PhDancer

Tea-addict creative writer-illustrator who sometimes uses Tumblr as my angsty diary as well as creative blog. Striving to art more. Pan - I like humans. Except the mean ones. She/her/they

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Storytime 79, with thanks to the Fletchers for providing a hosting space and helping decorate, Dad for sorting out the sound and Mum for my costume, and everyone who listened or has already watched for your company and patience.

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"Ways I look for Storytime" "The pyjama party after mardi gras" edition. Storytime number 58 was entitled "Everything At Once" and featured elderly LARPer Betty's crew combining with members of the White Cedar Flat Family, Fraser and Brodric at London Pride. You can find the recording on my YouTube. ☕📷🖋️🫖🍵 #storytimeforgrownups #shortstories #writingcommunity #writersofinstagram #writerscommunity #writers #writerillustrator #creativeprojects #creativewriting #dressup #pyjamaparty #writing #YouTube https://www.instagram.com/p/CoCHqEGL1wb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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'Insight' — my third piece from the 'Glimpses of Other Worlds' virtual exhibition. Watercolour & coloured pencil on paper 14.7 x 14.7 cm Original sold 🍵🎨🖌️🫖☕ #artistsofinstagram #watercolour #watercolourpainting #watercolourandpencil #artcommunity #creativity #creativeprojects #artwork #art #visualart #virtualexhibition #virtualartexhibition #virtualcurator #insight #sheffieldartist #nonbinaryartist https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn6hrjSLVBM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Illustrated version of the poem from last Storytime 🖋️🎨🖌️ ☕🖋️🎨🫖🖌️🍵 #illustratedpoetry #illustration #watercolourandpencil #writerillustrator #poetry #poem #poetsofinstagram #poetrycommunity #poetscommunity #writingcommunity #fame #writerscommunity #creativewriting #creativeprojects #storytimeforgrownups #sheffieldwriters https://www.instagram.com/p/CnzKzFFoj9k/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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First successful steam capture with the new camera. I took heaps of these and didn't realise until later that the bins were in the background of most of them 🤣 🍵📷🫖☕ #teaphotography #tea #tealoversofinstagram #tealovers #teadrinkersofinstagram #teadrinkers #mug #teamug #teasteam #stilllifephotography #canon5dmarkiv #canon5D #photography #sheffieldphotographer #teacup https://www.instagram.com/p/CnM9H9zLxX9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Using recent snow scenes to practise with the new camera 🌿🧡 🍵📷🫖☕ #canon5D #canon #naturephotography #snow #snowphotography #winter #seasonsphotography #sheffieldphotographer #rivelinvalley #nature #seasons #canon5dmarkiv https://www.instagram.com/p/CnG-CnmrNvq/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Not A Review 🌿Poem Text🌿 I'm not writing a year in review for 2022. It's not in an effort to slip away and forget it. It's just that if you know, you know. This past year is written in my cells and in my bones. There were some accomplishments accrued and arrayed in my internal album. Words I've written, groups I've gladly gathered, places I was honoured to be present. And there were times that took me away from the achievements and the actions That I would write in a review of 2022. They paled away to unimportance and at once were all I had to show — "This is me and my makings I immerse myself in These are the things that I know" and when I find a friend in someone new they don't see what seem to me to be some things that shape the scene in which I grow. The background on which I am painted pulls at the threads of my purpose, unnoticed. You don't introduce yourself by the holes around which you grow. I leave a margin note. What I carry into 2023 is a changed and grown version of me. Small things matter more than they should — Don't sit between me and my love on the wall. Don't force your feet between ours on the footpath. Those synchronised steps are the soft sadness of our souls stretching towards strength shared. Don't take my time in the company of my precious pen and push me to produce alternatives Those words are my window to another world where wishes went, and they are not wasted. Don't dismiss the words I've written that are not yet presented on a printed page. Perfecting them is a pure purpose that picks me up like a shell on the waves and takes me to hope. The quibbles and quarrels that I once worked and worried into peaceful pearls are like the threads of my jumpers that I leave unraveled – There's no inspiration in me to sit and smooth their sharp sides My energy leaks into love I tell stories of connection for the overflow when there isn't quite enough human here To pour it all into. and 2023 me will carry on much the same with love and words and wonder So I'm the same me, and I'm not, too and that’s all I’ll say of 2022. 