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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
Tom has bought a place, so this should be the last move!
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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
It's only been out about a week or so. Hot off the press!
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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 · 01/07/2025
I love the way they've gone with one of the prettiest actors out there and were like "The glasses make him look smart, right? Smart people wear glasses."
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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
Oh yes, we've been together almost 6 years and are very much in love. He's also quite a bit younger than me, but we have the same sense of humour and both prioritise communication. I'm 4 years into a cancer journey and he's been a source of support for me, including being totally unfased by it.
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I keep a step stool in the kitchen because I'm the one who primarily does all the cooking. When we moved into this apartment I realised that I had only filled the lower shelves of all of the overhead cabinets, and that wasn't going to work.
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Relatable content.
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Wonderful isn't it. I blubbed.
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Lol, I'm a statuesque 5'4" and my boyfriend is 6'4", so can confirm we are magical little treasure, oft admired.
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
The early bird etc etc..
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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 · 06/06/2025
Naawwww
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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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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
June just has to get in there and fuck all their shit up.
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Andrew @surrenderdotty.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Princess Angry Beaver. Seems legit.
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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 · 15/05/2025
media.tenor.com
a woman with short hair and red lipstick is standing on a street in front of a parking meter .
ALT: a woman with short hair and red lipstick is standing on a street in front of a parking meter .
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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 · 29/04/2025
Normally I'd grab my red pen and go to work, but...
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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 · 25/04/2025
I read this when I was 18 in 1982. It was hugely influential on me.
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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 · 24/04/2025
Very good! Her role isn't huge but she has a great screen presence. I joked originally that the movie is 20% people putting on, and taking off, their reading glasses. She does some lovely reading glasses work.
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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 · 22/04/2025
I was in Tokyo recently and there was an exhibition of his work at the Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum. Sadly they were closed on the only day I could have gone.
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