Posts by Sophie Lay
Instead of asking chatgpt, why not ask a librarian? You'll get real answers and they won't tell you to kill yourself.
A photo of the Operation Mincemeat curtain at the New Theatre, Oxford
Well #OperationMincemeat was certainly quite a show! Fun songs, great actors (who can switch between roles in a beat), and a show that grapples with moral questions without spoonfeeding answers. Great job! @mincemeatlive.bsky.social
Literally just today the bus driver complimented my signalling ("Nice firm clear arm! Some people just wave weakly") and I thought how nice to get a good grade in bus travel
I think making up little guys is good for your mental health, everyone should make up characters and then spend time daydreaming about them
Turning 29 soon. Might just fuck around and become very independent and self-sufficient
Protect your peace. Read a book. Make something.
I'm very fond of the library in Baddesley Clinton - it's why Lady Georgiana's quote is my profile header!
Wearing a new skirt to unlock a new personality
I'm ecstatic to share my feminists@law article (!!) co-written and steered by @sandraduffy.bsky.social . I want to thank them publicly for rooting me on & the editorial team who were very supportive. Please read.
First of many I'm hoping...
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you think you'll set up a dungeons and dragons game and it will be heroism and tearful story beats but 32 weeks in the group chat is called something like "hagfuckers" or "tits out for lolth" and you're in a blazing row with a player who will only roleplay as an ordinary horse
Iβm looking to build up my editing business, and want to do some sample edits in exchange for reviews. To be considered, please fill out this form. #editing #writing forms.gle/fhbrjFr3uiZT...
For me I find best balance is not keeping treats around by default but also never denying myself them when I want them (I just have to walk to the corner shop to get them - which I can't always be bothered to do)
I am SO EXCITED
D&D tomorrow, then The One Ring on Tuesday. Can't wait to escape the real world for a bit and relax with my dumb tiefling fighter/cursed elf cartographer βοΈ
Website is up and running! If you could check it out at cgarbettediting.com, I'd be really appreciative. #editing #editorsonbluesky #link #website
Do you ever eat an orange which is so unyielding to being peeled & segmented that even trying to eat it feels like a violent act
Have you recently finished writing your novel? I'm looking to offer a free(!) developmental edit on one completed manuscript. It would be in return for an honest, detailed review for my website. I'm most interested in fantasy, horror and literary fiction. #amwriting #amediting #writers #editing
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 90981:
Unhappiness is not a prerequisite for making good art. Tea as a writing medium works quite as well as blood, and comes out a lot cheaper...
We are, we are! πββοΈ
Sorry to my housemates who are stuck with me listening to New Years Day on repeat it's just such a Perfect Song and I'm emotional thinking about my friends
As a fellow annoying paladin player... we are annoying but friends report it to be the endearing kind of annoying π€·ββοΈ
Excellent choice!! Who doesn't love an annoying paladin? β€οΈ
Ooooh, paladin?
Thatβs what Farage wants. Division. Hug your Dad.
Reading Rooms at the British Library are closed *all week* because so many of its workers refuse to work for pitiful wages in a contemptuously authoritarian and obliviously managed environment.
We need leaders who get it and are big enough to sort it out!
Itβs a mess and a disgrace.
Lift it up!!
I should start quoting this when a reader doesn't want to return a requested book
Fantasy as an assembly-line commodity leaves me cold.
Just ripped my trousers while shelving (phone in my back pocket caught on the shelf behind me while standing up) so I must be a real librarian now, right?