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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Fit check for my napalm era 🎉. This was as tricky as doing Rumi's miniatures, but hey, at least this time they all survived 🤣 #minipainting #kpdh #huntrix

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Time to ignore the world and get some painting done 🎨. This time with some Mira from Kpop Demon Hunters, we'll see how that'll go... #minipainting #kpdh

Picture of my painting set-up, with three unpainted Mira minis

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Easily the toughest miniatures I have ever painted! Now on to painting my Mira and Zoey minis hehe. #Rumi #KPopDemonHunters #MiniPainting #KPDH Other pictures at www.instagram.com/p/DRo-9jACPe...

Picture of two hand painted Rumi miniatures, the lead singer from Huntrix, the fictional KPop group from KPop Demon Hunters. In both miniatures, Rumi is wearing her How It's Done Outfit, with her yellow jacket and black and pink shorts. She's holding on to her sword, shining in blue and pink. The platform she's on was painted in a dark blue with light blue waves on it, reminding the Honmoon.

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I think this is turning really nicely. I hope I'm not jinxing myself by saying that. #kpopdemonhunters #rumi

Close up of a Rumi miniature, in the process of being painted.

Close up of another Rumi miniature, in the process of being painted.

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Okay gotta finish the day on a good note, I am *almost* done with the base coat for this mini, and it's not too bad so far.

Progress of one of the Rumi miniatures. There's mostly some details left to do on the shorts & jacket, plus the sword and the base.

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Tried to take a picture with the white painted, and the whole mini with the glass pot I was using to hold it fell on the floor. Took ten minutes to find a missing leg, tried to glue it back, broke the leg in a different place, I'm giving up on this specific Rumi 🤣. I guess I'll buy it again one day.

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

New house, new room, new brushes, and it's #minipainting time, but the first course of action is gonna be to reglue Rumi's sword because *gasp* it broke again 🥲. #kpdh

A very tiny Rumi miniature in a hand, with a tiny broken sword at her feet.

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Cold weather means it's time to bring back the winter coat + wool scarf + warm jumper fit 😌.

Black and white bathroom pic of today's fit

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Another bookclub book,Terre des hommes by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry! Well, other folks in the book club read it in English, but I read it in French, which made for funny discussions (I was a bit surprised by some translation choices aha). Interesting read, especially for the aviation aspects...

Cover of Terre des hommes, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Okay that's gonna be good enough for the base of Rumi's jacket, there are plenty of details to add but it'll have to wait for new brushes. Maybe I'll try the boots and shorts tomorrow, they are kind of a dark blue, but idk whether I'll just be lazy and go for black instead #kpdh

Close up of another one of the Rumi minis

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Hum, I think I'm gonna switch to a different yellow/orange, this one is slightly more orange than I wanted for Rumi's jacket, but it's easier to get good coverage without a thousand coats, and there's already enough to do with those minis 😅 #Huntrix #KpopDemonHunters

One of the Rumi minis, with a painted jacket

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I went with the faerzress purple for Rumi's braid, which IMO does look good, and I have a yellow/orange that would go well for the vest, but I'm gonna have to do a bunch of coats for it to look good, and there's so many details that maybe I should wait for better brushes 🤔 #kpdh

One of the Rumi, with her skin and braid painted

Another one of the Rumi, with her skin and braid painted.

Last of the Rumi, with also her vest in the process of being painted (it needs a few more coats IMO)

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

*five hours later* okay, time to pick a purple for Rumi's braid, we got worm, beholder, or faerzress, pick your poison. The faerzress purple could give a flashy/bright one, which could be fun 🤔. But I do like the lavender vibe of the beholder purple... #kpopdemonhunters

Picture of three d&d paint bottles, purple worm, beholder purple, faerzress purple.

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Real talk, I considered doing all the minis at the same time, but now that I've done the skin of one Mira and the three Rumi, I think I'm just gonna do all the Rumi at first and then the Mira and then the Zoey. But first I need lunch lol.

Three Rumi and one Mira with painted skin

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Halfway through painting Mira's skin I said fuck it and ordered a bunch of even thinner brushes, including one called "the psycho brush", which feels appropriate. I'm gonna hate Mira's fingerless gloves. This is gonna be a big "trust the process" series, hum? #KPDH

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Okay you all do not realize how much of a struggle this is gonna be for me, I lasted less than a minute with the Citadel Layer M brush, and not long later I had to switch from the Citadel Layer S to my Army Painter precise details, the smallest I've got. I'm using my jaw as a brush stabilizer. Help.

