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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️

@lhardingwrites.bsky.social
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Mum friend transitioning to mum. Recovering medievalist. Pen name of a dark fantasy/horror writer. Displaced northener. Culinary Cenobite. Möther to Vesper & Pippa. Synth/BM gremlin. Writing at patreon.com/lhardingwrites & ko-fi.com/lawrenceharding

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Momo @heyheymomo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Did you know you only need a small brain to make silly little drawings?
4 panel comic:
Panel 1: pink blob guy on a table, pencil in their hands. Grey circle on a piece of paper and a glass of water on the table. They say “look here”
Panel 2: Proudly, they hold up the drawing of a grey blobby character on two stick legs up in the air. The pink blob says “I drew this!”
Panel 3: Satisfied they sit back down on the table. They now go “it’s not much, but..” The grey drawing looks a bit peeved because the drawer is calling it “not much”
Panel 4: But it’s okay, because now the pink blob is very pleased finally. He says “it came from my brain!” Holding the pencil up. The grey drawing blob is happy again, too. End well, all well!
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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
What Saints Fear 3 tales of dark monastic fantasy in which the faith of the Keepers of Khriam is tested by: - occultist clerics addicted to demons - saints claiming need of rescue - factory-farmed relics #booksky 📚💙
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What Saints Fear - Lawrence Harding's Ko-fi Shop
Lawrence Harding presents three more tales of the Keepers of Khriam, in which faith is tested by dark forces - from within and without the church th...
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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Featuring: Old Habits Die Hard 12000 words of dark monastic fantasy, in which Brother Statius must steal relics from his former brethren and save his saint. Featuring: - heists - monks - demons - demon monks - relic cults - battle trauma #booksky 📚💙
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Old Habits Die Hard - Lawrence Harding's Ko-fi Shop
In this fantasy novelette, Brother Statius must break into his old monastery to save the relics of his saint before they're used for nefarious ends - ...
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 7h
I am a witch for all those near broken. I am a witch for those scraped raw by trying to climb high walls, cut by having to walk on glass scattered by hollow-hearted bastards. I am a witch for those needing transformation, bound to pain. For witches understand the bruised. - #EmilyCBanting #WitchSky
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 7h
We need to make being a creep or a predator or a domestic abuser taboo. It's not taboo at all right now, look at all those glowing eulogies for Dead Wife Beater & Child Rape Apologist Rod Liddle. Don't @ me with caveats or apologies or requests for absolution, just be the change!
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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 9h
Yes.
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Cardcaptor Sakura: Keroberos & Spinel Sun
Alt: Spinel Sun eating takoyaki
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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 9h
Like the other day at our queer pub meetup @liminalitea.bsky.social started talking about Hangikjöt and I was just so into it as a concept. 10/10 would eat the mystery offal jerky.
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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 9h
Exactly - I am always far more interested in "using up this random bodypart/vegetable offcut" cooking than what society has decided is high quality.
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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 9h
I miss haggis, black/white pudding, liver, kidneys more than I do steak/breast. When I had a steak and kidney pie I got disappointed at how little kidney there was. But that's just me 😅 I think a lot of it comes down to seasoning/preparation.
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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 9h
Podcasts like this reaffirm my (very idiosyncratic) position of being mostly plant based while being obsessed with nose to tail eating I would probably go back to eating meat if I didn't feel like it was tacitly supporting an unsustainable food system Eat your offal, drink your blood, you cowards.
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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 10h
*adds another book to her to be read list*
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The Delicious Legacy Podcast @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social · 12h
Good morning my curious archaeogastronomores! Did you know blood was also used in stone walls, castles, etc? Also is delicious and nutritious! Check this fantastic episode with Kate Ryan! shows.acast.com/the-deliciou...
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Blood as Food Through Ireland’s History | The Delicious Legacy
An Interview with Kate Ryan
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Liam Kirkaldy @liamkirkaldy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"It's more of a cormorant than a question", I say, with a wry smile, as my pet cormorant repeatedly dive bombs the panel, pecking at their eyes
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.
