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Andrew

@surrenderdotty.bsky.social
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Nugget. Craft obsessive. Kilt fancier. Milliner. Reader. Fragrance nerd. 2 x cancer survivor. Traveller. Harbour City Bears committee member. | In a vertically discordant relationship with @tomtheotter. IG: surrenderdotty | Sydney, Oz.

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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
1st round of radiation done for my new abdominal tumour. Easy peasy this time compared to 4 years ago, just 3 sessions. It’s kind of like getting an x-ray that takes 15 minutes. The biggest challenges are staying still despite various itches, and not falling asleep. #canceradventures
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Boo. I was enjoying this until it all sort of fell apart for me in the last 10%. Too much saccharine schmaltz, fireflies, attempts at ‘magical realism’ and page after page about a sheep named Elaine. #booksky
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
I moved to Hurstville in Sydney recently, and I didn’t realise Sumner Locke Elliott, author and homosexualist, was a local from just next door in Kogarah. Here he is remembered in tile.
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
When did the words "waist" and "waste" become so hard to differentiate. Please stop posting about your waste, because EWW.
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
A happy afternoon unpacking books and arranging my bookshelves after our house move. Sone have been in boxes for several years. Hello old friends.
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
It’s stories not story’s. You converse you don’t conversate. You simplify you don’t simplificate. I mean, I could keep adding to this list but frankly I think my head would explode.
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Post yourself from a different era [Me (far left) at Kaos Comedy Restaurant, 90s. I had the biggest crush on the guy I'm sitting next to. It was very much unrequited.]
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
I'm packing box after box of books, and getting reacquainted with some old friends. Cudos to 16 year old me who had the good taste to buy 3 Dragon's Dream titles way back then; Syd Mead: Sentinel, Roger Dean: Views and 21st Century Foss. I know nothing of Dragon's Dream but they loved a trippy font.
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
I'm packing to move house next week. I'm not sleeping well, my new cancer meds are giving me hot flushes, and every night is a bedclothes on again, off again scenario. I'm stressed, but I have a loving partner and supportive friends with offers of help. We'll get through this. All will be well.
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
It's a good day when the new release book 5 of a favourite series jumps to the top of the TBR pile. "Carnival of Lies" by D.V. Bishop, the 5th installment of the Renaissance detective Cesare Aldo series. This time he's left Florence, for Venice in the year 1539. Intrigues ensue! #booksky
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I'm currently packing up the apartment for a move in a few weeks, and at the same time my new cancer treatment is giving me menopausal style hot flushes. Hoodie on. Hoodie off. Rinse, repeat. It's like the worst striptease ever. #cancerjapes
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Quote with a photo of you from the 80’s
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
I finally got around to seeing the 2021 film Firebird, as it was just added to the free streaming service (SBS OnDemand) here in Oz. Oh my, such a beautiful, sad, poignant film, especially knowing it's a true story. It was released last year in Japan and I love the Japanese poster (pic 2). #firebird
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Share some sisters from Film or TV. "Oh, I wish Daddy could be here right now! You can never lose your talent, he used to tell me. You can lose everything else, but, you can't lose your talent."
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I was just searching for a user on Instagram and amongst the suggestions was 'does it cake pop', and now I really want to know if does, or doesn't. TELL ME.
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I know most adult film actors use stage names, but to learn that Gabriel Cross and Scott Wild are in reality Ben and Paul blows my tiny mind for some reason.
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I've just started reading The Will of the Many by James Islington (Heirachy book 1), and oof the world building is great. A fantasy blend of classical Rome, with a bit of Dark Academia, and an almost steampunk lack of tech. That actually doesn't do it justice. Book 2 isn't out until November. [sad]
A large blocky shaped ship is levitating above a city that looks a little like ancient Rome.
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
I’m loving the Murderbot series, but the episodes are too short! I want more! #murderbot
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
There is a guy on my bus tunelessly whistling and repeatedly scuffing his feet back and forth, and we’ll, maybe the word ‘rage’ is too strong but…
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TLDR Swinton @thedoodlebear.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
When you have a seizure from eating too many cream puffs it's called the choux fits.
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Happy birthday to this dead set hottie @tomtheotter.bsky.social. More than 5 1/2 years together and we're still making each other laugh daily. I love you, happy birthday.
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
If you see this post, find a pic of you from five years ago and post it. (The early days of the Covid lockdown, wearing a crazy night cap I knitted for fun. Before my cancers were diagnosed, and with noticeably less grey in my beard.)
