Doing some voice acting for work and listening back to my own voice again and again and damn I really do sound VERY Irish

Oooh ahh up the gulls

I love going into restaurants and ordering the spiciest thing on the menu, and the staff look at this pasty white girl wearing too much eye liner and glitter highlighter and look me in the eye and ask me if I know what I'm getting into. If I'm sure I want to do this. If I've made my peace with God.

An important part of the social media ecosystem is gay people recomending music to you. I like this ep open.spotify.com/album/2X4Tbg... It feels like getting the chance to yell at the person who never let you have the catharsis of a breakdown. Like a scream you've been holding in for years

I've been really getting into issuing ultimatums recently. Telling the guy making my sandwich "you have 48 hours". Warning my dentist that there will be consequences for failure. Can't recommend it highly enough.

My wife is basically my entire moral compass at this point

Relistening to Electra Heart in preperation of seeing Marina in two weeks and Damn, it really is one of the greatest works of art ever created

Book I'm reading has characters in 13th century china eating chillis. Book fucking RUINED!

If you saw a drunk irish girl stumbling through the streets of glasgow on thursday screaming/singing 'Everything that I love will destroy me in the end so I break my own heart over and over again', no you didn't. You didn't see that. You were mistaken.

Every now and then, a Dutch post pops up on my english feed and makes me think im having a stroke

My cis het friend messaged me yesterday out of the blue to ask me 'Is it true that Pepsi Max is for the lesbians?' and I looked to the 3 empty pepsi max bottles waiting to go into the recycling bin and messaged him back 'yeah but I don't know why'

there's a handful of reasons I'm still on twitter but one of them is that artists I listen to a lot will search their name and find my tweets talking about them and like them and I get to be like 'omg Rachel Bochner knows who I am!!'

Made my phone lock screen a photo of my wife that's so alarmingly beautiful that as soon as I look at my phone I immediately lose track of whatever thought I had and start drooling

Cried at a concert last night. Really felt like the music spoke to the specific kind of mental illness I had in my early twenties.

in france there are laws regulating the ingredients and preparation of the traditional baguette, so you can find the same basic product at every family bakery. i think it's a good case for authoritarianism and I believe there should be more laws governing the tastiness of bread

Evergreen headline.

Books I've read, 2026 I love cities, I love the idea of cities, I love specific cities, I love cities generally. I love the history of cities, I love the future of cities. I love to wander cities. I love to live in cities. I love to build cities and imagine cities and dream of cities. I love cities

Book 11.25: The Legend of the Condor Heroes, Volume 2: A Bond Undone In the original chinese, Condor Heroes is 1 book, even though the translation is 4. I'm counting it as 1. A wonderful continuation of a book I am deeply in love with. I am realising as I read it however that this book has no plot

I have a long-standing obsession with Odysseus, wily little son of a bitch that he is, and I simply refuse to acknowledge most reinterpretations. Hypocritically, I did my own. Here's him having post-war crime ocean sex with Diomedes after book ten of the iliad. Available in my book, Dionysia.

Most up to date map of my Minecraft world

they should make a west wing style show about senator jar jar binks and his time in the senate

hey so it turns out if you perform the poems from Folkish in the right way, the braag shows up to walk three paces behind and whisper terrible ideas to you. Anyway, if that sounds like your jam, the Newcastle launch is on the 8th.

Reminder that Starmer in his capacity as a human rights lawyer recommended the continued use of plastic bullets in Northern Ireland in 'peace time'

I found my first four leaf clover on May Day at dawn in the ruins of a medieval castle

beautiful women named HMRC are sliding into my dms and telling me to submit to them

Did you not know the worm sang?''To see her was to marvel, to despair.'Meet Lambton's 'Wyrm', dragon in a well, & crows,nuns, 'greenish stars' of glowworms. 'If you ever see a ghost/it'll be the way a kingfisher is seen.' Read starry Kym Deyn @kymdeyn.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social!

Honestly one of the funniest things I've ever done might have been getting Baby Queen to sign my copy of the 14th century chinese classical novel Outlaws of the Marsh

I have tiny tits but when I'm in a hurry I basically bounce up and down when I walk so I forget until I leave the house that I actually do need to wear a bra sometimes

This is so important

please make way on the timeline, cattle coming through

Big protest in town today about Iran. I approach, thinking it's going to be calling for a ceasefire. NOPE! Monarchists! HUGE banners of the last Shah. Calling for the return of Reza Pahlavi from exile. A lady offered me a flyer and I have never backed away faster

Book 12: Folkish Look, there's nothing I can say here that won't be biased. This was written by my actual wife. So don't listen to me. Listen to Rachel Mann, Kimberly Campanello, and Richard Skelton, and listen to me when I tell you they're telling the truth

Book 11: The Legend of the Condor Heroes, Volume 1: A Hero Reborn A friend lent this to me since I've been reading so many chinese classics, and I absoloutely loved this. You can really feel the DNA of Outlaws and JTTW in this. Adored it. So furious at how it ends Ive immediately bought volumes 2-4

So the minister of my parents church has been forced to stand down AND the head of safeguarding for the Presbyterian church in northern ireland has just quit so uhhhhhhh this sounds NOT good at all

This is exactly what I looked like last week when I got dressed to go out to do archery and it started raining right as I was grabbing my keys to leave. This was my exact expression.

my wife is away for work so I keep just repeating this to my flatmate

Heartbreaking! Wine shop doesn't open until 5pm but I was hoping to do some day drinking

Let's enjoy a wonderful poem recording from FOLKISH, written and read by @kymdeyn.bsky.social, here's BRAAGSPAKE. Filmed by Coalfield Studios. FOLKISH officailly enters the world TODAY - have you got your copy lined up? ninearchespress.com/publications...

Publication Day for FOLKISH by @kymdeyn.bsky.social 'Queer and disconcerting' 'Bold, inventive, sardonic' A bewitching debut #poetry collection full of ghosts, folklore, landscapes and legends. Get your copy here: ninearchespress.com/publications... Congratulations Kym 💚

It's publication day for my book!!! I'm going to be a little cringe and share the playlist I made while I finished up working on it: open.spotify.com/playlist/4G0...

Your annual reminder that William Shakespeare was born in what is now Turkey, never visited England and almost certainly could not read or write in English.

On Tuesday, a church I'd never heard of in a city I couldnt point to on a map in a country I never think about was demolished, as part of a wider pattern of removing the traces of the citys Armenian heritage. I don't know why this particular one stuck in my mind. Last night I rebuilt it in Minecraft

hashtag vote Green idk

I get asked a lot if I was into the Hunger Games when I was young, and I have to tell them I used to wear my hair in a braid and I did archery and I lived under an oppressive government and I was also in a teenage love triangle, so it's less I had a Hunger Games phase and more that I lived it

in addition to this I think it's worth bearing in mind that one of bluesky's tech leads once put his phone in a swimming pool because it was overheating then was surprised that this broke it

I cry at films a lot, but the only film I ever cried at in the theatre, and unfortunately, this is the most embaressing answer I can give, and in my defence I was going through A LOT at the time, was Avengers: Endgame

This is what my wife looks like to me

Two different poets have now published two different books about a trip to Knareborough where they went insane chasing saints, speaking to stones, and absorbing its weird history, and neither of them mentioned that I was also there playing Pokemon Crystal on my atomic purple gameboy the ENTIRE time

If I was Xi Jinping I would be googling 'Flu Season United States' right about now