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usuallyhats @usuallyhats.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I absolutely loved this! So beautifully written and such incredible Tosh characterisation 😍😍😍

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usuallyhats @usuallyhats.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

this fic is so sad and so good and so perfect, I cannot cope 😍😭

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usuallyhats @usuallyhats.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Writing tens of thousands of words of Shetland fic APPARENTLY 😂

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usuallyhats @usuallyhats.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Another Shetland fic! This one is my first ever five things fic! archiveofourown.org/works/91725021

Rating: General Audiences

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Category: M/M

Fandom: Shetland (TV)

Relationship: Duncan Hunter/Jimmy Perez

Characters: Jimmy Perez, Duncan Hunter

Additional Tags: Post-Season/Series 07, Pre-Relationship, they don't know they're in a slow burn romance yet, but I do

Words: 5,564

Title: the borders of our lives

Author: usuallyhats

Summary: Five conversations Jimmy and Duncan had while Duncan was in prison, and one they had when he got out.

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usuallyhats @usuallyhats.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Another Shetland fic! This one is my first ever five things fic! archiveofourown.org/works/91725021

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usuallyhats @usuallyhats.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

this is wonderful: dreamy and unreal, but also grounded and true, and SO romantic, I loved it so much

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usuallyhats @usuallyhats.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

next day repost! (it will still be next day and not the day after for eight more minutes)

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usuallyhats @usuallyhats.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

More Shetland fic! This one is smut, which I have never written before. I'm trying to resist the impulse to apologise for it or caveat it, so instead I will just say: here it is archiveofourown.org/works/91573716

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Rating: Explicit

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Category: M/M

Fandom: Shetland (TV)

Relationship: Duncan Hunter/Jimmy Perez

Characters: Duncan HunterJimmy Perez

Additional Tags: Post-Season/Series 07, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot Oral Sex

Words: 2,491

Title: no time like the present

Author: usuallyhats

Summary: And besides, he thinks, looking Jimmy up and down and wondering if he'll notice, there's other things he'd rather do with Jimmy now they've got the evening, if Jimmy's as amenable to them as Duncan's hoping he'll be.

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walkthegale @walkthegale.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This is such a warm and lovely fic full of friendship and people who care about each other very much.

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usuallyhats @usuallyhats.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I wrote another Shetland fic! Mostly gen about Tosh this time: archiveofourown.org/works/91186551

AO3 header screencap, details include: Rating: General Audiences
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: F/F, Gen, M/M
Fandom: Shetland (TV)
Relationships: Alison McIntosh & Jimmy Perez, Duncan Hunter/Jimmy Perez, Ruth Calder/Alison McIntosh
Characters: Alison McIntosh, Jimmy Perez, Ruth Calder, Cassie Perez (Shetland), Duncan Hunter
Language: English
Series: Part 4 of sky, water, land
Words: 3,024
Title: there is nothing now i fear
Author: usuallyhats
Summary: It's Tosh's first Christmas and New Year since she split up with Donnie, and her friends have her back.

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usuallyhats @usuallyhats.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

i don't know what to do with how good this fic is 😍🤩😭

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usuallyhats @usuallyhats.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I have been phoneless for less than 24 hours and my conclusion is that two factor authentication needs to die in a fire

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usuallyhats @usuallyhats.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

today my phone died due in part due to getting a bit lake-y yesterday (it was six years old and starting to go the way of all flesh even pre-lake), BUT I did get to see the eclipse from the same lake with some of my absolute favourite people, so overall a very good day

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usuallyhats @usuallyhats.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Many problems experienced yesterday but @alwaystheocean.bsky.social is an absolute HERO of driving who got us all to the Lakes safe and sound despite it all <3

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usuallyhats @usuallyhats.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Next day repost! I wrote so many words! I had a lovely time! I jammed in one more joke at the last minute because of who I am as a person!

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usuallyhats @usuallyhats.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Another Shetland fic! This is easily the longest thing I've ever written 😂 archiveofourown.org/works/89719476

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Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/F M/M

Fandom: Shetland (TV)

Relationships: Duncan Hunter/Jimmy Perez Ruth Calder/Alison McIntosh Alison McIntosh & Jimmy Perez

Characters: Jimmy Perez Alison McIntosh Duncan Hunter Ruth Calder

Published: 2026-08-02

Words: 9,832

Title: the stream alight with glitter

Author: usuallyhats

Summary: In which everyone is having different but intersecting problems, or, Tosh breaks up with Donnie, Ruth isn't having the emotional reaction she expects, Duncan doesn't know where he stands, and everyone thinks Jimmy knows what he's doing (he doesn't).

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usuallyhats @usuallyhats.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I cannot handle how much I love this fic, it is SO GOOD 😍😭😍😭😍😭

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 25/07/2026

To every trans Londoner: this city is yours too. Today we celebrate London Trans+ Pride and reaffirm a simple truth: you should be free to live as yourself, without fear or prejudice. You are loved. You are wanted. You belong here.

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usuallyhats @usuallyhats.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I wrote another Shetland fic! Just over a thousand words of Tosh and Jimmy's friendship: archiveofourown.org/works/88728931

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Rating: General Audiences

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Fandom: Shetland (TV)

Relationship: Alison McIntosh & Jimmy Perez

Words: 1,351

Title: brave the icy water

Author: usuallyhats

Summary: She gives him an encouraging grin and starts heading down towards the water. It's a cold but beautifully clear day, and Tosh is pleased to see that the spectacular views she promised Jimmy are at least all present and correct.

