Sacha Coward

25 Sept 2025

Remember all my mad book drama? (If not, buy me a pint and I'll sing you the ballad of the dodgy ex-publisher...) Well, I'm absolutely delighted to say it's over! An enormous thanks to my wonderful new publisher @manchesterup.bsky.social Queer As Folklore will be back in the wild! 🧜🏼‍♂️

outsavvy.comSlayStation: LGB-T-VIRUS Tickets - London - OutSavvyThe viral video game cosplay cabaret show, SlayStation, is back for Halloween. That means the theme is HORROR GAMES and all things spooky, monsters, witches and more from your favourite series and ti...

THIS LOOKS SO COOL! A Resident Evil inspired drag night!!! www.outsavvy.com/event/40693/...

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Saw 'Wildwood', amd it was bloody magic! A real antidote to anyone feeling sick to death of AI nonsense and endless sequels. X

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Please go see it if you like human art, it's beautiful, dark and fantastical. Still can't quite believe how they made it happen.

NHS GP Phone service: Hello, if you want a link to our website press 1, if you have flu press 7, if you want to know how to spell flu press 9, if you would like us to email you a list of our favourite colours press 3, if you would like us not to email you a list of our favourite colours press 4, if-

Your call is very important to us. If you would like us to forget to call you back, please press 1 and hang up. You are number... six.... hundred... and.... nine.... in the queue. Please hold. Did you know, if your nose has exploded you can access our NHS nose exploded direct chatbot?

Fun sequel to this, now I have a mustache my NHS app no longer recognises me!!!

Accidentally added a zero in my gym app... and for a few glorious minutes I thought I was Superman.

You are number... four..... hundred... and... twelve... in the queue. Please hold. We are currently experiencing a higher volume of calls than usual. *THE GIRL FROM IPANEMA APPARENTLY PLAYED AT FULL VOLUME THROUGH A CAT'S ANUS*

I watched the documentary 'Naza' today. Even though it showed me mostly what I already knew, it still shook me. I think it's so important to watch, for anyone and everyone. 🇵🇸 The sheer awful banality of evil is terrifying.

Saw a young man at the gym using the cable machine in a way I was concerned might hurt him. At first I let him be, but ended up going over and giving him some tentative advice. He listened, but looked extremely embarrassed, then left the cable machine and the gym. Did I do the wrong thing?

I really tried to be friendly, and in no way said 'Oi you're doing it wrong!' I remember being in a similar position myself. I know unsolicited advice is a big 'no no' but I really thought he could hurt himself. Uncertain how else I could have handled it without ego bruising?

This is my Pride flag

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Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

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Hello! Just to say this Halloween I will be sitting in my local bookshop's front window dressed as a vampire as part of a 24 hour readathon raising money for @readforgood.bsky.social If you have a spare pound or two, do chuck it their way www.justgiving.com/team/borderl...

Nobody asked, but here are my thoughts on the new Carrie adaptation (spoilers ahoy!). I read Carrie when I was 14 after ny best friend Lily recommended it. I found it... shocking, the most shocking thing I had read. 1/

I will say, which might be heretical, Carrie is a powerful book, not a great book. King is finding his stride, it is far from his greatest writing. So I am less obsessive over sticking to the text than some, I just think the core message 'what happens when you push someone too far' is key. /7

Over all I still mostly enjoyed this Carrie... but mainly because I stopped seeing it as 'Carrie'; By the end it seems to be going somewhere very different with the tone and character of Carrie White. And... hesitantly... I think thats ok. /7

That being said I think playing into an expanded universe of telekinetic women is entirely in keeping with King's shared universe approach to writing. I liked a lot of the additions in this respect: King has always tied his worlds together. /5

Also I like Chris, I liked expanding on the bully. Making her an irredemable villain and yet giving us a window into her psyche. I think she was very well cast and portrayed. Also a big fan of Tina, possibly the REAL villain behind the scenes. /6

It's been said by many, but this element of Carrie's character has NEVER been successfully adapted. It's not that Carrie needs to be overweight or spotty, but she is not a sweet cinnamon roll, she is damaged and a little... pathetic. /3

