Llinos Cathryn Thomas
@llincathryn.bsky.social
🏳️🌈🏴♾️🥄 Book recs, writing chat, occasional opinions. (she/her)
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For one week only, get my F/F romance advent calendar novella for 99p!
Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali.
One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
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Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali.
One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
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In an ideal world i would absolutely support AD, but our world is not there yet.
Nothing has radicalised me more on this issue than listening to Disabled Canadians recounting their experiences
Nothing has radicalised me more on this issue than listening to Disabled Canadians recounting their experiences
I will be the first to admit I couldn’t understand why anyone would oppose Assisted Dying… and then I became disabled and had it “offered” to me.
It’s not compassionate when there’s coercion.
It’s not dignified when it’s offered in lieu of care.
Listen to disabled people.
It’s not compassionate when there’s coercion.
It’s not dignified when it’s offered in lieu of care.
Listen to disabled people.
November 25, 2025 at 9:14 AM
In an ideal world i would absolutely support AD, but our world is not there yet.
Nothing has radicalised me more on this issue than listening to Disabled Canadians recounting their experiences
Nothing has radicalised me more on this issue than listening to Disabled Canadians recounting their experiences
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For one week only, get my F/F romance advent calendar novella for 99p!
Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali.
One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali.
One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
November 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
For one week only, get my F/F romance advent calendar novella for 99p!
Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali.
One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali.
One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
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So many things are grim and cold right now. But if you'd like to admire something soft and happy and warm for a moment, please see my heartachingly gorgeous cover for SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE (out 11/25)?
AMZ: go.oliviadade.com/SCRamz
(Cover artist info & other links below!)
AMZ: go.oliviadade.com/SCRamz
(Cover artist info & other links below!)
February 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
So many things are grim and cold right now. But if you'd like to admire something soft and happy and warm for a moment, please see my heartachingly gorgeous cover for SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE (out 11/25)?
AMZ: go.oliviadade.com/SCRamz
(Cover artist info & other links below!)
AMZ: go.oliviadade.com/SCRamz
(Cover artist info & other links below!)
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This is a great deal on a novella I love!
For one week only, get my F/F romance advent calendar novella for 99p!
Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali.
One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali.
One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
November 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
This is a great deal on a novella I love!
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This is just a reminder that I wrote a trilogy that ends with the icy blond lawyer fiancee, who got dumped for the hot small town tree farmer in the first book, road tripping to the ex's wedding with a fake girlfriend (and there's only one bed).
You can buy all three!
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You can buy all three!
bookshop.org/beta-search?...
November 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
This is just a reminder that I wrote a trilogy that ends with the icy blond lawyer fiancee, who got dumped for the hot small town tree farmer in the first book, road tripping to the ex's wedding with a fake girlfriend (and there's only one bed).
You can buy all three!
bookshop.org/beta-search?...
You can buy all three!
bookshop.org/beta-search?...
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Can't believe it's nearly December, but if you need something to look forward to...
For one week only, get my F/F romance advent calendar novella for 99p!
Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali.
One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali.
One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
November 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Can't believe it's nearly December, but if you need something to look forward to...
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I've only just started this sapphic contemporary romance but it's reallly good so far, y'all. Grab it!
🌈💜🌈📚 #Romancelandia
🌈💜🌈📚 #Romancelandia
For one week only, get my F/F romance advent calendar novella for 99p!
Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali.
One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali.
One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
November 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I've only just started this sapphic contemporary romance but it's reallly good so far, y'all. Grab it!
🌈💜🌈📚 #Romancelandia
🌈💜🌈📚 #Romancelandia
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Friends this is an absolute steal, I’m looking forward to this as my advent treat!!
For one week only, get my F/F romance advent calendar novella for 99p!
Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali.
One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali.
One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
November 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Friends this is an absolute steal, I’m looking forward to this as my advent treat!!
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ooooh, I recommend snapping this up if you haven't already, very excited to start my advent calendar read next week!
For one week only, get my F/F romance advent calendar novella for 99p!
Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali.
One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali.
One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
November 24, 2025 at 12:36 PM
ooooh, I recommend snapping this up if you haven't already, very excited to start my advent calendar read next week!
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Planning to start your Christmas shopping this weekend?
I've got you covered with over 100 links to charities, museums and small businesses selling interesting things which will bring joy not landfill.
#GoodGifts
I've got you covered with over 100 links to charities, museums and small businesses selling interesting things which will bring joy not landfill.
#GoodGifts
Good Gifts 2025
Use your Secret Santa or present giving to support charities, museums and small businesses.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Planning to start your Christmas shopping this weekend?
I've got you covered with over 100 links to charities, museums and small businesses selling interesting things which will bring joy not landfill.
