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Anwen Kya

@kyatic.bsky.social
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🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Writer of Gothic nonsense and reader of everything. Never met a wall I couldn't walk into. ✒️ Discoveries Prize 2025 longlist linktr.ee/kyatic

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Anwen Kya @kyatic.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Grief is the weirdest beast, because yesterday I found a handwritten recipe of my grandma's and I spent a solid 2 hours just full-on weeping about the fact that she'd underlined the words 'French Apple Slices' with a wiggly line, and very carefully left a space for the tails of the 'pp'
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Anwen Kya @kyatic.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Having one of those weeks where I really miss the writing community on Twitter. I will never return to that hellscape, but so many people are still active over there, and it feels like crickets here. Ho hum.
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Anwen Kya @kyatic.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
(In all seriousness though, at what point am I allowed to say to them 'uh, hello, your dog barks without pause from dawn 'til dusk and I'm sick of hearing both it and you, can you maybe just take your dog for a walk for once and stop futilely and cruelly screaming at it, thanks loads'?)
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Anwen Kya @kyatic.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I'm in no means advocating for the return of the death penalty, but my adjoining neighbours have spent all day from 7.30am shouting at their dog, which won't stop barking for more than 10 minutes at a time, and are now loudly putting up shelves AT DINNER TIME along the wall of my kitchen... crimes
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Curtis Brown Creative @cbcreative.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
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Anwen Kya @kyatic.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Big if true
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Anwen Kya @kyatic.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
I wish Llŷr Powell a very happy fuck off into the sun
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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
This is an utterly nonsensical way to report the really relieving news that Plaid Cymru, a party which espouses all sorts of liberal values including trans rights, etc. (and which isn't even mentioned in this headline!!!) won the election by a 47% landslide, well ahead of Reform as well as Labour.
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Anwen Kya @kyatic.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Made paneer, made paneer koftas, ate paneer, became paneer
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
NEW: Police knew a Kremlin spy ring recruited former leader of Reform Wales at least 3 years ago. So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year? Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share! 1/
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Anwen Kya @kyatic.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Because they're not pronounced the same ;)
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Anwen Kya @kyatic.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Can confirm this is indeed in Caerphilly. Boils my piss to see it on my bus route.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Reform candidate visibly squirms as he's confronted by a local family in Caerphilly.
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Esme Symes-Smith @esmesymessmith.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
How it started vs. How it's going I was a kid who wanted to be a knight, fighting for equality in an unequal world. I think I've done that 💚
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Anwen Kya @kyatic.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
911 my neighbour's paint is peeling
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Anwen Kya @kyatic.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand: File corrupted: attempt retrieval?
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Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Just a reminder: Freydis Moon is not a Mexican author. They are a a white person pretending to be Latinx. Do not give them any money. And yes they have a new book about to drop in the middle of Latinx heritage month.
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Anwen Kya @kyatic.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
I read this when it was first published with the old cover! Stayed up until like 4am. No regrets.
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Anwen Kya @kyatic.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
One of my best memories of my grandma before her dementia is of the two of us having a little stroll, walking past someone selling old secondhand books on the street, and me convincing her to buy me All Things Great and Small by James Herriott. She was a voracious reader, until she couldn't.
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Anwen Kya @kyatic.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
I don't generally believe in signs from the universe, BUT the day after my grandma died, I went to my local secondhand bookshop and found a book I've been looking for for years, which isn't even published or distributed in the UK. theglobalwomenslibrary.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/a...
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Angola: That Hair, by Djamilia Pereira de Almeida
A novel about dual Angolan and Portuguese identity, told through the narrator’s relationship over her lifetime with her hair.
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Anwen Kya @kyatic.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
My grandma just died and fucking hell, fucking hell.
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Luna McNamara @mcnamaraluna.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
It is my honor and privilege to announce my second novel—THE WITCH AND THE HUNTRESS, a sapphic reimagining of the Argonautica focused on Medea and Atalanta preorder here: bit.ly/3VyYS8R
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The Witch and the Huntress
Two of Greek mythology’s most complex and powerful women—Medea and Atalanta—join forces on Jason’s quest for the Golden Fleece in this suspenseful, sapphic ...
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Esme Symes-Smith @esmesymessmith.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
When I wrote the final SIR CALLIE book, I had to imagine the very worst Peran's world could be--a world where no one is immune to his whims and tempers; where his most dedicated are treated with as little humanity as his enemies. Where the world and the war are just a game for his own entertainment.
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Anwen Kya @kyatic.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Perhaps I will eat an entire tin of Spam and all will be well (all will not be well)
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Anwen Kya @kyatic.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Today is a day when I keep needing to have little tactical cries because my grandma is still on end of life care, deterioriating, and I just love her so much!!!!!! She's so cute!!!!! I just want to wrap her up in a little blanket and keep her safe forever and ever!!!! Oh gosh!!!
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Anwen Kya @kyatic.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Achievement unlocked: this girl was physically pushing past everyone to be the one to get on the train first, and I ended up sitting near her, so I gave her a single disapproving glare that was apparently so withering, so vitriolic, so full of disappointment and irritation, that she moved seats
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18/09/2025
File this under we told you so.
First image (screenshot of tweet with video):
Tweet from Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) reading: “Under @elonmusk, you can violently call for the medical and physical elimination of all trans people and nothing happens. This isn’t free speech. It’s marching towards the darkest moments of human history.”
Below is a paused video frame of Brianna Wu wearing glasses and a black top, standing in front of pinball machines. Text overlay on the video says: “This right wing isn’t Handling this well” and “GOT TO TALK.”
Timestamp: 10:04 AM · Sep 18, 2025. 12.4K views.
Second image (screenshot of tweet):
Tweet from Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) reading: “I think I’m moving on from Twitter. You can literally call for my death here and when I report, it doesn’t break any policies. It is horrific what Elon Musk has turned this place into, a forum where the right calls for the medical and physical genocide of trans people.”
Below, there’s a screenshot of a post by user “Lucifer” (@jhughes19801) replying to another tweet, saying: “The best solution is a straight jacket and lethal injection.” Next to it is part of Twitter/X’s policy notice stating that threats, wishing harm, and promoting violence are not allowed.
Timestamp: 5:34 AM · Sep 18, 2025. 16.9K views.
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Anwen Kya @kyatic.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Trying not to get too livid, but if I end up with a Reform MS because the other parties are burying their heads in the sand about the viability of the threat of Reform, I will simply have no choice but to scream.
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Anwen Kya @kyatic.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Today, I received my third (bullshit) election communication from Reform regarding the Caerphilly by-election. To date, I've had nothing from Plaid. Reform is going to win this election because they're the only party communicating (bullshit) with voters. The complacency from others is staggering.
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Lindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
📚 BOOK GIVEAWAY! 📚 I've teamed up with some of the best and coolest queer historical romance writers for this awesome giveaway! Tell your friends! Tell your enemies! Tell your enemies-to-lovers! Form to enter: forms.gle/2dJteRjXmLxm5FkR7
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LADY LIKE by Mackenzi Lee

