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Hannah McManus

@rookdigoo.bsky.social
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Hey, it's me. Writer, reader, crafter, nerd, and amateur folklorist. Chronically ill (long covid) and won't be silent about it. We are still in a pandemic. Wish I was a tiny mouse living in a tiny mushroom. 🐭🍄 | She/her

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Hannah McManus @rookdigoo.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Things that your partner sends you that makes you burst into tears. <3
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Hannah McManus @rookdigoo.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I am pretty much constantly thinking this 😅 or at least a progress bar to see how close I am to leveling up!
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Hannah McManus @rookdigoo.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I just finished Hearth Witch and came to follow you, and then as I am a huge Critter I squealed when I saw this. Can't wait to read your story in it! <3
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Hannah McManus @rookdigoo.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Catching up on reading Dracula Daily during an appointment with a half hour observation period today, and I have to say reading Lucy's storyline while getting an iron infusion is a little bit trippy. #chronicillness #books
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Hannah McManus @rookdigoo.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Me: I'm going to try out the productivity tool I got from itch years ago! *several hours later* *has not used that tool and has fallen down a rabbit hole of looking at other programs and tools etc etc* Tbh it's a wonder that it took me as long as it did to figure out that I might maybe have ADHD 😝
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Hannah McManus @rookdigoo.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Congratulations!! That's an incredible number!
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Hannah McManus @rookdigoo.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
so I'm rewatching The Owl House for the first time since getting my long covid diagnosis and I... I'm having lots of emotions about Eda's curse x'D
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Hannah McManus @rookdigoo.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Not gonna lie, this made me tear up. Happy 10th anniversary, Critters!! ❤️
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Clairemont @americanabroad.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
"Alex Padilla, a Democratic California senator and vocal critic of the Trump administration’s immigration polices, was forcibly removed and handcuffed as he attempted to ask a question at a press conference held by Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, in Los Angeles on Thursday."
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Sen. Schatz is pissed!
YouTube video by The Bulwark
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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 26/05/2025
Marvel could pay for my healthcare for the rest of my life for a fraction of 1% of profit from Spider-Man Noir, a character whose original comics I edited. For Peter David to die in medical debt, co-creator of Spider-Man 2099 and writer of countless seminal Hulk and X-Factor comics—that's a disgrace
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Hannah McManus @rookdigoo.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
The last few times this month it's hit around 79f, my body has just fallen apart. I was really hoping that this summer I would handle better than last, but the covid reinfection I had in February has apparently shattered that. Genuinely dreading this summer, but nothing I can do about it.
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Hannah McManus @rookdigoo.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Hm, I see you're getting a lot of negative feedback. Have you tried just thinking more positively? 🤔 I guess you just don't want to get comments that agree with you!
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Hannah McManus @rookdigoo.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Eating a sesame seed bagel? Yay! But watch out! You WILL be picking sesame seeds out of your cleavage for the rest of the day
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Who could've guessed joining a make-believe Resistance against an Evil Empire would ever happen in real life?
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Hannah McManus @rookdigoo.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Too late to be known as Don the first, He's sure to be known as Don the worst, A pox on the phony king of 'Murica!
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Hannah McManus @rookdigoo.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I don't particularly care about the new pope being elected but I would like you to know I just said the phrase "oh he's announced his popesona name already" and immediately cracked up at myself.
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Hannah McManus @rookdigoo.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Genuinely so cool to see #longcovid being explored through different game formats! Highly recommend the read. #narrativegames #gamedesign thesicktimes.org/2025/05/06/l...
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“Long COVID Mode”: Seeing the crisis through games - The Sick Times
Games uniquely incorporate emotional and social factors that influence how we take in information — making them surprisingly useful communication tools in a world in denial about the ongoing threats o...
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Hannah McManus @rookdigoo.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Things that amuse me: Passing a sign that says "Entering Wayland" while wearing my Heir to the Empire t-shirt. Happy Star Wars day, nerds! XD
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Hannah McManus @rookdigoo.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
HAPPY DRACULA DAILY DAY! My good friend Jonathan Harker is on a work trip to visit a new client. He's collecting recipes for his fiance, Mina (aww). Surely nothing weird or amiss could happen on this totally normal trip 👀 draculadaily.substack.com
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Dracula Daily | DraculaDaily | Substack
Get the classic novel Dracula, emailed to you in real time as it happens. Click to read Dracula Daily, by DraculaDaily, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
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Hannah McManus @rookdigoo.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Thank you ❤️
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Hannah McManus @rookdigoo.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
I'm so sorry ❤️
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Hannah McManus @rookdigoo.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Thank you, Cathryn ❤️
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Hannah McManus @rookdigoo.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Welp! I thought it was gonna happen, and it finally did. My job finally got tired of waiting for me to recover with my long covid enough to work again, so I am officially unemployed. If anyone knows how to get a refund on 2025, that would be great. I've had the few month trial and I am not a fan 🙃
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Hannah McManus @rookdigoo.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Oh and 100% wholeheartedly get the "get with it, doctors!" sentiment lol 😅
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Hannah McManus @rookdigoo.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I know that's one of them but I know there's more than one - I was given like 10 procedure codes to check with insurance but of course I didn't get an explanation of what any of them meant. 😅 I really have 0 idea of what to expect... the emails I've gotten were rather cryptic lol.
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Hannah McManus @rookdigoo.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Fingers crossed the technician is nice and understanding, because there's nothing I can do about it now. I'm just so mad at myself. I miss being the smart, quick-minded person I know I am somewhere beneath this slag.
