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Kym Deyn
@kymdeyn.bsky.social
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Nuisance, writer, publisher - the devil's dandy - poetry & weird fic - tarot - kymdeyn.com - thebraag.co - she/they with CFS/ME. In books and in bogs.
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being hatecrimed over here
screenshot of a groupchat where one friend has sent wedding photos of caoimhe and I, and another friend has sent in a photo of Galadriel and Frodo from the lord of the rings, where Galadriel is in white and it has a shocking resemblence to our wedding photos
November 15, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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We took so many of the photos like this. I realise I resemble nothing so much as a hobbit who has made a matrimonial commitment to an elven maiden.
Two white women with brown hair stand in a graveyard on a sunny day. One is tall and etherial in her wedding dress, holding a boquet of autumnal flowers. One is short and curlyhaired, dressed in a green velvet jacket and riding boots. They are stood on a comically large step in order to be taller than their wife.
November 15, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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@empressofkashyr.bsky.social and I got married last month!
A photograph of two white women smiling in a graveyard. One is taller an wearing glasses, a flowercrown and a white wedding dress, she has her arms wrapped around the shorter woman who has curly hair and is wearing a cravat and a green velvet jacket. Their hands are intertwined around a boquet made from autumnal grasses.
November 15, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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just reminding everyone that my reputation as a bog witch stems from when i met the oldcroghan man, went summarily mad, and the spagnum moss refused to let me go. this poem is from back in 2019-ish.
Lich-Wake For The Oldcroghan Man, Ireland, c. 300 BC Croghan still twists at night spends the hours trying to unclench a fist knuckles wound tight as corkscrews head / lost relic keeps reaching for an open seam let me tell you what he told me in the language of his apple-peel skin his bookend shoulders he’s not dead Old Croghan is here in his sphagnum bed and there in Dublin he wears the restless awake speaks the language of a horse’s whicker a soft belly of grain the sodden earth the night folding down from above the view of the stars from Brí Eile ask him through the glass was the sky always quiet for you did you find names for everything how did your voice sound they call him old but he was young yes he says your age the bog-reddened torso of the oldcroghan man. veins still fresh in the skin patterns of his arms.
November 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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POCKET SQUEAKER. THATS HIM.
a photo of spaghetti the rat being held by a human. he has low-set ears, grey fur and a pink nose.
October 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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This is Macduff, my deeply cursed cow plushie I bought in Edinburgh for pittance because no one could bear to look upon him. Macduff was, in the factory, untimely stitched.
A highland cow plushie with an inexplicably tartan face and circular staring yellow eyes. The tartan makes him look like he's wearing a balaclava
October 23, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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oh my god, someone has stolen the french royal jewels. absolutely insane.
But the robbers dropped one precious piece, which was later retrieved, Rachida Dati, the French culture minister, told local television. The French news media reported that the recovered object was the crown worn by Empress Eugénie, the wife of Napoleon III. The crown holds 1,354 diamonds and 56 emeralds, according to the museum’s website. The Apollon Gallery’s gilded hall holds the royal collection of gems and the crown diamonds, including “The Regent,” “The Sancy” and the “Hortensia.” The thieves broke into two display cases and snatched jewels before fleeing on motor scooters with their loot — all within just seven minutes, according to Mr. Nuñez. He did not specify what exactly had been stolen, but said the jewelry had “patrimonial” and “historical” value that made it “priceless.”
October 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Post you from a different era

Weird fairy-goth Kym, c.2009/10. You can feel the homeschooled energy dripping off me here loool.
A teenaged Kym walking along some rocks. They have long blonde hair. They are wearing a purple and black striped beanie, a yellow tartan jacket, fingerless striped gloves, a green and black scarf, a green and black tutu, black skinny jeans and black converse with pointed toes. It's hillarious tbh.
October 13, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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always thinking of this Louise Glück poem
Telemachus' Detachment When I was a child looking at my parents' lives, you know what I thought? I thought heartbreaking. Now I think heartbreaking, but also insane. Also very funny.
October 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Raise you Yosef Komunyakaa's Ode to the Maggot
Ode to the Maggot Yusef Komunyakaa Brother of the blowfly & godhead, you work magic Over battlefields, In slabs of bad pork & flophouses. Yes, you Go to the root of all things. You are sound & mathematical. Jesus Christ, you’re merciless With the truth. Ontological & lustrous, You cast spells on beggars & kings Behind the stone door of Caesar’s tomb Or split trench in a field of ragweed. No decree or creed can outlaw you As you take every living thing apart. Little Master of earth, no one gets to heaven Without going through you first.
