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Ryan Vance

@ryanjjvance

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Writer, designer, rule of three enthusiast. Designs @gutter_magazine . Co-edited We Were Always Here ( @404ink ). Debut collection One Man’s Trash ( @LethePress )

Glasgow, UK

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Joined May 2009

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Ryan Vance

17 days

My debut collection: One Man's Trash Feat: A love-sick Minotaur who drives an ice cream van! Supertasters with psychic tongues. An apocalyptic hermit crab who demands rent in the form of cowrie shells. Edenic himbos! And more! Available from @lethepress :

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18 days

Can't help but feel like if you've managed to make Vigo the Carpathian: Scourge of Carpathia, Sorrow of Moldavia, a fictional despot from the Ghostbusters Cinematic Universe, look less demonic than the current reigning king, you've sort of fucked it.

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The funniest thing The Stand could do now is agree to all Joanna Cherry's terms, put on the event, then on the day, all the staff refuse to work that shift *like The Stand management warned would happen in their cancellation*, and the event can't go ahead anyway.

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9 months

Fixed views aren't helpful, no, but if you betray an audience's goodwill by taking their money while privately deciding they don't deserve healthcare, they're well within their rights to change *their* views of you, tell you to fuck off, and stop funding your art, actually.

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For the record, though, if luxury communism is on the table, that would be nice too.

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I don't need to see luxury communism achieved in my lifetime, I just need to see the death of the M8.

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1 year

PSA: looks like Blackfriars in Glasgow are happy to host multiple events by transphobic orgs, which is of course their prerogative, but queers and allies might want to take their custom elsewhere in the Trongate and Merchant City area. Disappointing.

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1 year

today I have accidentally dressed as the bus taking us to the wedding reception

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Just for once in my fucking lifetime I'd like to live under a government that slowly slides to the left.

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25 days

NEW: Kate Forbes is the new Deputy First Minister Shona Robison stepped down but will remain in cabinet

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I used to think Scotland had to be independent, to have any hope of becoming the progressive country it believes itself to be. Now, I think we have to live up to that belief *before* we gain independence, or we risk recreating and enshrining everything we want to leave behind.

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8 months

if every man constantly thinks about ancient rome and every man also constantly assesses every room he enters for risks how the fuck do you explain caesar getting stabbed by literally EVERYONE

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3 months

Okay hear me out: we actually need more AI art scams like this, in order to enable those who aren't aware of the threat to level up their bullshit detection in a very short period of time. £45 is a relatively reasonable price for a crash course in digital media literacy.

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apparently this was sold as a live Willy Wonka Experience but they used all AI images on the website to sell tickets and then people showed up and saw this and it got so bad people called the cops lmao

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@gallopingcatast I'm not sure businesses are legally allowed to let just anyone off the street "step in" and take someone else's job. I think there might be some more official process than that. I don't know though, you'd have to check to be 100% sure.

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2 months

Attention queer writers of Scotland! Submissions are open for the second Queer Words anthology: FIERCE SALVAGE! To be published 2025 by @404Ink , it will be a snapshot (and celebration!) of Scottish queer writing. Full submission details are on our site:

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5 months

Queer Words Project Scotland is back, back, back again! We're once more offering five queer early-career writers 3 mentoring sessions with some of the best and brightest writers working in Scotland! All details for how to apply can be found on our site:

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11 months

Maybe if you gave more money to the arts and media, instead of cutting back their funding and telling artists to cope with the cuts by retraining in something they don't care about, more people with arts and media degrees would find decent jobs in the arts and media.

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Too many students are being sold a university education that won't get them a decent job at the end of it. So I'm cracking down on rip-off degrees and boosting apprenticeships to ensure students get the best deal possible. Widening access. Boosting jobs. Growing the economy.

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11 months

@burrellcollect More of this, please! I won't be able to attend tomorrow, but would love to make it to one of Tom's shows at the Burrell some other time - they're an incredible performer and activist and artist.

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9 months

You aren't "cancelled", you aren't "de-platformed", you aren't being "censored", you can keep on doing what you're doing and those who want to support it still can and will, but like, people are allowed to turn away from you if they realise you have already turned away from them.

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1 year

My general advice to those who want to avoid accusations of transphobia:

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1 year

@MagiGibson @ScottishPEN @CreativeScots @scottishbktrust Say it, then. Say trans people exist, and you support them.

