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Laura Bradley
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Theatre person, writer person, fan person. N/Irish. She/her. All views my own

Interested in #musicals #sff #fandom #QueerArt #DisabledArt #Neurodiversity ♠️🏹 ♾️
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Lisa Simpson in the Simpsons kitchen looking up imploringly with her hands clasped together under her chin. Text: Grade me! Look at me! Evaluate and rank me! Oh! I'm good, good, good, and oh, so smart!
October 2, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Abandoning plans for city living to live inside the Tiny Bookshop instead. Granted many of the customers have very strong ideas about the genres/plots of books they clearly have not read, but a small price to pay. Fern and I could run this town / dedicate our lives to the community association.
A screenshot of the game Tiny Bookshop. It's flat illustrated animation. In the foreground is a tiny Bookshop trailer attached to a car. The bookshop is green painted wood with blue wooden peaked roof and striped awning. Out front is a dog wearing a coat, a table with typewriter, coffee machine, and numerous other items. In the background of the scene is a lighthouse and cottage. It's raining, but there's still someone walking up the bookshop ramp.
September 8, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Joel Ward leaving Palace I think?
Joel Ward standing on the pitch talking into a microphone, looking emotional. He's wearing a dark warm-up jacket with three Macron logos down the shoulder, which turns to a red and blue chevron sleeve.
May 27, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Took myself to see the #SixTheMusical proshot. Still love but kinda feel it does RL AnneB dirty; still transfixed by the escalating horror in 'All You Wanna Do.' Newly even more into the headpieces and makeup due to being able to see the closeups.
Maiya Quansah-Breed as Catherine Parr in Six the Musical (though not from the proshot) singing 'I saw him to the end of his life'. She has her hair pulled to one side by a dramatic headpiece and is wearing a sparkling top, with puffed elbow-length sleeves, in blue, navy and maroon vertical stripes. Jarnéia Richard-Noel as Catherine of Aragon is just behind looking on, wearing a black and gold dress and gold necklaces.
April 15, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Saving this particular still for later use.
Still from Murderbot TV show. SecUnit as portrayed by Alexander Skarsgård is leaning its forehead, in weariness or overwhelm, against a wall of weapons/technology. It is not wearing its helmet but is wearing armour, and its shoulders are hunched forward. Its eyes are nearly closed. In the background is a bright window partway covered by miscellaneous possibly lab gear.
April 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Louis MacNeice - Entirely.

Found its way to me accidentally in a sixth form English Literature class, just when I needed it; carried the photocopy to various university rooms and rented house walls afterwards.
Louis MacNeice Entirely If we could get the hang of it entirely It would take too long; All we know is the splash of words in passing And falling twigs of song, And when we try to eavesdrop on the great Presences it is rarely That by a stroke of luck we can appropriate Even a phrase entirely. If we could find our happiness entirely In somebody else’s arms We should not fear the spears of the spring nor the city’s Yammering fire alarms But, as it is, the spears each year go through Our flesh and almost hourly Bell or siren banishes the blue Eyes of Love entirely. And if the world were black or white entirely And all the charts were plain Instead of a mad weir of tigerish waters, A prism of delight and pain, We might be surer where we wished to go Or again we might be merely Bored but in brute reality there is no Road that is right entirely.
February 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn't a selfie
Screenshot: Tom Holland says being a Tottenham fan taught him 'resilience' to promote his 'horribly reviewed' new show Barbie film meme. Top image: Margot Robbie's Barbie lying sideways on fake grass, looking as though a child dropped her there. Her hat is abandoned in the background. Caption reads "She's not dead," Bottom image: the same Barbie, now staring vacantly at the ground from her prone position. Caption reads "she's just having an existential crisis." Screenshot from animation Bluey: Chilli (an anthromorphic red heeler dog), with stress lines below her eyes. She's in the Heeler's kitchen, on an otherwise beautiful day. In the background we can see her daughter Bluey smiling at a recorder lying on the counter-top. Caption: I need 20 minutes when no-one comes near me.
November 28, 2024 at 2:11 AM
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#HiddenBooksGame as ever a strong mix of "how was anyone supposed to get there from that?" (the quartet, the clock) and "I can't believe I took so long over that one" (the soldier...)
A screenshot from National Book tokens website which says "Congratulations! You've completed the Hidden Books Game from National Book Tokens". There is a drawn illustration of a bookshop with, among others, a panda behind the till, a barbershop quartet upstairs, and a vampire with a 'Books are my bag' tote entering as a customer.
November 14, 2024 at 7:58 PM
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A book you did not finish and a book you reread:
Probably I will try Gormenghast again eventually.