A RARE FIND by Joanna Lowell

THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET by Lindz McLeod

LADIES IN HATING by Alexandra Vasti
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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
at the 2022 an post book awards John Boyne won an award and gave a speech in which he immediately complained about how many years it took for them to give him the award and then he spent 10 minutes reading bad internet reviews of his work. my reaction was captured.
me looking embarrassed for John Boyne
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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 14/09/2025
Seeing folks say that the rise and normalisation of the alt-right in the UK is because of the US and while I think the UK’s fascists are taking a lot of inspiration by the US’s tactics and aesthetics, it would be really cool for you Brits to also own up to the fact that this shit is also homegrown.
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Anwen Kya @kyatic.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
My most recent entry in my challenge to read a book by a woman from every country in the world is Poland, for which I read a rediscovered book of lesbian short stories from 1925, because queer history is incredible: theglobalwomenslibrary.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/p...
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Poland: Lesbian Love, by Chawa Zloczower / ‘Evelyn Addams’
A series of short stories about lesbian relationships and intimacy, first published in 1925 and considered lost for 74 years.
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Anwen Kya @kyatic.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Editing is going great, thanks for asking
A notebook page and the handwritten title 'Ideas for a Second Thing in Order to Distract Myself from the Eldritch Terror of the First Thing'
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Ally Wilkes / AV Wilkes @unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Very bewildered to see my micro-collection LONDON WEIRD has made it into the top 50 of horror short stories! It's 0.99 for three dark and unsettling tales of modern-day London, also free on Amazon U - perfect lunch break reading 👀 amzn.eu/d/cEFSv3h
Ranking data for London Weird on Amazon, it's 74,225 in Books (lol), 50 in Horror Short Stories and 222 in Horror Occult and Supernatural.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 10/09/2025
Let’s make one thing clear from the start: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. — Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause.
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 09/09/2025
You can and should complain to Ofcom here: www.ofcom.org.uk/make-a-compl...
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Make a complaint
Ofcom may be able to help you complain about or report issues relating to: phone, broadband and postal services; TV, radio and on-demand programmes; interference to wireless devices; or something you ...
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Anwen Kya @kyatic.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
It looks like Gaywyck will be made available on Kindle later this month
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 08/09/2025
I wrote a blog post on the Gothic novels that influenced All Of Us Murderers, including some *super special* covers. (@romgothsam.bsky.social I will be suitably humble if I've flubbed anything...)
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All Of Us Murderers and a Gothic primer – KJ Charles
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Anwen Kya @kyatic.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
My grandma is dying and my shower is leaking through my ceiling, so I wouldn't say I'm having the best week, to be quite honest
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Anwen Kya @kyatic.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
She's a sweet little baby who just wants to eat Jaffa Cakes and tell people that she likes their clothes. Sometimes, she'll give you a half chewed biscuit and smile at you like she's just given you the moon. She told me 2 days ago that we've been friends for a very long time, and we really have.
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Anwen Kya @kyatic.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
My grandma is going to die within the next couple of days, and I don't know how I'm supposed to just accept that there's going to be a world without her in it????? What a ridiculous notion. Unfathomable. The entire cuteness measure of the whole globe is about to reduce by a solid third.
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Anwen Kya @kyatic.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
I have been chosen... blessings from Heaven shine down upon me
A small grey cat sitting on OP's lap, facing away from the camera
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Anwen Kya @kyatic.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Two important clarifications: he kept turning the volume up, and we were in an ENT department, so people with hearing issues were already struggling to hear the announcements, and having Mr Fucko's videos blasting out was not exactly helpful. Also: he was orange with fake tan.
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Anwen Kya @kyatic.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Man in the hospital waiting room was playing TikToks out loud on his phone. I asked him to please use headphones. He said "I don't have any." I said "don't watch videos, then." He said "I want to watch videos." I said "be selfish then, it's up to you." He gave me a filthy look, but I was victorious
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Fromthemixedupdesk @fromthemixedupdesk.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Colby Wilkens, who faked her Indigenous identity, has returned to announce a new book that was formerly written with native characters but now their identities have been erased LOL LOL LOL And it’s basically Our Flag Means Death fanfic LOL LOL LOL Cancel culture isn’t real for white women.
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Anwen Kya @kyatic.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
This is is because the author faked being Indigenous, FYI.
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Anwen Kya @kyatic.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
I have done the impossible and that makes me mighty (and sleepy)
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