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1 year

Odd to see a free speech org address the staff of a comedy venue who object on moral grounds to hosting a member of parliament with access to tremendous legal power, wealth, and media clout, by running to the defence of the latter with well-known anti-establishment figures.

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Scottish PEN has released the following statement on the subject of event cancellations.

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1 year

For anyone curious as to the event, and the views of those who organised and promoted it. Seems even some folk who attended and took part weren't aware. But if I wanted people to believe I wasn't transphobic, I would simply not say "there's no such thing as trans" on main.

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1 year

Wilmot's Warehouse (Finji, 2019)

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HUMAN: oh look objects 🟢🟢🟧🟢🔺🔷🔺 HUMAN: I have organized them 🔺🔺🟢🟢🟢🔷🟧

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I would be like 10x more tolerant of LGBT ideology if like... are there *any* happy gay people out there? Like deep, joyous, 50+ years long content with life through and through

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1 year

If this keeps getting retweets, I should probably do something with it. Donate to Five For Five, folks! Give your cash directly to transfem groups or crowdfunds within the UK!

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fiveforfive - a transfem and trans women collective fund

FiveforFive is a collective crowdfund for UK trans women, trans fem people and organisations which support them. 100% of donations are given to individuals and causes - five pounds a month towards...

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6 months

It is happening again... It is happening, again! Quite excited to close out the year with a wee soft announcement of Queer Words Project Scotland 2024, more mentoring for emerging queer writers, and a new anthology with @404Ink . Further details to come in January!

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5 months

Are you a queer writer in Scotland who could benefit from a mentor? Queer Words Project is open for submissions! Come say hello, why don't you?

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Ryan Vance

5 months

Queer Words Project Scotland is back, back, back again! We're once more offering five queer early-career writers 3 mentoring sessions with some of the best and brightest writers working in Scotland! All details for how to apply can be found on our site:

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3 years

One Man's Trash, my debut collection, is NOW AVAILABLE! It contains inter-dimensional break-ups, body-horror romances, a giant hermit crab, and a lonely minotaur who drives an ice cream van. Get your copy @lethepress - - or from all non-trash booksellers!

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1 year

If I was a festival that went into liquidation after owing hundreds of performers money from the previous year, and had offered to pay them back in instalments, I would simply not ask volunteers for this coming year to secure their jobs with a deposit, also paid in instalments.

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1 year

Join the weekend volunteer crew to be part of a hugely beneficial event, and we’re certain you'll have lots of fun. Volunteering is a fantastic way to make friends, learn new skills, and is a cost-effective way to attend the festival. #dtrh #dtrh23 #dounetherabbithole #festival

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1 year

Walking through Queen's Park, a trio of lads slouch over, point, shout, "Are you gay?!" I look at myself. Shoulder length goldilocks curls, tropical shirt with with the top three buttons undone, ankle-cuffed bru-orange chinos, patterned socks, yellow brogues. I look up. "Yes."

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1 year

Whoever wins, we lose.

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Meet the mentees of Queer Words Project Scotland 2024! We are *so* excited to begin pairing these five fantastic emerging talents with their mentors, and we can't wait to see what they cook up for inclusion in the forthcoming anthology of queer writing!

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1 year

@BritLGBTAwards @santanderuk @BA_Group_ @Johnson_Matthey @Shell @NestleUKI @PwC PwC? Nestle? SHELL?!?! These brands skip homophobia and transphobia and go straight to humanphobia. Anyone who accepts an award from you this year has zero integrity. None.

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2 months

Putting the article about Aye Write's failed funding bid behind a paywall feels a bit on the nose.

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Exclusive: Glasgow's Aye Write book festival called off after Creative Scotland funding snub.

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Or succeeded beyond expectations, it's really down to the viewer to make up their own minds, it's 2024 after all, death of the author, all that, but I do wonder if the brief and the attached financial compensation was more "Candyfloss Vibes" than "Event Horizon Hell Dimension".

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1 month

I don't need to see luxury communism achieved in my lifetime, I just need to see the death of the M8.

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1 year

Sinus sufferers! If you use steroid/antihistamine sprays, a trick I've only just discovered in my ripe old 37th year is, after you spray, hold your nose shut, blow to pop your ears, to push the spray into your Eustachian tubes, which're also likely inflamed. I love middle age!!!!

