Barb 😷🌈✍️🐓☕️📷🚴🏻‍♀️📚🔨

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No DMs. AI hater. Walker, writer, photographer, actor, Utas English student in Lutruwita/Tasmania. Nerdy introvert. Sunburnable. Perimenopausal & often injured. Tinnitus & hyperacusis. steppingonthecracks.com

Barb has a lot of heavy black makeup all around her eyes. Her hair is in pigtails. She is wearing a black and white dress and pink glasses.
Barb has masses of black makeup around her eyes. Her hair is in pigtails. She is wearing a black and white dress and pink glasses
The book The Trial by Franz Kafka. It is an orange Penguin edition
A letter from Clive Palmer to the People Of Australia titled “Australia’s New Deal”. It is written on bright yellow paper in black text. It starts “Men and Women of Australia” and goes on to tell you how his party the United Australia Party will stand candidates in every seat in the next federal election.
A man wearing glasses and headphones attached to a reel-to-reel tape recorder is peering through horizontal blinds covering a large window.
A pink sky over some hills and the river. It is dusk. There are two very tiny dolphin fins far in the distance in the water in the right of the photo. The water is a blue-grey colour in the fading light and it is rippling
A masked lapwing, a brown and white bird with a yellow face and black head, stands on a rock with water in the background. It is standing on one leg.
The book For The Term Of His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke. It has a plain orange and white cover. Sitting on top of the book is a small pack of cards called "Penguin Personas". There are three cards in the pack. There are pictures illustrating each of the six personas: detective, foodie, curious, mystical, little and secret
Holding a book called “William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Mean Girls”. The cover of the book features three girls dressed in pink next to a cauldron. One is holding a skull.
A stage set up with some baroque string instruments
There are 3 birds in this photo. One of the birds is a seagull / silver gull that is screeching and had just lifted off. Its wings are spread. A crested tern with its wigs raised is standing on the ground. I think it has just landed where the gull was. There is another tern in the background
In a part setting, two people reading a board in front of a giant tree that is brown and dying. In the background under the tree, another person is bending forward to read another sign. The grass underfoot is green. The dead tree fills most of the frame.
Newspaper headline about extra flights being put in to Hobart over winter
The cover of a Pet Shop Boys blu ray release called Dreamworld. There is a photo of a crowd watching the concert. There are 5 musicians on stage
A timeline from 1860 to 1910 stuck on a wall, with a few pictures of people and inventions from those years stuck above and below the timeline
A pile of papers, planners, a novel called Lady Audley’s Secret, and a pen. They are arranged on top of a tote. bag
The weather forecast for the next few hours showing rain is expected
A blurry image of green and purple lines made by deliberately moving the camera during the exposure
Text from a novel. The relevant section describes “a certain Signora Beatrice” and “a gentleman called Benedick” after which there is an asterix.
Looking up at rainbow pride flags hanging off the balcony of Hobart Town Hall, a large sandstone building
A flyer for John X presents William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. The main picture is of a male and a female actor laughing at the camera. They are wearing white t-shirts. The main could have the poster is pink. Dates of the show are Jan 9 to Feb 6 2026.
A crowd of people gathered outside large sandstone building
An infographic map of Australia as 100 people stating if Australia were 100 people, 24 met physical activity guidelines and 76 did not
An infographic of a map of Australia as 100 people, stating that 22 would have 2 or more chronic health conditions and 28 would have 1 chronic health condition
A single, downward-facing purple flower petal against a black background. There is a long stem in the right hand corner
A large dark grey bird (currawong) standing on the roof of a metal shed, stretching its wings. Its fluffy grey body feathers show its a juvenile.
An ad for a huge Ford F-150 XLT 4WD Ute with the tag “hard work pays off”
Screenshot of text reading : Age Assurance It looks like you haven't added your birthdate. You must provide an accurate date of birth to use Bluesky.
A block of text thanking me for submitting a story into the Furious Fiction competition and advising of the next steps.
Six photos of groups of 2-4 people sitting in chairs on a low stage in front of a blue Tas Writers festival banner
Two news headlines. “Climate trigger formally rules out if environment laws” followed by “New hot weather records across parts of Sydney and NSW as fire risk looms”
A computer screen showing a person standing at a lectern in front of an audience
An envelope purporting to contain important information for the federal election. The contents turn out to be a letter from the leader of the opposition. Not important offical election information as implied by the envelope.
A blue sky filled with white clouds. There is one grey cloud at the bottom left.
A whispy blue sky over the mountain with houses and green grass in the foreground
A long stick skating across a murky pool of a yellow substance, contained in a round brown receptacle. This exhibit is inside a large shed.
A street corner showing part of the road flooded and roadworks happening
A rabbit sitting on grass next to a large pot that has no plant in it
Screenshot of a webpage called "Parkinson's MOOC" which includes a logo for the Tasmania Parkinson's Project that is a stylised Tasmania mao with the words 'prevent, advocate, care, treat". There is also a photo looking from above onto some rocks and a kayak in a body of water.
A person with long blonde hair wearing a rainbow shirt, a black cap with a rainbow heart, and a black facemask
Two bright rainbow flags affixed to the front of a stately sandstone building.
A dark photo of clouds over a body of water. There are rocks in the foreground and hills in the background. The sun is obscured by the clouds and its light is reflecting on the water.
A calm body of water with a sky of pink and orange reflected in the water. There are some rocks in the foreground and hills way off in the background.