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Also nobody is allowed to make fun of my mini holders, I swear that yogurt glass pot + blu tack works so much better than the citadel holder I bought ages ago and I am not sorry about this.

Nine unpainted minis attached to some yogurt glass pots on the left, a black fancy mini holder on the right, and a big >> sign in the middle.

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Okay, I'm 2h into C4E4 and fighting for my sanity, so I guess it's a perfect time to try to paint those Huntrix minis. (Brennan Lee Mulligan, what are you doing to me #CriticalRole) (I'm anxious about finding the right colors for Mira & Rumi's hair, honestly #KPDH)

My whole painting set-up, with brushes, paints, a wet palette, and all the minis fixed on top of glass pots. There's also a tablet with critical role on it, and some papers with the Huntrix girls printed on it for color reference.

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Okay, now all is glued and primed, imma let that dry for a bit and get some dinner, then I guess I'll have to start thinking about colors 😅. Easy peasy. #kpdh #polytrix #huntrix

9 minis glued to their bases and primed in grey.

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Like come on Mira, why are you doing that? That lunge almost put you off base 🤣. It is a cool looking pose, I will admit that. #kpdh

3D printed Mira in a lunge, her weapon pointed in front of her

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Honestly, kinda started with the easy ones, why are the other ones spreading their legs like that. Rumi, Mira, what? #kpdh

Five minis glued to their bases, four more to go.

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Not gonna lie, the details are pretty good, we'll see whether they'll stay post painting. I'm curious whether whoever made the 3D printing model just took the Fortnite model and went with that or did something else. Won't complain in any case lol. #kpdh

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

(Might as well do the same thread here as on Twitter) Okay, let's get this thing started. First step, cleaning some 3D printing residuals and gluing the bases, yeah 🎉

Pictures of a bunch of unpainted minis with their bases, some glue and a cutter

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Oh my God they are there 🤩😍🥰. So tiny though, they look more fragile than my usual minis, so that's gonna be a ✨challenge✨ to paint. And some tiny surfaces to glue to a base, hopefully it'll still work 🤞. Which one should I start with 👀? #kpdh #polytrix #kpopdemonhunters

Picture of three unpainted minis of Rumi from KPop Demon Hunters.

Picture of three unpainted minis of Zoey from KPop Demon Hunters.

Picture of three unpainted minis of Mira from KPop Demon Hunters.

Picture of nine unpainted minis of Rumi, Mira, and Zoey from KPop Demon Hunters.

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Got surprised by the rain while cycling to work 😔. But also, hey, new haircut 😀.

Selfie in the work bathroom lol. I can't see anything anymore from my glasses, my coat is drenched, my hair wet, and the only reason my face doesn't look too red is because I put a filter on this pic lol.

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Low-key stressed out, but this 3h choir is totally gonna be fun, right? I have never sung in a choir, but the Gaia Music Collective in London with a KPop demon hunters arrangement? Couldn't miss it.

Picture of the top of a sheet music for Golden, written by Ejae, Mark Sonnenblick, from KPop demon hunters, arranged by Matt Goldstein for the Gaia Music Collective.

Above the sheet music, you can see a big room slowly getting filled.

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Forgot to update the thread, but this was my book club book for October! Wasn't fond of it: there were some good ideas, but the style really didn't work for me 😅. Spent too much the book being confused!

Cover of "If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things" by Jon McGregor.

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Fun evening, with fun people 🥳. Congrats again @clclark.bsky.social for the book launch and thank you for the chat 😁. (And cheers to @charlieedmunds.bsky.social for reading those books within the last few weeks and then being like "So. Book launch in London. We're going, right?" 🤣).

Picture of (from left to right) Charlie, C. L. Clark, and me.

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

✨messy✨ (yes I know it's still short, but it's a work in progress lol) (yes I took a picture from the good side cause the other side honestly sucks so far) (brought to you by my mom commenting on me not having cut my hair yet every time I facetime her)

Black and white picture of myself with my hair longer than usual and starting to curl.

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Like, come on, this is just so pretty, I want to go back 🥹

Screenshot of the documentary, showing a stunning picture of the Cap Blanc-Nez and its white cliffs of chalk.

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Just got to watch a very beautiful documentary about the coast I grew up on, and damn, I miss it 🥺. It's just so pretty, I need to go back more often (and when the weather is nice so we can actually go for a walk lol). I miss the salted wind in my face 🥲.