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4 months

Queer? Writer? In Scotland? You've got just under a fortnight to apply for Queer Words Project Scotland! Get your applications to us by the 14th for mentoring to take your writing to the next level. More info at . In the meantime - let's meet the mentors!

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@innesmck @magmidd Sometimes I dream of a chair that has a face rest that can hold your neck tight, a back that doesn't let you slouch, and broad supportive rests for your wrists, and then I remember they exist and the American justice system uses them to murder people.

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5 months

Like many at the time, I wasn't able to recognise the damage Section 28 inflicted upon me and my understanding of sexuality until much, much later. The same will be true of kids targeted by the new schools "guidance" on gender. It's a cowardly, harmful approach. Fuck these fools.

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1 year

Officially over halfway through a deep-cut edit of the third complete rewrite of my first novel manuscript (minus the two last chapters), please applaud.

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4 months

mate, sometimes it feels like Edinburgh does psychic damage to me once a week, and I live in *Glasgow*

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Owl! at the Library 😴🧙‍♀️

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4 months

one thing that would greatly improve my mental health is living in a city that looks like this

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6 months

[sighs in Northern Irish]

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Brits, when did you realise we were the bad guys?

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1 year

I doubt I'll be this hot ever again.

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U don’t know someone till Uve seen what their vibe was in 2016

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Credit where it's due, Joanna Cherry getting cancelled by The Stand is *very* funny, Scottish comedy is alive and well.

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@MagiGibson @ScottishPEN @CreativeScots @scottishbktrust Say it, then. Say trans people exist, and you support them.

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1 year

@joanblanewater Mission accomplished! Thanks for the glowing feedback!

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1 year

Never have I felt more 36 than being in Bonjour of a Saturday night while a room full of beautiful young folk lose their shit to Push the Button, a song released when they were in nappies, noticing my orthopaedic insoles have fallen out of my bag onto the dancefloor.

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@strongmisgiving Muriel Spark on Lip Sync Battle

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1 year

Like, I understand passing and visibility are each social traps that we should really be over by now, and The Straights should feel comfortable wearing colour and pattern, but also, lol, lmao, obviously I'm gay, I'm dressed like a clown hired to work Paris Fashion Week.

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2 months

@robpalkwriter It's perhaps splitting hairs but I think the jokes were at expense of the royal family institution, with all its power and capabilities, absolutely fumbling at every turn the handling of a potentially serious situation with sloppy PR and outright lies. But I am a born hater, so.

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1 year

These experiments drag the focus *away* from the art, obliterating the original intent to focus the attention on something specific, something beautiful or horrendous, generating superfluous data in an attempt to "understand" the sublime. It's so stupid.

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8. Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights This one was tough and its not entirely AI's fault: the painting is REALLY complex (and frankly weird) It got the general shapes/colors right, but went really abstract

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I do wish the Powers That Be would stop trying to make Glasgow into an "Event City". We're barely even a city city! It's like trying to throw a house party in a condemned tenement flat! Extremely fun for the guests but hellish for the neighbours!

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1 year

Introducing: COCKROACH MOTHERFUCKERS. A time-bending narrative game where you assemble eight queer characters living at the sharp edge of barbarism, and chronicle their lives from birth to death - though not necessarily in that order... Happy Pride, cockroaches!

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Computer, zoom and enhance! Scot queer writers, if you'd like to be in with a chance of inclusion in FIERCE SALVAGE, the follow up to 2019's We Were Always Here, don't forget our submissions window is open until May 6th! Full info here:

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I've got it! I've finally pinned down who the AI Art Bros remind me of! The Auditors of Reality, from Discworld, specifically from Thief of Time, where they dismantle an entire museum, atom by atom, to find one single measurement of beauty, and cannot. It's so obvious now.

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10 months

Good Omens cosplay or queer wedding attire? You decide!

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1 year

Good hair days do not just simply celebrate themselves.

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I'll say this for the Paisley Town Hall refit: their inclusive bathroom has given the queers what we want (individual stalls with massive mirrors)

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1 year

@CrowMo99 I'm glad you agree suing the business and making the entire staff unemployed would be a bad idea.

