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Happy Birthday Fred Dog x

I own an absolute ton of Crayola Crayons.

So today I have found and bought on eBay a complete 64 colour box from 1978. Which has about 10 or so retired colours in it. Which I don't own. (Well I do now!).

I don't use them btw.

I just house them.

#dontjudge

Slightly overwhelmed by the amount of stuff I have to deal with as we are buying a house and I need to pack here up.

So instead of a To Do list, a Not Do list will be formulated.

It will mainly consist of "Do Not pick up your phone" as it eats all my time up for no bloody reason.

Make that twenty hours now.....

Just quietly going to rant in a corner about how Meta hides comments on our business pages ....

And those comments are the ones defending the survivors of sexual abuse whereas the comments defending the abusers stand unhidden.

I've spent twenty minutes Unhiding comments sat at a services.

I would have been bitterly disappointed if nobody had got this. The only vegetarian vampire duck in existence.

My Hubs had never seen The Prisoner up until this last couple of weeks he is loving it.

Now I admit, I am a fan of the series. I've watched all 17 episodes several times over the years.

They did a remake back in 2009.

I've never seen it.

Has anyone here seen it ?

Is it worth my time?

Has anyone else spent days cataloguing their art materials?

We'll be moving in the next six months (hopefully much much sooner than that) and I realised I had no clue exactly what I owned.

I don't want to lose anything in the move.

2 huge spreadsheets later ...

Because the fear is why she won't go into the toilet block. Fear is the reason she responds because she doesn't know what the man will do if she doesn't.

Fear is why she didn't scream FUCK OFF at him.

Fear is the reason men continue to behave like creeps.

Not consent.

Fear.

Don't force a conversation, don't make them feel they cannot leave.. don't make them feel like you will follow them into the toilet block.

Just leave them the fuck alone.

Ignore them.

If a man thinks he can do nothing otherwise, then he needs to seriously think about his behaviour.

🧵

Just putting my thoughts down.

If you make someone uncomfortable, look at your behaviour.

You may think you are being friendly, but the timing, place etc makes you a creep.

If a woman is alone, and you are male, don't approach them at a campsite when they are going for a wee at 6am... 🧵

I've always doubted the letter thing. The adaptation of Good Omens has been tried for years beforehand. Terry asking Neil to make sure it actually bloody happened would make sense. But sequels? I always queried that.

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Cue all the local conspiracy theorists and absolute nutters coming out in force to a post about it.

I cannot wait to get out of here.

Thankfully we are in the process of buying a house in another town.

Dread trying to park a van to move us out though... we'll probably have to block the road!

We all park in it. Especially as the building was empty for so long.

In the last year, A pharmacy/doctor's/dentist has opened up in the building.

They don't use the back entrance and don't use the car park.

Today they fenced off the entire car park.

🧵

Our street already is subjected to resident parking permits, each house is entitled to two passes, but the street doesn't even have enough space for each house to have one car parked on it.

Directly behind my house is a car park which used to belong to the Co-op/Factory shop building. 🧵

There is nothing that screams at you to move towns more than the comments on the local What's On page's information post about a car park closure.

Fuck me...they come across as being in a different county when they handed out brain cells.

This particular car park closure directly affects me. 🧵

A personally difficult story for us, but a necessary one.

My statement below, for the record [as an image+alt text, so it all fits on one page]. It's all I can manage at this time.

Let's put it this way. Abusers will do anything they can to hide their true selves from everyone, themselves included. They believe their own lies, and can fool almost anyone into believing they are something they are not..including themselves.

It's a difficult one. Right now I have an extremely limited illustrated edition of Stardust sat on my shelves. It was worth about £350 .... I can't even touch it at the moment. The thought makes me nauseous.

I will sell it eventually. Privately if I have to.

Amazon cared enough to actually cancel Good Omens 3.The Pratchett estate team had to fight to finish the story, hence why it's one 90min episode. Gaiman's company and his writing credit has been removed. His only credit being "contributed to the writing"

There are plenty of people out there who would buy them because they don't see things the same as us. In the same way people still buy Her who shall not be named's books/merch/tat.

There Is No Safe Word How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.

I knew this piece about Neil Gaiman was in the works, and still, I felt sick reading it.

TW: rape, abuse, coercion, and child sex abuse.

Yep. I read it. I'm heading not only to the shower, but also to hug my favourite plushie.

For those that don't know me, I wrote #DiscworldMonthly for ten years, now I write @betterthan.bsky.social and run Llamedos Holiday Camp and the Portal to Discworld at Fantasy Forest.
I create a lot of art, some of which I sell, and I ride a lot of rollercoasters.

Sometimes I combine the two.