'Knock hard. Life is deaf.' - Mimi Parent. 5 time British Fantasy Award nominated writer of odd stories. She/Her/Them http://chloeyates.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/shloobee.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/shloobee.bsky.social/post/3lsdlwflfks2e24 June is my New Year. I am 7 years sober. I’m just a little bit proud of myself… FUCK IT - I’m super proud of myself. I don’t follow the AA prog and I haven’t had any help other than the unwavering support of @yateseo. I’m just really fucking stubborn when I want to be. ONWARDS 💪🏻24 Jun 2025 07:42 +0000at://did:plc:c4mvmftxr6dgw6etphx4dkdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsdlwflfks2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/shloobee.bsky.social/post/3lqwdhlffe223Bought this hunk of burning love. There’s an equally massive Da Vinci bio to get and then a Raphael. His will probably be shorter. This is all #CharlesDance’s fault. The drama/doc - Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty - about the three artists was SO very good. Maybe I’ll read it one day!06 Jun 2025 07:41 +0000at://did:plc:c4mvmftxr6dgw6etphx4dkdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqwdhlffe223https://bsky.app/profile/shloobee.bsky.social/post/3lkpwsg4ms224Promised myself I’d do what my friend said I should do. I went for a walk. Nice and brisk on a chilly but sunny morning, appreciating being alive. Not as far as I could go before gaining so much weight, but a damned good start. #ONWARDS 💪🏻19 Mar 2025 10:07 +0000at://did:plc:c4mvmftxr6dgw6etphx4dkdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkpwsg4ms224https://bsky.app/profile/shloobee.bsky.social/post/3lirhjxre5c22Is it a Twister?!22 Feb 2025 13:49 +0000at://did:plc:c4mvmftxr6dgw6etphx4dkdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lirhjxre5c22https://bsky.app/profile/shloobee.bsky.social/post/3liqwlv7bdc2pMy favourite way to be yelled at is by a young woman on pink vinyl… #SceneQueen #Vinyl #PinkVinyl #Record Thanks @abletterecords #Fribourg #FriSon22 Feb 2025 08:46 +0000at://did:plc:c4mvmftxr6dgw6etphx4dkdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3liqwlv7bdc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/shloobee.bsky.social/post/3lioez6xu7k23The two kids at the front? The demonic looking ones? Me and my bro. We’re what made them see those stars, the long dead cold light from the depths of space and time, where the old ones came from, and where they will return as dust long after the earth is a hollow husk. Sweet memories 🙏🏻21 Feb 2025 08:26 +0000at://did:plc:c4mvmftxr6dgw6etphx4dkdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lioez6xu7k23https://bsky.app/profile/shloobee.bsky.social/post/3lilwgmauc22vLet’s not lose our shit, BUT I LEFT THE APARTMENT, WENT TO THE GYM, STAYED EVEN THO IT WAS PACKED, DID HALF AN HOUR OF WALKING UP A FUCKING GREAT HILL!!!! 💪🏻ONWARDS #ThankYouBeyonce (I might have finished at 20mins if it wasn’t for you)20 Feb 2025 08:59 +0000at://did:plc:c4mvmftxr6dgw6etphx4dkdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lilwgmauc22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/shloobee.bsky.social/post/3licbxd6pfk2uMake no mistake, Captain America: Twizzlers, or whatever it’s called, is definitely a film about perimenopause. Mansplained, of course. It’s not a hill I’d die on but I am definitely right.16 Feb 2025 12:59 +0000at://did:plc:c4mvmftxr6dgw6etphx4dkdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3licbxd6pfk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/shloobee.bsky.social/post/3li2nrxb3p22zI am loving the rowing machine! I have a session limit of number of rows and do at least two sessions a day. These are, of course, flexible but only upwards (except for illness and wotnot, genuine reasons not excuses, of which I have many). Today is one of those flexible days already.13 Feb 2025 12:09 +0000at://did:plc:c4mvmftxr6dgw6etphx4dkdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3li2nrxb3p22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/shloobee.bsky.social/post/3lhegl5mv322fI thoroughly enjoyed the BBC’s 3 parter Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty. Charles Dance is wonderful in it, and the experts are all clearly exactly that, as well as being good communicators. A fine springboard into a broad subject, I’d say. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0024qcs04 Feb 2025 16:02 +0000at://did:plc:c4mvmftxr6dgw6etphx4dkdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhegl5mv322fhttps://bsky.app/profile/shloobee.bsky.social/post/3ldc2a2onw222Bet you didn’t get this in your advent calendar today! Mr Y makes The Best ACs 🖤14 Dec 2024 19:35 +0000at://did:plc:c4mvmftxr6dgw6etphx4dkdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldc2a2onw222https://bsky.app/profile/shloobee.bsky.social/post/3lc6wp6q65k26Where am I going to put a bloody dragon?!30 Nov 2024 20:28 +0000at://did:plc:c4mvmftxr6dgw6etphx4dkdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lc6wp6q65k26https://bsky.app/profile/shloobee.bsky.social/post/3lbemm2xqqc2jSunny Sunshine ❤️ #Dogsitting20 Nov 2024 09:19 +0000at://did:plc:c4mvmftxr6dgw6etphx4dkdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbemm2xqqc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/shloobee.bsky.social/post/3lbc2ftl6lc2aBought me a new, grown up, warm thing now it’s getting colder. There’s meant to be blizzards here later this week so I’ll be entering onesie hibernation.19 Nov 2024 08:48 +0000at://did:plc:c4mvmftxr6dgw6etphx4dkdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbc2ftl6lc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/shloobee.bsky.social/post/3l7xujpqfv62eIn my defence, I fell…02 Nov 2024 14:11 +0000at://did:plc:c4mvmftxr6dgw6etphx4dkdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3l7xujpqfv62ehttps://bsky.app/profile/shloobee.bsky.social/post/3l7olrplowi2wSome times, I cannot resist some things…29 Oct 2024 21:40 +0000at://did:plc:c4mvmftxr6dgw6etphx4dkdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3l7olrplowi2whttps://bsky.app/profile/shloobee.bsky.social/post/3l7gkpa3ymp23Us poor old folk have had to buy new, taller armchairs because getting off the sofa was becoming like someone was playing a xylophone, and not one that was in tune. Crickety crack! I think the place looks snuggly now. Plus there’s clearly room for more plants …26 Oct 2024 16:59 +0000at://did:plc:c4mvmftxr6dgw6etphx4dkdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3l7gkpa3ymp23https://bsky.app/profile/shloobee.bsky.social/post/3l7bg5qg6jf27In the spirit of balance, I got a lady of the light to accompany my lady of darkness from the exquisite @macrame_and_skulls 🤍🖤 #Lady #White #LightAndDark #Etsy24 Oct 2024 15:55 +0000at://did:plc:c4mvmftxr6dgw6etphx4dkdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3l7bg5qg6jf27https://bsky.app/profile/shloobee.bsky.social/post/3l772ch2r6s24Sophisticated new glassware…23 Oct 2024 17:17 +0000at://did:plc:c4mvmftxr6dgw6etphx4dkdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3l772ch2r6s24https://bsky.app/profile/shloobee.bsky.social/post/3kqt2ll3wat2g“Fill The Thickened Lung With Breath” began as a gloomy story about agoraphobia & ended up as something quite other. The Dreamland antho will knock your socks off. And my story? Nom’d for a BFA! You can buy the book from @BlackShuckBooks & other outlets. Read my story here chloeyates.com/story2.html23 Apr 2024 18:58 +0000at://did:plc:c4mvmftxr6dgw6etphx4dkdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3kqt2ll3wat2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/shloobee.bsky.social/post/3kmx2mxoapx2tI took my Agoraphobia & walked in the opp direction of my most recent, short walks. 4kms approx AND over the Pont du Pérolles - can’t remember if I’ve ever done it on my own! It’s busy & noisy & Too Much AND I did it, then shopped in Lidl, which freaks me out, but I kept my shit together. #ONWARDS!05 Mar 2024 11:28 +0000at://did:plc:c4mvmftxr6dgw6etphx4dkdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3kmx2mxoapx2thttps://bsky.app/profile/shloobee.bsky.social/post/3kmsujrcqmh2eI’ve decided to start putting work up on my website & use Ko-Fi to shill a little coin. The 1st story is Turn Again, O My Sweetness, from At The Lighthouse antho, ed. Sophie Essex for Eibonvale Press. Come for mine and then go buy the whole book. Definitely worth your time chloeyates.com/story1.html03 Mar 2024 19:29 +0000at://did:plc:c4mvmftxr6dgw6etphx4dkdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3kmsujrcqmh2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/shloobee.bsky.social/post/3ke6ksorxgk2fI’ve stories eligible this year “Turn Again, O My Sweetness”, At The Lighthouse, Eibonvale Press, Sophie Essex “The Ripe Fruit in the Garden, Something Peculiar, Black Shuck Books, Steve Shaw “Into The Darkness They Go, The Wise And The Lovely” Portraits of Patriarchs, BFS Pubs, Shona Kinsella Ta14 Nov 2023 22:20 +0000at://did:plc:c4mvmftxr6dgw6etphx4dkdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3ke6ksorxgk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/shloobee.bsky.social/post/3kd74tmvkh72aFirst time in ages, I went to the gym on my own! Decent joggle, then came home and did some weights etc. Feeling like a goddess. If you wish to make offerings, make sure it’s books, yeah? #C25K #PhysicalHealth #MentalHealth #OCD #Agoraphobia #FuckAgoraphobia #Sober #Perimenopause02 Nov 2023 10:17 +0000at://did:plc:c4mvmftxr6dgw6etphx4dkdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3kd74tmvkh72ahttps://bsky.app/profile/shloobee.bsky.social/post/3kcw6w2z5v62oBought some heatable slippers to help my poor old lady hands. They really help and they’re cosy too. #Hands #Arthritis #Dalmatian #HeatTreatment #HeatTherapy #Slippers29 Oct 2023 21:01 +0000at://did:plc:c4mvmftxr6dgw6etphx4dkdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3kcw6w2z5v62o