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Grim Deyn

@shortestwitch.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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Grim Deyn @shortestwitch.bsky.social · Nov 23

Hello folks! I'm a writer based in Newcastle, UK. I write poetry and speculative fiction and run @thebraag.bsky.social. I like bogs and books and my books include Dionysia published by @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social, Primers Vol.6, and Unfurl, a collaborative fiction experiment. kymdeyn.com

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Grim Deyn @shortestwitch.bsky.social · 6h

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.

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Grim Deyn @shortestwitch.bsky.social · 13h

Thank you!! I also wanna take a nerd moment to tell you how incredible your translation of Beowulf is 😭

Grim Deyn @shortestwitch.bsky.social · 13h

I like to think I'm closest to Gonzo-in-his-aspect-as-Charles-Dickens.

Grim Deyn @shortestwitch.bsky.social · 14h

Anyway, my favourite is Gonzo.

Grim Deyn @shortestwitch.bsky.social · 14h

My parents had a friend, whose real name I have no idea about, because he resembled the Muppet Skeeter so much everyone in his life called him Skeeter.

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C.W. Reeve @cwreeve.bsky.social · 16h

Orpheus, entering the underworld in order to bring Eurydice back to the world of the living.

#WyrdWednesday

🎨 - 'Orpheus Enters the Gate to Hades' by Taylor Miles Lockett

A figure in a white toga passes through a dark, autumnal scene, possibly a graveyard, and heads for a large doorway set in stone.

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Grim Deyn @shortestwitch.bsky.social · 17h

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.

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adam @kumerish.bsky.social · 1d

deep sea dream

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Grim Deyn @shortestwitch.bsky.social · 17h

I always want to bring some of your energy & style to my doll-making (when I get time for it 😭)

Grim Deyn @shortestwitch.bsky.social · 17h

All your carvings have so much personality! I love them so much. Literally perfect every time. 💚

Grim Deyn @shortestwitch.bsky.social · 17h

Related: have you seen the Voynich font? online-fonts.com/fonts/voynich it's amazing to play with, particularly for visual poetry.

Voynich шрифт

Шрифт Voynich, лицензия и условия использования, символы, категории, поддерживаемые языки, ссылка для скачивания.

online-fonts.com

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Grim Deyn @shortestwitch.bsky.social · 17h

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

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Grim Deyn @shortestwitch.bsky.social · 3d

@crowleythesnake.bsky.social if they pull this off on a large-scale, I'm taking u to italy.

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Grim Deyn @shortestwitch.bsky.social · 5d

Double checked what they want you to achieve with this and (amongst others). they want you to improve community cohesion to try to make sure sunderland never has another race riot, & produce a work of significant artistic integrity while letting the communities make the artistic decisions.

Grim Deyn @shortestwitch.bsky.social · 5d

there's only ever like 5 jobs for the north east on the arts jobs bulletin, and its literally like: CEO, front of house min wage, front of house min wage, volunteer opportunity, something you wouldn't want even your worst enemy to be involved in. 💀

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Grim Deyn @shortestwitch.bsky.social · 5d

The fucking state of community arts I s2g

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Grim Deyn @shortestwitch.bsky.social · 5d

"we want to pay you fifteen thousand pounds so you can arrange arts and crafts dates by putting migrants and nazis in a small room together"

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Grim Deyn @shortestwitch.bsky.social · 5d

tell me why Sunderland is trying to pay an artist £15K to both sides the 2024 race riots. asking for u to make 16 pieces, 4 from global majority people, 4 from kids, 4 from older people and 4 from... "Ringleaders/perpetrators" (direct quote).

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Vanessa Gillings @vanessagillings.bsky.social · 6d

My sixth piece for my solo show @gallerynucleus.bsky.social! 🐦‍⬛

#illustration #fantasyart #magicalforest #forestspirit #watercolor #gouache

watercolor and gouache painting of a girl wearing a feather cloak and holding a small blue flame, surrounded by crows and an overgrown forest

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Yokai Parade @yokaiparade.bsky.social · 6d

Everything can come to monstrous life in Japan, even vegetables! In one legend, a pumpkin monster called Sunamura no onryō appeared in the neighborhood of Sunamura night after night, terrorizing people by chasing them around yokai.com/sunamuranoon... #FolkloreThursday

Edo-period illustration of a squash monster

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 7d

It's October.

Time for Flying Adventure Gourd to make an appearance again.

Watercolour and coloured pencil, 64 × 89 mm, 2020.

Watercolour and coloured pencil drawing of a green gourd with a pair of wings and little sprouting limbs, wearing a red sash and a belt adorned with mysterious-looking sigils and objects.

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 15d

The Royal Society for Blind Children (RSBC) urgent appealing to children’s authors, writers and publishers to donate stories to its new bedtime stories app.

The charity relies on stories in the public domain but are running out of books.

Anyone willing to donate should contact [email protected].

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ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 7d

rolling into october...

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pumpkin spice Toddé @toddedillard.bsky.social · 7d

I heard "there's artificial intelligence, and there's actual intelligence" and almost choked to death on this cough drop

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Jada Fitch Illustration @jadafitch.bsky.social · 7d

Kombu (Saccharina japonica)

#kombu #kelp #seaweed #laminariaceae #marinebotany #botanicalart #natureart #watercolor #watercolorillustration #illustratorsofbluesky

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