what keeps me from following the thread what fears tarnish the dream? maybe that finally when i look into your eyes the same fire won't shine back what was there at the start might not be there anymore #pennedreveries #poetry

It's time for another #WeeklyPoetryReading! 💜 I hope you enjoy! Carpet of Leaves was this week's winner 🥰

Day 13 💜 Champagne Supernova - Oasis (Blur Vs Oasis, the Brit Pop war) #DavidsMonthOfMusic

I popped in to see my mum, and she's watching the 2006 Robin Hood series. I'd forgotten how campy this is 😂 But smouldering Richard Armitage in eyeliner is 🤌🤌🤌

so abundant the pages in the tome of us i cannot count the #number only speculate the hours it would take to read #vss365 #poetry

Happy Thursday 💜 I didn't get to read at all yesterday, so there's my plan for today 🥰 Have a lovely day 😘

Alrighty, I'm off to bed 🥱 See you on the other side 👋💜

🎶A flash of light, Open up your eyes, A tear, a cry, Illuminates my life, Breathe in the gasping air, Each nerve a light, aware, Screaming yourself to life, I say welcome Gemini🎶

I need to get back to Project Locrian but my recent viewing habits scream "no, resurrect your sapphic gothic novel about glass, or maybe your gothic novel about gay Italian vampires"

33%!!! Can we get to 69% today?!

Day 12 ✍️ Good and bad writing advice? Bad - Force yourself to write, even when you don't want to. "It's supposed to be hard." No, I'm not buying that. Good - Write the story you want to write. Not for profit, not because it's in the zeitgeist. Write it because you love it. #FantasyIndiesNovember

your eyes waver hands shaking with auric tremors and i reach out my civic desire to try and still those shivers #pennedreveries #poetry

i know i’ll never be brutally murdered bc my smile does not light up a room

There are still a lot of loud plumbers in my house so I'm probably gonna postpone my poetry reading until tomorrow 😅

Day 12 💜 Song #2 - Blur (Damon Albarn is in Gorillaz and Blur) #DavidsMonthOfMusic

all the nights spent wishing ascending to #myth if we can't be fact then reduce us to fiction so i may read our story over and over #vss365 #poetry

Happy Wednesday 💜 The boiler's being fixed today, hopefully I can stop bathing myself like a Victorian person 😂 Have a lovely day 😘

G'night 😴 See you on the other side 👋💜

No music at work tonight, it's been so eerily quiet 😳

Day 11 ✍️ What genres do you write and read? Most things I write are gothic leaning, but I've also dabbled in dystopian, horror, and fantasy. You'll find a lot of queer characters in my stories too. Much the same for what I read, too. #FantasyIndiesNovember

like calls to like in tranquil waters the reflection that shimmers is yours as well as mine we have an understanding of each other that has never had a name #pennedreveries #poetry

Work?? I can't feed my hyperfixation there 😂

Day 11 💜 The Pink Phantom - Gorillaz (Elton John features on this song) #DavidsMonthOfMusic

Oh no, the vibes are off so obviously I think it's something I've done..

I have a cute crafting idea but must refrain from obtaining supplies until payday 🙃

your soul is a reflection i see myself within those yearning depths so i follow i drown in you we were made to #measure #vss365 #poetry

Happy Tuesday 💜 It's a cold one today 🥶 I have a date with my blanket and my book. Have a lovely day 😘

elizabeth 🍁

I'm off to bed 😴 See you on the other side 👋💜

I promised myself I would write today but I didn't deliver. I'm so very close to figuring out the last few missing pieces, I'm feeling almost, I dunno, intimidated? What comes after you've worked it all out? Well, then you write it. I guess I'm nervous for the transition 💜

Day 10 ✍️ Favourite line you've written: "Too much passion begets distractions. Too much emotion begets clumsiness; a shaking limb, a slip of the hand, and that's when mistakes are made. If you walk with passion unto the garden of glass, be prepared to bleed." #FantasyIndiesNovember

the head cautions but the heart rages on and the soul whispers in solidarity #pennedreveries #poetry

Deleting my dating apps so I can meet my soulmate the old fashioned way: Traipsing through the bowels of my fiancé's brother's lab tower until I happen upon a patchwork creature pure of heart who puts into words the oddity of my own existence 🖤

Day 10 💜 I'm Still Standing - Elton John (Elton features on Lady Gaga's song Sine From Above) #DavidsMonthOfMusic

Now reading 💜✨ The chokehold Frankenstein has me in means I need to read more gothic horror/romance, and Laura Purcell's books always deliver 🥰

slip into the stories following the maidens in gothic #literature seeing myself in their reflections their deeds obscure minds and bleeding hearts their candelabras lighting up my shadows #vss365 #poetry

And once again, Monday graces us 💜 Today is for writing. I've been incredibly inspired over the past week and I think I can use it to power through some things I was struggling with 🥰 Have a lovely day 😘

Time for bed 💤 See you on the other side 👋💜

And so it begins. I have just heard my first Christmas song 😫 And dare I admit it made me feel just a little bit jolly? Although that might be because Pink Pony Club had just finished 😂

Day 9 ✍️ Show off your bookshelf: There's not much order to my bookshelves! I also keep a lot of memorabilia on them. I do have a dedicated shelf for indie books, and one for The Hunger Games. I also have a "Books I'm In" shelf, the most exciting for an indie writer 🥰 #FantasyIndiesNovember

dreaming of proximity of hands held and skin shared hearts beating in tandem #pennedreveries #poetry

I felt like I already knew a great deal about Mary Shelley but the way Guillermo del Toro gushes over her makes me want to know even more 🖤

Day 9 💜 Million Reasons - Lady Gaga (Newton Faulkner covered this song) #DavidsMonthOfMusic

Wow, I haven't touched Project Locrian at all this week 😬 I'm stuck wondering where in the world to set it. Do I stick with what I know, and have an English setting? I'm not sure..

bend to the will of desire obeying a #law nameless but it thrums in my blood pulses your name with every beat of my heart #vss365 #poetry

Happy Sunday 💜 Hope you have a wonderful day 😘

Heading bedways 😴 See you on the other side 👋💜

unfathomable levels of yearning

Now the real question is: did I love Frankenstein more than Nosferatu? I feel I can't answer whilst I'm hyperfixating on the former. But the chokehold it has on me? That's how I was with Nosferatu too. Tbh, I don't think I can compare them anyway. They're two very different flavours of gothic 🖤

Take me with you 🫀 man the chokehold this movie has on me #frankenstein