October 8, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Amazing!! The dress is perfect. I adore the Voynich manuscript - I got a tattoo of it while I was in uni 💚
b/w photo of a tattoo, which is a woodcut-style book with open pages with leaves and ferns on, and then text lifted from the voynich manuscript
October 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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normal writer writing normal short stories in a normal way using adverbs normally
screenshort from a word doc that reas "The crab called to them, meatishly"
September 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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I published Anthony Cartwright's novella in micro-fiction via @thebraag.bsky.social yesterday! It's incredible, deeply weird, searching, moving through alternate histories, leviatha as industrial process, capitalism as death cult, all deepy moored in the landscape of the black country.
cover of necrosmologies by anthony cartwright. a moody blue and black shy hangs over a grey and ruined cityscape.
September 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Cauldrons are still very practical for the modern witch
a copper cauldron sits at an outdoor table in a small courtyard garden, inside something is burning and throwing out soft orange flames. Two forks are held over the flames, each with a marshmallow on the end.
September 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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I know its the age old complaint. but. 🙃🙃🙃
a screenshot of a search on the 'Latest Jobs from the Arts Council: Weekly Summary' email showing 125 results for the word 'London' a screenshot of a search on the 'Latest Jobs from the Arts Council: Weekly Summary' email showing 2 results for the words 'north east'
September 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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On a deep and serious level: why are we not drawing fan art of Teodora Blanco's gorgeous Oaxacan folk art beasties?
a proliferation of delightful beasties, a vertitable tower of terracotta creatures. Starting from the base, small dogs crowd around an ear-y sort of fish which holds a guitar in its noodly arms, its expression is one of concern. Next, a sort of snootly creature playing a guitar. It has thick eyelashes and a crown of flowers on its forehead, which is the neck of the creature above. On either side of it, held in its other arms is a pipe-playing creature of mammalian disposition which may or may not be a fox. On its otherside, also embraced by the creature is a lizard with ridges down its head playing an ocarina. The creature's next head—connected to the flower-crowned snootle beast—is a sort of snouted lion with a prominent nose and a flared out mane with wide-staring eyes. On top of that is a large lizard playing a violin, holding the bow at a jaunty angle.
August 27, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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living with me is a continual delight
facebook message that reads "oh if there's an evil looking corn dolly in the bathroom its mine i forgot it"
August 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Never beating the time traveller allegations
Kym is a white person with an overbite and short curly hair with a sage green cravat and an 18th c style puffy sleeve cheesecloth shirt
August 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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When I'm doing workshops on the profession of writing this is a thing I try to drill into my students - like...... its an ecosystem, you can't take out without putting in!! no one is that special.
To put it bluntly - why should anyone pay attention to your work, if you’re not willing to pay attention to theirs? A writer’s first reader is almost always going to be another writer, that’s who is running the small magazines, attending local open mic nights, who is making culture happen at a grassroots level. You don’t have to read the work of every place you submit to - but are you engaging earnestly? Are you reading magazines’ submission pages to see if you are a ‘good fit’? Are you volunteering as a first reader? Are you looking for opportunities to engage with other writers and creatives?
August 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Witch in a queer friendly church. a certain bishop feels a chill down his spine.
Kym, a white person wearing a Hawaiian shirt with bats on, throws a peace sign. They have wild, curly hair.
July 19, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Hey, we're looking for UK poetry and fiction writers for our submissions open period which closes at the end of the month! We pay royalties on books, stock with indie bookshops, and work with u extensively on your manuscript.

Could you please share this to help get the word out?
The Braag (thebraag.co) will be open for submissions of poetry, prose and micro-chapbooks June 15th - July 31st
July 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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The people love Custard 2.
Custard 2 is out of focus and wiggle some and snootsome Custard 2 is held in my hands being adorable with his lil rat paws You can witness Custard 2's chonkiness
July 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Another photo of Custard 2 but this time you can see his sweet little rat face
July 9, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Waaaagh rat snooot
A photo of Custard 2, a large black and white Dumbo rat with a pink nose and large whiskers
July 9, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Stuart Piggott!
A small blue furry hippopotamus sits on a shelf
July 8, 2025 at 10:43 AM