For the London contingent -- this Zona Motel reading in a couple weeks should be by all measures excellent. Featuring Iphgenia Baal, Lucy K Shaw, Paul Johnathan, @poppycockburn.bsky.social, and me

cc @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social @hannahvanbins.bsky.social @poppycockburn.bsky.social 💡 youtu.be/6MSHdTntQXM

In the depression bin badly today. Trying to claw my way back out.

A decision has been made so Grantium instantly locks me out even though I typed in the correct password 😭 This is when prolonged hope is just painful bcs I know my application was weak.

my dad just followed me on instagram so guess that platform's ded to me

Sometime you catch an algorithm and you develop a tiny heart shaped agitation.

Nosecco night in

Participating in an online reading this month!

in a shocking turn of events, i just received some really good customer service

was telling a friend about how miserified I’d become by a situation and we both agreed it was a useful invented word

tip(s): never attempt a home fringe trim a couple of hours out from going on a date. i knew this already, but ignored my own knowledge, so second point is to observe the knowledge one holds

unfortunately flies do not respond to the command ‘go away’

Was in such a bad mood I left an event, came home n wrote 20 tiny poems about light, which has helped improve things somewhat.

IG notes keeps asking for my controversial opinions like it wants me to fall out with everyone I know? Well joke’s on IG because all I can muster is that I don’t really enjoy or particularly rate Ben Lerner’s fiction and although my ethics would align me with veganism, I continue to enjoy meat.

the atheist urge to purchase chintzy religious iconography

kinda feel a sure sign a friendship’s ded is if yr friend can’t be happy for yr successes

Drunk people singing my heart will go on outside my window making me tear up rn

I guess an absolute fiasco of a day once a year is a fair rate of occurrence

pretty sure all the temptation island couples already know they’re splitting up so they’re just there for the rebound haven

How to become a bestselling author: step 1: become a celebrity. step 2: publish a book

i’m bored of the non-fic memoirists i used to get excited by. feel like they’re milking it now

my opinion was deemed wrong

lol at IG ads recommending me flimsy little Prada vests that cost £400

my writing top tip: write like y're dead already n consequences aren't a thing

It’s important to have a few friend-not-friends who just like all yr sh** on social media. I need to make a few more of those. I try to be that for some ppl.

Sorry I can’t come out tonight. I’m staying in to write a personal essay about alcohol and shame.

Genuinely think ppl hate it when you’re too good at your job. Always good to strategically f up from time to time to keep people on side.

Bought a curry that’s too hot for me 🔥 😭

sang video games at karaoke n someone came up to me after n said my voice reminded them of Elizabeth Fraser so i’m happy 🎤 🎮 🖤

Do all Hinge couples break up once they’ve travelled back from Japan?

how can there be a Good Friday but no Bad Monday?

bored of not being in love

Why isn’t a bath temperature sustainer a thing? 1 1/2 hours in here isn’t enough for me

Just wrote about twenty tiny poems in the bath. I’m still unsure whether that makes the bath good value for money but certainly valuable in a foreign currency.

wrote something about reviewing, being reviewed and two actual book reviews, including Nell Osborne's v brilliant debut novel Ghost Driver open.substack.com/pub/closeups...

feel like a lot of publications out there atm ought to be paying their readers

watched the film 'Fried Green Tomatoes' at my local film club for the first time last night. truly a wildly madcap film, and extremely of its time. i can't imagine anything similar being made today. gratifyingly pretty much passed the Bechdel test too

came to the park for a tranquil time n there’s an adult man racing a v noisy remote control car around (facepalm emoji)

I do all my best thinking in the bath, and then watch it drain away.

the cruelty of the way part of the reason for expressing through poetry is owing to feelings of outsiderness n then it comes to publishing n it all feels like a terrifying personal popularity competition

too busy being excited about being extensively reddit-dissed to care ppl hate my *unpublished* "poem" and/or surname: www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/com...

The Victim disturbed the sh** outta me.

Found The Other Bennet Sister too insufferable to continue beyond the first episode

So many small occurrences in the past few days prompting me to ‘hot take’ but I guess hot taking internally and saying nothing more about it is a valid option.

What struck me most about the Manosphere doc is that a lot of these men probably don’t believe in their own rhetoric — they’re just desperately trying to find a way to make a buck in a f***ed up system.

I love the phrase “I am going to go”

Love Rosalia but I feel tired just watching clips of her live show.

Wrote three new tiny poems in bed this morning & this is how I justify my ongoing existence.

cute crescent

Vinted response/philosophy for life: If you don’t want to buy, make me no offer.