Ariel 🧜🏼♂️
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The million dollar question:
Do I bring back the beard for 2024? 🧐
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5 years today 🙈
Jesus, I looked so young… the last few years have not been kind 😂
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“Don’t be scared to embrace the Femme, whether you’re he, she or them” is possibly the best line that’s come out of RPDR ever!
@biminibabes
#DragRaceUK
#UKHun
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I honestly hate gay dating standards.
I hate feeling like I’m competing. I don’t find 6 packs attractive. I’m a professional yet I’m a total goofball nerd. Pokemon? Completed it. I’m not scared to make a tit of myself.
Just… wife me up already, I hate dating 😂
I honestly hate gay dating standards so much. I don’t have a six pack or jawline. I don’t go clubbing all the time. I don’t listen to newer artists much. I don’t have a skin care routine. I don’t travel cos I’m broke. I eat junk food. I’m a nerd. I like comics and videogames.
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“We’ve added another mandatory online training course this year”
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Finally bit the bullet and bought a compression top for the gym 😬! Always felt so tiny in skin tight clothes but feeling good for a change!
This is huge breakthrough in my anxiety treatment 🥰✌🏻
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'Get off me, Sir' - Reading that phrase made my stomach absolutely churn.
Knowing that someone Warranted or Commissioned felt it appropriate to act in this behaviour, vile creature.
Gents - Do Better.
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He asked and I said “what?! Oh Obviously yes” 🥰💍
Looking forward to experiencing the next chapter in with my handsome fiancé 😍
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Day 1 in our new house complete! 🥰🏠
Ripped up the carpets, scrubbed the place from head to toe and prepped the walls to be scraped tomorrow 🙌🏻
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17th April 2019, I wore my first set of RN tabs that I was given at
@HMS_Raleigh
3 years previous, ready for my next chapter.
It’s a long tradition for ex-rankers to wear their old tabs under their jacket on pass out, as a nod to all those who supported them on their journey.
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Life post ✨
Q1 2024 - What a difference.
Jan 3rd, I moved back into military accommodation after my engagement ended and made myself a promise that 2024 was going to be my year.
What have I achieved?
- I met my childhood hero, Veronica Taylor (the voice of Ash Ketchum)
-
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Might grow my own beard back to support my army colleagues 👀
Then you’ll all have an example of what a non-regulation beard (or bow tie) looks like 😂🤙🏻
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I’ve had such a great day being part of my good friend’s wedding day.
If it wasn’t for the Navy, I wouldn’t be blessed with some of my nearest and dearest. Truly blessed to have my friendship circle 🥰🫶🏻
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I suppose this “life in a blue one” lark isn’t ~too~ bad?
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Y’all are thirsty when it comes to uniform pictures 😂!
My poor excuse of a beard should not have had this response 😂😂😂
The million dollar question:
Do I bring back the beard for 2024? 🧐
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Scraped through my A-Levels,
Burnt plenty of bridges,
Decided to change my life,
Joined the RN,
Developed a trade,
Made friends for life,
Played sport internationally,
Commissioned,
Enrolled in a degree,
Developing a new trade.
#GoFurther
than yesterday.
#MadeInTheRoyalNavy
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4 Year Commissioning Birthday 🙌🏻
In 4 years I’ve worked at 5 different units, been to 5 continents, 9 countries and crossed the equator.
In the next year I’ll make that 10 countries & first foreign job, bring it on 💪🏻
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This time last year, I returned from deployment just in time for Xmas.
40,000+ nautical miles, 4 different continents, 1 Certificate of Competence 🤙🏻
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There’s some good people in this world and I’m blessed to call them mates 🫶🏻
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Let’s talk about body confidence, shall we? 😬🙈
There’s 4 months and 8kgs difference between these progress photos.
On the left, is someone who was drowning in image anxiety after going through some life hiccups. Even progress photos absolutely terrified me!
On the right, is
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Didn’t get the A Level results you were hoping for?
I’m Danny, I left college with 2 U’s and 2 D’s… Now, I’ve served in the Royal Navy for 8 years and I’m a qualified Air Traffic Control Officer.
I’ve travelled, played sport internationally at service level, I’ve lectured on
Didn’t get the A Level results you were hoping for?
My names Tash, I dropped out at AS level. I’m now 29 years old, have served 10 years in the
@ArmyMedServices
and am now a qualified Paramedic.
I have travelled, I compete at Corps level sports, I lecture at a university and
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I spent 16 years mega anxious about food and as a result being underweight for my size.
At 26, I just had breakfast, brunch and lunch and I’m ready to tackle linner already.
Progress mentally is just as important as physically 🙌🏻
58kg (20) vs 72kg (26) and on the ⏫😬
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DLC on the CDG 🇫🇷 vs DLC on QNLZ🇬🇧 (2 years difference)
Carrier Queen much? 🛫🚁⚓️
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Tonight’s episode of Warship was incredibly painful. To see a friends suicide documented and re-live it was very, very hard.
