me furious because chronic illnesses come with a whole plethora of symptoms and they interconnect in all sorts of ways and the very fact that there are a number of symptoms is a sign of a chronic illness. That’s why when I’m in hospital they want to know EVERYTHING

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1 year

@UrsulaV Every time I get asked ‘could you be pregnant’ I’m always tempted to answer with the ‘not unless sperm can get through a sash window’ line from Dinnerladies

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1 year

@SNeurotypicals Yes, so much of my assessment was ‘do you struggle with doing this task’ and I had to keep saying ‘well, no, because I have a plan and tools to help me deal with it. But in its natural state yes. But I am excellent at devising a system’

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7 months

Occasionally I remember how Miss Marple took in girls who couldn’t get work or had bad marks and trained them so they could get a good job and now she has a network of women all over the country to aid in her detective work….

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1 year

@UntoNuggan I had a doctor refuse to treat my asthma by saying that I worked in a library and therefore read a lot of books, read about asthma and decided I had it. He was a horrible doctor

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@oldenoughtosay I’m puzzled by the jeans. When I had major abdominal surgery that took a few months to recover from , I couldn’t wear tight jeans at all during that time. That’s all. Not saying anything else. Just sort of mentioning that. And such a professional photo for William to take too.

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1 year

@BlondeHistorian The idea that this total stranger who did not work there would do his washing for him rather than actually reading the very clear instructions and labels just would not leave his mind

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3 years

Abigail obviously and blessedly a tribute to Nellie Bly, the American journalist who really did go around the world in 72 days (inspired by Fogg and she did lots of other amazing things too) #AroundTheWorldIn80Days

Nellie Bly - Wikipedia

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6 years

I’m not a Dr but I can’t count the number of times I’ve been told to not mention my degree in English because it makes people uncomfortable, or told to ‘not be clever’ because it’s showing off, or makes me less likeable. I’ve had enough of that. #ImmodestWomen

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2 years

@Sorrelish The estate agent wanted me to get rid of my books when they were selling the flat I was living in - they said the books made place look messy and that’s why it wasn’t selling. I dunno, maybe the lack of repairs and fact that it was freezing and noisy was worse than the books.

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3 years

I do like the idea of Jenny Agutter running away from heavily pregnant women in case they go into labour and recognise her and ask her to help #CallTheMidwife

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9 months

Well that was one hell of a start to new series. Doreen’s story was incredibly moving ‘I did it, I got it right!’ And Trixie even after all that insisting that is she where she works, no matter the danger, and the hints of difficulties to come with wages campaign #CallTheMidwife

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1 year

@KristenBott A standard conversation in any office is ‘coffee?’ answered with ‘please’. I don’t see why that’s acceptable for anyone who doesn’t have autism but isn’t acceptable for anyone who does have autism?

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2 years

That pharmacist has a lot more confidence and calm now that he’s committed murder #HappyValley

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6 years

@Otto_English @TheMichaelMoran Does he know how many people died at Dunkirk? How many were left behind? That those who got out barely made it ?That we lost almost all our equipment? That it need never have happened and it was ordinary people rescuing each other from a mess caused by leaders?

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1 year

Completely blown away by Lee Mack in #InsideNo9 - if I hadn’t known, if I’d found this on TV, I would have completely believed this was a standard game show and that was down to Lee Mack being completely convincing #InsideNo9Spoilers

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8 months

@JenLRossman You can’t remember where you’ve seen him? But that’s - inconceivable!

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3 years

@AnaMardoll I’m pretty sure if I see a fae tonight I’ll be chasing them through the woods screaming ‘take me with you!’

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5 years

Mrs Coulter is one of the most fascinating, complex characters I have ever read and Ruth Wilson is so utterly perfect #HisDarkMaterials

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3 years

@leemandelo They actually phoned up one woman and asked her to come back to train her replacement. She refused. I think what happen is bunch of young consultants come in and see a bunch of underpaid middle-aged women in a place and decide they can’t be important, they can be got rid of.

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1 year

@isolatedbug I suspect it’s because some of the scene directions and notes might give away what happens in S3. The S1 scriptbook had so much extra in (I still giggle over Anathema’s moving man bit). I hope we’ll get both when S3 is released and we see how they both fit together

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9 months

@caitlinmoran Because that costs money and neither the owners of the water company or our current government wants to spend money that could otherwise be going into their own pockets

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2 years

Right, I thought it was understood that nothing bad was allowed to happen to Tosh? #Shetland

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1 year

@swirlingthings And then Aziraphale opens the door of the bookshop for Crowley. They’re constantly opening the path for each other

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@michelleeb

6 years

Come on BBC, what about it? Instead of two hours of yet another reality show/baking show/ house makeover show, give us a theatre performance once a week? There's clearly an appetite for it, and it fits your charter beautifully. You know, the bit about 'educate' #Hamlet

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1 year

@ElyKreimendahl They did this to me and my bff a couple of times in a couple of different schools because they wanted me to make more friends and all that happened was that I was bullied more and spent my school time alone. Some people just cope better with a few close friends.

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1 year

@MsIbegbuna Start shouting questions. Start shouting ‘but what the quarterly sales figures Gary? What about them, eh!’. Bonus points if Gary answers. Or lean over his shoulder and intently watch the whole thing whilst audibly assessing everyone’s background

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@michelleeb

10 months

@PoorlyAgedWho Every time I see David Tennant as the Doctor right now I keep thinking of that bit in Staged where he shouted ‘I’m Doctor Who’ and Michael Sheen shouted back ‘not any more!’ And I feel this new incarnation was born in that moment.