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3 months

If I, as an MSP, had Glasgow's gays in the palm of my hand by merit of having a strong jawline, thick beard and slutty thin-rimmed glasses, I would simply not show my whole arse by inviting arms manufacturers to career fairs and calling police on genocide protestors.

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1 year

If being queer is a choice, it's a choice between being queer, or being dead. Choose to be queer.

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1 year

Did something big happen recently that might've disrupted thousands of neurodiverse people's ability to mask how they can't function under capitalism, @BBCPanorama ? Something, I don't know, global, or, like, hugely inconvenient. Maybe something interrupted capitalism itself? 🤷

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9 months

It's here! My symbology-powered twin-narrative post-apocalyptic cult RPG inspired by nuclear waste warnings is back from the printers and will soon be slouching towards Kickstarter backers and various local distributors! Cover artwork by the incomparable @Nadin0saur !

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1 year

@ultrabrilliant I'm making a game about this! Two players have to communicate using myths and symbols to make sure a future cult doesn't dig up the mistakes of the doomed past. I love deep time stuff, it's inherently hopeful imo to think we'll still be around then.

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A two-player one-session narrative card game of symbols, survival, and myth. Inspired by "A Quiet Year", and nuclear waste disposal.

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I do hope this gets hung in all the primary schools, though, kids radicalized en route to the playground by The Endangered Monarch, The Red King, Blood Chieftan of the Poppy Tribe, smirking at future canon fodder in an as-yet-undeclared war. Exemplary politcks, comrade Yeo!

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10 months

Every quibble I might have had with the Barbie movie has been entirely undone by one (1) dad I just passed in Glasgow city centre wearing a Barbie crop top to match his daughters' outfits.

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3 months

It's reassuring to know even the famous get sold pies that's just some puff pastry slapped on top of a tiny stew.

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Why would a photographer snap a picture of Emma Stone mid-chicken pie

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@gallopingcatast I would be surprised, tho, if The Stand consider their staff's decision not to work the event as gross conduct. Outside of criminal offences, are there any employment laws that force a business to dismiss workers who want to work for the business, who the business wants to hire?

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1 year

Is it okay to write about alcohol? Is it okay to write about taking drugs on a road trip across a desert? Is it okay to write about taking vengeance on a white whale? Is it okay to write about seducing an underage girl and drowning her mother? No. No it is not.

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@kieran_hurley They come from a generation that had decent unemployment support when they were cutting their teeth on their art. Same was said of Bowie when he died - you don't get artists like that any more because we're all straddling jobs instead of genres.

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1 year

For the first time in... weeks? years? forever? I have woken up naturally, before 8, fully rested, with energy to spare, to the point where I sort of understand morning joggers, or American breakfast montages, and I am deeply, deeply suspicious. I'll probably be dead by sundown.

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11 months

Mardigla has hit the inevitable (to anyone who has ever attended a Glasgow Pride) point where the march is twice as long as expected, twice as slow as expected, half as marshalled as needed, and now we're just ten thousand queers walking headlong into oncoming traffic.

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11 months

I fucking LOVE finding out someone's going by a new name. For whatever reason. Being told by them, or mutual friends correcting me, or just ambiently realising through social media that something's different. It's *such* a baller move to decide to tell the world who you are.

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1 year

I regret to inform you @wraithlands and I have invented the colour yellow.

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have come home for a visit, dad has arranged two of his paintings at the foot of my bed, already looking forward to waking up and forgetting they're there

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Have just clocked that next week I start a ten week NHS mental health group zoom course on being more aware of negative emotions called "No Hard Feelings" on the first Monday of Mental Health Awareness Week and I am already very aware of how annoyed I am by this.

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1 year

Warning! incoming brag: I'm sorting out my HMRC self assessment and it looks like last year, for the first time, I brought in just slightly more being freelance than the highest wage I ever pulled in employment. Look, ma! I'm living the dream*! *before expenses and tax

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4 months

If you thought January went on too long, wait until you hear what they're doing to February this year.

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1 year

Going to a ceramics class tonight. Gonna make a pinch pot. Gonna discover a new hyperfixation. Gonna lie to myself about how I'm not going to find a way monetise it. Gonna fall down a hole of my own making and never come out. Pray for me.

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11 months

A story in two parts.