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Hannah McManus @rookdigoo.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Finally have an appt tomorrow for autonomic testing after a year+ wait. And I realize now, the night before, that I completely misread the meds to pause before the test list and I should have stopped one two days ago and two others a week ago. 🙃 Thanks for absolutely nothing #longcovid brain!
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Hannah McManus @rookdigoo.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
A just-after-midnight thunderstorm is actually a great birthday present to me. 💖
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Long COVID Campaign | www.longcovidcampaign.org @lccampaign.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Thanks @thesicktimes.bsky.social @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social @mileswgriffis.bsky.social for your reporting on #NoLongCOVIDCuts advocacy. Grateful coverage shouted out #LongCOVID bipartisan Hill supporters & uplifted the patient outreach that made #RECOVER grant restorations today possible. #teamwork
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Hannah McManus @rookdigoo.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Successfully enrolled in my first clinical trial for #longcovid ! Not going to share details as I don't want to doxx myself 😅 Don't know if I'll see improvement through it but I'm glad to know I'm contributing to research to help all of us dealing with this.
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Hannah McManus @rookdigoo.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I relate to this so much. ❤️ Did you find your writing process changed at all between writing before chronic illness and after? I've found myself having to relearn a lot of things, and completely adjust the way I write now.
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Hannah McManus @rookdigoo.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Yeah. This.
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Hannah McManus @rookdigoo.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
'BUT HER EMAILS...' 🙄
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COVID-19 Longhauler Advocacy Project @c19lap.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
To the millions we serve, A statement from our founder on the devastating closure of the HHS Office for #LongCOVID Research & Practice. Within, find an action network to easily write @SecKennedy @POTUS & Congress & a volunteer form. longhauler-advocacy.org/so/ebPNEWBYA...
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A Statement from our Founder on the Closure of The Office for Long COVID Research and Practice
To the millions we serve, Today it is with great sorrow that I announce by direction of the Trump administration, The Office for Long COVID Research and Practice has been ordered closed. The Office fo...
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Hannah McManus @rookdigoo.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Oh I never thought about writing on screen glasses! That's so cool.
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Long Covid Collective @longcovidcollect.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Chronic illness doesn’t take your dreams away—it puts them just out of reach. Some days, even the basics feel impossible. This isn’t laziness. It’s survival. #ME/CFS #ChronicIllness #DisabilityAwareness #longcovid
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Hannah McManus @rookdigoo.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Thank you! <3
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Hannah McManus @rookdigoo.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Oh I love the idea of tracking tea like that! I have so many teas I keep meaning to try and haven't yet, so doing something cute like that sounds like a great idea. Absolutely love your fold out too <3
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Hannah McManus @rookdigoo.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Those chicks are absolutely adorable! And good reminder that sometimes we can't always wait for inspiration to show up first. I think I'll take that to heart and junk journal some today <3
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Hannah McManus @rookdigoo.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
1000% 💔
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Hannah McManus @rookdigoo.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
May the Odds be ever in your favor. (This book is killing me already) #currentlyreading #sunriseonthereaping
A picture of the bottom corner of page 50 in Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins.
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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
It's so important right now to give yourself dumb little reasons to keep going. You haven't had the best sandwich you've ever tasted. You haven't laughed the hardest you've ever laughed. You haven't gotten the best hug you've ever felt. I know these things feel small but that's why they help me.
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Hannah McManus @rookdigoo.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
WELP apparently spotify hosted the trump inauguration brunch (how did I miss this??) So I am taking my money elsewhere. 🤷‍♀️ Trying out Deezer for a 30 day trial - we'll see how it goes! It's the same price as spotify premium, and it looks like they actually pay artists better so fingers crossed!
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Hannah McManus @rookdigoo.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Did a Haunting of Hill House page in my junk journal yesterday. The red pen didn't show up quite as well as I'd have liked but I'm pleased with it overall.
A two page spread in a spiral bound journal. The left page has brown paper that looks somewhat like wallpaper with the words "help Eleanor come home" written in red ink. There are other small pieces around it such as a paper scrap reading "spine-tingling horror", a picture of a book copy of Haunting of Hill House, some smokey scraps, an urn, and a small circle picture of Eleanor dancing in grey. 
The right page has the same brown wallpaper like paper and on top of it is an illustration of two pale hands holding a ghostly grey one. There is a sticker that looks like a stamp and a sticker of a candle with roses.
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Hannah McManus @rookdigoo.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
It's #longcovid awareness day, the Ides of March, AND the day Eowyn stabbed the Witch King. No spoons left, only knives. 🗡🗡🗡
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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Two stills from the television series Over the Garden Wall. The first showing Wirt with fancy chairs behind him speaking to someone offscreen with text that reads "Fred's a talking horse. He can do whatever he wants" the second shows Fred the talking horse in the same setting responding with text that reads "I want to steal"
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Hannah McManus @rookdigoo.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
THEM <3
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Hannah McManus @rookdigoo.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Crabssant 🦀🥐
A box of croissants, one of which has been doodled on to badly resemble a cartoon crab.
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Hannah McManus @rookdigoo.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
You can't heal without first removing the tumor.
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Hannah McManus @rookdigoo.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
You can't heal without first removing the tumor. By voting to censure Rep. Al Green, you've joined the side of the tumor, Tom. I hope your constituents vote to remove you as soon as possible. Maybe you can run as a nazi-republican next time then, since you're so keen to join them. 🤷‍♀️ Coward.
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