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Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 4h

Thank you. Read something on The Internet this morning that annoyed me. (As I so often do…)

Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 5h

Which is to say, I don’t read medieval hagiography because the stories are particularly good, or I agree with the agenda they are pushing.

I read them to see how that agenda is created, and how they sit in relation to other texts and artefacts. My *feelings* don’t come in to it.

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Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 5h

Which is to say, on one level we read for enjoyment. On another, we are aware of the biases of the text/author. On another, we are aware of the author’s artifice - how they use their tools to create their effect.

On another, we are aware of the text as an object in the wider world.

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Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 5h

The thing about reading well is that you have to do it on a number of levels simultaneously, and be able to hold space for multiple of those readings.

A text’s replication of structural injustices does not affect place either as a cultural artefact, nor a piece of art.

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Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 5h

Gods, we have got to take the morality out of literary criticism.

It’s not about playing an endless game of, “gotcha” to catch the author out in their various isms.

That kind of structural critique of a work is often valuable, but it is not the Defining Truth of a Text.

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Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 1d

IT DID OCCUR.

Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 1d

Found a jar of a beautiful, dark ruby coloured jelly in the cupboard. It’s clearly savoury, because otherwise I’d have put it with the jam in the cellar, but there is *no label*.

It’s a mystery.

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Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, this looks *great*.

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 3d

“I’m the reason we don’t have a ‘days without incident’ counter. They had it shredded, removed and thrown into the fires of Mordor.”

Compensate us for workplace injuries that were definitely our fault by reading the full article on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/139919...

Workplace risk assessment fails to account for dyspraxic woman

Woman in office tripping over comically

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Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 3d

MY PARENTS DID THIS.

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Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 3d

YES CORRECT.

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Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 3d

… it’s a bad spoon.

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Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 3d

If you want an insight into the neurotypicality of this household, please bear in mind that Sprog1 and other I have never discussed cutlery preferences. But…
Me: There are no spoons in the drawer.
Mattie: No, there’s one.
Me: Yeah, but that’s the bad spoon.
Mattie: What?
Sprog1: THE EVIL SPOON.

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Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · 5d

V. excited to have found a child's diary from 1789, covering the period he & his family fled the French Revolution

... So far it has mostly been 'I am very annoyed about running away!', accompanied with detailed blow by blow accounts of his tutor's unfortunate bouts of diarrhoea #18c

a man sitting in a chair with a hulu logo on the bottom

ALT: a man sitting in a chair with a hulu logo on the bottom

media.tenor.com

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Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 4d

I’d forgotten Hawick.

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Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 4d

The Killers there, asking the vital questions: are we human?

Or are we *dancers*?

#LyricalGenius

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Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you! (I have to say, I’m quite proud of that poem.)

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Mobeena @mobeena.bsky.social · 4d

Have seen two instances of people feeling the need to ask why women in a public space look “bored” and “moody”.

NO ONE OWES YOU A SMILE, SUNSHINE

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 4d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Renard Press @renardpress.com · 4d

🥁 SHORTLIST ANNOUNCEMENT 🥁

Delighted to say the Interwoven announcement is out! Such a pleasure to see such a depth of talent and experience on this list, and can’t wait for you all to meet the poems!

renardpress.com/interwoven-a...

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Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 4d

Absolutely thrilled to find myself on the shortlist of @renardpress.com’s Interwoven Poetry competition.

Really looking forward to getting the anthology and reading the other poems on the list - please do support their crowdfunder if you can!

renardpress.com/interwoven-a...

Interwoven Anthology – Poetry Competition – Renard Press

Interwoven: Poetry Celebrating Connectedness Following the success of the New Beginnings project in 2021, the Spectrum project in 2022, the Kinship project in 2023 and Building Bridges in 2024, the In...

renardpress.com

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Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 4d

Variously for the places I’ve lived:
Trottiscliffe
Wymondham
Buccleuch

Madame Decadent Sneezy-Bottom @darklyadapted.bsky.social · 4d

Where I live now
Bovey Tracey
Teign
Teignmouth
Kennford
Buckfastleigh

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 4d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 4d

“If you’re thinking about this, don’t! If you’re considering it, RECONSIDER.”

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Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 5d

Sending out the bat signal that, if you want a sexy, irreverent Regency Romp written by yours truly, then the entire first book is available to read, for free, online, and the second one is starting next week.

Just give @earlofforthenby.bsky.social a follow for updates. 💜

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Polly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social · 5d

This #overdiagnosis discourse is dangerous and will be deadly to many - not just those with ME who have been at the mercy of quacks like Wesseley and O'Sullivan for years -
but everyone who the govt wishes to remove support from and has to find a way to claim are not actually disabled to do so.

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 5d

Just as we are beginning to understand the biochemical basis of this horrendous condition, the government appoints the man perhaps most responsible for the mischaracterisation of ME/CFS – Simon Wesseley - to its *overdiagnosis* commission. www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...

Controversial professor to investigate overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence for Labour

Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk

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