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It's my Birthday today so I'm doing a fundraiser for a new wheelchair!

My Electric wheelchair is sadly now 12 years old and is being held together with gaffer tape and love! I really need a new one and as it is my 50th Birthday I thought I could try to fund-raise and ask folks to please help with buying a replacement chair.

'Just Giving' Wheelchair fund-raiser link Here

About Nixxie - My Wheelchair is my lifeline. I use it inside my flat to get about as my body sadly doesn't work anymore (please read the Just giving page for details on my disabilities). I also use the chair to get out into my garden... and also anytime I need to leave the house - it gets a lot of mileage - hence why it is sadly starting to show its age! About 3 years ago the welding that holds on the arm failed and cannot be repaired - so the arm bracket is held on with gaffer tape and hot-glue. The batteries hardly hold any charge anymore, one of the wheel-arches got plastic fatigue a few years ago and just plain twisted off! Also all the under panels are held on with velcro, tape and hope! (pictures of all this on the donation page).

I originally bought my powerchair in 2012 to go to London as I'd won tickets to visit the Paralympics with a carer... however I don't trust it now to even go a few miles as I'm petrified another bit will fall off!! A while after I bought my chair I went to a Sci-Fi convention and dressed my wheelchair up as the Tardis to match my costume... I liked it so much that my chair has been Tardis cosplaying ever since!

I try my hardest to still live a life worth living - and even though my body needs to recover for ages afterwards I still try to get out every now and then to do something good.

So that's about it - my diagnosis is that I will never get any better (In fact it's likely I'll carry on getting worse as I get older), so I thought to put this page up to get help in the fundraising as wheelchairs cost a huge amount more than people think and sadly there is no way I can afford it alone. So please if you could, donate - Even if it's only a bit - anything towards being able to go out safely would be SO Amazing and I am utterly thankful to you for your aid.

And please please share this page to spread the joy! *hugs*

#<333 #nixxie-pic

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Sherlock Holmes (1984) / Granada Television

#<333 #holmes and watson #granada holmes

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"The whiskey tinkled, the syphon fizzed, the ice plopped home; and seated there in his pyjamas, with the inevitable cigarette, Raffles told me the story that I had given up hoping to hear. " -Le Premiere Pas

i am obsessed with them just hanging out in pj's talking all night... love wins..

#the intimacy the cosiness the early summer dawn this story is everything #raffles and bunny #raffles fanart #le premier pas /canon

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Two new pages up in my Raffles comic 👁👁

#<333333333 #!! #raffles and bunny #raffles comic

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"I don't know whether smoking's forbidden in one's bedroom, but you'd better take one of these and stand tight, Bunny, because I'm going to say something offensive." I helped myself with a laugh. "Say what you like, my dear fellow, if it really isn't you and I that Mackenzie's after."

letter day! gentlemen and players part two its antics time

(and bonus jealous bunny of course)

#yeah bunny we know you're not obsessed you're not jealous you're not in love no not at all #lovely art op #also thank you for depicting bunny as the 24 yo youngster he is in this story #and sans moustache #would still like to have a word with the original illustrator #gentlemen and players /canon #raffles fanart

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His own hands were firm and cool as he adjusted my mask for me, and then his own. “By Jove, old boy,” he whispered cheerily, “you look about the greatest ruffian I ever saw!” - A Costume Piece

im a day plus two weeks late but i thought it might b fun to start posting doodles along with each letter from bunny! accidentally fully lined and colored this one but yk how it goes

#🥺 #love this moment in the story so much #re: raffles is the kindest soul on the planet yes i will write that essay one day #a costume piece /canon #raffles fanart

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She informed me of both facts before the soup reached us, and her subsequent conversation was characterized by the same engaging candor. It exposed what was little short of a mania for imparting information. - Gentlemen and Players

Miss Melhuish i love uuuu

#:D #gentlemen and players /canon #raffles fanart #raffles canon

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Holmes: my dear Watson :c i'm so sorry i put you through an extremely dangerous situation (again)

Watson: that was the best day of my life and I'm going to write about it in my diary with a glitter pen

#*snort* #holmes and watson

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One of his hands fell kindly on my shoulder, while the other slipped into my overcoat pocket, and I suffered him to deprive me of my weapon without a murmur. Nor was this simply because Raffles had the subtle power of making himself irresistible at will.

You guys, uh, weren’t exaggerating, were you

#we keep on saying how gay it is and no one believes us 🤷 #though to be fair every once in awhile I'll be rereading these stories for the 245th time and still be like #wtf is this this can't be real #raffles canon #raffles and bunny #the ides of march #i gotta add though that this quote is maybe like medium on the scale of how gay these stories get #like this is lukewarm gay #you just wait and see

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the ides of march.... you won't forget them, will you?