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Without downloading new pictures, my mental state.
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Yay, I made the cut for the cancer drug trial I was signing up for. Just waiting for the US board to approve. Extra scans showed nothing new, just the one lymph node I knew about. Treatment should start soon. It all feels like making the best of a bad situation. #prostatecancer
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
If you want me I'll be in my bunk, bingeing season 2 of the Korean reality game show The Devil'd Plan on Netflix. #sogood #thedevilsplan
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Get in, chat, we’re paying lock screens Buddhist prayer flags flying in the breeze, photographed at a scenic lookout in the Blue Mountains, NSW.
Buddhist prayer flags flying against a blue sky
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Democratic right exercised. Democracy Sausage achieved. (Well done MasterFoods on the marketing.) #federalelection #voting #democracysausage
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Hairs cutted.
Surenderdotty is smiling at the camera in close up.
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
CT scan all done this morning. FYI, if you’ve ever tried poppers, the flooding warmth of the CT scan contrast material is not dissimilar. They really should pipe in Happiness by Alexis Jordan at full volume. #adventuresincancer
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
New read: Cloistered by Catherine Coldstream, a memoir of her 12 years as a cloistered nun. I've only just started it, but I'm really enjoying it so far. Judging by the prologue her experience was... mixed, at best.
The front cover of the memoir Cloistered depicts a nun and the silhouette of a rose
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
I have a CT scan, a PET scan and a bone density scan scheduled in the next week, to figure out if I'm eligible for a drug trial. If you want me I'll be quietly radiating in the corner, waiting for the superpowers to kick in. #prostatecancer #cancerisbackbackbackagain
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
How I arrived on Bluesky....
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a woman in a red dress stands on stairs in front of a statue
ALT: a woman in a red dress stands on stairs in front of a statue
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I watched the movie Conclave on the plane ride to Japan, so I kind of feel like I’m an expert on what’s going down, NGL.
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Me justifying myself to the boyfriend @tomtheotter.bsky.social
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
It was a pretty sunset tonight.
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
I finished "A Merciful Sea" this long weekend. So good! I'm sad to say goodbye to Nightingale and Courtney, as this was the end of the triptych, but it was a thoroughly satisfying read. #KatieDaysh #NightingaleandCourtney #Booksky
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Yes, Alfons Mucha was an amazing artist, and yes he could rock a blouse, and yes I absolutely would. #daddybear #ablouseakaafemmininetop
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
This is how I flirt
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a man in a suit and bow tie is looking at the camera .
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Reskeet the spectacles, nerds
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
It's fit, innit? [Advertising images by George Brehm]
Vintage advertising for Aqua VelvaVintage advertising for Aqua VelvaVintage advertising for Aqua Velva
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Antinous the Gay God @antinousgaygod.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
🪷 "In the Sculptor’s Studio" by #ChristianMeyerRoss (1843-1904). #Antinous #Farnese statue in the background, looking on with loving eyes as scantily clad sculptor works on clay model for a statue of Winged Victory". Fame eluded this brilliant Nordic artist, who never married. 🪷
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I was in Kinokuniya today and they really have a handle on the nature of 2025.
2 bookshelves labelled “Humour” which are empty.
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Everyone's doing those 'post a movie from he year you turned 18', but seeing as I'm old I turned 18 in 1982. Do you know what was released in 1982? Blade Runner. E.T. Tron. The Dark Crystal. Tootsie. Poltergeist. STII: The Wrath of Khan. Victor/Victoria... Oh and Sophie's Choice, obviously.
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Inside you are two wolves:
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Aloof, patrician Arrow Collar man by Robert C. Kaufmann (1900-1999).
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Movies you've watched more than six times, gifs only.
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a man in a green shirt is holding a glass of wine .
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Ever wanted to play sexy Dissolution of the Monasteries with your Significant Other? To party like it's 1536?...
A man and a woman wear brown robes for sale, which look very much like monastic robes.
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I'm n'otter bear @modernsocialcrisis.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Tiny @surrenderdotty.bsky.social is tiny. ✌🏻
Andrew at the Edo castle ruins.
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I'm n'otter bear @modernsocialcrisis.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Look how tiny!!!!!!!!! @surrenderdotty.bsky.social
Andrew at Osaka castle.
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Yay, just as I finished the book I was reading a new instalment in the Nightingale & Courtney series “A Merciful Sea” has dropped. Yes please and thank you! #booksky #nightingaleandcourtney
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