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gg @ggdg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

if you're going to hook me with a bloodthirsty revenge story, at least let me revel in the righteous violence for a little bit before you start moralizing. you can't just have a side character wringing their hands dig-two-gravesedly from the very first kill. come on

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 28/09/2026

The good news is that we've taken a break to start Dietrich's path and we are having SO much fun with everyone's melodrama. Not the call I would have made going into this, that's for sure

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 28/09/2026

Ok Dietrich's path is SO much more fun

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 27/09/2026

If you are thinking about starting a comic award: it's stressful, it's a lot of work, it will impact on the time you can give to your own projects (esp if working full time), you will second-guess your decisionmaking in too many ways, you will wonder why you do it to yourself it also rocks actually

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 27/09/2026

Just had our Selkies shortlisting meeting and WOW I love discussing comics, I love differences of opinion, I love someone nailing something that I observed and I also love someone pointing out something completely new that I hadn't considered

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 22/09/2026

The fact that Glasgow now has the only academic unit in the WORLD exclusively dedicated to Scottish Literature makes me want to tear my hair out. We don't know how culturally impoverished we become through not interacting with our own art!!!! Everyone go out and read Sunset Song RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 22/09/2026

I did ScotLit at Glasgow in 2nd year undergrad to qualify me for English Language single honours, and it was the best decision. Sunset Song, Lanark, Waverley, Confessions of a Justified Sinner, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - it made it so so clear how literature is culture, literature is history

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 22/09/2026

The cuts to Scottish Literature UG courses at Edinburgh University make me furious in a way that it's really hard to put words to, especially now, when I'm trying to learn more Scots (and feeling like an imposter in ways that are too complicated for this format). www.thenational.scot/news/2656876...

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University of Edinburgh axe to Scots course 'only upholds English language dominance'

THE University of Edinburgh's announcement that it plans to cut seven programmes in the Celtic and Scottish Studies department has been slammed…

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 21/09/2026

Fighting for my life to hang in there with FE Fortune's Weave despite doing Leda's route first and therefore constantly subjecting myself to Sirocco

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⚠️ eve g ⚠️ @evegwood.com · 17/09/2026

appearing over the shoulder of a comic artist who's about to fill a panel with an unnecessary background. put the pen down. sometimes clarity and punch of a panel is improved when there is no background. you're cluttering that panel and making it harder to read. where are the bubble tails gonna go.

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 16/09/2026

YAY!!! 💠💠💠 (also that outfit is really cute!!!)

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 16/09/2026

Vivi, I'm looking at your profile update and I'm getting the impression somewhere that you might have grown some blue roses?? Not sure what's given me that idea, can you confirm???

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 10/09/2026

I KNOW. I just had this crazy, unprecendented thought which was: 'oh I'm so behind on [certain task]... well, that makes sense, haha!' Like I've been so busy that even my own guilt about my to-do list is taking a holiday (I will enjoy it while it lasts)

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 10/09/2026

AND THAT'S JUST THE LAST 5 MONTHS. But the crazy thing is I really really REALLY keep finding myself wanting to pull more things out of the well!!!!!!!! there are so many cool things I could be doing!!! WHY CAN I NOT SIMPLY HAVE TWICE AS MUCH TIME PER DAY

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 10/09/2026

This has been a crazy year - I was trying to explain it earlier to someone but I got married, then I changed jobs, then I launched Selkies 2026, then I helped manage two academic conferences, then my niece was born, then I started a part-time course and also helped manage another academic conference

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 09/09/2026

Just learned that Category Is Books, a lovely queer bookshop in Glasgow, has been targeted by transphobic violence, & is fundraising to cover the costs of a smashed window & roller shutters. I hate that they have to do this & would love to see them meet their goal.

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Donate to Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!, organized by Category Is Books

For the past eight years, Category Is Books has been able to comfortably oper… Category Is Books needs your support for Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 06/09/2026

Yeah the cat-sith legend leans Scottish and apparently might have originated in Scottish wildcat sightings so it checks out!

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Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Your semi-regular reminder that advertising is free on BF for trans comics creators. E-mail our Andy here for more details: www.brokenfrontier.com/contact-us/

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Want to contact the Broken Frontier team? Read our staff bios and find the relevant e-mail addresses for your needs here.

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 29/08/2026

I think it's not a coincidence that a game that leans so much into the medium was created by a theatre group... Something about how theatre requires you to REALLY lean into the medium, equipping you to do the same elsewhere?? What a fantastic result either way

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 28/08/2026

I need to make all of my characters worse Right Now

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 28/08/2026

(Thinker is my favourite which will probably be extremely unsurprising to anyone who knows me, Healer a close second)

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 28/08/2026

I am STILL thinking about 1000xRESIST. WHAT a story. And with so many women doing so many awful things (positive)

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Equality Network @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Joy for All is back for 2026! We invite you to apply for a stall at our accessible, LGBT+, autumn makers market, Joy for All. It takes place at 11am – 3.30pm on Saturday 17th October at Portobello Town Hall, 147-149 Portobello High St, Edinburgh EH15 1AF. Apply here: forms.gle/CiMhrgbLEX9e...

