Amber Aspinall
@amberaspinall.bsky.social
Writer of short stories, poetry, and CNF, with a novel in the works - I don't much like to choose (read: bisexual)
autistic & chronically ill 🥄
🌊 Folkestone-dweller
genres: literary, horror
autistic & chronically ill 🥄
🌊 Folkestone-dweller
genres: literary, horror
I went to the local cat café (one of my favourite places) for my birthday today and it was a great way to start my thirties 😊😊
April 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I went to the local cat café (one of my favourite places) for my birthday today and it was a great way to start my thirties 😊😊
My PIP tribunal is in the morning and I'd very much like to be tranquilised right now
April 3, 2025 at 5:58 PM
My PIP tribunal is in the morning and I'd very much like to be tranquilised right now
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Please share & give to help Duaa and Mahmoud's family, including their little son Adam, survive & escape Israel's genocidal famine & escalating assault on Gaza. Donations have been very slow. They're starving & in desperate need:
April 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Please share & give to help Duaa and Mahmoud's family, including their little son Adam, survive & escape Israel's genocidal famine & escalating assault on Gaza. Donations have been very slow. They're starving & in desperate need:
Angels by Robbie Williams
and through it all, she fills me with aggression
and through it all, she fills me with aggression
Fuck your favourite song. Tell me your least favourite song. The one that makes you die inside the moment you hear the first 3 seconds.
March 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Angels by Robbie Williams
and through it all, she fills me with aggression
and through it all, she fills me with aggression
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A CNF of mine in Five Minutes Lit, if you've got ... Five minutes to spare!
Thanks @fiveminutelit.bsky.social for the boost of this one. A special one. Still makes me draw breath wherever I'm at Tesco.
Thanks @fiveminutelit.bsky.social for the boost of this one. A special one. Still makes me draw breath wherever I'm at Tesco.
“Hurry up,” I shouted over the streams of traffic on Queensferry Road, as she bent to fix the velcro for the tenth time.—"Slowing Down" by @lozzawriting.bsky.social in case you missed it
https://www.fiveminutelit.com/slowing-down
https://www.fiveminutelit.com/slowing-down
March 31, 2025 at 11:23 AM
A CNF of mine in Five Minutes Lit, if you've got ... Five minutes to spare!
Thanks @fiveminutelit.bsky.social for the boost of this one. A special one. Still makes me draw breath wherever I'm at Tesco.
Thanks @fiveminutelit.bsky.social for the boost of this one. A special one. Still makes me draw breath wherever I'm at Tesco.
The guy who got conned in Con Mum has me WAY more pissed off than the actual scammer
March 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The guy who got conned in Con Mum has me WAY more pissed off than the actual scammer
I bought a really bizarre and grammatically-incorrect slogan t-shirt from Vinted for £2 (originally bought it for a party tonight but my body is being too crappy for me to go, which is also why I failed to order it early enough) and I'm so hype for it to arrive. Yes I will post a picture
March 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I bought a really bizarre and grammatically-incorrect slogan t-shirt from Vinted for £2 (originally bought it for a party tonight but my body is being too crappy for me to go, which is also why I failed to order it early enough) and I'm so hype for it to arrive. Yes I will post a picture
Went into @kathyfish.bsky.social's constraints-centred 'Freedom in Limits' flash workshop feeling nervous, and have come out of it feeling empowered to approach my writing in new ways knowing that fresh insights can appear 🙌 Thanks Kathy!
March 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Went into @kathyfish.bsky.social's constraints-centred 'Freedom in Limits' flash workshop feeling nervous, and have come out of it feeling empowered to approach my writing in new ways knowing that fresh insights can appear 🙌 Thanks Kathy!
I fell back into full burnout from partial burnout. Clawing my way back out.
February 26, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I fell back into full burnout from partial burnout. Clawing my way back out.
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Fancy joining Trash Cat in the bin for a FREE online writing session?
Create a draft or two with prompts from the Trashcan Generator.
Opportunity to read and receive feedback.
Itinerary shown in picture.
Let us know how these proposed dates work for you 🦝
#Writing
Create a draft or two with prompts from the Trashcan Generator.
Opportunity to read and receive feedback.
Itinerary shown in picture.
Let us know how these proposed dates work for you 🦝
#Writing
February 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Fancy joining Trash Cat in the bin for a FREE online writing session?
Create a draft or two with prompts from the Trashcan Generator.
Opportunity to read and receive feedback.
Itinerary shown in picture.
Let us know how these proposed dates work for you 🦝
#Writing
Create a draft or two with prompts from the Trashcan Generator.
Opportunity to read and receive feedback.
Itinerary shown in picture.
Let us know how these proposed dates work for you 🦝
#Writing
I know I'm so, so late, but I started reading Butter and I'm OBSESSED
February 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I know I'm so, so late, but I started reading Butter and I'm OBSESSED
Yesterday my wife and I made fat balls for wild birds out of peanut butter, oats, and various seeds to celebrate Imbolc. I had a little taste of the mixture and weirdly quite enjoyed it (especially the crunch of the hemp seeds)...
February 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Yesterday my wife and I made fat balls for wild birds out of peanut butter, oats, and various seeds to celebrate Imbolc. I had a little taste of the mixture and weirdly quite enjoyed it (especially the crunch of the hemp seeds)...
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love this beautiful, inspired poem today from Katy Luxem!!
