Yesterday I was promenading the seafront in the sunshine, wearing my sunnies and a pink fake fur coat patterned with hearts. Today I'm clad in my storm coat and being battered along the coast to work

I saw someone say, “Emerald Fennell is Greta Gerwig’s Wario,” and I haven’t stopped laughing 😭

Happy Valentine's Day! I love you!

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

"We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend."

I saw "Wuthering Heights" and it sure was a film I saw

I curse everyone involved with this project and anyone who sees it if it ever shows. I curse you. I curse you. I curse you

Today I've done a presentation and workshop with 241 Year Sevens, a line edit across four trains, and a 5000 word feedback on a 15,000 word submission. Naturally, I am now a hollow shell of a woman, BUT it was worth it because the next five days are going to be HOOT CITY and I have paid the piper!!!

We need to talk about the price of Mini Eggs this year. What the devil is going on?

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

No Beavers tonight

THIS WHAT I'M TALMBOUT !!!!!!!!!!! GET IN THE FIELD!!!!!!!!! nypost.com/2026/02/11/l...

No, why is the cold coming back? Piss off, cold. I want the sun!

The only thing standing between me and a successful influencing career are good looks and the sisyphean burden of shame i have carried since i became self-aware as a child

Happy Valentine's Day to ME!!!

You get 48 hours on Letterboxd rental so guess what? Tonight I get Hundreds MORE Beavers! It's Beaverfever!

@ewacat.bsky.social new Dyatlov just dropped www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Make Art (1/4)

Living under capitalism is like being forced to play a board game you dislike where the rules are boring, unfair and nonsensical but which the winners, who started with an advantage, keep explaining are excellent, and if you try improve the game you’re “cheating” but if you stop playing you’ll die

friends, she’s finally here. strange is the light is a story about friendship, secrets, games we play and who is and isn’t welcome at the table. it’s about monsters. and above all, it’s about love. it comes out in september & i hope you guys like it 🖤👁️✨

I love this so much

It's Beaver Time!!!!!

Local Gods by Melinda Salisbury

i’ve been making bargains with sinister forest creatures

Though I'd miss antibiotics, vaccines, indoor plumbing, and the modest advancement of women's rights, I think I could find peace in medieval Britain, when I'd only be forced to deal with news from London and the Powers if they sent a herald because a king died, there was a new tax, or a war

Hundreds of Beavers is on Letterboxd rental for a very reasonable price and I, one who hasn't seen Hundreds of Beavers yet, am going rectify my error forthwith* *tonight if I get my work done

#BookReview: ENDGAME by Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com @barringtonstoke.bsky.social #UKYA sifaelizabethreads.wordpress.com/2026/02/03/b...

We are delighted to announce the longlist for the TMWS Book Award 2026. This is for the best book written for young people in the last academic year, as chosen by TMWS students. Congratulations to all those on the longlist. We will be narrowing it down to a shortlist over the next few weeks.

The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.

Do you think anyone ever urges the ghosts of moths to go towards the light and the moths are like, no chance, pal, that's how I ended up here in the first place

Get in! Secured the goods! Local Gods by @melindasalisbury.com out July 2026 — description in the alt-text #SuperbOwl 🦉🦉

Last night I introduced @magickitten.bsky.social to my idea for Extreme Biathlon, where you're allowed to shoot at the people behind you in the race if you get to the gun bit first. Paintballs obviously. Points awarded AND docked for hits, and time penalties for hits and misses

Wait, THIS is young Anton Chekhov? This? Good lord. Let that gun go off, daddy

With my last two Barrington Stoke books, I'm trying to write the kind of spooky, hazy stories that will prompt readers to turn to the social media of the day when they're in their 30s and 40s and ask if anyone remembers reading a story about XXXXX when they were at school, wanting to find it again

Farage was banging on about Turkish barbers, so these lads in Glasgow did this. It's in Dumbarton Road, if you fancy a trim.

Porridge for lunch but I can't mention it on Instagram because the last time I did I was inundated with people telling me I was doing it wrong

I really want the "Wuthering Heights" tie-in cover. I think the poster is magnificent

"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"

What if we just refuse to die? Just say no thanks, I'm going to be a Literary Writer and live forever. I didn't want to be happy. I wanted to write books.

Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein

OpenAI retiring GPT-4o the day before Valentine's Day is a real choice

My friend Kim wore the most incredible, chic red blouse and I was consumed by such furious envy. And in the bitter haze of coventousness that followed I bought a red gingham blouse with Monchhichi on it

Mystery of abandoned village in the middle of the Welsh countryside. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Honestly, I feel like a little exorcism is exactly what I need. Booking today!

I did a whole day of school visits yesterday and then slept for twelve hours so the psychic debt has been repaid

I wrote about 'MELANIA' johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/my-melania...

Well this presents quite the conundrum, because now I want him to live long enough to see them get it

Hear me out: can we have Gordon back

The hotel room HAS A BATH!!!!!