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Robin Bird

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Pronouns em/em/eir (they're singular, nice and easy) Trainee counsellor, attempting to write eir dead father's memoir, bookish, lefty, nerdy, disabled and British. https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/skeletonrobin

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · Aug 11

I'm going to be writing about my experience of writing. Specifically writing The Book.
This first post is about deathbed promises, grief, and getting started.

Found over on Medium.

#writing
#nonfiction
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A Sword Would Be Easier

I now understand all those fantasy epics where the protagonist’s motivation is that they made a promise to somebody on their deathbed…

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3h

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 1h

Sword and heart. T Kingfisher's Swordheart already exists and that's sufficient

Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 1h

Also SAD may be associated with low vitD but is not the same as low vitD. If you live in the UK or similar latitudes you should probably take vitD though. Some people also get SAD which is where lamps and other management comes in.

Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 1h

You also need to be sat quite close to the lamp for it to be effective: the weaker the lamp the closer you have to be. These are not tanning or UV lamps so are safe to sit in front of. But it does mean just having a "daylight bulb" in your normal light fitting may not cut it.

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 1h

Do you have SAD (seasonal affective disorder? Time to get the SAD lamp out. Studies in support of light therapy suggest at least 10000 lux so you need a proper lamp not just a phone app. But for me it's totally worth it.

An extremely bright glowing lamp casting the rest of the picture into darkness.

The rectangular lamp switched off so you can seen it sat on my desk next to a laptop with a stack of books behind

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 21h

This illustration is adorable

Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 22h

Did not manage a rummage as there were prior at having tea next to it and i didn't want to barge them out of the way. Which means I'll have to go back. Woe. Woe is me.

Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 22h

Dropping off books at a community bookshelf at a local queer cafe. Going to have a rummage and see if there's anything to take home.

I'm a big believer in passing on books and that i don't need to keep them all, even the 4 star reads!

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Big stack of books on a shelf including Devils Breath, A Botanical Daughter, My Life in Sea Creatures and, All Fours.

A wider view of the bookshelf packed full of books with faux flowers and fairy lights.

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 23h

Read this for the second time recently and it had really grown on me

Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 23h

Warlords of the Wyrdwood by RJ Barker
And Blood on Her Tongue by Johanna van Venn on audiobook.
(And some academic books on existentialism and grief, as a treat)

Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 1d

If i didn't like you for your writing, I'd like you for this alone.

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Sakher and Reem 🍉🇵🇸 @sakher-gaza.bsky.social · 1d

They say the war is over... but the pain inside me hasn’t ended.
The bombs may have stopped falling, but the struggle is far from over.
I'm Sakher — a young man who lost everything in this war.
My home… gone. My memories, my work, my future all destroyed
More talk in the comments

gofund.me/f116bf44

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 1d

We accidentally a universe and now we're gods is always a favourite of mine. But adding in an ethics board and undergrad physics makes it better

Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 1d

Keeping us safe

Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely love that Catebury had the conviction do so such a bold exhibition.

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 1d

This is how it goes and it sucks mightily

Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 1d

Me: i like an ambiguous ending to a LARP
Two friends almost simultaneously: Robin you killed the entirety of Leeds. That's not ambiguous.

Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 1d

It's beautiful but also I'm certain there are werewolves nearby

Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 1d

I can't get over the pronunciation of antifa.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 2d

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 1d

Can't wait to learn a lot more about these (and maybe read some)

Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 1d

I think there's a few of us older non binary goths and punks in this situation. Some sort of messing around with gender presentation and general non conformist looks are part of who we are in a way which isn't necassarily linked to our gender (or lack there of)

Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 1d

Is there a scale? I need a scale. Pratchett's Discworld are my go-to comfort reads if that helps. Or Agatha Christie?

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Jules @afewbugs.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Kirk's a Bard, Picard's a Paladin, Janeway's a Rogue and Sisko is far too competent to be a player character so is clearly the GM's self insert NPC accompanying the party to try and get them to do what they're supposed to for a change.

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 1d

Ooooh nice