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Yen 円 (they/them)

@yenningtons.bsky.social
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Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I appreciate that the increasing prevalence of unsmiling professional photos of women is a reaction against the dictate that women must smile and be approachable in all contexts. However, the solution should have been for men to smile in these photos. We don't all have to be stony-faced.
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Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
When oh when will Australian lit publishing stop beating this particular dead horse, and allow its writers to write about things that aren't this blasted country. The national identity crisis is really old news by now and I'm tired of it and how it hamstrings our culture (such as it is).
Screenshot of black text on white background: 'The Award is for short stories with an Australian Country theme, up to 4000 words. Entrants must be permanent residents of Australia.' 'an Australian Country theme' is highlighted.
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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
July 18, 1926: An editorial in the Chicago Tribune calls into question Rudolph Valentino’s masculinity, just as his latest film “The Son of the Sheik” is about to go into wide release. The piece somehow draws a link from “pink powder puffs” dispensed in a men’s bathroom to the romantic hero. 1/4
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The Writing Club Reliquary @wclubreliquary.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Writing Club Tip #191 "ePub pass – raise your standards in editing" @yenningtons.bsky.social #writing #writingcommunity #writingtips
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Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Banger advice 👌
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Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
I know this is a "how long is a piece of string?" question, but what do you aim for in terms of chapter length? My genre is general/lit fic, novel-length, fairly wordy, and I've been going for a loose 5k per chapter. #writesky #amwriting
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Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
It's time! Time to once more wade into the trenches! Time to hopefully make some actual goddamn progress, please and thank you! #writesky #amwriting
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Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Almost Famous, in a heartbeat. It is just the perfect film about the importance of letting supposedly little, unimportant things in. Letting them matter. Being a fan, in other words. "To truly love some silly little piece of music, or some band, so much that it hurts."
A cool, semi-vector-arty poster for Almost Famous, with all of the main cast juxtaposed in the centre and several faux-Polaroids of movie scenes. The background is a sepia brown with faded concert tickets and stubs for bands from the movie. It's a thing of beauty.
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Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Back in the writing trenches! Today, hoping I can finish this scene, if not this chapter. Would be nice to make some real progress for a change! #amwriting
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Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Finally sitting down to write. Can it be??? I suppose this tweet is technically text that I have written, but hopefully a little more will be forthcoming also. Let's go 💪 #amwriting
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Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
This is big 'take your own advice' energy...but it hurts! It hurts! All those darlings!
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Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Apparently I've only used this word three times in my whole manuscript! Who'd'a thunk. #amwriting #wipsnips
A screencap of text from a manuscript: "As the girls tried again, marginally smoother this time and picking up the pace, James stepped back to where Malik was standing, watching. His expression was as closed as ever, but his arms were crossed over his chest with a tightness that suggested repressed irritation. “Sorry,” James offered after a moment, trying to mask his reluctance. “I just thought a demonstration might work better than another long monologue of yours.” As usual, it felt like he was offering an olive branch and being pointedly ignored, and any desire to occupy the moral high ground was swiftly subsumed by rising frustration." The word "swiftly" is highlighted.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 18/05/2025
Don't worry; I am taking up the slack
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Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
I have been very slack about writing lately, and slacker still about tweeting about it. So, here we go. #amwriting Today is more of an #amplanning day...as the past few have been. It feels like a step backwards, but I have to remind myself it is not.
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Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Sorry, but this WAS my best tip. Always do (write) the weird thing.
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Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Consider starting your morning the way I did: with an @aeon.co video explainer on the (possible) science behind dissonance and harmony by Minute Physics: aeon.co/videos/a-riv... I am not scientific and only empirically musical, but I found this largely understandable and entirely fascinating.
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A riveting audiovisual dive into what makes sounds harmonious, or not | Aeon Videos
Dissonance and harmony might seem straightforward, but a deep dive into the physics reveals their delightful complexity
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Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
I'm a compulsive hyphen checker, just in case, and Macquarie throws back the most insane fuzzy results imaginable
A screen shot of the Macquarie Dictionary website, where the search bar contains 'fastpaced' and the fuzzy search result is for 'fartface'
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Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.