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1 year

The Forbidden Toot

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@innesmck I unironically love the combo of the headline and "Increasing his record to 3-0" sort of implies he's 3 up on the entire cis man population, and literally any one of us could be next.

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1 year

Strong, STRONG contender for the Things That Want You To Eat The Thing That They Are by Also Eating The Thing That They Are 2023 Award.

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4 months

You have two days left to apply for mentoring with Queer Words Project Scotland. Which converted into Queer Time is more like five weeks, or maybe only half an hour, but still, apply apply apply!

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Ryan Vance

5 months

Queer Words Project Scotland is back, back, back again! We're once more offering five queer early-career writers 3 mentoring sessions with some of the best and brightest writers working in Scotland! All details for how to apply can be found on our site:

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1 year

Star Trek is about how humanity is completely unable to encounter anything truly alien without trying to make it more like a human and anything that resists this is evil, and I say this as someone who only started watching it during lockdown and now has seen almost all of it.

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Star Trek is about how you can meet all of humanity's material needs, remove all of our bigotry and prejudice and give each of us the fullest opportunity to live the best version of our lives and we will still be the species the rest of the galaxy regards as "the fuck up species"

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It was when nobody else in my screening laughed at this scene that i knew we had failed as a society.

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Ryan Vance

7 months

one of King's best short stories is about a never-ending finger with infinite joints crawling its way out of a bathroom sink in a rented flat and the tenant's desperate attempts to kill it without invalidating his lease

@Discourse_Stu

Stuicide is Painless

7 months

not enough zoomers stumbled across cocaine era stephen king, anne rice or vc andrews type stuff in the library at age 13 and they never learned art is supposed to be fucked up

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Ryan Vance

10 months

Terry Pratchett's in the news again - Stamps commemorating 40 years since The Colour of Magic! Two books a year every year since! Fucking hell! - so here's a throwback to 2020 and some of my Discworld Covers project. (I did all 35 of the main books, but these are my favourites.)

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Ryan Vance

1 year

I contain multitudes. Specifically, I contain both of these kinds of people identified by Agnes Callard:

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Ryan Vance

1 year

Now, by moonlight, I become werehippo.

@AgathaChocolats

Agatha Chocolats

@AgathaChocolats

1 year

In six words or fewer, write a story about this photo. #sixwordstory #WritingCommmunity

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Ryan Vance

10 months

@freelance_liar Does "lots of planets have a north" count? I like it because you can almost hear RTD scratching out previous versions of the joke and muttering "too weird" or "not weird enough" to himself before settling on this, but also it might be *too* good to be included.

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Ryan Vance

1 month

Someone should release a song that's just the lyrics "Use headphones! / on the bus! / use headphones on the bus!" and whenever someone's playing their phone full volume on the bus, everyone can blast the smash hit "Use headphones on the bus" in retaliation.

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Ryan Vance

2 months

@ejhchess @strongmisgiving

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Ryan Vance

1 year

You can't ask places *not* to host transphobia without angering transphobes, but you also can't say places *can* host transphobia if they want to but people who don't want to support transphobia should avoid those places, without angering transphobes; what's a boy to do?

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Ryan Vance

1 year

Sort of feel like it's got away from the UK a little bit that this is actually Ukraine's Eurovision.

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Ryan Vance

10 months

The number of times I've written myself into what feels like a dialogue dead end, and this was an option all along? Revelatory! Thank you Octavia Butler, I will be using and abusing this line in all my work from now on.

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Ryan Vance

11 months

Just spelt "simple" as "sympol", quite like it, quite like the idea of bringing back spelling everything however the fuck you like, quite tempted to start a movement dedicated to re-Chaucerising the language, go nuts and let everyone else catch up.

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Ryan Vance

7 months

(He's had a haircut, Gay Rules dictate it must be shared.)

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Ryan Vance

6 months

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@taynextdoor

tay.

6 months

it's the last month of the year, quote with your favorite pictures of yourself this year.

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Ryan Vance

1 year

Pedro Pascal as mushrooms Pedro Pascal as fast food logos Pedro Pascal as prescribed antidepressants Pedro Pascal as Victorian sex toys Pedro Pascal as stubbed toes Pedro Pascal as space shuttle disasters Pedro Pascal as absent fathers Pedro Pascal as unspeakable truths A thread!

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Ryan Vance

3 months

Me: I got that dog in me The dog in question:

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