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1 year

@LucyGoBag Having read your excellent book, something I noticed was how many times someone in power told you that the worst scenario would never happen and then it happened. This seems part of it - they just could not imagine a pandemic would happen so they didn’t see the need to plan

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5 years

@KariDru Jude the Obscure and Tess of the D’Ubervilles. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying Hardy is a bad writer, he’s not, I’m saying these are the most incredibly depressing and miserable books I’ve ever read. Everyone started off unhappy and then their lives got worse.

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1 year

@sarahhollowell What a bizarre thing to happen. She knew you’d hate it but told you anyway? It reminds me of religious evangelism, the way she has to tell you ‘the truth’ , or her version of it, whether you want to hear it or not.

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1 year

@BadWolfArchives I did love how Rose and Donna immediately bonded and respected each other

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8 months

@ThePOTSPostman Oh the ‘you try being me and you’ll know what tired really is!’ remarks I get, as if being tired is a competition and also that the kind of bone deep constant weariness that comes with chronic illness just can’t be that bad if we can push through it

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6 years

I have to admit I swoon a little every time Morse says ‘Miss Thursday’ - so formal and yet so expressive of his love for her #Endeavour

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1 year

@greg_jenner Im so impressed by every clip of seen of Ryan Gosling doing Ken. I mean Margot Robbie is wonderful but I knew Margot Robbie would be wonderful, she always is. But Ryan Gosling is such a surprise.

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@TSting18 Oh, Moonlighting was the first time I watched a TV show that just openly played with the rules and the audience and broke the fourth wall repeatedly and it totally changed my expectations for TV. I loved it so much and I wish it was on streaming somewhere

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@sensorystories_ I have often used to tell people I am very direct, restless and bored by small talk because I am Scorpio and apparently that was a lot more acceptable than saying it’s because I am neurodiverse and yes now I see that’s the path to take in future

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1 year

@AmberlynWhite Whenever I get the ‘would you like to…’ question I have to ask ‘are you asking me to do this thing or asking me if I want to?’ It’s got to the point at work where people are telling other people that if they ask me something they have to define and clarify and that is blessing

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6 years

@chloemmx @Anna_Louii @TiggerTherese @drlangtry_girl I found a shop once that did jeans exactly my size, that fitted everywhere and were quite cheap. In fact, all their clothes fitted me well. And then that shop closed. I felt bereft.

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@MichelleBHarris The thing is, they say ‘loads of publicity so you’ll get other orders’ but then those other orders will expect stuff for free in exchange for publicity. Somewhere along the line someone has to actually pay for this stuff

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2 years

I masked and had meltdowns before I even knew I had anxiety - someone like Seanan talking about it and explaining it finally helped me to understand and cope with what was happening to me. Also I love her books so much - Toby Daye has got me though some bad times

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Okay, while I am on a very brief pause from catching up with work, I want to take a moment to talk about masking. As most of you probably know, I was at Worldcon this past weekend, in Chicago. As some of you may or may not know, I have severe anxiety.

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@CraftyCatDad And I think I read some were that many of the very small dresses were in fact dressmakers models to show the shape and design of the dress and so not designed to be worn but hung on a mannequin or displayed? Is that right?

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2 years

@BBCBreakfast How much profit has he, personally, made from the economic crisis he caused?

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@clairewillett I’m so delighted at how fully into this he is. No sneering, no little jokes at the expense, no remarks about doing it for the money, he is fully committed to the bit. To be fair I wasn’t much of a fan of him before but this is totally changing my mind.

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5 years

Quite a lot makes a bit more sense now I know Aziraphale’s romantic sensibilities were formed by Georgette Heyer #goodomens #ineffablehusbands

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4 years

Lee Scoresby is one of my favourite characters ever and Lin Manuel Miranda has bought him to life so perfectly - all that daring and courage and charm and loyalty #HisDarkMaterials

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1 year

@ZMarriott Most of what I watch on Netflix now is either one off documentaries or Korean or Spanish or Nordic dramas. I rarely watch anything made by Netflix because I know it’ll get cancelled

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7 years

@BobJWilliams @PhelpsieSarah Jo Brand, you absolute goddess

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7 months

@vt_isaac @guardian And wasn’t the dress in the Madame X portrait really important too? The placement of the straps? It always feels like the clothes mean as much to Sargent as the people - he’s like a Tudor painter in that he understands the clothes say as much as the face

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2 years

Also I love that Karen is apparently as short as I am and therefore has to deal with a world where everyone towers over her. At last, short girl representation! #KarenPirie (you may mock but everyone on TV seems so tall to me!)

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5 years

Right at the beginning of #GoodOmens , at start of the world, it starts to rain. They’ve known each other five minutes, but without a moment’s hesitation or discussion, Crowley moves closer to Aziraphale who extends his wing to cover him. I thought that was incredibly touching

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@acweyand Yes, but go to a doctor with any of these and there’s a good chance they’ll say ‘that’s just what a woman has to put up with’

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1 year

@phiafacetious I hated doing the neuro-diversity questionnaire because I constantly wanted to ask ‘could you define what you mean by this word?’ And ‘none of these answers make any sense to me in the context of my life’ and ‘I need to explain my answer’ but of course I couldn’t do any of that

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6 months

@boneysoups That’s fascinating - and yes, definitely like that, where you can see the dresses shimmer in the light

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