Hello, ho, ho! Here's an important message from Network Rail for anyone who's travelling by train this Christmas and New Year.

We'll be working over the festive period to make improvements to the railway. Most of the network remains open, but some train services will be affected from Sunday the 25th of December until Monday the 2nd of January.

So, to keep your festive plans on track, please check before you travel at nationalrail.co.uk slash Christmas.

What's up guys, it's your favourite internet queers, I'm Ashley Gavin. I'm Alina Joy. And I'm Mack and Jermine and we are here to tell you about our new podcast chosen family on the Forever Dog podcast network.

Each week we're bringing you a topic or a theme related to queer life to the family dinner table to weigh in, deliberate and discuss the right thing to do.

The smart thing to do and the dumb thing we know is dumb, but we'll probably end up doing anyway. Hey, we never said we were perfect. I am perfect.

Okay. We'll be talking about everything from our own dating lives, sex lives, to dealing with family and friends IRL.

Then we'll invite you, our stunningly gorgeous listeners, to join in on the family conversation by answering any of your questions and dilemmas.

Listen to chosen family podcasts every Wednesday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also watch every episode on YouTube to get the full family experience.

Enjoy forever!

Go!

You all know me, it's Ben Acker, co-founder of The Thrilling Adventure Hour. I'm back in the feed today to tell you that I've written a book.

A collection of campfire tales, ghost stories and spook yukes. For kids ten and up.

But we will accept any interested nine year olds or intrepid seven and eights. If you're under eight, ask a librarian. They're in charge of kids. They're in charge.

Of kids, but you, the Thrilling audience, are in charge of you. And as much as this book is for kids, it's also for adults, as well as body swap kids and adult bodies and vice versa.

But really, it's for you, my first audience, my forever audience. You think I would write a book you wouldn't love? I wouldn't.

It's called Stories to keep you alive despite vampires, and if you don't just absolutely love that title, well, yes you do.

I've been coming here into the feed asking you to pre-order Estekava Diva, but that time is over now. The book is out in the world. It exists just like you or me.

That said, apparently, due to the caprices of the publishing world, this week is as important as the pre-orders week. Not to be all biot now, but please.

Buy it now. Buy yourself a book. Buy your friend a book. I keep saying it's for weird kids and Halloween adults because it is, but I also think you could turn non-weird kids into weird kids with this book.

This might be the book that turns your least favorite Disney adult into your favorite Tim Burton or a Neil Gaiman adult. The transformative power of stories to keep you alive despite vampires is limitless probably.

Prove me right.

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