Vicky Williams

Writer/author/evolutionary biologist/science communicator
Shortlisted for ABSW Newcomer of the Year 2020
Put me near nature, books, music or cake & I'm happy 🌿

[Grace @gracecamille_]

that em dashes are a dog whistle for ChatGPT use is devastating to me, who has been using em dashes constantly and probably incorrectly for years. First all the water and now em dashes.. what else will you lazy freaks take from me

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

people who say “why do we need [fine arts, humanities degrees, mid-budget films] when they don’t make a ton of money?” are insufferable. why do we need chrysanthemums? why do we need bonfires or baleen whales or the color blue? we just do. we just do.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

people say “you need to start living in the real world” but they forget that the real world includes lupines and lightning bugs and ginger beer and starlight and sea coasts and Renoir paintings and Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos and fog banks and foxes playing in snow.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

I love that the Appalachians are part of the same mountain range as the mountains of Scotland, I love that those mountains are older than bones, I love that the last woolly mammoth died after the pyramids were built, the world is just so strange and I love learning about it.

[Maliha @CaffeinatedLiha]

Me: OMG I can't wait to read this book!

Also Me: *places it on my bookshelf for 6 years*

[Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman]

Maria, minding her business, walking up the aisle on the happiest day of her life:

The Nuns: how do you fix this absolute CLOWN of a woman

[horse dentist @equine__dentist]

how your email finds me

[Icona @iconawrites]

What’s the point of giving kids a childhood full of whimsy and wonder and imagination if we then demand they give it all up once they‘re adults? Childhood should plant the seeds of a person’s sense of wonder, which should be cultivated over a lifetime.

[Janel Comeau 🍁 @VeryBadLlama]

hey sorry I missed your text, I am processing a non-stop 24/7 onslaught of information with a brain designed to eat berries in a cave

[Studio Ghibli @TheGhibliFamily]

Howl’s Moving Castle book Thai edition box 📚🤩

[the thicc husband & father @lukeisamazing]

a core aspect of the human condition is loving your little action figures with cool, removable accessories

[Kat Tenbarge is on Bluesky @kattenbarge]

A lot of people are defending their in-theater phone use by saying they get bored during long movies. I get that. But here's the thing — boredom is a part of life. Movie theaters are shared spaces. You aren't entitled to distract other people from the art because you're bored.

[Vicky Williams @VM_Williams]

Well that was one of the most joyous pieces of theatre I've seen in a long time and I already want to be back in the Shire 💚 @WatermillTh

[Fen Inkwright 🌿 @Rosdottir]

If anyone tries to tell me historical art is boring I’m gonna show them this Nazca rat pot from 200-600AD

[Adam Sharp @AdamCSharp]

This is a thread of phrases similar to “a few sandwiches short of a picnic” from around the world, starting with this one…

There’s a colourful old Swedish idiom that goes hjulet snurrar men hamstern är död. It means “the wheel is spinning but the hamster is dead”

[Butterfly Conservation 🦋 @savebutterflies]

The #BigButterflyCount 2023 has officially started! 🦋

Our butterflies and moths need our help more than ever. This is why we are urging everyone to get out for the Count to help us conserve them! 💚

Get involved 👉 https://t.co/mtv6gZ0dPN

#SaveButterflies #MothsMatter

[re: emma @evemmore]

abba music: 🪩 💃 🕺 🕺 💃 🪩
abba lyrics: I hate my job. I am getting divorced. I am so tired all the time. the Spanish civil war

[Rob Madge @Rob_Madge_02]

It’s your first day of rehearsals for Into the Woods and no one has a clue when to sing

[CAPYBARA MAN @CAPYBARA_MAN]

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