lucy rowan holmes @absobloodylucy.bsky.social · 6hso my fridge has broken down, and the resultant Defrosting Anxiety is seeping not only into the floorboards but also into other non-fridge related thoughts. “Hey, your clothes are thawing out as we speak. Probably oughta take out the bins before they melt. Enjoy your cold shower with no ice, moron” 1140
lucy rowan holmes @absobloodylucy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026breaking a nail is so annoying because if i break my index finger nail i look like a coke fiend and if i break my pinkie nail i look like i play the banjo. how is anyone supposed to know i'm a lesbian 1300
lucy rowan holmes @absobloodylucy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Camp Miasma too popular, Jane flying too close to the sun, i should never have to hear a friendly cis coworker ally in the library WHO I HAD *JUST* MET feel confident enough to say the words "It's sorta about Autogynephilia, right?" to me in a laid back sunshiny smile-on-his-face way 4761
lucy rowan holmes @absobloodylucy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026not to brag or anything but i brought a batch in for my library coworkers and one of them took a bite and literally started crying with joy, so 💅🏻 1451
lucy rowan holmes @absobloodylucy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026this was the only version of alice in wonderland i knew existed until i was about 10 3583
Reposted by lucy rowan holmesBe Gay Solve Crimes @begaysolvecrimes.bsky.social · 07/04/2026how it feels to chew 5 gum 514012
lucy rowan holmes @absobloodylucy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026anyway i logged off to bake some Honey Biscuits yesterday. they're sorta like snickerdoodles. i tried not to remember everything bad that's ever happened to me. i really tried. 1270
Reposted by lucy rowan holmesClever Mia @readvesna.com · 01/10/2026Well, here's what's gonna happen. You're gonna click the link and open up the steam store. You're gonna purchase Lovely Lady RPG at a very generous 20% discount either for yourself, for a friend or loved one, or for your group's Grungler. That's it. store.steampowered.com/app/3567040/... 14580137
Reposted by lucy rowan holmesDan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026People like to talk up how complicated and twisty the ending of American Psycho is, but the message is very simple and clear: real estate agents will gladly help you cover up a murder. 181323100
lucy rowan holmes @absobloodylucy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026maybe we call it "looking up to someone" because i was supposed to have grown out of doing it by now 2230
lucy rowan holmes @absobloodylucy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026libraries have this thing where we often donate books to local prisons (unambiguously based), but we’re asked to limit our choices only to crime/thrillers/scifi/fantasy/contemporary fiction, and to actively exclude all family saga, romance, and “chick lit” which… lowkey sucks? idk 2371
lucy rowan holmes @absobloodylucy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026how it feels to be a sensitive young punch bowl 0182
lucy rowan holmes @absobloodylucy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i feel lucky to have grown up in a time when my childhood aspirations to be the lead writer for Doctor Who were only unrealistic due to steep competition and my not being married to a tv producer, rather than due to god's densest ghouls replacing all writing jobs with the Key-Jingler 3000 2443
lucy rowan holmes @absobloodylucy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026fuck it. 2027 will be the year of Lucy's Belated Ballerina Arc. i will grind my brainworms into dust beneath my pirouettes 0350
lucy rowan holmes @absobloodylucy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026how am i only just now this very second learning that Studio Laika is doing a stop-motion animated adaptation of susanna clarke's Piranesi???? 1241
lucy rowan holmes @absobloodylucy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026dysphoria brainworms are so weird because i've got The Ballet Yearning again but the thing i'm most scared of is not how revealing leotards are but instead how tight and slicked back your hair has to be for a ballet bun?? even bangs have to be pinned up! transphobic, frankly 3280
lucy rowan holmes @absobloodylucy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026lucy's typo of the week: bottomless samosas 4250
lucy rowan holmes @absobloodylucy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026cheerily queuing up to have a kalashnikov pointed at my head knowing full well i'm gonna pass the post-revolution vibe check by answering the single question "Is a hot dog a sandwich?" 1141
lucy rowan holmes @absobloodylucy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026one of my earliest memories: i am 3 years old and my mum is pregnant with my sister. she takes me with her to her ultrasound appointment. i watch the pretty sonographer lady put gel on my mum's baby bump. i ask if she can check inside my tummy for a baby too. she does so. my mum squeezes my hand. 3420
lucy rowan holmes @absobloodylucy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026i love big family weddings. i love seeing dozens of happy couples and their adorable children. i love being asked multiple times in a row when i'm gonna have a baby. this is really good for my mental health i think. 4420