For you that didn’t have the pleasure of knowing Dan, he was incredible. A guardian Angel for us all.
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Tonight was likely my last ever event as Co-Chair of the
@RN_LGBTQ
Network, and that both warms my heart (and my calendar) but also makes me quite sad.
Starting the reparations work to bring LGBT veterans back into the Navy community was an absolute honour and our short film is
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“Danny, you’ve got your sea survival course next week”
Me:
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The boy is DESPERATELY trying to convince me to regrow the beard 😂 do I?
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Oh. That’s my early 20’s wasted then... you know, 2 promotions, a sports tour in Barbados, earning twice as much as my friends back home and gaining a free degree.
Definitey wasted. 🤷🏻♂️
I hate this pandemic, if I wanted to waste my early 20’s I would had joined the military
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This evening, I had the absolute pleasure to attend the Speaker’s House for their LGBTQ+ History Month collective.
Speaking to all about how we’re all trying to build a better tomorrow for our LGBTQ+ community, plenty to be done but progress is on the horizon.
Very proud 🏳️🌈⚓️
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Welcome home
@HMSMontrose
. It was a honour to wave you in from the Flight Deck of
@HMSQNLZ
on your final entry.
Mare ditat rosa decorat 🌹🌊
Welcome home, and goodbye,
@HMSMontrose
🇬🇧
Returning to
#Portsmouth
after her
#OpKipion
deployment in the Gulf and a final run-ashore in
#Montrose
Looking smart as ever
#WorkHorse
@PONewsHub
@RoyalNavy
@HMNBPortsmouth
@RNinScotland
@RNRMC
@The_NFF
@FirstSeaLord
@NavyLookout
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And it’s
#PrideMonth
! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Just like many do Stoptober or Dry Jan, I’m doing Sober Pride!
A sailor without rum? ‘Fraid so!
I love that Pride is a party but it’s also a time to reflect on how lucky we are to celebrate ourselves; something that some people lost the ability to
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6 years ago today, I left RNAS Yeovilton as a Meteorological and Oceanographic Rating to head off to Officer Training.
On Friday, I found out I’d be returning as an Air Traffic Control Officer. Talk about a full circle moment 🫠
Surprise
@kejamieson_
, are you ready for me? 👀
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Don’t mean to brag but, I definitely have the best office in the fleet ✈️⚓️
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Day 1 of Leave - Spent all day gaming 🤙🏻 solid 8 hours making my brain focus on something other than spreadsheets & paperwork.
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4 years ago vs 2 years ago today.
Today marks 2 years since I got on the train to BRNC and started this mental life I now lead.
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The cat’s out the bag! 🏳️🌈
I’m over the moon to announce that I’ve been selected to be one of the new Co-Chairs of
@RNCompass
, the Royal Navy’s Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression Network.
Bring on June 30th 🙌🏻
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Only 1 week left of the cut 😬🙌🏻
The lighting in my room is horrendous but we’re getting there!
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2023, what a rollercoaster of a year 😂
-Had therapy, diagnosed with anxiety.
-Got engaged, broke up.
-Bought a house, sold it to the ex.
-Started a new role, put my notice in.
-Went solo travelling, riots happened
2024, be a better time please 😂👌🏻
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What an amazing week it’s been 🤩!
Got the job I wanted, spent all week teaching a skill that I adore and got some absolutely incredible news that absolutely floored me! (I can’t share yet)
Exciting times ahead.
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Like, I know a lot my photos are getting very samey, the same magnolia walls etc but…
Do you know how fulfilling it is to go from teenage anorexia and getting letters to my parents from school, worried about my weight/size to having a >100cm chest?
I’m mega proud, ngl.
My timeline is less and less politics and more and more gym-spirition, just the way it should be 👌
@chihirosbeard
and
@TiKneeTim
making me aim for that triangle bod 🙌🏻😤
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Quote this tweet with a picture that had your dms blowing up 🥰🥰🥰😚
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What’s that? A new tattoo? 👀
Aww yiss, the Acropolis joined the chat 🤙🏻
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Drop a cool photo that someone took of you doing your job.
@skippywindsor
- I will milk this photo for as long as I control 😂
Drop a cool photo that someone took of you doing your job.
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It’s official! 👋🏻🏳️🌈⚓️
Welcome to our new co-chairs!!
Lieutenant RN Daniel Cairns
Medical Assistant Nicole Scahill
Thank you so much to Surg Lt Cdr Mike Hill for being our spearhead for the last 6 years!!
Look out for our posts next week where we meet our new co-chairs, in more detail.
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Someone slid into my DMs and proceeded to tell me about how I look camp because I crossed my legs in a photo and that made me “not his type” as it’s “unattractive”.
I see your internalised homophobia and I raise you this 💅🏻 now, get out my DMs 😤👋🏻
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On my travels to an amazing opportunity 🙊 watch this space… the first of many in the next 6 weeks.
