V.C. Willow 📚 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🏴 🇵🇸
@authorvcwillow.bsky.social
Writer. Feminist. LGBTQ+. She/her. Socialist. Whovian.
Unapologetic bookworm, word nerd and lover of humour. Human rights, equality.
Writing novels one word at a time.📚
Author contact: [email protected]
Unapologetic bookworm, word nerd and lover of humour. Human rights, equality.
Writing novels one word at a time.📚
Author contact: [email protected]
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You can't separate the art from the artist when they're still alive because they're still benefiting from the financial leverage, access to platform and power through influence that art provides.
Supporting abusive artists makes you an accomplice to harm.
Supporting abusive artists makes you an accomplice to harm.
#Write what you know has a multitude of interpretations which is why boiling down #writing experience to a cute mantra doesn't work. The nuance & complexity get misinterpreted & misquoted.
Experience and learning both guide our ability to write well. Please research thoroughly, folks
#WriteSky
Experience and learning both guide our ability to write well. Please research thoroughly, folks
#WriteSky
"Write what you know" itself is terrible advice when given by people who don't grasp its meaning.
It means "do your research", not "only write your personal, lived experience".
It means "do your research", not "only write your personal, lived experience".
What’s the worst writing advice you’ve ever received? The write what you know quip doesn’t work out well when readers don’t like what you know 😂 #writingq #WritingCommunity
December 14, 2025 at 7:57 AM
AI robs us of learning and experience, degrades our critical thinking skills, steals from creatives and uses a fuck tonne of water and electricity that could be better used instead to provide for humans.
Don't be a tedious peasant. Learn, make mistakes and expand wisdom for yourself
#AI #WriteSky
Don't be a tedious peasant. Learn, make mistakes and expand wisdom for yourself
#AI #WriteSky
My statement on Ai from the mini-comic as syllabus i made for new class I'm teaching that starts tomorrow! It robs you of your decisions & struggles - and the joy of being surprised. We won’t to be robbed of our learning - this is essential. This & the full mini at post:
bsky.app/profile/nsou...
bsky.app/profile/nsou...
December 14, 2025 at 7:50 AM
All of this 👇👇
Dance like nobodies watching. Seize the means of production. Eat the rich. Destroy AI.
December 14, 2025 at 7:42 AM
All of this 👇👇
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As he celebrates his 100th Birthday this very day, can we all take a moment to acknowledge that time when Dick Van Dyke won the internet internet.
Forever.
Forever.
December 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
As he celebrates his 100th Birthday this very day, can we all take a moment to acknowledge that time when Dick Van Dyke won the internet internet.
Forever.
Forever.
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Suddenly, listening to the Purple Rain soundtrack is top of my to play list. I haven't listened to it in a while.
#PurpleRain #Prince
#PurpleRain #Prince
December 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Suddenly, listening to the Purple Rain soundtrack is top of my to play list. I haven't listened to it in a while.
#PurpleRain #Prince
#PurpleRain #Prince
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what do we bet there's been more naziness since this?
. . . & yep, there it is
. . . & yep, there it is
December 12, 2025 at 12:12 AM
what do we bet there's been more naziness since this?
. . . & yep, there it is
. . . & yep, there it is
What actor's facial expression will stay with you for the rest of your life?
Both Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins are heartbreaking in The Remains of the Day.
Both Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins are heartbreaking in The Remains of the Day.
December 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
What actor's facial expression will stay with you for the rest of your life?
Both Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins are heartbreaking in The Remains of the Day.
Both Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins are heartbreaking in The Remains of the Day.
What actor's facial expression will stay with you for the rest of your life
#DoctorWho #DrWho #TenthDoctor #DavidTennant
#DoctorWho #DrWho #TenthDoctor #DavidTennant
December 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
What actor's facial expression will stay with you for the rest of your life
#DoctorWho #DrWho #TenthDoctor #DavidTennant
#DoctorWho #DrWho #TenthDoctor #DavidTennant
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People who say "There are no bad questions" have clearly never been to a panel at a writing conference.
December 12, 2025 at 12:12 PM
People who say "There are no bad questions" have clearly never been to a panel at a writing conference.
The (weeping) angel is on the Christmas tree 🎄
Don't blink Santa!
#DoctorWho #DrWho #WeepingAngel #Christmas #Whomas #DontBlink
Don't blink Santa!
#DoctorWho #DrWho #WeepingAngel #Christmas #Whomas #DontBlink
December 12, 2025 at 12:39 PM
The (weeping) angel is on the Christmas tree 🎄
Don't blink Santa!
#DoctorWho #DrWho #WeepingAngel #Christmas #Whomas #DontBlink
Don't blink Santa!
#DoctorWho #DrWho #WeepingAngel #Christmas #Whomas #DontBlink
Give me a follow and a like if you want to see me signalling my virtues to you, tell bad jokes and talk about writing and Doctor Who.
