V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱

@authorvcwillow

Writer. Feminist. LGBTQ+. She/her. Socialist. Whovian. Rebel scum. No AI. From the UK 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Unapologetic bookworm, word nerd and lover of humour. Human rights, equality 👋🏿👋🏻👋🏽🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Writing novels one word at a time.📚 Author contact: vcwillow@gmail.com

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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱@authorvcwillow· 16d

"In Germany we see charity as a failure of government" Henning Wehn Governments are there to serve citizens, to ensure society functions and fulfils the needs of the people (one where the health, education, national and international security and protection of vulnerable citizens are met). 1/

Image is of comedian Jason Manford on the last and a hospital ward on the right.

Manford is replying to a tweet asking him why he would vote for someone who wants to "tax the shit out of him"

Manford replies: I voted for the many, not the few. Happy to pay more tax if nurses who've looked after my kids don't have to use food banks to feed theirs.

V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱@authorvcwillow· 20d

laylIj bo'DIj vIghro' qaghbej Qo' Klingon. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Post from Instagram from keeping_up_cardassians

Timescanner posted:

Duolingo has Klingon for English speakers but does not have English for Klingon speakers.

000_000

Replied:

A Klingon would not dishonour his whole family by learning English from a smug little owl on his phone.

V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱@authorvcwillow· 24d

The only film about the by-election I want to see!

Mock up of Independence Day poster that reads Bindependence Day with Count Binface on the central inage.

V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱@authorvcwillow· 25d

Fat bottom girls you make the rockin' world go round. A brave statue to put above a sports shop.

Statue of a woman in an old fashioned sports outfit. The woman is wearing welly boots and sitting on a ledge above the door of a sports shop.

V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱@authorvcwillow· 28d

My French friend sent me this meme. She's definitely not taking tonight's World Cup match against Spain seriously 🤣 To be fair I did say we'd forgive the French for William the Conquer if they beat Spain tonight! The game is on. Allez les bleues 🇫🇷

Omage is the French cock with it's foot on a slayed Spanish bull

V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱@authorvcwillow· 28d

For all my lovely French friends Happy Bastille Day Joyeux 14 juillet à tous

Image is of the La Tour Eiffel (The Eiffel Tower) with the words joyeux 14 Juillet (happy 14th July)

V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱@authorvcwillow· 29d

It's alright lads, you can call off the search. I've found the world's worse coffee at Lufthansa airlines!

Image is of a cup of coffee, a twix, a bottle of water and Richard Osmomd's book The impossible fortune.

V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱@authorvcwillow· Jul 12

Might as well face it, you're addicted to plants 🪴

Image is split in two.

The first box shows a woman holding a plant saying 'Let's call it Robert"

The second box shows the 1980s singer Robert plant looking into the room.

V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱@authorvcwillow· Jul 10

You will recieve good, bad and indifferent reviews. Do not reply to #Reviews regardless of how rude, insulting and personal they are about your book, writing or you personally. It looks unprofessional. Accept that not everyone will love your #Book Happy #Writing and always trust the cat lady 😉

Image is Sigourney Weaver in her role as Ripley for the Alien films.

It reads:

"Alien is a movie where nobody listens to the smart woman and then they all die except for the smart woman and her cat. Four stars."

V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱@authorvcwillow· Jun 29

Not so much a manic Monday as a perfect day to travel. 22 degrees, blue skies and sunshine.

Image is blue sky, white clouds and an almost empty road.

V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱@authorvcwillow· Jun 26

I suspect that an unkindness of ravens must peer across the park at the murder of crows and think to themselves 'those guys just take things too far!' #BookSky #Books #Reading #WriteSky #Writing

V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱@authorvcwillow· Jun 24

Apparently this is a controversial statement in a writing group I belong to on that other sm site. No-one is forcing you to read diverse books, but to do so makes you a better writer and makes for a more interesting read. #WriteSky #Booksky #PrideMonth #LGBTQ

The whole point of reading is spending time in someone else's shoes. Why would we want all the shoes to be the same?

Image is five shoes of different designs. The middle one is painted in rainbow colours with a rainbow heart above it.

V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱@authorvcwillow· Jun 24

38 degree heat is no excuse to not get on with editing chapter 6 of the novel. This fantasy novel is not going to edit itself...looks like I'll have to pour myself an ice cold beer though to help keep my fluids up while I work! #WriteSky #Fantasy #novelwriting #Editing #Imnothot #Melting

Image shows a Word Document headed Chapter 6. It also shows the first paragraph of the chapter.

V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱@authorvcwillow· Jun 24

Like the wicked witch of the (North) West I'm melting 🫠 10.20 am and it was already 32 degrees xx

Picture of blue sky, blazing sun and trees.

V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱@authorvcwillow· Jun 22

I was saying this afternoon - before I heard our Lord and master Sir genocide denier had resigned - that I'd vote for Larry the cat as a replacement prime minister. I see I was not alone in this thought. Glad to see Larry is the odds on favourite as replacement leader of the UK 🤣🤣

A made up page to look like a breaking news headline says Larry the cat to replace Keir.

Photo shows the 10 Downing Street cat, Larry in front of the Prime Minister's front door.

V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱@authorvcwillow· Jun 22

Last night's greeter at Chalet du Steak in Orleans was a bit robotic in his welcome, but we ate like queens xx

Image is a robot in a restaurant entrance in a sitting position.