Reposted by lucy rowan holmes🎃Marley, a Werewolf of Wall Street 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈✍️🌕🐺 @marleywrites.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I didn’t know this, and this kind of publication would be a huge help to those of us who are trying to create a whole novel while holding down a day job. 1101
lucy rowan holmes @absobloodylucy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Long Local Librarian’s Ramble on the whole “Where Is TV’s Great American Novel” discourse is that traditional publishing is mechanically set up to prevent Great 19th Century Style Novels ever happening anymore, and tv studios are about to repeat the mistake 1233
lucy rowan holmes @absobloodylucy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026writing this off as a business expense for my new job as a foley artist on the world’s first onlyfans to have dolby 5.1 surround sound 5300
lucy rowan holmes @absobloodylucy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026ancient piece of dog wisdom that goes “the grass is always greyer on the other side” 0231
Reposted by lucy rowan holmesBOOles @awawa.pics · 26/09/2026there are two genders, c-41 and b/w. e-6 is an unholy perversion 2142
lucy rowan holmes @absobloodylucy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026god you’d think a priest would know better than to wear white to a wedding 🙄 0270
lucy rowan holmes @absobloodylucy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026i dunno how to articulate this without sounding completely insane but being in england feels weird to me because the sky is to low?? 2260
lucy rowan holmes @absobloodylucy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026they’re calling her the girl with exactly one (1) wedding fit 2660
lucy rowan holmes @absobloodylucy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026lucy lore: Coraline was always my favourite cosy halloween film, and an annual rewatch for years. all my gfs pretransition would ask me what i wanted to dress up as for halloween, and i’d shrug and deflect but there was always one consistent alarmingly unvoiceable answer: “…Coraline, obviously.” 1381
Reposted by lucy rowan holmesPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison. 7879031407
Reposted by lucy rowan holmesCrowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026does the omelas kid have to be innocent or can you chuck a real shithead in there 4434
lucy rowan holmes @absobloodylucy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026took me aaages to get through this roll of 50iso slide film because i was convinced i’d nuked it with an airport CT scanner like an idiot. turns out it was more robust than i feared! glad i didn’t just rush through it in the end 3211
lucy rowan holmes @absobloodylucy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026look i know “christmas shopping season starts too early” is a cliche but fr i honestly can’t describe how genuinely depressing it feels to have society seemingly call time on a year a full four months before it’s fucking over 5271
Reposted by lucy rowan holmeslucy rowan holmes @absobloodylucy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026my heart is an orphanage and there’s room for you all, you assholes! 1553
lucy rowan holmes @absobloodylucy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026likewise apropos of nothing, i also think it's SO cool to threaten to Fire & Rehire 23,000 public sector employees unless they accept the pay cut, doesn't make me want to be sick at all 0191
Reposted by lucy rowan holmesMia Mulder @miamulder.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Hällo, are ju rädy to be säd? 2748
lucy rowan holmes @absobloodylucy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026i want it on record that when i sometimes use the term ‘transsexual’ over ‘transgender’, i am motivated first and foremost by my deeply held political conviction that it is a) very funny and b) lowkey a little bit chic 410314
lucy rowan holmes @absobloodylucy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026i 100% would've still imploded anyway but sometimes i spook myself by contemplating how much longer i would've tried to Tough It Out if pre-transition lucy had been able to grow anything even vaguely reminiscent of a respectable beard 5210
lucy rowan holmes @absobloodylucy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026lucy’s typo of the week: self esteem boots 5200
lucy rowan holmes @absobloodylucy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026“some have never known a private provider to reject a diagnosis.” breaking news: people willing to bet £895+ that they have adhd turn out to have adhd 2499
lucy rowan holmes @absobloodylucy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026asking my straight poly friends “and how are the twinks? :)” like a mum making small talk in a nursery car park 1470
lucy rowan holmes @absobloodylucy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026facetiming someone this morning & she seems... tense? like the energy is all off, so i'm like "hey are you okay?", and she just sighs and says "look i was in the middle of watching Challengers for the first time and you called literally just as things seemed like they're about to get REAL freaky" 1271