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Because I am so excited about my book, I've decided to do an 'Ancient Myths, Modern Masculinities' series on my blog! I'll interrogate "heroes" like Odysseus, Achilles, and Theseus using modern theories of masculinity. But first: Atlas & Heracles 🌍 theshelbiad.blogspot.com/2025/04/anci...

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Excellent must-read report by NCVO that's right on-the-button about the enormous challenges faced by charities in the UK "Together, the charity and voluntary sector can, and will, face the challenges ahead with its unique creativity, confidence and determination." 💖💕 www.ncvo.org.uk/news-and-ins...

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Who else is doing #PosterPit on the 19th? I'm really happy with the two I have for "Good Boys Don't Howl" and "Hell Is Work". Just interact with this post if you want to swap support, and I'll put you on my list! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AmQuerying #Writers

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We should all be writing to our MPs about this.

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It's never about the science. It's always about having a legal basis for your fear and hatred of other people.

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Excellent read. First published 10 years ago. "Biologists may have been building a more nuanced view of sex, but society has yet to catch up." And today, we've taken a step backwards.

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Second after fashion companies?? In which case, the Asda website clearly wasn't included in the study ⏱️⏳️ www.civilsociety.co.uk/news/charity...

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Snippet from my current project: Between the Trees (southern gothic) 🖤 #writingcommunity #authorsky #booksky #writersky

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#JFT97

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Pretty chilling TED talk. Not fun, but recommended watching www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...

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In fairness, Garcia was engaged in human trafficking, by Leavitt's boss, who kidnapped and trafficked him.

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Anybody have #askagent questions for the next hour or so?

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My collection contains dozens of short fiction and poetry retellings! Norse, Greek, and Celtic myth! Shakespeare! Fairy tales! Jewish folklore! Arthuriana! So many retellings by me!

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Reposting these commissions sheets that I forgot to posting here for too long!! This is also included the more sexy erotic side/NSFW commission which were also paid at the same price as well, since this is the domain of Ares and Aphrodite after all !

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This is what happens when you have wonderful but extremely nerdy late antiquity friends. thank you for a smile after an intense day, @lsnasrallah.bsky.social ❤️ 🦛 ❤️

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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

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Great to see this poem by Daniel Lipara, translated by Robin Myers, as the Poem of the Day on @poetrydaily.bsky.social! The excerpt was originally published in PN Review 278, our July - August 2024 issue. (1/2) www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/inde...

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This is Ripley. He was nervous about taking the stairs. May have panicked a bit. 12/10

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"If we buy coffee from Costa Rica and they buy nothing from us (which isn’t true, but just as an illustration), in no sense has Costa Rica taken advantage of America. We gave them dollars and they gave us coffee in return. That is called commerce."

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I can’t believe I’m writing this, but… I SIGNED A BOOK CONTRACT 📖 I’m writing a book about Greek myths & the manosphere and McFarland Press is going to publish it! This is genuinely my biggest dream and it’s coming true 🌙

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The two-headed-snoozy-cat

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The air was thick with the scent of dust and decay, mingling with the bitter tang of sweat and despair. #1stlinepit #ya #na #dystopian #amwriting #amquerying #writingcommunity

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This is high art

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When public health works, “nothing” happens. People stay healthy. People go on living.

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"This story is a tragedy but told with such rich detail and poetic prose, that it becomes indeed 'the song' of Heledd, and the elegaic melody stays with us long after the tale ends." #Review mybook.to/thesongofhel... #kindle #paperback #kindleunlimited

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cringe, as an idea, is a dead end. it’s a means of writing off sincerity and earnestness in pursuit of some ill-defined concept of above-it-all cool. letting it help define online culture was a mistake. if you view everything as cringe, you are living an empty life

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I defy anyone to look at this and still say integration isn't working in the UK.

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LEGENDBORN X AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER The wind has only spoken to me once in my life. #Q #YA #F #Jewish #1stLinePit

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“I'm bored,” Cyprienne puffed out into the cool night air, glancing over at her silent companion as he leaned against the large cement block behind her on the rooftop, taking in the cityscape. #1stLinePit #Q #A #UF #RF

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"Fuck me, Troy." “That’s a bit inappropriate, Dave, considering the situation.” #1stlinepit #A co(s)mic #Horror #WIP Query ready this summer at approx. 75k words!

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#1stLinePit “He didn't need to be a prophet to interpret the oracle now being retold to him, or to know that he dared not explain it to his wife. What would it serve, to tell them all what was as plain to him as day? That the boy was doomed—doomed, from the beginning” #ADV #F #HF #WIP

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I didn’t run from the ballroom. I walked quickly. The laughter & chatter of the gala danced across the hotel, chasing me as I escaped the festivities. I settled into the sun that shined through the full windowed doors of the hotel lobby. #1stlinepit #WIP #R #F #P #ROMCOM Art by ThereseU3U

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All morning Morton Sinclair had watched the tempest rage outside his window, the rain hurling itself in sheets against the glass with such savagery he feared it might break.’ #1stLinePit #C #HF #A

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His coat smelled of Hermès Caleche, a heady reminder of his last embrace with Friede. She was the reason he'd come to this forgotten place tonight, but he couldn't be distracted by her. Taking his eye off the ball would get him killed. #1stLinePit #Q #A #SPF #T #CMe

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CIRCE x MIDSOMMAR in ancient Babylon "Against the dusty browns of the desert, the woman looks out of place. Like a painted statue brought to life, and like life isn’t to her taste." #1stLinePit #Q #A #F #RF #CMe

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The Fork in the Road: "I've lost Bette’s scent. I close my eyes to focus and adapt. My nose itches as it flattens, tan fur growing over the skin and scratching my browbone. It’s dark and the street’s quiet; no one will see the change. " #1stLinePit #WIP #A #F #UF #writingcommunity

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🌘 A shattered moon bleeds in the sky. Humanity prays to the void. In this poetic and haunting tale of cosmic horror and rebellion, one woman flees the cult she helped build—taking with her a child destined for sacrifice. 🚨Now available: www.coldopenstories.com/what-she-did...

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"If you could live for centuries—through famine and plague, through wars that razed cities and left ash in their wake, that not even a bomb crashing through your home could destroy you—would you choose immortality?" #1stLinePit #Q #F #G #P Agents Guide ⬇️

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CLYTEMNESTRA X HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE If I kept my eyes closed I could pretend to be miles away, in the last place I called home #1stLinePit #Q #F #A #HF #CMe

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The blow strikes again and again in my mind—sharp each time as the initial hit that dropped me. 🐂 Epic of Gilgamesh 👑A crown she was never meant to wear 🔥A stranger she should never want 💀"You think I’m afraid of you?" 💘"No. That’s why I’m afraid of me" #1stLinePit #NA #romantasy #wip

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SWEET AS A LAMB The procession moved without music. Only the soft knock of oars and the hush of worn shoes against cobblestone. The coffin floated gently, as if afraid to sink down to the gods without a corpse inside of it. #1stLinePit #A #T #Q

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