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T. M. Shannon 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him)
@tmshannonauthor.com
Catholic Bisexual living on Cabrogal land with Bipolar 1/ADHD and a penchant for writing, blogging, and gaming

Currently neck deep in the overhaul of Three Ways, catch up with the posts and a short story on my site https://tmshannonauthor.com/
Well the MC goes to a massage parlor and gets a happy ending...

Oh, you meant the book's ending! Yeah, nah, so not happy

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#BookSky
October 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I'm jumping in with my October 3 answer #writinglifempnthly

I'll spare you the mess that is my space, lots of crap on the right of the laptopto

But here's my writing/gaming buddy, the Lord Humungus from Mad Max 2 aka The Road Warrior

Yes, huge fan

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October 3, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Taylor's of 'Arrogate, proper tea from Yorkshire?

Luxury! I never 'ad tea this good as a kid, we had to brew with the same Lipton teabag for 6 years!
September 22, 2025 at 1:02 AM
So this happened

When you get canned for calling out a right wing hater, you know society is fucked

#auspol
#LGBTQIA+
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#ReaderSky
#BookSky
September 18, 2025 at 12:55 AM
This was last week after my recovery meeting (a 12-step fellowship based on AA), pecking some words out whilst enjoying a beer

I do good writing outside or in cafes and pubs (bars)

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September 14, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Breakfast of writing champions, a coffee, sausage and egg muffin (with BBQ sauce, legendary!), and that all important hashy

Hoping to get this chapter done, been slow at it given there's raunch incoming

The darling partner will be happy with the end product

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#readersky
#booksky
August 28, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Found this from my search, can't even block

Unknown if locked down, made private, or banned from Bluesky
August 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Looks like the account is locked down or has been made private, can't even block, just report
August 23, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Author Update 🖊️

It happened

After all the times I've mansplained (don't worry, been a while) irony has struck in the form of someone who just had to tell me what success means in wider context with a screenshot

Truly, I have lived

(For me, every day is a success)

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#WritrSky
August 22, 2025 at 11:19 PM
For those spouting "em dashes in novels is AI", here's the nuance, ironically from Google's AI Overview

Spaced em dashes are seen in British English guides, and I'll bet older ones in due need of updating

As an Aussie? We blend UK/US words and styles, so no spaces for my dashes

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July 22, 2025 at 3:14 AM
First, the guy should know how em dashes work - typically no spaces, with spaced em dashes seen in older British (proper) English style guides

The irony? Google's AI Overview told me this

Nuance as always in the face of bit-part truisms - doubt this guy has seen these older British style guides...
July 22, 2025 at 3:06 AM
So another author with replies/quote reposts disabled (no judgement) posted this and so true

Case in point me last Tuesday, swear I was headed for a mixed manic/depressive/psychotic episode

Left work early, rested, and got back to games to relax and not stress on the rewrite

#WritingCommunity
July 22, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Author Update 🖊️

Just me, a tea, the mess on my desk, and my buddy The Humungus

Going into the #wip, got a good flow going on a chapter, and about to jump time to the pivotal weekend

Send prayers, one scene is gonna hurt like hell

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#WriteSky
#BookSky
#AmWriting (glacially)
July 3, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Can't find the post #LGBTQWriteAThon so I'll post the question flag

I'm hoping to get to the earlier relationship in two weeks to meet my Queer Writing Group promise

But this means going through the outing scene, and with my oomphy rewriting, it's gonna hurt

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#WriteSky
#BookSky
June 30, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I see everybody using their phones on speaker just like Captain Kirk 36 years after this...
June 28, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Welp #WritingCommunity, #WriteSky, #BipolarSky #auspol the Kimikoo bots have fired up, this is my third

But the Thumb of Blocking needs regular exercise, so, onward!
June 24, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Don't forget your alt text for people using screen readers

You can set all photos/gifs to demand you add alt text before you can post, in your Accessibility settings
June 21, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Here's the settings page:
June 21, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Alright #WritingCommunity, #WriteSky #BookSky I'm going in - having only read excerpts in Year 5

Given the times, we should all be reading Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl, and I hope to all that's good that people don't have to resort to hiding in a Secret Annex
June 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Subscribe wall? Really?
June 20, 2025 at 9:41 AM
So #ComJunity my writing/gaming buddy is none other than The Humungus

The Lord Humungus

The Warrior of the Wasteland

The Ayatollah of Rock'n'Rollah

(Yeah bit of a fan - the only Ford cars I'll be caught dead in are a Mustang, or the Interceptor)
June 20, 2025 at 6:41 AM
So #WritingCommunity, my manuscript assessor said I have to read more

I finally found the book to read, rescued from behind the charity bins at work where it was carelessly dumped - The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

A little dogged and stained but pertinent reading for these repeated times
June 19, 2025 at 9:44 AM
I replied to him on appropriate terms for his nonsense and got tagged as *rude* lmao

Meanwhile the +1 Thumb of Blocking has been rightfully engaged
June 19, 2025 at 9:06 AM
So people are so stupid they can't google?

This took me longer to screenshot than to search

Common sense is truly extinct
June 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM