Anya Hastwell

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In a parallel universe, I might be a fashion pundit, or even Vogue Editor. My mood board for next season’s (and all seasons to follow) work wardrobe is this: Oscar Wilde, silk pyjamas, paisley, smoking jackets, opium pipes, decadence and devore. Feathers and sequins in the afternoons.

Oh the irony of the term ‘safety razor’… The bathroom walls told a different story in daylight after last night’s bathtime. 🪒 🩸😫

I am thrilled to update you all with the news that Her-Cule Purrrrrroit will be making their public debut. Thank you all 🕵🏻‍♂️ 💖 🐈‍⬛

I’m running 5K for @notaphaseorg.bsky.social charity on 1st June 2025 in Hyde Park… and I’ve nearly hit my first fundraising target… 🎯 Through JustGiving your donation goes straight to the charity. Link is below — thank you ☺️ www.justgiving.com/page/anya-ha...

JITTERS WRAPPED NOW MOVING INTO POST PRODUCTION! Detective Collymore, a single divorced father, stumbles upon a mysterious case, Digging deeper, he discovers Jitters. Thriller/Horror ⚠️ Warning ⚠️ trailer contains flashing images and violence. CROWDFUND: www.indiegogo.com/projects/jit...

Worth watching to see the Anadin Brothers from Doctor and the Medics make a cameo appearance… youtu.be/RD5b_0QB0wI?...

I was going to keep things light and fluffy in 2025 (Happy new year to us all 🥳) … But if nothing else, copyediting medical books gives you plenty of dark, nightmarish brain food to fuel ideas for dystopian medical horror stories. 😱

Useful tip: When locking ‘Track Changes’ in Word, remember to use a password that you’d be happy sharing with your grandmother. Or a client. 😶

Kidnap the Sandy Claws, by way of the purveyor of Scandinavian interior decor 🎃🎅🏼🎃

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And sooo much fun! 🎊🤶🏻🍹

10th Wedding Anniversary and 14 years together. 💕 @editorialcat.bsky.social

Fun scientific abbreviations: OW = occlusal wear (as in teeth). Yep. 😬 FLiRT = i.e., the summer FLiRT variant of COVID-19. 🦠

I don’t know why, but my efforts at LinkedIn generally land like a cat turd deposited out of the litter box. 🐈‍⬛💩

My cartoon for this weekend’s Guardian Books

I don't know how many times in how many ways i have to say "AI encodes, reinforces, & iterates on the prejudicial biases & other values & beliefs of humans, so events like this are entirely predictable as long as we keep building & training these systems the ways we do" before it fucking sinks in.

Highly recommend! 🍿🎬🎞️♥️

"It will survive and it will be very bushy” — Brian Blessed🐻🌳♥️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

Of course I’ll be biased (Mark is my husband) but this post is worth a read for any hard-working person in a creative field.

You know people have been talking about the school —> prison pipeline and Texas was like yup mask off here we go

Looking forward to seeing this next week with @mark-caldwell.com Aiming for ‘Psychedelic Fever Dream Glastonbury Edition Barbie’ 🦄

Mood.

I’m missing mine today but I have his eclectic books, a guitar and every so often I can hear his words in my mind, and the sorts of things he used to say. They’re so clear it’s as if he were still here.

Sending love on this Father’s Day for all those with difficult relationships with their paternal figures; for those who’ve lost their fathers; for those who never had one in the first place. 🌺

Yes, getting there

Again: I do not think this technology represents a challenge to prose writers at this time.

It’s a crescendo of chaos now…

Just been woken up by magpies, chuttering outside. You might think that sort of thing only happens here in sleepy villages in the Cotswolds, but no. 😴💤#backtosleep

What do Vogons, ChatGPT, and Alan Turing all have in common? They all feature in my latest blog post here: https://languawitchery.com/deep-thought-on-chatgpt/ 🧠TL;DR, if your brain has melted in the heat: Just because Vogons *can* change lightbulbs, does it mean that they should? 💡🤔

Ohhhhh, a treat at the end of a gruesome day chasing invoices out there in the infinite void: a book chapter of 17,000 words, all about Henry VIII and food 😋

“I asked an AI program to write an entire sci-fi novel for me, and [as someone who will die an empty shell of a man who wasted his life doing nothing for the world...] I was super impressed.” https://www.theonion.com/guy-who-sucks-at-being-a-person-sees-huge-potential-in-1850488022 😅

What do Vogons, ChatGPT, and Alan Turing all have in common? They all feature in my latest blog post here: https://languawitchery.com/deep-thought-on-chatgpt/ 🧠TL;DR, if your brain has melted in the heat: Just because Vogons *can* change lightbulbs, does it mean that they should? 💡🤔

T’was a beautiful day! ♥️

At the cat bar, alcohol just out of frame 🐈‍⬛🥂🍾

Warning: 1 in 666 people are afflicted with chronic mush-face after reading prohibited books.

This is accurate

It’s moments such as these (restarting a fictional WIP like an old car that’s been SORN) that I realise why I prefer writing this on a laptop rather than my main work editing computer — the risk of my characters’ shenanigans slipping into the pages of a technical dentistry manual is HIGH. 😬😹

Yes! 🧛🏻‍♀️🦇👻

This became my primary daydream sometime in 2021. Hard relate. 🍄🌲🐞

Night out at Ally Pally seeing The Damned with @editorialcat.bsky.social. Yes, I’m aware I’m as punk as a night at the opera.