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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I promise that this note refers to a graphic novel, not what I wish for my readers
Pen notes on lined paper, reading "Vibes (underlined): DIE.
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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I don't know whether it's because I had a slightly larger glass of wine than intended, or whether my blood to oestrogen ratio has reached a certain point, but I've now gone from "do I have the experience to write trans stuff?" to "I will write all the aggressively trans stuff".
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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Apparently the cats are awaiting my return
A Facebook Messenger message saying "the council will see you now" with a picture of two expectant-looking black cats on a sofa.
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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.
Grenfell Tower, a black smouldering carcass of the building shorty after the fire, in 2017.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives
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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Pingu sequence was terrifying tbf
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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Blue Cat in The Magic Roundabout scared the shit out of me to the extent that I thought I'd invented it until I discovered at uni that several of my course mates shared the same trauma. Particularly the psychedelic scene.
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The Sian from Atlantis @parthenoid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
CAMP MIASMA IS ON MUBI IT'S ON MUBI NOW OK calm down Sian NO, DON'T YOU HEAR ME, CAMP MIASMA IS ON MUBI
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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I think that the very principle of making ideological enemies chat over lunch like it's Gogglebox is already making it into a game, and I'm pretty sick of human rights being treated like they're a fun optional extra to gamify.
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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
He only got worse from there! I think I used to upset him by having the left-wing principles he thought he had while he had to defend being best mates with an openly right-wing Spectator-reading fellow PhD who was dating a fresher *that he and I were both teaching*.
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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Also, people often aren't on the ideological side they think they are. Still remember having to nod along with a fellow PhD who regarded himself salt-of-the-earth Labour telling me that he didn't see why he had to pay for other people's healthcare. I had just been discharged from an oncology unit.
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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's not like anyone I've tried to have a discussion like this with hasn't just steamrollered me anyway. And I doubt anyone who's willing to actually listen is going to disagree with me on human rights in the first place as all my principles are based on basic observation skills. 🤷‍♀️
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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It seems that every time I come up with a food/flavour combination that I want to exist, the Caucasus already has me covered.
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Pkhali - Wikipedia
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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I was genuinely surprised by Bimble Bridge when I first heard them, in good ways I love dungeon synth but a lot of it can get into a rut very quickly. Every one of Bimble Bridge's tracks is cinematic and complex, telling its own story and not falling into the common trap of becoming too repetitive
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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I only made one Bandcamp Friday purchase this month but it's a cracker. Impeccable dungeon synth for my writing day 🥰
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The Ancient One Approaches, by Bimble Bridge
12 track album
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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh, fuck, yes. I'm glad I've been using it for years.
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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This month @liminalitea.bsky.social are releasing our 70th(!!) zine - heavy on the dark fantasy and folk horror, with forbidden wings, curious ghosts, deadly gardens, lunar rituals, and the dangers of foraging in nuckelavee country.
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Endless Otherwheres 70 - Illustrated Zine | Lawrence Harding
Endless Otherwheres 70 - Illustrated Zine by Lawrence Harding on Patreon. Join Lawrence Harding's community for exclusive content and updates.
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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This month @liminalitea.bsky.social are releasing our 70th(!!) zine - heavy on the dark fantasy and folk horror, with forbidden wings, curious ghosts, deadly gardens, lunar rituals, and the dangers of foraging in nuckelavee country.
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Endless Otherwheres 70 - Illustrated Zine | Lawrence Harding
Endless Otherwheres 70 - Illustrated Zine by Lawrence Harding on Patreon. Join Lawrence Harding's community for exclusive content and updates.
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Elizabeth DeLoria II: THE GHOST DIMENSION @yourdadloves.me · 03/10/2026
A two panel meme of the Simpsons. The top panel has kirk van houten gesturing to a race care bed. The text reads "im an AI guy. How many local models do YOU run?" The bottom panel is homer with a pope hat photoshopped onto his head. The bottom text reads "I run the catholic church."