Tis the season to give me a follow fa la la la la. La la la la 🎄🎵
#Writing #WriteSky #DoctorWho #DrWho #WokeAndProud
Tis the season to give me a follow fa la la la la. La la la la 🎄🎵
#Writing #WriteSky #DoctorWho #DrWho #WokeAndProud
Unironically using the term “virtue signalling” here in 2025 sure is a choice.
December 12, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Give me a follow and a like if you want to see me signalling my virtues to you, tell bad jokes and talk about writing and Doctor Who.
Tis the season to give me a follow fa la la la la. La la la la 🎄🎵
#Writing #WriteSky #DoctorWho #DrWho #WokeAndProud
Tis the season to give me a follow fa la la la la. La la la la 🎄🎵
#Writing #WriteSky #DoctorWho #DrWho #WokeAndProud
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I think it’s also true that loneliness among women has historically been treated as an individual problem, while loneliness among men is treated as a societal problem. That, in turn, comes from an assumption that women are supposed to earn the company of others while men are entitled to it.
men’s loneliness gets “more airtime”?
baby I have lived the past three decades of my life witnessing corporate media elevate men’s loneliness into a full-blown balls-to-the-wall CRISIS once every 4-5 years
“more airtime” is hilarious
baby I have lived the past three decades of my life witnessing corporate media elevate men’s loneliness into a full-blown balls-to-the-wall CRISIS once every 4-5 years
“more airtime” is hilarious
December 12, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I think it’s also true that loneliness among women has historically been treated as an individual problem, while loneliness among men is treated as a societal problem. That, in turn, comes from an assumption that women are supposed to earn the company of others while men are entitled to it.
Call out to all writers.
This message is important.
Write hot and edit cold. You can always edit, improve and revisit what you've written. But you can only do that if you have the words on the page.
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #Writing #AmWriting
This message is important.
Write hot and edit cold. You can always edit, improve and revisit what you've written. But you can only do that if you have the words on the page.
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #Writing #AmWriting
Emergency alert! It turns out you can write total messes of sentences and go back to edit later, and nothing bad happens to anyone when you do.
December 11, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Call out to all writers.
This message is important.
Write hot and edit cold. You can always edit, improve and revisit what you've written. But you can only do that if you have the words on the page.
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #Writing #AmWriting
This message is important.
Write hot and edit cold. You can always edit, improve and revisit what you've written. But you can only do that if you have the words on the page.
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #Writing #AmWriting
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“If you were a member of the public, you would think that grooming gangs is the biggest threat to children in our country,” says the director of Britain's Child Sexual Exploitation Taskforce
“But in the overall statistics, that represents just over 0.5% of offending”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/w...
“But in the overall statistics, that represents just over 0.5% of offending”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/w...
Britain Releases New Data on ‘Grooming Gangs’ and Child Sexual Abuse
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
“If you were a member of the public, you would think that grooming gangs is the biggest threat to children in our country,” says the director of Britain's Child Sexual Exploitation Taskforce
“But in the overall statistics, that represents just over 0.5% of offending”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/w...
“But in the overall statistics, that represents just over 0.5% of offending”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/w...
Oh for fucks sake!
That is all.
That is all.
December 10, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Oh for fucks sake!
That is all.
That is all.
Christmas scene has been created today featuring it's very own TARDIS surrounded by three weeping angels.
Pictures to follow tomorrow.
Happy Whomas everyone!
#DoctorWho #DrWho #WeepingAngels #Whomas #TARDIS
Pictures to follow tomorrow.
Happy Whomas everyone!
#DoctorWho #DrWho #WeepingAngels #Whomas #TARDIS
December 9, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Christmas scene has been created today featuring it's very own TARDIS surrounded by three weeping angels.
Pictures to follow tomorrow.
Happy Whomas everyone!
#DoctorWho #DrWho #WeepingAngels #Whomas #TARDIS
Pictures to follow tomorrow.
Happy Whomas everyone!