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I went to a local gay bar on Saturday night and was welcomed with “you’re that Navy Gay”.
Is this my legacy now? 😂
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2016 - Today, 7 years ago ready for my train to HMS Raleigh
2018 - Today, 5 years ago ready for my train to BRNC
2022 - Today, 1 year ago after seeing my friend get married.
“Development is an ongoing process” 👌🏻
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4 years ago today, I got my first TV appearance 🤙🏻 I look so young 😂!
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“This manoeuvre was made specifically for today and the Royal Navy have absolutely smashed it”
COME ONNNNNN!! 💪🏻💪🏻
I feel like a Dad watching their little one at a little league football game 😂😂
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Alcohol, a thread.
Like many in the UK, particularly in the Forces, my relationship with alcohol is something that I’ve always put off addressing.
It forms the backbone for a lot of social events, which are fantastic, but what happens when “No” isn’t a word that is easy to say?
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Just had the scariest but most exciting moment in my career:
7 clicks. The notice is in!
Time for fresh challenges, new horizons and even more growth 💪🏻 bring it on!
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You called? 🤪
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Did you spot me tonight? 👀
The Deployed Pride event had well over 100 Ship’s Company turn up and as AB Gilbert and Relph pointed out, we’ve come so far compared to before the overturn of the ban.
There’s still work to be done, in every workplace, but I’m proud of mine 🏳️🌈⚓️
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I’m not best pleased about this illness shit.
Sympathy please 🥺👉🏻👈🏻 xo
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And that’s a wrap folks ✌🏻
The last 14 months have been an absolute honour, to be able to call myself the Co-Chair of
@RN_LGBTQ
. Beyond proud 🙌🏻
In that time, I learnt more than I could ever imagine and the Network achieved so much!
In that time we:
•Rebranded
•Rebuilt our
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What I thought would be an easy 3km, first run of the year turned into a battle against the wind on the sea wall 😂
I’m just gunna lie here for a bit… 🫠
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Isn’t it crazy what 7 years of therapy and eating properly can do? 🙈
I don’t even recognise myself in that first photo anymore 😅
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It’s my 1 year anniversary as a Air Traffic Controller today 🎉
-insert awkward, tired, hungover, graduation photo below-
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Late night baking?
Yes Chef 🫡
Dear future husband, I’m kitchen trained 😇😇
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2023 has been an absolute shit show of a rollercoaster and it’s finally about to be over.
The beginning - Rome, House Buy, Engagement
The middle - Therapy, Sertraline
The end - House Sale, Single
I refuse to let 2024 be the same.
Too many amazing opportunities approaching! ✨🎉
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3 years ago today I was in Cyprus as part of my sea training.
Today, I’m sat in Scotland severely hungover, fully trained.
The 1 constant is wine 😂
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A throwback to the twinky days 😂
Collarbones for days though ✌🏻
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I’m logging off for the day - the standard wit, thirst and banter shall resume tomorrow.
Today is a day of reconciliation, mourning and respect. Sleep well Lord High Admiral, Sir. ⚓️🇬🇧
#PrincePhilip
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31st of Jan 2024 will be a great day for me:
•My house sale completes thus completing my chapter with my ex
•A large work project of mine completes
•A new passion project begins
•Pay day!
•300 days until I leave the Navy 🤩
February, live up to this!
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When you have to gym on holiday because you’ve got a hot boyfriend 🙄
Oh yeah, that’s a thing now 😬
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The two queens the Maritime Twitter didn’t realise they needed 🥰
Happy Pre-Birthday
@kejamieson_
you’re the best thing to come from Twitter 🥰❤️
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Get in line, pass the wine, Bitch,
We’re going straight to hell!
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This year I’ve travelled 4 continents, battled covid, made friends for life, had 2 relationships, had my first Taranto night, qualified as a ATCO and as an OOD and had a great time regardless. When life gives you Lemons, order Tequila 🤙🏻
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I’m loving how much my wardrobe is starting to reflect my various styles and coding.
2024 is definitely my year of experiments 🧪
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Oh! It’s my 6 year RN birthday today, nearly forgot 😂!
I looked so young back then 😩!
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Erm, excuse me!?
Where have these chesticles appeared from?! 🤯🫠
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Feels weird going to a meeting in normal clothes… after 1200 on a Friday…
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Manifesting sunshine for the next month before I fly out on holiday ☀️🙏🏻
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It’s tattoo time babyyyy 😍🫶🏻
Let’s get this sleeve finished!
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It’s nice to have her back and correctly fitting just in time to sail 🥰
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Combat Casio but make it ✨
A
#ThrowbackThursday
to what was the most stressful point in my career but I finally ticked off NYC ✌🏻
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From this… to this!
Room 1 of our home 95% complete ✅ one more wardrobe to go and done!
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That’s my MP 🙋🏻♂️
Our honorary Captain is serving “May the odds be ever in your favour” “didn’t come to play, she came to slay” vibes.
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