#GoodGifts
I've got you covered with over 100 links to charities, museums and small businesses selling interesting things which will bring joy not landfill.
#GoodGifts
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If you're not trans, please take a couple of minutes to skim through the linked blog post.
It's an overview of (some of) the questions trans kids and their parents will have to through, just to participate in the NHS puberty blocker trial.
I won't make any further comment here.
It's an overview of (some of) the questions trans kids and their parents will have to through, just to participate in the NHS puberty blocker trial.
I won't make any further comment here.
This is just the tip of the iceberg of over 314 questions outlined here including eg Do you start fires? Do you steal? Do you physically assault people?
growinguptransgender.com/2025/09/19/q...
growinguptransgender.com/2025/09/19/q...
Questioning trans kids
The UK Government and UK research councils have contributed £10 million pounds to a series of research studies on service users of the newly established Children and Young People’s Gender Services.…
growinguptransgender.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:04 AM
If you're not trans, please take a couple of minutes to skim through the linked blog post.
It's an overview of (some of) the questions trans kids and their parents will have to through, just to participate in the NHS puberty blocker trial.
I won't make any further comment here.
It's an overview of (some of) the questions trans kids and their parents will have to through, just to participate in the NHS puberty blocker trial.
I won't make any further comment here.
For one week only, get my F/F romance advent calendar novella for 99p!
Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali.
One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali.
One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
November 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
For one week only, get my F/F romance advent calendar novella for 99p!
Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali.
One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali.
One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
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Scarleteen does incredible, necessary work on a shoestring budget. They’re raising money for a fund to help their brilliant volunteers pay for healthcare. Please help them out by kicking in what you can. They’re an unparalleled resource for teens and young people figuring out sex and relationships.
Scarleteen is raising $40,000 to support the healthcare needs of staff and volunteers who do this vulnerable, crucial, intimate work. 204 people have donated $23k; please join them today and share. www.classy.org/campaign/scarl...
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November 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Scarleteen does incredible, necessary work on a shoestring budget. They’re raising money for a fund to help their brilliant volunteers pay for healthcare. Please help them out by kicking in what you can. They’re an unparalleled resource for teens and young people figuring out sex and relationships.
Ooohhhh so exciting! Extra content, lore, bonus short story! 🤩
November 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Ooohhhh so exciting! Extra content, lore, bonus short story! 🤩
I read this and thought, "I wonder what happened to milk bars", did some googling, and discovered that the National Milk Bar which I'd always assumed was a huge UK-wide chain was only ever like 17 cafes in Wales and the North-West.
those modern London ways of living with their fancy coffee (1955 edition)
November 22, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I read this and thought, "I wonder what happened to milk bars", did some googling, and discovered that the National Milk Bar which I'd always assumed was a huge UK-wide chain was only ever like 17 cafes in Wales and the North-West.
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This #MapMonday let us take you back in time ⌛
We've just added first edition 6-inch to the mile Ordnance Survey maps of England and Wales to our website, published from the 1840s to 1880s. These maps are all from bound volumes.
Explore the maps > maps.nls.uk/additions/#188
We've just added first edition 6-inch to the mile Ordnance Survey maps of England and Wales to our website, published from the 1840s to 1880s. These maps are all from bound volumes.
Explore the maps > maps.nls.uk/additions/#188
November 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM
This #MapMonday let us take you back in time ⌛
We've just added first edition 6-inch to the mile Ordnance Survey maps of England and Wales to our website, published from the 1840s to 1880s. These maps are all from bound volumes.
Explore the maps > maps.nls.uk/additions/#188
We've just added first edition 6-inch to the mile Ordnance Survey maps of England and Wales to our website, published from the 1840s to 1880s. These maps are all from bound volumes.
Explore the maps > maps.nls.uk/additions/#188
This looks so cool. 🤩
My story ‘Take Three’ is available for your reading pleasure in this free book about the future of the orchestra!
csi.asu.edu/books/sounds...
csi.asu.edu/books/sounds...
Sound Systems: The Future of the Orchestra - Center for Science and the Imagination
A collection of fiction, nonfiction, and art reimagining orchestras as vibrant spaces for connection, shared learning, and exploration.
csi.asu.edu
November 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
This looks so cool. 🤩
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Eight Days is a fantastic, Hugo-winning podcast, & this episode features me as special guest! Becca and Emily are the smartest people around, & kindly invited me to talk about my fave, The Lives of Christopher Chant, & also bureaucracy, & colonisation of mind, & a bit about cricket. do check it out.
we're back and launching S3 with a BANGER today as the fabulous @singlecrow.bsky.social joins us for a TWO HOUR episode on our favorite future-dressing-gown-wearing disaster, Christopher Chant
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The Lives of Christopher Chant by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh
Nobody should be losing lives at this rate. What is wrong, Christopher?