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usuallyhats @usuallyhats.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

me all day yesterday: I'm so exhausted my eye won't stop twitching, can't wait for bedtime me most of last night: this is the most awake anyone has ever been, sleep isn't real and it can't hurt you me getting up for work this morning: I hate everything

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usuallyhats @usuallyhats.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

this fic is SO GREAT, Tosh DOES deserve the whole world

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usuallyhats @usuallyhats.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I wrote a fic? For the first time in nearly a decade?? BBC Shetland, Jimmy/Duncan, set post season seven: archiveofourown.org/works/88112086

AO3 fic headers, details include:

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Fandom: Shetland (TV)
Relationship: Duncan Hunter/Jimmy Perez
Title: sail your sea, meet your storm
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Summary: "I don't know," Duncan half shouts over the din, "I just want to be out there," and he's gone before Jimmy can say anything more. Without really considering what he's doing, Jimmy follows him out, closing the door behind him in an attempt to keep the storm outside where it belongs.

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usuallyhats @usuallyhats.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

OH ALSO speaking of things I have made, I forgot to post photos of my Shetland lace shawl here! I'm SO pleased with how it came out

An airy light blue lace shawl hanging on a white chest of drawers

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usuallyhats @usuallyhats.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I have made this about a million times, it's so delicious and so easy

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usuallyhats @usuallyhats.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Notes From a Regicide! The Works of Vermin! Slow Gods! V excited to try the rest of this shortlist on the strength of those three

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usuallyhats @usuallyhats.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

aaaaaa this fic is so good, I love everyone in this bar 😍😍😍

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usuallyhats @usuallyhats.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Walking a mile to work while lugging a laptop is very much not my favourite thing to do in 28C weather; also extremely not looking forward to walking home in 37C weather later on

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usuallyhats @usuallyhats.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I have JUST NOW learned that there was a Gotham Knights TV series? And Steph was in it? And she had a GIRLFRIEND? And this was THREE YEARS AGO and I had no idea?

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usuallyhats @usuallyhats.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Explain your @ An exchange between Ben and Polly, watching the Second Doctor go ham on someone's abandoned sandwiches, that went something like this: "Should we be worried?" "I don't know, I've never seen him go like this for food before, it's usually hats."

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usuallyhats @usuallyhats.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Past me got present me the gift of @lizbethmyles.bsky.social's new book about Doctor Who, v excited to get stuck in!

A photo of "Where We Stand, Where We Fall: The Politics of Doctor Who", by Lizbeth Myles. Just visible behind it is a poster advertising the Doctor Who audio drama Zagreus

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usuallyhats @usuallyhats.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I think I have only ever seen one live professional sport, so it was whoever was the best player in the Cheltenham vs Rushden & Diamonds third division play-offs in Cardiff in 2002

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usuallyhats @usuallyhats.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Everything about this fic is PERFECT 😍😭😍😭😍😭

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char @charloween.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

this only takes a few minutes, and has suggested text for you to edit as you see fit (such as, complimenting the work you've seen your MP do around other important issues)

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usuallyhats @usuallyhats.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Posted some more Shetland photos to Instagram! Part one: www.instagram.com/p/DYsJWqOiHZQ/ and part two: www.instagram.com/p/DYsK1AciJzX/

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usuallyhats @usuallyhats.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I am in Shetland! We visited Jimmy's house! I had some emotions!

A photo of me, a short haired white person in a big blue coat, in front of a house on the waterfront. There is a Viking boat in the background, and the sky is very dramatic

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Sandstone @quartzen.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I don't think people really mean to say asexual people can't make fully human art when they keep saying real art is horny, art without sex is just plastic etc but they sure do keep saying that (If your knee-jerk reaction is "but asexuals can make sexy art too!" stop and sit with that for a moment?)

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usuallyhats @usuallyhats.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Today is my 42nd birthday, so I went to a fjord

Snow capped mountains leading down to blue water, under a blue sky and white clouds

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usuallyhats @usuallyhats.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Finally did my Hugo nominations! Slightly more last minute than I usually prefer, but worth waiting, because one of the novels I nominated I finished reading last weekend, and another I finished TODAY

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usuallyhats @usuallyhats.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

so many Space Things are happening, I'm so happy

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usuallyhats @usuallyhats.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I was born in the grounds of a stately home

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usuallyhats @usuallyhats.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I live opposite a primary school, so I see a lot of World Book Day costumes when I'm walking to work - this year's highlight was a little girl dressed as Tintin, complete with Snowy toy and a topknot standing in for the quiff, absolutely A+

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usuallyhats @usuallyhats.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Probably Voyager, aged about 14/15, on some random website I found via a chain of links starting at the BBC Cult website

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usuallyhats @usuallyhats.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Seconding all of this, such a good book

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usuallyhats @usuallyhats.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I wouldn't say I'm super close to my school friends, but I'm still in touch with most of them (mostly through the medium of sharing our wordle scores in the group chat every day 😂)

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usuallyhats @usuallyhats.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I would like the record to reflect that I have been regaled with a lot of figure skating facts on the journey home from the gym

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