Andi
@andiwrites.bsky.social
SFF writer, disability comms person. Likes: knitting🧶 board games🎲 sea creatures🐙 reading📚. Lives: Te Awakairangi ki Tai | Lower Hutt. Pronouns: they/them. 🏳🌈🩼♾️
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God, my day job logo is very similar to the BSky logo and I keep seeing the latter and freaking out that I'm posting my shit on the day job account.
December 3, 2025 at 1:49 AM
God, my day job logo is very similar to the BSky logo and I keep seeing the latter and freaking out that I'm posting my shit on the day job account.
What do we think the chances the person ahead of me in the library queue will be organised enough to return the book on ADHD and dyspraxia on time?
December 3, 2025 at 1:49 AM
What do we think the chances the person ahead of me in the library queue will be organised enough to return the book on ADHD and dyspraxia on time?
Just saw a routemaster drive past my suburban home which happens to be almost as far from London as you can get.
I did know there was one in the region, but still, that was a brief "is there a glitch?" moment.
I did know there was one in the region, but still, that was a brief "is there a glitch?" moment.
December 3, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Just saw a routemaster drive past my suburban home which happens to be almost as far from London as you can get.
I did know there was one in the region, but still, that was a brief "is there a glitch?" moment.
I did know there was one in the region, but still, that was a brief "is there a glitch?" moment.
Nice bit of good news this morning, which I'll be able to share later in the month.
December 2, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Nice bit of good news this morning, which I'll be able to share later in the month.
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I want to make a list of *short stories* (any genre) published by intersex authors in 2025 & hopefully going forward. I've been meaning to do this for a while, and I think now there are plenty of stories.
If you have some stories, let me know / if not, please repost to spread the word?
Thank you!
If you have some stories, let me know / if not, please repost to spread the word?
Thank you!
December 2, 2025 at 1:38 AM
I want to make a list of *short stories* (any genre) published by intersex authors in 2025 & hopefully going forward. I've been meaning to do this for a while, and I think now there are plenty of stories.
If you have some stories, let me know / if not, please repost to spread the word?
Thank you!
If you have some stories, let me know / if not, please repost to spread the word?
Thank you!
When your work is at the intersection of Disability Studies and English Lit: having to specify _which_ Shakespeare.
November 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
When your work is at the intersection of Disability Studies and English Lit: having to specify _which_ Shakespeare.
Once again I'm at <3 hours to go on my monthly deadlines and still frantically typing. How to get enough adrenaline to work from sources other than panic?
November 30, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Once again I'm at <3 hours to go on my monthly deadlines and still frantically typing. How to get enough adrenaline to work from sources other than panic?
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Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
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The Department of What It (Really) Means to be Human by M. Darusha Wehm, coming in 2026 from @goldsf.bsky.social.
November 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The Department of What It (Really) Means to be Human by M. Darusha Wehm, coming in 2026 from @goldsf.bsky.social.
Got an email from the Chief Executive of my day job with the subject line "Attitude" and was all "oh my god I'm in trouble now" but fortunately she just wanted to alert us to a relevant episode of the TV programme "Attitude".
November 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Got an email from the Chief Executive of my day job with the subject line "Attitude" and was all "oh my god I'm in trouble now" but fortunately she just wanted to alert us to a relevant episode of the TV programme "Attitude".
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"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
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Yay! #CriptheLit is in The Spinoff events guide! #reading #writing #books #disabilityarts thespinoff.co.nz/pop-culture/...
Christmas, Crip the Lit and Jazmine Mary: The Spinoff event guide
Christmas is coming.
thespinoff.co.nz
November 27, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Yay! #CriptheLit is in The Spinoff events guide! #reading #writing #books #disabilityarts thespinoff.co.nz/pop-culture/...
Just terrified myself by pondering what Alan Garner and Alan Turing would have summoned had they had chance to really put their heads together.
November 27, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Just terrified myself by pondering what Alan Garner and Alan Turing would have summoned had they had chance to really put their heads together.
Actually blocking my knitting like a real adult.
November 27, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Actually blocking my knitting like a real adult.
Re other sources of income: I have a part-time (technically contract) job, in the wider writing/editing sphere. It pays enough. I like what I do, but it's under threat from people who don't value it. Next year is looking uncertain and stressful. I also have a partner who earns enough but not heaps.
