Colm
@colmmmm.bsky.social
☆ Pen name pending... ☆ they/he
Queer, Scot, Chemist and Writer. Drawn to the fantastical and mythological. Probably pumping iron and petting cute cats 😼
Queer, Scot, Chemist and Writer. Drawn to the fantastical and mythological. Probably pumping iron and petting cute cats 😼
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The Welsh told the Saxons this hill was called "pen" (meaning "hill"). The Saxons added their word for hill, "tor," and called it Torpen (hill hill).
Later the Norse added their world for hill. So it became Torpen Haugr (Hill Hill Hill).
Now the English call it Torpenhow Hill (Hill Hill Hill Hill)
Later the Norse added their world for hill. So it became Torpen Haugr (Hill Hill Hill).
Now the English call it Torpenhow Hill (Hill Hill Hill Hill)
January 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The Welsh told the Saxons this hill was called "pen" (meaning "hill"). The Saxons added their word for hill, "tor," and called it Torpen (hill hill).
Later the Norse added their world for hill. So it became Torpen Haugr (Hill Hill Hill).
Now the English call it Torpenhow Hill (Hill Hill Hill Hill)
Later the Norse added their world for hill. So it became Torpen Haugr (Hill Hill Hill).
Now the English call it Torpenhow Hill (Hill Hill Hill Hill)
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I’m so excited that my artwork ‘Something along those lines’ has been selected as the NHS Tonic Arts Purchase Prize Winner of 2025🥳🙌🏻
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#queerart #abstract #scottishartists
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#queerart #abstract #scottishartists
September 10, 2025 at 8:11 AM
I’m so excited that my artwork ‘Something along those lines’ has been selected as the NHS Tonic Arts Purchase Prize Winner of 2025🥳🙌🏻
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#queerart #abstract #scottishartists
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#queerart #abstract #scottishartists
That new trailer for "Wuthering Heights" feels like it's the romantasy-ification of film. I know nothing about the book, but the the trailer was gross. Emerald Fennel should just go into p*rn if that's what she enjoys ☆
September 6, 2025 at 9:29 AM
That new trailer for "Wuthering Heights" feels like it's the romantasy-ification of film. I know nothing about the book, but the the trailer was gross. Emerald Fennel should just go into p*rn if that's what she enjoys ☆
Right now my favourite part of planning my next project is inventing useful garments for magic users to wear. Ones that will hold their weapons and arcane items. Ones that, should a fight break out, could become damaged or destroyed, and the user will be unable to replace the garment easily ☆
July 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Right now my favourite part of planning my next project is inventing useful garments for magic users to wear. Ones that will hold their weapons and arcane items. Ones that, should a fight break out, could become damaged or destroyed, and the user will be unable to replace the garment easily ☆
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Increasingly convinced the main damage cell phones have done to creativity isn't decreased attention spans or what not but the elimination of productive boredom. Inspiration comes from the mind filling the void inside. Hard to make art when you're constantly silencing the silence with "content."
July 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Increasingly convinced the main damage cell phones have done to creativity isn't decreased attention spans or what not but the elimination of productive boredom. Inspiration comes from the mind filling the void inside. Hard to make art when you're constantly silencing the silence with "content."
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Does anyone else find it crazy that you can walk into a bookshop and be charged £9.99 for a paperback novel that took the author a year to complete, but £17.99 for a completely blank notebook?
July 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Does anyone else find it crazy that you can walk into a bookshop and be charged £9.99 for a paperback novel that took the author a year to complete, but £17.99 for a completely blank notebook?