HtN (and GtN) I reread before reading Nona. Probably I will reread them again before Alecto, and possibly then all over again because the puzzle-box/murder-board of them astounds me

#BookishQOTD 📖🦋
Illustrated cover image of The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake Cover image is a black and white drawing of a castle at night being overtaken in all directions by red vines/lines. There are black and white owls with red beaks flying towards the viewer. Cover image of Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir. Image is of a skinny young woman with short dark hair and her face painted as a skull. She's wearing a rib-cage as a corset over black clothing, and a white cape over the top. There's a sword on her back, skeletons walking by her and exploding near her, and a planet exploding in the background. Book quote says: "Unlike anything I've ever read. Muir's writing is as sharp as a broken tooth, and just as unsettling." - V.E. Schwab on Gideon the Ninth
November 9, 2024 at 5:58 PM
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Don't know if still helpful, but aside from the boxes, the stalls slips are also freestanding seats with no arms (just the stalls ones I'm pretty sure). Also in Royal Circle the high (4 seats) and low (2 seats) ends of Row K can be removed for wheelchair positions and are freestanding seats when in.
Website photo view of four freestanding theatre seats behind a railing, on the end of row K, with photo perspective from seat L42 Website photo view of stalls slips seats in the theatre, from J42 looking at four freestanding seats behind a barrier wall auditorium left
August 12, 2024 at 11:34 PM
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...jeebus. Called out from Q13 onwards. Why *am* I fighting?
there was nothing left. a guiding hand is only so helpful. you plan and plan and plan and mistakes still happen. and when you don't consider those mistakes, everything can go wrong. fate will find the smallest flaw and wrench everything from you. if only you realized that sooner.
April 2, 2024 at 11:53 PM
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If you see this, post a book you've read more than once. #Books #Reading #BookNerd
The cover of Protector of the Small: First Test by Tamora Pierce An illustration of young woman in an embroidered tunic, outside with a castle in the background. She has short hair to her ears, and a black eye. She's carrying a small ginger cat and has a sparrow on her shoulder and one perched beside her. The cover of Thursday's Children by Rumer Godden. An illustration of a boy wearing a white vest, black leggings and white pointe shoes, mud ballet leap. The cover of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. The Penguin Classics cover is an illustration of a women reading a novel, looking into the mid distance. She is wearing a white dress with her dark hair pulled into a knot on her head. The cover of Going Postal by Terry Pratchett. This is the Paul Kidby illustration, with a man in the centre wearing an outlandish gold outfit including winged helmet, brandishing a sealed letter. There are two other men on the cover and some dogs, but mostly importantly an extremely elegant and unimpressed woman wearing a dark dress and smoking a cigarette.
February 19, 2024 at 10:45 PM
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Current status: watching the new batch of Bluey episodes and wondering whether Bandit's issue in Stickbird is that he had a bad review (in...archaeology papers?) "When you put something beautiful out into the world, it's no longer yours really." I see you.
Still from Bluey with Bandit (blue cartoon anthropomorphic dog) sitting on the beach under an umbrella with family gear beside him. There is a beautiful blue sky and clear sea and sand. Bandit has his legs covered with sand in a mermaid tail, and is staring at nothing with a troubled expression.
February 10, 2024 at 3:27 AM