Sarah Drew

Europe is the future now www.arguably.uk/p/europe-is-...

This is a big reason I shouted so much about "The Shabti," which I read this week. I loved it! And I read it because someone else (probably @clairewillett.bsky.social) had done some shouting about it. Now, maybe someone else will pick it up and love it just as much because of what I posted. :)

Could we talk about the messaging? #Yeats #Water

Wordle 1,936 5/6* 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 What are the odds? This is identical to the archive puzzle (163) I posted yesterday. I didn't think #Wordle ever repeated the words. Also, huh.

Huh. Archive #Wordle 163 5/6* 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Truly excellent thread on #Romance and why narrative originality (often) is the result of working within genred tropes. Read it. #Romancelandia #Writing

Unisex, huh? #Cycling #Bikes

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

Bodies of Magic: OUT NOW! Grey's Anatomy meets A Deadly Education, a mystery set during the final exam week of a magical medical school. (Or: five queer nerds solve a murder and have some feelings.) Buy US: bit.ly/BoM-US Buy UK: bit.ly/BoM-UK

#CalMac — over to you.

I ❤️ 🇳🇱 🚲 #Netherlands #Cycling

Written on this date 207 years ago. • John Keats •

I have spent weeks shadowing the RNLI and I can tell you, they do it out of nothing more than compassion. Wrote about the heroes I've met over the years in this free-to-read post. nicolakelly.substack.com/p/the-rnli-a...

Your occasional reminder that in the year the First World War began, J.M. Barrie wrote a comedy cowboy film called How Men Love, which was filmed in Essex with G.K. Chesterton and George Bernard Shaw as two of the cowboys. www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/1274695

Lovely story in the NY Times today about a 92-year-old mathematician and a high-school kid working together to produce a major result in topology. This kind of working together is the best part of science, and frankly of being human.

Just had a request for details of "all your pervious employments" and its hard to know whether #accountancy qualifies.

Oh joy, oh rapture unconfined.

90% of countries in the world run their water in public ownership It is time England joined Scotland in taking water into public ownership Send your MP our briefing on how Thames Water can be taken into public ownership now: vist.ly/5funf

I'm sitting on my tongue as a one-drink-too-many fellow guest explains Art Gecko to me.

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During George III's reign >400 baronetcies were created. Were they all rewarding services rendered—if so, of what type? Were any bought outright? #WalterScott refers to his title as an honour "neither begged nor bought as is the usual fashion"—any sources welcomed. #C18th #C19th #Titles #Baronet

#medievalsky

Voyager 2 launched exactly 49 years ago today 🛰️ It's the only spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune, and it still communicates from 13 billion miles away

SO satisfying!

Ok. I’ve now laughed

An "aaaah" of a book. Sad, worried & bewildered Rafi stumbles into happiness and caring ever-after. R. Cooper is the poet of lonely love, and I have spent today having my heart-strings wrung in the best way possible. Thoroughly recommended. #Romancelandia

All Nature matters to me. Except for flies. Death and destruction are too good for Calliphora vomitoria.

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

"...we're observing it from a safe distance..." #MusicLessons #20BOS26 Book 22 kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/08/05/w...

Listening on repeat to #SaintSaëns sublime "Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix" in the five versions of it I've amassed. #JessyeNorman nails the tentative initial confession of love which swells into a rapturous declaration, before drifting languorously down to a musical chaise-longue.

This should be self evident but clearly isn’t. From @lewisgoodall.com

When you're the star pupil at a swordfighting academy, and your celebrity crush has to help you through your heat. And there is sparring as flirting, distant kings, and magic. Also three sexes, sort of soulmates, and a botany nerd. The Scent of the Ideal, out August 15th! books2read.com/u/bWnnKG

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

Related to my weekend of driving: This is Just to Say I have used up the patience that was in the glovebox and which you were probably saving for the children on roadtrips Forgive me I was in traffic And other drivers were so stupid and so wrong

I have a modest proposal for a new tax. It involves a deck of cards and a monkey throwing darts. Here are the rules:

PSA on the Victoria Line tube in London. Phillipson and every other GC weirdo needs to take note.

reupping for those who missed it: my review of the odyssey!

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The first LGBTQ+ rugby team and a cabaret club in Cardiff, Wales have paired together for Drag Rugby, an event where Wale’s most fabulous drag queens show of their skills on the field.

Obnoxious man at next table: She's a deeply insecure person. I mean, I've given her so much helpful criticism but she's just getting worse.

GoodReads review of a Regency Romance begins: "I think my favourite character was the skunk." #Romancelandia

Ministers have one last chance, and a huge responsibility, to make sure the discriminatory draft EHRC Code is withdrawn, and write laws that protect the rights of trans people. So many MPs and leaders like @rachelmillward.bsky.social have stood up as allies to oppose it. #transrightsarehumanrights

Wonderful piece on the widespread failure to teach the British enough about Empire by a proper specialist in the subject, the great Alan Lester @aljhlester. Full of interesting background about Gove and his extremist paymaster, Paul Marshall that I didn't know alanlester.co.uk/blog/teachin...