"For me, it is not the poem, exactly,
but the knowledge that I can
make it. I have it in me, somewhere
to say, oh, this world right here
is beautiful. There is nothing between
me and it."
https://www.havehashad.com/3bu66
"For me, it is not the poem, exactly,
but the knowledge that I can
make it. I have it in me, somewhere
to say, oh, this world right here
is beautiful. There is nothing between
me and it."
https://www.havehashad.com/3bu66
February 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
love this beautiful, inspired poem today from Katy Luxem!!
"For me, it is not the poem, exactly,
but the knowledge that I can
make it. I have it in me, somewhere
to say, oh, this world right here
is beautiful. There is nothing between
me and it."
https://www.havehashad.com/3bu66
"For me, it is not the poem, exactly,
but the knowledge that I can
make it. I have it in me, somewhere
to say, oh, this world right here
is beautiful. There is nothing between
me and it."
https://www.havehashad.com/3bu66
My favourite YouTube video of all time is Monterey Bay Aquarium's 2 hours of shrimplicity
February 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
My favourite YouTube video of all time is Monterey Bay Aquarium's 2 hours of shrimplicity
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FLARE is open to submissions from now through 2/8/25, with the theme: "Love to the Mind and Body" for a Special Valentine's Day issue! We accept CNF, poetry, flash fiction, and (new!) hybrids, and art/photography about this theme! See our guidelines here: https://buff.ly/4gVIt72
February 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
FLARE is open to submissions from now through 2/8/25, with the theme: "Love to the Mind and Body" for a Special Valentine's Day issue! We accept CNF, poetry, flash fiction, and (new!) hybrids, and art/photography about this theme! See our guidelines here: https://buff.ly/4gVIt72
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Snowflake is offering TWO £15 prizes for best art and written work, simply submit your work to our current window to enter! Previous submissions will be retroactively entered. ❄️🤍
Tickets also now available for Create Together!
lnk.bio/snowflakemag
#art #writing #magazine #lgbtq #publishing
Tickets also now available for Create Together!
lnk.bio/snowflakemag
#art #writing #magazine #lgbtq #publishing
January 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Snowflake is offering TWO £15 prizes for best art and written work, simply submit your work to our current window to enter! Previous submissions will be retroactively entered. ❄️🤍
Tickets also now available for Create Together!
lnk.bio/snowflakemag
#art #writing #magazine #lgbtq #publishing
Tickets also now available for Create Together!
lnk.bio/snowflakemag
#art #writing #magazine #lgbtq #publishing
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Helpful #AltText resource
Thank you for drawing attention to alt text! I wrote an article that might help for people who don't know what alt text is, or how to use it, Alt Text for Beginners: webable.com/alt-text-for...
Alt Text for Beginners - WebABLE™
All about alt text for beginners: what it is, why to use it, and how to write it. Web Accessibility principles.
webable.com
January 30, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Helpful #AltText resource
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Ah. The thing every trans person and every not-asshole parent of a trans person said wasn’t true turned out to not be true
January 31, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Ah. The thing every trans person and every not-asshole parent of a trans person said wasn’t true turned out to not be true
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THIRD PLACE in the Welkin Mini 2025. "They won’t let you in" by @noranadj.bsky.social. Congratulations, Nora. A story that shifts between specific, universal, real and fairytale with so much skill; so many emotions bubbling away underneath:
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
The Welkin Writing Prize | They won’t let you in
"They won’t let you in" by Nora Nadjarian
www.mattkendrick.co.uk
January 29, 2025 at 11:18 AM
THIRD PLACE in the Welkin Mini 2025. "They won’t let you in" by @noranadj.bsky.social. Congratulations, Nora. A story that shifts between specific, universal, real and fairytale with so much skill; so many emotions bubbling away underneath:
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
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Writers deserve to be paid, and Split Lip is so PROUD to be a paying market ✨
$75 for poems, memoirs, flash, fiction, and art
$50 for interviews/reviews
$25 for mini-reviews
Find out more on our site: https://buff.ly/32k496o
$75 for poems, memoirs, flash, fiction, and art
$50 for interviews/reviews
$25 for mini-reviews
Find out more on our site: https://buff.ly/32k496o
January 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Writers deserve to be paid, and Split Lip is so PROUD to be a paying market ✨
$75 for poems, memoirs, flash, fiction, and art
$50 for interviews/reviews
$25 for mini-reviews
Find out more on our site: https://buff.ly/32k496o
$75 for poems, memoirs, flash, fiction, and art
$50 for interviews/reviews
$25 for mini-reviews
Find out more on our site: https://buff.ly/32k496o
Had an imprompt walk after my appointment today, got a coffee and sat on a big rock watching the sea. Then a friend who also happened to be taking a walk found me and we chatted for an hour or so. Isn't life lovely sometimes?
January 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Had an imprompt walk after my appointment today, got a coffee and sat on a big rock watching the sea. Then a friend who also happened to be taking a walk found me and we chatted for an hour or so. Isn't life lovely sometimes?
Update: things did in fact go wrong 😂 but I did get there on time, albeit out of breath!
Having to go somewhere new for an appointment today, which is a little bit terrifying as someone who gets lost easily/struggles with directions. Here's hoping I make it ok! 🤞🏻
January 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Update: things did in fact go wrong 😂 but I did get there on time, albeit out of breath!
Having to go somewhere new for an appointment today, which is a little bit terrifying as someone who gets lost easily/struggles with directions. Here's hoping I make it ok! 🤞🏻
January 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Having to go somewhere new for an appointment today, which is a little bit terrifying as someone who gets lost easily/struggles with directions. Here's hoping I make it ok! 🤞🏻
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Writing is fun except that it's hard and no one cares and if you're good at this, you'll torturously be the last one to know
January 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Writing is fun except that it's hard and no one cares and if you're good at this, you'll torturously be the last one to know