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Jess Popplewell

@jesspopps.bsky.social

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I know writers who use subtext, and they’re all cowards. Author: THE DARK WITHIN US. Rep’d by: Louise Lamont at LBA. See also: Careers Consultant; views own & not representative of employer, obviously. See more of my nonsense at jesspopplewell.com

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Jess Popplewell @jesspopps.bsky.social · Nov 19

Hello! I’m Jess, I wrote a book called THE DARK WITHIN US. It’s a YA portal fantasy inspired equally by Dante’s INFERNO and 2007-era SKINS.

Jenny is looking for a way to fix her life so when a demon tells her she doesn’t have a soul, she agrees to go with him on a journey to Hell to get it back.

A red book cover with an illustration of a teenage boy and girl in black and white. Title: THE DARK WITHIN US. Author: JESS POPPLEWELL.

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Jess Popplewell @jesspopps.bsky.social · 4d

The ✨Queen herself✨

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Kitty - Patricia Routledge (1929-2025)

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Jess Popplewell @jesspopps.bsky.social · 10d

That’s shocking. Some roofers nicked my Abel and Cole delivery last year, which is really upsetting and also the most middle class sentence I’ve ever typed.

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 10d

Happy International Translation Day!

A big thank you to the translators that have helped us publish well over 100 translations at Clarkesworld. Your work is valued here.

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Jess Popplewell @jesspopps.bsky.social · 10d

I agree with Professor Nicky Marsh.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Dorset school ban on book about race is a mistake | Letters

Letter: Prof Nicky Marsh says Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give encourages pupils to interact with people whose views don’t coincide with their own

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Jess Popplewell @jesspopps.bsky.social · 11d

Anyway, these musings brought to you by my morning commute. So I guess I don’t need a device after all.

Jess Popplewell @jesspopps.bsky.social · 11d

I think cynicism might be knowing that when that technology exists there will 100% be people who do trust private entities with their inner monologue data, and they’ll call the rest of us Luddites for not leaping at this terrifying new reality.

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Jess Popplewell @jesspopps.bsky.social · 11d

Duality is knowing that a) I would really enjoy having a device that could record my inner monologue so I could review it later for interesting nuggets and equally, b) I would NEVER trust a government or private entity with that kind of data about myself.

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Jess Popplewell @jesspopps.bsky.social · 11d

Honestly, Educating Yorkshire brings me so much joy. It’s the accents, I want more Yorkshire on my screen, always.

Jess Popplewell @jesspopps.bsky.social · 18d

Just moved house to discover the kitchen sink isn’t connected properly, rendering it entirely useless for its intended purpose, so I’ve been washing up in the bathroom LIKE A SIM and I’m not thrilled about it.

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Amanda @akscotland.bsky.social · 19d

If you’re in driving distance of the Central Coast, join me for one or both of these lively in-person workshops!

It’s ridiculously cheap ($8??? Thank you Central Coast Council! 🙏🏻)

Let me know if I will see you there!

libraries.centralcoast.nsw.gov.au/whats-on?tit...

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · Aug 28

This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”

www.quaker.org.uk

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Jess Popplewell @jesspopps.bsky.social · Aug 25

Just discovered a diary of sorts I wrote about 6/7 years ago, and I am reminded that I am SO FUNNY but also I can’t prove it because if I showed any of this to anyone else I’d have to immediately destroy at least one of us.

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Jess Popplewell @jesspopps.bsky.social · Aug 23

Also, your selvedges are so CLEAN, I am jealous.

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Finn Longman @finnlongman.com · Aug 23

Update:

Close-up of the loom showing the in-progress cloth rolled into the front beam.

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Jess Popplewell @jesspopps.bsky.social · Aug 23

YES more weaving on my timeline, yes please!!!!! I need to get my rigid heddle loom back out. Or maybe my inkle loom so I can make some pretty tablet woven bands.

Jess Popplewell @jesspopps.bsky.social · Aug 23

I would be into this, since the idea of all sitting together in a room regularly makes my skin itch but that doesn’t mean I don’t wanna discuss books, because I do.

Jess Popplewell @jesspopps.bsky.social · Aug 14

Inspired by Dr Faustus??? Oh, SOLD.

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · Aug 12

This is a big reasom why students are increasingly living at home and commuting to their local university — and why we need good strong local universities in all regions of the UK.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Aug 12

'Updating their work on the amount of money students need to get by, the Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) and Loughborough University researchers have estimated that first-year students in halls of residence need £418 per week to cover their living costs – including £158 on rent.' 1/3

English university degree ‘costs £90,000 over three years’

‘Traditional student experience’ off limits for most, researchers warn after estimating living costs at double available maintenance loans

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Jess Popplewell @jesspopps.bsky.social · Aug 10

Donated, wishing you every good thing ❤️

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Jess Popplewell @jesspopps.bsky.social · Aug 7

Speaking as an English Lit graduate, I find the sentence “there’s no need to be accurate, it’s just a book” deeply funny on approximately 62 levels.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 7

‘Aggressively provocative’: first screening of Saltburn director’s Wuthering Heights gets mixed reaction

An early test showing of the forthcoming Brontë adaptation starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi reveals film features horse rein sex, suggestive egg yolks and necrophile nuns Equal parts intrigue and scepticism had already dogged the forthcoming adaptation of Wuthering Heights from Emerald Fennell – whose first two films, Promising Young Woman and Saltburn, displayed a love of mordant and explicit envelope-pushing. As reported by World of Reel, a first test screening for the film, which stars Margot Robbie and Saltburn’s Jacob Elordi, took place earlier this week in Dallas, and audience reaction was “mixed”. Continue reading...

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Jess Popplewell @jesspopps.bsky.social · Aug 5

Found this article infuriating but illuminating. Infuriating they managed to say all of this without push back, and unfortunately illuminating on the way so many are STILL claiming they’re the wronged parties.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 3

Regret, resentment and Reform UK: jailed Rotherham rioters one year on

Men sentenced to prison time for role in violent protests after the Southport murders describe their feelings of injustice

www.theguardian.com

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CL Woke Cannibal Erotica Hellisen @clhellisen.bsky.social · Aug 1

With "writers" embracing the mediocrity of AI-produced slop, it's on us to fight back.

And by fight back I mean be feral in your writing, be deeply weird and vulnerable and obsessive and human.

Let the predictive text write its anodyne MoR bs.

Spill your wild and your strange onto the page.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Jul 30

God, the number of people who were willing to believe that the South Yorkshire police were too woke to prosecute sexual abuse cases, when in fact the police force was itself an instrument of patriarchal sexual violence. It’s like a case study in the worst excesses of the British press.

Five survivors of Rotherham grooming gangs say they were also raped by police officers

Three former South Yorkshire police officers arrested in investigation into claims by the women, as young as 12 at the time

www.theguardian.com

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