V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱@authorvcwillow· Jun 18

Editing in the sunshine...this is the writer's life for me

Image if from my instagram account V.C. willow which shows the location of Givry,France. I feel it Coming by The Weekend is the tune playing in the post. Image shows a patio with an umbrella over a table with a striped tablecloth. There is a laptop,mouse, mug, water bottle, papers, a notebook and a book on the table. Along the bottom the text says:

Editing in the sunshine...this is the writer's life for me

V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱@authorvcwillow· Jun 17

England do know that they're meant to be kicking the ball at the other goalkeeper and not just passing it to their own to waste time right! Right? In bed already with my book. Mary's more appealing

Image is the cover of Mary Beard's book, Women and Power.

V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱@authorvcwillow· Jun 17

Wise words from Steve. Be more like Steve.

Image is an otter in a tie with a name badge of Steve sat next to a computer. It says:

Do not seize the day. That only startles it, and nobody wants to deal with an aggressive day before coffee. Approach it slowly. Avoid eye contact. Maybe offer a polite nod. Act casual. If the day growls, starts making demands, or Mentions shenanigans back away quietly and return to bed.

V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱@authorvcwillow· Jun 17

Yep, it is a bit warm here and it's only going to get warmer. This peely wally North West Englander is not use to these temperatures. I am kind of enjoying the sunshine (sssh don't tell anyone in case they revoke my environmentalist credentials)

image shows a weather forecast that shows temperatures of 32 degrees

V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱@authorvcwillow· Jun 16

There are some inalienable truths. Prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old. ...except the price of peasants, apparently they are still at bargain basement prices.

Image is of a high street. Outside a shop is a chalk ad board which reads:

Just landed locally sourced peasants only £5 each

V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱@authorvcwillow· Jun 14

It's the biggest cock i've ever seen! Chagny - Burgandy.

Picture of a giant metal chicken in a plaza. Behind is a house with ivy growing over it.

V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱@authorvcwillow· Jun 13

This 👇 If the perpetrator of a crime is an immigrant... BLAME ALL IMMIGRANTS If the perpetrator of a crime is black or brown... Blame ALL BLACK + BROWN people If the perpetrator of a Crime is a man... Not all Men

Image says:

If the perpetrator of a crime is an immigrant... BLAME ALL IMMIGRANTS

If the perpetrator of a crime is black or brown... Blame ALL BLACK + BROWN people

If the perpetrator of a Crime is a man... Not all Men

V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱@authorvcwillow· Jun 1

What's that? I've watched #StarsWars Ep IV way too many times and it's bleeding into my writing. How dare you... Looks at the final line of chapter two of my portal Fantasy novel and cringes like a Jawa asked to dance at a Tatooine school disco #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Editing #Fantasy #Writing

Image shows the last line on a Microsoft Word page. The line reads 'I don't know. I've got a bad feeling about this'

V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱@authorvcwillow· May 30

The office is all set up - minus a keyboard which I forgot to pack 🤦🏻‍♀️🤣 I'm ready, willing & eager to get #Editing my fantasy, portal novel. Then I can start the publishing process. Very exciting! It's great to have the chance to edit while enjoying the best French food, drink & company #WriteSky

Image is of a wooden table and chair. On the table is a laptop, paperwork, a mouse, a notepad and a pen. To the centre of the image is a typical french window with white wooden shutters half closed.

V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱@authorvcwillow· May 29

Lunch in Troyes. Sunshine, great food, good wine and fun conservation. Great start to the holiday

Image shows an old wooden frame building with a sign that has a black cat with an arched back in front of a full yellow circle. Behimd os a sign that says 'Le relais Saint Jean'

Imahe of a wooden timbered building hosting the Grill Saint Jean. Lots of tables and chairs filed with people are in front of it.

Image is a narrow side street of Troyes with stone and wooden framed buildings on each side

Image is of a square in Troyes. In the centre is the old well. On each side are timber framed buildings and cobbled streets at the bottom of the image.

V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱@authorvcwillow· May 29

Found a lovely bar last night by the river, with an old mill by the waterway. Amazing selection of beers and lots of great chat. At 8pm it was still 27 degrees, but sat outside suppong beer was very pleasant x

River with trees on both sides and a watermill in the background

V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱@authorvcwillow· May 28

Allons y Allonso! Beautiful day for a crossing. Goodbye Newhaven, bonjour Dieppe. Looking forward to delicious food, scrumptious wine and great company. Les vacances ont commencé!

Image is of the lighthouse at Newhaven harbour.

Image is of Seaford Head in the background. In the foreground is the sea with the sun sparkling on its surface.

The image is of Newhaven harbour with Seaford head in the background and the sea in the midground.

Image is of me, dad and mum. We're smiling and above us a blue almost cloudless sky is lit with bright sunshine.

V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱@authorvcwillow· May 25

Fabulous night on Saturday with lovely people watching the recovered episodes of The Daleks' Masterplan at HOME Manchester. #DoctorWho #DrWho #DalekMasterplan

Cinema screen showing Daleks and the title Recovered: The Daleks' Master Plan cones Home . In front of the screen is the host Toby Hadoke

Cinema screen showing Daleks and the title Recovered: The Daleks' Master Plan cones Home. In front of the screen is the Panel Toby Hadoke and from Film is Fabulous John Franklin and Professor Justin Smith

Cinema screen showing Daleks and the title Recovered: The Daleks' Master Plan cones Home. The panel is Toby Hadoke, Tin Burrows and Gavin Rymill

Cinema screen showing Daleks and the title Recovered: The Daleks' Master Plan cones Home. Toby Hadoke is hosting a conversation with Peter Purves.

V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱@authorvcwillow· May 22

Choose 30 books that you've read that have been turned into movies and/or TV shows; covers only, no explanations. #booksky #BookChallenge Day 12