Amanda Rutter

This is hilarious.

Also, completely enraging.

Yes I'm religious, I believe in the holy trinity.

Against a pink background with scattered doll accessories, the cover for DOLLFACE by Lindy Ryan. The white Solaris logo is in the bottom right corner.

😱🔪Calling all SCREAM fans, have WE got the book for you?!

DOLLFACE, a new standalone slasher from Lindy Ryan - author of BLESS YOUR HEART & ANOTHER FINE MESS - will be hitting the shelves in the UK in May 2026.

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If you've read THE SALT ORACLE and wondered about that fleeting mention of the Estonia Witch...wellll 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

And people in other countries want an economy that doesn't crash because some orange lunatic is trying to hide the fact he raped children.

We did live on my dad's wage, but what I have only realised as I got older is that we were poor, my parents just hid it really, really well. They went without tons to ensure me and my brother didn't want for anything. Plus, my mum did EVERYTHING in the house and looked after other people's kids too.

My hot take about tense and POV is to do it like Simon Jimenez and just use them all (well).

Shocked. Stunned. Absolutely gobsmacked etc etc

This sounds like the perfect meeting. Who decided that LBF was a good way for introverts to do business?

This book does sound amazing, so I have just bought a copy - and it was in ebook, as long as you're okay using the Big River company 😊

a man in a black sweater is laying on a couch with his eyes closed and crying . ALT: a man in a black sweater is laying on a couch with his eyes closed and crying .

I have been reminded, I can no longer avoid it, I am staring down the barrel of LBF week...

Helen, I am not prepared. I am not ready for this.

Would also recommend magnesium. Helps with anxiety, quiets the voices a little at night, and gives energy when taken in the morning.

How to wash your Marcy: www.facebook.com/reel/1641394...

Heartbroken to read this. Sending you strength x

this made me cackle all the way through

I haven't had any testosterone yet, just oestrogen and progesterone, and I am the absolute reverse of horny - everything of that nature has fled the building and nothing can tempt it back.

The worst. I stand at the top of stairs and am anxious about falling down them. I'm anxious about my (fit and healthy) hounds. I'm anxious about the fact I might become ill. I'm anxious about car accidents. I'm anxious about my work and getting it all wrong. Constant, endless voices in my head.

The worst for me is when my mother became the most monumental pain in my ass, with anxiety and temper and mood, and I look back now and think that it was all (well, mostly - I was a terrible teen!) menopause, and that she was going through it without being able to explain to me what was happening 🙁

Right? I once brought up one of those 'lists of symptoms that might be menopause' and ticked off around 80%, and since then have developed another couple. They're just bananas. I'm sorry HRT isn't an option - it's helped me a little so far - but I think anti-ds might be my next step to easy anxiety

A drawing of Alysa Liu skating

Drew this in the airport terminal

Just saying, be aware of menopause, read up about it, and support any of your people going through it (even if their mood swings give you whiplash, and they yell at you because you moved a draught excluder to the wrong place, and they get annoyed if you cough at the wrong time). They need you.

And the physical impacts? Numerous and weird. Dry eyes. Random itches. Burning feet. Too hot, always too hot. Maybe TMO, but itching all around the lady bits. Aches and pains in all joints. Utter, sucking fatigue but inability to sleep, stomach increasing in size no matter what diet you follow.

We need grace from people. Because women can completely change, from someone who is relatively well-adjusted, to a person who throws a mug across the room because *something* made her angry, and then cries because the mug might have been hurt 🙃. I've never been so unstable mentally.

...to say that they're feeling the same, which makes me think, actually, it's even more important to talk about it. We all get taught about puberty and the ways it can affect your mind and body. I knew NOTHING about menopause, except when I started researching it myself. We need more information.

I will confess, I am becoming boring about menopause and how it affects me. I am saying all this publicly and I can imagine people rolling their eyes. But I'm doing it because NO ONE speaks about it. NO ONE says, 'My world is falling apart' when it happens. And at least two people have messaged...

...falling apart. I couldn't understand and had to go for multiple blood tests and doctor's appointments where MALE doctors tried to rule out loads of other stuff before a FEMALE doctor said, 'I think it might be menopause symptoms.' Why isn't there more support?? God, I could rant for days...

HRT has helped, but my focus is gone, my ability to concentrate, any kind of stability in mood. I'm angry at people for no good reason, I cry at the drop of a hat, and NO ONE warns about this. No one discusses it, or tells you what might happen. You just get to a certain age and life starts...

I COMPLETELY get this. I recently expressed the sentiment that I felt so tired I wanted to die, because it genuinely felt easier than coping with this meatsack that is now actively working against me. Crawling up stairs because joints don't work, spending hours trying to remember words, tired.

🧵 Hey, men - because I'm talking to the men here. This isn't meant to be an attack, no worries. I just want you to know that most women you know right now aren't doing great. We're not. I'll use myself as an example. 1/x