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derekdesanges.bsky.social
Derek
@derekdesanges.bsky.social
Writer of books and short stories: derekdesanges.wordpress.com/books
Writer of feature articles & reviews in the museum sector: https://desangeswritings.wordpress.com/
Media-adjacent (sorry)
https://linktr.ee/derekdesanges
Profile artwork by Emma Weakley.
this, only dumb outfit.
November 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
i used to use ps/similar programmes to spends making incredibly intricate vector remakes of photographs. now i do shit like this.
November 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Hello authors & editors of bsky! Can anyone recommend for me (as I missed the direct submissions window for the one I had earmarked) a publisher that is:
- taking direct submissions
- of queer romance/relationship-centred contemporary fiction
- of up to 120k?

(Picture unrelated, attention-drawer)
October 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
i think if my name rhymed with ghoul and tool i'd refrain from having ghoulish, toolish opinions for money, John.
October 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
life persisting in camden today.

tried uploading these from my phone and uh. bsky crashed my whole phone for me. very nice.
October 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
things became a little on the nose last night
October 21, 2025 at 4:49 PM
October 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
i have mixed feelings about the outernet and at least one of the interactive games has incredibly annoying audio, but i can't fault it as a place to wait out of the rain. there's even coffee
October 3, 2025 at 11:32 AM
i promise this is funny if you actually follow it
September 28, 2025 at 10:49 AM
and this is why i don't yeet 'dead' plants
September 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
September 4, 2025 at 11:58 AM
September 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
barbicanned
August 30, 2025 at 12:57 PM
this is what i see when i try to compose a post on mobile browser
August 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
no gods, no masters, no health and safety
August 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM
today i went to Canterbury and looked at some things, including the similation labs at a university my friend works at, which was disorienting but cool. also was adopted by this soft little cloud in a coffee shop.
August 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
i still have the journalist enquiries number saved if anyone wants to call and ask how they plan to police this and if this is going to involve checking the genitals of 13 year olds to make sure they're Allowed to buy a bra
August 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
fella at the farmers market brought some of his coworkers out to meet the public: big box of bees
August 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
@abbis.bsky.social they've your plums at the farmers market but unlabelled...
August 10, 2025 at 12:30 PM
August 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM
So there's this huge community garden project about 10 minutes from my house, and it's open to the public a couple of days a week, and today was the best possible day to have chosen to go...
August 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
if anyone would like to ask m&s if there are any other minorities they'd like to apologise for hiring or why they don't want trans people from shopping in their stores, citing this story, the press contact number is:
August 5, 2025 at 9:57 AM
torrens street, London.
July 27, 2025 at 1:37 PM
New protest sign idea:
July 23, 2025 at 10:24 AM
-- from MAKING STUFF & DOING THINGS, ed. KYLE BRAVO
July 21, 2025 at 5:38 AM