Ollie
@olliefern.bsky.social
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Fiction writer, literary translator and traveling pet sitter. 💫
https://picosgemeos.substack.com/
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ComeonEileen💃🎶
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Alan Stedman
4 days ago
This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo
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Tom
7 days ago
How your email finds me
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Camberwell, South London, 18th January 2026.
#SilentSunday
2 days ago
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12 years ago, I met Mary L. Tabor online and we bonded over Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels and E.M. Forster's 'Only connect.' Last month, she wrote to share the good news of a book deal she secured after serialising her novel Who by Fire on
#Substack
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A Fire Between the Pines
Introducing Mary L. Tabor, plus a postcard to a 4-year-old
https://open.substack.com/pub/picosgemeos/p/a-fire-between-the-pines?r=1hzhzu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
6 days ago
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As a committed Jenny Uglow fan after having read, and loved, her biography of William Hogarth, I'm excited for "A Year with Gilbert White". As each chapter is dedicated to a month, starting in January, that's the pace I'll keep with the book as the year unfolds.
#SlowLivingVibes
12 days ago
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rahaeli
20 days ago
Okay, I will preface this with the GIGANTIC disclaimer that I promise I know how this looks, and I *swear* this is not personally motivated: If you have an old
#LiveJournal
account, and it has things you still care about in it, download it or import it to Dreamwidth SOON. Details:
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FIYAH Literary Magazine
19 days ago
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Authors and poets, submissions for our second themed issue are OPEN 🎉🎉🎉 Details here:
fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/
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Seize The Press Magazine
20 days ago
We're open for fiction submissions! We publish unsettling bad time stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum. But genre is made up so if you have a dark weird horrible story that could be a fit, send it in and let us worry about it. No closing date, open indefinitely.
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Submissions - Seize The Press
Submissions Guidelines Submissions are open for fiction. We publish dark, unsettling, dislocating stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum, but genre is made up. If you ...
https://www.seizethepress.com/submissions/
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Inner Worlds
20 days ago
Submissions are open now for our final issue! The theme for this issue is 'endings'
inner-worlds.ghost.io/submission-g...
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Submission guidelines
Our next issue will be our last one, so we are looking for stories on the theme of endings. We'd like to read about loss, change, grief, relief, hope, and possibility. What to submit * Sci...
https://inner-worlds.ghost.io/submission-guidelines/
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David Slack
21 days ago
Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research. A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans.
futurism.com/health-medic...
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Alzheimer's Fully Reversed in Mice, Scientists Say
A new compound has been shown to reverse late stage Alzheimer's disease in lab mice, which gives millions of sufferers new cause for hope.
https://futurism.com/health-medicine/alzheimers-mice-cured
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Vivian Jenna Wilson
23 days ago
More. Gay hockey. Now.
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Coffee pause in Covent Garden to write a letter to one of my “Between the Pines” pen pals.
#LetterWriting
22 days ago
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I'm kinda tempted??
22 days ago
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Found at the London Review of Books bookshop what I was looking for (the latest Paris Review) and what I didn't know I was looking for (Ursula K. le Guin’s “Book of Cats”.)
23 days ago
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Thanks Tom for recommending this unique documentary - a mixture of "cute" & "trainwreck". Think Netflix's "Fyre Festival" meets teen cosplayers. I'm left wondering what would have happened if Livejournal users had decided to run a convention back in its heyday! (Maybe Whitby fulfilled that role?!)
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23 days ago
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I've spotted these around Camberwell, South London. I actually did try to WhatsApp them last night but the number is not listed. (Intentionally difficult to reach?) Today, I'm pondering if I should send them a text or even call...
#artproject
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24 days ago
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Thanks for sharing Tom, this is exactly the kind of content I want to watch on this holiday break!
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24 days ago
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2025 was the year I turned 50, became a nomadic petsitter, paid off debt, reconnected with old crushes, fell in love with "Just Kids," and spent Christmas alone with a cat named after a Roman empress. "Magnanimity" was my Word of the Year… what was yours?
picosgemeos.substack.com/p/the-fifty-...
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The Fifty-Year-Old Nomad
2025 in review
https://picosgemeos.substack.com/p/the-fifty-year-old-nomad
25 days ago
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Boxing Day @ Mona's Cafe, Camberwell. Cappuccino-fueled letters for pen pals.
#letterwriting
26 days ago
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2026 New Year resolution: to always have three books on the go. A work of fiction, a work of non-fiction, and a poetry collection.
27 days ago
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"A translator, then, isn’t just a lexical go-between, interpreting one word at a time. A translator, rather, is a reader who re-creates their own path through the textual world of a book." A really good read in the New Yorker about translation - and currently free to access.
