AnnieBannie (She/Her🧶📚🌈)

I Shouldn’t Have to Dehumanize My Son to Get Him Support Instead of focusing on the challenges facing disabled people, we should emphasize goals.

I wrote about this a few years back

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Mum has regressed. It's like the last 4 months of therapy and recovery after her stroke didn't happen.
She told us she was ready to go today.
We're back to the confusion and not making sense at times.
But, sometimes, she's here and lucid.

Over on Reddit someone is asking for science fiction for their precocious young reader and the people there are suggesting books that were old when that kid's grandparents were the same age as the kid, for fuck's sake if you didn't know any SF books from this millennium maybe sit this question out

I will be paying an extra $1800 a year for my Hybrid Subaru...

if I go back to my old Subaru which is dying & hideously inefficient I'll SAVE $500 a year.

This is FUCKED in the head

Book cover for I Am Raven by Alastair Chisholm

Book cover for North and the Only One by Vashti Hardy

Book cover for Scrap by Guy Bass

Book cover for Mega Robo Bros: Power Up by Neill Cameron

Following on from this week’s sci-fi chat from @jacquisydney.bsky.social and @pgbellwriter.bsky.social, what are your #KidsBooksFriday sci-fi recommendations? We’re lucky to have the phenomenal @alastairc.com leading the charge and I’ve read a few other brilliant examples lately. #KidLitUK #KidLit

House in the Cerulean Sea is a wonderful comfort read xoxo.
More Inventing the Renaissance for me.

Bah. Demanding people read half-century-old work as a purity test for genre membership is a fine way to kill the genre dead.

I wrote about such nonsense here;

whatever.scalzi.com/2020/08/07/o...

I found this AI gem earlier today.

Thanks google AI but I meant to type “shut”…

... oh my god lmao

Multiple times!

Do you ever just rewatch the final lineout of the Rugby World Cup 2021, played in 2022? No?

You really should. It’s one of the best moments of my life.

If I use my work email - you'll have it. And, it is inappropriate for me to use the form you used, to send such a reply.
If I use my personal email - you'll have it.

And, you wonder why I cut ties years ago.

'Dear' Person Who Made Me Get an Unlisted Phone Number
Just because I left my house when you arrived this morning, wasn't about you. I had my coat in my hand, and was picking up the paperwork to refer my mother to hospice.
You using a work channel to contact me is juvenile. I cannot reply.

Mate, I'm a great-great-aunt TWICE!
Niece, born on 1981 is a grandmother! Meanwhile, her cousin who is 6 weeks younger, has 10 and 11 year children.

This is #LibraryLove.
Actually, it's Love Love Love ❤️
^DR

I've had to go home, twice, for emergency meetings with the community nurse.
So, I've missed the fire drill, and the customer kicking off because the police have finally service the extension of their trespass.

I applied for a job!
(The one I'm doing in an acting capacity, on top of my actual job.)

This morning's urgent tasks are complete:
Mum has been referred to hospice - for care at home.
Mum's doctor has been contacted about trying to get oral pain meds.

And, I've finally applied for the job.

“Fierce”, my 2026 calendar is available to pre-order now.*
Find it here: dragonsofwales.etsy.com/listing/1050...

*Due to the current uncertainty regarding imports to the US, this pre-order is not currently available to US customers. I am truly sorry, and hope this can be resolved soon.

Oh Matty xoxo

A person being lurked on by a black cat.

A black cat sitting on a coffee table beside a person.

A black cat on a footstool trying to stare out the person.

Success! A black cat sprawled on a chair.

Midnight is a big bully, who is determined to sleep in my chair.

I read some picture books and will try for some Inventing the Renaissance later tonight.

Good old Valley of the Horses.

(Mum couldn't deal with the parents who let their daughters read Clan of the Cave Bear, but not Valley.)

Mum's having a down / low energy day, so slept through the visits.

SibL is ringing the dietician tomorrow.
Mum isn't really eating.
And is choking on solid foods.
It's hard getting her to take medication, and we're only focusing on pain meds at this time.

the Polari Prize First Book longlist, with Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu and Ciara Maguire crossed out as they've withdrawn

The Polari Prize Longlist with Rhian Elizabeth crossed out as she's withdrawn

New update on author withdrawals from the Polari Prize in protest of the inclusion of a proud transphobe

From the First Book longlist: Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Ciara Maguire

From the main award longlist: Rhian Elizabeth

The tension in our house has risen with the threat.

Up now.
Nephew and kid/s on their way.

SibK and BiLM up at 11am.

SibK has been solid and a rock of support.
BiLM is.... problematic.

Me, mentally: get up, get dressed, change sheets, do washing, move the piles of picture books, read books.
Me, physically: stay in bed and turn the electric blanket up to 2, listen to audiobook.