Nicola Dimmer

I hope the meds help!

Done plus a tiny bit extra in case it's more or if you want to buy a snack too.

Angular green and gold labradorite pendant netted in silver wire, sitting in black and white gift box.

Small golden drop pendant netted in silver wire, sitting in black and white gift box.

And they have arrived!

Right. I now have more than enough boxes and jewellery cord to sell out the entire shop. Yes, that's an absolute wish, but I couldn't risk being left unable to post *immediately* right now.

So. Who wants a shiny thing?

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Serious point: I have spent more hours than I care to remember over the last five years buying clothes for men who couldn’t get to the shops for some reason. This nonsense would make life infinitely more miserable for someone who depends on someone else to do their clothes shopping.

My husband will have to buy his own damn socks.

As a physicist I can easily calculate time dilation from relativistic motion (time slows when you're moving fast) or proximity to a massive object (time slows in gravity) but I have yet to find a solution for emotional time dilation (the task takes five minutes to complete but six weeks to start) 🫠

Cush Jumbo is narrating. Laurie is voicing Dumbledore.
Disappointed with all of them, several actors I've watched and enjoyed on this cast list.

Opened Bluesky, saw this, off to AO3 now 😁

A factual statement from The National Allotment Society re the utter nonsense a broadsheet posted over the weekend.
Also, as per my post on Saturday: the only factual basis the article contains is a regurgitation of stats from a Parliamentary Q&A a few weeks back.

I got mad about AI so I made this comic about The Fucking Point of it all (1/7)

“The ‘grown women’ of Ireland remember very well what erasure and control and lack of bodily autonomy feel like and it’s for this very reason that we stand so passionately with the trans community today”

#TransRightsAreHumanRights @independent.ie

Eeee, how was it? So pleased for you!

In sum, yes, this is where I was going

Girls and women put up with all kinds of shit that is vaguely socially unacceptable now and what we are seeing is a *reaction* to the gain of making that stuff socially unacceptable

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Wish I had better news. TurtleOfCalm published a post on Ko-fi

General update over on Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/post/Wish-I-...

Hot dog spill shuts down highway in Pennsylvania commuters' wurst nightmare By Associated Press UPDATED: August 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM ET SHREWSBURY, Pa. (AP) - A truckload of hot dogs spilled across a Pennsylvania interstate Friday after a crash that briefly clogged the heavily traveled artery in both directions.

A writer waits a lifetime for a moment like this.

Y'all are beyond incredible, we're set and safe now. Thank you all so much!!!!

A photograph of two muppets at sea. The Ed Teach muppet is in his rice sack onesie and he's holding a fishing line. He has caught a merStede muppet who is dangling from his fishing line and they are both staring at each other in delight.

A new month and a reminder to never stop being your quirky, curious, unique self :)
#OFMD #OurFlagMeansMuppets

Yes! And for us it cuts down on debates with the kids of the "The sun's still up, why do I have to go to bed?" type.

Amazing for naps 😁

We got shutters for all the bedrooms last autumn and it has been so helpful! It's so nice to be able to make it fully dark, even with the blackout curtains there was a lot of light at the edges - not anymore! Congrats on your new blinds!

happy thursday enjoy jinkx monsoon dragging jk rowling to the depths of hell and back

Watch this, sound on.

Screenshot of a bank balance showing -$484.78

Okay friends.

Good news: I've got a new job!

Bad news: It doesn't start for a month!. Unemployment isn't enough, and rent is due tomorrow.

I need to raise $2500 to bring this balance back to positive and cover rent and utilities.

Paypal: affirmationgin at gmail
Cashapp/venmo: showupforthis

Unsolicited writing advice, no: 1276:
The secret to writing success is *to make the reader feel something.* It doesn't matter how beautiful your prose is, or how clever your premise is if the reader feels nothing for your characters or your story.

How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽

When I think about the stupid mistakes LLMs make with words sometimes, (cf. the strawberry problem, fabricating quotations, or mixing up terms etc.), there's a well-known Old English riddle that comes to mind.

It's more than 1,000 years old but I think it has something to tell us about AI...

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I want to tell you something about my Doctor Who book.

If you open it, you'll find it's dedicated to Katrina.

Katrina was a friend of mine with profound intellectual disability, which came bundled with a whole bunch of physical disabilities.

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A coloured pencil drawing of Ed Teach in profile with soft light reflected on his face and hair

While I was doing some tidying, rediscovered one of my earlier OFMD fanarts. Once, I planned to do the whole cast but my technique takes so long and I had so many fics I wanted to write.
Ed in prismacolors on royal purple card
#OFMD