Title: Gender Census 2025.

Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part.

Illustration: Two boxes, each with photos of relevant dictionary pages.
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Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
I'm writing and I'm going to be tweeting (not skeeting; not now not ever) about. Join me. 🥲 #AmWriting
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Nadia Radovich @nadiaradovich.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Very pleased to share that my short story, "Five Things You Can See," is out in Strange Horizons today! strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
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Five Things You Can See
You saw her for the first time at your front door, like she wanted to sell you something or convert you. She had light hair and dark eyes, and she was wearing fatigues, which was the only way you k…
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Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
This was a great, inventive read. Loved it, in a profoundly 'haunted by it' way. I can't imagine how you feel having written it!
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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Today on the podcast, Dr. Joshua Miele talks about his experience growing up blind and how he built a career as an inventor and designer of adaptive technology. Listen here 🎧: pod.link/73329284/epi...
“Accessibility is not just about inventing the technologies, it's about creating the opportunities for the conversation about how things can be better.” —Dr. Joshua Miele
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Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
This is being done with YOUR land. Public land is ALL OUR LAND. Homeless people are already criminalised and evicted from "private" land. Now they cannot exist on public land either. At this stage #BCC could at least be honest & admit they would prefer all homeless people to quietly die.
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Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
#Brisbane City Council is giving homeless people 24 hours to clear out of public parks without offering any support or viable alternatives. Think this is monstrous? Consider signing the #BCC petition www.epetitions.brisbane.qld.gov.au/petition/vie...
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Petitions
Petitions allow the community to bring matters of concern to Council's attention. Find out more.
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Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Bit threatening.
Screencap of an email inbox, where an email from British Airways Executive Club is visible in summary. The truncated subject line reads: 'Time is almost up for you...'
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Wondermark Comics @wondermark.com · 21/02/2020
"NOW LOOK HERE! I have reason to believe YOU have been gently scuffing your shoes on my driveway EVERY DAY for the last EIGHT YEARS!" Wondermark #1511; In which a Neighbor takes Action wondermark.com/c1511
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Will Willoughby @willwilloughby.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Just got a #Pushcart nom! Many thanks to @pangyrus.bsky.social for the nom and for giving my story a good home. Read it here: www.pangyrus.com/fiction/down... CW: Contains themes of depression and attempted suicide. But also contains absurd business lingo and one (1) henchman. #WritingCommunity
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Downstream Benefits | Pangyrus
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Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
My #WIPSnips for January 29, 'conversion'. (It's already Jan 30 here! Wake up, rest-of-the-world!) What a fun idea. I think I'll be participating in these lots~ #WritingCommunity #WriteSky
A screen cap of text. The word 'convert'(ed) is highlighted in blue. The text reads: "Now, Malik let his eyes glaze over, trying to empty his mind as he continued pedalling. The sound of the bike was almost rhythmic, and he’d just managed to stop seeing the outline of the court on the back of his eyelids when Thomas tapped him on the shoulder and gestured him back so he could adjust the bike’s settings. Malik didn’t bother to ask what he was doing. He only cared about the numbers when it came to percentage serves in and break points converted. Fitness was Thomas’s domain, and he had no desire to encroach on it."
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Raccoons Hourly @raccoonhourly.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
An adorable raccoon.
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Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Did some plotting today on the WIP...it's draft 2, but such a mess still that I had to stop & reel things back in. It's been helpful & not as chaotic as I would have expected. Don't be afraid to slow down! #AmWriting #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
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Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Writing time! Writing time! 🚨🚨🚨 If you're looking for a sign, this is it. #WritingCommunity
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Nyco Rudolph @nycorudolph.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Sometimes you set out to make art with meaning, and other times the meaning finds it afterwards. These bear posters were originally created as a love letter to retro poster design, and I was delighted by how many people began seeing them as a a pro-2SLGBTQ/solidarity statement. 🏳️‍🌈🐻 #wildlifeart
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Florence Chien 🗡️ REVENANT OF SUROLIFIA (07.07.26) @florencechien.com · 24/01/2025
1937. 21yo a-Ling's final task in Shanghai is to save her cousin's magazine from censorship. But when the Kempeitai murders her cousin, a mysterious British financier promises to whisk her away to the London of her dreams, if only she spies on her family and country. #YouDeservepIt #HF #R (ish) #WIP
Moodboard depicting London and Shanghai in the late 1930s. Also old photographs of an English man and a Chinese woman. With quotation reading "I don't know why I so desperately want to touch him, this foreign who only a year ago had been the object of my utmost loathing".
