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Amanda Bryana

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🔞 (They/She - Nonbinary, Pan, Autistic, Living that Chronic Illness Life) Writer of m/m erotic romance. Give me my HEA... will settle for HFN if I must. 🌈 🌈 🔞 No Gen AI. Not now. Not ever. Visit my Folksy Store: https://folksy.com/shops/OakLeafCraft

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Amanda Bryana @amandabryana.bsky.social · Nov 14

Looking forward to connecting with lots of lovely people here. Going to run this acc like all my other social media, so here are my rules.

🚫 No bigots
🚫 No Trump supporters
🚫 No Tories

✔️ This is a queer positive space
✔️ There will be mental and physical health talk
✔️ There will be porn reposted

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Amanda Bryana @amandabryana.bsky.social · 11h

Everyone loves that episode, but I'm a dialogue person, so the lack of dialogue and resulting need to actually consistently look at the screen instead of getting periodically distracted and just following the words, made it a tough one for me 😂. It is a great episode though.

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Amanda Bryana @amandabryana.bsky.social · 12h

Tried to drown the depression spiral in (off-brand) nutella. Kind of worked. Feel sick now instead. Turns out, there is a nutella limit.

Amanda Bryana @amandabryana.bsky.social · 12h

I wasn't a big fan of The Initiative, but I mostly just hated Riley. There's some good Spike content in season 4 though, and of course some good Willow content.

On this watch-through, we're mixing in Angel, but season by season not episode by episode, so we're doing season 1 after Buffy season 4.

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Amanda Bryana @amandabryana.bsky.social · 12h

Pretty sure that's likely at this point, yet I persist.

SammiDee @sammideerly.bsky.social · 16h

Would you keep writing even if you knew no other soul would ever read your words? ✍️

#writingcommunity

Amanda Bryana @amandabryana.bsky.social · 12h

We're mid Buffy rewatch at the moment. Thankfully nearly at the end of this season. Not one of my favourite seasons overall, but it's got some excellent moments.

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Yama ✨ Comms open !! @yamahaku.bsky.social · 15h

HELLO today's my birthday and i'd love a few shares of my art 🥺

AND ALsO go tell all your favorite artists you love their work 💜💜💜

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Amanda Bryana @amandabryana.bsky.social · 13h

Pretty spider.

We had a false widow living in the bathroom for a while that I often used to see investigating the condensation on the top of the shower curtain rail after one of us had showered.

Amanda Bryana @amandabryana.bsky.social · 13h

Another amazing chronic illness conundrum: Do I take the meds that keep my blood liquid and my immune system from eating itself, or do I take the meds to get rid of the acid reflux that's making me wish for death? Not enough time for both as the heartburn meds stop the others working if too close.

Amanda Bryana @amandabryana.bsky.social · 15h

Ideation is bad today and the brain is playing the, no one will even notice you're gone, waltz.

Amanda Bryana @amandabryana.bsky.social · 1d

Taking part in this over on FB next month. It's in support of a really good cause and, if the last one is any indication, will be crammed full of talented creators. It's free to join as a customer, so please share and pop in if you can.

Flier advertising the November Kindness Market over on Facebook. An online market in support of a small mental health organisation.

Amanda Bryana @amandabryana.bsky.social · 1d

Was very excited to spend the day with hubby today, but it turned out hubby was very excited to spend the day with his Lego, so I guess I'll just get some work done like every other day.

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Race Bannon @racebannon.bsky.social · 1d

Consider giving your $ to queer businesses.

"Everywhere Is Queer is a public resource (and ever-growing searchable app + map!) created for the LGBTQIA2S+ and ally community to find welcoming, queer-owned spaces to shop, connect, eat, learn, and grow all over the world."

www.everywhereisqueer.com

Everywhere Is Queer

www.everywhereisqueer.com

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Amanda Bryana @amandabryana.bsky.social · 1d

Every writing related job I can find online falls into one of two categories.

1) You must have a PhD, 20 years of experience, and proof you've worked for 30 top rated publications.

2) Please rewrite our AI slop for £5 per 20k words.

There is no in between 😢

Amanda Bryana @amandabryana.bsky.social · 1d

Update: I ate too much. No regrets 😂

Amanda Bryana @amandabryana.bsky.social · 1d

We're eating dinner super late tonight, but we will be eating pulled pork with swede and carrot mash and sweetcorn, so it's worth every second of the wait.

Bless Sainsburys special offers that make a £5 pork butt do two main meals for both of us with lunches for hubby left over.

Amanda Bryana @amandabryana.bsky.social · 1d

The Sun is a disgusting rag, but please vote in this poll because the bigots are voting.

UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 2d

I wouldn't normally share a direct The Sun link, but let's mess with their results! 😏
www.thesun.co.uk/news/3709929...

Should trans staff be allowed to use female NHS changing rooms? VOTE NOW

A TRIBUNAL is currently being held after a nurse was left hyperventilating following an encounter with a trans colleague in the women’s changing room. Karen Danson, 46, told an employment hea…

www.thesun.co.uk

Amanda Bryana @amandabryana.bsky.social · 1d

Vicious RSD in progress and I have no one to blame but myself. Not a shred of involvement from anyone else. I did this all on my own with hope and (apparently) unrealistic expectation. It's properly got me today though. Going to go and cry for an hour or two, maybe three, then get on with something.

Amanda Bryana @amandabryana.bsky.social · 2d

I love those little unexpected moments of truth in writing fiction. Completely in the flow of writing dialogue, one of my characters just said something that made stop completely, sit back and go,

Oh...

Oh no...

...

Well, fuck.

Amanda Bryana @amandabryana.bsky.social · 2d

Something in my peripheral vision has been making my jump all night. I've just realised it's one spectacularly shiny grey hair, completely different length to the rest of my hair, and pointing in the wrong direction. 😂

I don't have a lot of grey yet, but I'm feeling like it's going to be weird.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 5d

GOOD NEWS! For the first time ever, Huntington's disease has been successfully treated. A groundbreaking new miRNA treatment, AMT-130, slowed the progression of the disease by 75%. These results are likely to support the first approval of a genetic treatment for the rare neurodegenerative condition.

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The Bi Hashira @thebihashira.bsky.social · 2d

The older I get, the more immortality seems like a nightmare..

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Amanda Bryana @amandabryana.bsky.social · 2d

I need to figure out which of my WIPs I can get absorbed in, otherwise I'm just going to doomscroll myself into a despair spiral.

Amanda Bryana @amandabryana.bsky.social · 2d

It was amazing. She is amazing. And it's always wonderful to see her. My soul is lifted and recharged. The flesh vessel and jelly brain is exhausted. 😂

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Amanda Bryana @amandabryana.bsky.social · 2d

Had one of my important people over today. Great for my mental health, but we talked for three hours and I am SO Very Tired now. 😂

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Amanda Bryana @amandabryana.bsky.social · 2d

Reminding my brain how much it likes Vox Machina as night time background noise, now I've got to find an on repeat replacement for Daria. I love the show, but it's a bit distracting and there's a touch too much music. It's a start though.