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JoJo Helstrip

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Writer. PhD student. Folklore & Fairy enthusiast. Navigating life on this spinning rock...πŸ“š https://linktr.ee/JLHelstrip

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I've hit that point of the Christmas holiday where I'm surrounded by twiglets and twiglet dust.

27.12.2025 18:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I've bought transparent sticky notes for myself this Christmas and I think it's going to change my annotating life!!
(yes, I'm going to wrap the gift, put it under the tree, and act surprised.)

#writer #booksky

08.12.2025 12:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Scrooge leaning out of his window, yelling to a passing lad at the end of the film

Scrooge leaning out of his window, yelling to a passing lad at the end of the film

β€˜You boy! How do I unsubscribe from all these Black Friday emails?’

01.12.2025 07:42 πŸ‘ 7792 πŸ” 900 πŸ’¬ 146 πŸ“Œ 41

All I want for Christmas is for everyone to begin using the Oxford comma.

29.11.2025 16:33 πŸ‘ 530 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 4
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Epic III from Hadestown just came on shuffle.

27.11.2025 12:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Jack Frost doesn’t nip at our noses the way he used to, instead he sinks his teeth into cars and laughs as we spend ages defrosting them.

#frost #writer #writingcommunity

26.11.2025 12:30 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I used to work in the christmas dept. for my local garden centre, so if you watch a festive movie with me you WILL hear me shout, 'WE USED TO SELL THOSE BAUBLES!'

25.11.2025 14:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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My friend sent me this gorgeous extract from Ian Bank's novel, 'A Song of Stone' because they couldn't stop thinking about it. And now I can't stop thinking about it...

#writingcommunity #writer #reading

25.11.2025 11:10 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I’m a simple girl:

I wake up,

I drink my coffee,

and then I yearn for another evening

conversing with the moon.

#Writingcommunity #Writer #poet #poetry #writerslift

24.11.2025 10:57 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I've just seen Wicked themed squatty potties...
The marketing team need a high five and someone to check up on themπŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

#Wicked #Wickedforgood

23.11.2025 10:53 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Reflection of raindrops on blinds, the garden in the background. Caption, 'Slow Sunday 23rd Nov '25'

Reflection of raindrops on blinds, the garden in the background. Caption, 'Slow Sunday 23rd Nov '25'

Slow Sundays and the sun β˜€οΈ

Woke up today feeling bright after a long period of being bogged down by too many words and ideas.

While making my morning coffee, I saw this beautiful reflection of raindrops on the blinds- looking a lot like the markings of a silver birch.

#Writingcommunity #writer

23.11.2025 10:36 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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'It's Alive! It's Alive!' The chaotic beginnings of 'what did they do to us?'

I've stitched together some of my strangest ideas, zapped them with lightening, and my new substack is live!

'It's alive!'

If worlds that bend, break, and whisper back are your thing, open the door and venture in...

#writingcommunity #substack #weirdfiction #speculativefiction #indiewriting

20.11.2025 12:33 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Enough dilly dallying, it's time to make a start on those 2023 writing goals...

#writer #writingcommunity #writerproblems

16.11.2025 11:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Floating around with mum!

25.06.2025 12:22 πŸ‘ 20654 πŸ” 2339 πŸ’¬ 305 πŸ“Œ 189

No musical theatre song scratches *that* part of my brain quite like 'Wait For Me' from Hadestown. Add, 'Why We Build The Wall' and 'Chant' to this list too...

10.12.2024 21:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Sage words πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

04.12.2024 23:19 πŸ‘ 11160 πŸ” 1632 πŸ’¬ 123 πŸ“Œ 62

I didn't just jump from that ship...
I hauled my body across the cursed lands of cyber spam, hid from the parrot bots, and battled against the wicked forces of purchased blue ticks.

Hi Bluesky :)

02.12.2024 10:51 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0