Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️

Two black cats on a sofa surrounded by wooden blankets (one colourfully crocheted, the other a grey monstrosity). The larger cat, Pippa, is halfway through blinking while Vesper is cuddling her looking at the camera upside down.

Yeah, I think the cats feel at home now.

I have to say I'm a fan of any place that will add roast aubergine and spiced potato to a wrap. Probably the northerner in me.

Thanks for the tip, likewise!

I've not been inside the shop itself but the falafel kiosk does probably the most consistently good falafel wraps I've had. Worth my trip from Tottenham!

Getting to Budgens of Islington at opening time so they're still deep frying the falafels is the peak falafel experience 👌

Not a problem in our house as we don't have one!

The printer, however, is a highly suspicious object that must be batted at repeatedly to see what makes it go.

Official cat trendometer:

Hoovering 👎

Little a chicken as treat afterwards 👍

It's okay if you yourself don't like ballet or opera. My primary concern for both art forms is that they need funding and the artists need support.

It takes many hours to build the artists these arts can show through. We also need to feed the young and developing artists ballets and operas!

Bandcamp Friday! I'm offering humble suggestions, because unemployment blows goats:

Black Numenorean Woe- Basically it's Orc EDM
Clandestine Warlock- That 90's shit Dungeon Synth
Ossuary Paladin- Gloomy Sadboi Dungeon Synth
Soot Rooster- Norse Barrow Synth

linktr.ee/saintovgrave...

It later turned out that the irl name I chose was also the one my grandmother had but didn't go by, alternate spelling and all, but I found this out from my dad in between choosing the name and coming out to him, so that was an emotional rollercoaster I had to hide behind a straight face.

Irl name: Shouting names across the room with my partner in lockdown to find something that fit within my criteria (multi-syllabic, not alliterating with my surname).

Pen name: My Confirmation name, because St Lawrence is the patron of libraries and reportedly died making bad puns.

I am fully aware that I could have just balled up another bit of tinfoil.

I am also fully aware that it would not have been the *same* bit of tinfoil and would have been Inferior.

A tiny black cat with a ball of tinfoil.

Reunited.

Update: she somehow managed only to bat it under the fridge so guess who had to crawl on her belly with a stick to fish out a manky bit of tinfoil?

Vesper managed to bat her favourite toy (a scrunched-up ball of tinfoil) under a cupboard. She's now under there too, trying to fish it out.

I can't see her but I know she's there because of the scrapes, thuds, and occasional frustrated chirrups 😭

Maybe it'll happen today?

C'mon, seize life by the lemons and make it happen whatever 'it' might be, maybe today's the day you decide to learn piano, go to the gym, draw that OC you're always thinking about, engineer that device you think'd be neat, or tell that someone in your life how you feel!

She seemed quite into You Might Be Deceased and Devil is a Loser.

A black cat in a fluffy white radiator hammock with her eyes closed blissfully (she's in the middle of a slow blink)

This is the contented face of a cat whose mum is coping with the last half hour of the working day/week by singing Lordi songs at her.

So much of what is happening with genAI is b/c the mainstream media is already slop, full of poorly-worded, poorly-argued articles assigned on the basis of follower count & edited to scare as few horses as possible. Passive voice, lazy metaphors, no theory of history, cheerleading for capital.

A screenshot of the Submissions section of the Submission Grinder. Two entries are amber, 167/169/? and 33/17/63. Two are still black, 28/39/? and 26/?/?.

It's the hope that burns - just waiting to be put out of my misery 😭

Old Habits Die Hard - Lawrence Harding's Ko-fi Shop In this fantasy novelette, Brother Statius must break into his old monastery to save the relics of his saint before they're used for nefarious ends - ...

Featuring:

Old Habits Die Hard

12000 words of dark monastic fantasy, in which Brother Statius must steal relics from his former brethren and save his saint.

Featuring:
- heists
- monks
- demons
- demon monks
- relic cults
- battle trauma

#booksky 📚💙

A concert poster style graphic for SYNTHS AGAINST SORCERY, "a night of spellbinding dungeon synth!" featuring Wizards of Aldur, Gloamwalker, Ervals and Fantasy Audio Magazine. Live tonight at 7pm EST, free admission, all ages.

🎹 SYNTHS AGAINST SORCERY IS TONIGHT!🔮
🎶💀Starting at 7pm EST, and hosted by @jayrequard.bsky.social. There will be interviews with and live performances by several cool characters from the Dungeon Synth scene!💀 🎶
Watch it here 👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/brackenbooks/new-edge-sword-sorcery-2026

We can't while it funds our oppression.

A screenshot of Google's AI Overview answer to the question "is haggis an animal". It says "Yes, the haggis is a small, furry mammal native to Scotland" and goes on to give the typical "asymmetrical legs" details.

The Scottish have won the AI Wars.

A small black cat loafing forlornly half-behind a chair next to a catnip pretzel toy.

When mum is in a meeting but all you want is Laser Pointer

Müller Reich

This place is getting much worse for alt-text recently! Include it for your own images and don't repost images that don't have it (except to add alt text yourself if you feel it's important to share it anyway).

A tiny black cat looks round the corner at the foot of some stairs and gives the viewer magnificent side-eye.

Judgement! At the foot of the stairs.

Name a movie filmed in black and white after 1970

Hundreds of Beavers (2022)

He very much was, but I have to admit there is an element of me reacting to "the kind of men who made me realise I wasn't" as a factor at play here.

Of course Olga has sucker-punched me with "early modern transgender monk writing a Life of St Wilgefortis while trying to live as a nun" subplot 😭

It is very wholesome (so far) and I am very attacked.