Picture of a French village along the opal coast, the coastal region in northern France on the English channel.
From the bottom to the top, you can see yellow agricultural parcels split by green trees; the white houses of the village with their red roofs; the opal blue of the sea, almost merging with the lighter blue of the sky above.
Is written on the picture: "Échappées belles - Côte d'Opale - Entre Vents et Marées", which stands for "Beautiful Escapes - Opal Coast - Between Winds and Tides"

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Almost lost my Storygraph streak, so went for a quick read to catch up 😅. It was a fun read, kinda making me sad the Stumptown TV show got cancelled with Covid, I like Dex.

Cover of Stumptown, Volume 2: The Case of The Baby In The Velvet Case. The cover uses orange and pink tones. Dex, the main character and a private investigator, is in the middle, drawn in black and orange, with a pink building behind her.

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Wouah, trop dingue, le premier film d'animation américain qui met la culture coréenne en son centre a utilisé... Plein d'éléments de la culture coréenne ! Et oui, tu retrouves de la bouffe coréenne, des inspirations manga/animé, et des choré dignes d'un concert de KPop. Surprenant de s'en plaindre !

Pêle-mêle : une histoire d’amour impossible, du burlesque de manga, du féminisme pour les nuls, la tresse de la Reine des Neiges, un tigre magique comme un ersatz de Miyazaki, Rihanna à la mi-temps du Super Bowl, des chorégraphies TikTok, des nouilles instantanées, etc.

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

"Let's read something fun tonight" but the fanfic is like

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Cause I should also share the end result 😁

Picture of an apple pie, cooked. It's pretty.

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Just making a pretty pie in front of TV 😀

Picture of a half made apple pie, with the France-South Africa Women Rugby game on TV.

France is winning 43 to 3 so far.

The pie is really pretty.

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Ink Blood Sister Scribe was genuinely a nice surprise. A few things at the beginning felt a bit awkward, but the plot kept me on my toes, and I grew very fond of the three PoVs we got. Fantasy mystery about magic books and blood inks. Obviously I love Esther (gay and can kick some ass!).

Cover of Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs.

Dark blue background, with the title in the center, a word per line. Ink and Sister are written in white on a black background. Blood and Scribe are written in black on a fiery orange background. Below the title is a drawing of an open book.

Above the title:
The Sunday Times Bestseller
'An absolute delight' Guardian
'Extraordinary' Marlon James

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Salomé by Oscar Wilde, which I bought following my reading of After Sappho. So cheerful 🥰🙂🙃🤣 /s.

Cover of Salomé by Oscar Wilde. Yellow background with two characters drawn sideways, mostly in black and white. The woman is holding the cut head of a dead man, kissing his lips. His eyes are closed.

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers is the Sept book for the queer bookclub I'm considering attending in town. It was interesting, to say the least. Coming of age story in the 40s, I liked the main character but boy there were a few uncomfortable moments... I think I'll read the play too.

Cover from The Member of the Wedding, by Carson McCullers. It's a photo of two couples dancing, dressed in 1940s attire.

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Eve by Cat Bohannon is an absolute must-read. Funny, well sourced, and fascinating, Eve covers million years of human evolution while venturing the female body, giving a fresh perspective on how we became today's humans. I will be pondering it (and coming back to it) on a regular basis 💯.

Cover of Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years Of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon.

The bottom half is in a light green, with Eve written in big, and a lot of small line drawings within and surrounding the letters of Eve. Among those drawings are various trees, a primate (maybe a gorilla?) hanging from a tree, a pterodactyl flying, a hairy woman holding a child (aka some of our ancestors), and a city of tall buildings.

Two comments at the top of the book:
- "An epic combination of science and speculation that places women at the centre of history" Observer
- "Should revolution use our understanding of human life" George Monbiot

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

"Égisthe : Il est des vérités qui peuvent tuer un peuple, Électre. Électre : Il est des regards de people mort qui pour toujours étincellent." Techniquement une relecture, je crois que j'ai dû lire ça au lycée pour un cours de français. J'aime toujours autant ! La fin de la pièce est excellente 🔥🔥🔥

Électre, de Jean Giraudoux, aux éditions Petits Classiques Larousse. La moitié droite de la couverture montre une femme grecque, une ville peut-être en feu derrière elle.

Femme Narsès : [...] Comment cela s'appelle-t-il, quand le jour se lève, comme aujourd'hui, et que tout est saccagé, et que l'air pourtant se respire, et qu'on a tout perdu, que la ville brûle, que les innocents s'entre-tuent, mais que les coupables agonisent, dans un coin du jour qui se lève ?
Électre : Demande au mendiant. Il le sait.
Le Mendiant : Cela a un très beau nom, femme Narsès. Cela s'appelle l'aurore.