I also think the ending, while aesthetically powerful took all of Carrie's agency away. Carrie is terrifying, cruel and broken; She is a school shooter, she is not just a vessel for someone else's rage. Carrie is our most dark and secret revenge fantasy made real. /4

In retrospect, what shocked me most was how much I disliked Carrie the character. I felt awful for her, but she's written as an awkward, offputting and occasionally mean-spirited and puritanical girl. She is the kid I would have avoided sitting next to at school. 2/

Every character in Netflix's 'Below': He's old, he's an old man, past it, very old, frail, very VERY old. Josh Hartnett's 49 year-old character: *Ridiculously fit radiantly youthful action man hauling icebergs out of the sea*

Also I never fancied Hartnett when I was supposed to 25 years-ago... but as a middle aged fisherman... phew...

Is there a German word for when you're writing a book and as part of the research you read another book on a similar topic and somehow you feel like the author is coming for you even though they have never met you and they wrote their book first...?

If anyone says 'insecurity' then I will defenestrate myself to prove how uninsecure I am.

So... for anyone else watching The Traitors... and not meaning any harm... can you please convince me that Jerry isn't an AI hallucination?!!!

Anyone else find themselves worrying that the basic rules of physics that operate in our universe might just... change?

As an extreme midwit... it all seems rather arbitrary. So why not? What if one day electrons just decide... nope!

I kind of love how in every collaboration with another woman artist Madonna is always the dom top.

Sabrina: Madonna... I have something I want to talk about 🌸👉👈 Madonna: SABRINA... 💪

Something weird has happened. My parents always raised me and my sister in a very lovely gender neutral way. Now suddenly my sister has become the alocated shopping companion and I am Mr Fix-It-Lift-Furniture-Toolbox!

It's really bemusing for both of us! Neither of us are at all archetypal son/daughter, so what's triggered this?!

Might have just about hit burn out and fallen asleep on the leg press machine... sometimes if you don't take care of yourself your body will just take over!

Fewer things make me feel more dimwitted than searching for a particular gif: Man point mad. Conspiracy man. Point man string board. Man cork point crazy. Pointing man tv meme.

Why do I look like a terrifying queer dictator, out to trans your kids and put pronouns in the drinking water!?

A chilly good morning from Aberystwyth... the tired has now become one with me, we are a symbiotic organism... me and my exhaustion.

Been awake for 42 hours. Flew back overnight from Cyprus, then train to Aberystwyth. Amazing event, gorgeous audience, but my god... look at the slow glow of madness in those eyes!

You know what the best thing is in the world? Better than drugs? Better than sex? Better than chocolate? Better than renaissance paintings of cats? Lesbians unprompted complimenting your arms.

friendlyatheist.comTexas school district cancels “Little Shop of Horrors” after girl is cast as SeymourSouth Grand Prairie ISD canceled the musical citing an anti-drag law that has already been struck down in court

Welldone contemporary America for being slightly more conservative than *checks notes* Elizabethan England.

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A Texas district canceled a high school production of "Little Shop of Horrors" after a girl was cast as Seymour. Officials cited the state's anti-drag law (which was struck down in court), then offered other lazy excuses. What a debacle. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/texas-scho...

A very 2026 problem: If a stranger online is convinced that a photo of you is AI (which is not AI) is that a compliment or an insult?!

Like... I guess I'm generic and symmetrical... but also look like slop?

I've been working bloody hard finishing off the first draft of my next book 'Space Invaders'... but as a big positive (because of the subject matter) playing videogames LITERALLY counts as research! 🏳️‍🌈🎮

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Just downloaded Disco Elysium and yes, it is tax deductible!

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It finally arrived 😤 @sachacoward.bsky.social

Fun fact: He loves me... But if he was actually that big he'd eat me in a heartbeat.

Water park: Husband goes on the slide graceful as a swan. Sacha gets stuck after first drop then slowly squeaks along before tumbling out like the contents of a pneumatically unblocked toilet.

So I see we're at the televising public executions stage of 'what the actual hell are we doing?!'

Evidence! But I'm taking my time and placement to the grave.

Sacha Coward@sachacoward.bsky.social

Did a park run. As expected she's not built for speed. It's giving tractor not gazelle.