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 16/08/2026

A contender for one of the most boring dreams I've ever had, while also probably giving the clearest look into where my head is at

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 16/08/2026

Had a dream where they found Farage guilty but only fined him £326 and everyone's reaction was "ugh, of course. Why didn't we see this coming"

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 15/08/2026

"then it's as if the ocean wants its water back" foreshadowing for what the second half of the game will do to you

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Selkie Comic Awards @selkieawards.org · 09/08/2026

Hello all! Due to a gap in our guidelines, we've had to update our rules relating to anthologies. Full details here: selkieawards.org/news/posts/2... All affected applicants have been offered a chance to resubmit. Thanks for bearing with us, and drop us an email if you have any questions!

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 09/08/2026

It's so good, would definitely recommend!!!

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 09/08/2026

On our way to the next puzzle she said to me, "I'm sorry for the things I said about you back there. You didn't hear any of them, but they were not nice" 😭

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 09/08/2026

Fumbled a puzzle in Big Walk so bad that my friend Jess made us all sit down in a circle afterwards to reflect on what we'd done

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 06/08/2026

I find it encouraging in the same way that I find corporate Pride stuff encouraging - that is, I don't consider their motives to be at all innocent, but it's a weathervane of where public opinion (& sometimes accompanying legislation) is moving!

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 06/08/2026

Oh don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it's GOOD, I'm saying there has been steady and noticeable improvement even just over the last decade, in corporate packaging no less - which is like *the* least principled place to find any kind of environmental transformation.

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 06/08/2026

This came up in a call with my grandparents who tried Gousto for the first time recently, and their one complaint was how much plastic there was in the box. Fascinating to hear, because I've been getting their boxes for about 10 years, and over that time they have gotten SO. MUCH. BETTER.

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 06/08/2026

I was thinking about this while opening a compostable wrapper the other day. We've still got a long way to go, but I think the next generation is going to be shocked if they're ever faced with just how much unnecessary plastic we used to have on everything. (Not to mention the generation after!)

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 06/08/2026

We rightfully complain a lot about Evri, but sometimes I marvel at DPD and how selecting a redelivery date through their website seems to have as much impact as a wish upon a star

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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Update: Sandyford’s adult waiting list validation exercise has now finished. If you joined the waiting list before August 2024 and haven’t heard from them, please get in touch. For more information, see our post here: www.scottishtrans.org/sandyford-ad...

1. Graphic which says "Update: Sandyford’s adult waiting list validation exercise has finished. If you joined the waiting list before August 2024 and haven’t heard from them, please get in touch."

2. Graphic which says "Sandyford have said that over 500 people haven’t responded. Those who still haven’t responded by August 9th will be removed from the waiting list."

3. Graphic which says "If you have been contacted but not yet responded, please do so as soon as you can. People who joined the waiting list after August 2024 aren’t being contacted and don’t need to respond"

4. Graphic which says "If you haven’t been contacted but think you are on the adult waiting list, please email Sandyford: ggc.adultgender.sandyford@nhs.scot"

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 21/07/2026

I love reading about u-turns in the creative process because a collaborator - an actor, an editor, a fellow musician - brought something so compelling and new that the original creator couldn't help but leap at the chance to incorporate it. That's the good stuff!!!

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 21/07/2026

You can't sharpen a knife without friction, and you can't make the best version of your work without anyone else contributing. There's much to be said about storytelling-by-committee, but with the right team the process of getting others' input is revelatory, inspirational, not some unwelcome burden

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 21/07/2026

The thing that fascinates me about the "AI will give auteurs the power to fully realise their vision without compromise" take is that these people have clearly not paid any attention to what usually happens when someone gets too big to edit or falls out with their collaborators (divorces their wife)

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 20/07/2026

Honestly I'm just pleased when it's included lololol, one day I will get around to a decent reference and people won't have to make their best guess! Maybe for 2027......... And you are very welcome, they've all got such delightful designs!!!

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Rank Bajin @inremote.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

it's getting to the point where HMRC is ceasing to provide a service. it does less and less, and the few services it does provide are getting worse and worse. i know nobody likes them but we absolutely need more funding in there because the alternative is notably worse

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Self-employed people! Sorry to put a downer on your Sunday, but in case you'd not seen, the Government wants us to pay our tax *monthly* like we're employees or something With the World Cup and all the politics, I'd missed the consultation they put out last month, which is here: 1/

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Timely Payments in Income Tax Self Assessment (ITSA)

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Cat 🌻🌾 Tbubs 🔜 2000AD @tsundernova.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

🛡️ Lucan - Perfect_Being 🐺 Sylvester - @caragaffney.com

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 19/07/2026

Aaaaaah I will do a proper comment on artfight later but they look AMAZING tysm!!!!!

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Cara 🏳️‍🌈 @caragaffney.com · 08/07/2026

I have generally been struggling to do art for the past few years, which sucks, but for some reason Art Fight always cuts through all that and I have genuine fun drawing again and it feels SO NICE

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gg @ggdg.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

last day of the sale 😇 you can meet my awesome freaks for less than the price of most things

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Selkie Comic Awards @selkieawards.org · 01/07/2026

🦭 The Selkie Awards are back for 2026! 🦭 If you're based in Scotland and finished a comic in the past year, we want to hear from you! Our applications are now open until 31 July. Check out the details here: selkieawards.org/2026 #scottishcomics #scottishcomicbookday #smallpress

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