ericabuist.bsky.social
Writer. Journalist (Guardian). Author (THIS PARTY’S DEAD).
Writing tutor (CityLit).
Social media director Tupelo Press.
Late diagnosed ADHD.
Writing a novel but I’m ok.
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Ha I wasn’t really upset, don’t worry! I am guilty of doing research for CRAZILY TOO LONG before writing because research is fun and writing is hell! What are you researching right now? My end it’s fraudulent Victorian mediums which is endlessly fascinating, let’s see if a book even comes out…
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I’ll try this, thank you. At the moment I’m just headbutting the keyboard until more novel comes out.
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New Girl Interrupted (Jess spends some time recovering from a mental health episode)
Queer Eye Hate Suzie (the fab 5 spend a week with Suzie but are really shitty about it, they just can’t with her)
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Did you ever hear Jon Ronson’s show Things Fell Apart? The ep on the origin of the abortion culture war is wild. Nothing whatsoever to do with the Bible. If you’re not in the UK right now you may have to find it elsewhere but: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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I blame the internet. Too much interesting stuff to be looking at.
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Gah, who beat us?!
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Yes (I’m 🇬🇧). Our private is an absolute bargain compared to their bog-standard.
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In the UK we do. Possibly because healthcare is provided by the state and abortions are easier and cheaper than treating sepsis.
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We’ve known for centuries: if abortions aren’t available, people who need them will do it themselves with knitting needles. The abortion debate is actually: as a society, do we care?
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I was JUST thinking about this the other day, reminding myself to check! Ok. That’s good news.
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When Finkowska and I met he was deathly allergic to cats, and I have one. So he’s been daily taking allergy injections for about five years now. They work.
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SAME
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So sorry for your loss Nick 💔
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Yeah doesn’t it come from the Greek word for uterus? A friend just told me someone she knows has been diagnosed with histrionic personality disorder which I guess is derived from the Greek for “women are crazy”
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TOTALLY. And anger is conversely the emotion women *aren’t* allowed to have, and when we do it’s seen as shocking and even scary. “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” - seriously? Did the “crimes of passion” loophole for murder come about because of angry women?
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That’s really interesting because anger is really the only emotion men seem to be allowed to have. They can scream and punch and vandalise and no one’s like “Men are so emotional”. Anger somehow got rebranded as Not An Emotion. Maybe that’s why these types of men overindulge!
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It’s strange being the object of these kinds of men’s hatred, because as much as misogyny and homophobia make our lives more difficult, we’re out here living while they expend *truly wild* amounts of time and energy thinking about/ trying not to be us
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He would kill for that little bob. He’d murder his entire family and then eat their shoes if that’s what it took.
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I think for some people it can crystallise what’s happening, and even make them wonder how they hadn’t seen it for what it was.
This is probably part of the vent, but I also quite like my despair delivered via jokes. Which is, I think, why I’ve stayed on social media so long.
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🇬🇧 here - when a sentient lettuce and her sidekick crashed our economy we kicked them out within weeks, followed by the party. Just some inspo from the country who pulled this same “I will brutally tax anyone who’s mean to me” thing on you before. (How did that end again? We hugged it out, right?)
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Can’t wait for all the right-wing op-eds on why the tanking of the global economy is good, actually
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Yep. Still out there, still spouting instantly disprovable nonsense.
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That’s too steep even for a water slide.
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Dammit bees. We want to save you but you gotta meet us halfway by not residing in a death pipe of smoke and flame.
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Oh my GOD. What’s the draw of this chimney?! It looks like Metallica are headlining in there.
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I want to say no, but I can’t find the wrong bit.
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Upside: you’re the Rock now.