Gone and wrote some things, didn't I? Review-shaped things.

Ash by Malinda Lo
Girl Meets Boy by Ali Smith
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Hero by Perry Moore.

All here.

Hello hello I now write for an online queer/LGBT magazine thing called Vada.

The editor sent me an email to say that he had seen my blog, loved my writing style and wanted me to do book reviews for them. After I stopped preening about that some hours later (lying, I still am preening), I agreed. So here is my first pieceAlso maybe I got a Tumblr ( Read more... )

"Rosa Parks did not give up her seat on that bus for me, a traditional Christian conservative, to go to the back of the bus."
- Stewart Jackson, Conservative MP for Peterborough.

He looks like this, BTW.


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Confession: I am still not over the final episode of Merlin. I can't even think about it without wanting to cry.

I've literally never been like this about a show before. I feel like such an idiot!

I wrote yet another thing. Hope you like it or whatever.

FYI, the Wikipedia article for 'ornithophobia' is super triggering for ornithophobes. *Dowager Countess face*

Just finished writing one of the worst things of my entire life. Hope you enjoy.

Choice quote: "I LOVE watching rich people do stupid stuff."

MAM: I didn't really get the bit with Moneypenny.
ME: I know right! This woman trains for years to become an agent and then she's like, whoops this got a bit lairy, better settle down and become a secretar-
MAM: I don't get that she was black.
ME: ... THAT was what you objected to?
MAM: I mean I don't have a problem wi-
ME: (raised eyebrow)
MAM: 
ME:
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I've just found out that my kinda-homophobic parents have booked a holiday in what they do not yet know is the 'gay capital' of Spain.

For the last fortnight I've been thinking, "Sitges, why do I know that name?" Then my grandfather talked about politely refusing male attention when he was there decades ago. It clicked. Sitges is family.

"Where are ( Read more... )