#DoctorWho #DrWho #WeepingAngels #Whomas #TARDIS
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This statement appears to be untrue for 95-99% of British people convicted and imprisoned abroad
I would be interested to see the statistics per country per year behind this statement
“We, the UK, take back our citizens if they’re convicted of criminal offences overseas. It’s only reasonable to expect other countries to do the same thing"
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
“We, the UK, take back our citizens if they’re convicted of criminal offences overseas. It’s only reasonable to expect other countries to do the same thing"
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
All criminals with dual nationality must be deported, say Tories
The Conservative party’s policy also includes stripping people of their British citizenship when they are found guilty of a crime
www.thetimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:51 AM
This statement appears to be untrue for 95-99% of British people convicted and imprisoned abroad
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I would be interested to see the statistics per country per year behind this statement
“We, the UK, take back our citizens if they’re convicted of criminal offences overseas. It’s only reasonable to expect other countries to do the same thing"
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
“We, the UK, take back our citizens if they’re convicted of criminal offences overseas. It’s only reasonable to expect other countries to do the same thing"
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
All criminals with dual nationality must be deported, say Tories
The Conservative party’s policy also includes stripping people of their British citizenship when they are found guilty of a crime
www.thetimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I would be interested to see the statistics per country per year behind this statement
“We, the UK, take back our citizens if they’re convicted of criminal offences overseas. It’s only reasonable to expect other countries to do the same thing"
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
“We, the UK, take back our citizens if they’re convicted of criminal offences overseas. It’s only reasonable to expect other countries to do the same thing"
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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I clearly remember Tories actively campaigning for Shamima Begum to be brought home to serve her sentence in the UK.
December 9, 2025 at 8:06 AM
I clearly remember Tories actively campaigning for Shamima Begum to be brought home to serve her sentence in the UK.
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Kemi Badenoch has Nigerian citizenship and has admitted to having committed a crime! (hacking Harriet Harman's website)
December 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Kemi Badenoch has Nigerian citizenship and has admitted to having committed a crime! (hacking Harriet Harman's website)
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Not beating the white supremacist allegations.
🔴 Top Israeli Ministers Proudly Adorn a Global Symbol of Racial Terror
Israeli Nat'l Security Min. Itamar Ben-Gvir & allies were photographed wearing gold noose pins in public to signal support for executing Palestinian detainees. Also visible in the image is Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu...
Israeli Nat'l Security Min. Itamar Ben-Gvir & allies were photographed wearing gold noose pins in public to signal support for executing Palestinian detainees. Also visible in the image is Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu...
December 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Not beating the white supremacist allegations.
First they came for...
and now here we are with them attacking neurodivergent folk.
They can not conceive of a world where peoples experiences differ from their own and demand we all conform to their narrow, myopic conformist ideology of "normal".
None of us are free until we're all free.
and now here we are with them attacking neurodivergent folk.
They can not conceive of a world where peoples experiences differ from their own and demand we all conform to their narrow, myopic conformist ideology of "normal".
None of us are free until we're all free.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
First they came for...
and now here we are with them attacking neurodivergent folk.
They can not conceive of a world where peoples experiences differ from their own and demand we all conform to their narrow, myopic conformist ideology of "normal".
None of us are free until we're all free.
and now here we are with them attacking neurodivergent folk.
They can not conceive of a world where peoples experiences differ from their own and demand we all conform to their narrow, myopic conformist ideology of "normal".
None of us are free until we're all free.
Don't mind if I do.
Time for a Doctor Who hit before The War Between the Land and the Sea kicks of tonight.
#DoctorWho #TheWarBetweenTheLandAndTheSea
Time for a Doctor Who hit before The War Between the Land and the Sea kicks of tonight.
#DoctorWho #TheWarBetweenTheLandAndTheSea
December 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Don't mind if I do.
Time for a Doctor Who hit before The War Between the Land and the Sea kicks of tonight.
#DoctorWho #TheWarBetweenTheLandAndTheSea
Time for a Doctor Who hit before The War Between the Land and the Sea kicks of tonight.
#DoctorWho #TheWarBetweenTheLandAndTheSea
Excellent article with Russell Tovey.
'Being queer feels like the cha-cha-cha. It’s constantly moving between being safe, not safe. Like, is it OK to be this version of yourself?'
#DoctorWho spin off series The War Between Land and Sea is on BBC 1 tonight. 8.30 pm 🥳
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'Being queer feels like the cha-cha-cha. It’s constantly moving between being safe, not safe. Like, is it OK to be this version of yourself?'
#DoctorWho spin off series The War Between Land and Sea is on BBC 1 tonight. 8.30 pm 🥳
share.google/ObLIqbKe9QxY...
Russell Tovey: ‘We have a responsibility, all of us, to choose empathy’
The actor is leaning into his leading man era, with a starring role in a new ‘Doctor Who’ spin-off series this month. He sits down with Helen Coffey to talk climate change, incel culture, and the impo...
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December 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Excellent article with Russell Tovey.
'Being queer feels like the cha-cha-cha. It’s constantly moving between being safe, not safe. Like, is it OK to be this version of yourself?'
#DoctorWho spin off series The War Between Land and Sea is on BBC 1 tonight. 8.30 pm 🥳
share.google/ObLIqbKe9QxY...
'Being queer feels like the cha-cha-cha. It’s constantly moving between being safe, not safe. Like, is it OK to be this version of yourself?'
#DoctorWho spin off series The War Between Land and Sea is on BBC 1 tonight. 8.30 pm 🥳
share.google/ObLIqbKe9QxY...