#oh the contrast... perfect <3 #raffles and bunny #rafflesweek2024 #raffles fanart

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🐰🎩💎Happy Ides of March! 💎🎩🐰

#happy ides of march... my boys hanging out 🥺 i love them 🥺 #this is so lovely <3 #raffles looks like he's making some snarky remark about some old rich dude in the paper #bunny looks like he'd like to lean down and kiss raffles #rafflesweek2024 #raffles and bunny #raffles fanart #archive: gallery

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my Rafflesweek2024 sketches. I have the energy of a salted snail so cellphone photos of pencil sketches is the level we're at lately Innocence: Really love the idea that Bunny taught Raffles how to smoke. Not based in canon, just funny Admiration: Raffles has always been Bunny's biggest fan. Bunny has always been too critical to ever see it. (Raffles goes on to memorize Bunny's poem anyway) Audacity: LOUD CHECKS AND BEARD LOUD CHECKS AND BEARD If you notice, all these happened to be School Days. Somehow I couldn't help myself

#aaaaaaahhhh!! #LOVE #THEM #bunny teaching raffles how to smoke?? you're a genius <3 #rafflesweek2024 #raffles and bunny #school days #raffles fanart

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THE NOT-SO-FAMOUS THIEVES

Have you heard of A. J. Raffles, the notorious gentleman thief and renowned cricketer, and his partner Bunny Manders of Mayfair, London? Well, of course you have!

BUT, have you heard of the very locally (not so) famous checkers player A. J. Raggles of an unnamed suburb along the river Thames and HIS partner, unemployed plumber Buddy Maggots? I bet you haven't!

Are they hijacking the Ides?? Of COURSE they are!

So for those of you who are unfamiliar with it, please allow me to introduce my Raffles parody, The Adventures of A. J. Raggles, available on AO3; and the first adventure in which Raggles and Buddy join felonious forces:

Author's note: While this story might share some similarities with "The Ides of March", it does in fact take place on a bright summer's day rather than on a foggy night in March, because of course it does. Raggles and Buddy started as my very stupid creation based on a misspelling on a random Raffles edition, and they are still incredibly stupid but they also somehow managed to steal my heart. I love them a lot and hope you will too.

#rafflesweek2024 #crime and cricket #crime and checkers #my writing #i used to co-parent these two but i guess i'm a single parent now #i miss them and really want to write more #also if someone ever made fan art of these two i would die for you

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The day after the Danby burglary, Bunny feels more at peace than he had expected.

Raffles/Bunny or Raffles & Bunny // The Ides // 1 320 words

(repost from 2022)

#crime and cricket #raffles and bunny #the ides of march #recycling is good #i kinda meant to write one more story for rafflesweek but i don't have much time and i don't want to rush it #so here is an old one that i don't think many have read anyway #my writing #raffles fanfic

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Midnight Was His Hour - a comic adaptation of E.W. Hornung's Raffles stories

Bunny Manders has nothing left to lose, a revolver in his pocket, and a gambling debt to settle. If paying with his life is not an option, what will A.J. Raffles ask of him? The fact is that it does not matter what Raffles will ask; Bunny will reluctantly be the man for the job. In a previous life, the two boys were schoolmates — but as gentlemen about town, they must join felonious forces in order to maintain their Mayfair lifestyles and Raffles’ public image. There’s nothing very terrible in it, you see.

Hey i've been working on this comic for a few months and what better day to launch than the Ides? The first few pages are up already and the rest of the first story will be going up as i finish them 👀

This is intended as a pretty direct adaptation so you don't need to know anything about the original stories; if you like stealing from the rich, codependent gay drama, and Late Victorian Intrigue™, you're in the right place!

#aaaaaaaaaahhh!!!!! #bunny my darling you have my whole heart #this looks *very* promising <333 #raffles comic #raffles and bunny #the ides of march #also i adore the gem stone arrows

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It was about half-past twelve when I returned to the Albany as a last desperate resort. The scene of my disaster was much as I had left it. The baccarat-counters still strewed the table, with the empty glasses and the loaded ash-trays. A window had been opened to let the smoke out, and was letting in the fog instead. Raffles himself had merely discarded his dining jacket for one of his innumerable blazers. Yet he arched his eyebrows as though I had dragged him from his bed. "Forgotten something?" said he, when he saw me on his mat. _

Happy Ides of March, everyone! 💖

#rafflesweek2024 #crime and cricket #the ides of march #raffles canon

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i know i love you and you love the sea

#🥺🥺🥺 #them <333 #rafflesweek2024 #raffles fan art #archive: gallery #*rests in this image for awhile*