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Pride Reads Drew

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🏳️‍🌈I help writers w/ their lgbtq+ chrs & stories. 👨🏼‍💻Screenplay & novel sensitivity reader for hire. Writer📺📖.🌟Monthly newsletter PrideReads.co.uk he/they. ND

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Pride Reads Drew @pridereads.bsky.social · Nov 17

Maybe a (re) intro is a good idea

I’m Drew💋
Aka Pride Reads

Sensitivity reader of scripts & novels, owner of PrideReads.co.uk, elder gay, ND & one of them he/theys

Screenwriter- written on h’oaks, currently pitching an lgbtq+ anthology series

Debut novel out March 2025

Expert milkshake maker

Picture of me, Drew. Pink hair, glitter on my face and a T-shirt that reads PROUD. ALSO, I am cute.

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Pride Reads Drew @pridereads.bsky.social · 1h

Haha. He must have. Some of those leaps took weeks. Maybe between leaps, he got to sleep in the ether

Pride Reads Drew @pridereads.bsky.social · 10d

Everything being pistachio flavour really is the last fucking straw to this timeline tbh

Pride Reads Drew @pridereads.bsky.social · 27d

“TikTok is just stupid videos that will rot your brain”

Oh really? Well maybe after reading about the state of the world, and everyone’s opinion on it, on Twitter and Bluesky every day, maybe I need stupid videos to soothe my anxiety! Ever thought of that you daft twunt?

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Pride Reads Drew @pridereads.bsky.social · Sep 13

Why anyone looks up to any celeb at this point is beyond me. You just don’t know when they’re gonna fail you. This is why I don’t do parasocial

Pride Reads Drew @pridereads.bsky.social · Sep 13

When I watched it I immediately thought of you.

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Pride Reads Drew @pridereads.bsky.social · Sep 13

Did you like the Spirk scene?

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Pride Reads Drew @pridereads.bsky.social · Sep 13

@ryanthomasriddle.com did you see the SNW finale?

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Pride Reads Drew @pridereads.bsky.social · Sep 13

I think The Paper is ok but the reality of the camera crew does not hold up at all. Why do they have multiple shots but are not in the background of any shot? It’s “real life” they’re not doing the scene twice. Where were they in the car scene? Nothing makes sense

Pride Reads Drew @pridereads.bsky.social · Sep 7

My issue with shows that are fake documentaries, is they have multiple camera positions but clearly only 1 single camera for the in-show crew. We never see the other camera and if it is only 1 camera, why are they doing multiple takes when it’s real life?

This can’t just be me?

Pride Reads Drew @pridereads.bsky.social · Sep 4

Ok. That’s my first wave of 11 agents submitted to.

All agents I’d love to sign with including one in particularly who I may have gushed too much to in my query letter. Ooops.

Pride Reads Drew @pridereads.bsky.social · Sep 3

I will never understand dog (and cat) owners who lose their aged pet and get a new dog or cat within weeks.

Pride Reads Drew @pridereads.bsky.social · Sep 3

Awww. I’ve not seen Leonard for years. Literally years when he was always on twittter.

Pride Reads Drew @pridereads.bsky.social · Sep 1

Okay, wish me luck! Here I go again. Back in the agent query trenches.

I forgot how long this takes. Every single agent wants a different file format, file title, different things for the query letter. And if you don’t get these little things right, they’re not even gonna read my chapters.

Pride Reads Drew @pridereads.bsky.social · Aug 31

The latest Pride Reads Newsletter is on its way

Pride Reads Drew @pridereads.bsky.social · Aug 28

Another excellent Strange New Worlds. Particularly laugh out loud this week. I fall in love with show more and more every episode

Pride Reads Drew @pridereads.bsky.social · Aug 23

Pride night 1 DONE!

Now to rest before the bigger night 2 happens.

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Pride Reads Drew @pridereads.bsky.social · Aug 20

Writing a pitch for a novel is not the easiest thing, but needs must and it’s almost query time.

I’m actually pretty happy with it, and it wasn’t as hard as last time.

Pride Reads Drew @pridereads.bsky.social · Aug 17

Oooh I can’t wait now. Because I think there’s been loads of amazing episodes so if you’re all saying this is particularly good, then…

Pride Reads Drew @pridereads.bsky.social · Aug 15

So I’m off to a space rave tomorrow and I needed to make an old pair of shoes fit the theme

Pride Reads Drew @pridereads.bsky.social · Aug 14

Just got to the ep where enterprise gets sent back in time and they tell the current crew. They really did make it even more nohomo with pairing everyone up to opposite genders.

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Pride Reads Drew @pridereads.bsky.social · Aug 14

@ryanthomasriddle.com tell me these two finally get together or at least shag it out of their system?!

Haha I know the answer is NOHOMO but you thought it too, right? Not just me 😂

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Pride Reads Drew @pridereads.bsky.social · Aug 11

To soothe my soul, and perhaps my adhd, I have ordered a large amount of American and Mexican sodas to enjoy this week, including Mexican Coke, real sugar Dr Pepper, orange cream Coke and Barq’s cream soda and red too (amongst many others)

Pride Reads Drew @pridereads.bsky.social · Aug 7

If Beto doesn’t name his documentary “Star Trek” in SNW I will be disappointed 😂

Pride Reads Drew @pridereads.bsky.social · Aug 2

A few things I treated myself to, today.

Pride Reads Drew @pridereads.bsky.social · Jul 31

I bloody love Strange New Worlds. The core of every single tv show ever made, is that it should be entertaining. And SNW does not fail to entertain. Every week. I hope they manage to sneak in another musical episode before the series finale.