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Another mini done 🎉. More pics on IG 🥳 www.instagram.com/p/DNdqi5PMeg...

Front of a painted miniature soldier, holding two rapiers and wearing blue clothes.

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Finally got to read the three recent comics from the Midst Cosmos. Really cool read, I loved that we got a story focused in the three parts of the cosmos (Un/Medium/Fold) and at different timeframe. Really nice drawings, fun stories, and now I can finally visualize what Midst look like 🤣.

The cover of Midst, Tales From The Cosmos, a collection of three comics in the Midst universe. A very busy cover, with a top half in beige tones and a bottom half in brown/purple tones, with a hard delimitation at the halfway line. This represents the split between the Un, the bright upper half of this Cosmos, and the Fold, the dark bottom in which mysterious phenomenons can randomly occur.
The center of the cover represents a 2D map of the Cosmos, with dark filled circles in the upper half representing islets floating in the Un, and beige filled circles in the bottom half representing islets floating in the Fold. At the center of the cover, a yellow filled circle halfway into the Un and halfway into the Fold, representing Midst, an islet rotating in both the bright Un and the dark Fold, a delimitation called the Medium.
At the bottom of the cover are three circles, named Medium, Un, and Fold. The Medium circle contains Post stamps from Midst. The Un circle contains a colorful trinket owned by the protagonist of the second story. The Fold circle contains a bug with long wings.
Below are listed the people who worked on these comics: Colin Lorimer, Jasmine Walls, Kendra Wells, Alejandro Aragon, Aviv Or, Vash Taylor, Chris O'Halloran, Quinton Winter, Valentina Bianconi, Jim Campbell.

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Slowly but surely, my ttrpg mini collection is growing 🎉

Picture of all the minis I have painted so far. That's 20 minis 🎉

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

New painted mini 🎉. Well, "mini", but that's a big tree. www.instagram.com/p/DNXi9SPMnxb/?igsh=Y3NhcmdmcGpqaTFz

Painted Wraithroot Tree, aka a corrupted tree raised with necromancy. Think a dark green Ent with a bunch of yellow eyes.

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Very quick read, kinda creeped me out tbh (in a good way). Parts of it made me wonder whether this was what a bad trip must feel like 🤣. Very cool sci-fi/Alien-Invading-Earth story with a trans woman as main character. Kinda would hate this world 😅.

Cover of The Seep by Chana Porter. Black background with painted flowers in its center. The bottom of the paint is dripping.

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Nice cute queer anthology that I got during JordanCon, as one of its authors was present (and had a bunch of very interesting panels). With how hectic the past week has been, it's been nice being able to read short stories during the little moments of downtime I had...

Cover of "Of Stardust", a queer fantastical anthology, edited by Avrah C. Baren. The cover is stunning, looking like a few superposed layers.
The back layer is a black sky with stars.
The next layer has straight rays of rainbow lights, starting from the center and going all around the cover, like colored spokes going through the colors of the rainbow.
The top layers are made of light blue clouds (the topper the lighter), with a bright yellow moon (or sun?) in the center.
The superposition of layers seems to give depth to the cover.

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Exactly the feel-good book I needed today. Teenage romances are usually not my thing, but it was a cute and fun read, and I enjoyed the characters. This book almost made me wish I had gone to camp (before immediately remembering that I would have hated it lol).

Cover for "Wish You Weren't Here" by Erin Baldwin. It shows two girls standing in front of the entrance to a summer camp, with a sign above them indicating "Fogridge Sleepaway Camp".
The girl to the left is a black girl dressed in white, with a white suitcase behind her. Her hair is brown, with the end dyed white. She looks fancy, very influencer vibe.
The girl to the right is dressed casually, with a pink bag behind her. She's crossing her arms, giving an annoyed side look to the girl in white.

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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Good thriller set in the 1990s. Two main characters: a lesbian Detective Sergeant investigating the disappearance of a teenage girl, and a deaf woman whose past trauma is being brought back by the investigation. Intense, w/ CW for SA & child abuse. After Inter Alia yesterday, I'mma need a break 💀.

Cover of The Schoolhouse by Sophie Ward. It shows a black and white picture of a little girl, her head resting on the top of a sofa, directly looking into the camera.

Other writings on the cover:
- 'Compelling' Telegraph
- 'Stylish and pacey' The Times
- 'A literary provocateur' Guardian

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