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@peremptorytiger.bsky.social

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Writer? and pg student of modern and contemporary lit ⭐️ she/her https://open.substack.com/pub/bleedbeige

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alice @peremptorytiger.bsky.social · May 31

Issue 15 is live :) huge thanks to Propel and Sanah Ahsan for selecting my poem ‘16:33’

and make sure you read the introduction to the issue, too. beautiful and important stuff

💙

Propel Magazine

www.propelmagazine.co.uk

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 1d

The Poems of Seamus Heaney review – collected works reveal his colossal achievement
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

The Poems of Seamus Heaney review – collected works reveal his colossal achievement

The complete works, including previously unpublished poems and expert notes, are brought together in one volume for the first time

www.theguardian.com

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alice @peremptorytiger.bsky.social · 1d

(yes i can cook there’s just fuck all in)

alice @peremptorytiger.bsky.social · 1d

put half a tin of beans in a full tin of tomato soup for dinner. there is something a bit too acidic going on. but i don’t think i regret it

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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 1d

It’s actually pretty bad for your mental health to know stuff

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alice @peremptorytiger.bsky.social · 1d

'Girls are cruelest to themselves. / Someone like Emily Brontë, / who remained a girl all her life despite her body as a woman, / had cruelty drifted up in all the cracks of her like spring snow.'

The Glass Essay

Night drips its silver tap down the back. SHE She lives on a moor in the north. Spring opens like a blade there. I travel all day on trains and bring a lot of books— some for my mother, some for me in...

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henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 1d

it might be a worthwhile sport if they did have swords tbf

david alexander @davidalexander.bsky.social · 4d

but i can and will say stuff like holy shit way to diminish your accomplishments here and for what?

Taylor Swift says she's not playing the #SuperBowl
Halftime Show because "I am in love with a guy who does that sport on that actual field."
"Like, [professional football] is violent chess. That is gladiators without swords. That is dangerous. I am, [for] the whole season, locked in on what that man is doing on the field. Can you imagine if he's out there every single week, putting his life on the line, doing this very dangerous, very high-pressure, high-intensity sport, and I'm like [she puts on a ditzy voice and face], 'I wonder what my choreo should be? I think we should do two verses of "Shake It Up," into "Blank Space," into "Cruel Summer," that would be great!' This has nothing to do with Travis — he would love for me to do it. But I'm just too locked in."
Read more here: https://variety.com/2025/music/news/ taylor-swift-explains-why-shes-not-playing-super-bowl-halftime-fallon-1236541829/

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alice @peremptorytiger.bsky.social · 2d

this is very parasocial of me, i know, but to go from baring witness to each and every time this childhood hero of mine has been torn apart, put himself back together, and been torn apart once more, to seeing him discuss it all so openly with a glass-half-full approach is something astounding

alice @peremptorytiger.bsky.social · 2d

i feel like the avg bsky user might not even know this: Louis lost his mum to cancer at 24, his 18-y/o sister to an overdose at 27, then Liam Payne at 32

how he speaks on DoaC about grief, growing up, family etc is at once both so grounded and completely profound. such a mature, articulate artist

alice @peremptorytiger.bsky.social · 11d

aw man i’m really gonna have to lose my Di*ry of a CEO virginity cos Louis Tomlinson’s on it ffs if anyone wants to cut any and all noise coming out of Bartlett from the ep and just provide me with a transcript so i have context for Tommo’s answers that’d be ideal

alice @peremptorytiger.bsky.social · 3d

Helen Tookey 🍞⭐️☁️

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Deleuzian Haiku @deleuzianhaiku.bsky.social · 4d

#18 (p10-a)

microfascisms
just waiting to crystallize . . .
i become cat

#deleuze #haiku

❖

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alice @peremptorytiger.bsky.social · 4d

got distracted and accidentally used my free nero drink on a iced cappuccino with Real Milk 💔 it’s so over

have come to (re)read Milkman by Anna Burns too oh how the narrative haunts me etc etc

alice @peremptorytiger.bsky.social · 4d

thank you, always the goal 💪

alice @peremptorytiger.bsky.social · 4d

phone camera apparently went spooky dark this morning not wanting you to see my pretentious tie-and-trench combo

a photo of me in the bathroom mirror, wearing a black trench coat tied up, a blue shirt, and a navy tie with thin red and white stripes. my ginger curly hair is still a bit wet and falls over my shoulders. the strap of a bright red tote bag is visible

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 5d

Richard Siken

DOTS EVERYWHERE

I erased my legs and forgot to draw in the stilts.
It looks like I’m floating but I’m not floating.
Sometimes I draw you with fangs. I tell you these
things because I love you. Some people paint
with whiskey and call it social drinking. Some people
paint drunk and put dots of color everywhere.
In the morning the dots make them happy. I am
putting dots of color everywhere and you are sleeping.
Something has happened in the paint tonight and
it is worth keeping. It’s nothing like I thought it
would be and closer to what I meant. None of it is
real, darling. I say it to you. Maybe we will wake up
singing. Maybe we will wake up to the silence
of shoes at the foot of the bed not going anywhere.

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alice @peremptorytiger.bsky.social · 5d

‘if Ania Magliano and i in a room’ yeah so true alice

alice @peremptorytiger.bsky.social · 5d

i haven’t seen any of Taskmaster yet but have concluded that if Ania Magliano and i in a room something in the universe would collapse

what do you mean she’s a fake ginger tie-wearing curly-haired bisexual who went to Cambridge that has a boyfriend with the same name as mine

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