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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin

@miseryvulture.bsky.social

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Irish dilettante and horror writer in Berlin.

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 8d

Kazem and his family are in urgent need of help and donations are so slow. Please help if you can, even small amounts can make a big difference

chuffed.org/project/1307...

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 6m

Me too! I have an idea for one but haven't started work on it yet.

Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 24m

I love epistolary novels and I love Sweeney Todd, so it should surprise no one that I love The Butcher's Daughter so far.

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 1h

Like I DO love Berlin, by and large. I still get googly eyed when I'm out and about. But there's a lot to dislike about it too. But yeah, my Kiez? I would hug it if I could.

Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 2h

Hahaha I still haven't learned!

Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 2h

Why are they like this?! I swear, I don't understand how our species has survived as long as it has. I did read that, with very little kids, if you manage to get them to eat ONE meal a day, even if they just pick at the others, you can consider that a successful day of eating. That's helped.

Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 2h

Yes! Same with our area actually. It's the former East, so there's a big Vietnamese community here.

Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 2h

Oh it's TOTALLY that, you're right on the money. She's really going through a phase of asserting her independence, which is great! But she's still gotta eat lol

Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 2h

For real, I think peer pressure helps haha because she eats fine at kindergarten among the other kids!

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 2h

Toddler is doing this very annoying thing of late where she will reject every single meal unless I can somehow convince her to try one bite, at which point she's like "oh yeah, this is great" and will finally sit down to eat. Every single time, this silly charade!!

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 3h

Fan nóiméad, do bhainis fhéin? Comhghairdeachas! (Ar an mbainis nó ar an gcáis)

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 3h

Please help Ghadeer's family survive the aftermath of 2 years of Israel's genocidal famine & destruction of Gaza. She's pregnant & in urgent in need. They urgently require funds for healthcare & medication, supplies, food, & shelter as winter approaches:

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 3h

It really do!

Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 3h

What rules about it? Honestly I couldn't explain. There isn't a pub worth drinking in, no particularly impressive restaurants. It's so quiet that they turn off the traffic lights at 10pm. It's a backwater neighbourhood with an insulting nickname. I just happen to really like it here.

Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 3h

Sick as I am of Germany this year, I love my neighbourhood so much. Been living here for 8 years and still walk around like "Damn, this place rules"

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 17h

Seeing Ms. Rachel say exactly what needs to be said to Obama is so damn refreshing

Dear President Obama,
I saw in your statement you said "Israeli families" & "the people of Gaza."
Palestinians have families, too.
This kind of language contributes to dehumanization. Dehumanization is part of what caused so many to stay silent as 20,000 children were killed in this genocide.
I've sat with wonderful Palestinian families from Gaza. They look at their children just like we look at ours - with all the love & hope in the world.
Love,
Ms Rachel

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 5h

Definitely! There's a bit in the novel Eat the Ones You Love where a bunch of former friends of the protagonist ambush her with an "intervention" on her "bad behaviour" (literally just going no contact with them), and it utilizes therapyspeak SO well.

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Häri Ren @r3nio.bsky.social · 3d

Brandy, Blood and Gospel of Industry, Those That Own Sky (The Velvet Toad, Harrowden)

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 6h

Happy birthday, Madeleine!

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 14h

Whoa I never knew such a product existed

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 14h

There's a bit towards the end of Fleischerei where Órfhlaith is especially petulant and upset, and you could easily mentally insert a few "B-baka!!"s here and there.

Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 15h

Oh wow, genuinely that sock is so impressive! I scrolled down expecting to see something lumpy but undeniably sock-shaped, but that far exceeded all expectations!

Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 15h

You're far more likely to find tsunderespeak tbh

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 15h

You're SO cool, interesting and talented. I haven't seen your knitting, but from the available data, I can extrapolate that there's a high likelihood of it being really amazing.

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 15h

The two Ní Chiaragáin guarantees you can take to the bank is that there will never be therapyspeak and every book ends with someone dying

rowan kaiser @rowan.monster · 1d

I'd really appreciate if writers these days took a look at their characters doing therapyspeak and whether that's appropriate for their work and their world.

By "therapyspeak" I mean speaking like this: "This is the emotion I'm feeling, and feeling that emotion makes me want to act in a way"

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 15h

Oh that's rather sweet, and very understanding!