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Writer, aesthete, reprobate. Call me Wilfred, or call me Fred, just don’t call me before 6am. Has sword, will travel. They/them.
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Feels weird to be posting personal stuff given… *gestures* but it was really nice to receive not one, but TWO contributor copies today. The first being the gorgeous Smoke, with a little poem about coming back after hard times: www.windowsproject.co.uk/smoke-magazine

submitted 48 minutes ago • 1 comment

Next year, I’m just buying a fucking flower crown…

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

vampires? vampires :)

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Merry midsummer, my loves. Enjoy the long light. ❤️

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Marjoram crown - like a flower crown, but insect repellent…

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

“But why Hedge, Peaches? Why did you have to take it to Hedge?” There’s more than one kind of betrayal. Peaches has her say, as we begin the final chapter of The Forthenby Inheritance. forthenby.com/2025/06/18/1...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

okay and here is my ‘sounds like a shitpost but it’s genuine’ UK heatwave tip: if there is a Saxon or Norman church near you, and it’s open, go sit in it. not gothic, they have too many windows, get you some thick stone walls with some high up tiny windows. they stay cold. and you can just sit there

submitted 2 days ago • 103 comments

Sometimes, you get an email from the school that makes you aware a situation of which you were previously blissfully unaware.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

“I just woke up with so much more energy this morning! I don’t know what’s changed!” Is it maybe taking your pain meds consistently for the last three days? Do you think that has something to do with it?

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I think that’s in part because The National draws from a wider pool representing a more diverse group than “people in a band with JKR’s husband” and gammon-faced golf club bores. It still pays some howling arseholes but nowhere near as many.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Farage and the far right in general come from a grievance culture. If you do what they want, even maximally – Brexit – they’ll move the goalposts and keep moaning. If you engage seriously with their concerns, they’ll find new ones. You will never satisfy them, because they don’t want to be satisfied

submitted 3 days ago • 99 comments

Everyone saying "make weird art!" you better fucking mean it. There better not be an unspoken "but not too weird" tacked on at the end.

submitted 156 days ago • 36 comments

BBC on Labour disability benefit cuts: "One Labour MP, who wanted to remain anonymous, told the BBC: "I have heard anyone who breaks the whip won't be allowed to stand as a Labour MP at the next general election." Got to admire the new, creative ways Labour is finding to lose loyal, lifelong voters.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Also, snagged what I’m pretty sure are a pair of 1930s uranium glass trinket dishes for under a tenner this afternoon.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

I’m dyspraxic, there are three things I’m simply not going to remember, and those are the spatial order of any visual image, your name, or the sequence of the instructions you just gave me.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

"LGBTQ+ standard disappears from Matlock high street as Christian bookshop manager says they are ‘not happy with the gay rights situation’" "The gay rights situation". As in "having rights". These are the people the UK panders to. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

submitted 3 days ago • 42 comments