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Joshua Keep @jekeep.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Two completely different issues that by no means are contradictory. Prisons are institutional. Public shaming is social. We do not get to control people feelings. And reform by no means should require putting someone back to the position they held before. Especially as a media figure.
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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This morning's cat drama is that the girls found a dead, very flat spider and got excited. Vesper ate it, and is now walking around yelling at the floor until it is More Spiders.
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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Conversations about AI at work. Me:
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The Luddites! Song 🎶 | Gorgeous Georgians | Horrible Histories
YouTube video by Horrible Histories
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Magen Cubed @magencubed.net · 02/10/2026
I'm going to say something that probably sounds naive or sentimental, but the one thing thing that really sticks with me about the backlash to generative AI is how many people are now calling attention to human effort in art, with all its rough spots and imperfections, as something to value
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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Doesn't she need printers explaining to her though?
A black cat looking shocked next to a printer.
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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Getting coffee from my favourite cafe this morning: Owner, handing me my flat white: I made it extra strong for you. Me: ...do I look like I need it? Owner, very seriously: It's Thursday.
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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 30/09/2026
mom, the UK is trying to normalise transphobia and anti-immigration and other forms of bigoted rhetoric by saying it’s necessary to defeat Reform again, please pick me up
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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 30/09/2026
Not sure if I'm supposed to wait for an official announcement on this one, but as it's available to order, I may as well share the link: goldsborobooks.com/products/the... Gender, trauma, toxic families, non-consensual shapeshifting ... and sprayed edges. What more could you want in a book
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The Animals We Became
You exist because of a crime, because of a curse, and because of a trick.Blodeuedd never asked to be made.Created from flowers of oak, broom, and meadowsweet to marry a man cursed never to have a huma...
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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'd rather he withdrew the transphobic guidance tbh, I don't want stances, I want actions.
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Uncharismatic Megafauna @liminalitea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Watched this with @lhardingwrites.bsky.social last night, a good time if you fancy a bit of zero-budget nonsense. (I endorse zero-budget nonsense.)
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Joe Phillips @polpsychjoe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a lot to like about Burnham's speech, and his vision for the UK. However, the same people forgotten in this vision are the same people that Starmer's Labour discarded. And that shouldn't be lost on us. 🧵
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 29/09/2026
If a politician crying on a stage in a speech he would have planned meticulously is all you need to jump back on board the Labour train, you were never really off it and care more about performative politics than actual cruelty.
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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 29/09/2026
The ‘sensible adults’ are gonna tell us all to shut up and accept our own continued marginalisation because wanting anything else would be ‘childish’. Fucking spineless cowards.
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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 29/09/2026
Centrists are gonna let Labour steamroll over trans people and immigrants all because Andy Burnham said some pretty words.
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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As soon as I see "atheist" in a bio I know they're going to be an absolute horror and more close-minded than many religious people I know.
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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The sensibles are hailing Burnham as a Messiah but Labour are still trying to segregate me out of existence so forgive me if I don't swoon.
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Jeremy Ghooooost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Titania Moonrock and Bazletazle the Mighty Teeny are currently available at my shop. I designed and hand-sewed them, and I hand-embroidered all their stars and planets. Titania is a relaxed sort of cosmic entity. She meditates and goes with the flow of the universe. jeremycreature.bigcartel.com
Here's a lovely photo of Titania and Bazletazle. Titania is a fabric art black cosmic spirit with a gray moon face, twinkly black eyes, and a little frown. Her body is covered with embroidered stars of various sizes and colors. I also embroidered a couple planets. One is yellow and one is purple with a red ring. She has black twirly head wispy embroidered with a line of white stars on each one. Bazletazle is a tiny black celestial spirit with a gray moon face and four black bulbous eyes. He's covered with stars of various colors. The background of the pic is green fur.
Here's another lovely photo of their backs. Their backs are covered with embroidered stars of various colors and shapes.Here's another lovely photo where Titania is resting on my palm. Bazletazle is resting beside her.
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