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'Olly-ween 🎃

@lilprincesays.com

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They/Them/Thon #Author, scriptwriter, podcaster & games writer Co-host of I'm A Fan Of That Podcast General Purpose Muppet New book "A History of Fans and Fandom" Represented by Past Preservers www.lilprincesays.com Short stories #ollyfic

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'Olly-ween 🎃 @lilprincesays.com · Nov 14

#Popculture is everywhere; you can’t move for a new superhero #film or major franchise appearing and we love it. You can't deny fan culture & #fandom are part of the world, but what does that mean & where did it come from? Good thing I wrote a #book about it!
www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Fans-and-Fan...

A History of Fans and Fandom

Do you have a Google alert for your favourite band going on tour? Or maybe you have a pull list at your local comicbook shop?…

www.pen-and-sword.co.uk

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'Olly-ween 🎃 @lilprincesays.com · 1d

People are looking for hope and the Greens are bringing that hope with proper, thought out & well presented politics & policies. No, they won't win over everyone, but the people who are looking for help, hope and belief in this country that isn't hateful have found a home after years of feeling lost

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Daniel Johnston Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 1d

The Green Party in England & Wales now has more members than the Conservative party (previously the most successful electoral force in British politics). Big things are happening!! join.greenparty.org.uk

Alex Morss 🦇🏴‍☠️♾️ @alexmorss.bsky.social · 1d

Beautiful

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'Olly-ween 🎃 @lilprincesays.com · 1d

The more I'm looking at the news with the Greens, it feels like we're going to see a battle between them and Reform at the next election. It's not the first time a new party has swung in from the left in the UK, and it's also not the first time the established parties have lost their position.

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moiderah's myriad character flaws @moiddoesart.com · 2d

I have drawn art for multiple TTRPGs. I do it for a love of the game, because I feel like these games deserve illustration and I know how important it is for getting these games sold.

It also does not pay nearly well enough, and I can't blame my clients for it.

THIS INDUSTRY DOES NOT PAY WELL.

🏅🥈David, the Table Top (they/them)💛🤍💜🖤 @theinkedknight.bsky.social · 2d

I think it should BECOME possible to work professionally on tabletop games.

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'Olly-ween 🎃 @lilprincesays.com · 2d

Been working my poor little fingers to the bone today...
Still got some more to do with this bastard piece of cosplay BUT it is finally looking like something!
#cosplay #starwars

Leather armour on a mannequin. It is handstick with two rows of white thread all the way around the edge and had grey popper studs on the shoulders.

Leather armour on a mannequin. It is handstick with two rows of white thread all the way around the edge and had brass studs along a join in the armour width ways.

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'Olly-ween 🎃 @lilprincesays.com · 2d

Omg the amount of slurs in one episode and all the women being called slags and whores. So eye opening.

'Olly-ween 🎃 @lilprincesays.com · 2d

I just remember them all having these MASSIVE computers and them being the most high tech stuff in the world. Someone in Prime Suspect just made a comment about the new ATM that's been set up and how exciting it is haha

'Olly-ween 🎃 @lilprincesays.com · 3d

Over the last few years I've been watching Silent Witness from the very beginning, starting in the 90s, & it's been an education in how the world's changed for SURE. I decided that I would like to watch another crime classic, Prime Suspect, today & omg it's staggering how the men in this show behave

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'Olly-ween 🎃 @lilprincesays.com · 3d

Under capitalism...it did D;

'Olly-ween 🎃 @lilprincesays.com · 3d

I hate thiiiiiis! So much

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Daniel Johnston Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 3d

Hey all new game devs! 👋 Since there seems to be a whole new wave of people coming here I thought I'd do a little write up of how to get the best out of BlueSky as a game dev: chequered.ink/how-to-use-b... #gamedev #indiedev

How to use BlueSky as a game dev - Chequered Ink

BlueSky has become a solid successor to Twitter among game developers. Wondering how to use BlueSky as a game dev? we've written a guide!

chequered.ink

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'Olly-ween 🎃 @lilprincesays.com · 4d

Homemade Bara Brith has been added to this wholesome set up. First time making it and I'm proper proud.

'Olly-ween 🎃 @lilprincesays.com · 4d

Currently listening the lovely human & actor Michael Pitthan read Poe stories live on twitch on his new "bedtime stories" series. There is something about someone reading live that is so wonderful, especially when 200 odd people are watching from all around the world. Wholesome use of the Internet.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4d

On the same day that a poll shows the Green Party in front of the Labour Party for the first time - it's time to take on Reform too.

My chat with @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social 👇🏼

youtu.be/XRNB5MD7Ijw?...

How to stop a right-wing takeover of the UK | Zak Polanski | UNAPOLOGETIC

YouTube video by Middle East Eye

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'Olly-ween 🎃 @lilprincesays.com · 4d

When the president of the Society of American Travel Writers tells you he loves your writing style and you suddenly feel like you have the BIGGEST WRITING D*CK THE WORLD. What a lovely day.

'Olly-ween 🎃 @lilprincesays.com · 5d

Currently reading "The Making of Oliver Cromwell" by Ronald Hutton and I have learnt an awful lot about the river Ooze and its surrounds. Love a history book that goes into depth about not just the social and political world of a person but the natural one as well. Its very important.

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'Olly-ween 🎃 @lilprincesays.com · 5d

Oh Mr Squirrel you so CHONK

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Janey Llou @janeyllou.bsky.social · 6d

Anyone still on X, get off now.
Look at what you’re funding.

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 6d

To all you patriots (and UK authorities)

Is this not political interference of the most egregious and socially divisive kind?

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'Olly-ween 🎃 @lilprincesays.com · 11d

Inspired by our previous episode on genres, we decide to chat today about a thing that happens, particularly in fan spaces. Flanderization is the process of a character being distilled to the point of removing many deeper aspects of their character.
#fandom #popculture #thesimpsons #fanculture

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'Olly-ween 🎃 @lilprincesays.com · 13d

Every time the KCD community does something

Meme from the Simpsons of "don't make me tap the sign" with the sign saying He's Just a Beige Man

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Peter Collins @peter.polari.com · 15d

I look forward to using my government-allotted “freedom time” to take part in my chosen government-approved protest. 😬

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15d

Not the most “I can definitely be trusted with power” kind of statement I’ve ever heard

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'Olly-ween 🎃 @lilprincesays.com · 14d

Distracted from my editing by a forty-something year old man playing Tropico 6 on twitch. What has my life become?

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🎃Damien S. Pumpkins🎃 Any Questions? @damien-a-p.bsky.social · 24d

Well. This is a doozy of a thread.

John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25d

The interesting opposite of this is General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord. Post-WW1 titan of the German army. Who Hitler DESPERATELY courted.

von Hammerstein is one of only 3 figures believed to have told Hitler to fuck off to his face. He even thwarted Nazi attempts to politicize his own death. /1 🧵

'Olly-ween 🎃 @lilprincesays.com · 25d

It's a hot ribenna and reading about renaissance bohemian in bed kind of day while I recover from the burnout I caused myself.