JoJo Helstrip
johelstrip.bsky.social
JoJo Helstrip
@johelstrip.bsky.social
Writer. PhD student. Folklore & Fairy enthusiast. Navigating life on this spinning rock...📚

https://linktr.ee/JLHelstrip
I used to work in the christmas dept. for my local garden centre, so if you watch a festive movie with me you WILL hear me shout, 'WE USED TO SELL THOSE BAUBLES!'
November 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
My friend sent me this gorgeous extract from Ian Bank's novel, 'A Song of Stone' because they couldn't stop thinking about it. And now I can't stop thinking about it...

#writingcommunity #writer #reading
November 25, 2025 at 11:10 AM
I’m a simple girl:

I wake up,

I drink my coffee,

and then I yearn for another evening

conversing with the moon.

#Writingcommunity #Writer #poet #poetry #writerslift
November 24, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I've just seen Wicked themed squatty potties...
The marketing team need a high five and someone to check up on them😂😂

#Wicked #Wickedforgood
November 23, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Slow Sundays and the sun ☀️

Woke up today feeling bright after a long period of being bogged down by too many words and ideas.

While making my morning coffee, I saw this beautiful reflection of raindrops on the blinds- looking a lot like the markings of a silver birch.

#Writingcommunity #writer
November 23, 2025 at 10:36 AM
I've stitched together some of my strangest ideas, zapped them with lightening, and my new substack is live!

'It's alive!'

If worlds that bend, break, and whisper back are your thing, open the door and venture in...

#writingcommunity #substack #weirdfiction #speculativefiction #indiewriting
'It's Alive! It's Alive!'
The chaotic beginnings of 'what did they do to us?'
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November 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Enough dilly dallying, it's time to make a start on those 2023 writing goals...

#writer #writingcommunity #writerproblems
November 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Floating around with mum!
June 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
No musical theatre song scratches *that* part of my brain quite like 'Wait For Me' from Hadestown. Add, 'Why We Build The Wall' and 'Chant' to this list too...
December 10, 2024 at 9:29 PM
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Sage words 👏👏👏
December 4, 2024 at 11:19 PM
I didn't just jump from that ship...
I hauled my body across the cursed lands of cyber spam, hid from the parrot bots, and battled against the wicked forces of purchased blue ticks.

Hi Bluesky :)
December 2, 2024 at 10:51 AM