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Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
A single image from a film that immediately makes you hear a song from the soundtrack playing in your head
An image of a ragtag crew on a bus. Hairstyles & outfits suggest the 70s. They appear to be singing. The most prominent figure is dishevelled and wrapped in a blanket.
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Abnomrality @abnomrality.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Scott Pilgrim x Crazy Ex-Girlfriend x Spirit Phone! A demolitions expert with a history of explosive relationships teams up with her terrible exes to fight her high school sweetheart--a murderous arcade cabinet--in a life-or-death cross-country scavenger hunt. #bluepit #W #A #D #Hu #OV #LGBT 📖
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Dan @thedanlines.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
GIDEON THE NINTH x GODKILLER DOWNDRAFT Valandra is a legend - the only delver to reach the bottom of the Abyss and return. But few know the costs that came with it. Decades later, as new threats form in the shadows, she must retell her story or finally face the consequences. #BluePit #W #A #F 📖
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Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
One of mine! The idea here was that if you sit at your WIP and find nothing's coming, try writing something in the same universe. A pivotal scene from your main character's childhood. A lesser prophecy from your book of prophecies. The sex scene that'll never make it into your PG romance. Anything!
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Palaeo @palaeosinensis.com · 29/12/2024
Never walk into a cage willingly. If you're already in one: break out. Digital faux linocut. Another plan for the future. #art #tiger #quotes #fauxlinocut #printmaking #linocut
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Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Trying to get my various Bskys in order now that the mass immigration is occurring. This one, my public, real face, real name, hi, I'm a human being! account is probably going to be writing, politics, some (mainstream) pop culture, some tech, some music, some film. 👋
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Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
BW/DR is wonderful. Consider subscribing (it's only $25 a year!!!!).
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Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 03/11/2024
It’s not foolish to foster hope in the face of illness and death – psyche.co/ideas/its-no... via Psyche
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It’s not foolish to foster hope in the face of illness and death | Psyche Ideas
As a great loss loomed, I feared straying too far from the hard truth. But I learned to distinguish denial from hope
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E. Catherine Octobler @ecatherine.com · 31/08/2024
Reading a book that mentioned Egyptian chickens. Had to look them up. What a good idea.
This chicken is very petite, standing on a fence rail. Its feathers start white at the head then get cut with black down the chest and across the bottom, so it looks like a fancy suit.
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Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 26/07/2024
Did...did a dog write this?
A sign in a window of a clipart dog, peeing. Beneath reads: Please respect my walls.
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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 09/06/2024
I've neglected this place for far too long! Here's a cool piece, "7th Avenue" - by Tianran Qu. Love the colors and design of this.
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Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 31/05/2024
First session of this year's #BNEWritersFestival. Uhhhh...what's the hashtag?
Picture of three people sitting in front of a stage, with a powerpoint slide saying "The Art of the Short Story"
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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 23/05/2024
i got to paint stupid sexy jafar for money by disney 😭
Painterly, textured portrait of Jafar surrounded by curly red smoke looking at the viewer with a droll expression. In front of his face is his signature snake staff in profile with its mouth open and fangs drawn.
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Wondermark Comics @wondermark.com · 14/04/2024
How can a DEAD person be in a PARADE?? // Wondermark #1033; In which a Parade is questioned
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it's Halloween name charloh! (it/its) @charloh.online · 03/09/2023
"Are you a boy or a girl?" I'm a cognitohazard.
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Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 15/05/2024
God, I love @aeonmag. A very interesting read, as usual. aeon.co/essays/how-t...
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How to think about the prospects of truly green growth | Aeon Essays
We need to find a way for human societies to prosper while the planet heals. So far we can’t even think clearly about it
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