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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️

@lhardingwrites.bsky.social

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Mum friend transitioning to mum. Recovering medievalist. Writer of gothic, fantasy and horror. Displaced northener. True foodie. Culinary Cenobite. Pigeon möther. Synth/BM gremlin. Writing at patreon.com/lhardingwrites and https://ko-fi.com/lawrenceharding

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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · Sep 2

Did you know that I have a Ko-Fi Shop? Where you can buy all my self-published collections, novelettes and novellas?

Well, now you do!

Horror short stories, dark fantasies, medieval shenanigans and more!

#booksky 📚💙

Visit Lawrence Harding's Shop!

I've opened a shop. Come take a look!

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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 46m

Sorry to hear this Matt, wishing you a good recovery

Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 1h

I'm glad to see their legacy lives on. That was definitely us.

Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 1h

The ASNC Grammar Classes are a rite of passage, congratulations

Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 1h

Keeps her culturally relevant, which can lead to further sales/taking her seriously. So no, not ethical either. Let it die.

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aphex twink @peregrinator.site · 2d

there's a comp out and they're donating all proceeds to Migrants Rights Network in the UK. share this as much as possible so they can make a difference
poisonousreflection.bandcamp.com/album/charit...

Charity Compilation, by Poisonous Reflection

30 track album

poisonousreflection.bandcamp.com

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 15h

Meet my newest creation Edith the Moth Phantom! I designed and hand-sewed her. She enjoys singing sea shanties with her cryptid band. They perform primarily for the moon. She also likes appearing to travelers as good or bad omens, depending on her mood.

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Here's a lovely photo of my fabric art moth phantom. She's a white moth phantom with a gray face, large twinkly black eyes, and a little frown. She has curly white antennae. There are black and gray oval markings on her wings. There's a beautiful galaxy print fabric in the background.

Here's another lovely pic of Edith. In this one, she's resting on my palm.

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Jack - Oi, Shiny! @oishinythings.bsky.social · 5h

People keep going "buy fan merch, not official!".

She has said outright that support for Harry Potter is support for her.

And is a trans person walking down the street meant to hold their breath until they get close enough to see if your shirt says (TM) Warner Bros or not?

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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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 4h

The Post Bar, a bit further down. It has a tiny black cat and a tiny tortie.

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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 5h

There is a bar on Tottenham High Road with two cats who are very soft.

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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 5h

Once again, having to tap this sign.

Please give up Harry Potter. Please.

But trans people need your *material* help as well. I know that's more difficult than just reading another book, but the right thing to do is seldom easy.

Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · Apr 20

While it's nice to see more noise about how terrible JKR is, as a trans woman I would appreciate it if there was less focus on "here's what you can read instead" and more "here's how you can materially help trans people".

We're the victims here, please stop centring the purity of your bookshelves.

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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 5h

This is moral cowardice, right here.

Swarmpicker @swarmpicker.bsky.social · 14h

Fuck this.

Rowling has turned out to be a terrible person but my kids loved her books and future kids (and adults) will too. This is like people who wouldn't vote for Biden because Gaza. You fucked us all.

Respond to the issues and not the person. Bad people can write good books, and often do.

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.

Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 5h

Oh no, sometimes doing the right thing is difficult (*not that difficult), however can the marginalised expect an iota of help?

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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 5h

Getting it from the libraries still funds her, and she relies on cultural acumen as much as financial. So no, there is no longer an ethical way to engage with HP.

Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 22h

Shout out to the old man in a straw hat in Gordon Sq park who rocked up onto the lawn, scattered a load of seed, then produced a folding chair and had his bento box while surrounded by pigeons. Impeccable energy.

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Beren's Reverie @berensreverie.bsky.social · Nov 11

The Hunter's Funeral Procession

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it's charloween! (it/its) @charloh.online · 1d

Hergé would probably hate this but we who grew up reading Tintin comics when we were too young to note the very problematic parts of them are very here for it

Erika Unraptured ⚧️ @erikavalentine.bsky.social · 1d

TinTin fan art by Lian Milanesa depicting TinTin in various feminine outfits. In the background, Captain Haddock seated in an easy chair looks up from his newspaper to say, 'What goes on, TinTin? You only needed to disguise yourself as a lady once, but this is the third time you've gone out like that!'

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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 1d

We did, however, get greeted by a very soft cat who was probably the better friend in the long run.

Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Trying to meet people in a new city chronicles:

It's amazing how many groups who say they're open to new members make zero effort to interact with or even acknowledge people trying to get involved.

I know I'm weird & neurodivergent but I'd keep an eye out for potential new people hovering, y'know?

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 1d

As always, today is a good day to support artists, writers, creators. If you have the means, maybe consider signing up for a Patreon. Buy a book, a game, a painting. Commission a new piece. Tell a creator what they mean to you. Signal boost their work.

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S.S. Julian @octopolis.bsky.social · 1d

Happy World Octopus Day! To celebrate, here’s the first piece in my series of Octopolis tarot cards: The Fool!
#octopolis #worldoctopusday #octopus #tarot

$A digital illustration within a tarot card frame titled ‘The Fool’. The images is of a mimic octopus bursting through the surface of the ocean into a sunlit day. The octopus is covered in many colored stripes. It holds one arm up through which light refracts. In another arm it holds a bundle of kelp. Beneath the water is a yellow cuttlefish looking very happy.$

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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Whenever there's Taylor Swift discourse I find myself drawn to listen to Self Esteem's latest. Now *that's* a (Rebecca) Taylor with lyrical chops.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 1d

We need to use AI as a wake-up call to look at the pernicious profit structures that already direct liveable lives *away* from makers and workers, not settle for them as the best alternate. AI should make us want more for ourselves & less for the bosses & investors.

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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 2d

But I always knew that would be the case (save for going into academia or heritage). I wanted to spend a few years doing something I actually enjoyed and was interested in. I would have been a lot more miserable if I hadn't studied what I did and met the people I did through it.

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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 2d

My degrees in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic made me who I am (for better and worse) and I have no regrets.

But since then I've been in admin and office management. The degree is mostly for story fuel and spouting trivia at interested parties.

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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 2d

Also going to update this with a posh white woman audibly changing how she talked to me on the phone when I gave her my female name, and a two-doors-down black neighbour who knocked just now to introduce himself, saw a clocky trans woman in a cardigan, and cheerfully yelled "alright darlin'!".

Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 3d

As a trans woman who recently moved to North London, I can confidently say I get less weirdness on Tottenham High Road than in the City. And the only place cars have actually slowed down as they passed me to stare was the Cotswolds.