A genderfluid, gendersolid, and gendergas march at Pride ☆
July 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
A genderfluid, gendersolid, and gendergas march at Pride ☆
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Queers: Gathered
Signs: Made
Tees: Cropped
Nails: Painted
Ready for Pride 🚶🏻🏳️🌈🚶🏻♀️🏳️⚧️🚶🏻♂️✊🏻
@colmmmm.bsky.social
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@benjmharris.bsky.social
Signs: Made
Tees: Cropped
Nails: Painted
Ready for Pride 🚶🏻🏳️🌈🚶🏻♀️🏳️⚧️🚶🏻♂️✊🏻
@colmmmm.bsky.social
&
@benjmharris.bsky.social
July 19, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Queers: Gathered
Signs: Made
Tees: Cropped
Nails: Painted
Ready for Pride 🚶🏻🏳️🌈🚶🏻♀️🏳️⚧️🚶🏻♂️✊🏻
@colmmmm.bsky.social
&
@benjmharris.bsky.social
Signs: Made
Tees: Cropped
Nails: Painted
Ready for Pride 🚶🏻🏳️🌈🚶🏻♀️🏳️⚧️🚶🏻♂️✊🏻
@colmmmm.bsky.social
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@benjmharris.bsky.social
My new project being Avatar: The Last Airbender meets Lord of the Rings is super exciting ☆
July 18, 2025 at 12:49 PM
My new project being Avatar: The Last Airbender meets Lord of the Rings is super exciting ☆
Creating a magic system isn't nearly as fun as the invention of interesting limitations and cons for using said system ☆
July 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Creating a magic system isn't nearly as fun as the invention of interesting limitations and cons for using said system ☆
There's definitely something to be said for completing WIPs, especially when those WIPs are long projects, and not starting a new one until the last is done.
But I am starting from scratch on (hopefully) my debut novel, instead of resurrecting the festering corpse of my last project ☆
But I am starting from scratch on (hopefully) my debut novel, instead of resurrecting the festering corpse of my last project ☆
July 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
There's definitely something to be said for completing WIPs, especially when those WIPs are long projects, and not starting a new one until the last is done.
But I am starting from scratch on (hopefully) my debut novel, instead of resurrecting the festering corpse of my last project ☆
But I am starting from scratch on (hopefully) my debut novel, instead of resurrecting the festering corpse of my last project ☆
The bulk's going well ☆
80.7 kg >>> 86.2 kg
(May 5 >>> Jun 27)
80.7 kg >>> 86.2 kg
(May 5 >>> Jun 27)
June 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The bulk's going well ☆
80.7 kg >>> 86.2 kg
(May 5 >>> Jun 27)
80.7 kg >>> 86.2 kg
(May 5 >>> Jun 27)
I've tackled writing my novel a few different ways in the past, but by far the oddest one is my current attempt to write each pov separately and merge them together at the end ☆
June 24, 2025 at 6:50 AM
I've tackled writing my novel a few different ways in the past, but by far the oddest one is my current attempt to write each pov separately and merge them together at the end ☆
Either these are easy or I'm getting better ☆
Minute Cryptic - 10 June 2025
"Active couples starting mountain biking lessons" (6)
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I scored: 2 under par
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Minute Cryptic - 10 June 2025
"Active couples starting mountain biking lessons" (6)
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I scored: 2 under par
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Minute Cryptic
Solve a clue with a hidden meaning
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June 10, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Either these are easy or I'm getting better ☆
Minute Cryptic - 10 June 2025
"Active couples starting mountain biking lessons" (6)
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I scored: 2 under par
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Minute Cryptic - 10 June 2025
"Active couples starting mountain biking lessons" (6)
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I scored: 2 under par
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'Moonwalk' is such a fun Reversal indicator! ☆
Minute Cryptic - 9 June 2025
"Neil Armstrong's first to do moonwalk for space creature" (5)
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I scored: 2 under par
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Minute Cryptic - 9 June 2025
"Neil Armstrong's first to do moonwalk for space creature" (5)
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I scored: 2 under par
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Minute Cryptic
Solve a clue with a hidden meaning
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June 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
'Moonwalk' is such a fun Reversal indicator! ☆
Minute Cryptic - 9 June 2025
"Neil Armstrong's first to do moonwalk for space creature" (5)
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I scored: 2 under par
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Minute Cryptic - 9 June 2025
"Neil Armstrong's first to do moonwalk for space creature" (5)
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I scored: 2 under par
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I always psych myself out of posting on Bluesky. So, just know that if I'm posting here, I'm being very brave, and I'm probably also proscrastinating continuing a WIP ☆
June 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I always psych myself out of posting on Bluesky. So, just know that if I'm posting here, I'm being very brave, and I'm probably also proscrastinating continuing a WIP ☆
There's never a correct way to write a story, but there's definitely a wrong way. Several, in fact ☆
June 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
There's never a correct way to write a story, but there's definitely a wrong way. Several, in fact ☆
In other news, I'm bumbling around cyberpunk territory with another queer rebellion story ☆
June 9, 2025 at 11:33 AM
In other news, I'm bumbling around cyberpunk territory with another queer rebellion story ☆
How incredible is this?!