🍵🖋️🎨🖌️🫖☕ #poetry #2022 #poetsofinstagram #poetscommunity #writingcommunity #poem #writersofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CnCgBIIoPA2/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Fairy light tricks with Emily in the woods last month ❤️🌿 Photography by the amazing Emily McAllan @blackwoolholiday ❤️ Shirt, tie, waistcoat and skirt charity shop purchases Jacket custom created by @knightsmanbespoketailors Haircut by @lauras_hairway prior to the trip, although it managed to grow before the photoshoot! Hair colour Nazeer henna sunset red and @manicpanic_aus turquoise Makeup about 90% @zaomakeup (I'm still collecting) Location Kuitpo Forest, South Australia. 🍵📸🫖☕ 🫖🫖 #turquoisehair #forest #adelaidephotographer #formalwear #forestphotoshoot #forestselkie #girlswhowearties #nonbinarymodel #nonbinary #modeling https://www.instagram.com/p/CmTFYS_o8wB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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This my second piece from the 'Glimpses of Other Worlds' virtual exhibition, entitled 'Seeing Through.' Originally my concept for this piece was just the glimpses of others' lives that we get, never knowing their full story, but just things like the shadows on their curtains or voices that carry out into the street. I struggled to make the interior interesting with just shadows of figures, so I decided to add some mystery with the strange portal-like addition of an outdoor scene in one side of the window. I then layered some iridescent cellophane and tin foil behind cut-out sections of the scenes inside the window, so that we are literally 'seeing through' two layers of paper to the glinting background lights beneath. This illustration was incorporated into part 1 of the story 'Reset,' written by P.S.C. Willis, with part 2 being added by @charliemulderpoetess. You can hear their completed story and see the other illustrations that inspired it over on YouTube. 🫖 'Seeing Through' Watercolour, coloured pencil, paper cut-out collage, tin foil and iridescent cellophane 14.7x14.7cm ORIGINAL SOLD with 70% of proceeds donated to support parents dealing with pregnancy loss. Prints coming soon via Redbubble. 🍵🎨🫖🖌️☕ #artwork #artistsofinstagram #artcommunity #visualart #artexhibition #virtualexhibition #virtualcurator #art #watercolourpainting #watercolourandpencil #mixedmedia #creativeprojects #creativity #creativecollab #sheffieldartist #illustration #illustrator #nonbinaryartist https://www.instagram.com/p/CmLyG41LrLw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Poem from Saturday's Storytime on the subject of "telling the bees." 🍵🖋️🫖☕ #poetsofinstagram #poetscommunity #poetry #poem #poetrycommunity #writing #creativewriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writers #writerillustrator #illustration #illustratedpoetry #bees #sheffieldwriters https://www.instagram.com/p/CmHl6QCrsCN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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First tea photography session with the 5D. I was getting really cross because I couldn't capture the beautiful rising steam, but I got a few nice shots of the cup all the same. This picture is of a rare thing: A Yorkshire brew without milk in. It actually has a gorgeous red colour similar to black Darjeeling. 🍵📸🫖☕ #tealoversofinstagram #realovers #teadrinkers #teadrinkersofinstagram #teaphotography #stilllifephotography #canon5D #photography #photographypractice #tea #teacup #sheffieldphotographer https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl5o1-IraPd/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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First time out with the 5D attempting some wintery nature photography. It got too dark very quickly and I had a load of trouble focusing and not getting blurry shots which I didn't expect given I've been managing a malfunctioning autofocus for months! But all new gear takes some adjustment, and this time of year is a tricky time to start with very little light and lots of wind (and cold that can make me shivery haha). I'll be trying to make the most of lunch time walks to get more practice in outdoors. 