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Oliver Darkshire 🌈

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Oliver Darkshire 🌈

@deathbybadger

dire homo • writer • one page rpgs • ONCE UPON A TOME (2022) • ISABELLA NAGG AND THE POT OF BASIL 🌱 (2025) • THE DEVIL AND MRS GOOCH 🔥 (2026)

Manchester, England

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Joined June 2017

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Oliver Darkshire 🌈
@deathbybadger
May 12
novel release day! The Devil and Mrs Gooch is in bookstores. if you like giant evil businesswomen with the attitude of a snowplough, little furry demon guys, mysteriously french undead concierges, or pigs who can sew, i wrote this for you 🔗: wwnorton.com/books/97813241…
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Oliver Darkshire 🌈
@deathbybadger
Jan 22, 2024
my editor: you need to make this part clearer me: no I think we can trust the reader to interpret, I don't think we need to baby them the reader:
★ jana
@D0ROG4YA
Jan 21, 2024
y'all im 40% into this book im reading and this whole time i thought one of the characters was a horse. he is a man.
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Oliver Darkshire 🌈
@deathbybadger
Jan 8, 2024
so not to be a buzzkill but what survives of english folklore in those areas of the country amounts to 'don't go in the bog, don't talk to anyone you meet in the bog, take nothing you find in the bog' and in that one specific area of my life I am a firm traditionalist
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Oliver Darkshire 🌈
@deathbybadger
Dec 20, 2022
"if nurses aren't happy with their pay/working conditions, they can leave" yes okay but here's where it gets interesting because we do not actually want them to do that
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Oliver Darkshire 🌈
@deathbybadger
Jun 2, 2022
misogyny is being able to scrape 3/5 of anakin skywalker off the floor of a volcano planet and turn him into a cyborg laser warlord, but padme dies of a "broken heart" in a fully equipped future-tech medical facility
Oliver Darkshire 🌈
@deathbybadger
Dec 25, 2021
my husband has been playing the same strategy game called Stellaris most evenings since 2016 and today he looks up at me and he says "I finally won" like he has been LOSING continuously WITHOUT running out of patience for FIVE YEARS what the fuck
Oliver Darkshire 🌈
@deathbybadger
Apr 4, 2024
let's be real, michelangelo was paid around US$600,000 (in today's money) for the sistine chapel, the pope had to beg him to do it, and it took him over five years because he ran away *at least* twice to have an artistic meltdown he was *not* expected to to hold down another job
The Culturist
@the_culturist_
Apr 2, 2024
How is it that one person can produce all of this? That person lived 500 years ago — so why hasn't humanity produced another talent like him in all the time since? 🧵
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Oliver Darkshire 🌈
@deathbybadger
Jul 20, 2023
my husband is doing this new thing where he stops mid-special-interest-acceleration to say "i am about to autism all over you. about crabs" and I put my things down and am like "yes please proceed, I am now listening, i am ready to learn about crabs" and it feels very healthy
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Oliver Darkshire 🌈
@deathbybadger
Apr 16, 2023
it's a tough decision, but this won out because star wars bros are still messaging me in a rage about it over a year later
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Oliver Darkshire 🌈
@deathbybadger
Apr 12, 2024
ten years as an antiquarian, hearing nothing but "my relative kept these untouched in a box their whole life but they died, and I don't want this stuff" has radicalized me. annotate the books. use the china. wear the clothes until they wear out. your life should not be a museum
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Oliver Darkshire 🌈
@deathbybadger
May 10, 2023
ended a D&D campaign tonight 40 weeks ahead of schedule because the group decided to crash a spaceship into the villain's lair and honestly it was creative and unexpected enough that I had to just hand them the victory
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Oliver Darkshire 🌈
@deathbybadger
Sep 3, 2024
"I need AI to help me write because it's hard and not everyone is able" writing is supposed to be miserable, if you need a crutch that's what substance abuse is for, sylvia plath would choke you to death with her bare hands and edgar allan poe would use your skull as a bong
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Oliver Darkshire 🌈
@deathbybadger
Apr 14, 2023
neil gaiman lost my book - he offered to try find it to give me a proper pull quote and I was like no this is much funnier, change nothing, I have everything I need
kayds ♡’s Georgia
@lessirusso_
Apr 10, 2023
what’s your biggest/fave celebrity notice ??
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Oliver Darkshire 🌈
@deathbybadger
Aug 25, 2024
ash ⚔︎
@ashl3af
Aug 24, 2024
i have to open every chest in every video game due to my whimsical and curious nature
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