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Amanda Shortman - she/her

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Queer (Pan Ace) 🏳️‍🌈 Disabled* ♿️ & Neurodiverse ♾️ Christian Pagan ✝️ Writer & Blogger 👩‍💻 www.aspiraldance.com *ME/CFS, Fibro, hEDS, Migraine, Dysautonomia, Endo, Asthma, Anxiety, OCD... the list goes on.

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Amanda Shortman - she/her @aspiraldance.bsky.social · 9h

Oh, I'm so glad ☺️ it's always nice to have a feeling good day ❤️

Amanda Shortman - she/her @aspiraldance.bsky.social · 9h

Looking fabulous in orange 😍

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Rory Michaelson 🏳️‍⚧️💚 @rorymichaelson.com · 10h

Attention gay monster lovers:

To celebrate spooky season and 5 YEARS of Lesser Known Monsters, my ebooks are on sale most places for October!

This includes the first book of the series (Lesser Known Monsters) being 0.99, the accompanying short story collection being FREE, and omnibus for 6.66 💙📚

Amazing artwork shaking a mm couple in a cemetery and the book Lesser Known Monsters and lots of arrows to the two characters labelling the tropes including cinnamon roll turns spicy, dark past seeking redemption, immortal x mortal, monster boyfriend, reluctant chosen one

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Matt Mason - One Chaotic Author @chaoticauthor.online · 3d

I don't normally do this, but I've been burning the candle at both ends.

Other half had a major op earlier this year and now I'm in hospital for an investigation.

Regardless of what's wrong, I need rest, but I've had little work this year.

I'd appreciate if anyone is able to help out.

Support Matt Mason ❤️

Become a supporter of Matt Mason today!

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Amanda Shortman - she/her @aspiraldance.bsky.social · 10h

That's amazing news!!! How are you going to celebrate?

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Amanda Shortman - she/her @aspiraldance.bsky.social · 10h

Keeping everything crossed for you 🤞

Amanda Shortman - she/her @aspiraldance.bsky.social · 16h

That is a really good analogy!

Amanda Shortman - she/her @aspiraldance.bsky.social · 16h

It is so scary 😢

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Amanda Shortman - she/her @aspiraldance.bsky.social · 16h

Oh Matt, I am so sorry 💔

Amanda Shortman - she/her @aspiraldance.bsky.social · 16h

Do you know how many of these I bought when I saw them in Lidl? 🙈

Curd cheese bars don't sound particularly appetising, but OMG they are so delicious 😋

I first had them as a student in Russia, and can never find them over here. So I stocked up 😂

A curd cheese bar covered in milk chocolate and hazelnuts

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Amanda Shortman - she/her @aspiraldance.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for sharing, that helps a lot, because I hadn't seen any of that.

"Political neutrality" is an oxymoron in my opinion. Everything is political.

Amanda Shortman - she/her @aspiraldance.bsky.social · 1d

Haha, I'm sure I won't hate it 😂

I will let you know that I am a sloooooow reader thanks to fatigue and brain fog, so it could be next Winter before I read it 🙈

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Amanda Shortman - she/her @aspiraldance.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds great, have bought a copy!

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Dominic @domisawriter.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, do you wanna celebrate Lesbian Day even longer?

I've got lesbians! Two of em, in fact! Together! And I put em in this anthology 📚💙

Plus it's good to look forward to winter ❄️ imagine a nice snowy walk with your girlfriend 📚🌈

where nothing weird happens...totally...😉

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Amazon.com

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 1d

📝 400+ pages
🥀 urban fantasy
🌃 set in washington state
🔥 slow burn
🤍 romance and angst
🗡️ demons and vampires
📕 first in a duology

🔖 universal link: mybook.to/D3rL5
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/the-wish-and...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

Cover for The Wish and the Demon, book one in the Half Swallowed by Shadows duology, by Rebecca Crunden. Cover shows three men's silhouettes standing in the middle of a road in winter. There's dark red trees and snow on the ground. One figure is approaching the other two, surrounded by shadows.

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A.M. Weald - buy Fimbulvinter's Fires ❤️‍🔥 @amweald.com · 1d

Under-Rated Books Itchio Bundle

63 books for $38!!
(Regularly $232, save 83%!)

These books have fewer than 15 reviews on Goodreads/Amazon. Let's show them some love by reading and reviewing them!

Deal ends Oct 13.

tinyurl.com/UNDER-2025
📦📚📢📚💙

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Amanda Shortman - she/her @aspiraldance.bsky.social · 1d

Can someone catch me up on what is happening with bsky? I keep seeing people worrying about new rules and talking about leaving, but I don't know why.

I'm only really on here to try and keep in touch with a few friends who aren't anywhere else, so I miss a lot of things that happen.

Thanks.

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Amanda Shortman - she/her @aspiraldance.bsky.social · 1d

@theajane.bsky.social and I just joined The Green Party.

Even though we know that where we live it is unlikely they will get in (Tory stronghold, with Reform taking a load of councils), we still feel they are the only party that actually gives a damn about so many of us and the world we live in.

Amanda Shortman - she/her @aspiraldance.bsky.social · 1d

It's a great read, isn't it?

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 1d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Amanda Shortman - she/her @aspiraldance.bsky.social · 1d

We had to order football boots for O (men's size 14 - his feet are huge!)

@theajane.bsky.social was overly excited to discover they sent us one of their renowned huge mugs too 😂

(Ignore all the laundry in the background that needs sorting 🙈)

Thea, a white trans woman with long red hair and glasses is holding a massive Sports Direct mug up excitedly.

Amanda Shortman - she/her @aspiraldance.bsky.social · 3d

I shall keep everything crossed that things settle enough for surgery sooner rather than later 🤞

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Amanda Shortman - she/her @aspiraldance.bsky.social · 3d

Oh no!! I'm so sorry 😔 I have tachycardia too, and it sucks! Mine is not due to my thyroid though - I imagine that brings with it a whole host of issues 😢

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Amanda Shortman - she/her @aspiraldance.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, I am using codeine only as a last resort!

This is why I *need* gynae to do something about my Endo/Adeno. Because I can't keep having severe pain that impacts my blood pressure for days on end.

It's so hard to balance competing health needs, isn't it? 😫

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Amanda Shortman - she/her @aspiraldance.bsky.social · 3d

I thought I was okay with ibuprofen, but my chest was worse this week, so maybe it does affect my Asthma 🤔

I see GP on 15th so will speak to him about my options. I'm only supposed to take pain meds up to 10 days per month (chronic migraine issues) but have gone way over this month 😳

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