🍵📸🍃🫖☕ #canon5D #photography #naturephotography #winter #seasonsphotography #photographypractice #sheffieldphotographer #nature #seasons #newcamera https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl0dTm8rW0Q/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Does winter make you feel stuck? Fey hates it. As someone who is part animal, I imagine she could be quite difficult to live with during the winter months when adventuring hours are short and the outdoors too inhospitable for extended flights into the wilderness. This is a character poem from her point of view, some time after the events of my novel. I used the following prompts: An unexpected visitor (#HalcyonWords) Combat boots and a polar mood (#lrsterlingprompts @lrsterlingpoetry ) Leavings and lingerings (#KCprompts @karanchamberspoetry ) Outgrowing this plant pot / Hot showers to thaw my thoughts (#libbyjennerprompts @libbyjenner.poetry ) Stop the world (#promptsbyjasmine @promptsbyjasmine ) 🍵🖋️🖌️🫖☕ #poetsofinstagram #poem #poetry #illustratedpoetry #poetrycommunity #poetscommunity #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writersofinstagram #illustration #creativewriting #writing #characterpoetry https://www.instagram.com/p/Clv65BQLr3_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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When in Australia... Go find your best forest selkie photoswapping human and get cool pictures for the first time in years! Photography by the amazing Emily McAllan @blackwoolholiday ❤️ Thank you Emily for a wonderful return to the woods together and the very special pictures. Shirt, tie, waistcoat and skirt charity shop purchases Jacket custom created by @amyclairedesignsdressmaker to fit with waisted skirts and dresses. Thank you Amy for bringing this vision to life. Location Kuitpo Forest, South Australia. ☕📸🫖🍄🍵 🌲 🌲 #forestphotoshoot #adelaidephotographer #kuitpo #formalwear #turquoisehair #modelswithglasses #girlswhowearties #returntotheforest #nonbinarymodel #nonbinary #forestselkie #intothewoods https://www.instagram.com/p/ClsXhaUodw7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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And also at long last, I'd like to share the first of my pieces from the 'Glimpses of Other Worlds' virtual exhibition which premiered in October. All of my original pieces from the exhibition have sold with 70% of each sale going to charity for parents facing pregnancy loss. This piece is 'Miniature' – a reflection on the insight we get into the lives of creatures much smaller than ourselves when we look closely at the miniature worlds they inhabit. It was incorporated into a beautiful piece of flash fiction written by @yellingmouse which was combined with a second piece written by Elizabeth Barber to form the story 'Miraculous Mundanity.' You can hear and see the full creation over on YouTube. 'Miniature' Watercolour & coloured pencil on paper 14.7 x 14.7 cm Original sold Prints coming soon via Redbubble. ☕🖌️🎨🫖🍵 #artistsofinstagram #artwork #watercolourandpencil #watercolourpainting #lyrarembrandtpolycolor #miniature #moss #drawing #art #sheffieldartist #artexhibition #visualart #virtualexhibition #virtualcurator #writerillustrator #illustration #nonbinaryartist #lgbtartist #creativeprojects #creativecollab #collaboration #creativity https://www.instagram.com/p/ClnbzpKg99r/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Here I am at long last with some illustrated writing! This was my second "Flashtober" piece in response to the Twitter prompts by wordsbydana. Transcription and illustration description in alt text. 🍵🖋️✏️ 🫖☕ #writersofinstagram #flashfiction #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #creativewriting #illustration #flashtober #shortprose #writerillustrator https://www.instagram.com/p/Cllqf6UL2dw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Crafternoon offerings 🍵🫖☕🍰 🍵📷☕ The alt text won't post so here's the image description: A tiered cake stand with two layers of cupcakes and a top tier of shortbread decorated with lavender sprigs. Alongside are two porcelain teacups and a vase holding a bouquet of paper flowers. 🫖 #afternoontea #crafternoon #tealoversofinstagram #tealovers #teadrinkersofinstagram #teadrinkers #tea #teaandcake #baking #veganbaking #vegancakes #lavendershortbread #cupcakes #teaphotography #stilllifephotography #teacups #crafternoontea #canon70D https://www.instagram.com/p/CkGixd1rX53/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=