In our first episode of Season Three, the brilliant Iona Datt Sharma joins us for a discussion of bureaucracy, cricket boys, Bu...
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November 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Eight Days is a fantastic, Hugo-winning podcast, & this episode features me as special guest! Becca and Emily are the smartest people around, & kindly invited me to talk about my fave, The Lives of Christopher Chant, & also bureaucracy, & colonisation of mind, & a bit about cricket. do check it out.
Lots of fun graphs in this thread! (I wonder if the bump for “fay” in the 1930s is because of Fay Wray?)
Following up on this idea: Here's the first take, comparing fairy, faerie, fey, fay, fae.
November 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Lots of fun graphs in this thread! (I wonder if the bump for “fay” in the 1930s is because of Fay Wray?)
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As ever, this consultation is set up to resist criticism. But it's still important to respond
If, like me, this utter betrayal by Labour is making your blood boil, can I ask you let them know your feelings here www.gov.uk/government/c...
Earned settlement
The government is consulting on how the current settlement system should be reformed and how those reforms should be implemented.
www.gov.uk
November 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
As ever, this consultation is set up to resist criticism. But it's still important to respond
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other than Catherine Greenen-Thrush's Quest of the Faes (1985, seems likely to be an independent early outlier), thus far it seems like the genesis of the term may be White Wolf's Changeling: The Dreaming in 1995?
This has brought up a question I actually don't know - when did the specific form "the fae" become so popular in English?
OED has "Faerie" going back to Spenser, "fey" as "fairylike" in 1823, and there's obviously "Morgan le Fay" from French, but can't find much for "the fae" til quite recently!
OED has "Faerie" going back to Spenser, "fey" as "fairylike" in 1823, and there's obviously "Morgan le Fay" from French, but can't find much for "the fae" til quite recently!
Turning into my father one "the problem is no one reads enough books these days" grumble at a time
November 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
other than Catherine Greenen-Thrush's Quest of the Faes (1985, seems likely to be an independent early outlier), thus far it seems like the genesis of the term may be White Wolf's Changeling: The Dreaming in 1995?
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This section of Gerald of Wales' The Conquest of Ireland in which he praises his own family is essentially the Theme from Shaft.
November 18, 2025 at 11:55 AM
This section of Gerald of Wales' The Conquest of Ireland in which he praises his own family is essentially the Theme from Shaft.
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Researching UK schoolchildren's' strikes in 1889, and came across this excellent description of the problems with "home lessons" which were one of the students' main complaints.
We'll be adding stories to our Stories app and Map: stories.workingclasshistory.com/tag/15377/18...
We'll be adding stories to our Stories app and Map: stories.workingclasshistory.com/tag/15377/18...
November 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Researching UK schoolchildren's' strikes in 1889, and came across this excellent description of the problems with "home lessons" which were one of the students' main complaints.
We'll be adding stories to our Stories app and Map: stories.workingclasshistory.com/tag/15377/18...
We'll be adding stories to our Stories app and Map: stories.workingclasshistory.com/tag/15377/18...
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STOP comparing London railway termini
St Pancras is MAJESTIC
Waterloo is GIANT
King's Cross is ADVENTUROUS
London Bridge is SHINY
Liverpool Street has MANY CONNECTIONS
Victoria is CONVENIENT
Euston
Paddington is HISTORIC
Marylebone is COSY
St Pancras is MAJESTIC
Waterloo is GIANT
King's Cross is ADVENTUROUS
London Bridge is SHINY
Liverpool Street has MANY CONNECTIONS
Victoria is CONVENIENT
Euston
Paddington is HISTORIC
Marylebone is COSY
October 1, 2024 at 10:53 AM
STOP comparing London railway termini
St Pancras is MAJESTIC
Waterloo is GIANT
King's Cross is ADVENTUROUS
London Bridge is SHINY
Liverpool Street has MANY CONNECTIONS
Victoria is CONVENIENT
Euston
Paddington is HISTORIC
Marylebone is COSY
St Pancras is MAJESTIC
Waterloo is GIANT
King's Cross is ADVENTUROUS
London Bridge is SHINY
Liverpool Street has MANY CONNECTIONS
Victoria is CONVENIENT
Euston
Paddington is HISTORIC
Marylebone is COSY
OMG this sounds great!
As promised, here is the cover for Muñeca, out June of 2026!
Described thusly: A vivid, surreal Gothic about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress and loses control of her powers and her heart in the process.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788211...
Described thusly: A vivid, surreal Gothic about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress and loses control of her powers and her heart in the process.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788211...
November 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
OMG this sounds great!