November 27, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Re other sources of income: I have a part-time (technically contract) job, in the wider writing/editing sphere. It pays enough. I like what I do, but it's under threat from people who don't value it. Next year is looking uncertain and stressful. I also have a partner who earns enough but not heaps.
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Sorry to everyone who thinks there should be fewer romances involving grief, but we all just lived through a mass death/disabling historical event with absolutely zero public rhetoric about it (or the fact that it’s ongoing) and grief romances is one big way we’re all Working That Out
November 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Sorry to everyone who thinks there should be fewer romances involving grief, but we all just lived through a mass death/disabling historical event with absolutely zero public rhetoric about it (or the fact that it’s ongoing) and grief romances is one big way we’re all Working That Out
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I published some pieces I'm deeply proud of this year. My second novel, one of my most personal novelettes, one of my weirdest short stories, and an essay on an idea that's been nagging me for years.
November 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I published some pieces I'm deeply proud of this year. My second novel, one of my most personal novelettes, one of my weirdest short stories, and an essay on an idea that's been nagging me for years.
ANYWAY this week I have:
- submitted my final assignment (I don't think I passed but you get 3 attempts)
- sent off advance script of my presentation so NZSL interpreters can idk work out the sign for cosmic horror
- made a residency application
while dealing with day job and pain flare
praise me
- submitted my final assignment (I don't think I passed but you get 3 attempts)
- sent off advance script of my presentation so NZSL interpreters can idk work out the sign for cosmic horror
- made a residency application
while dealing with day job and pain flare
praise me
November 21, 2025 at 3:40 AM
ANYWAY this week I have:
- submitted my final assignment (I don't think I passed but you get 3 attempts)
- sent off advance script of my presentation so NZSL interpreters can idk work out the sign for cosmic horror
- made a residency application
while dealing with day job and pain flare
praise me
- submitted my final assignment (I don't think I passed but you get 3 attempts)
- sent off advance script of my presentation so NZSL interpreters can idk work out the sign for cosmic horror
- made a residency application
while dealing with day job and pain flare
praise me
Absolute fucking ghouls.
November 21, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Absolute fucking ghouls.
"We're really worried young people are getting medical care when they're too young to decide so we're going to create a situation where young people are forced to make that decision RIGHT NOW WITH NO NOTICE with risk if they decline it they'll be cut off from it forever."
November 21, 2025 at 3:37 AM
"We're really worried young people are getting medical care when they're too young to decide so we're going to create a situation where young people are forced to make that decision RIGHT NOW WITH NO NOTICE with risk if they decline it they'll be cut off from it forever."
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We elect people who value numbers on a piece of paper over whether actual people eat or have a roof over their head or can get healthcare when they sick. We elect people who value numbers on a piece of a paper over children eating or being educated. I also note that the numbers are all fake.
November 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
We elect people who value numbers on a piece of paper over whether actual people eat or have a roof over their head or can get healthcare when they sick. We elect people who value numbers on a piece of a paper over children eating or being educated. I also note that the numbers are all fake.
Oh fucking great, someone else I liked has emerged as a terf.
November 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Oh fucking great, someone else I liked has emerged as a terf.
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"When it came to Covid, we completely blew out what the value of a life was, completely, I've never seen such a high value on life.” - Brooke van Velden
"There are accidents that will happen. What I'm wanting to focus on is, how do I improve the overall economy and the situation that businesses and workers find themselves in?" - Van Velden. #PikeRiver
"She seemed to be focusing all the time on the employers and I sat and listened to it for a little while and then I just couldn't stand it" - Sonya Rockhouse. #PikeRiver
November 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
"When it came to Covid, we completely blew out what the value of a life was, completely, I've never seen such a high value on life.” - Brooke van Velden
"Let's take medical care away from children" COULD YOU BE ANY MORE CARTOON VILLAIN IF YOU TRIED YOU FUCKING GHOULS.
November 19, 2025 at 4:17 AM
"Let's take medical care away from children" COULD YOU BE ANY MORE CARTOON VILLAIN IF YOU TRIED YOU FUCKING GHOULS.
Absolute fucking ghouls, this government, absolute fucking ghouls.
November 19, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Absolute fucking ghouls, this government, absolute fucking ghouls.