Go grab your own copy of Wrath Month. There are still wonderful stretch goals to hit.
Seeing this support for queer stories is very special given what's happening out in the real world ☆
Go grab your own copy of Wrath Month. There are still wonderful stretch goals to hit.
Seeing this support for queer stories is very special given what's happening out in the real world ☆
Today, we're seeing DOUBLE at Bona HQ, and that's because we've now smashed past 200% of our original goal in less than six days of the campaign! 🤘🔥🏳️🌈
Please keep spreading the word! We have huge plans for Bona Books, and with your help, we can crush them! ✊
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Please keep spreading the word! We have huge plans for Bona Books, and with your help, we can crush them! ✊
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bon...
Wrath Month - Stories of Queer Rage
The punk anthology where queer rage kicks down the doors of fantasy, science-fiction and horror.
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June 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
How incredible is this?!
Go grab your own copy of Wrath Month. There are still wonderful stretch goals to hit.
Seeing this support for queer stories is very special given what's happening out in the real world ☆
Go grab your own copy of Wrath Month. There are still wonderful stretch goals to hit.
Seeing this support for queer stories is very special given what's happening out in the real world ☆
The easiest one yet! ☆
Minute Cryptic - 8 June 2025
"Remix Elvis covers" (5)
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I scored: 2 under par
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Minute Cryptic - 8 June 2025
"Remix Elvis covers" (5)
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I scored: 2 under par
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Minute Cryptic
Solve a clue with a hidden meaning
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June 8, 2025 at 8:20 AM
The easiest one yet! ☆
Minute Cryptic - 8 June 2025
"Remix Elvis covers" (5)
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I scored: 2 under par
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Minute Cryptic - 8 June 2025
"Remix Elvis covers" (5)
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I scored: 2 under par
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Love conventions but they are extremely overwhelming ☆
June 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Love conventions but they are extremely overwhelming ☆
#Cymera Day 1. First up, Writing Witches with @tiffaniangus.bsky.social ☆
June 7, 2025 at 8:22 AM
#Cymera Day 1. First up, Writing Witches with @tiffaniangus.bsky.social ☆
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Elphaba Thropp said WRATH MONTH 🔥 💚 🧙♀️ 🧹 🌈
June 5, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Elphaba Thropp said WRATH MONTH 🔥 💚 🧙♀️ 🧹 🌈
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In the UK, there's been exactly 11 years of legal equality in the entirety of history. And that equality has never been extended to transgender folks.
Likewise, queer inclusion in entertainment as an active movement is about 5 years old in the entirety of history.
If we forget that, we lose. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Likewise, queer inclusion in entertainment as an active movement is about 5 years old in the entirety of history.
If we forget that, we lose. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Pride Month is always a very depressing reminder that so many under-30 LGBT accounts on this site are so damn committed to just shrugging off every threat to our collective wellbeing because they're simply too damn young to understand that things are objectively NOT as bad as they once were.
June 5, 2025 at 7:50 AM
In the UK, there's been exactly 11 years of legal equality in the entirety of history. And that equality has never been extended to transgender folks.
Likewise, queer inclusion in entertainment as an active movement is about 5 years old in the entirety of history.
If we forget that, we lose. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Likewise, queer inclusion in entertainment as an active movement is about 5 years old in the entirety of history.
If we forget that, we lose. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️