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28 days ago
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I'm not one for End of the Year Lists... except for
@rachelondon.bsky.social
's Best of Music! I always discover new bands, and love how she sneaks in a couple of Eurovision tracks. Delighted to see Coach Party back in the charts as well as Suede.
millionreasons.livejournal.com/674939.html
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2025 in Song
As usual, the first few songs are bands I saw at Rockaway Beach in Bognor, the festival that basically carries on New Years celebrations for a few more days. The Pill - Woman Driver. Often I find that...
https://millionreasons.livejournal.com/674939.html
about 1 month ago
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Is there a better feeling than post arriving in the mail?! Not when it's a beautiful Christmas card from one of your pen pals. 🤩 (My own are also out there, on their way to homes across the planet.)
#PenPals
about 1 month ago
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I've been running for nearly two years now a series of 100-words-only flash fiction and memoir on
#Substack
. No. 71 has just arrived:
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The Candle
#71
https://open.substack.com/pub/picosgemeos/p/the-candle?r=1hzhzu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
about 1 month ago
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Iced Mocha Coffee with pashmak, plus Christmas cards and journal @ Persepolis in Peckham, South London. And they are playing the Human League! 👌🏼💫
about 1 month ago
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This is the only End of Year Music List that counts.
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about 1 month ago
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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief
about 1 month ago
i think if you have a juicy enough tale therapists should give you the session for free because let's be real they love that shit and ought to be paying you for the experience
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Ham & cheese croissant (I should really go back to being a vegetarian), cappuccino, Foray journal and Muji 0.38 pen @ Mona’s Cafe, Camberwell, South London.
#BlueskyWriters
about 1 month ago
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Watched this gorgeous
#film
last night on MUBI, “Winter in Sokcho”. Three words to describe it: Franco-Korean, Melancholic and Wintry. Highly recommended for its Korean dishes, cinematography and sensitive character portrayals.
#cinema
about 1 month ago
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Bedroom.
#InsomniaWednesday
about 1 month ago
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"Between the Pines" - my new epistolary series - has just launched. First exchange is with Stefan, where we write about London cafes, gay life, cats, and books. Excited to see where this goes... More correspondents to follow. 📬🌲
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#epistolary
#letterwriting
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Between the Pines
A new epistolary series featuring letters, cards, postcards and photography
https://open.substack.com/pub/picosgemeos/p/between-the-pines?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
about 2 months ago
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#SilentSunday
about 2 months ago
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Messalina.
#Caturday
about 2 months ago
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Number 70 in my series of 100-word-long pieces for Substack. Originally published 10 years ago, when I lived in a tower block by Victoria Park. I adapted it to my current nomadic life and temporary stay in Shoreditch.
#Memoir
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Autumn
#70
https://open.substack.com/pub/picosgemeos/p/autumn?r=1hzhzu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
2 months ago
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Current read: a compelling, page-turning horror about lesbian cannibals in Cumbria. What else do you need to know?!
#TheLamb
2 months ago
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At Curious Yellow Kafe, Hoxton, sipping on a hot chocolate and writing to one of my penpals. 😉
#SilentSunday
2 months ago
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#SilentSunday
2 months ago
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Get to know your mutuals! List 10 random things you enjoy. Pixel art point-and-click computer games Cats Californian goths Hand-written letters Journaling Raspberry cake with polenta and condensed milk Spanakopita Floating in the sea Literary translation Mindful walks
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2 months ago
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf
3 months ago
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One hundred years of cat love.
#Caturday
2 months ago
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Happy birthday to the lovely Sarah Jackson, whose collection of ghost stories, The Haunted Tea Set & Other Stories, is my Must Read this Xmas season. Wishing you all the best.
2 months ago
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I’m looking for penpals. 🤓
#LetterWriting
2 months ago
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Threads is the new Twitter, Bluesky is the new Livejournal and Mastodon is the new Dreamwidth.
#socialmedia
2 months ago
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Vivian Jenna Wilson
2 months ago
To make art is to be human
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Red walls in a Brazilian guesthouse. Red light in a Shoreditch loft. Red EXIT signs in dark stairwells. Notes from 14 months of borrowed rooms and temporary homes.
#PicosGemeos
#Substack
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The Red Room
Between worlds, between homes
https://open.substack.com/pub/picosgemeos/p/the-red-room?r=6gyvm4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
2 months ago
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Louie's bedroom.
#SilentSunday
3 months ago
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Been feeling tongue-tied, written-word-blocked. I still journal, just don't feel like sharing anything online. This is a new halfway attempt. "Blank", No.69 in my 100-word series on
#Substack
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open.substack.com/pub/olliered...
3 months ago
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Will you be reading it,
@rachelondon.bsky.social
?
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
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Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon review – his first novel in 12 years tunes into rising fascism in the US
The 88-year-old’s jaunty whodunnit, set during the prohibition era, features clowns, Nazis and a missing cheese heiress
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/sep/30/shadow-ticket-by-thomas-pynchon-review-his-first-novel-in-12-years-tunes-into-rising-fascism-in-the-us
4 months ago
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Annika
4 months ago
Oh no Silent Hill F is gonna make me more autistic
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